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Googleshng - January 11 '99- 1:30 Eastern Standard Time
The whole lousy spacebar and trackball combo
is really getting on my nerves here. Oh well, it's just for a month...
HEY! That's a long time! Oh well. This week I'm actually going to have
Sharkey guest host. It should be... interesting. On with the letters.
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There are fairies in all living things.
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Dear Googleshng,
In Final Fantasy 8, the characters sometimes mention "faeries" thru
out the game. I have no clue what they are. Is it like their god or something?
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Googleshng:
That's just what they call the voices in
their heads. My cousin calls his Brian. 8)
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Spoilers, Ho!
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Hey, Googleshng.
Forgive me, I've not gotten very far in Lunar SSSC, but is the Lunar world
supposed to be earth? I guess so, but normally when that is implied the
geography of the planet doesn't really look like Earth's. I was staring at
my little cloth map when I noticed it looked very similar. North America
looks a bit different but keeps the general shape. Africa is a bit lower
than it should be. And what's that attached to Africa at the bottom? South
America, turned sideways, looking a bit odd.
Europe lookes very much like Europe, even with Spain sticking out, although
the peninsula with Norway (can't think of the proper name) at the top seems
to be missing. As for Asia, it isn't REALLY like Asia, but it'll do.
Interesting.
Just thought I'd share with ya.
-Akele
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Googleshng:
A lot of games have vaguely earth like maps
but Lunar is not set on earth. It's set on the moon. Hence the name.
Heck, you can see the earth in the background durring the boat song.
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Tech Specs
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Dear Googleshng,
I was wondering what the specs are going to be for
the Dolphin project Nintendo has going. I mean, I've already looked up the P2,
it looks great (and I hope Square decides to stay with Sony), but it's hard to
find any info for the Dolphin because it's an iffy subject. Didn't I hear
somewhere that the Dolphin was going to have a DVD-ROM? Can you tell me which
machine is going to be better out of P2 and Dolphin? Thanks...
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Googleshng:
Well, technically, Nintendo isn't even
acknowledging the existance of their new system last I checked,
but from everything I've heard, yes, it's DVD.
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FF7?
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Go0gs'
I've been playing through FFVII recently and ran across a few things that I
always wondered at in playing it in the past. Some of these things may be
obvious to a <GRATUITOUS PRAISE> rpg god(ess) like yourself </GRATUITOUS
PRAISE> but I never really took the time to look into them.
Who was the first Cait Sith? (Reeve was my speculation on this)
How did Cloud recover from, excuse the term, his heavily mutated state of
down syndrome after the Shinra killed Zack and escaping the Mansion in
Nibelheim. He looked perma-broke to me. 'urk, grck, uuhhhnn' etc..
What the hell does Morph materia do? I've never really experimented with
it.
How did Hojo turn Vincent into whatever the he is? Never really caught on
to that one.
Anyway.. that's about it
=Lo "Who stole my hens?!" ki=
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Googleshng:
Yup. Reeve. As far as Cloud, well, "I got
bettah" says it all. Morph turns hurt monsters into items. Finally
for Vincent, well, he did a NUMBER of things. Why doesn't he use
that claw anyway?
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England... like Elfland, but with Engs?
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A moral type question for you Googleshng...
Since I live in England and publishers just assume that everyone here hates
RPGs, about five have been released on the playstation. Even Square games
sometimes don't make it here, Xenogears, parasite eve, Final fantasy
anthology...
I was going to import these from America, but the prices are stupidly
restrictive, something like the price of three games for one (and games are
more expensive in England anyway)... I was annoyed. Then I found somewhere
near where I live selling copy games for £5 each (about $8) and they had all
the RPGs that don't get released here. Then I found a 'password card'
that'll play any games on a playstaion for £7.
So, do you think I should get these copy games and enjoy them or never be
able to play some of the best games ever made...
Dan.
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Googleshng:
First of all, I'm surprised. I always figured
England got more RPGs than the US. Anyway, my ethical stance on bootlegging
is that it's very bad if for no other reason than the company not getting those
ever so important dollar votes which are the stuff sequels are made
of. On the other hand, I think everyone should play Xenogears. Quite the quandry.
I can say this though, if you decide to get an illegal copy of FF5,
don't bootleg FFA, find the translated ROM. It's a much better translation.
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Bye bye games
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hi! tell me something:
I was at software etc. the other day and the guy there told me they
weren't selling Bushido Blade or Bushido Blade 2 anymore, and that they
had also stopped making them. He also said they stopped making FF Anth,
but that's only been out for a few months... Is this stuff true or just
some kind of twisted Software Etc. marketing ploy? If it's true, it's
probably old news, but I'm really too lazy to go looking through all the
archives to find out... if it's true, what's Square thinking?
--kris
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Googleshng:
Yes, that's probably true. The actual
production of games is more of a big push to meet projections with
some extra time if there's not enough out there. Year old games are
always no longer in production. As for FFA, well, it's an AWFUL port
of older games, so there you go.
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