I also picked up a copy of the original Final Fantasy Tactics for my PS3 as a “PSOne Classic.” I’m not sure if I’m going to move on to Shining Force 2 first, or if I’m going to make the jump to FFT, but either way I have been on a retro gaming kick and it’s made me appreciate my nostalgia for these particular titles but also given me an appreciation for some of the advancements made to RPG systems. Not to mention, a $1500 computer is 3x the amount of a new PS4, so who’s the cheap one? But I digress. Until there’s a handful, I don’t really see it as being a wise purchase. Similarly, he writes off my new computer and thinks I should “stop being cheap, and buy a PS4.” I do want a PS4, don’t get me wrong, but at the same time there’s only 1 game I care about on that system that I can’t get anywhere else. A recent conversation with a friend confirmed this about him, where he was already talking trash on the PS3, saying any games he didn’t play must have been garbage and that he only cares about what’s on PS4. It bemuses me that some people only want the newest technology and games and will write off everything that came before it. That’s not to say I’m not susceptible to the charms of amazing graphics, but rather that I can still go back and enjoy older games. A game that has fantastic mechanics and a workable storyline get me going a lot more than graphics do. It didn’t take long to complete, and felt easier than I remember, but it still holds up. I had been thinking about playing it ever since we started talking about Evergreen games back in August, and started it up a couple of weeks ago. The first major bit of news is that I had been playing Shining Force after many years and I finally completed it yesterday. I don’t know if I’ll be back to doing one of these a week or not, I still reserve the right to write them when it feels appropriate.
So I finally wrote a new round up post last week, and it turns out that this week I have enough to write about again.
When I was writing daily through August and the beginning of this month, the round up post became obsolete because I made every thought into a full blown post, rather than saving them up for a State of the Game. When I write like I’ve been writing, where I take a day or two off here and there, there is still a point to having a round up post, because then I just collect the thoughts I’ve had throughout the week that didn’t make it into another post. This State of the Game column has been a roundup of the games I’ve been playing, and sometimes has other tidbits like things I’m watching, or other small chunks of information that wouldn’t fill out a whole post. It’s funny how daily posting can affect other aspects of your blogging habits.