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SMRPG has an interesting place in my life. I got it when I was 12, and it sort of kickstarted my "online life". I started posting on the SMRPG GameFAQs message
by Trasmatta 3y ago
SMRPG has an interesting place in my life. I got it when I was 12, and it sort of kickstarted my "online life". I started posting on the SMRPG GameFAQs message board, which was sort of my introduction to the internet. I made a lot of online friends there, some of whom I would stay up for hours and hours chatting with on AIM. One of those, I stayed friends with for about 15 years, until he disappeared one day.
Sometimes we would hang out on AIM and see who could answer questions from newbies the fastest. ("Which Final Fantasy is Culex from?" being a favorite.) Other times we would just talk about life. I remember talking with my best friend from those days (the one who disappeared) on the night the US invaded Iraq.
Nostalgia goggles and all, but I miss those days of the Internet.
- ocardoso 3y agoSo...Which Final Fantasy is Culex from?
- rybosome 3y ago4! Edit: looks like I was wrong. I genuinely believed this for 26 years.
- yamazakiwi 3y agoWhich 4? There's 11 of them
- jl6 3y agoGP said 4!, which I assume is 4 factorial, or 24. It looks like the 24th game in the series was Final Fantasy Origins: https://thefinalfantasy.net/games/ https://thefinalfantasy.net/games/
- Trasmatta 3y agoYour edit makes me so happy that the "Culex in Final Fantasy" rumors still persist to this day I hope a new generation of SMRPG players gets to experience that now for the next 26 years
- a_e_k 3y agoThe fight with Culex re-uses the boss music from FF4, though. (Even if he never appears there.)
- rybosome 3y agoI’m guessing that’s why I had the association. Thanks for reminding me!
- Trasmatta 3y agoCulex exists in a superposition, being present in both all Final Fantasy games and none, at the same time
- thowaway91234 3y agoNone. He's original to Mario RPG. The allusion to Final Fantasy is just an easter egg.
- nonethewiser 3y agoI had absolutely no idea. I always saw him referred to as a final fantasy boss. I guess in mario rpg he's from that universe, but he's not actually from the universe. Crazy.
- thowaway91234 3y agoCulex uses the Final Fantasy 4 boss battle music, so some people mistakenly think he is from the game but it's just the music. I've played through FF4 over 10 times and he definitely is not in it ;)
- glhaynes 3y agoI enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. That's sad about the 15 year friend disappearing.
- Trasmatta 3y agoThank you! I hope he's doing okay, wherever he is. He did this a few times, where he would disappear, then come back later with a new username, saying that he had to get away for awhile for emotional reasons. This time he never came back again, though. I have regrets, and feel like I wasn't a good friend to him near the end. I just hope he's happy.
- sylens 3y agoI know most people will say they transitioned from Digg to Reddit in the 2000s, but I feel like GameFAQs was the spiritual precursor to Reddit because there was a board for every game and even more general boards for most interests. It had to be one of the most popular Web 1.0 sites around
- cdelsolar 3y agoFF4?