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Googleshng - January 26 '99- 1:30 Eastern Standard Time
People have been asking me for jobs all day.
Jobs at RPGamer, jobs on my game, one person just really needs money and doesn't
care where it's from. I guess I brought that upon myself with my jubilent rabblings.
Anyway, I think the 2 job opennings are just about full here at RPGamer, and
as for my game, well, I have all the staff I need. What I think I will do though
either when I totally finish this game or maybe even as soon as I get back
from the little vaction I've been on this month, is set up a little
quasi-publisher/meeting grounds sort of thing so all the people begging me
for jobs can get together and actually get things rolling. Don't bug me about
it now though, I'd rather get real questions.
Oh, and tomorrow Xenochick is guest hosting. In addition to the obvious stuff
like Xenogears, the FFs, Grandia, she also knows stuff about Jade Coccoon,
so all 2 of you who have questions about it can finally get them answered.
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Paws
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if Paws is on staff, does this mean that her email address is
'paws@rpgamer.com'? **Ahem**, uh, theoretically speaking?
Look at that Rhapsody story on index there.
What Rhapsody story on index where?
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Googleshng:
It was the top story as of my writing the
column... anyway, yeah, Paws is at paws@rpgamer.com
now so you can just ask/correct pronounciations dirrectly.
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The subject line on this letter was priceless
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Since you've gotten so many lately, here is my haiku to you, Great
Googleshng...
I love you Google
I know your age and gender
So marry me please!
*bows* Thank you.
-Lord Xyyn Dragon-
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Googleshng:
Ladies and gentlemen, my stalker. Why did
I print this you ask? Because uh... darn it, I knew I had some profound
and deep reason... I'm sure I'll remember 5 minutes after posting the
column and forget the whole issue by tomorrow. 8)
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Plot
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Dear Kindly Goog~
[This message is important. "Print" it, let the people hear me out, and I
promise a really dizzope pic of yourself in the next week. You won't be
disappointed.]
Googleshng: Bribing, threatening and begging really don't help
getyour letters printed, but this reminds me that I am now owed 2 people's
transformers collections and a pic from this person... I need to set up a PO
box. >8)
This weekend I wrote to Brad and was published on the topic of why every RPG
seems to have a sorceress Ultimecia plot that comes up at the end of the
game-- a save the universe plot that make the RPG truly grande in scope, but
distorts the feel, tone, and weakens the game in general (or so I believe).
Brad recommended pen and paper RPGs, but I don't agree.
Regardless, I thought today of why Squaresoft and some other companies don't
make sequels-- the issue comes up from time to time on RPGamer.
Then I made the connection that I should have made before:
There are no sequels because they CAN'T make one. Once you've saved the
universe, anything else is anticlimactic, and no one's going to believe that
the universe was in peril twice in any given amount of time.
So there you have it-- the problem is bigger than just annoying Sorceress
Ultimecias and Zeromuses coming up randomly in the last 5% of the game. It
also means that Square and other companies who follow suit will have to
continue to reinvent worlds with every release until this problem is stopped.
Don't get me wrong, a huge, sweeping plot is grande and amazing, but it gets
old when overdone, and gets old more quickly when it's done poorly (which is
most often the case).
Let us all reach out our hearts to the RPGmakers, urging them to make more
plots like FFT and Suikoden, which know their realm and stay in it. Come on,
Square, we love you! But we don't NEED to have the ability to fly all the
way around your dwarfed and doomed FF worlds in an airship! Just for one
game, keep us in a continent or some geographical region, and keep the plot
in there as well. Then we'll be able to enjoy the characters that you took
the time and effort to develop (instead of relying on cliches and crutches
such as saving humanity) in another game!
Oh, how rewarding would that be.
Join me, RPGamers, whether or not you argue with Brad about dating-- reach
out our hearts to those who make these games and make yourself heard!
Peace be upon your household and your generation.
===Ninja of Wind===
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Googleshng:
Good point. Honestly, how many 'Save the
generic fantasy world from the big evil force' plotlines do we need?
For the record, between my current game and my 2 back burner games
I've got 2 take over the worlds and a plot that leaves the world
at large alone. 8)
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Chrono!=Crono
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Dear Dark Lord of All things Googly and ten trillion small bidpedial
creatures,
Chrono Cross.. Why call it Chrono Cross if Crono isnt in it??? Yeah name
the game after him, then Don't include him! That's like holding a party
in someone's honor and not inviting them!! Pokemon, oh yeah i said i was
going to mention them.. I like them alot... on toast.
from,
Bob the "other guy"
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Googleshng:
The answer is simple. Chrono Trigger isn't
named after Chrono. It's named after the "time egg" which, well, lets
you mess with time! Crono just winds up with a name derived from the
same source because most CT characters have little psuedo-hidden
meanings in their names (Zeal, Magus, Prometheus, Janus, heck Ayla!).
As for why Chrono Cross is called what it is, it could be that you
CROSS between alternate TIME lines, or heck, maybe there's actually
a huge cross in the game that has to do with time, I haven't imported
it so for all I know there is! 8)
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How many times must I say this?
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Google:
How the hell do you say "RPGamer" anyways? I vary between "Are-Pee-Gamer"
and "Are-Pee-Gee-Gamer" and occasionally "Are-Pee-Gee-Amer" but i'm really
not very satisfied with any of these. What's the official pronunciation?
Thanks
MarkDash
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Googleshng:
Arr Pee Gamer is the correct way. I mean,
the G in RPG stands for Game in the first place, so having an extra
would just be redundant. 8)
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Some old jokes just can't be funny...
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Q:How did the SeeD cross the road?
A:It flew the Ragnorak
That ain't funny to you?
How about this for the more sick and humorous readers:
Q:How many Elements does it take to change a lightbulb?
A:All four. Dominia to break it, Kelvena to change it, and Seraphita and
Tolone to make out in their lesbian loveworld while critisizing Kelvena on
how they would've done it.
-Xenochick
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Googleshng:
Don't make me start quoting jokes from Raja
in PS4! I'll do it!
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