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Post by Xeogred on Jan 17, 2022 0:33:55 GMT -5
1. Play another Front Mission 2. Play SMT Digital Devil Saga I-II
3. Play Tomb Raider III 4. Play King's Field IV 5. Replay FF6 6. Maybe play another Phantasy Star 7. Castlevania 2? 8. Play Power Slave PSX and PC 9. Play Parasite Eve II
Planning to play Dragon Quest XI this year too, which loosely counts for me since that series seems like it's still pretty traditional at heart.
I'm still on a major PSX high so take this as a grain of salt for now, but I want to say I envision a big year for PSX-PS2 gaming for me. Especially now that I'm emulating these eras more thesedays.
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Post by toei on Jan 17, 2022 10:17:36 GMT -5
I'm out of my gaming mood, but I'm sure it'll come back before too long. These are the games I'd like to play in 2022:
Exile 2 (Un-Worked) (Turbo CD) Tenchu 2 (PSX) Onimusha (PS2) Way of the Samurai 2 (PS2) Silent Hill 3 (PS2) Yakuza 3 (via PS4 remaster) Dragon Quest XI (PS4)
Those are the main ones. I'll add either Brave Prove or FF8 for next month, maybe Metal Gear Solid later, and the first PSP Yakuza if the new translation comes out this year.
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Post by Ex on Jan 17, 2022 11:05:41 GMT -5
1. Play another Front Mission 2. Play SMT Digital Devil Saga I-II 4. Play King's Field IV 6. Maybe play another Phantasy Star 7. Castlevania 2? 9. Play Parasite Eve II
I personally endorse all of those. I predict Front Mission 5, King's Field IV, and Digital Devil Saga 1 will all be big hits for you. You'll probably find Parasite Eve II to be better than you remembered. Phantasy Star 1 & 2 are still great, but with PS2 if you use some kind of patch to help with the grind I wouldn't blame you. If I were to be playing through Castlevania 2 for the first time, I'd use this hack. I'm out of my gaming mood, but I'm sure it'll come back before too long. These are the games I'd like to play in 2022: Exile 2 (Un-Worked) (Turbo CD) Tenchu 2 (PSX) Onimusha (PS2) Way of the Samurai 2 (PS2) Silent Hill 3 (PS2) Yakuza 3 (via PS4 remaster) Dragon Quest XI (PS4) Of those I've only finished Exile 2 and Onimusha. Exile 2 is "OK", I finished the Japanese version of it. Onimusha is good, or at least the original PS2 version. I wouldn't recommend the Xbox version as it screws the balancing up terribly with the tug-of-war souls. It looks like the game is on PSN for PS4: - My retro goals this year...
Beat another Armored Core.
Finish Dark Souls Digital Devil Saga 2 Dragon Quest VI (DS)
Final Fantasy VIII
Finish Valkyria Chronicles III Metal Wolf Chaos
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner
Also a focus on "quality over quantity" with gaming in general. Life's too short to bother finishing mediocre games.
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Post by toei on Jan 17, 2022 13:36:33 GMT -5
Also a focus on "quality over quantity" with gaming in general. Life's too short to bother finishing mediocre games. I'm trying to apply this to all my hobbies. I'll play the PS2 original for Onimusha. Never had an Xbox, and I prefer playing games in their original form if possible.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 17, 2022 13:40:22 GMT -5
I think I instinctively have done this over the years. While I don't explicitly drop a lot of RPGs I've started, I've clearly dropped a ton of them, never to come back. It's one thing to spend an hour or two on an iffy 8-bit game, another entirely to sink 50 hours into a mediocre JRPG.
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Post by toei on Jan 17, 2022 13:49:38 GMT -5
I used to be extremely stubborn about finishing games. I played Final Fantasy 2 NES until I made it to some unwinnable situation pretty far in, restarted it on the GBA, and finished it, despite not liking the game at all. I forced myself through Legend of Legaia and Tales of Destiny around 2010, despite hating both. There were others. I would never do that now.
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Post by Sarge on Jan 17, 2022 14:01:09 GMT -5
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I have RPGs in my library that will never be finished. Like White Knight Chronicles II and its ilk.
I never finished the Famicom version of FFII... I don't think. But I did finish the GBA version, and I actually did enjoy it there.
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Post by Ex on Jan 17, 2022 14:04:11 GMT -5
For many years I fell victim to sunk cost fallacy. About three or four years ago I finally wised up. Sure if you're playing a 30+ hour RPG, there might be a point where the game gets crappy but it's worth pushing through. By and large though, we've all been gaming long enough to know when the situation isn't going to improve. Best to put those diminishing returners away and never look back.
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Post by toei on Jan 17, 2022 14:34:49 GMT -5
It wasn't sunk cost fallacy for me. At one point I wanted to play through every old-school Japanese (or Japanese-style) RPG available in English. An ambition sparked by a lack of more worthwhile ambition, ironically. At least a dozen more have been fan-translated since, but if you define old-school as 2D and 8 to 32-bit, I got pretty close.
And I dug deep. I remember at one point, I heard about a Korean DOS RPG from the mid-'90s that *might* have received an English release. I think it was called Legend of the Ancient Dragon, or something else as generic. I searched for it like crazy. At the time there was almost no info about it. I ended up finding some kind of version, but apparently it was broken and couldn't be finished. It's funny how much it mattered to me. I couldn't care less now. I really should have focused on other things. But regrets are mostly useless, anyway.
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Post by Ex on Jan 17, 2022 15:08:43 GMT -5
I searched for it like crazy. / It's funny how much it mattered to me. I couldn't care less now. I too have been lost down many such frivolous rabbit holes. If in retrospect regrets guide our future behavior towards wiser decisions, they are useful thereof.
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