Final Friday Top Five

 

 

5. Neverwinter

 


If you have spoken to me within the last year, there is no doubt that I will have mentioned Neverwinter. I have sunk many an hour of my life onto this game and I love it. Since reaching level 80 is has gotten a little more repetitive than before, but then again the game hasn't just stopped now that I am a hero of Neverwinter. There are seasonal events, replayable missions, and additional campaigns for me to play. Lots of things to hit and shinys to find. It does keep me quiet for an hour or two.

If anyone plays and sees a Barbarian named Kestrel about, that's me!


4. Balder's Gate

 

 


This is a game which I have been playing since I was a teenager and recently rediscovered with my partner. We like to have games we play together and RPGs work great for us. Balder's Gate: Dark Aliance and Balder's Gate: Dark Aliance II are two games which we have completed together (as well as a load of Lego games!) We like games which are a nice balance of story, collecting things, and fighting all the monsters.


3. Torchlight II

 


Torchlight II is a lot like Balder's Gate in a way. Lots of collectables, no respawning monsters, simple story, and big maps to get lost in. It's just a lot more colourful! It was one of the Epic Games Store free games a couple months back and one my sisters got too. So every now and then, we join forces to smash all the things.

Can you see a theme with why I like these games?


2. Dungeons & Dragons

 


Obviously, I cannot talk about RPGs without mentioning the OG RPG, DnD. I love me some Dungeons and Dragons! I have had a number of characters over the years - Swish the Water Genasi Druid, Um the Wood Elf Druid, Bori Bali the Bard Half Orc, Asterope Hippo the Neried Sorcerer or Warlock (I forget), and Raf the Tortle Paladin. Plus, Mehen the Dragonborn Rouge who was the dumbest and clumsiest character who ever did live and it's a surprise she lived as long as she did really.

I have made some excellent friends playing DnD and I always enjoy dusting off the acting skills for role playing. Recently, I started my own campaigns as Dungeon Master. I DM for Carole and her kids - complete with an epic Christmas session that featured an actual mimic and magic candy canes. And I have just started a campaign for my sisters and BIL. They are all evil, it is going to be great fun.

I am also interested in crafting a few one shot sessions with pre-heroes for post-Covid life, so please do let me know if you are interested in playing a one shot!


Honourable Mentions

Final Fantasy X (and the series in general)

Kingdom Hearts

Lord of the Rings: The Third Age

 

1. Final Fantasy IX

 


Final Fantasy IX is my all time favourite game, Final Fantasy, game score. Give me a remotely game themed category and chances are this game will be at the top of the list. It's colourful, turn based, great story, and the leveling up mechanic strikes the right balance of simple but not too simple. Meaning that you equip something, keep it on until you have learned its ability, then you have the option to equip that ability and a new item! None of this buying access to weapons you don't need or want because the one you do want is after it. I'm looking at you FF12.

I have played this game so many times, even actually completed it once or twice too! It has plenty of extras that you can sink you teeth into - Chocobo Hot or Cold, Chocograph Hunting, the Tetra Master Card Game, and secret battles. I have literally been playing this game for twenty years and only just learned about a secret fight in Alexandria. And I have played this with walkthroughs before!

The characters are great too. Zidane is a thirsty bench, Quina is just a quueeeeeennn, Eiko is a feisty little thing, and Steiner is so over dramatic it is hilarious. This game was released in 2001 and the FMVs are still amazing. The background art is incredible when you consider it was released on PlayStation 1. Final Fantasy IX is the best FF and I will die on this hill.



What are your favourite RPGs? Care to challenge my FF opinion? Any suggestions for RPGs I could try? Lemme know, below!


Listening to: FF9 Feels

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Final Friday Top Five!

Image
It occurs to me that I should be thinking about Christmas... But I don't have the brain for it, so it can be Not Christmas for just a little bit longer. So have a Top Five! Final Friday Top Five Disney Sidekicks From Movies In/On/Around Water Yes, that specific. Do you know how few Disney films are based around water? So some real liberties have been taken. Starting with... 5. Ray (The Princess & The Frog) Picture from Disney Wiki Bear with me on this one. So he's in The Princess & The Frog , which has an actual water-y sidekick - Louis the Alligator. But Ray lives in the Bayou which is a swampy habitat. While I like the trumpet playing gator, I like Ray better. He is voiced by Jim Cummings , who voices everyone! From Scar's singing voice to modern Winnie the Pooh, if the film is animated this guy is likely to be in it. Plus, he sings My Belle Evangeline which is not only beautiful but the song my sister walked down the aisle to. It ma
Read more

Marine Creature of the Month JUNE

Image
I was hoping to have the next Sharks at 7 & 3/4 s filmed and edited by now, but the boy ran off half way through filming and then told me he doesn't want to do it because it was too stressful! So that is still in the works right now. Instead, have a #MCotM! Manta Ray via GIPHY Kingdom: Animalia Class: Chordata Conservation Status: Vunerable (VU) Found: International waters Diet: Zooplankton Weight: Up to 1,350kg (2,980lbs) Size: From 5.5m (18ft) to 7m (23ft) Habitat: Temperate, subtropical and tropical waters; pelagic waters. Manta rays, known online as majestic flap flaps (!), are huge and beautiful creatures. Just look at it flap along - look at it! Fangirling aside, they are incredible. There are two species of manta ray: M. birostris (the larger of the two) and M. alfredi (named after Prince Alfred). They are both very similar in appearance, with a few key differences. As already mentioned, M. birostris are larger, but they are also darker
Read more

6 Months Down The Line

Image
2020 was odd and 2020 was difficult. Job hunting during a global pandemic was not the ideal situation to find myself in, but hey-ho, it was the hand I was dealt. During the process I learned a lot about myself and how to be the candidate a company wants. Biggest thing I learned was that I can be hella awkward in interviews. Especially over zoom. Especially when conducted in a tiny office during a heat wave. But that is all behind me. (Provided it all does not go horribly wrong in the forseeable future!) At the end of 2020, I landed a pretty damn epic job. I am a Content Copywriter for a copmuter retailer with a heavy focus on gaming and high-end tech. That's right, I spend eight hours a day, five days a week writing about computers! It has been a steep learning curve, having very little technical knowledge at the start, but a mere six months down the line I can confidently tell you everything about keyboards. Part of why I took a step back from here was down to the sheer amount of
Read more