My fiancee is finally playing a Falcom game! : )

[SkyeWelse]

I'm quite happy right now because I finally got my fiancee into a Falcom game series! She IS a gamer like myself and we actually ended up meeting through a Genso Suikoden community even, years ago.

Though, it is usually very hard to for me to tell exactly what kind of games she will take to. Many of the games I recommend to her are ones that she simply isn't interested in and many others are ones that I thought she would NEVER get into as much as she has, such as Halo, Call of Duty 4, Pop'n Music, the entire line of Dynasty/Samurai Warrior series.

She's been putting up with my crazy Ys fandom for years now and never once has she been interested in the games or anything Falcom for that matter. However, I just received my Sora no Kiseki trilogy boxset and I've gotten her hooked on playing the first chapter in the series. She's Japanese, so she has no problems understanding the dialog. The best part is! I think she's actually quite addicted to it! She might actually go through the entire trilogy very quickly at the rate she's flying through it.

I'll need to come up with a second installment of Falcom awesomeness to present once she's run out of Sora no Kiseki. I ordered Legend of Heroes III, IV and V from Adoru, so that might be an option and I also have Gurumin which she might like, though I've not managed to get her into many action rpgs on my own.

Are there any other turn-based rpg series fhat Falcom makes that I don't know about, other than Vantage Master? I doubt I'd be able to get her into that one... but then again, what do I know... I never thought she'd get into Mass Effect, but she did and beat in in less than a week! *laughs*

-Thomas

[SkyeWelse]

Well, I doubt I'd be able to get her into Ys Origin as of yet since it's one of those dreadful "Ys Games". : ) But I'll look into Zwei and Zwei II sometime. They are ARPGS though, so it might be hard. I feel like if I can at least get her to play through one of Falcom's style ARPGs as of late, she'll get hooked on playing many more down the line.

Sadly I bought Zweii! From Yahoo Auctions and it came with everything! Box, Manual, OST! Except for the actual game... so that kinda sucked. : (

And my Xanadu Next LE version's DVD game case came with 1 DVD Xanadu Next Game Disc and 1 Destiny's Child #1 Bootylicious CD...

Same seller too!

Just thought I'd mention the fact that Xanadu Next is in fact, "Bootylicious".

-Thomas

[liquidpolicenaut]

Congrats on getting her into it! My girlfriend "kinda" likes games but mostly just watches me play them instead lol Certain 3d games she cant watch/play because it gets her nauseous She says she likes Ys I-II Complete and actually slowly started to play Lunar on my Sega CD so thats a great start! Lol

[Ascended Mermaid]

My infinite cynicism says "No you don't!", but my optimism says "I want one too!". XD

[Red Hairdo]

Same here. xD In a way.

[SkyeWelse]

Is Zwei II at all connected to Zwei!! or would it be a stand alone story? If it is, I'll have to consider getting that one some time rather than getting the first one... again. : )

And I didn't mean to bring anyone down or anything. But guys, it'll happen one day. You'll eventually meet that special person in your lives and then you too can attempt to make them into Falcom fans over time! Sometimes, I think it's all about timing and luck more than anything else. If I hadn't been a Suikoden fan at that specific point in my life, I might have never had gotten an opportunity to work on various projects with other members of the Suikoden community and we probably would have never met.

-Thomas

[Red Hairdo]

Uh, at least in my case, no need to worry. xD I'm fine the way things are.

Oh, I think I smell offtopicness. XD

[Red Hairdo]

Ooh, nice move! I wish you luck!

[SkyeWelse]

Thanks for letting me know about that Wyrdwad. Now I just need to find a good prices on Zwei II one of these days.

As for your situation, I wish you much luck in whatever happens next. Actually when my fiancee and I first started talking it was originally through email since we were working together on a project for the community we were both heavily a part of. Even though we were working together on the project, we ended up getting rather off subject of the project and more focused on learning more about each other, et cetera. She also lived "half-way across the country" so to speak as she was living and working in the NY area and I was (And still am) working and attending college here in GA.

Eventually things became a little clearer in our conversations that we should try speaking over the phone. The initial call was certainly a bit awkward for both of us, but it worked out in the end. It was a long distance thing for a few months, then I went up to NY (beautiful, yet large and confusing city that it is) to visit her for a couple of weeks and she did the same for GA. She later decided to move to GA due to the cost of living expenses being far less here and the fact that I was still trying to finish up college and we've been living together ever since.

We're engaged, but in many ways I consider us already married. If you can live together for 3-4 years and not end up killing each other, then you're ready for the married life methinks. : ) Anyhow, for now I'm just focusing on graduating with skills that can net a decent paying entry level job with a game company and we'll have a wedding when we both can afford it.

-Thomas

[Ascended Mermaid]

Apr 9, 2009 8:23:29 GMT -5 SkyeWelse said:

If you can live together for 3-4 years and not end up killing each other

Wow, that's awesome! My problem is, I can't seem to be with anyone longer than 6 months (Wow, just like my work history!) without any chick saying "Hold up, there's this man here who's hotter than you. I'll fuck him and I'll dump you a few months later."

There is this girl that I've been talking to for quite a while. She lives far away as well. She's italian, loves most food, we seem to talk alot about eyewear, haircuts, society and its curiously cruel way of treating the socially awkward underweight and overweight citizens, and most importantly, food -- because we can't get enough of it.

I've crushed on her before, but I'm not really going for it now. That happens, doesn't it? I wonder if she likes me past the whole online penpal thing. If she did though, I wouldn't know what to do -- no money, few prospects, no real job; haven't held one for longer than 6 months, no college, dyslexia, I'm practically a bum. Even if we really got along, it wouldn't work out -- but neither would any other relationship until I've got some kind of cash flow.

Needless to say, my life's currently in the tubes. I'm just waiting for a big enough stockpile of cash so I can blow it all on a game development kit... and then finish my project's skeleton before gambling with either a business loan or a publisher so that I can afford BGM, SFX, Graphics, a license (or what-all I need), and so on and so forth.

If I understand how this works, that could be the defining moment for my entire life -- will my project flush me down the proverbial toilet hole, or will I actually get somewhere in life?

[SkyeWelse]

Well, I wouldn't worry too much about it. You're still quite young. So you can make a lot of that stuff happen if you want it to regarding college and longterm employment. Actually when I was 19-20 I had been out of high school and working random jobs for a year or two. I continued working and saving up money to pay out of pocket for a car and community college which I started around 2003. I went until about 2005 or so then I had to quit college for awhile, work some more and build up income enough to start again and finish off a degree. Fortunately for me though, GA offers a nice program for those who are attending public universities and state community colleges in that if your GPA is above a 3.0, you are eligible to receive free tuition on a yearly basis for up to 4 years, as long as you've maintained a 3.0. It's definitely a perk for living in Georgia. : )

Coming straight out of high school I had about a 2.7 or a 2.8, but when I started taking community college classes (which were pretty cheap) I shot that GPA up by studying hard and it's paid off quite a bit since then since everything other than my books and my food/gas/car expenses are taken care of by the HOPE scholarship.

So yeah, what I'm basically saying is that I'm a slow starter or late bloomer as it's sometimes referred to since I'm expected to graduate by next fall when I'll be 29. Most of my friends from High School have been graduated since 2004 - 2005. Sure it took awhile to get this far and I wasn't sure it would even happen at some points, but I managed to pull it off and I'm sure you could do the same as long as you get a plan together for what you want to do. I definitely think you ought to try giving college a shot though simply because it will put you into an entirely different world of employment opportunities down the road. I mean, definitely still invest in that game dev kit as an option for providing income down the road, but you should probably have that be a plan B and not a plan A. That's just my advice. Maybe you ought to consider a computer science major tailored around software engineering?

And btw, this goes without saying, but if you ever want me to look up some schools here in the area, I'd be happy to send you information on them. I started at a rather small, but large network of community colleges which have around 5 or 6 locations called "Georgia Perimeter College".

As for your situation with that girl you like, don't give up if that's something you want to see work out. Just see what you can do to get your life going in the direction you want to see it go first and most other things will fall into place along the way. I don't believe that money and success is the main deterrent that a woman looks for in a man, but even still they are at least expecting us to show that we've made an effort to do something with our lives, preferably something that is at least in the direction of eventually providing a stable source of income down the road.

-Thomas