Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Fortune Street Win!

I had picked up Fortune Street for the Wii a couple of weeks ago, and last night I was able to convince both my wife and her mother to play a game with me. (In case you don't know, Fortune Street is a Monopoly-like board game, developed by Square Enix and published by Nintendo, in which players expand properties and invest in stocks; it features characters and locations from both Dragon Quest and Super Mario. This is the first in the series to come to North America, but at least eight have been made in Japan since 1991.) To my chagrin, it was decided to play under Easy Rules, so it was a less hectic, slower-paced game with no stock market, but I was outvoted so I took my defeat graciously by trouncing everyone and winning the game as Slime. My wife, Pricessa of DQ2, took second, while my mother-in-law, Donkey Kong, placed a respectable third, leaving COM-controlled Luigi crying on the floor. Everyone had fun, and I think I may be able to talk them into trying the Standard Rules with stocks next time!

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the LP...

I think I mentioned somewhere that I was sick, and I was going to continue the LP of Dragon Warrior once I felt better. Well, that was in September, and I still haven't come back to it. This is partly because, even though I eventually did recover from that superbad cold, I just can't keep up the time required to do a video LP. It's not the gametime, I can fit that in; it's the editing. Especially with an infant, editing is very important because I am constantly interrupted. This is easy to handle if I'm just recording game footage, but not so much when giving live commentary. So as much as I'd like to continue the video LP, I think I'm going to have to flip-flop again—permanently, this time—and go back to just text write-ups, probably only one at the start of each game. As such, I'm going to delete the posts from here that link to YouTube (I'll leave the videos up there, just take down the links). I may continue with the tables listing new information for comparison as it comes up in-game (because I for one think it's interesting), or I may just keep it together in my own chart and post all that at the end, probably on GameFAQs.com if I go that route.

I am still recording the raw footage, just for kicks (and to help me compare texts, which is the whole reason I started doing this), and I may occasionally post a video of something out of the ordinary. Of course I still have the poll going at the top of the page, so feel free to vote on that.