Wow... love the new site

[Shadows_Revenge]

Whats up stalkers!!!

My name is Matt, im 20 and Im from Baltimore, Maryland. long time stalker, am happy to see the new site, and cant wait to catch some of those broadcasts :P Im an insomniac, so Ill be online ALOT (when Im not at work). Anyway alil about myself:

Favorite anime: FLCL, Evangelion, Series Experiment Lain, Ouran Host Club [for the ladies ;) ]

Favorite Manga: Berserk, Hellsing

Favorite Game: Final Fantasy 1

Current System: Xbox 360 (guess Im alone here on that one :P ) if you want to hit me up, just pm me and Ill send you my gamertag

Also I am a described as a "walking discovery channel" so I dare any of you to challenge my knowledge!

Cant wait to start seeing the new era of 9.18thefan!!!

[Sandgolem]

Hey great to see another Matt on the site :3 Welcome!

Jesus, how many Matts are there? I'm kidding, I'm happy you like the new site! Thanks for joining our forums, and make sure to tell all your friends. :3

Final Fantasy, that is HARDCORE retro. Most nostalgiafriends (myself included) choose VI, or sometimes IV.
I'm also an X-Bot, but all I really play on it is SF4.

[Shadows_Revenge]

Ive played all of them except 3 and 11, and nothing impacted me like 1 did. It was my first real rpg (I was like 7 at the time) and it ingrossed me in great detail. I remember trying over and over again for years, never being able to beat the fire boss, having to have my brother do it for me. Nowadays I just blow right through the game though :P But Ill never forget it.

As for 6 and 4, four is awesome. 6 I just never got into. I never had a super nintendo, so I didnt play it till it was a classic. The story was great, but it just didnt hit me as well as the rest

[EagleEyes]

Another Matt :o

Can we make some form of council of Mattitude?

[Sandgolem]

Personally FF6 is the best, had a huge impact on me. I loved the story so much!!

[Bonediddly]

@Sandgolem : Final Fantasy 6 blew me away story wise, but the gameplay was really below the standards the earlier games set.

I don't know if I can agree with that. While the old Job System was revolutionary, I have to give it to 6 for gameplay. The sheer amount of options when it came to battle, Everyone had their own special command, and the Esper system is amazing, the way it directly contributes to a characters growth. To be honest, I never even noticed that when I was young playing through. I just used them for spell learning, and using in battle. I guess it's kind of like EV training your pokemon. If you don;t know about it, you just play and it doesn't matter. If you do it opens up a whole new avenue of character growth. Though I admit, that level of customizability can definately hurt your character more then help when you have set jobs.

The one thing that hindered FFVI I think was the lack of character driven story. Well, not LACK, because each character had their own story, it's just the lack of importance to the plot. But most RPGs with a large cast suffer from that. Many characters end up being unimportant, and a handful if any become the "main" cast who's story has an impact on the main story, or no characters have personal stories that really play into the main story.The whole WoR can get kind of tedious in terms of gameplay I guess, if you are getting everyone and doing everything, in fact, my latest playthrough was a multiplayer run, and we both kind of lost interest when all we had left were the dragons and the Fanatic's Tower before Kefka's tower.

[Bonediddly]

Originally Posted by AnarchoELK Let's spam Ultima! (and Blitz!)

Fix'd.
I should probably beat the game before arguing about gameplay, but that really stuck out to me.

True, you CAN just ultima and bum rush everything, and it doesn't really make sense having a wealth of spells and abilities, when a couple blow them all out of the water.

[Shadows_Revenge]

Originally Posted by AnarchoELK True, you CAN just ultima and bum rush everything, and it doesn't really make sense having a wealth of spells and abilities, when a couple blow them all out of the water.

Another reason I loved 1 more than anything. The weird "mp" style on the spells ment that even a level or 2 down spells came in handy in certain fights because you just might run out of your current level spells. Most RPGs suffer from this though, which saddens me to say the least. Why spend so much time gathering money to buy a spell, when it gets replaced the next town over...

Btw I luvs the sparkles, makes me look cool :D

[Sandgolem]

Awesome sparkles Shadow did you donate? or was the godly figure of Kibbles kind and gave you the sparkles :3 One never knows how and when the mysterious Kibbles will grant favor on good members :3

[Shadows_Revenge]

I donated, the All-Powerful otherwise known as Kibbs had nothing to do with it (that I know of... dont take my sparkles away!!!) But free awesomeness is always appreciated ;)

[Sandgolem]

lol yay! for our first Fanatic :3 <3

Originally Posted by Shadows_Revenge I donated, the All-Powerful otherwise known as Kibbs had nothing to do with it (that I know of... dont take my sparkles away!!!) But free awesomeness is always appreciated ;)

Hah, wonderful~ Please be a little patient as you will specifically be receiving a bunch of new content on the forums within the next week.

[Kibs]

the only member my graces have descended upon at the moment is Raug, as he has been nothing more than an enormous help in every way possible

[Shadows_Revenge]

Originally Posted by Kanashimi Hah, wonderful~ Please be a little patient as you will specifically be receiving a bunch of new content on the forums within the next week.

Awesome, cant wait. And I didnt know I was the first fanatic. Actually making a new sig for this forums and everything, so exciting.

[ApolloNoUta]

Welcome to the site! (I'm even going through the older posts and welcoming people who arrived before me)