Yeah, same - right now my stepson is with his dad, so I have free reign of Zelda, hence I'm spending more time there. Once he returns in a couple of days, I'll let him have it more and I'll focus on FFIII and FFIV again.

I'm enjoying it a ton! Exploration is as addicting as BOTW, and just seeing the map being expanded 10x more really makes the experience better. Revisiting areas from the previous game has been great. Seeing how characters especially NPC's developed over time is a good feel.

Considering a Zelda theme next honestly. Mainly because of Purah

Aww, ich habe Wave Race damals auf dem N64 echt geliebt, und so viel gespielt! Nostalgie!

Auch wenn es mit FFIII bisher nichts geworden ist, scheinst du zumindest Spaß mit Tears of the Kingdom zu haben, und das ist ja das Wichtigste.
Ich habe Fire Emblem 4 damals im Februar auch spontan angefangen, obwohl es gar nicht in meinem Backlog war, und hatte eigentlich nicht erwartet, über 70 Stunden damit zu verbringen... Aber gleichzeitig ist es halt schon sehr cool und hat etwas ganz Eigenes, also bereue ich nichts!!

Ich habe wenigstens noch das Glück, dass ich Action RPGs nicht besonders mag, also mein Kampfsystem sollte schon rundenbasiert sein. Echtzeit Kämpfe machen mich nervös und ich kann sie nicht besonders gut. Damit fällt wenigstens ein Teil der JRPGs, die noch auf deiner Liste stehen, bei mir weg. Obwohl es natürlich Ausnahmen gibt. Und da ich echt interessiert die Indie-Spiele-Szene verfolge, tauchen dafür da wieder mehr Sachen auf, die ich mal spielen möchte. (Und natürlich die Dating Sims xD)

Wenn ich mein aktuelles Buch durchgelesen habe, habe ich meine Challenge auf Goodreads dieses Jahr schon geschafft! Normalerweise habe ich immer Phasen, in denen ich viel lese, und das flaut dann zwischendurch mal wieder ab. Dieses Jahr ist es komischerweise aber noch nie passiert. Ich habe mir auch eine gewisse Routine angewöhnt, jeden Abend zumindest eine halbe Stunde, meist um dieselbe Zeit, zu lesen. Und das funktioniert bis jetzt wirklich gut.^^

Ich bin auf jeden Fall schon gespannt auf dein nächstes Theme!
Das Bild von meinem Banner ist eigentlich ein Steam-Hintergrund, deshalb ist es in der Mitte so dunkel (weil man da normalerweise auf seinem Profil die ganzen Daten stehen hat, und nur rechts und links eben der Hintergrund zu sehen ist). Aber ich mochte das Bild so gern, dass ich es trotzdem genommen habe. Jetzt wo dann der Sommer kommt, werde ich aber wahrscheinlich auch bald wieder mal wechseln, aber ich weiß noch nicht worauf genau. Momentan spiele ich nur düstere/ernste Spiele, da kann ich kein fröhliches Theme daraus machen.

I might find people in my new neighborhood who might be able to provide more opportunities. There appears to be a mix of Italian-Americans where I live now.

The wind temple was fantastic. I find myself getting more into exploring the world than I did with the previous iteration, and I'm not entirely sure why. The pacing is excellent. I need so many more heart containers though!

The differences are super minor. Try and I are playing side-by-side on stream and the only things we've noticed is Steve has different hair and they added a cutscene that reintroduces Wesker much earlier in the game.

As someone who has played the vanilla version of RE: Code Veronica on the Dreamcast, I can tell you that the only real difference is that Code Veronica X adds some additional cutscenes in the game, and I think Steve's hair is a bit shorter? Hence the 'X' in the title. The vanilla version of RE: CV came out for the Dreamcast in 2000 in NA, but RE: CV X was released on the Dreamcast in the Japanese region only on 3/21/2001. The west never got that version until it was ported to the Playstation 2 later in 2001, and then later ported to the Gamecube 2 years later in 2003.

So think of Resident Evil: Code Veronica X as the 'definitive' version of vanilla RE: Code Veronica. Much like Persona 5 Royal is the 'definitive' version of vanilla Persona 5. Hope that answered some of your questions, Drumble or Try4ce can elaborate further since I haven't played CV X aside from what I've seen in streams.

lol yeah! Well I finished up FF2 and 3 is next, so I figured I'd make a new theme to go with it

I have been, actually! Got my first blood moon... died a lot... also got my first memory so that was cool. Currently dying a lot to a Lynel...

Thanks!
Loving every single second of Tears of the Kingdom at the mo
It blows my mind that they managed to fit so much into this game and give you everything you need in ever scenario to give you the world advantage! My biggest hurdle was just learning that game braking skills and tactics in any other game is the norm in this one.

I totally get it; no sense adding fuel to that fire. All I'm saying is that you'll never offend me by talking shit about my country. We're still getting to know each other and establish boundaries, and I just wanted to let you know that that isn't one.

We made a pact: she'd finish the God of War games on all difficulties and unlock everything, and I'd do the same with Devil May Cry, so the other could blow through the other series on Easy Mode with godlike powers. They're pretty similar, but for whatever reason, she's a LOT better than me at God of War, and I'm a lot better at Devil May Cry, though she did get to the final boss on Very Hard on her own without even using Royal Guard. I do like the God of War games (except Ascension; that had an absolutely epic final boss and just about nothing else of worth), even if I thought the writing and characters were kinda bad; they were good "Turn off your brain and rip apart some dudes" games. I'm something of a world mythology buff, and for how awful and petty the Greek Pantheon is, it was pretty satisfying to beat on them until I was just pounding wet chunks of bone into the floor boards. 3 was probably my favorite (even though it only exists because 2 decided not to end properly), with 1 being pretty close behind that, just because it has such a grand adventure to it.

Nostalgia has nothing to do with it (I don't really do the nostalgia thing; that's a whole rant in and of itself); I just think the older graphics look better, because the artstyle is incredible, even when compared to 2 and 3 on the NES. There's something about the artstyle that makes the enemies look so detailed and sinister that is lost in the future remakes. I haven't heard the soundtrack from the PSP version, but I'm usually pretty unimpressed with reorchestrated music, because it usually loses a lot of the punch of the original. Oh, I agree completely; I'm not a fan of time travel in general, because it makes no narrative sense, but I do think there are some neat elements that were pretty surprising for a game that old to have explored, like the whole Lefein civilization. Oh, don't even get me started on the official Zelda timeline; I've been half-suspecting it was a troll move on Nintendo's part because people just wouldn't shut up about it, even though most of the games were never supposed to be connected in the first place.

That is a gripe that I already have with Breath of the Wild: it claims to be big, but it's really just zoomed in; it's almost the exact same geographical area we've had since A Link to the Past. I've also got my eye on the insane number of collectibles and the weapon durability system, so it's a HUGE try-it-before-you-buy-it for me. Now, I've played WRPGs; I've dealt with weapon durability, and it's fine; it's just that this system seems excessive to me. Of course, I won't know until I play it, so I'm reserving judgment until them; I'm not automatically going to love or hate it before that.

Oh, I've got PLANS for that damn gacha machine, but it is the biggest reason I didn't finish it before; I don't think there has ever been any game that hasn't been made worse by the presence of gacha mechanics. The Oracle games are first, though; I'm going to drag my ass through both of them if it kills me, just so I don't keep starting them again and again, same as I did with other duds, like Phantasy Star 2 and the Mega Man XTREME (it's not extreme enough if you don't write it in all caps) titles.

I do think there's some merit in restraint, too, though; the reason we never got a Metroid 64 is that the people in charge of the franchise said that they wouldn't be able to do it justice on the technology that existed at the time, and the result of that was that we got Metroid Prime in the next generation. Of course it is also kind of the industry's fault, because they'd spent all this time and marketing money creating The Bit Wars in the previous generation, so then they HAD to push the latest graphical technology (a problem that's still choking the industry to this day), and at the time, that was bad 3D.

Iunno, a lot of the 2D games I can think of from back then were still doing some new thing; Tomba had little quest elements littered everywhere, Mischief Makers had the shaking thing, Silhouette Mirage had the dual energy thing, Kirby 64 had the ability fusions, Yoshi's Story had the most unusual completion goals and a new egg mechanic from its predecessor, and this was also the generation that gave us the first Super Smash Bros. Sure, there are some like Symphony of the Night, Darkstalkers, and Mega Man X4-6 that didn't really do anything all that new, but they were polished to one hell of a shine, and I think that's just as important as changing a genre, if not moreso. Innovative games can age poorly, but good games will always be good.

That is a pretty interesting thought; even if there isn't much to support it, there's absolutely nothing standing against it. It's really hard to say anything about what's really going on, because we are told almost nothing about what the Wind Fish is (aside from being neither wind nor fish) or what its powers are. Is it God? Maybe its some divine trickster. Maybe it rules over the world of dreams. Maybe it's just some Final Fantasy summon reject that got lost on the way to the spiky-haired protagonist that called for its aid. We'll probably never know. That's what's fun about philosophy, though: it doesn't matter if the answers are "right", so long as they get you thinking. Soul Blazer was full of moments like that.

I have kicked around the idea of seeing if there's an editor for the game and trying to make something in that, but I still have 2 Final Fantasy hacks that I never finished. I'll get back to those someday, just like I'll get back to that novel I wrote and then decided I was going to scrap the whole thing and start over.

Yes, and it is kind of a long one. So, back in my younger, angrier days, we used to go grocery shopping together. I'd usually be in some kind of long, angry rant about something on the way back, and she'd just interrupt me with, "Hey, you know what?" "WHAT!?" "Deer carcass," and she'd point out the window, and there would be a deer carcass. I'd usually laugh uncontrollably the whole way home. This was the reaction EVERY SINGLE TIME, too. Several years later, when I was working the night shift, she called me on her way to work; I picked up our house phone, and said, "What." "Deer carcass," and she hung up. One morning, there was one on the highway that you could see right out the kitchen window, so she GOT DOWN TO MY HEIGHT AND PINNED A NOTE ON THE WINDOW THAT SAID, "Hey, you know what?" AND ANOTHER ON THE ACTUAL WINDOW THAT SAID, "Deer carcass." This was just such a consistent thing in my life that it almost became a thing of comfort, so I'd jokingly say that my spirit animal was the deer carcass. I'd point to Orion in the night sky, and call it Carcassius; those three stars along the middle that people call Orion's Belt were the tire tracks. I know it's morbid as hell, but we both have kind of a twisted sense of humor.

It's like this: a great game that takes 100 hours is a long, great experience; an good game that takes 100 hours is half a good experience and half a slog that wears out its welcome long before the end. I think that's a big part of why I play FAR fewer RPGs than I did 20-30 years ago, when I was really into them. With shorter games, I find myself to be a lot less discriminating, partially because it won't take as much of my time, and partially because a shorter game is much more likely to know what it wants to be.

It really is! I have a few troubles with it, because our Internet sucks, and it relies on that fairly heavily, but it's definitely no worse than Steam in that regard.

Beauty can absolutely be found in a swamp; there are even a few "ugly" swamps from games that I enjoy, like Drakkhen 2: Dragon View and Final Fantasy 5. Of course, I also don't mind being wet, and I was born without a sense of smell, so I'd probably enjoy hanging out in a swamp. Depending what kind, I might come back and take the longest, hottest shower of my life, but still. Oh, I did watch a longplay, and I enjoyed it a great deal. It was quite a few years ago, but there are a few locations that still stick out to me.

Oh yeah, I would definitely play Breath of the Wild first. I do plan to play it someday, but I don't even have a Switch or any plans to get one. My lady has one, so I'd probably play it on hers, but I don't have access to a copy of the game right now, and I've got plenty else that I'm more interested in before I even think about tracking one down. She's in the same boat, too; she likes Zelda, but isn't in any rush to play it.

It's actually been pretty good lately; last year, I had more duds than actual good games. Some of the recent ones were bad, and some weren't necessarily bad, but weren't games that I liked.

It’s pretty great. It’s not always easy to find time to play since my son also is playing, but that gives me time to continue my pile of FF games.

I had not heard the remix from OCR but now I have! I really like it. Holy moly I can't believe I didn't realize Blue Storm was a thing.. I googled it and sat there going "How did this slip under my radar?" lmao. Oh well now I know.. And now it's time to give it a go later to see how bad or good it is. I've never tried the Hydro Thunder games either but perhaps I'll also check those out.

Ohh are you also a big fan of Wind Waker? As much as I love OoT and MM I think WW is probably my favorite Zelda and will always hold a special place in my heart. I'm hoping at some point in time Nintendo will port WW HD over to Switch so we can enjoy it on a newer console, esp. since they nuked the storefront for the WiiU.

FF3: If you don't have access to Black Belt (it's closer to the end of the game) then go with Monk or Dragoon, either are a good choice for Ingus and if you don't have either of those then Thief will be fine as well. I can't give an honest call on Summoner because I've never played with someone as Summoner in my party since I have a terrible habit of sticking to the jobs I like most. To clarify on my party setup I shared a Devout is the upgraded version of a White Mage, so once you unlock the Devout job you can swap over to that one to continue healing. It's been a while since I played FF3 so I don't always remember when and where jobs are unlocked, sorry about that. A Magus is also just the upgraded version of a Black Mage so make sure you swap to that job once you unlock it, too. Casters aren't weak in FF3, just have to know which ones are the easiest for you to use in your setup. Black Mage is always a great choice. The jobs I'm using are all unlocked closer to the end of the game so no worries. My only advice like I said is to swap Ingus onto a physical DPS to balance out the party overall since you have Black Mage already and that will help out a lot.

There's definitely a lot of jobs to choose from in FF3 but the job system is one of my favorite systems from FF so I'm always happy to have a large pool to choose from (although I'm also the person who is a masochist and doesn't mind grinding a lot in games. ).

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Lmao. No worries! I will definitely pick up BOTW + DLC first then before touching TOTK since my main concern was/is missing out on story stuff before playing the second. My general rule is the play the first entry in a series unless there's a flashback/recap in a newer installment that makes it easy for new players to grasp what's already taken place (Golden Sun Dark Dawn does this well). A Zelda marathon may in fact be the next series marathon I dive into since I still need to play and beat a good amount of those, so that should be a lot of fun. ^_^

Ohh I didn't know that at all but I'm happy to hear you're taking your gamer vehicle out for a drive into FF Land. xD I know the early entries can be pretty rough but they do get better as you get further along into the series, esp. with the Pixel Remasters now having some really nice boosters to help things along for new players. Video games are indeed a great hobby to discuss! I like hearing all the different thoughts/perspectives/etc. from others on games.

Banjo-Kazooie is amazing and YES! SUPER MARIO GALAXY!! I lovelovelove SMG! The music. The gameplay. Everything meshed so well together on the Wii! Sadly never got around to owning and playing the second one so I was always super jelly of those who were playing the new one. I love me some SM64 too but SMG really takes the cake.

Happy gaming/have a pleasant week!

oh hey salve!!!!! sto bene, e tu?

I tried studying more Italian on Pimsleur until my time got lost in the last couple of months. :P I got as far as asking "vuoi bere qualcosa con me?" ugh!

Wonderful game. I'm hyped and was already in the mood to play. I'm not terribly far, but I find something so excellently charming about the pacing thus far.

lol I will never Donkey Kong 64. It's just not worth the hassle.

I completed everything in Angry Aztec and Frantic Factory, got all of Donkey Kong's and Diddy's stuff in Jungle Japes, and then I just got whatever caught my eye. Altogether, I got 122 Golden Bananas, I think. I'm still picking at the game a bit and will probably get a few more, too.

Thanks! I really tried with this theme.

Oh I'm sure. I booted up BotW last night actually. Didn't get very far at all but it felt good to boot it up haha.

I'm pretty much entirely disengaged from the hype cycle these days. Still, Zelda is Zelda and I freaking love BotW so I'll probably get to TotK sometime this year. I'd like to get around to BotW's DLC first though.

There's a spooky mansion on a hill in Code Veronica that Try and I started calling Castlevania during the stream. 👻

Ho letto giochi al nuovo Zelda, cavolo dimmi tutte le tue impressioni ! Io sto giocando al DLC di Xenoblade 3 e poi andrò con Zelda, non vedo l'ora!