Archdruid Gaming: Gaming Nostalgia Contest
This is the second and final week to get an entry in for our Gaming Nostalgia contest. If you have already submitted an entry in week one you are good to go! Just sit back and enjoy what other people are entering in if you like.
So far we are extremely pleased with the number of people who have entered. The response from different community joining in and helping share our contest has been amazing. It is really great to see contestants read, comment, and upvote other people’s entries as well.
This contest is open to everyone even if you are not a member of our gaming community. We encourage the most hardcore gamers among you to even the causal to join in and have some fun! Pull up a chair and tell us about the good old days.
Contest
As a gamer, you often have those nostalgic memories of the good old days of gaming. As games were just better back than at least from what we remember. As such please let us know what your best gaming nostalgia memory is.
This is about gaming in general and it could include: card games, board games, puzzle games, and video games. It could be a story about a key moment in your gaming past that you remember fondly. Game mechanics that you miss that modern day games are just simply lacking. It could even be an entire game that you miss dearly and so many things in between. These are just a couple of examples so don’t feel limited to just these when sharing with us. We look forward to reading and hearing about it!
Requirements To Enter
You must create a post. You have three format options to choose from please pick one of the following:
Option 1: written format only. It should not exceed 2.5k words.
Option 2: video format no longer than 15-minutes. You can have a short description of the contest and your information in a written format just keep in mind your main focus for this option is video and not written. Make sure to mention this contest and your Steemit name in the video.
Option 3: A Hybrid of the two options can have a maximum of 2k words and up to 10-minute video. Make sure to mention this contest and your Steemit name in the video.
In addition:
Please use #archdruidcontest as the first tag. The rest is up to you to choose. Here are a couple example tags you could use: gaming, game, name of the game, game genre (i.e boardgame, fps, rpg, adventure, survival. . .), nostalgia, story, writing.
Post your entry in the comment section below. It must be a Steemit link. This contest closes in two weeks. A second follow up post will be made next week as well.
No repost of old content from on or off steemit.
Only one entry per person. If you have entered in week one for this contest then you are already in.
- No plagiarism and please cite sources if applicable.
Not Required But Welcome
If you wish to help spread this contest so more can join in and have fun. Please consider upvoting to help increase the reward pool and/or resteem the post. Also, consider showing support for other entries that you find amazing. Thank you.
Judges
There are three judges in total to evaluate the entries. This includes two guest judges that are at least rank Sage or higher in the Archdruid Gaming community and me (the contest host).
- We will be judging based on but not limited to the following: quality, effort, it factor, uniqueness and nostalgia feeling.
Prizes
- First place: 8 SBD
- Second place: 5 SBD
- Third place: 2 SBD
Prizes will be paid out a couple of days after the contest closes depending on how many entries we have received.
Thank you to our sponsor @geekgirl.
Contest Close
- All entries must be submitted to the comment section of this post. This contest closes when this post is closed. That is around Thursday, July the 26th at 11:30 AM Eastern Time (UTC -05:00).
Information
Written by @enjar on behalf of Archdruid Gaming. Enjar is ranked Wizard in the community.
Screenshots were taken by @enjar. They are from an anniversary edition of a game called Titan Quest.
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https://steemit.com/archdruidcontest/@creativetruth/gaming-nostalgia-contest-dungeons-and-dragons-gaming
This is my entry about Dungeons & Dragons.
Thank you for your entry.
Here's my entry.
https://steemit.com/archdruidcontest/@ninjamike/3d-platforming-nostalgia
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Here's my entry!!
https://steemit.com/archdruidcontest/@pixelbites/backlog-thoughts-or-nostalgia-and-the-games-we-ve-never-played
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I hesitated but here is my entry :)
https://steemit.com/archdruidcontest/@pipiczech/a-slightly-different-gaming-nostalgia
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https://steemit.com/archdruidcontest/@corpsvalues/diablo-2-gaming-nostalgia
Thank you for your entry. Just one of those games I'm shocked people even to do this day are still playing. We have a community member that posts a daily update on his progress of his playthrough.
No way! I need to find out how these people are still managing to install and play because I think I'd still rather play D2 than D3
Hehe I think we all still rather be playing D2. I've been playing Path of Exile to fill the void. You will have to ask @zakludick how he gets it to run. I think blizzard is selling a version of D2 on there store still. Not sure if there another way to get a playable version of it.
I have been summoned!
How did I get it? Hmmm... I will check for you...
BTW... I love Titan Quest!
I WILL playthrough on D2 all characters and Titan Quest as well one day! :P
Looks like I just got it from a friend. It's 1.13c and there is a Patch file. So... I dunno where I got it from?
D3 was awesome at launch: I could probably do a whole other post on that experience, but they've nerfed it down so much and taken out all of those "wild unpredictable elements" and left the players with pretty much just one path to climb which has made it less reliant on player skill and more on RNG and mindless grinding. So it eventually just got boring to me.
I loved It at launch I use to play a barbarian with a skorn as his weapon. Then they added in those blasted paragon levels and after that it just start to lose all its fun. I play it once in a while but every time I just tell myself “well this is the last time. ” People keep talking and hoping for some kind of D4. I’m not quite sure at this point if they even did would it be worth getting.
I assume they look at it and think “our original fan base is getting to old” we want that hip and younger generation. Would they try and turn it into a battel royal? I somehow think they would or try and make it esports.
I believe you on that theory: Blizzard Activision is definitely leaning hard into e-sports and even all of the challenge modes in D3 indicate that they are planning on it. They did the same thing with WoW and now have challenge levels in dungeons that you can compete on a ladder with. Hearthstone and Overwatch are obviously already full e-sport. Don't get me wrong I like and support e-sports but it's beginning to feel in each and every one of their games that unless you have the amount of time to make a full career out of it, then there is no way you will even start to feel competitive. In D2 all you needed was a group of people playing casually together every evening. There was no re-balancing every couple of weeks to force you to reroll your character and re-learn the game mechanics. It's hard to explain but by making the game more involved and complex, they made it less appealing
Cool contest, though I personally would've changed the prizes to Steem instead of SBDs to give people an easier way to gain more Steem and thus SteemPower.
This is my entry https://steemit.com/archdruidcontest/@jyzu/mymostmemorableexperiencesinvideogames-kxhsns41g3
Thank you for your entry.
As of a few mins ago the contest has closed.