| I'm curious as to how everyone was introduced to Ys. It's always been relatively unknown, both inside Japan and especially outside it. For me, I got started at the age of 4 on the Sega Master System. Ys: The Vanished Omens was pretty much one of the first video games I had ever played, and I played it religiously. I owe it all to my older brother who was a huge gamer at the time, although he has long since outgrown it. The stupid looking cover still makes me laugh to this day. What about you guys? |
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| my first introduction was quite a few years ago when i visited a friend who had a bunch of retro systems (nes, snes, genesis, atari) and i looked through his genesis collection trying to find something to play. only games i can remember were Ys III: Wanderers from Ys and Valis. he showed me the final boss Demanicus, and i couldn't figure out what was going on, what with the rocks constantly flying across the screen. sadly to say, i was unimpressed since i wasn't really into 'old' rpgs, or maybe i wasn't into rpgs in general at the time. fast forward a few years when i was conscious of the creation of emulators that played genesis, snes, and so forth, i grabbed a copy of the game to check it out for myself since i was a fan of rpgs now. played through the game and loved it. ever since, i been a fan of the game and wanted more, but didn't get a taste of a 'new' game until i saw Ark of Napishtim for psp lol |
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Hayato_Matsuo said: my first introduction was quite a few years ago when i visited a friend who had a bunch of retro systems (nes, snes, genesis, atari) and i looked through his genesis collection trying to find something to play. only games i can remember were Ys III: Wanderers from Ys and Valis. he showed me the final boss Demanicus, and i couldn't figure out what was going on, what with the rocks constantly flying across the screen. sadly to say, i was unimpressed since i wasn't really into 'old' rpgs, or maybe i wasn't into rpgs in general at the time. fast forward a few years when i was conscious of the creation of emulators that played genesis, snes, and so forth, i grabbed a copy of the game to check it out for myself since i was a fan of rpgs now. played through the game and loved it. ever since, i been a fan of the game and wanted more, but didn't get a taste of a 'new' game until i saw Ark of Napishtim for psp lol Haha, that's really interesting. How long ago exactly was "quite a few years ago"? 4+ years? 8+ years? What made you get into the Ys series more than, say, Final Fantasy, Phantasy Star or the likes? Or did you also play those as well? |
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| i'd say 8+ years. i got into it when i was in middle school, and i'm 27 now, so you can imagine it was quite a long time. and i enjoy just about any rpg i can get my hands on, and Ys had a certain flair to it that got me into it |
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| Yeah I came in late. December 2010, I still remember it. Probably the crappiest days in my life, decided to get a new game and picked it up. FUCKING LOVED IT. And from there on I got into Falcom in general, really wished I got into this series earlier. |
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NihonFalcom said: Yeah I came in late. December 2010, I still remember it. Probably the crappiest days in my life, decided to get a new game and picked it up. FUCKING LOVED IT. And from there on I got into Falcom in general, really wished I got into this series earlier. Which game did you pick up? |
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| Oh forgot to mention that LOL Seven, absolutely LOVE IT. That said I still enjoy Oath, I and II Chronicles, and Origin, but Seven and Celceta are some of my faves. |
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| The 1st game i played was ark of napishtim for psp which i randomly found when i was on vacation in thailand lol like around 5 years back . Then when i played it i was instantly hooked and loved everything about it but considering where i live i can never get jrpg games so i didnt really get to play any of the other games for a while lol. |
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| I always loved fantasy, tales, myths, legends and ancient lands stories. When I found anime The Ancient Book of Ys I was sure I have to give it a shot. When I watched it for the first time I was completely thrown in another world. I laughed and cried, crossed my fingers and waited passionately what would happen. I played only one game, Oath in Felghana, but I feel strong bond with this serie and the entire story anyway. I watched the serie for the first time almost 4 years ago. Since then I rewatched both series a few times, don't remember how many, maybe once a year each time. But it is such an enormous excitement and a desire to get more of it every time. I even considered drawing my own fanmade manga. Recently I found fanfiction story and I might read it. I can say without hesitation that Adol is my favourite character, but the others are also great. |
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| Well, I'm a JRPG player and one day I just decided to try playing Oath in Felghana. Partially also because I've been searching for anime themed games I can find in steam. Origin is great too and I'm currently playing Chronicles+. I'll give Ark of Napishtim a try later too. |
| I first got into Ys around 1994 when I first rented "Ys III: Wanderers from Ys" for the Sega Genesis. I loved that game, and the music was one of the greatest things I had ever heard. I also own "Ys: The vanished Omens" on the Master System, and "Ys: Book I & II" for both the Turbografx-CD & the Nintendo DS. I also own the Turbografx-CD port of Ys III. The Ys games always fascinated me, and so have many other games made by Falcom. |
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| I saw Ys Origin on steam on sale. I was unsure whether it is good or bad so I tried the demo. Since then I bought all the Ys games from steam. Ys Origin is still one of my favourite games of all time. |
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