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Edited by FoxTrottts:
7/14/2022 2:13:43 AM
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Nostalgia hour with FoxTrottts
How are we doing everyone, hope you're good.
Odds are I don't know you and you don't know me, but my account will be 9 years old later this year, it's 3 AM where I'm at, and I'm feeling a little nostalgic. Was pretty active here a good 5-6 years ago, bunch of topics and threads made, lots of fun had. Life moves on and so do we, eventually I found myself unable to really do much because, at the time, I didn't play Destiny, and you needed a linked guardian to post anything. That was my cue to leave.
I've been playing D2 for over a year now, D1 for a few on and off, and I'm pretty comfortable in it, at least in pve anyway, I still find it damn near impossible to hit 3 headshots in a row with a 140 hand cannon that does 96% of the work for me like a god roll Austringer.
Anyway enough about me, this is the nostalgia hour. Gimme your favourite memory from Bungie's past. Could be something in D2 that isn't there anymore like the intro mission in the old tower, getting to wield the sword in your first clear of Crota's End, shooting the -blam!- with some dudes you've never met before between games of SWAT in Reach, going for hours with your little brother in ODST firefight, anything. For me it's these forums back when I was active. Spending a couple hours going through threads, recognising people like Biosmiley day after day, without a care.
Grab a mug of hot chocolate and settle down around the campfire for storytime, all nostalgia welcome.
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1 ReplyEdited by Sumpig-2: 7/15/2022 11:36:27 AM(I'll employ the use of spoilers to make the post smaller) It's been a while since I enjoyed D2, I started during free November with Forsaken and decided to try it out. I had seen the Taken King (or Rise of Iron, I forget) DLC in GameStop a year or so ago (from when I started playing) and thought the armor looked sick. If I had the base game I would've bought it but that was... above [i]little me's[/i] price range... I really enjoyed the designs of armor and guns and the class system was fun. I like RPGs that allow customization and cutscenes, so I stuck with it. Edit: Also the music was nice. I could sleep to it, so it passed. It was my favorite for a while. Even after Battlefield 1 (my first FPS) and Battlefront 2 (I love the clone wars era) mainly cause of how shiny it seemed to me. Little rant ahead about why I stopped. [spoiler]Skip ahead and we reach the beginning of the [i]SEASON PASS[/i]!! I had no problem using birthday money on the DLCs, but when I need to pay for extra story (I look for story in games.) that goes away basically permanently in 3 or 4 months? That's too much. Especially when I don't have the time on weekends and end up missing out. And when Beyond Light came out, I didn't have the money or time to spend on it and ended up just loosing interest. At the same time I had found Dark Souls 3 at 75% off along with its DLCs at discount too. It cost me essentially the price of a D2 expansion, but I played that sucker for 100 hours or so. Needless to say, I love FromSoft's games. Edit: also I could sleep to the boss music, so it passed. I recommend Epilogue, the DS3 credits. Angelic. One of the first game credits I sat entirely through even though it was just text on a black screen. That says a lot. [i][quote]Opinion: Bloodborne has the best atmosphere/lore and combat imo, even with Elden Ring, though ER has better QoL mostly due to the years of experience and still has DLCs coming so it still has a chance until Bloodborne 2 stomps on its neck.[/quote][/i] I tried D2 one more time later on after Beyond Light, played a match of Crucible, got frozen, and decided to put it down for at least a year. I was mostly ticked about having to pay for another subclass. [/spoiler] Conclusion to Bungo game section: I don't regret playing or stopping when I did. I enjoyed my time and preserved my good memories with the game when I quit and moved on to Souls-likes. -- Forum wise, for the first year of playing D2 and getting the companion app, I never really touched the forums. Pops didn't like me talking to strangers on the Internet when I was little (good idea, kids talk too much) and so the habit stuck. I also didn't see the appeal of forums since I've only seen the big sunbforums where you only post dumb questions with messy titles then leave. I used wiki's instead. So I mainly used the app to fix inventory or check out the gallery for art. There's some goodies. [b]Extra stuff:[/b][spoiler] about the account, I chose the cabal pfp cause it was funny and the closest I could find to a pig... not many options. The name is, to quickly summarize, because of a Minecraft skin I used mixed with my first ever username, the two is cause someone already thought of it on Google. The status is not cause of Xronad (though I learned about that shortly after), but because I just wanted to give some people cookies for good posts and it was a gimmick for some time (until I realized I'm gonna eventually forget to copy paste the same thing on every post).[/spoiler] One day I checked the forums, clicked [i]#OffTopic[/i] and saw people talking about... Porches. [i]Weirdos.[/i] A year later I think, 2019, July 4th I checked OffTopic again cause I was dragged to a party that day and couldn't play D2 (the horror). In my boredom I saw some neat posts with RP or just to celebrate Independence Day, and decided to post as well. Turns out the folks aren't too weird. That's where I learned about this little community that was built in the shadow of the Salt Mines. I liked it. It was small enough to remember people and have an identity, but big enough that it didn't feel abandoned. At the time... I decided to stay. I basically checked in everyday since (maybe not healthy), participating in a number of RP posts, eating popcorn during drama, pPpoll, porch posting, etc. Conclusion to forum section: [spoiler]I consider myself lucky to have witnessed this subforum when RP posts were a bit more prominent, and the [b][i]New[/i][/b] section had enough traffic to bury yesterday's posts for pages, let alone last week's. I even started a small series of sketch posts. A bit proud of that. Kinna having a lazy moment though. I'll find something to post soon, I did some oil painting last month.[/spoiler] And I still type more than I intend to... fudge.
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Growing up, I was only allowed to play halo with my older brother, so we always played odst firefight, as that was his favorite Later, I was allowed to play on my own, and I played reach, and fell in love with it. I played it so much 😂 [spoiler]I unfortunately have to admit I only played halo ce, 2, 3, and the story for odst in the past 3 years 😂 [/spoiler] Anyways, when D1 came out it was within a few weeks of my birthday, and I got it because my oldest brother beta tested it and thought I'd like it. This is the game I had played religiously 😂 I couldn't do much though, like raids, 'cause I wasn't allowed to play with people I didn't know back then haha Anyways, any location in D1 is nostalgic, but Venus especially. I actually started playing it again the other month for laughs and giggles, and boy does the nostalgia hit hard Thanks for coming to my ted talk
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Two ideas come to mind. One is, when I first started playing D2. Probably a little before Beyond Light. I made a Hunter. Seemed from the description of how I wanted to play. After getting to the tower for the first time, you have to go on a strike. I remember not knowing how much of them game worked. I teamed up with some random people and went on the strike. Probably feel off the cliff, a ton, trying to understand how triple jump worked. Whoever I was teamed with, I think a hunter and warlock made all the jumps. I think one person even used blink. At the time I had no clue what that even was. Anyways, played a little, didn’t really get it, and put the game down for a long while. Eventually had friends who made a clan. Joined them, saw one make all the jumps as a warlock, so off I went making a warlock. Fast forward, now I play all three classes, understand both blink and triple jump! Other memory, finding those weapons that just work for you. First time you get your hands on them, and everything feels good and just clicks for your play style and those weapons. For me it would be, melting red-bars with Jotunn, Thorn, Le Monarque or Trinity Ghoul.
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Ah, I, Panzer, am a young one, but I shall share my earliest experiences, for your viewing displeasure. And yes, the first time I played Halo was shamefully recent, so I shall begin with, the Unnameable, unspeakable, TERRIBLE, Destiny 2. Yes, yes, I said it. I'm not going to find funny names for it the whole time, nerds. Take my organs at your pleasure! My first memory of a Bungie game was actually, in UNSPEAKABLE. It may have been in the Halo games, but my Panzer Parents™ were always quite worried about the impact of the more violent games on my mental health (thus, I grew up on a leap pad ultra, not an xbox) As a small, middle-school-aged tank, I was just getting off my addiction to Skylanders, when, in the 5th grade, a person I just met (who I have been friends with since, I would go as far as to call him my brother, though my current one is sibling-y enough) mere days ago told me about Destiny. I had seen my favorite Nerf youtube (LordDraconical, I think it was) talk about Destiny 1 before, as he was a pretty eBic gamer, and so I was familiar with the franchise. Small, stubby me waddled up to my parents. "My new FRIEND plays a game called DESTINY. Can I PLAY?" Of course, however I pleaded, the answer was no. Their favorite site to quote, CommonSenseMedia, said it was around my age! The disgrace! The dishonor! How could I return to middle school, knowing that I would not be able to game with my friend? Well, sometime later, we became friends enough that I was invited over to his house. I was slightly more mature, just barely entering my Undertale phase (a dark time...), and he offered to let me play THE RED WAR, but on his Laptop. Creating my character was the usual middle-school-idiot filled... idiocy, and thus I chose Titan, for they looked manly, and an exo, for they look robot-y. This began the saga of me going to his house, watching him do well in crucible or something, then taking the dinky little PS4 controller, and desperately attempting to hit anything (at this time, I had an Xbox, but I rarely played it, for it was my Father's, and his games were on it, so I was new to controller). All of this activity was of course "outside" the knowledge of Father Panzer, and we would often get up to other shenanigans, so it was easier to say what we did and "accidentally" omit the gaming of the Destiny. Yes, these times were great, and fun. I eventually restarted on Warlock, enjoying it much more, and since moved to Hunter. I still rarely play these days, but it is enjoyable enough, and no amount of OT jokes will get me to think otherwise. These periods are probably what reinforced the friendship. My extreme dislike of my biological brother often prompted my parents to recite the ancient curse: "Friends move away, but Family is forever", however, I have not yet encountered this problem. Even my -blam!- friend and I still talk every now and again, after he moved All the way to South Dakota. I could not imagine it... So cold... Bah, I shall end my ramblings here. Have a good day, and remember, Organ Tax is applicable to anyone who mentions Destiny, even me! Seeyuh!
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3 RepliesWhere is KrishnasProphet? Is he safe? Is he alright?
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Shiska is a pegboy flud wuz here
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Edited by pumpkinspice1994: 7/14/2022 3:41:52 PM[u]Bungie.net[/u] When I first joined OT. It was a new place to hang out and everyone was very welcoming. I spent hours just scrolling through all of the different threads, occasionally posting one of my own. [u]Bungie’s Games[/u] I have a bunch of good memories of Destiny (sadly I never got into Halo in it’s prime) the main one I always look back on is playing with my Brother in D1, completing the entire campaign and dancing after every mission (in game). It was a lot of fun. [spoiler]sorry Cult, but I stole your Format[/spoiler]
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3 RepliesEdited by Cultmeister: 7/14/2022 9:13:38 AM[u]Bungie.net[/u] Before Disembodied Soul got neutered. Private Groups (Secular Sevens, The Writers Corner, etc.) When mods spent more time chilling out down here, specifically Recon Coup Pretty much everything Bungie.old. As bad as it could be the nostalgia is [i]hardddddddd[/i]. The activity, the flame wars, Achronos threatening to nuke us every once in a while. Vien’s elite threads [u]Bungie games[/u] Halo 2 4-player split-screen on a titchy 16-inch telly. Playing the first level of Halo 3 on my brand new 360, on Christmas Day. Spending hours upon hours making maps in Forge mode and then trying them out with my friends. [spoiler]awww Biosmiley :/[/spoiler]
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First time doing VOG in 2014. My mate helped me with one of the jumping sections and then got himself stuck. We were there for ages, so another mate started with his guitar and gave us all a rendition of Tears In Heaven.. Then, a few months later whilst doing Crota, one of my mates from work nearly burnt his flat to the ground. Cheers Bungie for making those memories a possibility.
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For me the most nostalgic time would have to be back in 2019 when I first started playing D2. Everything about the Red War campaign I really liked. I also really liked Forsaken even tho it killed off my favorite character. For me the music probably gives me the biggest nostalgia trip, specifically for the Forsaken theme. That and the theme for Curse of Osiris (there wasn’t a whole lot to Curse of Osiris but overall I enjoyed it, ik that’s kinda a controversial take). I would harmonize with whenever they played. One of my favorite mission was the one in the New Pacific Archeology thing where if I remember correctly you had to steal something from the Hive colony in there then you had to escape in this tank Mad Max style massacring hundreds of Hive along the way. Some of the most memorable things for me tho were the stuff that happened in random eras. For instance, playing soccer with people and doing the parkour at the farm, going to the EDZ to slaughter waves of enemies in that one alley we all know near Dervim’s church, and messing around and exploring areas around Nessus when I first unlocked it like Artifact’s Edge of Exodus Black. D2 in its entirety in 2019 I just really liked (that year for my life in general was really good). There’s so many things I remember liking when first starting D2 it’s hard to point out just one.
