And 2009 was already 10 years ago. What games were you playing at the time?
 

Yep, that long ago. What games were you playing at the time?

2009 was the year I fell a bit out of gaming for a while until I got back to it on a regular basis around 2012-2013. In the 2009-2011 period I still played games but often went through days and weeks without gaming much. 2010 in particular was a year where I barely touched video games at all.

That being said, I recall playing some things in 2009. I remember playing a bit on my brother's original DS at the time. Playing New Super Bros and Warioware, mostly.

I also bought Final Fantasy X for the PS2 in late 2009, but never got around to beat it. I need to replay that game one day and finally beat it. And I remember also buying the game Neo Geo battle Coliseum for the PS2 as well around the time. Damn SNK really loves hard as hell games, though.

Football Manager 2009 was definitely something I was playing at the time as well. But mostly in late 2008, iirc.

I also pondered getting either a DS or an Xbox 360. Ended up not getting either of them. I kinda regret never getting the 360 nowadays, but oh well.

So yeah, basically, I mostly gamed from September onward in 2009. Not so much in the spring and summer parts of the year. I was more interested in other things in 2009, such as heavy metal music and anime/manga.Also was busy for most of the year with other things going in my life, so games took a backseat to all of this.

What about you? What were you playing in 2009?

Cybercubed, is that you? :tlol:

I was emulating SNES like crazy, heavily into Super Mario World hacks. Naturally, I played a lot of first party Wii titles, too.

2009 was around the time I didn't play as much video games again until 2011 more or less, I remember buying DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 2 and then 3 and finishing them, still my favorite DBZ games, I remember playing all the beat em up TMNT games, Jurassic Park Builder on the GBA but no new 2009 games that I can recall, I bought MP Trilogy that year but never played it.

I don't remember what I played yesterday.

I'm pretty sure at the time I got heavily into God Of War games and some classics like Super Metroid, that I had never played before.

You bought Final Fantasy X almost a decade after it was released? Maybe you meant XIII, or XII? Anyway, yeah, you should check out the X/X-2 HD upgrade pack for PS4.

2009? Yeesh. I think I was still playing the crap out of Final Fantasy XI, but maybe I'd already stopped by that point. Maybe "Final Fantasy IV: The After Years." Almost assuredly slowly getting through Grand Theft Auto 4, which took me 2 years or more.

Yugioh 5D’s WC2009
Bowser’s Inside Story
Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World
Pokemon Platinum

Turtles in Time Re-Shelled
 

Turtles in Time Re-Shelled was released in August that year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_xQEarZzG4

No, man. I did not misstype it. It was truly FFX. Why did it take me ages to buy it? Well, first, I only got a PS2 in late 2005. A PS2 Slim, in fact. It was a Christmas gift. And I mostly played games like Pro Evolution Soccer, WWE games, Tekken, Canis Canem Edit(Bully in USA), etc. on it. I grew up in a Nintendo household and the PS2is the only Sony console I've had to this date.

Also, since I spent most of my youth playing and focusing on Nintendo stuff and some Sega stuff, I overlooked a lot of stuff for Playstation consoles. I'd hear or read about their notorious titles but that's it. In 2005-2007 I barely thought about Final Fantasy, and it wasn't a series I grew up with. I've only played FFX so far, in fact. I oughta try 6(3 in the West) one day, since I believe my brother owns it for the SNES. And I'd like to play 7 one day just to see what the fuss is all about, but the remake is taking forever, so I guess I'll have to find another way to play it one of these days.

Don't own a PS4, but plan on getting a Switch perhaps this year and I believe X HD is gonna be released for the Switch as well?

Apparently.

I actually really like X, if not its linear, corridor-driven gameplay. It had me pretty riveted when it came out. Apparently Square-Enix did, too, so much that they basically recycled the story into XIII (i.e., the religion of the world and god that they worship is actually EVIL and needs to be FOUGHT and KILLED at the end).

Well, I cannot compare it to other games of the series, since it's the only one I played to this day. But I can see why fans criticise the cast. Auron and Lulu are the only characters I truly like in the game. Don't care much for the rest. But other than that, the game plays well enough and is very visually appealing. Also, I really liked the skill map it had. Pretty creative. And tbh, I didn't find it very grinding. Maybe for the post game or close to the end of ti you need to grind more, but I don't recall grinding much in it.

Blitzball was fun but pretty hard, though.

It wasn't grinding at all. It's probably the easiest, least-involved Final Fantasy you'll ever play. I didn't mind the cast. Awful main character design... looks like Meg Ryan.

So I guess that was a good pick for someone like me who was totally new to the series, then?

Depends on how you look at it. It's a good game to dip your toe into the series to get a feel for it to then play other ones (though #1, it didn't do this for you since you say that's the only one you've ever played, and #2, none of the Final Fantasy games' stories are connected and are all on different worlds so it doesn't really matter which one you play first), but it's hardly indicative of the best of what the series has to offer.

But probably no one really agrees on what that is. Most people would probably say VII. I don't. While I enjoy IV the most (it's like the best story ever... you explore the underworld, the moon, get the girl and become king!) I would say IX is the best introductory FF game. It's got a pretty classic story with classic character archetypes, big scope and some tough battles you actually have to work for. Also, plenty of bonus stuff you can do on the side and explore.

For the record, the only reason I haven't played other FF game yet was due to falling out of gaming for a while and sticking to Nintendo consoles. The only FF games you can find in Nintendo consoles are the NES ones and 3(or 6) for the SNES. I oughta play that one someday.

I know some of the FF titles are on Steam, but not sure if their ports are good. Have you tried them?

A bit OT now, but recently I played this Square Enix game called Dragon Quest VIII and liked it quite a bit. Ever played the DQ series?

I haven't tried any ports. But I've played every FF.

Dragon Quest VIII was awesome. Yeah, I'm huge into the DQ series. I just bought Dragon Quest XI a couple week ago and have put about 12 hours into it so far. Also starting to play IX a little bit on emulator except it seems... a little crappy.

Even back when it was "Dragon Warrior" over here. 1-4 were really magical games to me, as a kid. 1-3 in particular.

I'd like to play the biggest of them all. 7, I think?

DQ8 is an interesting game. it's hardly ground breaking or anything but it's a very solid game and the characters have a certain charm to them. Btw, I have the 3DS port/remake. Where you can see enemies in the overworld and can also quick save if you're too far from a church or need to put the 3DS down in the middle of a dungeon.

That's what I understand. I played it for about a week and kind of just lost interest in it and never came back to it. As I recall it came out very late into the PS1's life so it seemed rather... substandard, at the time.

I didn't like how Dragon Warrior/Quest moved away from the "legacy" storytelling of the first three games. I thought that was great, and set it apart from the Final Fantasy games. Dragon Quest IV-VI form the "Celestial Trilogy" but they aren't on the same worlds and don't have anything to do with each other. VII, VIII, and IX certainly have nothing to do with each other.

Apparently the brand new Dragon Quest XI serves as a prequel to Dragon Quest III (which, in turn, was a prequel to Dragon Quest I), though.

Yeah, Dragon Quest has done away with random, invisible monster encounters. XI has the same thing.

VIII had just as happy of an ending as FF IV, come to think of it. Great stuff.

I haven't actually beaten the final boss yet. And then there's a bit of post-game. The game is bigger than it looks. it sure is immersive. I know mroe or less what happens at the end though. Difference being, in the 3DS version:

Interesting.

Mostly I just remember (fondly) the big supporting character calling me "Gov" all the time and going, "COR BLIMEY!"

Haha Yangus is cool, yes.

Also, apparenly, in the PS2 game you also cannot:

Is it bad that I don't really remember any of the other party members now? Only Yangus sticks with me.

Hmm, when did you play the game? I'm guessing you played back when it came out on the PS2, so I guess... around 2005? That could explain you no longer remembering the game that well.

2009 was a very important year for me as a gamer, as it was the year I realized I needed to amass my own collection of games. I had just gotten an Xbox 360 for Christmas in 2008, and I didn't really have a lot of major games from the previous gen since I just played games from my brother's collection.

So I ended up getting all the Resident Evil games on Gamecube before Resident Evil 5 hit in March, as well as tons of other games all throughout the year. Before that though, I was probably playing Sonic '06 since it was the first game I had on my 360. I ended up putting the game on hold due to how aggravating it was though.

After that, my brother and I played Saint's Row 2, which was a hell of an experience. It was the first time we had played a game together online on two separate screens, and it was a GTA-like sandbox game but in co-op, which was unheard of and f*cking amazing.

It's easy to look back on Resident Evil 5 as a disappointing entry in the Resident Evil franchise, but when it came out, it was honestly one of my favorite gaming experiences and still is. I had grown up watching my brother play through the Resident Evil games ever since RE2 came to the N64, and in watching him, I became just as big of a fan as he was. The first game I played through all by myself was Resident Evil 4, and not being the critical asshole I am today, I absolutely loved it despite it not being quite as survival horror as the previous entries. So when news hit that RE5 was going to be co-op, I was excited as hell at the idea of being able to play a Resident Evil game with my brother. I will never call Resident Evil 5 a bad game, because it's not, and even though it might've gone against everything the series was, it still holds a special place with me simply because I got to enjoy a Resident Evil game with my brother.

Til this day, one of the biggest mysteries that eludes me, is who the hell put my Gameboy SP case with Metroid Fusion inside, in a bowl of shrimp water. Nobody has ever 'fessed up, but not only did my Metroid Fusion smell of shrimp, it wouldn't save anymore. This was during a time when I didn't have many games and I mostly played on my Gameboy. Metroid Fusion was such an important game to me, and I had to trade it in. But in 2009, on my quest to build a collection of games, I finally got Metroid Fusion back and it was like reuniting with an old friend. I was surprised with how much I had remembered after so many years, and how much better I was at the game being much older than I was when I first played it.

During the summer, I played tons of Halo 3 online. It was my first foray into online multiplayer and I have so many memories playing Halo 3's multiplayer. My brother and I also got into Gears of War during the summer and we played the hell out of Gears 1 and 2, especially Gears of War 2's horde mode. We spent an unbelievable amount of time with Gears 2 that it's probably one of my most played games ever.

I know I had also played Kane and Lynch sometime before the summer. While it wasn't anything spectacular, it was definitely a decent co-op driven experience, something I wish we had more of today. After the summer though, I know I was playing Spider-Man 3, which btw, f*ck that Kingpin boss fight. I know I played Halo 3: ODST, Left 4 Dead, and TMNT around this time too. Near the end of the year, I finally got back into Sonic '06 and breezed through the rest of the game. Guess I just needed time away, which always seems to be the case when being stuck in a game. The last game I would finish in the year 2009 was Resident Evil 0 on the Wii as I had just gotten a Wii on Christmas, and finally wanted to play through the Resident Evil series for myself. However, after having suffered through Sonic '06, I was finally ready to move onto Sonic Unleashed, the Sonic game I had anticipated playing more, which I would be playing into the next year.

Yep. Then.

In 2009, I played Sonic Adventure DX Directors Cut for the first time ever and I had lots of fun! I also played Tomb Raider Legend and Super Mario Sunshine.

In late 2009, I played TMNT 1 (2003) on game boy advance.