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I'm back! I kept meaning to write (I'm especially kicking myself for missing the anime episode...), but I really couldn't miss this one.

3. Horizon Zero Dawn - This was a hard one for me. I picked up HZD because an action RPG with robot dinosaurs sounded awesome. What I felt like i got was... Amazingly bland. Immediately after the tutorial you are ham fisted into a story helping people whom have shunned and brutalized the MC most of her life. Why? Why are you helping these knobs? I had a plethora of issues with the game, but this one sticks furthest out in my mind.

2. Mario (The plateformer games) - I'm aware I'm probably wrong about this one. But I just can't seem to understand why the typical Mario games doesn't pull me in, and Lords knows I've tried. But I just can't seem to find any kind of enjoyment in the Mario plateformers. I enjoy a race or two in Mario cart and I had a good time with Super Mario RPG, but the plateformer Mario games almost always result in a resigned sigh followed by me debating picking up a game I know I'm probably not going to like.

1. Dragon Age: Inquesition - I love RPGs (I think most people can attest to that) and typically that includes the Bioware RPGs, except DA:I. The characters seemed bland, The combat was sluggish and bland. I just could not get into it.

Chrono Crossing: I was born in 1992 and quickly discovered I had only played one game from 1988, which is Final Fantasy 2. But I didn't have fun with that game so I decided to pick a game I think I would enjoy, which is Jaseiken Necromancer. Feel free to tell me if it sucks and I shouldn't play it.

First of all, I apologize in advance for my spelling and grammer mistakes. I wrote this up from my phone.

I'm glad everyone enjoyed riding a motherf@cking dragon as much as I enjoyed writing it! And it amuses me greatly that Angelo and I have similar tastes when it comes to aesthetics! Anyway...

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3. "And When he gets to Heaven, to Saint Peter he will tell - One more soldier reporting Sir - I've served my time in Hell" - The opening sequence of Medal of Honor: Frontline.

When I played MoH:FL for the first time I had never played a shooter. And my breath caught a little when the screen went dark and these words in white came on the screen. Slowly it transitions to the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan. It was a very stroking moment in storytelling for me. I'm still an RPG guy at heart but I'm willing to branch out because of MoH:FL.

2. Dear Julian, I don't expect you to read all of this because it is a lot. i just copy and pasted it for posterity's sake.

"War. War never changes. 

Since the dawn of human kind, when our ancestors first discovered the killing power of rock and bone, blood has been spilled in the name of everything: from God to justice to simple, psychotic rage. 

In the year 2077, after millennia of armed conflict, the destructive nature of man could sustain itself no longer. The world was plunged into an abyss of nuclear fire and radiation. 

But it was not, as some had predicted, the end of the world. Instead, the apocalypse was simply the prologue to another bloody chapter of human history. For man had succeeded in destroying the world - but war, war never changes. 

In the early days, thousands were spared the horrors of the holocaust by taking refuge in enormous underground shelters, known as vaults. But when they emerged, they had only the hell of the wastes to greet them - all except those in Vault 101. For on that fateful day, when fire rained from the sky, the giant steel door of Vault 101 slid closed... and never reopened. It was here you were born. It is here you will die. 

Because, in Vault 101: no one ever enters, and no one ever leaves."

Fallout 3 was The first game I played for the PS3, and I was not prepared for how gorgeous the end of the world would look. Everything from the birthday party to the fleeing the vault for your life and first seeing the ruined capital comes together to make a dazzling intro but Ron Pearlman soothing sensual voice provides the rock solid foundation for it. 

1. "Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong." - Mordin Solus ME3

I feel like this speaks for its self. Like countless other folk I sat in stunned, pained silence as my boy, my favorite, my Mordin signed his own death warrant so that the Krogan could survive. 

Chrono Crossing 

Secrets of Mana as it is the only game from 1993 that I have played (I think). I played along with the Squoots crew, and I struggled, Googled, and profaned the version I played on my phone. But ultimately, when it was over, I kinda missed playing it. 

Right?! I was 17 when I first saw this take place on screen and it made me pretty uncomfortable to stop and think about all the games I had played and not stopped long enough to find out if maybe one of those dudes I had just massacred might have not wanted to fight. 

Part of me is super interested in the idea of SNES Classic but I know the same thing will happen that did with the NES Classic. I'll start looking to buy one for the historical importance of the games on it, see the price tag, and then start wondering if maybe I should just buy a few games on the 3DS digital store (which I will forget about at some point...) Anywho. 

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3. The One Enemy Who Isn't - From Legion (ME2) to Fawkes (Fallout 3) it always delights me to find the one follower, companion or party memeber who is somehow better then his compatriots whom you have mowed down hundreds off, and then decides to join you. 

2. Riding around on a Motherf&#$ing Dragon - Dragons are awesome. Flying is awesome. What more do you need?

1. The Robot/Non-Human Creature in search of the comprehension/acceptance of humanity - I love this trope. Assuming it is done well, it always strikes me as heartbreakingly sad, and it usually ends in a way that is uplifting, with hillarity in between. Examples being: Aigis (Persona 3), Bau (Lufia and the Ruins of Lore), and the Androids of Neir: Automata. 

Chrono Crossing - I thought for sure I wouldn't have a game for 1994 but low and behold I did. Final Fantasy 6. Oddly enough I have never personally played the entire game (or even most of it). When I was a youngster riding the bus to school I would listen to my friend tell me about FF6 on his SNES. I got to try it once, for about an hour and I was in-love. It wasn't until much later that I got to play more of it on the PS1. But the disc was scratched and I couldn't complete the game. Recently, I was given a GBA copy by a great person, *(But I'm saving my first complete play through to play along, with the Square Roots Podcast). Despite never getting to complete the game, Steampunk and Post-apocalyptic themes remain some of my favorites in all forms of media.

* - Entirely at the hosts whim to read. I don't want to shamelessly plug unless you folks don't mind. 

A Wild Newb Appears! *Que Pokemon Battle Musics*

Crono Crossing: So I have two, becasue I'm a scrub who couldn't decide. The first of which is Earthworm Jim 2. Despite the fact that I was only 3 in 1995, I destinctly remember my older sister playing Earthworm Jim on our rented Sega. It sparked a gaming madness in me that will stay until my last heart drops and I'm out of quarters. The second is a game I actually played. In 1999 my parents bought me a used Gameboy Pocket and I joined the Ranks of the Pokemon Gremlins (What up Pokemon Red). But in the bottom of the box of my also used Pokemon Game I found something that probably should have been. Kirby's Dreamland 2. KD2 Sparked a love of colorful plateforming and eating that has stuck with me well into adulthood. 

Stage Select: I am terrible at knowing the names of the wonderful people who create my most precious addiction... er... Hobby. But ever since I was a kid I wanted to see a hybrid of the pokemon clone Robopon, and Capcoms, Metal Walker. Creating a Post-Apocalyptic Pokemon style adventure where you battle with cobbled together robots that don't make a whole lot of sense when you actually look at them (Or a good Zoids game, really either one would satisfy me). 

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