EarthPhantomTS

Mine was Super Mario RPG. At the time, I was most definitely not an RPG fan, but I was a Mario fan, so when I saw it up for rent, I knew I had to try it. And, boy, did I have no earthly clue how the hell I was supposed to play it. Well, that's not entirely true. I kinda was able to wing it, until I got to the Hammer Bros. At that point, I promptly lost. I tried many times, and lost to what was arguably the easiest boss battle in the game (and certainly the first one, as Bowser didn't count for anything ). I returned the game, feeling a bit disappointed (I think, it was an eternity ago, really!) Much later on, I decided to give that game another chance, especially since I had a dream telling me to do so (yes, you heard that right. A dream told me to give Super Mario RPG another go-around. Though, to be fair, it was a pretty standard dream, not like those BS lines of dialogue in Paper Mario where characters talk about oracles visiting in their dreams, but my dream's message to me was clear all the same). Well, at that point, I couldn't rent any Super NES games anymore, as we were already well into the 5th generation (32/64 bit era), so I had to buy it used. Naturally, I did just that, and found out I couldn't stop playing it. Well, that's not really how it was, as I got stuck at times, but I loved it all the same. I think it was at that point I realized I liked RPGs. Though I don't really remember when it was, actually, now that I think about it, but I think that was it. Well, in any case, I can definitely say SMRPG was the first game of the genre I played. Oh, and yes, I beat that game after a few years (Pathetic, huh?). Currently playing through a hard type hack of it called SMRPG Remix, as I consider myself fairly knowledgeable of the ins and outs of that game, but...yeah.

Although I'm a retrogamer to the core (although I have a Wii, the only games I play now, pretty much, are my old SNES and PS1 games, or ports of them. Or emulated copies. Although now that I think about it, I play quite a few newer DS games, but that's about it, pretty much. And sometimes I take my Wii, Gamecube, or PS2 game disks out !), I honestly don't care all that much about load times. Unless it's something really ridiculous (like 2 minutes), I don't even notice them half the time! Besides, cartridges are quite impractical for today's console games; heck, they were impractical when the N64 came out! I mean, guess who didn't get Final Fantasy VII! (Wait, that's not entirely true...it was less about technology and more about politics IIRC...this is what you get for telling Ted Woolsey to change Celes's suicide attempt into a "leap of joy", Nintendo ...) In all seriousness, though, I kinda don't care either way, but carts are for the most part obsolete. Of course, as SHADOVV said, actual software on our end may be going the way of the dinosaur, too, at least for consoles; I wouldn't be surprised if the PS5 did work exactly like he said. I would be surprised, though, if Sony's last console is the PS5 due not to the fact that the company crashed and burned but instead to the fact that Sony automatically updated their servers giving everyone who owned a PS5 plugin the upgrade for free. Though, I guess most of the money for 1st party companies comes from software revenues, as I just remembered it's industry standard for console manufacturers to deliberately take a loss on hardware sales in order to make more money from software sales. Well, I think it is, anyway. In any case, we'll have to see what happens, I guess.