IGN - First 13 minutes of Everybody's gone to Rapture

[mornelithe]

GribbleGrunger said:

mornelithe said:

Yeah, the only places like that in Vermont are probably the Shelburne Museum, which is entirely old structures...but it's for preservation, so there's a reason for that.  I would imagine much of the US doesn't have such locales, for the obvious reason that the US simply isn't that old.  Definitely something I enjoyed when I visited Europe, way back when, though.

There's something pieceful and timeless about coming across an old stone built wall burried beneath brambles or cloven by an oak tree. I went around a village the other day with a 56 year old woman who spent her childhood there. She showed me her old house, now burried by trees and vines. After a long debate I finally managed to persuade her in through an open window. Can you imagine what that must have felt like for her? We strolled through he old living room, into the pantry and then took a look at a Conker tree where once there was only a seed. She showed me a branch that used to support a swing too. She was quite emotional looking through her past, so I can actually relate really well with what these devs are trying to accomplish.

Well, we have overgrown houses, and old stone walls, but none of them have a chance of dating back as far as some of the sites in Europe.  The only serious claim Vermont can lay, with regards to 'age' is the oldest known Corral Reef in the world (Goodsell Ridge Preserve, 81 acre nature and geologic preserve).  Which is pretty cool, in and of itself (always took for granted how many fossils, mostly trilobtes I found as a kid on the shores of Lake Champlain).  But yeah, I do miss the 'age' of the structures in Europe.  Wales was particularly awesome.