Nostalgic Gaming Wallpapers Idea.

VesoRakia

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Well, it's nothing groundbreaking, but some of you might find it an interesting idea and might wanna try it out.

Basically, I like to play pretty much everything, so I usually finish the campaigns of at least 3-4 games a month + some MP, which over the years amounts to quite a lot of wonderful gaming moments. As many of us, when I first started using FRAPS, I decided to start making screenshots at some of the better looking ingame moments that are both custom enough (so they show my personal character, or personal moment/experience of the game) and cinematic enough (less HUD basically). The nice idea that I got, was instead of browsing them from times to times like a photo album (which I rarely do since they are so many) I just set my windows Wallpaper to load random pics from the FRAPS gallery and change every 10 min or so. I have also kept the folder, when I do reinstall or move to a new PC.

By doing this I now have a personal hi-res wallpaper gallery of more than 3000+ screens (and that's keeping only the ones that look good as WP) from 200+ games, all carrying some personal memories and reminding me of gaming moments I have long forgotten. It sounds simple enough, but I can't explain the nostalgia feeling you get when you turn on the PC and see some fun Multiplayer situation with some friend from a couple of years ago, in a game you can't even remember the name of.

Since I'm happily using this method for Wallpapers for more than 3+ years on my gaming rigs, I decided some of you might find it interesting, and maybe even try it out (and probably some are already using something very similar).
 
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I used to do something similar in Killing floor and TF2 but then I realised it was taking up like 10GB so stopped. Then Steam screenshots came about so that problem was solved but I don't really bother anymore.
 
True that, but 3+ years of continuous gaming history visualized in screenshots takes me about the same as a single Full HD movie on the HDD, so I don't really care about that being an issue.
 
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