What Is This
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freshfeelingWhile I am still organizing this and populating some of the pre-existing content, it's probably worth briefly saying what this blog is.
I have enjoyed playing challenge runs of various games - but almost entirely JRPGs, and mostly the original Final Fantasy - since about 2015. And I've been a fan of these games my whole life. The original Final Fantasy is quite distinctly the game that "grabbed" me.
I was born in the early 80s and was somewhat of an early internet adopter. I've been a part of several gaming communities over the years, but the one I've stuck with the most since ~2003 or so is GameFAQs. That site has its problems but it's served my needs pretty well. Other sites come and go; I used to talk gaming on Facebook, and then it became... yucky. Then I was really happy with a gaming community on Twitter, and that recently became more yucky. Even some of the more indie sites and groups I've been part of have become yucky! But I still want to talk about games.
In April 2016, I started a Twitch account and started streaming most of my novelty playthroughs there. I like doing that because it's an easy way to have a full video of the playthrough transferred to my YouTube channel, as a form of "proof". However, I can barely imagine the use case of someone being like, "Let me watch some rando watch an oddly specific way of playing through a 20 year old game for 30 hours."
Yes, I am sure that has happened - I may have indulged in a less exaggerated version of the same idea myself sometimes! While there might be an audience, it's a niche one. That said, I've made clear on stream a few times that while I want to be polite and provide a good viewing experience where possible, I don't truly play games for an audience; I play games for myself. Anyway, I still stream on Twitch and put very long videos on YouTube, and that's very much on my own schedule.
Which brings us here! I thought about edited YouTube videos, but that's time-consuming and I probably wouldn't grow an audience anyway... among other concerns. But I do love reading various minimalist blogs using positively ancient services! I enjoy reading other folks' notes about their playthroughs and experiences. I still use GameFAQs regularly, checking boards for my favourite games... and every so often, especially with Final Fantasy (NES), someone will link to Sullla's Final Fantasy Page, or System Error's Video Game Variants. I like those. I have decided to basically copy them - hopefully not too egregiously although clearly this site has a lot in common with System Error's.
So, in lieu of making shorter, digest versions of my playthrough videos, I'm going to summarize them here. This will also provide a place to "port" notes about older variant playthroughs, make written digests about the more recent / current variant playthroughs, and perhaps even discuss other game-related topics. To some extent, I am still figuring this out.
But the jist is: repository of weird game playthrough notes. Some old, some new. Also maybe less stupid than other forms of social media.
Thanks for reading - though as I said this is mainly for me.
I have enjoyed playing challenge runs of various games - but almost entirely JRPGs, and mostly the original Final Fantasy - since about 2015. And I've been a fan of these games my whole life. The original Final Fantasy is quite distinctly the game that "grabbed" me.
I was born in the early 80s and was somewhat of an early internet adopter. I've been a part of several gaming communities over the years, but the one I've stuck with the most since ~2003 or so is GameFAQs. That site has its problems but it's served my needs pretty well. Other sites come and go; I used to talk gaming on Facebook, and then it became... yucky. Then I was really happy with a gaming community on Twitter, and that recently became more yucky. Even some of the more indie sites and groups I've been part of have become yucky! But I still want to talk about games.
In April 2016, I started a Twitch account and started streaming most of my novelty playthroughs there. I like doing that because it's an easy way to have a full video of the playthrough transferred to my YouTube channel, as a form of "proof". However, I can barely imagine the use case of someone being like, "Let me watch some rando watch an oddly specific way of playing through a 20 year old game for 30 hours."
Yes, I am sure that has happened - I may have indulged in a less exaggerated version of the same idea myself sometimes! While there might be an audience, it's a niche one. That said, I've made clear on stream a few times that while I want to be polite and provide a good viewing experience where possible, I don't truly play games for an audience; I play games for myself. Anyway, I still stream on Twitch and put very long videos on YouTube, and that's very much on my own schedule.
Which brings us here! I thought about edited YouTube videos, but that's time-consuming and I probably wouldn't grow an audience anyway... among other concerns. But I do love reading various minimalist blogs using positively ancient services! I enjoy reading other folks' notes about their playthroughs and experiences. I still use GameFAQs regularly, checking boards for my favourite games... and every so often, especially with Final Fantasy (NES), someone will link to Sullla's Final Fantasy Page, or System Error's Video Game Variants. I like those. I have decided to basically copy them - hopefully not too egregiously although clearly this site has a lot in common with System Error's.
So, in lieu of making shorter, digest versions of my playthrough videos, I'm going to summarize them here. This will also provide a place to "port" notes about older variant playthroughs, make written digests about the more recent / current variant playthroughs, and perhaps even discuss other game-related topics. To some extent, I am still figuring this out.
But the jist is: repository of weird game playthrough notes. Some old, some new. Also maybe less stupid than other forms of social media.
Thanks for reading - though as I said this is mainly for me.
