This vicarious gaming installment is going to be a bit different. For those of you keeping track Leah and I now have Rikku in our party and we have managed to traverse the Thunder Plains without Leah hurling a Dual Shock 3 into my flat panel. I’m not quite as interested in discussing that this [...]
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Vicarious Gaming 101: I think I get it now!
This week’s vicarious gaming session was especially awesome for me. I watched Leah play for about 3 hours and I spent way less time confused and asking questions then ever before! We played until right after the Djose Temple which means we have ourselves a shiny new Aeon to use in battle. It can best [...]
Vicarious Gaming 101: Giant Chickens?!
Once again we return to the realm of Final Fantasy X for another episode of Vicarious Gaming 101. This episode we saved the Chocobos! I don’t really know how exciting that piece of information is but for me it warranted an exclamation point. Seeing as how I have played very small bits of Final Fantasy games [...]
Vicarious Gaming 101: Blitzball’d
We return to the story of a girl who doesn’t played JRPGs and her adventure in watching her friend play through one. This is what happens when people stop being nice and start getting real….annoyed by Tidus. Due to my plague-like disease, I was too gross to make with the podcasting this week. As a substitute [...]
Vicarious Gaming 101: Elaine is terrified….and kind of hungry.
Japanese RPGs and I do not get along. Our relationship is sort of like a couple who breaks up and then gets back together a week later. I always intend to try and play a JRPG because I hear amazing things about the stories or the character development. Inevitably what happens is I get an hour in and I either get frustrated with waiting for my turn to hit someone (I mean really who waits until it is their turn for violence?) or I get overwhelmed with the vast amount of crap I have to manage at every turn. I then run off crying and banish the game back into my shelf. A few months later I decide I want to try again and the cycle repeats itself.
