A reminiscence. Memoires of Silence.
Posted: Sat May 28, 2016 1:32 pm
Every now and then I open my steam library, scroll through the countless games I used to play.
One always attracts me more than others. Empire earth. Let me tell you the story of a young kid who fell in love.
I still remember, I think I was around the age of 9-10 walking through one of those CD stores, you know when music was bought and not downloaded.
In the back there were also some videogames, not many of them but the big shots. Next to the big shots there were some cheaper games all dumped into this huge metal wired box. My family wasn't what we would call rich so I wasn't all into videogames except for Age of Empires, which I had gotten for my birthday the year before. Now you might think, Silence I thought this was about Empire earth and not about Age of Empires. It is, it is I swear. So lo and behold, 9 year old me had another birthday and we were in that store, I went through the cheap box of games and suddenly I picked up Empire earth. I wasn't too bright when I was a kid and I immediately thought "Hey another age of empires game!". I pulled at the shirt of my uncle and asked if I could get this game for my birthday. I went home, started the game up. Nothing. The game wouldn't run on my old crappy computer.
The End
Not not really. Fast forward about 2-3 years.
When I went to highschool my parents passed me on their laptop from work. In the summer I never really did anything. I was bored and looking around the house for stuff to do. I found Empire Earth and decided to give it another go. And my god was I pleasantly surprised about how much fun this game was. This was about the last year the EE servers were up.
I remember playing mid sh only with longbows because I thought, why bother with cavs, lowbows have way better stats if u think about it mathematically. Boy was I wrong.
I remember meeting friends and losing friends.
I remember skylar, lacrimosa, I remember lacri his brother, forgot his name though.
I remember so many people all by ingame personality but none of the names.
I remember playing custom games, tower defence, the maps made by hitler, that one map where you had to micro like shit where you had 3 v 3's and you had to get 100 kills to get the next units and people just camped the hills above the spawn point.
I remember exploring the world of funsetz and the community around that.
I remember p2s, I remember baron taking me in and teaching me the game from the ground up. I'll never forget you baron.
I remember playing the game during the day, during the evening, during the night. I remember getting in trouble cause I couldn't just "save" the game to go eat downstairs.
I remember when I got picked last and I remember the first time I got picked first.
I remember spending countless hours building my civ and exploring new strategies.
I remember so much and so little at the same time.
I'm 21 now and sometimes I remember.
One always attracts me more than others. Empire earth. Let me tell you the story of a young kid who fell in love.
I still remember, I think I was around the age of 9-10 walking through one of those CD stores, you know when music was bought and not downloaded.
In the back there were also some videogames, not many of them but the big shots. Next to the big shots there were some cheaper games all dumped into this huge metal wired box. My family wasn't what we would call rich so I wasn't all into videogames except for Age of Empires, which I had gotten for my birthday the year before. Now you might think, Silence I thought this was about Empire earth and not about Age of Empires. It is, it is I swear. So lo and behold, 9 year old me had another birthday and we were in that store, I went through the cheap box of games and suddenly I picked up Empire earth. I wasn't too bright when I was a kid and I immediately thought "Hey another age of empires game!". I pulled at the shirt of my uncle and asked if I could get this game for my birthday. I went home, started the game up. Nothing. The game wouldn't run on my old crappy computer.
The End
Not not really. Fast forward about 2-3 years.
When I went to highschool my parents passed me on their laptop from work. In the summer I never really did anything. I was bored and looking around the house for stuff to do. I found Empire Earth and decided to give it another go. And my god was I pleasantly surprised about how much fun this game was. This was about the last year the EE servers were up.
I remember playing mid sh only with longbows because I thought, why bother with cavs, lowbows have way better stats if u think about it mathematically. Boy was I wrong.
I remember meeting friends and losing friends.
I remember skylar, lacrimosa, I remember lacri his brother, forgot his name though.
I remember so many people all by ingame personality but none of the names.
I remember playing custom games, tower defence, the maps made by hitler, that one map where you had to micro like shit where you had 3 v 3's and you had to get 100 kills to get the next units and people just camped the hills above the spawn point.
I remember exploring the world of funsetz and the community around that.
I remember p2s, I remember baron taking me in and teaching me the game from the ground up. I'll never forget you baron.
I remember playing the game during the day, during the evening, during the night. I remember getting in trouble cause I couldn't just "save" the game to go eat downstairs.
I remember when I got picked last and I remember the first time I got picked first.
I remember spending countless hours building my civ and exploring new strategies.
I remember so much and so little at the same time.
I'm 21 now and sometimes I remember.