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jayk the pikachu -> RE: Remembering the good ol' days in the forum (1/30/2026 9:38:53)
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Can't figure out exactly when in 2010 I first came along into these forums - the oldest posts I made seem perhaps to be gone from view - but at any rate, that's more than fifteen years ago. Nearly sixteen. Entire teenagers have been born and grown up in that time! That's weird. And the Forums themselves have been here since, what, 2003? Twenty three years. Gosh.
Oh, and these days, I have both grammar, and a working keyboard (if anyone here remembers me, yes, that is why there was an entire year of forum posting where I was atrocious for spacing. My space bar was busted - I had to manually copy-paste spaces in!), but oh how I do miss the old days. I don't know how many people still read this place... I know Discord has become the meeting space of the new age. Flash aged out. Forums are swept away by social media. History moves forwards. I came into the AE worlds with MechQuest on Wednesday the 26th of August 2009. And from there, I spread out into the other games. I'll be honest: MechQuest and OverSoul were my main loves over the years - and I get that they were never the popular ones that they would've needed to be to keep going in the same way as the others, but I loved them all the same. And AQW was such a treat to be a part of. Here's to me never quite having a clue of the chronology of events in AQ, here's to the entire year it took to beat one quest near the end of Book One in DF, here's to the moment that I changed GEARS Games history in MQ, here's to good old Revontheus (who was such a supportive and kind chap to me elsewhere) and the OS days. Here's to the day that the Chaos Saga ended in AQW - even if technically I did it with only 12 out of 13 Chaos Lords done at first.
Here's to playing the original ArchKnight. Struggling through WarpForce. Getting my backside handed to me in EpicDuel. Being good at being evil in HeroSmash. Those first alpha tests of AQ3D, when I felt like a completely different person. Being number one in the world on the Battle Gems leaderboard for a while. Exhausting my thumbs on AQ Dragons. The silliness of Undead Assault. Playing Biobeasts after somehow winning a shirt. The simple addictiveness of VelocityAE. The daft concept of AdWatchTournament. Dragonborne! The old EbilGames site. Whatever Pony Vs. Pony was! Enjoying the HELL out of StickQuest. Wishing that we could've had a further expansion to BladeHaven and its mouse mechanics. (Wonder what that'd be like on a MacBook touchpad now!) Fat Panda! I even in lockdown had a crack at IdleQuest and that was a nice bit of simple fun! And does anyone else remember the George Lowe (RIP) soundboard?
There's probably other stuff I'm forgetting too. Not to mention that technically I have a 8-bit ROM AE game that I have never played, shame on me. But, hey, maybe I like having one little unknown horizon now and then when I can remember so much. Like I say, there's no way to know who will read this, or even - technically - if these old Forums will stick around much longer even with what remains viewable of our past, our history together. The point, though, in nostalgia is to be poetic in the face of what might be nothingness. So, even if nobody read this and the Forums somehow disappear a week from now, it is worth saying that we can remember but we can never go back. To quote a good song:
Some are like water, some are like a heat. Some are the melody, and some are the beat. Sooner or later, they will all be gone. Why don't they stay young?
One day, these forums will be gone, but what matters is that any of us were ever here in the first place. Whenever we were. However we did it. And whomever we spoke with. Playing whichever AE games that we did. So, if anyone is reading this, then I hope you never forget that. The years will pass, but you did them. Here's to the jobs people have had, to the graduations, the romances, the marriages, the children, the pets, the newborns and the tragic losses. ...Can you all tell that I became a writer and a poet? Probably.
As Adam/Artix once said in a room in 2002 - nearing a quarter of a century ago - and as I say to you all now here in 2026, for it is the phrase that has brought us all here together... Battle On.
And that would be my sign-off, but screw it, I'm adding my forum signature on this, so a past version of myself can close the door. For now, or forever, who knows except a future version of myself?
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