Reducing My Video Game Collection

Every now and then I do a spring cleaning with my video game collection. I go through each system and figure out which games I no longer like and those I know I will probably never play again. As I have gotten older my taste in games has changed and the games that once kept me glued to the TV, can no longer keep my attention for a few minutes. This does not apply to just games from when I was a kid. There have been plenty of games that I have played as an adult that I cannot seem to get into.

With the evolution of what games I enjoy, it has made it easier to whittle down my collection to a nice core of games. I tend to spend a lot of time researching a game now before I buy it and only when I feel pretty confident that I will enjoy it, do I go out and purchase it. My life is filled with so many other things that I enjoy doing that I no longer have the time to devote hours to playing video games.

Final Fantasy XII Tournesol Guide

“The Sunflower – A single, beautiful sunflower. Brilliant as the sun, wondrous as creation.” ~ Bazaar Description (from Final Fantasy XII).

The Sunflower or Tournesol is the second best sword in the game. Not only does it look awesome, it also is extremely powerful and in my opinion worth the effort to obtain. There are countless guides out there explaining how to get this legendary sword, so I wanted to take a different approach with my guide. I want to recount my experience achieving this goal.

Easy Gold: Final Fantasy Four Heroes of Light

WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT

The town of Urbeth is the next stop on the adventure for Jusqua when he decides to leave Liberte in search of Aire, who went off on her own in search of the town of Arbor. I suggest you switch Jusqua over to the Bandit crown as you make your way to Urbeth in order to make the random battles easier to manage and be careful of Hellhounds you come across.

Urbeth is a place filled with greedy and deceitful people and like to take advantage of any passer-by who has money. Why not take advantage of this yourself and capitalize on a little trick to make a ton of Gil. The weapons shop in the northwest corner allows you to rent free counter space and sell any items you have in storage. There are 10 slots available each time you want to sell and can either be single or double slots. At most I have seen four double slots paired with two single slots.

Dusted Off the Old Playstation 2

It has been so long since I last played my old video game systems. Where I previously lived back in New York we did not have the ability to setup every game system. So, my NES, SNES, Playstation 2, and Gamecube all took a back seat and collected dust. The two consoles I did setup were XBOX 360 and Nintendo Wii. Luckily in our new place in Colorado we have a much better setup and the other night I finally opened up my PS2. I grabbed the first game I could find and fired that system up. Man did it feel great to finally be playing one of my older games. My random choice was the Mega Man X collection, which is a compilation of Mega Man X through X6.

As I was playing the game I could not help but think about all the PS2 and PS1 games that I either wanted to replay or never got the chance to play (yes that’s right, I have games as old as PS1, in fact even older than that, that I have not yet opened or played). Now that my PS2 is available my wife and I can finally finish Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XII, and begin Kingdom Hearts Re:Coded as well as Kingdom Hearts II. It is going to be great to play the games we love and get to spend that time together once again.

Next up on the list is purchasing a system selector so I can get Gamecube, NES, and SNES all hooked up.

How To Install Red Alert on Windows 7

I always enjoy going back and playing some of the great old school games of the past. One of my favorite is the original Red Alert. I did not expect to run into any issues since most of my other old school games installed on Windows 7 without any problems. When it came to installing Red Alert on Windows 7, I was wrong. After searching for a while I came up with a fairly easy way to get it to install and run properly without needing to install any special third party tools. Just a few simple steps and you will be on your way.

Final Fantasy The Four Heroes of Light

With my 30 day trial of World of Warcraft coming to an end I decided to start playing Final Fantasy: The Four Heroes of Light for the Nintendo DS. When I heard about the game I assumed like most fans of the Final Fantasy series that it was going to be a typical FF game. I was completely wrong. FF 4 Heroes has turned out to be a hardcore, traditional Japanese RPG (JRPG) with cute graphics to throw you off. Like most traditional JRPG’s from when I was a kid (25+ years ago), there was no hand holding in the games. If you ventured out too far or brought the wrong set of spells or equipped the wrong armor, the game wiped the floor with you. There were no warnings. FF 4 Heroes is pretty much the same way except with some modernized tweaks.

Nintendo 3DS Zelda Bundle Unboxing

I was looking through the Black Friday ads and on Wednesday came across a spot for the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time bundle and Super Mario bundle for the Nintendo 3DS. I was originally planning on picking up a 3DS sometime next year but when I saw the offers for the bundle I could not resist. The Legend of Zelda is one of my most favorite game series and in the past I have missed out on the different Zelda-themed handheld editions that Nintendo has released. I know in a previous post I mentioned how much I despise Gamestop and try my best to not give them any of my money, but their Black Friday deal was the best around. The bundle normally sells for $199 but with different trade-ins you can get it down to $99.

Atlus Does It Again

Radiant Historia is a unique RPG revolving around time travel, released by Atlus around the end of February 2011 for the Nintendo DS. As soon as it was announced I started following it and quickly added it to my Amazon Wish List. At the time of it’s release the game cost $34.99. I have a large collection of games that I haven’t played yet so I held off from picking Radiant Historia up.