Chimerasame:
Microsoft pride isn't keeping Square from developing for XBox, they just don't especially want to make games for it. That's more of an issue between Nintendo and Square than it ever has been with Microsoft--and with Square games starting to come out for GBA, the Square/Nintendo animosity seems to be dissolving as well. Bill Gates doesn't really make detailed decisions about the XBox anyway, I believe that's still Jeff Henshaw's department. I don't foresee Square games coming out for the XBox, but it's not impossible.

The Star Wars RPG is currently only planned for XBox and PC.

Chimerasame:
Well, the generalized answer is to make your party more powerful. There is, as far as I know, no secret technique to fighting Luca. He's hard, like a climactic boss battle should be. There're any number of secrets and hints that a FAQ would do a better job of explaining than I could.

Incidentally, the first time I killed him, it was down to my third party--the last member of that party, Rina, in fact. She ran out of magic, and I was almost sure I was done for, but she finished Luca off with a physical attack. She had eight hit points.

Chimerasame:
I'm told the DC version actually has slightly better graphics, but I can't vouch for that information personally.

Chimerasame:
Someone's going to read this, and think they can rez Aeris in FF7. I can feel it.

Chimerasame:
Spelling bee? Do they count capitalization at those? ¬.¬ Eh, nevermind.

I don't recall Teknoman, or rather, I never knew Teknoman at all. I actually got into anime, for the most part, by purchasing the Escaflowne boxed set and watching them all. That's the old VHS version, and not the DVDs.

Orc heads! Funny you bring that up, because I have a good story. Last summer, I was playing with a D&D group composed of me, a friend of mine, and some of his coworkers from Fry's. It didn't last long, but we had some good games that summer.

Anyway, our party was level 2, and while looking for adventures, we heard that the King was offering a substantial reward for getting rid of an Orc encampment and bringing back the head of their chief. Now, this adventure wasn't really intended for us to do yet, we were supposed to tackle it after being a few levels higher. But we were a rather happy-go-lucky group, and decided that with proper tactics and preperation, we could take the bastards!

We argued for quite a bit about how to fight sixty orcs, and in the end decided that we should definitely start by lighting their whole encampment on fire. My character, with a level of ranger, made a wilderness lore check to see if he could come up with any naturally flammable substances in the nearby forest. My roll was luckily high, and the DM ruled that we could get some nicely flammable oils from a couple types of plant. The oils weren't really suited to making flame arrows or alchemist's fire with, but we managed to accomplish something else with them. We got a couple gallons of the stuff, taking some time to do so, and we poured it all into the orcs' well.

To do the pouring, we needed somebody who could go into the orc camp solo and not get noticed. Our monk, who happened to have a Potion of Invisibility, volunteered. As the rest of us climbed trees just outside the fort walls, he dropped in and invisibly carried out the well portion of the plan. Then we unfolded the rest.

The rogue and I shot the few flaming arrows we had been able to afford earlier into the orcs' huts' rooves. Some straw, some wood, all flammable. This caused quite a ruckus--a ruckus which did not subside when the poor creatures tried to put out their flames, and only succeeded in exacerbating them. Sooner or later, the encampment was scrambling about trying to fix their problems with the fire, and ignoring the intruders who were slicing up some of their guards.

The real beauty of the plan came into place, though, when the Orcish Chieftain came out. He was apparently getting ready to have some fun with a female Orc--but for some reason was still in full armor, I guess it might've been a fetish or something. He comes out of his tent, quite confused, not sure how to react. The wizard casts expiditious retreat on me, and I high-tail across the entire encampment, charging straight for the chief. For flavor, I say I'm aiming for his neck.

My roll of 20 surprised the DM, to be sure! He ruled that my blow to the chief's neck was so severe that the head flew off, landing several yards away, near the aforementioned invisible monk.

Now, the orcs, by this time, were becoming a bit more organized, and they were ready to surround me, so I didn't want to stick around much longer. With an increased speed, escaping wasn't too hard. I also managed to grab the chieftain's body (we wanted to sell his full plate armor) before running out the front gate.

The monk, invisible, grabbed the orc chief's head. The head remained visible as he chased me out the front gate. "GIVE ME MY BODY BAAACK!" yelled the monk.

I don't think that many Orcs have ever failed a morale check quite that badly to a group of 2nd-level adventurers before.

Chimerasame:
Dunno! ask 'im. With singing monks.

Chimerasame:
I've heard a lot of good things about FFX--more than any other currently-out PS2 RPG. I have high hopes for Suikoden III, though!

Chimerasame:
Though I have an odd knack for coming up with surprising guest hosts out of nowhere, there are no others planned for the moment. People seem to be asking for Thor, though!