Oda edit: On this day 27 years ago, the original Final Fantasy was released in Japan for Nintendo's Famicon system. True to it's name, Final Fantasy represented Hironobu Sakiguchi's last chance to make his Ultima inspired game as the studiio was threatened with bankruptcy. The designers were huge fans of Dungeons and Dragons and western RPGs of the time, and combined mechanics from pen and paper with beautiful sprite graphics and music from Nobuo Uematsu. The game proved to be a hit, and along with Dragon Quest went on to influence hundreds of games to follow (including RO), nearly singlehandedly creating the JRPG genre for generations of console players.
On my old grey NES, I watched my parents play FF1 (I was more a fan of Dragon Quest, which seemed to be a little easier for a kid to grasp) and loved the open world design and mechanics like using a tent you bought from a NPC to sleep and save your game. The whole thing really did feel like a great big adventure.
Xmas Quest-Since we did not have a reward item set up for the 2014 Christmas Quest last week (no costumes on Classic) we put in the crystal monsters and other creatures that drop gift boxes, we will be adding the proper quest this week.
Campitor: So I will need to clean this up some but this is part 1 of our drop update project (Mon lvl 1-10 for this week).
- Ant Egg gains a 100% Red Herb drop chance
- Baby Desert Wolves Adventurer's Suits will drop 100% more often
- Baby Desert wolves will no longer drop Cotton Shirts but will instead drop Empty Bottle at a high chance
- Baby Desert Wolves get a 1900% increase to Asura Drop rates
- Chon Chons will drop Cutters about 150% more often
- Some Chon Chons will now drop empty bottles
- Drops will drop Rods 100% more often
- Eclipse will no longer drop red herbs but instead strawberries
- Dragon Flys will no longer drop red herbs but instead strawberries
- Fabres will drop clubs 100% more often
- Familiars will no longer drop red herbs but instead have a chance to drop white herbs
- Familiars will drop ribbons 300% more often
- Hornets will drop Main Gaunche 300% more often
- Hornets gain apple drop
- Some pickys will no longer drop cotton shirts but instead Mastela Fruits
- Some pickys gain an apple drop
- Pupas will drop guards 1900% more often
- Roda Frog gains flywing drop
- Roda Frog gains Orange Juice drop
- Skeleton gains white herb drop
- Thief Bug gains red herb drop
Snowman Themed Christmas Quest goes in,