>>516604839>Friday, April 14, 2017, 22:57:14Evidently, my habit of shoving my camera's subjects into the lower-half of the frame has been quite a longstanding one. (Or perhaps the limitations of the original client's camera were just as strict as the ones in NEO, and I've simply been misremembering).
Not quite the earliest of early memories lining my dusty archives, as this was taken a good ~16 months after the release of the NA/EU client. Much had transpired within such a short span, to the point where some might argue this title's glory days were already behind it by the time this particular patch of ruins had opened up.
Ahh, the Peach Fields... One of the more divisive places to spend ones' time, after your daily ~2-6 hours of dungeoneering and alt-juggling had been dealt with. Beautiful and detested in equal measure, with an endless amount of micro-objectives to complete en route towards various rewards, with a fancy title at the very end for the truly deranged.
I was one such deranged individual back then, having been among the first to secure such a title after farming one MILLION Peaches over the span of several months. Each objective rewarded anywhere from a few dozen, to several thousand Peaches per-completion. Many a night spent delving into well-trodden crypts and blasting the native inhabitants of this tropical jungle, I'll tell (You) that.
Was all the hassle worth it, just to parade around with what was - at the time - one of the rarest titles in the game?
No, not especially. But I wasn't against such time being spent either. There was certainly no denying the original run of Blade&Soul was once what my life revolved around; spending ~5-9 hours a night, every night, keeping pace with what was expected. A sickening sort of love for a game unlike no other of its time.
Not all memories are as rosy as others, but I'm still glad to have experienced them all the same.
