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Zombie Elephant |
May 2, 2005 |
There's certain concepts that amuse me much more than they should. A zombie elephant is one of those
things. I suppose it'd be more threatening than a regular zombie, but I'd be willing to bet much less
threatening than a regular elephant.
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Letters |
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Ghibbles and Bits
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Hi Goog.
I was at this sci-fi convention we had here in Israel
and they showed Nausicaa. I never saw it, but the
moment I saw the birds I told my friends "wow,
chocobos", and noticed that the movie was released
about 4 years before FFI, which didn't even have
chocobos. Strange coincidence that you answer that
question only a week after I saw the movie.
I also saw some kind of compilation with about 12
Studio Ghibli movies from whatever was the first to
Spirited Away or Princess Mononoke (forget which). I
would've bought it but then I noticed that 200$ price
tag...
Question - a friend of mine (different than the one
from earlier) saw Cowboy Bebop recently and loved it
(big surprise). He wanted me to reccomend some other
anime that's also very good. I obviously told him to
see Evangelion, because that's a must. But the truth
is, I don't watch that much anime. What would you
suggest that's funny and not 1000 episodes-long?
Another question (well, remark) - I'm played Shadow
Hearts and I was infinitely surprised to read on your
website that Mitsuda worked on the music for it. He's
probably my favorite VG composer, what with CT, CC, XG
and Xenosaga Ep. 1, all of which have absolutely
gorgeous music. Shadow Hearts has *some* nice tracks,
but mostly they're crap (the battle theme in the Asia
part, for example). I wonder what happened there...
Zohar Gilboa
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Googleshng:
Really? You don't like that track? I thought it was a rather nice and mellow take on the sort of musical
weirdness these games are known for.
Anyway though, funny anime that there isn't too much of. Let's see, in increasing order of size, we've
got Dragon Half, Those Who Hunt Elves, Excel Saga, and Slayers. That should cover you.
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Nippon Ichi Multiparter
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Great Googly Boogly or Anatomic Andrew,
Marl Kingdom? Apparently that's the name of
the Tactical RPG series Nippon Ichi has become so
famous for. Questions:
1. Where did that name come from? Admittedly I own
1/2 of Ichi's US releases but haven't played either,
but I'd never heard of Marl Kingdom till it suddenly
showed up. Where did the name come from?
2. Aside from the ambiguous "Angel's Present" which
has .05 mg of information that's four and a half years
old, the only games that are in that section are
Rhapsody and Disgaea. I was under the impression that
none of Ichi's games were connected plot wise (aside
from <Spoiler> getting some of Disgaea's characters in
La Pucelle </Spoiler>). So what's going on?
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Googleshng:
There's a tenuous connection between all their games. Mainly, they have a habit of putting characters
from their last game into their next game. The term Marl Kingdom comes from their PSX games, which for
the most part didn't make it over here, and I believe had stronger connections than these ones.
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3. Is it Phantom Kingdom, Makai Kingdom, or something
else entirely? It keeps switching...
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Googleshng:
Phantom in Japan, Makai in the U.S. I don't get it either.
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4. Completely unrelated. Why does the Asheron's Call
section only have Asheron's Call 2? I played the
first one. Very cool.
The Pezman
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Googleshng:
There's actually quite a few older games suffering from that problem. Ultima's really bad.
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Tilde and Thensome
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LetŐs see, main page quote comes from Wild ARMs 2, yes/no? ARMs (if it does, the last s should be capitalized) being Agile Remote Mission Squad?
-Jeremy, the Duke of Otterland
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Googleshng:
Yes indeed. Here's your tilde: ~ and here's an ampersand for catching such a nitpicky typo: &. ARMs
stands for Ancient Relic Machines (read: Guns). WA2 for some nutty reason decided to also make ARMS stand
for something. It's almost as confusing as the hideously botched translation.
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Gimme my tinfoil hat!
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Hi,
I remember reading something about Sony patenting the process of beaming games into your brain somewhere on RPGamer. But I can't find the exact article.... any ideas?
- John
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Googleshng:
Here it is. You really shouldn't
read too much into that though.
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Shame.
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Dear Answer Man:
Just writing to point out that "Nausicaä" has the dieresis over the second "a," not the first, as Googleshng errantly typed it yesterday. Yes, this bothers me, before you ask. The New Yorker did it all throughout its interview with Miyazaki a few months ago and earned my undying disdain.
I love you guys, though, so just a slap on the wrist.
Nistelle
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Googleshng:
Yes. Shame on me. In my defense though, it's hard for a spellchecker to catch that sort of typo.
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Quickies |
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wild arms 2 wild arms 2 gimmie a tilde!!!!!!! ok.... i love ham... lOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Google:OK, but calm down you. ~
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The Last Laugh:
These are ending today if anyone
cares. I'm hoping someone does... anything that sells for 50 cents actually ends up costing me something
like $2.
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Googleshng "Dumbo of the Dead" @rpgamer.com
It's not like you have to worry about being bit...
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