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Topic	The Board 8 Discord Sports Chat Ranks Their Top 100 Respective VIDEO Games pt. 2
KCF0107 01/30/21 1:40:22 AM #321:	#67 Shining Force (PC, 1992) If not for Shining Force, I probably would have never been a B8er. I have no idea how I exactly got to the board in the summer of '06, but the first topic I saw was made by Princess Anri, and then I saw Zyolthewolf in that topic. I don't know what the topic was about, but I began talking about Shining Force, and that started a conversation between the three of us. They were the reason why I kept coming around and the first friends that I made here. Now it is almost 15 years later. Wow. I never owned a Genesis, or any Sega system, but I did own a compliation CD in the 90s that included several Sega games, including this. This was my first strategy RPG, and quite frankly, it's still my favorite despite its shortcomings. I had played various RTS and TBS games before this, but I ultimately felt always in control in those games, and it felt, refreshing I guess to constantly find myself in situations where I felt like I was outnumbered and outmatched. It forced me to be more thoughtful in my party construction and formulate how I am going to break up the party, where I will send them with all the branching paths, and what is the plan if things go south. I don't know if that was the intention of the developers since it does have a very forgiving system of retaining all of your experience progress if you lose a battle, and you can revive anyone you lost, but I took all this seriously, and that made it all the more engaging for me. Despite its large cast of characters, I have always been fond of their ability to make each unit feel unique, which is quite the accomplishment when you have like half a dozen centaur units. Of course, that may have been the cost of an early 90s game having fixed level up stat increases that clearly makes some characters objectively better late in the game. I don't think that I ended up beating this game until I was in middle or high school. We went through multiple computers in a five or so year span, and I didn't really know anything about backing up saves then. Looking at a guide, there's apparently 30 battles in the game, and I am pretty sure that I once made it to the 28th battle in one of those files. Yet, I never felt angry or gutted that I had to start over. I was more than happy to start back from the beginning. --- KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu <cite>KCF0107 posted [p:950078687] in The Board ... [t:79241274]...</cite> <quote>#67 Shining Force (PC, 1992) If not for Shining Force, I probably would have never been a B8er. I have no idea how I exactly got to the board in the summer of '06, but the first topic I saw was made by Princess Anri, and then I saw Zyolthewolf in that topic. I don't know what the topic was about, but I began talking about Shining Force, and that started a conversation between the three of us. They were the reason why I kept coming around and the first friends that I made here. Now it is almost 15 years later. Wow. I never owned a Genesis, or any Sega system, but I did own a compliation CD in the 90s that included several Sega games, including this. This was my first strategy RPG, and quite frankly, it's still my favorite despite its shortcomings. I had played various RTS and TBS games before this, but I ultimately felt always in control in those games, and it felt, refreshing I guess to constantly find myself in situations where I felt like I was outnumbered and outmatched. It forced me to be more thoughtful in my party construction and formulate how I am going to break up the party, where I will send them with all the branching paths, and what is the plan if things go south. I don't know if that was the intention of the developers since it does have a very forgiving system of retaining all of your experience progress if you lose a battle, and you can revive anyone you lost, but I took all this seriously, and that made it all the more engaging for me. Despite its large cast of characters, I have always been fond of their ability to make each unit feel unique, which is quite the accomplishment when you have like half a dozen centaur units. Of course, that may have been the cost of an early 90s game having fixed level up stat increases that clearly makes some characters objectively better late in the game. I don't think that I ended up beating this game until I was in middle or high school. We went through multiple computers in a five or so year span, and I didn't really know anything about backing up saves then. Looking at a guide, there's apparently 30 battles in the game, and I am pretty sure that I once made it to the 28th battle in one of those files. Yet, I never felt angry or gutted that I had to start over. I was more than happy to start back from the beginning. --- KCF can't actually be a real person but he is - greengravy If you smell what the rock is cooking he's cooking crap - ertyu</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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