Gaming Nostalgia

[BaneTheBrawler]

of all my end-game accomplishments, i'm most proud of my DL kill. I loved everything about dynamis.

Also Ark Angel. That was a blast, too. I never minded helping out with that, even after I got my earring, because I was always jealous of AA GK and his /drg wyvern, and I wanted to stomp all over him.


god, I miss XI. As it was in its heyday.

[Twilight Sky]

Everytime I go to Valkurm Dunes or Crawlers Nest I get flash backs of many mobs being trained to zone, with tons of dead bodies that were unfortunate to not escape in time.

This one party thought they would kill a Will-O-Wisp(around 2005). That mofo exploded and one shotted the entire party.

Then there was the massive CN Lockdown that no one could enter of leave for like an hour cause someone trained all the rumble crawlers to the entrance.

For partying, I never really gave it much thought until now, but post 70, you're out there with the same people for 8+ hours, and there was something of a non verbal understanding when it came to our lives. We'd take break/lunches and all that, and then when it's over, we're back at being bored to death killing the same annoying ass bird for more hours.

And Dynamis-Windurst . . . heh, guess that name is all that needs to be said.

A lot of things of nostalgic value, but a good majority I am glad has come to pass.

[thetruepandagod]

Then there was the massive CN Lockdown that no one could enter of leave for like an hour cause someone trained all the rumble crawlers to the entrance.

And goblin trains at yhoatar/yuhtunga with bat trains at garliage. Can't forget when your blm does a ga spell while partying in boyhada tree.

[Kalmado]

I just started playing XIV, and while graphically excellent I miss the hell out of playing XI. I can't even put my finger on why I'd almost rather go back to XI because graphically and musically XIV is awesome. Gotta be dat nostalgia.

[Meresgi]

I just started playing XIV, and while graphically excellent I miss the hell out of playing XI. I can't even put my finger on why I'd almost rather go back to XI because graphically and musically XIV is awesome. Gotta be dat nostalgia.

That and to me and felt like XIV was just far too laid back, where you can do everything on Monday and then wait the rest of the week. I mean FFXI was fucking hardcore with a partime work schedule type deal to it, but at least things felt stretched out even if it was just behind all RNG bullshit. Plus the more options of gear and shit gave you something to do "Fuck i still dont have my pants off Byakko, well at least I have 4 other pants I can farm up/work on for different scenarios blah blah". Its like part of me wants a more casual MMO because its like "You're married and have a job now" and the other part wants a far more grindy one because its like "Yeah...you're married"

[BaneTheBrawler]

i think you just touched on one of XIV's biggest weaknesses: lack of options. There really arent very many gear choices in the game. You grind your class's gear for one tier, then you grind out the same gear with a slightly higher item level. rinse repeat. there's very little choice involved. either you're wearing your BiS or you're not. in XI the jobs had a relatively high amount of flexibility. if you were geared enough you could up and change roles completely. in XIV that's much less practical, almost to the point of impossibility. Personally, I think they should revamp the armory system again so that you equip Souls (or something like them) for jobs AND classes and can use whatever weapon you want. That alone would open up quite a bit of new, interesting ability mixes.

[Blubbartron]

i think you just touched on one of XIV's biggest weaknesses: lack of options. There really arent very many gear choices in the game. You grind your class's gear for one tier, then you grind out the same gear with a slightly higher item level. rinse repeat. there's very little choice involved. either you're wearing your BiS or you're not. in XI the jobs had a relatively high amount of flexibility. if you were geared enough you could up and change roles completely. in XIV that's much less practical, almost to the point of impossibility. Personally, I think they should revamp the armory system again so that you equip Souls (or something like them) for jobs AND classes and can use whatever weapon you want. That alone would open up quite a bit of new, interesting ability mixes.

I'll agree that there aren't as many options as there were in ffxi, or for something like WoW, but remember the game is still in its infancy since the "new official" release. Also, there are still a decent amount of options, enough to make it worth having multiple gear sets. Extreme primals, for instance, need no accuracy (super high deeps set GOOOOOO), but t4/5 have kind of absurd accuracy requirements in comparison. Balancing food/gear choices to have an optimal set with 100% acc without going overboard and sacrificing damage is hard.

[Kalmado]

My issue is the monthly fee and a feeling of not needing to play because of the ease of everything. At this point I dont see myself staying active. I can play other rpgs or ffxi free server...

[Meresgi]

My issue is the monthly fee and a feeling of not needing to play because of the ease of everything. At this point I dont see myself staying active. I can play other rpgs or ffxi free server...

^ #1 reason I dropped the sub. I can fuck around in Shogun2/Rome2 Total War with my buddy and catch up on some games I hadn't finished (Witcher 2, Beyond 2 Souls, other shit). Plus as much as I hated WoW i'll be going back to WoD because why the fuck not lol, at least it gives me a good 5 months of gameplay usually per expansion.

Nostalgia: Dungeon Keeper, I loved that game..i'm so pissed they made such a shitty phone version of it.

[BaneTheBrawler]

i've been trying to enjoy FFXIV since 2010. that's coming up on four years. even ARR is 6 months old already. at what point would you say the game ceases to be an infant?

[quannum]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.c...0/ecco1031.jpg

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...es_thejump.jpg

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[aurik]

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...es_thejump.jpg
Fuck that jump in particular. Took weeks to realize you just walk over it.

[thetruepandagod]

Shogun2/

i will fuk you proper m8

[Bregor]

http://i300.photobucket.com/albums/n...es_thejump.jpg
Fuck that jump in particular. Took weeks to realize you just walk over it.

Oh wow I remember that shit. Also fuck getting 99 scrolls for everyone just so you could get through the Technodrome.

[Krandor]

I don't think I realized you could just walk over it until Angry Nintendo Nerd did a video about it.

[Kalmado]

When the 360 first came out a friend of mine's father bought it for himself, but asked us to get it started for him. We convinced him he needed Xbox live and I believe we played this game from 9pm to 6am. At the time we were blown away at how much fun this new "playing online with other people" thing was.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Duty_2_Box.jpg

[Serra]

I don't think I beat that TMNT game till I was in college.. Could never get past the jumps in the Sewer in level 3 as a kid.

[Moss]

I don't think I realized you could just walk over it until Angry Nintendo Nerd did a video about it.

Was going to say, that jump is featured in a hilarious AVGN video

[Meresgi]

i will fuk you proper m8

None can stop the might of Takeda!




Been playing a lot of Rome 2 since I got it on sale. Glad to see Phalanx formation is just as fucking OP in game as in real life. lolololol wall o spears.

[Kalmado]

Downloading Tifa's Bootleg to restart FFVII. I realized last night my issue with games lately and for myself personally it's finding the right balance. Some games are too linear where other games are almost too open with no direction on what the actual point of the game is. That's what I found myself saying while playing XIV was, "what is the actual point of this game?" and by that I mean story wise. After playing for a few days I have no clue what the actual story is other than something happened and no one can remember what. Games like VII and VIII(debatable) offer an engaging story while giving you a path to follow, but also the option to explore.