EarthBound

I'm still playing Divinity: Original Sin 2. As you've read in my review, I've restarted the game numerous times. I believe I've finally decided not to start from the beginning again, it just takes too long. I've also caught up on some shows, currently finishing Good Omens at the moment.

I love it! Turned out really well. And now YouTube won't insist on picking my worst poses as cover images! :D

Wait, I just realized the topic is marked as Earthbound? Huh? :P

I downloaded the podcast and haven't gotten very far into it yet. For now, I just wanted to comment to @Tim. I'm glad you're finally playing FFVIII, the Steam version is the best. Travis introduced me to it in our college days and I fell in love with it. It is my personal favorite. The Ogre games are something I'd like to check out as well.

FFVIII is cool, I'm having fun with it. I just wrapped up disc 1*, so I've made a decent amount of progress so far. I don't know if it will end up in my favorites list though. I'm really not a big fan of the draw system. I'm very glad that I'm playing the steam version where I can use the magic booster add-on to circumvent the draw system for the most part.

*Since it's a digital game there aren't discs, but the game marks your save with what "disc" you would be on if you were playing the PSone version. :)

Man, we've been on the same page lately. I was thinking about posting something about this, since I just read about it. It seems there are some really good SNES games getting left out such as FFII and Chrono Trigger. I still kind of wish I was able to get a NES Classic. I'd like to get this one, too. I saw something that said a N64 Classic could be next.

The intro to the video says the premise of the series is on whether or not you would rent a game, based on the box art and text alone. If that's the case, then, yes, that would be enough to convince me. I don't think there was ever any point that I would purchase a new game (any game) outright, just by reading about it and looking at the cover, unless it was less than $10. That's what makes games such a weird entertainment medium. The cost of entry is so high, and most of the time you feel like you have to take leaps of faith just to purchase a game. Movies, books, music are all cheap in comparison, and can get away one-shots or a paragraph of text to convince someone to, say, drop $10 to sit in a theater for 2 hours. One trailer for The Matrix, showing the bullet-time effect, was all I needed to see to say "I want to go to there." The games industry hasn't been fond of rentals, or used games, and barely makes room for demos, which is one reason why Let's Play is so popular now, which seems to be gaining in favor, even among devs (or, at least, console makers). In fact, most commercials/trailers for games don't show much in the way of gameplay to any great extent. This has been something gamers have been used to seeing for decades, with either live action or CG animation taking precedent, especially in the older generations of games.

So, anyway, yeah. I'd rent just about anything with as little as a "hey, you should check this out." Purchasing, on the other hand, takes a bit more convincing.