And so begins 2013...

Well, it's been a while (basically the beginning of last year) since I posted something that wasn't a Day # or a Side Post!

I've been at this for nearly a year now, and I've completed ten of the twelves titles I've sought to play. I was planning to be further along, but plans rarely go without a hitch. Either way, I'm happy with my overall progress and look forward to wrapping this up before this year gets too far.

As it currently stands, I lack Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy XIII. I've played very little of XII, and I'm very much NOT looking forward to XIII. Everybody I've talked to about it hasn't been able to push through it because of the sheer amount of unfun contained within. I plan to break past that barrier and beat it though! How fast or successful I am with that...Time will tell. Once I finish Final Fantasy XIII, I've got a couple different ideas of where to expand this blog.

In a past Side Post, I mentioned a large assortment of different games I might play. I reconsidered what games about a month or so ago, and I came to a couple of conclusions. One of these is I'd rather keep this blog focused purely on RPGs. This only eliminates a few of the titles I listed, but I find that completely acceptable. The next thing I realized was that there is a big series I hadn't considered. Apart from Final Fantasy, there's only a few other RPGs that have stood the test of time and survived this long.

The series I'm thinking of is the fabled Dragon Quest RPG series! It boasts a whopping ten titles without including any side series that have been spawned along the way. My plan is to start from the beginning with Dragon Warrior (America originally got the first four titles labelled as Warrior instead of Quest.) and play through until I reach Dragon Quest IX. I'm skipping Dragon Quest X because it's an online title, but I greatly look forward to the rest of the series! My decision to pick Dragon Quest was based on playing a little bit of it randomly back there. After some random and unnecessary purchases, I own almost all of the titles in the series. (1 thru 4, 6, and 9, so I'm only lacking 5, 7, and 8.) As far as I'm concerned, Dragon Quest is probably the best series to tackle after Final Fantasy. It's been around as long as the Final Fantasy, but it doesn't get nearly as much love as it does (in America at least...super popular in Japan).

Other plans to come for this year is to think of another label to use for my extra posts rather than Side Post! all the time. It's not necessarily bad, but it'd look nicer and easier if I could think of a different name for them. I could at least come up with a different title for when I switch to Dragon Quest. I already plan to make another page for the Dragon Quest post archive. Final Fantay's archive is called Archived Fantasy, so I figure I'll call the Dragon Quest one "Questing Logs" since the game called the saves "logs" in the early days. I'll also reset the day counter when that time comes.

Before moving on to Dragon Quest though, I plan to play a few off-FF titles! The current plans are to play through Final Fantasy Mystic Quest and maaaybe Final Fantasy Tactics. I'll see when the time comes. Worst case, I drop Tactics because that game can easily eat 70+ hours for me.

Apart from those announcements, the only other thing I have to add is to wish everybody who reads this a Happy New Year! Let us hope your goals, quests, fantasies, and other assorted plans come to fruition this year! I'm looking forward to another year of RPG-ing myself and can't wait to see where it all goes.

Thanks for reading! Let's hope I have another post up soon enough...

~May the Crystals Guide Me~

(P.S. - I have NO IDEA what kind of ending signature I'll do with Dragon Quest. As far as the blog goes, I'll probably just stick with that one since I don't think Dragon Quest has anything different I could say. I prefer the current one anyways...so for now, sticking with it!)

EDIT - Holy crap! I just realized (from the information that Blogger displays me) that THIS post is my 100th Blogger Post! YAY FOR ONE HUNDRED POSTS! I sure hope I see another hundred posts by the time next year comes around! Woooo! ONE HUNDRED! TAKE THAT DISBELIEVERS!