Pretty new here, sort of newish to the series; old enough to have probably played the original games when they first came out but for some reason never even heard of them until after learning about Yakuza some years ago late into that series. I guess I just wasn’t much of a Sega fan outside Sonic, and even then that was after Adventure 2 got ported to the GameCube.
These days I’ve pretty much given up on Sonic(though I want to see the train wreck with Jim Carey), but on the flipside I feel like I’ll keep playing Shenmue so long as new entries get made. Initially I was able to watch 2 being played by SuperGreatFriend and was a bit critical, unable to see what was so good about the bad voice acting and over reliance on QTEs, but I gave it some time, and eventually got the rerelease and got every trophy for the first game and could understand the appeal, even despite the flaws. It reminded me more of games like Deadly Premonition which I also love and hope that upcoming sequel is done just as well as Shenmue 3.
For other stuff about me, well, grew up with Nintendo(mostly Zelda), No More Heroes was my first Grasshopper game and I have played a ton of their stuff since, also really like Drakengard/Nier. Lots of others but those are the main few.
Really like to draw but consider myself an amateur. Hoping to get a new tablet to replace my cheap one and continue to get better to at least get something published or find some way to make money from my hobby.
Games have inspired my art, but so have some shows and movies and stories in general. First anime I can recall was Sailor Moon, kind of disappointed I can’t find the origin dub. Grew up with a few different things like DBZ(though I prefer Dragon Ball), Inuyasha, favorite I think was Paranoia Agent, though I’ve watched both the original run of Berserk as well as most of Jojo in the past year. Also saw most of Satoshi Kon’s films now.