![]() ![]() The year 2000 also saw another milestone in video game history, particularly on the 29th of June, the day the much hyped Diablo II was released. It is a game and time I often sit and reminisce about even to the point of loading up the game again from time to time in order to try and recapture the magic of what made the game so special to me, unfortunately every time I do revisit Norrath though I am left feeling disappointed, video game have improved so much in the past twenty years that the game mechanics of Everquest feel positively antique and just outright cumbersome it’s hard to imagine that anybody ever sunk their time into playing the game in the first place, this just reaffirms my belief that most of the time nostalgia should just be a feeling that lives in our craniums and it shouldn’t be a cue to go back and revisit what triggered the feelings in the first place. It is not because of this though that the year 2000 is especially nostalgic for me, back then there was a game called Everquest, one of the first ever MMOs to feature full 3D graphics, my favorite game of all time and it was during the early 2000s when I was fully immersed into its world of Norrath to an almost unhealthy like extent. The year 2000 is one that is particularly steeped in nostalgia more than others for me, the world as a whole had just taken one big exhale as the ever-looming Y2K bug didn’t send society back into the dark ages, regardless of how much the media had spread doom and gloom proclaiming it would. ![]() We have all been a victim to nostalgia whether it be from going back to watch TV shows or playing video games that you remember being very good only to find out that they have aged terribly over the years because video game mechanics and budgets and production techniques for TV shows are a lot better these days than they were two decades ago. Sometimes though some things should be left in the past to live on as memories in our brain cavities rather than being revisited because some things just aren’t as good as we remembered them to be 20 years ago. ![]() Nostalgia is a powerful thing, when triggered activity starts ramping up in both of the areas of the brain associated with memory and reward. ![]()
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