We sometimes look to the past with rose coloured glasses dipped and dusted with nostalgia. But not everything about retro games was rosy.
RantGaming's Nan Rymer admits her age (somewhat) and recalls the best of times and the worst of times from her old school gaming days.
What are yours?
Dragon Quest is one of the cornerstone JRPG series that helped make the genre what it is today, and these are the best games.
Dragon Quest VIII 4th? Yikes. That's easily number 1 for me. I'd love to be able to play it again on newer consoles.
III, XI and VIII are my top 3 in that order. While I think XI is the better game overall my nostalgia for III will never be beat.
The latest update for Final Fantasy XI Online, the 'November Update', is now live across all platforms where the game is playable.
Can't believe this game is still getting updates 21 years after it launched. That's crazy! XI remains the only main numbered FF that I haven't played.
At the time, it was an amazing game if you had a good Linkshell and/or friend to play with.
A MMOROG that actually required teamplay to be played.
Easily one of the best games ever. As you said, it had the caveat of NEEDING a good group to play with, but I've never had memories/experiences like that in ANY game since.
I've been chasing that experience since I stopped playing it, and the closest I've come to is FFXIV. And even that is still vastly different.
Played the shit of this 20 years ago. Getting the Serket ring was epic. Idk how many mornings we spent camping before we finally got the pull and I won the roll upon defeat. It was great solo, but you really need a good link/squad for some of the notorious monsters....
@Seraphim
I loved those camping hours for every NM of interest.
Leaping Lizzy or what was it's name. Damn, so many days and nights 😅
And first time you got attacked by the Kraken on the boat, omg...
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Wish they'd release it for PS4, 5, Xboxes and Switch - it ran on ps2 and still works on potato PCs so should run well everywhere
During EG7’s Capital Markets Day stream earlier today, EG7’s CEO Ji Ham discussed several in-development projects including a potential EverQuest 3 that is in an early “ideation phase”.
Nailed it with this article. Long ass passwords were the bane of my existence. Every game was mysterious in my old days without the Internet. It was all trial and error. I loved that shit!
Very nice article! Thanks for sharing it.
"NA NA NA, Games used to so much harderrr"
Yeah, so you'd feed the machine more quarters and buy the magazines.
if gaming wants to be great they should make what made gaming great back than mixed with todays technology. I miss the sense of challenge and less hand holding. Passwords will never be back not since the ability to save ever game existed.