Whoa__The Next Thing
Whoa, so it has been well over a year since my last blog, I have pretty much put the Final Fantasy Quest on hold/failed. I did beat Final Fantasy, it was good not great, but that is compared to all the other Final Fantasies that I have played. For a first entry I definitely get why it blew up into this huge series. The ending was fairly confusing trying to figure out what I needed to do, I don't remember much, as it was almost a year ago that I finished. I do remember a confusing castle with many levels and having to go up levels to get to a staircase to come back down the levels to a different part. The final bosses were weird to fight because it felt like they took the four main bosses and just made each one more difficult in equal amounts. So, what I mean by that is that the first two bosses were tougher than they were when I originally fought them, but still vary easy. The last two were much more difficult...I don't know how I beat the last boss, it was very much a fight were a few numbers went my way like two characters survived a hit with single digit health, but still survived, then the boss missed the next hit... something like that where probably 7 out of 10 times I would lose that fight, but I won.
I did start Final Fantasy II, which has a very confusing stat and level system. It took me an extremely long time to figure it out. The stats work where the more you use a system or skill the more you level that stat or skill up. So the more you fight with a sword then more sword skill you get, the more you use magic your magic skill improves, the more damage you take the more your health stat increases. When I first started the game I did the typical RPG tactic where I took my mage and put her in the back line...she didn't take any damage...now she is extremely weak and almost everything around us will kill her in one shot, so I need to backtrack really hard. The most difficult aspect of how this system works is that the same system applies to not using a skill or weapon. So you cannot do that which was my first instinct and just grind hard to get most of your characters great at everything. It is definitely going to take time and trial and error to figure out the best way to get my team how I want them. I am sure that there are guides online on the best way to quickly make an unstoppable team, this seems like a system that once it gets figured out it could easily be exploited. But, like I said at the very beginning of playing through Final Fantasy's I am trying to do as much as I can without outside help.
The bad thing is that I haven't even played Final Fantasy II in almost a year either, I just don't have the time to play games as much as I would like. Many great games have been coming out over the last year and I just don't have the time or money to play through them all. Sooooo now I am going to just discuss whatever games I am playing, I have thought about getting back to what I did initially and talk about movies, games, and workouts, but I think I am just going to do games.
So, the next thing. The next big game I am going to play is probably Mass Effect: Andromeda. I am very excited about this game as Mass Effect is in my top 5 favorite game series/worlds. Since, I have known for months that I am definitely getting this game I have been purposefully avoiding content for it so that I go into the game fresh, all I know is that it involves two siblings, pathfinding, a couple new aliens, and that the renegade/paragon system is going to be different. Games coming out now that I am skipping but would maybe like to play are Ghost Recon: Wildlands, For Honor, Halo Wars 2 (this one hurts), and Torment: Tides of Numenera. The other games I really would like to play are all on different platforms, Playstation has a crazy quarter of great looking games, Nioh, Horizon, Nier Automata, Persona 5, and Danganronpa 1-2 (i think). This is the first time where I feel like I might have made a mistake by buying a Xbox One instead of PS4, but it is what it is. The other games that I really want to play are on Switch. The new Zelda game looks ridiculous, also I am Setsuna I missed (PS), as well as the new Mario Kart, Stardew Valley, and various Dragon Quest Games. I am actually really excited for the Switch, they messed up so much on a few things like the online issues, how they talked about the games coming out, the lack of messaging for games coming out in the first year, they made a slew of mistakes mostly in marketing (and price of accessories). I am just really excited for the Switch though. Everything about the new Zelda looks amazing. I am really excited to play a bunch of old school RPG style games on it as well as platformers, 2D games, and many indie games. I just feel like this system is going to be the perfect platform for nostalgic gaming in general. I am also really excited to be able to play all the games that had been coming to either Wii-U or 3DS, that has been the main reason I didn't buy either of them, you only get half of the potential greatness that comes with owning a Nintendo platform. So I am very excited for the Switch, I didn't preorder it...my wife and I decided to wait until we see just how many games, what games, and what issues the system will have. So hopefully we will purchase one later this year, hopefully a bundle (can't believe they didn't bundle 1-2 switch, morons.) with Zelda or something this fall. I wish I had one now, but I am glad I didn't get one, most of the games I am excited for aren't coming right away and Mass Effect will be here in a couple weeks anyway. Also, there seems to be issues with the switch that needs a few months of updates and messing with to get the system to function correctly, so I can wait. So for the next little bit of my blogging I am going to focus on Mass Effect Andromeda and maybe some mobile games. I may do another blog before ME:A comes out and discuss why I am skipping a few games that I normally would want to own, like Halo Wars 2 and Wildlands, but that will be for another day. I have been typing quite enough for today and need to go hang out with my daughter/wife, maybe go for a walk/run with them. I am not proof reading this so just ignore any typos or grammar issues (especially run-on sentences) that may be present. Maybe see you in a week, maybe not...
I did start Final Fantasy II, which has a very confusing stat and level system. It took me an extremely long time to figure it out. The stats work where the more you use a system or skill the more you level that stat or skill up. So the more you fight with a sword then more sword skill you get, the more you use magic your magic skill improves, the more damage you take the more your health stat increases. When I first started the game I did the typical RPG tactic where I took my mage and put her in the back line...she didn't take any damage...now she is extremely weak and almost everything around us will kill her in one shot, so I need to backtrack really hard. The most difficult aspect of how this system works is that the same system applies to not using a skill or weapon. So you cannot do that which was my first instinct and just grind hard to get most of your characters great at everything. It is definitely going to take time and trial and error to figure out the best way to get my team how I want them. I am sure that there are guides online on the best way to quickly make an unstoppable team, this seems like a system that once it gets figured out it could easily be exploited. But, like I said at the very beginning of playing through Final Fantasy's I am trying to do as much as I can without outside help.
The bad thing is that I haven't even played Final Fantasy II in almost a year either, I just don't have the time to play games as much as I would like. Many great games have been coming out over the last year and I just don't have the time or money to play through them all. Sooooo now I am going to just discuss whatever games I am playing, I have thought about getting back to what I did initially and talk about movies, games, and workouts, but I think I am just going to do games.
So, the next thing. The next big game I am going to play is probably Mass Effect: Andromeda. I am very excited about this game as Mass Effect is in my top 5 favorite game series/worlds. Since, I have known for months that I am definitely getting this game I have been purposefully avoiding content for it so that I go into the game fresh, all I know is that it involves two siblings, pathfinding, a couple new aliens, and that the renegade/paragon system is going to be different. Games coming out now that I am skipping but would maybe like to play are Ghost Recon: Wildlands, For Honor, Halo Wars 2 (this one hurts), and Torment: Tides of Numenera. The other games I really would like to play are all on different platforms, Playstation has a crazy quarter of great looking games, Nioh, Horizon, Nier Automata, Persona 5, and Danganronpa 1-2 (i think). This is the first time where I feel like I might have made a mistake by buying a Xbox One instead of PS4, but it is what it is. The other games that I really want to play are on Switch. The new Zelda game looks ridiculous, also I am Setsuna I missed (PS), as well as the new Mario Kart, Stardew Valley, and various Dragon Quest Games. I am actually really excited for the Switch, they messed up so much on a few things like the online issues, how they talked about the games coming out, the lack of messaging for games coming out in the first year, they made a slew of mistakes mostly in marketing (and price of accessories). I am just really excited for the Switch though. Everything about the new Zelda looks amazing. I am really excited to play a bunch of old school RPG style games on it as well as platformers, 2D games, and many indie games. I just feel like this system is going to be the perfect platform for nostalgic gaming in general. I am also really excited to be able to play all the games that had been coming to either Wii-U or 3DS, that has been the main reason I didn't buy either of them, you only get half of the potential greatness that comes with owning a Nintendo platform. So I am very excited for the Switch, I didn't preorder it...my wife and I decided to wait until we see just how many games, what games, and what issues the system will have. So hopefully we will purchase one later this year, hopefully a bundle (can't believe they didn't bundle 1-2 switch, morons.) with Zelda or something this fall. I wish I had one now, but I am glad I didn't get one, most of the games I am excited for aren't coming right away and Mass Effect will be here in a couple weeks anyway. Also, there seems to be issues with the switch that needs a few months of updates and messing with to get the system to function correctly, so I can wait. So for the next little bit of my blogging I am going to focus on Mass Effect Andromeda and maybe some mobile games. I may do another blog before ME:A comes out and discuss why I am skipping a few games that I normally would want to own, like Halo Wars 2 and Wildlands, but that will be for another day. I have been typing quite enough for today and need to go hang out with my daughter/wife, maybe go for a walk/run with them. I am not proof reading this so just ignore any typos or grammar issues (especially run-on sentences) that may be present. Maybe see you in a week, maybe not...
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