Neverwinter Nights around '95. Looked and played like the old Goldbox games. I remember the hordes of people spamming the Dracolich fights in hopes of getting the gauntlets of ogre strength. Played for about 2 months.
Then I found a PS2 version of FFXI for $20 at Toys R Us in the summer of '07. Mained BLU and finally got it as my first job to 75 several months later after Wings of the Goddess came out. Followed by other 75 jobs of BST, DRK, and RNG over the next several years. Did the 3 nations stories and the Zilart expansion. Got stuck partway through CoP for the longest time until the first level cap increase to 80 when me a few linkshell friends were able to go through it with less than a full party. Finally started losing interest around 2019 when I got a new job and had to adjust to working overnights again. According to my FFXIAH history, September '19 is when I last played. Napkin math says I spent almost 2 real-life years playing the game (roughly 4 hours a day, every day, for 12 years).
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1) We still never got a K. Club to drop
2)One of the most chill locations in the game
3)God, I loved BST until Abyssea and post 75 fucked over charm
4)Heading into the finale of CoP.
The ball is round, the game lasts 90 minutes. That's fact.
Everything else, is theory.