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Hello and welcome! I'm Chimera, a 23 year old cat-rabbit with a sprinkling of dragon and horse. I post a lot about selfshipping & fictoromance, and just general everyday life stuff. I occasionally use cat puns in my posts and say 'meow' and 'nya' a lot, so I tag those posts with '#typing quirk'.


Speaking of early 2000s games, does anyone else remember FATE???

My first computer after my Windows XP home desktop was a Windows 7 Dell laptop. Back then, some Dell computers often came pre-installed with some game launcher thing that gave you a pretty good selection of games, mostly PopCap and WildTangent games, alongside some others I think. FATE was one of my favorite games to play on it.

I'd been brought up on World of Warcraft, so I very easily clung to FATE as well. It was just so much fun! I think my favorite entry in the series was the expansion FATE: The Traitor King. Admittedly I dont remember much about the actual game, except that I did a lot of dungeon crawling. And there was a statue in the dungeons you could talk to or interact with I think?

Other games I remember playing on it: Cake Mania, Insaniquarium, Bejeweled, some game involving cows being abducted by aliens, Blasterball, and probably a bunch of other things I dont remember well.

Unfortunately the WildTangent game launcher isnt documented particularly well, and a lot of what I could find about it consider it being bloatware, or even outright spyware.


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in reply to @chimerabytes's post:

my dad said when i was 4 yrs old id sit on his lap and play FATE (badly) and run from the monsters instead of killing them

i got the entire series on steam a few sales back bc it was like ~11 bucks or so

oh!
FATE is a rouge-like dungeon crawler and you can go back to the town to sell/buy things, but on some floors the npcs were there to sell/buy aswell

the statue your rembering is probably a random event (idk if their actually called that) where theres a statue of Fate (the games veichel for respawning) where you could pry gems out i think his eyes or be attacked by a boss monster for trying

Ooh yeah, I think I remember that part about the statue a bit better now.

I mainly remember the music for the game, its honestly stuck around with me so well for so long. One of my main draws to a game is often, does the soundtrack speak to me? Does the sound design [and graphical design, if considered] leave an impact on me? And my answer to all of that would be yes in this case.

If I can manage to get an actual decent working laptop again, I would love to get the whole series to resurrect the memories I had about it as a kit. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places, but I havent really seen many people talk about it! And with the 2000s nostalgia being back in fashion, this particular facet of my memories has always left kind of an impact on me.

I've tried looking for similar games to fill the niche, but to be honest, nothing can really replicate the same feeling FATE and its expansions created for me. Especially the dungeon stuff, that was pretty fun to me.

... Now after saying this, I went and found some of the music from the first game to listen to again.