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Googleshng - February 14 '99- 1:30 Eastern Standard Time
Let's see, over this weekend, Charles Schultz, Jim Varney, some
other famous person, and my great grand uncle all died... and my great grand aunt almost died.
I'm not upset mind you, I didn't really know the dead relative in question, and the rest have
all stopped doing their respective things, so there's no unresolved issues floating around.
Although now the gender ratio in my family is 3 male to 13 female, 14 soon, my aunt's pregnant
with a girl... that also means my 20 year old cousin is the oldest living male in the family...
that's rather disturbing too. Oh, and there was a fire around here last night at like 2:30 AM...
Let's see... oh yeah, I put a new rant up, I
need money, and uh... oh yeah! This week's guest host isn't an RPGamer staffer, or even someone
who's submitted anything to the column! He just caught me off guard. Oh, he also does the music
for the game I'm working on. What the heck, I'm already being too honest, the guest host spot is
a bribe to get him back to work. 8) Don't worry, he knows plenty and I'll hook you up with some
background music for the occasion.
Oh, and quit picking on Brad. He had a good reason for missing an update this weekend... or a
good cover story, either way. 8)
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Tidbits first. I'm very very excited about SaGa Frontier
2. It's the first game I've ever pre-ordered. Of course,
I'm also one of those weirdos who loved the first game.
Next of all, why do people spell Wiegraf's name as
"Weigraf"? (You know, he's that guy from FFT?) I mean,
really.. It's not that hard. And "Wiegraf" sound so much
cooler than "Weigraf" (well, going by a Germanic
pronounciation) Of course, I suppose that's all
irrelevant, since it's a mistranslation of "Wiglaf", who
was one of those cool dudes from the epic Beowulf...
Also on the subject of names, I'd just like to note that
"Kain" (from Final Fantasy 2) means "spear." Also, "Cain"
(which many people froth at the mouth about, insisting it's
the correct translation -- I don't see why it matters,
personally) means "traitor." Both of which are quite
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On to the correction... Uh, I don't know what Brad was smoking
when he talked about keeping Nanami alive. She dies. No
matter what. However, if you get all 108 stars early
enough in the game that you can use "Forgiver Sign", and
when Nanami is shot, you select the option that says
"Nanami!!" in about half a second, Huan will call Shu into
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(where she does show up again in). That's all.
-- P. J. "Speed" Reed
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Googleshng:
When I started reading this, I was planning to reply with that
Wiegraf thing myself. Instead, I will just point out the Xenogears joke you can make.
"But... WHY Grahf?" Oh, and on that Suikoden 2 thing, the important thing is that you
do it FAST.
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Why aren't there any Dungeons & Dragons RPGs for playstation or N64 or
anything? I remember Pool of Radiance on Nintendo and Warriors of the
Eternal Sun on Genesis and those games were freakin' cool. I know they have
some on PC, but I want console action, yo.
Tom Bombadil
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Googleshng:
Well, it's a question of style. Console RPGs are generally
story driven with highly unique characters, and low random factors in combat. Meanwhile
PC RPGs have traditionally been more rooted to D&D with less story telling, character
classes, highly random combat, and people are happy. Unlike the movie industry, TSR, er,
WotC, er, Hasbro is it now? Anyway, D&D knows that it doesn't get along with consoles
too well.
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Hey googster
I have a few Questions. Firstly, Do you know if Final Fantasy XI will cost
money to play, besides the retail price of buying the game (monthly fee for
playing online). I know Ultima Online and Asherons Call etc. charge money
per month to play it besides the game price itself. I personally don't
think they should or will, they would loose so much sales for many reasons.
1. People aren't use to paying monthly if they own a playstation and that
will make them not want to buy any other square product because of the extra
fee they must pay. And i don't think its squaresofts style to do that. but
anyways:)
My other question is Is there some reason why squaresoft won't make any more
products for N64. They have never released a Squaresoft title for a nintendo
platform in over 5 or 6 years. Why is that?
Last Question, what happens to Rammza? I mean i don't understand how he
could have surived after he beat St. Ajora. How could they have buried
Rammza after he shows himself just after his own funeral.. Where dos he go
after that? I am confused help me:)
Thanks for posting this ( Well thats if you do:)
P.S. I have been trying to get these answered from RPGAMER for a long
time..about 1 year now..i need to know!!
-Lyle
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Googleshng:
It's extremely hard for me to answer your second question without
ticking off nearly all my readers or a friend of mine, so let's just say Square REALLY
got sick of cartridges. Although, while they were technically published by Sunsoft in the
US, all of Square's Gameboy games were released just a year or two ago, if that.
Nobody can tell you whether FF11 will have monthly fees, the game was JUST announced.
It's for a system we don't have yet and a while down the line. Just hold your horses. 8)
As for the ending of FFT, honestly they leave that a tad vague. Arguably you somehow get
out of that mess safely, or maybe you honestly all die in a parallel dimension leaving
no corpses and Olan just sees your ghosts. Either way, it's a given that that's just a
memorial service, not a funeral. You know, when you think about it, the death toll in
that game is HUGE!
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Okay, according to what I read here AND at The GIA, Lunar: Silver Star Story
had stopped being made on December 31. However, I bought the game on Tuesday
of last week from EBworld.com, and got it yesterday. Is it just me, or is
there something wrong with this?
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Googleshng:
Well, that's completely possible. Just because they stop
manufacturing the game doesn't mean it mysteriously vanishes from every store in
the world... just the ones with a lot of RPG players. Heck, I bought a brand new
copy of Phantasy Star a good 5 years or so after they stopped making it. It only
cost my $20 too!
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Hail, almighty genderless Gnishelgoog. How does it feel to be a
hermaphrodite?
I recently joined the ranks of those who want to be a part of the console
race but can't wait for Dolphin and see through the PSX2 (translation: bought
a Dreamcast) and I was wondering, besides Grandia II and Eternal Arcadia,
what upcoming Dreamcast RPGs would you deem worthy of my hard-earned dinero?
Any other genere reccomendations welcome, too.
Also, speaking of Dolphin; everyone and his mom seems to have a different
theory about what's really going on. Have Nintendo masterd the art of
secrecy, or is there no information out because there's no information? What
do you think? Will Nintendo blow us away at Christmas, or leave us cold
'till the year where we can all finally agree on what century we're in?
- BrainWalkr "I shun the fruminous bandersnatch" @wouldntyouliketo.know
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Googleshng:
Good games for the DC eh? Well, in addition to Grandia 2 and
Eternal Arcadia, there's also Phantasy Star Online (No monthly fees, no hordes of morons,
just a traditional RPG where you can have a few friends playing with you, sounds great).
Then of course there's Shen Mue, but if you haven't heard of that, you must be in a DEEP
cave, and I haven't really heard enough about it to make a recommendation concerning it.
Then there's a couple RPGs out all ready, Evolution and EGG, but I've heard they aren't
all that great. Still, for a new system, it has a lot going for it.
As for the Dolphin, a lot of people have asked me about that. While it might look on the
outside that Nintendo is desperately trying to rush it out this year with no software or
anything, I personally doubt it. Nintendo has always been very secretive and known for
taking as long as it takes to finish something up. Don't you remember the two year wait
for Zelda 64? The long silence waiting for the N64? The short period of time when Sega
dominated the video game market before the SNES appeared? Fine, they didn't dominate,
but you get the point. I'm sure Nintendo has enough up it's sleeve for a compitant system
launch when the time comes.
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Here they are!
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Yo Goog,
I never like to see fellow RPGamers down, so when I saw that nobody
could find a new copy of Final Fantasy Tactics, I felt I had to do
something. After searching for a while, I found a website that actually
sells new copies of the game. For those who can't find Xenogears either, it
is there too! The games are well-priced, but I didn't care to look at the
S&H, simply because I got these games when they came out. Well, I hope this
helps everyone out there.
And one more thing too. Since I've seen no one ask you this, I felt I
should. Which RPG series do you like better, Final Fantasy, or Dragon Quest?
-Kamikaze
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Googleshng:
I'd appreciate this letter a whole lot more if you'd given the
URL for that site, lemme guess, you planned to but you spaced out? 8) Anyway, send it
on over... especially if they have Brave Fencer Musashi, long story. As for your question,
I'm rather disturbed you felt the need to ask! Final Fantasy all the way! Also, you left
out the third major RPG franchise, Phantasy Star!
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