In a year of big releases like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Metal Gear Solid V, Bloodborne, Rocket League, and Fallout 4, it sticks out the most vividly when I look back and reflect on that year of my life. But I felt it.īack in 2015, Emily is Away - the predecessor of Emily is Away Too - quietly launched on PC. When I saw the recent Mad Max movie for the first time: I left something behind in that theater. The latter is a bit more obscure - difficult to describe - but it exists, and if you’ve ever experienced it you know how wonderfully uncanny it can be. There are two great experiences in this world: experiences that you take something away from for the rest of your life, and experiences that take something away from you in perpetuity. Not only something that’s distinct from everything I’ve played before it, but experiences that wrench something out of me or imprint themselves onto my mind perpetually.
And for a few hours you’re back: blind to all of the laborious nonsense of adult life and utterly enraptured in resuscitated feelings and thoughts you believed to be long instinct.Īs I get older, I yearn for new experiences in games more and more. It takes you and drops you back in the mid 2000’s. Emily is Away Too hooks into these feelings of nostalgia and amplifies them to an unreal level. The memories that engulf me every time I hear the word AOL, see its interface, or hear its sounds. But what is not gone is the potent nostalgia from that era that still lingers to this day. The mystique, the adventure, it’s all gone. Look at the internet now: it sucks, it’s horrible. I deeply miss those days of my life - of that world - where the internet still had an undeniable new-frontier vibe and it still felt like this complimentary thing to life, and not the all encompassing beast it has morphed into.īut those days are over. chats with crushes, the maundering conversations with my best friends, and spending an endless time concocting the perfect background and font color scheme. When I look back on that period of my life, I remember the 1 a.m.
So much of my teen years were spent on AOL Instant Messenger.
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