Comments on: Advanced Stage Hobbyist Consumption Syndrome

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:51:49 +0000

Intersting, I read a post recenly on anohter blog about how abunance creates a lower desire to enjoy what you have. Its a problem they say is generated by Netflix, which allows you access to a lot of movies with no late fees. This results in just ordering them, and never watching them.

Why? because you can.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:06:40 +0000

I’m so not a completionist, I never even found one of the characters in ff7! I kept going into shops and going “what are these guns for?” But then I finished it in 2 days straight.

By: garyh

garyh — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 22:28:20 +0000

Oops…guess I forgot to put in my name in that previous post. Looks like a name check needs to be added. You should also really hide/obfuscate the email address as it’s a spam magnet. Good thing it’s optional.

Anyways, I’ve actually been reading this blog since the beginning and while I’ve always known there’s 2 posters it’s just difficult keeping them separate in my mind.

I’ve played quite a few of the final fantasies (1,3,5,6,7,9,10) but they’re not quite my favorite due to random battles, slow gameplay due to waiting, and me being a completionist which requires a walkthrough to not miss things (and I hate using walkthroughs).

By: psu

psu — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:59:52 +0000

I have FF7. I ran across the big major plot point in the game on the net though, and I lost my motivation to play it through.

It’s amazing how many elements of all the JPRGs I’ve played are in the first 2 or 3 hours of that game though.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:04:12 +0000

I guess I found out pretty quickly that there was more than one poster, but I have only recently begun differentiating between psu and peterb. I never noticed that fasail had joined the bunch! (Or maybe I just missed him/her/it/them).

I tried a Jak & Daxter game too. It was fun for a bit but got old (and too difficult for my easy pleasure). I think the first ratchet & clank was the best. But that could be because it was the first I played.

I had that exact ff3/ chrono-trigger disk. I finished chrono-trigger twice, and got about 5 minutes of ff3 played. Couldn’t stand it. The only final fantasy games I’ve enjoyed are 1 (wouldn’t anymore I think), 7 (absolutely loved it), and was it 9? I think so. The one where it looked all cartoony again. I hated, I mean hated 8. Finished it anyway. I kept expecting it to get better. It never did.

My recent aquisition was a used gameboy advance. Other than the difficulty seeing the screen I’ve enjoyed it so far. Zelda – minish cap has been a lot of fun (with liberal referral to walkthrough).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:55:48 +0000

E.V.O. was a pretty cool title for the snes. I had forgotten all about that. I suppose you could consider it a precursor for the Spore game coming out. I still have to try out that first Ratchet and Clank even though since I’ve played the later 3. I can’t stand the Jak & Dexter games though. Never enough time.

I just realized the oddest thing, I have no idea who is really who on this site. I rarely pay attention to the poster name and so you all appear as a bit of a single conglomerated personality to me. This blog is a bit unusual from the others that I read in that it has multiple posters and isn’t about news topics. The closest thing to this that I read is probably penny arcade but they have icons that help differentiate each other (and it works quite well, although I suppose the comic helps them too). I didn’t even notice there’s more than two people (faisal, etc) until I just checked.

By: psu

psu — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:59:12 +0000

Pete let me borrow the PS1 Silent Hill… I also have a few old Final Fantasy titles that I’ll never play, including the one that has Chrono Trigger on one disk.

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:29:53 +0000

I think one of my favorite games of all time was E.V.O. on the SNES. I preferred the first Ratchet & Clank title, though going commando and up your arsenal were good too. I really enjoyed a lot of games on the PS1. I tried playing them more recently and what was killing it was the size of my TV. When I first played the ps1 the graphics were fine because the tv was small. That said I loved Parasite Eve. But then I like dark opera and geiger art.

By: garyh

garyh — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:36:46 +0000

Wow, you must be hitting rock bottom if you’re playing games on the PS1. I can’t recall a single game I really enjoyed on that system.

Most retro gaming is just bad unless you like the redoing lots of content with the instant death. Much better to go with emulating the older consoles instead so you can instantly save. Even then most of the old stuff just doesn’t hold up to todays games.

In any case, just to keep you in step 4 a bit longer, here’s a list of games that I would recommend to myself today if I hadn’t played them before.

Gamecube: Zelda: Windwaker, Mario Kart, Paper Mario, Pikmin 2
PS2: Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal, Katamari Damacy, Sly 3, Shadow of Colossus
xbox: Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time(1)
PC: Diablo 2(with expansion), Deus Ex(1), Wizardry 8, System Shock 2, Half Life 2, Master of Orion 2, World of Warcraft (if you dare), Homeworld 1, Fallout 2, Heroes of Might and Magic 3, Starcraft, Warcraft 3, Planescape: Torment (walkthrough required), Divine Divinity
PS: There was something worth playing on it?
N64: Zelda: Ocinara and Majora’s Mask, Banjo Kazooie, Mario 64, Conker’s Bad Fur Day (walkthrough required)
snes: Chrono Trigger, Zelda, Lost Vikings
nes: zelda 1/2
ds: Phoenix Wright, Zelda: Minish Cap

By: Doug

Doug — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 02:39:51 +0000

For years I carted around shelves and shelves of paper (yes paper!) rpg’s. Many of them I never ever played. Torg. Shatterzone. Paranoia. Some of them I didn’t even want to play. Warhammer. Others. I finally recycled a large quantity of useless books I’d been lugging around. I still have a smaller pile of the ones I actually enjoyed that I feel like I may someday maybe play when I have kids and haven’t been able to let go of.