FF VI
Here I am on President's Day, sitting in my underwear gulping cups of coffee, walking in and out of Jidoor's Auction house in an attempt to buy the two magicites. I believe the odds improve in the World of Ruin, but I'm impatient so I'm doing it earliest, in the World of Balance. According to the code, the odds are 1:8 for Golem. I swear I've been in there thirty times and still no luck. Damn variance. It's ironic that my first post on "Cartridge Crusader" is about a digital download from the PSN. I own(ed) the SNES cartridge, but it's either been lost in the mail or never mailed to me in the first place from my childhood home. Load times are oh-so-slow on the simulated PSOne, really makes you appreciate cartridges before they lost out to discs with improved read speeds.
It's counter intuitive how many rare talking Chocobos pass through the auction house for sale, and similarly how many billions of disposable GP that has no life one percenter who spends every waking moment in house auction house chair. What does his child do with the ever-growing collection of "one-of-a-kind" talking chocobos? Maybe he is preparing an a Capella Chocobo show for a tour of the W.o.B.
I'm not sure if I'm clinging to my childhood, or if today's games have become too bloated with story irrelevant features that I look to the classics for entertainment. Ever since FF X it's been a slow decline into form over function for the FF series. FF IV, FFVI, FF VII, FF IX had me the most enraptured as a child. Twenty years later I'm playing FF VI again and the story is still captivating.
Gotta go - ZoneSeek just appeared, and that's 1:16!
