I find the "numbered question" letters to be the easiest to respond to. Therefore, this letter's questions shall be numbered! Numbered, I say!

1.) Shenmue. Skies of Arcadia. Grandia II. Any other reasons I should pick up a dreamcast?
2.) Last night, while we were playing AD&D (SPECIAL NOTE TO MY INSANE MOTHER: "AD&D" IS AN ABBREVIATION FOR A POPULAR ROLE PLAYING GAME. NOT MY GRADES! PLEASE REFRAIN FROM CALLING ME IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY IN A HYSTERICAL FIT.), you turned my character from a sexist, impressionable, twelve year old paladin, into a female version of said character with yellow hair. a) Are you insane? b) What did I do to deserve this? and c) No, really, are you insane?
3.) Does PSO support broadband? I want to get it, but I really don't like Massively Multiplyer Online RPGs.
4.) How the hell do you get past that level in Vanguard Bandits where your Guymelef's....I mean ATAC's are all spread out, and you're surrounded by Sharkings? When I kill a Sharking, a new one pops up! When I kill the boss, (the freaky German guy), nothing special happens. WHat can I do?!
5.) What book are you reading right now?
6.) Why the hell haven't you picked up the first Cowboy Bebop DVD? Future-Scifi-Deep Space-Gunslinging-Kung-Fu-Bounty Huntin-action r001z.
7.) How big is your PSO mag?
8.) Will you pay me? Or do I have to fight Black Chocobo in a bloody cagematch for a $5 bill.
9.) Come on. What gender are you? You won't tell us! Even worse, I think I'm attracted to you now! Do you know what this means? There's a 50% chance I'm gay now.
10.) Is that picture not the sexiest thing you've ever seen in your life? I have a new dream woman now.

There, ten beautiful questions for you. I went to a very small amount of trouble to compile these questions. Be happy.
-Cheshire Catalyst

Googleshng:
I pondered not posting the attached pic to imply CC liked Molly, but that'd just be mean. Anyway...
1) Other reasons to by a DC include sequels to those games, PSO, and the fact that the DC is the unquestioned champion of bringing every game over to the US no matter HOW weird and Japanese. A good chunk of that stuff is DARN fun.
2) As for the AD&D bit, A- I'm glad my mom doesn't read my columns, that'd just be weird, B- I'm just as surprised as you are, the original plan for that adventure is that you'd all get an item of incredible damaging power that only had 1 or 2 charges left, you just walked right into it though, and C- Considering that the main theme of the campaign is torturing and polymorphing PCs, consider yourself lucky. Much worse stuff will happen to everyone else.
3) Good one.
4) That's a NASTY fight. Here's my advice. First off, they aren't really infinate, only 4 or so new ones come in. Second, keep all your characters together, try to move towards a corner, and as soon as you're anywhere near one of the things, have everyone swarm it until it overheats and have one of the big guys nail it with an 80 AP move with low accuracy. I love that game.
5) Let me go check... Iceworld, by Hal Clement. It's about a race of aliens from an unbelievably hot planet coming to earth to buy cigarettes. It's also very hard Sci-Fi which is always a plus. Although Larry Niven AND Orson Scott Card both have new books out I haven't read yet. Wah.
6) Well, being totally broke and not having a DVD player seemed like good reasons at the time...
7) Level 120 or so, looks like 2 big robotic monster heads, which go good with my big monsterous robot.
8) Hmm... the latter sounds a lot more fun.
9) Creepy. By the way, in light of the fact that that's getting a tad old, I am now going to do something very drastic. I am dead serious about this. I will now roll this d6. If I get a 1 2 or 3, I will find someone with the money and sick sense of humor to back it and go get a complete sex change. I will of course not be disclosing what I roll. Whee! Back to square one!
10) Have all the dream women you want, as long as I'm not one of them.

Googleshng:
I tend to be pretty receptive to humor. I can even enjoy a PG slapstick comedy on some level if I first go through a weird mental preparation ritual. Still, there's a certain tone that falls between wonderfully sarcastic, and being angery but doing a bad job of expressing it. Both are funny though, so it's often a moot point. Here I'm guessing sarcasm. Anyway though, since it came up, I think I'll make just a friendly general reminder that on the average day, I get between one and two hundred letters just for this column. Obviously I can't post or answer the majority of those simply because there isn't enough time in the day, so you should never go and make the assumption I'm just flat out ignoring you.

Googleshng:
Hmm... I think you have Blade Runner and Total Recall mixed up a bit. That's easy enough to do though, since they're both "based on" books by Philip K. Dick, with just about nothing intact from the originals, including the titles even. Anyway though, Blade Runner has Harrison Ford in it, and, while I'll have to check this sometime, I wouldn't be totally surprised. Over the last few years Uematsu has been doing a lot of that sort of thing it seems. Oh, and according to MANY people, the movie in question here is actually The Running Man.

Googleshng:
OK, as I understand it, you only have a shot at the fingertip the first time you get to Treno, and have to get all the other auction items before it's possible. Wah. As for those others, like an AWFUL lot of things in the game, they don't do a thing... unless the tail is one of the items that makes the FF3 music thing work.

Googleshng:
Hmm... well, if liking Jean makes you a bad person, I'm SURROUNDED by bad people. As for the annecdote, well, that's interesting.

Googleshng:
I'll answer these in reverse order, since then the responses get longer, not shorter.
5) I'm going to cheat and say Kyau.
4) Hmm. Square is famous for reinventing the wheel with each new game, tossing out the core mechanics completely along with the setting and characters. Capcom on the other hand makes a few MINOR little improvements to any given game every 8 months or so, forcing us poor lost souls to basically by the same game ten times or so. I don't think they COULD colaborate. Oh, and Square publishing BoF in the US doesn't count.
3) Hmm... I myself don't tend to like fighting games, or anime based on fighting games.
2) People make a big deal out of FF10 because it has Final Fantasy in it's title.
1) OK, now for a nice long answer. I seem to recall hearing that Slayers games are all made by Banpresto, a Japanese game company that has made a truckload of anime-based games, and never translated a single one. Besides which, Slayers is pretty popular NOW, but when it was airing in Japan, that wasn't the case. On top of that, I'm told they aren't all that great. While Slayers DOES seem like the perfect thing to base an RPG off, it really isn't suited for a console game. Playing as Lina and having to worry about running out of MP, or having to aquire the most damaging spells in the game, or for that matter meeting with any real challenge from a boss, just simply isn't right. Now, a paper RPG based on Slayers, that'd just rule.

Just a little addition the the quickie regarding media files. Being a mac person your probably already know this, but....

QuickTime can play just about any damn file other than divX, asf, and realplayer files (maybe one or two others). I expect the divX thing to change with QT 5 coming out in a few months. --Here's to hoping.

-G.E.

i am a pretty letter.

Hey Goog-sama

That pic you sent to CC is from Project A-Ko,whcih is,while we're on the subject,one of the best all girls high school anime series I've ever seen. Glad you're better
The Masked Mystere
PS:Do I get a tilde for getting the pic right?

I know if you're a guy or a girl.   You're a...a...damn, I'm under that non-disclosure agreement aren't I? Grrr...
Güifá
"Name change...I added two dots :/ "

Hmmm...
I know it's still spam, but it is kinda special...

Silky

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