Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[Bunnycake]

My nephew has been wanting to playing XIV but he's 8 and never played an RPG...well Pokemon counts. I'm trying to figure where should he start: either go to the 80s and 90s era games or stick with current gen. He does know Kefka thanks to memes lol.

[NanaWiloh]

My nephew has been wanting to playing XIV but he's 8 and never played an RPG...well Pokemon counts. I'm trying to figure where should he start: either go to the 80s and 90s era games or stick with current gen. He does know Kefka thanks to memes lol.

Start him off with a simple rpg Pokemon is a good start. Had this same issue with my son was questioning of where to start him off at, I stayed away from rpgs with heavy gear swapping and stat allocation at first. He is currently playing FF13 for the first time and doing pretty good gots handle on things few more hours of play he wont need my help anymore. Some I would recommend to give him a try on Fable or Zelda they are more action oriented by a equally good start.

[NanaWiloh]

If you are not playing TMNT cowabunga collection then what are you doing with your life. :P

[TheMightyMollusk]

If you are not playing TMNT cowabunga collection then what are you doing with your life. :P

Catching up on my existing backlog first so I can justify buying more games?

[Bunnycake]

If you are not playing TMNT cowabunga collection then what are you doing with your life. :P

https://youtu.be/plJ2ZuGWR9A

[Skivvy]

https://youtu.be/plJ2ZuGWR9A

The struggle was real to get that stick in his mouth. lol. (:27)

[Bunnycake]

The struggle was real to get that stick in his mouth. lol. (:27)

BUT YEAH I still need to get that bundle. I do want my nephew to experiment what I did with the arcade games... expect the first TMNT on the NES lol

[NanaWiloh]

Catching up on my existing backlog first so I can justify buying more games?

Good reason

[Skivvy]

I really like the overall aesthetic of the Sylvari, although the only one I have is stuck as an elementalist and I have absolutely NO idea how to play that job. She's so old though, don't want to delete the character and miss out on those higher birthday rewards. Aside from that, I mostly have a collection of Asura They're kinda cute, in that gremlin sorta way. The makeover kit definitely helps.

Adorableness!... lol.

But yeah, GW2 has always been a good fallback for me. I'm not great at the game by any means, but I mainly just stick with the story and open world things...so it doesn't really matter toooo much. I feel like I've never played it steadily enough to where I can really learn all the ins and outs of the combat. My poor little brain retains NOTHING. Shoot, even XIV can be a struggle when I've ignored a job for a couple of months. ><

Have you played through all the expansions already? I reaaaaallly liked PoF, wish I could go back and reexperience all of that for the first time again. I loved the zones, the feel, and all the mounts to collect. Good times

And yesss! Back to angrybun! I need to slow down on those fantasias though, so hopefully I don't get anymore late-night fantasia urges for awhile. . ><

[SturmChurro]

I really like the overall aesthetic of the Sylvari, although the only one I have is stuck as an elementalist and I have absolutely NO idea how to play that job. She's so old though, don't want to delete the character and miss out on those higher birthday rewards. Aside from that, I mostly have a collection of Asura They're kinda cute, in that gremlin sorta way. The makeover kit definitely helps.

Adorableness!... lol.

But yeah, GW2 has always been a good fallback for me. I'm not great at the game by any means, but I mainly just stick with the story and open world things...so it doesn't really matter toooo much. I feel like I've never played it steadily enough to where I can really learn all the ins and outs of the combat. My poor little brain retains NOTHING. Shoot, even XIV can be a struggle when I've ignored a job for a couple of months. ><

Have you played through all the expansions already? I reaaaaallly liked PoF, wish I could go back and reexperience all of that for the first time again. I loved the zones, the feel, and all the mounts to collect. Good times

And yesss! Back to angrybun! I need to slow down on those fantasias though, so hopefully I don't get anymore late-night fantasia urges for awhile. . ><

I just never play small races in any game, and I don't typically like to play humans either. I like playing elves, or anything like them. So sylvari. And I always liked their unique aesthetic anyway.

My current mesmer with a default outfit:

I am kind of in a similar position in that game, due to having two human characters that I don't even know why I made, but they are also very.. old characters, so they will be getting birthday rewards. I'll probably just keep them and spend some makeover kits on them, I guess.

GW2 is alright, I'd probably like it more now than I did in the past, as I have become more casual over the years. Like I said, I just picked it up again, downloaded a few weeks ago, because I saw it release on Steam. I had been looking for like the past month for something else to play while slowing down again on FFXIV, but I don't want to be paying two subs, I wanted something with some sort of progression, and something I could play very casually. So GW2.

I never played it steadily to begin with! I checked my playtime across my account (/age) and I don't even have 200 hours! The last time I played it was three years ago, because a friend was looking for a game to play with me, since they didn't like FFXIV. I made this mesmer then, bought my makeover kit, and a different outfit back then. They played for like.. 20 minutes before telling me they didn't like it either.

No, I have never played an expansion. The last time I put time into that game was well before the first expansion came out, so I didn't even have any experience with the mounts! I did buy the End of Dragons Collector's deluxe ($75) about 10 minutes ago, so eventually I'll be able to play it. They did give me boosts, so I could theoretically jump straight into an expansion, but I don't use boosts on characters I actually intend on playing in any game. I am effectively playing the game from scratch again with a new character.

Why am I writing an essay? Like I've said, I'm a spammer to my friends on Discord.

I haven't bought a fantasia since I switched back to viera. That was the best fantasia I spent, and this has probably been the longest I have played this game semi-actively, and not used a fantasia. The longest I've gone in the past (while still actually logging in and playing) without a fantasia was like.. 3 weeks? Definitely glad to see your viera though, she is one of the more recognizable faces on here!