jRPGs. I'm an addict of cutesy designs and I don't like a big burly meatheat as my main character. Furthermore, I like slashing things and casting magic on them instead of shooting them, and I like character interaction more than exploring. That is, I like playing games with characters I like, and I like seeing them interact a lot and in certain ways.
Also, I'm a person motivated by nostalgia and, naturally, the thing that my favourite video games are in. I grew up on jRPGs, not wRPGs. Playing certain jRPGs were life changing experiences for me. I'm talking going out and playing pretend with your friends age impactive. When you got into something at the age you were still going out and playing pretend and it was normal because you're 7 years old, that's a big deal.
And that means my childhood was filled with things like Pokemon, Chrono Trigger, and so forth. By the time I had got a half decent computer at around 11, I had become an anime addict with the help of Toonami and Japanese video games. And I was using it to emulate games like Seiken Densetsu 3, Sailor Moon games, Tenchi Muyo games, and so forth. This was on a dial up connection, waiting and waiting for a single mp3 from a game I liked or a rom of a beloved game I adored to finish downloading. No forum addiction like I have now, just leeching roms, emulators, and even sometimes mp3s whenever I could manage to take up the phone line. And sometimes spending hours browsing anime web turnpike at a super slow rate.
That's what a computer was good for, for me. And while I might have had a mild interest in trying some wRPGs, as I had also grown up a bit on playing Magic the Gathering and Dungeons and Dragons with my cousin, it wasn't enough that I would have wanted to make the effort to go out and search for Ultima games when I was too busy playing and beating Chrono Trigger and Seiken Densetsu 3 for the 400th time and gawking over the fact I could ACTUALLY play awesome things like Chrono Trigger, when I was uninterested in computer games as a child, because all of the computer games I saw at Wal-mart looked completely uninteresting to me.
I was reared in the ways of the weeaboo. And to be honest, I just can't shake it. In fact, I think if I visited the child version of me, that person would slap me for turning into who I am now. Because I'm a lot less into myself and what I like and ignoring other people like I was as a child, and am always trying new things in order to look open minded that I don't actually that much enjoy.
