Kahgani:
GBC? hehe, thought you meant the GBA, had to delete the first line I wrote. Well, pick any Dragon Warrior game and you have got a winner. Dragon Warrior III I thought was wonderful, and the Dragon Warrior Monster games are fun if you want a diversion from Pokemania. Oh, wait, this was to Goog wasn't it? Ah well, I am not erasing it all again.

Googleshng:
You know, the hard thing to remember about Pokémon is that the actual game itself, and the sequel are nice solid games that last you a good while. Aside from that though, there's the two new Zelda games, and uh... some other stuff. I've been out of the handheld scene too long and I'm too broke to hop back in yet.

Kahgani:
Well, I can't find that much current info on it, just information quite a few months back. I am not much of Lunar fan so I don't really keep up on news of that game.

Googleshng:
Between our healthy relationship with Working Designs and overall enjoyment of the Lunar games, we'll post every scrap of info on Lunar 3 that pops up, as soon as they start flowing in.

Kahgani:
Pretty good, thanks for asking, hehe. Tough questions today though, *sniff*, Chim wasn't as hard on me. hehe, just kidding Goog.

Googleshng:
Fine, don't ask how I am! See if I... no, wait, that doesn't really bother me at all.

Kahgani:
Ahhh, the wonders of technology, have to love it don't ya? Who knows, in 10 years I will be playing PSone games on my PSX handheld, hehe. Interesting fact though, most would think with more advance games and technology, more would be put into games and thus would increase the size.

Googleshng:
I always found it odd that Phantasy Star 2 was only 1.5 times the size of the original, considering it was on the Genesis instead of the SMS, but not as surprising as the fact that the original has better graphics, music, and while the words are the same size, PS2 doesn't have as many of them. This just demonstrates though that the original Phantasy Star was insanely ambitious for a game on a system most people have never even heard of.

Kahgani:
No it doesn't make sense, but with ports from system to system there are bound to be bugs and slowdowns. Even if it's more advanced hardware, it's the same hardware that the game was originally made for. For example, take rubbing PSone games on the PS2. Some games won't even play because it's not the original hardware the game was made for.

Googleshng:
While sloppy porting is probably a major factor, the real problem is that you need a pretty fast processor to emulate another system, no matter how much RAM you have. This seems like a pretty ironic problem though when you consider that the PSX2 has an insanely fast processor, but not enough memory to put nice textures on the plethora of polys it cranks out.

Kahgani:
Well, there were many sites out there which had all the FMV's downloadable for viewing. But many went the way of the Dodo due to the cost of bandwidth. That's a great idea to get a dexdrive and download the data. One site I would recomment for the is www.gamefaqs.com. Have lots of dexdrive data to get.

Googleshng:
Am I to infer that you bought FFC and don't intend to actually play the games? Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose?

Kahgani:
I wouldn't know, hehe, that is one of the games I am wantingÊtoÊtrade for the guest host position.

Googleshng:
I believe so yes.

Kahgani:
I played the game for 30 minutes before I hit the power button. It was not that fun for me. But from what I read, you need to collect different "blades" and combine them into stronger ones. I recall the interface to the game pretty clear-cut, so you shouldn't have a problem with this.

Googleshng:
Nothing about Vagrant Story is clear cut, and you almost definately don't need to make any new weapons. To generally summarize though, whenever you attack with a weapon, it gets better against whatever you're fighting, and worse against something else. So generally speaking, if you just carry around 6 weapons, one for every type of monster, you will do a decent amount of damage most of the time.

Kahgani:
I have read that being around level 30 is high enough to defeat him. I have not played the game in forever so I don't know of any good hunting grounds. I remember fighting underground a lot, so I suggest trying there. I also read that having Tellah casting Weak will cause the dragon to die in one hit, but I have not tried this out for myself. But if that doesn't work, have Tellah heal while the rest of the group attacks.

Googleshng:
You can also reequip your metal stuff right before the boss, which I highly recommend.

Kahgani:
Not the the Torians, they just got your gold, hehe.

Googleshng:
You get to see a spiffy dance as I recall.

Kahgani:
I agree with the high school thing, I wish I did that same thing, as I don't talk to anyone from high school anymore. Well, RPGamer has been around for errr, a long time? I honestly don't know and I bet Goog has a better idea. Though I have visited the site even before it became RPGamer. I have no where near the knowledge that these fine people do, but I bet that is expressed in my answers, hehe. Conkers Bad Fur Day, *shivers*. I have read that there is some profanity, use of bodily fluids as weapons, and drunkenness. But it was such a turn around for Nintendo that it caused a big fanfare, since Nintendo tends to focus on games for the kiddies.

Googleshng:
RPGamer has been RPGamer for over 4 years now. Of course before that there was the odd proto-RPGamer that covered only Square games for a year or two. As for how Q&A hosts know stuff about every RPG, well, it varies from person to person. Some just make it look like they're answering questions by going on odd tangents, some ask around for answers, I for one just do nothing but play RPGs all day long so I can answer from experience. Then of course there's the fact that we have the luxury of getting so many letters we don't have to print anything we can't answer. Finally, as for CBFD, well, I knew going in that it was an action game with a really warped sense of humor, but to my delightful surprise it also has a good number of bizarre logic puzzles, which when combined with a few things that kill you instantly until you find a way past by trial and error, is a lot like what I wanted Shadowgate 64 to be.

Kahgani:
Now I see why I could never get the Q&A job here at RPGamer, I could never find the hard ones. I tried to find any info I could about this, but I know almost nothing on the Famicom, and what I did find didn't cover any of this. Just the wide varity of characters from different games and movies that came from different compainies is so broad, I am surprised each company agreed to a game with all of their stars in them. I am stumped, go figure.

Googleshng:
Funny thing. Someone was just telling me about this game a week ago. It's called Konami World, is a Mega Man style game not an RPG, and contains such varied characters as Simon Belmont, that loser from The Goonies, and a moai head!

Kahgani:
Well, my opinion on the Zelda's is this. The first was great, and it just goes down hill from there. The SNES version was wonderful, but the others are average. I bought the N64 for Zelda, and was very disapointed. I won't make that same mistake again, and from I can tell, I know I am making a good call on this. I don't think this will be a serious game, it seems cartoonish and geared for the kiddies. I might be wrong, but I will be taking a pass on it.

Googleshng:
Wow. A bit jaded there aren't you Kahgani? Anyway, there is a very strong misconception, particularly in this country, that realism, angsty drama, and gory violence are synonimous with good and fun, while humor, bright colors, and a cartoony look are signs that a game is geared at 5 year olds and has no depth or difficulty whatsoever. What's even worse is that this goes both ways. If someone of this mindset thinks back on a game they really love, they remember it as being very dark and serious, which more often than not isn't the case. Take for example, the SNES Zelda. Not only does Link get turned into a cute pink bunny at one point, but if you shove a guard off a cliff he looks down and wiggles his legs before falling. Oh, and if you want a list of games with cute cartoony graphics that are clearly not geared at little kids, why don't you take a look at Fantasy Zone, Skies of Arcadia, SaGa Frontier 2, and I might as well throw in Conker's Bad Fur Day here. Bright colors and cartoony styles don't make something wimpy, they just make you that much more likely to smile and laugh, which you should be doing if you're enjoying a game in the first place.

Kahgani:
Take Claude's all the way, I found it a lot more interesting. Though Rena's is fun, I just had a better time with his. The group I always stuck with was Claude, Rena, Celine and Ashton(twin-dragon dude). Good solid party with two fighters and two magicians that can heal and boost defense. Plus Celine's flirting and Ashton's dragon duo are just too funny to pass up.

Googleshng:
That's the same party I would used if I could actually find Ashton. In any case, you're much better off playing as Claude, because the plot doesn't change really depending who you pick. If you play as Claude, you actually have places to go and things to do, but if you play as Rena, you really just kinda follow him around with no clear purpose, and you're still the one to get kidnapped towards the beginning. Not intended for your first trip through the game I don't think.

Kahgani:
For once I have been good, I have only seen a few pics and one movie from FFX. So I know nothing about it, keeps the game a lot more exciting that way. I am still looking forward to it, looks gorgeous. Though the main character looks like Squall, that gets under my skin, but oh well. My thing with magic in a game is simple. Each list can be exactly the same, it's how it's implemented. Though my favorite system has to be Final Fantasy IV. You learn the skills at the required level, simple and direct.

Googleshng:
The reason I'm not looking forward to FF10 is very simple. I have played NINE Final Fantasy games. One a year for the last few. That's more than enough of the same sort of thing. There's also the fact that the developers seem to have lost sight of some of the things that made older games in the series fun, such as, for example, giving every character a solid personality and backstory. Then of course there's the fact that I like my games to have a certain level of challenge that's been absent from the FF games since about the 5th one. Oh, and as far as posting a major Skies of Arcadia spoiler, trust me, I didn't. I believe I recently mentioned two girls liking the main character, which can be deduced from looking at the box for half a second, and I mentioned a few old clichés that it turns on ear, which could mean anything from it doing them very well to it doing the complete opposite of them. Any spoilers you get from that would just be from your own imagination.