Oh Hi! Fancy Seeing You Here

This may come as a surprise but as it turns out, I didn't play Final Fantasy IX! I know, I know. It's a major shocker to everyone. I believe I did turn the game on again once after my last post but I didn't get far. The thing was, that lag that occurred whenever battles started became just too much to handle. I couldn't take it anymore. Imagine playing any RPG with random battles but instead of the standard load times, it took 20 seconds to load. The game was playable but not in any fun sort of way. Then there was the promise of a better tomorrow.

You see, at the point of my last blog, I was fully intending on getting a new laptop. One with much more gaming strength than what I had. So, I quietly tabled Final Fantasy IX until I got my new laptop. Then that kind of got dragged out longer than I expected. But now, I have my new laptop and it's gorgeous!

My exact laptop against my perfectly white wall and table!

Not to gush too much about it, it's got an Intel i7 processor running an Nvidia Geforce 940M graphics card. Needless to say, it's much better equipped to deal with emulation than my previous laptop which used integrated video processing on an i3. However, by the point I got this, there was another new promise. One granted to us by the RPG gods on high from the fabled land of Japan. A Final Fantasy IX Steam port was coming! Screenshots would again be a possibility and thus, my blogs would no longer look like giant blocks of text.

Then it came out on Android/iOS but a Steam port was nowhere to be found. I asked Square-Enix and received the nebulous response of, "coming soon". Well... that was a bummer. But I didn't want to fight with those damned PSX emulators again, risking further problems since I knew that as soon as I managed it, the port would be released because karma.

And so, I waited... and waited... and waited... and looked at the viability of playing it on my Android tablet... and waited some more. But the fabled day has arrived for a notification on my phone that came in not 30 minutes ago has told me that Final Fantasy IX has finally been released on Steam! Needless to say, the game finished downloading about halfway through writing this blog and I am just about ready to jump in. I'll have to replay the first few hours but it should be well worth it for decent performance with the game.

So, even though it's almost a year later, nothing from my previous blog posts has changed. I still haven't read or heard any spoilers about this game's story and am still excited to experience this game for the (sort of) first time. You can look forward to my first post about Final Fantasy IX very soon.

Game on!