Hello, and welcome to Coldrun Gaming! This is currently the home of my personal project: playing through the Final Fantasy series (mostly unspoiled).
My current project is a (mostly) blind and unspoiled playthrough of the Final Fantasy series. As a wee kid-dah-doo, I watched my brother play FFIV on SNES and play it myself some, and loved it. But that's about it. I'm starting out now with FFI, and going as far as I can through FFXIV (later edit: FFXV, since that now has come out), writing as I go.
It's hard to overemphasize this, so I'll just capslock it up here:
PLEASE NO SPOILERS. NOT EVEN EXPECTATION SPOILERS. (e.g. "Wait until you get to reach x/y/z part of the game, you'll be super surprised!" = bad.)
Occasionally, in my posts and in the comments, you'll see what looks like gibberish. For example: "Qba'g evqr va gur euhoneo!" This is a way to talk about something without spoiling it, a rotation cypher. Use rot13.com to translate, and if you're about to comment on something I haven't played yet, PLEASE use rot13.com to cypher it.
Anyway! Most of my posts will go up as I play on the wonderful markspoils.blogspot.com, in the Geekly Weekly Funtimes comment thread. To be clear, I have no official affiliation with that site or any Mark Does Stuff site; I'm just a member of its community. At least every Sunday (and usually sooner than that), I'll upload the prior week's posts onto this site, so it may serve as an archive of sorts.
Thanks for reading, and enjoy!
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Jan 8, 2020 edit: I also started a fitness blog a coldrunfit.blogspot.com, but note that this is NOT body-positive and contains discussion of food, weight, and exercise.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
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Ogreatgames · 517 weeks ago
Lloyd · 451 weeks ago
Tyvan · 412 weeks ago
I just discovered this post and would love to keep up with your progress.
qindarka93 13p · 377 weeks ago
Might I know which games you are going to play in the future? All the mainline games of course but there are a lot of spinoffs and I assume you aren't going to play all of them.
qindarka93 13p · 377 weeks ago
I haven't played it personally but I think Final Fantasy Type-0 is one of the closest of the spinoffs to being a mainline game, also directed by the same guy who did FFXV.
And I'd highly recommend Xenogears, even if it's not an FF game. It is by Square and was originally conceived as an FF title. It's probably one of the most thematically rich of these JRPGs.
Anyway, that's all a long time to go anyway. I'll be interested in reading all your playthroughs in the meantime.
Dave · 369 weeks ago
I'll probably continue to lurk around and continue reading some more of the stuff you've already written, as well as keeping up with your new posts.
Dave · 359 weeks ago
I just thought of a question I wanted to ask you, and I didn't really know where to write it so I'll just put it here.
In your summary that you write when you finish each FF, you give your thoughts on its replayablility as well as a mark out of 10. So I was wondering if you have actually gone back and replayed any of the FFs you've already completed in the 4 or so years that you've been doing this run? I saw that you had a go at the FFVFJF, but have you returned to any other than that?
Just curious, though from what I've seen you tend to move pretty swiftly on from one FF to the next, so I don't see where a replay would fit in, but still.
Dave · 359 weeks ago
But then again, I've tried to 'scratch the replay itch' by reading your posts (today it was FFVII; I read the first couple of posts earlier) but then that just makes me want to play the game even more! So I don't know if LPs would be my thing after all.
What I have loved doing, though, is reading your FFV posts as I play through the game. I'd play for a while, then quit and immediately come to read your thoughts on that section. It's fun and interesting! And it's nice to see that we share some of the same thoughts; for example we may laugh at the same line, or something. And I guess it's as close as I can get to actually talking to someone about these games, since I have no friends who are even the slightest bit interested in FF or even JRPGs at all. And although my siblings are still interested in the series to an extent, they've kind of moved on somewhat and it's not as big of a thing as it used to be.
But anyway! I expect I'll keep on coming back here when I'm playing/replaying an FF, just so I can read your thoughts on the game and compare them to my own.
Drivering · 350 weeks ago