I hope your playthrough goes well and that it can help rekindle some of your optimism. I'm about 10 years younger than you and do my best to try and retain a youthful spirit but it can be hard with how easy cynicism is.

Nice!

This is the only one I know of.

There were a couple of things that allowed me to slow down and be more patient. First, I went through a period of about seven years (2012-2019) where I didn't have access to internet able to handle multiplayer games. This forced me to focus on single player games and rekindled my love for them. Once I moved back to a place with good internet again, it quickly became apparent that I'm easily addicted to online games and will let them consume my life. The constant dopamine hit is too much and I'm convinced breaking away from it was what allowed me to enjoy single player games again. The second thing was prayer. I promise this isn't me getting preachy or anything like that and I rarely bring up my religion on this channel as it's focused on gaming, but it's relevant to this. I've been a Christian since I was baptized as a teen but always lacked in prayer. At the same time I moved away from internet, I returned to church and developed prayer habits. Praying forced me to stop and think about my life more, helping me to slow down and better appreciate things. God really did ease my mind. I don't know if those were the answers you were looking for but it's what I experienced and I hope it helps you in some way.

@@FiresideGamingReviews I appreciate the honesty, I'm glad that works for you. When you mentioned all the stuff you had going on at the time, the work, class, etc. I was thinking about my schedule and how it's a fraction of all the stuff you had going on and I have a hard time sitting down to focus on anything. I'm either working, wife and kid stuff, watching youtube or sleeping basically, and when I sit down to a video game I have zero patience anymore. Even with games I LOVE. It's hard for me to sit down and play through some long jrpg or something anymore. It's not even just the time, but I'm just so high strung all the time.

My schedule was busy sure, but there's no discounting how much time and energy goes into a family. The only other thing I can think to recommend is making a game backlog and trying to mark games off of it. It's something I've done in the past to motivate me to play games. The only problem is it can make it feel like work if you aren't careful. I used an Excel sheet for mine, btw.

Thanks, brother, and welcome aboard!

Awww yeah! My mom's random gift choices have become some of my favorite games over the years. Never doubt that intuition, lol.

Dang, feels like we played two different games. But to each their own. Like how I'm a hard X5 defender even though it doesn't have the best reputation.

They do look similar don't they (the ship and sea spider). And I'm guessing you mean the Leos/Nineball theory?

No idea. I don't see why not as it's just a download on your PC.

Sorry but that's a bit beyond the scope of my channel.

The devs, Cyber Connect 2, want to make it but Bandai Namco has the rights and isn't interested unfortunately. I'd love to see a new release as well.

I've played plenty of RPGs I haven't touched since I was a kid and just having an adult brain for logic and strategy has made a huge difference. It's almost surreal when I compare it to playing the same games as a kid.

I generally like to get at least $1 per hour of entertainment, but that's not a hard rule and I take into account potential replays. So if a good RPG is 30 to 60 hours long that's plenty for me.

That's unfortunate and it's not for everyone for sure. If you aren't against emulation, there's a mod that adds true dual analog controls to the game. Makes it more easily digestible to some players.

@@FiresideGamingReviews - Nah. I'd rather not mess around with a PS2 emulator when I have a functional PS2 and over 500 games in my library to check out. Sad part is I was planning on doing a Let's Play for it. Oh well, I can always play other games involving giant robots like Transformers, Eureka Seven, MS Saga: A New Dawn, and so on.

I get ya. I mostly stick to real hardware as well. Transformers is lots of fun. Never played Eureka but loved the anime. Picked up MS Saga a couple years ago and haven't played it yet. Either way, hope you find something fun for your Let's Plays.

@@FiresideGamingReviews - I'd say the Eureka Seven games are rather mediocre since they include three/four modes of play. The first one is giant robot combat which tends to boil down circle strafe and unleash your most powerful weapon on your enemy. The second mode is a racing system centered around the player riding a ref board. The third is a hand and gun combat system for your pilot which comes up in a few story missions and finally you have air combat which differs enough from ground combat to be it's own category in my opinion. And the sequel introduces a few missions where the game turns into a rail shooter as well. MS Saga: A New Dawn is a turn-based RPG. So it's definitely stands out from most of the other games in the Mobile Suit games. And I've completed Let's Plays for all three of them in the past. Though I recently decided to revisit Eureka Seven which probably includes a cut scene that should be more infamous where your character is threatened with death if he fails to answer correctly on how a true man wipes his bum.

Nice! Keep it up and welcome to the JRPG community.

It's not a one or the other kind of thing. Both are great games.

@FiresideGamingReviews no! No TA. only tactics

Lol. Alright, man. You do you. I'll get to making a FFT videos one of these days.

@FiresideGamingReviews <3 even though I'm opinionated I love you and appreciate you giving any jrpg respect. I'm 34 and ffta came out after I had already fallen in love with tactics. That probably has everything to do with it. One love

I get ya. I'm the same age and played FFT first as well, but didn't get around to beating it until the WotL release on PSP.

Welcome and thanks for watching.

Response time on the Steam versions are largely comparable to the Anthology collection. That's where I started playing Metal Slug games, so it feels normal to me. If you played them in arcades back in the day you might notice some slight difference. It does have slowdown when lots of enemies are onscreen, but that's normal as it mimics the original release (like Mega Man X in Armored Armadillo's stage.) As someone who can't stand playing the SNES MMX games in Capcom's Legacy Collection because of the poor response times, I've had no issue playing the Steam Metal Slug releases.

Legally? No. You'd have to emulate.

​@FiresideGamingReviews hypothetically where would one do that?

Look into using DuckStation as your emulator. As for the rom/iso, you'll have to find that yourself.