Fynn
is an EoFF Hero and/or Heroine
Radical Dreamer

Yeah, I'm not big on streaming services either, largely because I don't like letting other people have control over the availability of what I want to see which is what the strengths of the service is suppose to be in the first place.

Thought this might interest you.

Yeah, there are too many damn good games coming out this month I'm interested in. I opted for Death's Stranding because it feels like the type of game you don't want spoiled. Still, I really would love to play Romancing SaGa 3 as well not to mention Scarlet Graces comes out a few weeks after RS3. I'll probably have to wait until Christmas to have the money to purchase those games. Money might be a little tight for me this holiday season because I plan on splurging on my GF and buying her a PS4 this Christmas.

I actually fell back into DQIX for a bit, probably because I knew it would quickly end my DQ mood and that has certainly worked for me. Holy hell, it takes forever to get anything done in that game and I'm still angry that it made the alchemy pot one of the most rage inducing elements of the game despite it being my favorite part of DQVIII. Instead I'm going to probably focus on finishing up Tactics Ogre instead.

I'll keep working on it, but I may jump to a different story that interests me more. I'm feeling more creative lately and it looks like work will be in a lull for a few weeks so I really don't have an excuse not to work on some of my writing projects.

I'm usually really moody around my birthday, so I tend to try and avoid things that play on that which is why my current story is not working for me. I'd rather work on something fun anyway.

I honestly feel the lack of a theme for the story is bothering me. I mean, even just describing the premise to people makes me realize how absolutely generic it sounds and so I feel I need a better hook for it. This is really more of a frustration story as well of which I had a similar story I was originally going to do for NaNo but that one actually had more of a fun gimmick to it and it was a comedy piece whereas the one I'm currently working on is just kind of depressing and not something I need to be in right now. I may actually change to the other story, cause lord knows I need some more humor in my life.

Still, I want to kind of get back to my novel and my other story collection project so at least I'm feeling inspired at least.

Course the 3DS version has the other alternate ending where you can marry Jessica because people are very possessive of their waifus.

I finished DQIV last night, only have Chapter 6 left but I'm probably going to stop my handheld DQ gaming and focus on finishing up Tactics Ogre instead.

As for my NaNo story... I already hate it and have been getting more inspired to go back to a different one I did a few years back. I have some ideas for it that I feel will vastly improve the narrative so I don't quite feel like a hack. Sadly, I've been watching so much Death Stranding stuff lately, that I feel like I should be trying to come up with something a bit more avant-garde since I tend to have more fun with those types of stories or projects. I've been focusing too much on mundane real life stories as of late and I feel I may need to jump into something abit more creative and world building focused.

Yeah, but you still kind of had to sacrifice a comrade to get that better world. So I would still say it's a bit bittersweet. At least compared to the rest of the franchise.

In DQVIII news, I beat the Lord of the Dragovians and gained the right to undergo the Dragovian Trials. Might try to make a few more alchemy items like the Dragon Slayer before I go further. Technically I already accomplished what I wanted here and unlocked the new ending, but I figure I should give the trials a chance since the first fight wasn't terribly difficult.

In DQIII, I'm in the post-game and debating if I really want to tackle the Zenith Dragon stuff or just call it a day. In DQIV, I've reached the final dungeon of Chapter 5. I did stop to complete the Immigrant Town sidequest which I always forget how disappointing it is compared to VII's better version of it.

In other news, I am doing NaNo, though I'm not really sure how well this one is going to go. I'm coming back to an older story I've been mulling over for years, but finally felt I was in the right mindset for it. Probably taking this piece a little more personally than I should. On the brightside, I don't really have much of a plan on how this story is really going to unfold, so there is a lot of potential for this piece to go into some interesting directions. It's rare for me to write a piece where I don't have a clear idea of what the ending is going to be. I don't even know who all of the characters are going to be. So this should be interesting. I missed writing today, but I'll write some tomorrow since I have time off finally.

I finished DQIII. Forgot how much more cinematic the Super Famicom version was with the final battle. Very reminiscent of the battle with Magus intro which was super nice. Zoma wasn't quite as nasty as Baramos was, but he is incredibly Disruptive Wave happy which I guess is normal since he was the first boss in the series to have it. Still makes him annoying. I think one of the reasons I really liked DQIII besides the twist is the fact the ending is really bittersweet at best. I mean you save both worlds, but now Loto is trapped in a foreign land with no way back. They witnessed the death of their father and now their mother lost both her husband and child. Not to mention Zoma's final words basically foreshadows the events of the later games. It's a pretty dark ending compared to some of the other entries. I think only DQVI ended on such a bittersweet note.

I'd imagine they do a better job in some regards, but a lot of those genres also tend to be more episodic, so they can just leave the stories on a cliffhanger to get the player coming back for the sequel. At least that's what I would imagine. I hear mixed things about games like Life is Strange and the Telltale franchises. I feel the tougher part for them would be trying to keep the story going in a way that remains fresh and exciting.

I doubt we uncovered it as much as we're just acknowledging something everyone knows. Granted, I sometimes also wonder if the lack of care for a game's back half may also have to do with the changes in gaming demographics. Westerners are a large market, but we're also older and likely have more responsibilities like family and careers to work. I wonder if we looked at data, we could summarize that most gamers really never finish games to begin with, so many companies feel its safe to skimp on those parts because they know the consumer is likely never going to reach it anyway. I mean most of the people I know my age who play games outside of the online world tend to spend most of their time playing styles of games that really don't have an endgame sequence to begin with and usually play more for co-op fun or for unwinding as opposed to playing a game for the experience itself.