So tonight, I started playing the original Dragon Warrior for the first time in years. And much like I do with most of my gameplay, I’ve been recording my progress to DVD archive. I want to be able to chronicle my progress, but I don’t want to do it in a typical Let’s Play format because it would take too damn long. Anyone who has played the first Dragon Warrior (or Dragon Quest, if you prefer, which I do not) will recall that this is level-grinding at its most tedious – battles are always one on one. Don’t get me wrong – I’m loving every moment of it and the game is every bit as enjoyable as it was when I first played it as a kid, but the grinding does take a long time and grinding does not make for interesting videos.
So what I had in mind was to do a usual playthrough, but rather than record every grinding moment, I’ll keep in the more notable moments – level upgrades, new spells, purchases – and possibly less-than-notable moments, interesting observations, and just random stuff. It’s probably not much of an original idea, but it’s something different in regards to my usual output. This is presently all in the planning stages and it’s hard to tell how long this is going to be… likely depending on how long the game holds my interest… which, these days, is rather hard to do. In either case, it should be an interesting experience for me, anyhow.
More to come when it comes available.
Until then… thou hast died.
(2024 Update: This was one of those ideas that I had trying to come up with some interesting video ideas, because when you’re new to the whole video making process, you usually like to experiment with stuff to see what works and what doesn’t. In the end, the plan fell through and I never got around to playing Dragon Warrior until years later, where that footage would be used for a review… but that’s another story.)
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