I've been in the mood to finish my KH playthrough so I can finally get around to KHIII. Course this means I now have to play through 3D since it's the next entry on my list.
You should do a bit more of an overview of the games so far honestly. I think people would enjoy reading it.
So now that I’ve finished FFVI, while I am continuing the marathon with VI, I feel like I’m probably gonna try to focus a bit more on writing? We’ll see how that goes. I might do a little tanking of the bonus dungeons, since VI is the last FF to really have that
I know. I did purchase a stand for my mic to make recording way easier. I want to work on a voice demo and maybe do some recordings. I just want to feel like I'm doing something productive for myself.
Yeah, that’s completely understandable. Don’t beat yourself up over it. Take as long as you need to heal and make art later.
That could work. I've been replaying VI myself for the retrospective. Using a translation recommended by an official translator who did a blog about the VI translation. I also plan on avoiding my usual munchkin traits and just bum rush my way through the game like I would have when I played it for the first time. I need to get back to my writing, I'm just feeling too down in the dumps to concentrate on it. I keep wanting to distract myself instead.
lol I did didn’t I. V went by really fast and VI feels much shorter than that. The only time I really slowed down was The After Years. But that’s also why I’m putting Chrono Trigger in there as I actually plan to see all the endings this time! Plus, I imagine I’ll be really slowing down once I reach XI just by virtue of the nature of that game. But since there are things I want to wait for, I think it’s a good idea to just take things slower, maybe focus a bit more on writing or play another of the million games I have in my backlog.
I find I play different genres for different things. I like my action games and fighters when I need a rush, I play RPGs or puzzle games more often for relaxation. I mean you have been hitting it at a fast pace. You blew through the SNES entries at break neck speeds if you ask me.
I mean, they do, but I guess that doesn’t matter that much to me since I think I actually prefer them to be comfort experiences rather than challenging me. I prefer the strategy and preparation kind of challenge honestly. Though it’s nice to have to struggle in a twitchy fashion sometimes. The most memorable battle for The Witcher 3 was pretty much ideal, being both really challenging on a tactical level and a reflex level. The director of that expansion actually said they were really inspired by the Soups series, so that makes sense. Meanwhile, I think I need to slow down with the marathon a bit, and there’s two main reasons for it. The first is that the latest XIV expansion is coming out in fall, so I don’t think it makes sense starting it before it drops, especially since it’s supposed to be an end to this particular story arc. The second one is that there’s a background upscale mod for FFVIII Remaster coming out soon, similar to the FFVII and IX mods already available, so I really hope they’re almost done and I can play VIII like an actual remaster lol
I've yet to get around to Bayonetta. Funny enough, the director of the game said he was taking cliff notes from DMC4. But yeah, I need that high skill, high reward feedback from the gameplay in order to enjoy it. It's what has been missing from a lot of ARPGs I play minus From Software's titles. Like it's amusing to me that I hated how tanky enemies are in VIIR but I don't seem to care in DMC4 because the combat has enough variety and a steep learning curve to make it fun that enemies can take a beating just so you can try out different combos. Most ARPGs just don't offer that high skill level and the very few that do usually turn out to be too easy and send you down complacent road.
