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luiniedI don't have time to write a long post for the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy VI's North American release, but damn do I still love and appreciate that game. Here's some music that Square-Enix itself linked to today.
Update: I posted something like this a bunch of places yesterday and as a result was reminded that there are people from so many parts of my life who've loved this game. This is pretty amazingly (maybe even embarrassingly) heartening when I remember that, twenty years ago, I was this lonely kid with no one to talk to about what was suddenly (ok, as of Solitary Island) my new favorite game.
Update: I posted something like this a bunch of places yesterday and as a result was reminded that there are people from so many parts of my life who've loved this game. This is pretty amazingly (maybe even embarrassingly) heartening when I remember that, twenty years ago, I was this lonely kid with no one to talk to about what was suddenly (ok, as of Solitary Island) my new favorite game.
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Date: Sat, Oct. 25th, 2014 02:18 am (UTC)But yes, do I ever feel you on: twenty years ago, I was this lonely kid with no one to talk to about what was suddenly (ok, as of Solitary Island) my new favorite game. It was Solitary Island for me too, heh. (I even signed myself as "from Solitary Island" in a letter to a magazine once. Got published, too. Those were the days.)
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Date: Sun, Oct. 26th, 2014 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Mon, Oct. 27th, 2014 08:26 am (UTC)After we moved I learned not to try talking to locals about games, because even if they'd heard of what I played they wouldn't appreciate them the same way: it was all macho posturing all the time, and if any girls played SNES RPGs in that town they kept it to themselves. I did talk that Best At Games person about FF6 at some point in 1995, and I was shocked to discover that he'd never made it past the Phoenix Cave and didn't even remember it well. (I don't think the innocence of that group, in as much as it ever existed at all, lasted long after I left.)
So, yeah, it's not surprising how I glommed onto some friends from elsewhere when we had a game (like Link's Awakening) in common.
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Date: Sat, Nov. 1st, 2014 10:13 am (UTC)Loooooooool. (I'm pretty sure nobody expected the end of FF4 to be anything like it was.)
If preteen boy society is anything like preteen girl society, I'd guess that your nerdy friends hit that awkward "oh we're supposed to be acting bro-ish" age around the year of FF6. The pressure of being that age might have gotten to them whether or not they were really inclined to be that way. I know that by that year, at my school, everyone was dating and talking about whose boobs were big... leaving not much room in social life for fantasy stories.
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Date: Mon, Nov. 3rd, 2014 02:06 am (UTC)Yeah, in retrospect I'll bet that was it. It was still quite a shock at the time. (We moved at a time when I was not a good age for a kid to be switching social environments, even without all the extenuating circumstances, and I was super unprepared for that.)