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GPG123:
    Just wondering what modern games you play, if not what were your favorite older games? Im a big fan of the original fallouts, aswell as the new ones, even though theyre completely different. Stuff like that.

Adam Dravian:
Oh man, I'm a huge fan of video games, and have been ever since I can remember. In the early 80s, my dad had an Atari and an Intelivision, and some of my earliest memories are watching him play those while I sat on his lap.

For the most part, I'm way behind when it comes to modern games. For instance, I'm currently playing through Metal Gear Solid 3 for the first time. Yet I read Kotaku almost daily, so I keep up on gaming news. I have a huge list of games I'd like to get around to playing "someday." My Steam library "wishlist" is getting huge.

A lot of my favorite recent games seem to be retro throwback games (big surprise, huh?). I fucking love Hotline Miami, and I've just started playing Lakeview Cabin Collection, which is great. Terreria is also super addicting.

As for older games, oh man, this could turn into a long post. I loved my NES, but the SNES was pretty much my gaming "golden years". Games like Megaman X, Final Fantasy IV and VI (or II and III, as they were known at the time), Shadowrun, Earthbound, The Lost Vikings, Chrono Trigger, Link to the Past, and so on pretty much defined my youth. Also some older PC games like Doom/Doom II and some of the classic adventure games like Full Throttle.

I sort of fell out of gaming for a while during the PlayStation era, but I loved Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I'm also a huge fan of the Resident Evil series, flaws and all.

As you might know if you've ever read our About the Creators page of this site, I'm a big time fan of the original two Fallout games. I serve as the lead writer and a voice actor for a hugely popular Fallout 2 mod that restores a bunch of cut content to the game. If you've never played Fallout 2 with the Restoration Project, you should totally give it a try.

Jessica Safron:
WELCOME TO THE FORUM, DUUUDE!

Dwarf Fortress was the last game I really got into, but that was a couple years ago. Now that I'm constantly drawing, I have to find other sources of fun that I can do at the same time. Most recently, I've been listening to a biology audio-textbook, and that's been a pretty good time.

Oh, I do "watch" (listen to) streams of Maddox playing games on Twitch while I'm drawing. I'm going to tear myself away from drawing reeeally soon to start streaming on my own Twitch channel, sometime this month. I'll mostly be sticking to 80s games (gotta keep the theme going!). I'm gonna be the worst. It'll be fun.

Since Adam went into his life story of gaming, I feel like I should try to sum up mine. I was mostly a GameBoy, Playstation, PC kid, but holy cow did I want an N64 when that came out. Kirby's Dreamland was the first real video game my family owned.

When we got a Playstation, we were suddenly buried in games. Final Fantasy VII was the biggest deal at the time, and I loved it. I loved FFIX even more when that came around. Then X came out, which I was super pumped for, and was horribly disappointed by. I oddly have no excitement for the FFVII remake now, but I'm sure it would have blown my mind as a kid. It can't be the same without the comically bulky polygons.

Between 1999ish to 2001ish (around 5th to 8th grade), Pokémon (and Dragonball Z) basically ruled my life for a couple years. The GameBoy games, the show, the cards, the GameBoy game about the cards, etc. I was so pumped for Gold and Silver to come out. I downloaded an emulator and ROMs of their Japanese versions when I was eleven or twelve, before they came out here, but I was too dumb to figure out how to run them. I bought a strategy guide for the Japanese versions around that same time and poured over it. I saved my money to get both games as I counted down the days until the American release. Then I played 'em for a little while and somehow lost interest in the franchise. They were fun. I dunno what happened.

In high school, I revisited the land of ROMs with more success. I suddenly had access to every S/NES game (and then some!), and I could even play them with my friends online. Someone at school, whom I barely knew, straight up gave me an N64, and the local video rental store was practically giving away all their N64 games to make room for the next gen. Holy shit. Living in the future ruled so hard.

You know what else rules hard? You, for posting on our forum. Hope we see more of you here!

GPG123:
Lol thanks for the lengthy and awesome replies. Im a bit young, so i dont know much about the days of double dragon or anything but I've played the original fallouts, and i actually played through the second one with the fallout restoration project and it's awesome by the way. I do a ton of emulation, and i've been planning on doing some fun old lan parties with a couple friends for games like doom and counter strike, but we haven't really found the time to do that. Most of what i play are things like Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Saints Row/Grand Theft Auto. I used to play a lot of pokemon, like a lot, but then i decided that i didnt really feel like buying the newest system just to play it, because it'd basically be a $200 pokemon machine. I did play through a decent amount of Final Fantasy 7, because I found it on the sidewalk one day along with a memory card, which was kinda weird, and ps1s were $5 at game changers, so why not? I do want to play final fantasy 9, but ill probably emulate it on my pc to save a bit of money, i heard its reallly underrated. As for my Steam wishlist, its pretty bad. Steam always takes my money when they have sales and stuff so i always spend irresponsibly and use money i was supposed to spend on other things. I really do love videogames, its most of what i do, but its getting hard to find the time sometimes with things like school, homework (more school), and my damn cell phone. Anyway, you guys are awesome!

Adam Dravian:

--- Quote from: GPG123 on January 02, 2016, 11:17:53 AM ---Lol thanks for the lengthy and awesome replies. Im a bit young, so i dont know much about the days of double dragon or anything but I've played the original fallouts, and i actually played through the second one with the fallout restoration project and it's awesome by the way.
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The 1987 arcade version of Double Dragon was one of the first games I ever beat, and I've always had a soft spot for it. It's too bad that it runs super fucking slow on MAME. Oh, speaking of Double Dragon another of my favorite more "recent" games is Double Dragon Neon. It has a similar over-the-top '80s vibe as Satan Ninja, but it's a bit more silly and less R-rated. It's a really fun co-op game, so you should check it out if you can.

Wow, that's awesome that you've played the Restoration Project. Did you learn about it through my bio on this site, or did you happen to play it before discovering this comic? When I first joined the RP, most of the dialogue for the new locations had already been written by various modders, and I was tasked with going over it all and trying to bring it up to snuff so that it wouldn't stand out so much from the great writing done by the original developers. So most of what I did was just editing other people's text, but there were a few characters that I created (like Dex) or completely re-wrote to make them my own (like Krom at the Umbra Tribe). I also provided the voice of the Cassidy talking head, but since I didn't exactly sound convincing as a gruff old dude, one of the other modders who worked on the project applied post-processing to my voice to make it a bit deeper and less youthful. It's very strange for me to hear my modified voice coming out of that character when I play the game now.

Jessica played through Fallout 1 shortly after we started dating, but she hasn't gotten around to playing the sequel, since she's always so busy drawing the comic.


--- Quote ---Most of what i play are things like Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Saints Row/Grand Theft Auto.
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The first Elder Scrolls game I played through was Oblivion. I have this sort of weird aversion to experiencing things out of sequence, so I decided to go back and play through the early games before I move on to playing Skyrim. I played through the original Elder Scrolls game, Arena, last year when I was sick. I started playing Daggerfall, but just wasn't able to get into the mode. I might end up saying "fuck it" and moving on to Morrowind. Have you played any of the older Scrolls games?

Though I was bummed about the change in direction that Bethesda took the Fallout series, I did play through and enjoy Fallout 3. I try to judge it on its own merits and not compare it to the original games. I'm excited to play New Vegas, since it had a lot of Fallout 2 developers involved in making it. That's near the top of my "soon to play" list. And speaking of original Fallout developers, I'm also excited to play Wasteland 2, which I backed on Kickstarter, but haven't yet gotten around to playing. I've read great things about it, so you should consider checking it out, if you haven't.

I've been a huge fan of the GTA series since I played the original on PC in the late-90s. I haven't played V yet, since I'm too poor to buy a game until it's around $5-10 on a Steam sale. The Saints Row series turned me off with the first game's "gangsta" theme, which I'm just not into (plus I've never owned an Xbox). But I ended up buying the second game for next to nothing during a Steam sale and ended up being surprised by how much I enjoyed playing through it. Still haven't played III or IV, but I intend to give them a shot. I'm a little worried that the series gets too wacky for its own good.


--- Quote ---I do want to play final fantasy 9, but ill probably emulate it on my pc to save a bit of money, i heard its reallly underrated.
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Final Fantasy IX is definitely one of my favorites, so I was pleasantly surprised to see the PC version announced the other day. However, you should know that IX serves as a send off to the "classic" era of the Final Fantasy series, so it's full of both direct references and thematic references to the older games. So if you really want to get the most of it, I'd recommend playing through the early games in the series. You could probably skip the first two games, since FF1 was basically just a D&D game with a couple unique elements tossed in, and FF2 is kind of the black sheep of the series for having a completely different character advancement system (more like the Elder Scrolls games, actually). I feel that FF3 is when Final Fantasy found its unique voice, and it's the earliest game that feels like a true Final Fantasy to me. And then IV, V, and VI are awesome. I've actually never played through all of VII, because I was bummed out about the shift to shitty 3D polygons and the series changing from being fantasy with a sprinkling of sci-fi elements, to being sci-fi with a sprinkling of fantasy elements.

Oh shit. I forgot to mention Dark Souls. That's another modern game I love.

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