I learned about the fallout restoration project before i knew anything about satan ninja or anything, kinda stumbled across trying to be able to play the game in widescreen, I had no idea that someone in my area would have anything to do with it.
Ah, that's cool. So do you live in or around Grand Rapids, MI?
Oblivion is also the first elder scrolls game I'd played, i played it my cousins house around the time that it came out, and i loved it, thought it was the coolest shit I'd ever played. I put hundreds of hours into that, the did a bunch of research into the series and decided to try out morrowind. Morrowind wasn't exactly what i was used to, and it was really frustrating for a long time because it has like more of chance to hit type of system and stuff. Didnt play a ton of it because i soon bought skyrim, and i played the shit out of that, like an embharasing amount of time. I tried to play the first two, but i couldnt figure out dosbox because its way before my time, so i just kinda told myself i'd do it another time.
The first game was ... interesting. I didn't think I'd be able to get into it at first, but I ended up getting into the right frame of mind and had fun with it. Plus, I always enjoy seeing how a series evolves over time.
Yeah, when I first played Oblivion, it really sunk its claws into me too. I was pretty much obsessed with the game for a few weeks. But eventually I started to notice things like how every cave I happened across was a copy and paste of one of four or five different cave layouts, and the magic sort of fizzled out for me. I still played the game through to completion, but I was no longer completely obsessed. I'm eager to try Morrowind, since I know that's a lot of people's favorite.
Grand theft auto was my real introduction into gaming. My moms cousin was staying with us and he had a ps2, and a copy of san andreas which had just came out, and i played that non stop for days because i thought that was amazing. I wss really young, and id played a decent amount of games before, but that was my gateway. Ive regularly played alllll of them since them, and actually a lot less gta 5 than the others.
If you were "really young" when San Andreas came out, I'm going to hazard a guess that you weren't even alive during the '80s. It's good to know our comic can appeal to someone who doesn't have any sort of nostalgic attachment to the most radical of decades. Then again, Jessica was born in '88, so even she's too young to remember the 80s at all, yet she still has an appreciation for the awesome media produced back then.
Anyway, good to know you were able to play a shitload of GTA as a youngling and somehow managed to avoid becoming a psychotic mass murderer (I assume). Good job.
Any reason you didn't play V as much as the others? I heard nothing but great things about it. It might be the one game I'm most looking forward to playing once it goes on sale for cheap enough.
I bought saints row 2 because it was cheaper than gta 4 at the time, and i heard it was good. I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was, and im pretty sure its my favorite one of them all. Three and four got really ridiculous in order to seperate themselves from gta, and there was the whole thing with thq shutting down and deep silver taking over the franchise.
I started playing 3 shortly after I beat 2, but I only played it for an hour or so. I think I was disappointed that I couldn't use the same cockney accented voice for my PC as I had in part 2.
I've played a decent amount of the early final fantasies, and i honestly dont remember much, but the DnD elements seem apealing, because my friend just recently got me into DnD. Im used to the newer ones, especially twelve, so itd be fun to go back and play the older ones.
Final Fantasy 1 borrowed lots of monsters, spells, and classes (er, "jobs" as they're called in FF) from first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. The original game even featuring a D&D-style casting system, where you can cast spells of a given level only a certain number of times, and must rest to regain them. Later re-releases of FF1 changed that to the standard MP system that the later games used.
If you're curious to check out FF 1 and 2, I'd say the PSP versions are the best. Otherwise, the GameBoy Advance Dawn of Souls collection of 1 and 2 are good. I'm not a big fan of the bonus dungeons that they added to the first game, since they just toss in a bunch of items and bosses from later games in the series all willy-nilly (holy shit, I'm not sure if I've ever typed out "willy-nilly" before). I was able to tear through the GBA ROM of Dawn of Souls in just a couple gaming sessions thanks to the ability to speed up gameplay and breeze through most of the random battles. It's actually hard for me to play an oldschool turn-based RPG now without the ability to speed up gameplay.
As you might know, the original FFIII never got released in the West until it was remade for the 3DS. However, there's a fan-made English translation of the original Famicom ROM. It's a rough translation, but if you want to play the 8-bit original, that's your only option (unless you know Japanese). But I'd actually recommend the 3D remake, since it was overseen by the same dudes that made the original game and they made sure it was both true to the original while also fixing a bunch of issues the original had. It's a really hard game, but I found it satisfying it. I'd recommend picking up the Steam version next time it goes on sale.
I'd say the DS remake of IV is the best version of that game, and that's also available on Steam. If you'd rather experience the 16bit original, then you could play the GBA ROM (European ver. which includes several bug fixes) and apply the following fan-made patches: Sound Restoration, Defender Fix, European Stripper Restoration. Or you could play the SNES ROM with the fan-made Namingway Edition’s patch applied. However, the DS/Steam version has the best script.
Both FF V and VI recently got released on Steam, but unfortunately they're ports of the iOS versions, which feature phoned-in re-drawn sprites that are high resolution, but a lot of people (including me) think they look cheap and lack the charm of the original graphics. So for FFV, I'd recommend playing the GBA ROM with a sound restoration hack applied. For FFVI (for the record, my favorite game in the series), I'd recommend playing the SNES ROM with the Final Fantasy VI Relocalization Project hack applied.
I know a decent amount about dark souls because my best friend is fucking obsessed with the game, and ill probably pick it up on steam the next time i see a dirt cheap deal on it.
You should definitely do that. As long as you're not easily frustrated by challenge, then Dark Souls is an amazing game.
