The other day I was searching the web for information on an
upcoming game that I am beyond stoked for, when I came across a gem of a sound
wave from the first MMOPG I ever played, Ever Quest. If you have played this
game before in your life, you recognize how this particular game was the
platform upon which all other MMORPGs created themselves around. And if you
have played this game before, you can also conjure up in your mind how much
this game affected you in a thousand different ways.
If you don’t play games or have no clue what I am talking
about, this may sound strange, and that we gamers overhype how much this
particular game has changed our lives. And that’s ok. Only those who have
played Ever Quest can really understand the importance of its existence.
Ok so back to the sound byte. I was perusing a forum about
this new game, when I stumbled upon a post where the writer said this sound
*HAS* to be in the new game. Curious, I opened the link provided, and nearly
jumped out of my seat in surprise, a visceral reaction long ingrained into my
brain from years spent playing Ever Quest and Ever quest 2 (you have to copy/paste the link, it won't open up automatically):
If you played EQ or EQ2 and don’t know what that sound is
from you can now hand in your gamer card. You don’t deserve it. Hand it over.
If you want to earn it back, go play on the FTP progression server for a few
days and then come talk to me.
For the rest of you non gamers out there in bloggy land, let
me take a moment to explain. My friend S, who hates when I geek up and talk
games, you can go ahead now, throw your head back and start snoring.
That sound is from a skeleton, which would rise up out of
the ground at any time and try to kill you to become its corpse bride. It would
laugh the entire time it tried to decapitate you, which gave the fight a very
sick feel, each and every time.
So of course I had to find a way to use it in my daily life!
After fiddling around, I was able to make it into my text alert. Now, whenever
my friends or family text me, I instinctively jump and glance behind me. No
really, I do.
Xavier came home to find me fiddling with the sound, and he
asked what the heck was it? So I sat down and gave him a history lesson in
games. Being a gamer himself he was fascinated. And despite the fact that he
never played EQ (unless you count him hanging out in our arms as a newborn babe
while J and I played) he thought that the sound and the idea behind it was
awesome. So he wanted it too.
After dinner, the two of us sat down and worked on our
phones to have the skeleton laugh as our text alerts. Of course, we had to test
it out. A lot. Just to make sure it was working. On both phones. Late at night.
For at least an hour.
Thank goodness we have unlimited texting!
Point of this story is, our gamer family bonds over the
weirdest shit. I can’t wait until Xavier gets out of school and starts texting
me that he’s on his way home =)
4 comments:
Awesome, just awesome. Loved that sound in the game.
It's definitely one that takes you right back to the beginning of MMO's! Thanks for the comment =)
I love this post. We love our games in this house. It is so much fun to sit down with the little men and try to teach them games that the hubby and I thought were so cool and my sons tell us that you can not see anything. What are they talking about. Classics do not mess with them.
yay for more gamer families!! Each of my kids have their own special brand of games, but they seem to come together with minecraft. I've already promised them their own accounts for EQN Landmark since they love minecraft so much =)
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