Originally Posted by
Emperor Megas
This game brought up a lot of buried emotions.
I've never played or seem it before. The ONLY thing I know about this game is that I used to have two friends when I was younger who called this game Pa-lad-din's Quest. So much so that I still say it that way in my mind. I figured after hearing them pronounce the title a few times that they probably meant 'Paladin', not "Pa-lad-din".
Of all of my friends growing up, they were the most into RPGs. They were real RPG fiends; they even used to play through all of those Romance of The Three Kingdoms games that everyone else I knew who knew about them hated.
In any event, this topic has me thinking of them now. One of them -- the younger who I was closer to -- I lost touch with a few years ago after reconnecting with on facebook after close to a decade of lost contact. He was suffering from depression REALLY BAD, and gave me the most crushing explanation of how he felt about life before saying a lot of really morbid things and deleting his facebook account soon after. I really hope he's alright. In the months before that he'd explained to me that the OTHER friend -- his life long best friend, mind you -- is currently doing a life sentence with no possibility of parole for executing his ex-girlfriend with a bullet to the forehead (which his best friend had to give testimony of in court). Man, SO MANY of my friends from back home are broken now.
I know that when I eventually find this game I'll either get straight to playing it, or, it'll sit on the shelf, probably forever, unplayed, because of the memories it stirs up.
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