Has haven and hearth changed your life?

[maze]

"are you maze from haven and hearth?"
Has been asked in a few games I've played

Normally I run with the handle Maze Elwin

But nothing has really changed. other then picking up random objects and studying for abit.

[_Gunnar]

But nothing has really changed. other then picking up random objects and studying for abit.

[ydex]

A few years back, when I played alot more HnH then there is time for these days, I made a slingshot out of a condom and shot my greifing neighbour. All based upon ideas I got from the game lol

[yozzik111]

I check this forum weekly on thursday mornings. It’s a ritual
I’m afraid to drop the game because of livestock and walls and sometimes this “life support” routine strikes hard.
Anyway, favourite game for like 8-9 years. Still haven’t seen anything as good as HnH.

[Sevenless]

Life? Not really. Gaming preferences and/or minor 3am wall checking PTSD? Definitely.

I view haven as a rather foundational shift in what game genres I play. Before haven I had a smattering of MMOs, FPS. After haven I became addicted to the sandbox crafting mmo experience and have basically tried to play every game I know of in the genre.

[KitsuneG]

This game teach me how to ragequit, i never done this before i died 8 times from bugboatdrowning in w3

[MagicManICT]

I've been playing RLs since I don't know when... when did I first get access to computer BBS networks...? I forget now.

Been playing sandbox games since... before the NES came out... well, maybe I can't exactly say that, but that feels about the right time. (They were a different beast before Minecraft came out, and back then, it was extremely limited in scope with what you could do. SimCity was to games in the 80s what Minecraft was in the 00s.)

Been playing RPGs since... Atari era? No, before that, as I consider Oregon Trail as much RPG as adventure/sim game. I remember being 9 or so the first time I played and being so sad the first time a family member died... and then eventually just trying random shit just to see how all the ways you could die were... several of us were, much to the chagrin of the educators that were allowing us to use these marvelous new Apple II computers that cost nearly as much as a new car.... (fun note, also learned to program in LOGO at this time, took, and shortly afterward, BASIC. Also got first computer in the home thanks to a relatively "cheap" TI system that was basically a flop trying to get in on the home PC market. Still have it, still works.)

Spent years playing MUDs and MMOs... became dedicated to some, like EQ 1 & 2, WoW, and EVE, but they lacked that certain something.

Found Haven through the DF forums... haven't looked back, and everything else just seems... lackluster. Haven & Hearth didn't change my life... I spent all my life looking for Haven & Hearth. (Still a WoW fan, though. Not as good as EQ ever was, but EQ hasn't aged well, and development has been utter crap since launch of EQ2.)

[Agarrett]

It feels like this game has existed all my life. I started playing this game 8 years ago, when I was 13. I stopped playing ages ago, but occasionally I'll drop by to reread old forum posts and relive what it was like. It's somewhat sad, because I know I'll never have time like I did to invest myself so completely in a game like this. This and Minecraft (when it was new, in like 2010) were pretty strong influences at the time, and they were my childhood toys. It's likely I'll always remember this game as a result, and I'm glad I got the chance to record myself so in another 8 years I can still reminisce about being a young teenager. Perhaps that's part of the benefit of living in an age where practically everything you say online can exist for years, as an eternal record of who you were.

[iamahh]

my early routine is check compost bin, chickens and rabbits... then somedays i plant, somedays craft, cook, hunt...

[SatanSatanSatan]

Legacy HnH left a scar. It's been the best gaming experience ive had and i'm afraid i will never have anything similar ever again. Ofc i wouldn't want an exact legacy copy now, but the spirit of pure survival and base building was superb.