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I’ve lurked here (HN) a long time waiting for a MUD related post! I remember making great friendships and developing my communication skills and personality thr
by Fezzik 9y ago
I’ve lurked here (HN) a long time waiting for a MUD related post! I remember making great friendships and developing my communication skills and personality through MUDs (pHANTASM and then Rifts) in the mid-nineties. Neither game ever developed a huge player base, but man was it fun! The imagination that was unlocked through text-based games, at least for me, was immensely fun. I got great book recommendations from the older players, and felt accepted being a gamer/MtG player/general nerd at a time when it was emphatically NOT considered cool. Times have sure changed.
I remember staying up until all hours of the morning, reconnecting repeatedly over my dial-up connection, just to goof-off on Rifts. Even though I never met him, the first friend I knew that died who I felt close to was from that game - we were in a clan together and spent countless hours gaming and chatting about being teens. I had forgotten about that until just now. Life moves quickly.
- bovermyer 9y agoIs this the Rifts MU* that was based on the tabletop RPG Rifts? If so, I played it for a few months back in the day.
- Steel_Phoenix 9y agoI also played pHANTAZM quite a lot, and Rifts for a while. I think of them often. It's strange how sometimes progress leaves a bit of a hole in the soul. I've lost track of my old friends from there, but they seem more real than any I've met in modern games. They're like characters in a book that I couldn't put down, so involved that I forgot where reality ended.