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In the PSX:
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SaGa Frontier 2
I have tasted the spice!
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In the Genesis:
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Shining Force
Kris is NOT an elf.
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In the Gameboy:
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My cousin's copy of Pokemon
DIE!
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In the SNES:
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Civilization
Bye
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In the SMS:
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Phantasy Star
Always.
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In the NES:
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Nothing
Poor little thing.
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In the Saturn:
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Nothing
No games yet
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In the N64:
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Goldeneye
Double RCs?
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In the Dreamcast:
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Soul Calibur
This victory strengthens the soul of... Mr. Bill!
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Googleshng - March 9 '00- 1:30 Eastern Standard Time
SaGa Frontier 2 is a very cool game. If anyone out there is avoiding
it because they hated the last one, your fears are unfounded, from what I've heard there's basically
nothing in common. Everything about it has been growing on me, the plot is just flat out cool
(one of the main characters gets to take over the world!), and it has a TRPG as a subgame! Anyway,
today's a guest host day, so here's the new meat's intro.
Greetings. I'm Andrew Bilyk, aka "Aegis," one of RPGamer's recent additions to the news staff.
I've been here since, well, last Friday, and I've enjoyed it ever since! I've got a bunch of news
stories up already, so have a look, if you haven't already. About me personally, I'm a freshman at
Southwest Missouri State University, where I'm majoring in computer science (yay computer
science!) and minoring in math and physics (curses to both!). In my spare time (of which I have
very little), I play video games, help run my dorm's hall council, bike, and program (among other
random things). If you'd check out a "game" I programmed, you can read about and download it
here. I've been playing RPGs since
Phantasy Star, and I'm one of those jaded "old-school" gamers. Enough about me, though. On to
the questions!
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Hey hey hey!
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hey Google and Andy, how many towns can you remember that have random
encounters, and what games are they from? I can only remember Zozo in
ff6, so i was wondering if you knew of any other towns where i can kick
some boo-tay
-The Pansy of Doom
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Aegis:
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest is one game... every town has monsters at
night (Then again, there may only be one town. I forget)... but off the top
of my head, I can't think of any others.
Googleshng:
There's more than one town in Castlevania 2, yes. Anyway, I'm
trying to think of an RPG that DOESN'T have one town with monsters in it, and I'm having
quite a hard time of it. There always seems to be that one destroyed town or slum full
of monsters you have to pop into at one point, be it to find a special item, retrieve
a missing character, or pick up a little robot to pilot your spaceship. The only exceptions
in fact I can think of are MAYBE the first 4 FFs, but FF4 gets out on technicallity with
the land of summoned monsters, and I don't recall/haven't played the rest to enough of
a degree to be sure about them. Oh wait, FF4 has that scene where you're defending that
castle with Yang, nevermind it then. 8)
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More crystal stuff
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Hi there Google and Drew (do you mind if I call you Drew?)
Erm, question... or several questions... whatever.
Andrew: Sure, you can call me Drew!
1. When's Chrono Cross coming to North America? Everytime I think about
it, I have to change my pants.
Andrew: We have Chrono Cross listed for release sometime this August... hopefully it
won't be pushed back!
2. Have either of you ever tried aerosol cheese? If so, is it any good?
Y'know, like on sandwiches and bananas and such.
Andrew: I have tried it (and in layman's terms, it's just Easy Cheese), and it's
fantastic on triscuits and other cracker-type baked goods. I haven't tried
it on sandwiches or bananas, though....
3. In FFTactics when does Beowulf start to get good? He's like an oracle
with a sword. Yay.
Andrew: I regret to say that I've not yet played FFT, so I can't help with this one.
It is on my long list of games to play, however.
4. Why don't we all drop this pronounciation thingie? Let's just say the
words like we think they should be said. I say (ah-j-ree-as) Agrias,
does that mean I worship the devil or something?
Andrew: I don't know why we don't drop the subject. I personally think you should
pronounce it the way you wanna pronounce it. Then again, I always correct
my roommate when he pronounces RPG names "incorrectly," so go figure!
Thanks for puttin' up with me!
~Rand
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Googleshng:
Who says Beowulf doesn't suck later? I personally never used
him as anything more than a means of getting other special characters, like Reis! The
fearsome firebreathing, well, human! As for the whole pronounciation thing, well, it
all started with me getting constant letters saying How do you pronounce this? and this?
and this? and this? So I asked if anyone felt like making wavs of all these things that
more or less coincided with how I pronounced them, and some people disagree.
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Ledu Dulagon
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Hey Google and Andrew
I was playing one of my Sailor Moon games (very fun), and I noticed
that for Japanese games, there's an awful lot of English in them. They
say their attacks in English, you walk around town, and it says "Game
Center" and "O.S.A.P. Store" in English. There's even a border that
says "Sailor Moon" on it. I'm just curious as to why there is so much
English in Japanese games.
Joey
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Andrew:
The Japanese realize that English is in fact superior to their own language,
being more legible, so they use it for all the important parts of their
games. No, actually, I'm not quite sure at all... but the legibility part
may actually be a factor. Goog?
Googleshng:
You know, English is actually the most contradictory, non-sensical,
and just plain weird language there is. Just conjugate to be! first of all, you need that
to in there for the unconjugated form, then it goes I am, he/she/it is, we/they are, we
don't even have a plural 2nd person! Now I'll do the same in Japanese, ready? Desu. That's
it. Just desu. All the time. ANYWAY... for some reason, the english language is considered
to be cool in Japan, so they stick english words all over the place. Actually, I've seen
a lot of stuff where if they want to have a weird foreign language written on a monument
or something in something from Japan, they use English. As for why english is considered
to be so cool, I can't explain it, just call it one of those weird inexplicable cultural
differences. Takahashi-san wa sugoi desu.
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Anime!
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Before the question(s), I would like to make an announcement:
Princess Mononoke will hit American shores on tape on June 13, 2000, pending
no tardy stuff (Oh, right... you don't know anything about that! Disney's got
the copyrights, I believe...)
Above and beyond that, I would like to ask that everyone see Titan AE when it
is widely released sometime in June (14 would be my guess, the
webpage{www.afterearth.com} has a counter that is currently at 100, yesterday
it was 101, and Princess Mononoke will be here in 97 days as of March 8).
Okay, sorry for those two shameless plugs, but I'm way too overjoyed at the
fact that Mononoke will be released soon(relatively soon... I wasn't
expecting it for another year or so...)!
Googleshng: I agree you should see those. Titan AE is actually not anime, but it's the
closest thing this country has ever done (and put in theaters) so it deserves watching.
Hi-oh, Andrew. What's your position on RPGamer? How do you say RPGamer?
(sudden flash to a scene in Slayers TMP "The Motion Picture"; And what's your
rank?
Andrew: Right now, I'm just one of Stom's news monkeys (I write stories).
I used to say "Arr-Pee-Gee-Gamer," just because I think it sounds better
that way, but now I pronounce it correctly, "Arr-Pee-Gamer," because I'm a
staffer and I might be fired otherwise!
Googleshng: That's right!
Andrew: I don't quite know what my rank is, but I know it's pretty low right now.
Hopefully I'll move up the ranks soon!
My rank?... I'd say I'm the third strongest on this island. That's not
including our great master of course..)
Googleshng: Summon Jellyfish!
What are your favorite games Andrew? Getting anything soon (or planning
to)?
Andrew: Since you said games, I'll list a few of all my faves: FF2(4j), FF3(6j),
Chrono Trigger, Zelda: Link to the Past, Secret of Mana, Super Metroid,
Super Mario 64, Goldeneye 64, Sonic Adventure.... that's as many as I'll
list. : )
Just tonight I picked up Chu Chu Rocket, and I hope to buy Resident Evil:
Code Veronica when it comes out.
Googleshng: That's out?!? NEED MONEY.
What, in your words, is your greatest achievement, videogame or otherwise?
What's your favorite system? What happens when two brilliantly dream as one?
Andrew: My favorite system is probably the SNES, but as for the systems that are
actually thriving now, I'm partial to the Dreamcast.
I can't actually answer your last question without being TOO explicit, so
I'll leave that one to the imagination.
Ellipsis Knight (thanks to Brad or Thor, can't remember which...)
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Googleshng:
Those last few aren't really fo me to answer.
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Too many newbies!
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Hihi Andrew... oh, and Google too. ^^
Just writing in to wish you luck with the newbie thing, and hopes that you don't end up screwing
stuff up as much as I have. Being a newbie is tough, isn't it? Well, yea, it is. For those who do not
know, I am a RPGamer newbie also... albeit in the New Media section. Oh, am I supposed to ask a
question? Um... What's your favorite RPG?
Susan, aka Silkenray
The New Media Wench
-Eric Reichel
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Andrew:
Thanks for the words of encouragement, Silky. : ) In regards to your question, my favorite RPG is
Final Fantasy 3 (6j) for the SNES. It was my first Final Fantasy (not including FF Mystic Quest,
which doesn't really count), and after putting nearly 200 hours into it, I have so many fond
memories of the game it's not even funny.
Googleshng:
RPGamer hired like 6 people in the span of half an hour. I still
haven't seen two of them do anything. Get to work you!
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Strange Visions
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Hi Google!
Maybe it's from my obsession with Xenogears, but the other day I was going
to a dentist appointment and when driving past a few streets, I started to
reshape the names. For instance, I noticed one street was called Gablar.
Is it just from the twenty-four hours straight I put on Xenogears recently,
or does that sound like Geblar? What about Eldride street? I thought it
sounded suspiciously like Eldridge. And get this- the two of them cross,
right next to Emerald (Emeralda).
-Xenochick
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Andrew:
....and what am I, chopped liver? Yeah, I would definitely say you're
obsessed... either that, or you just have a phobia of dentists that makes
you see strange things. What do you think, Google?
Googleshng:
I think there's a marching band coming to kill me and your
apostrophies are turning into turnips. OH! About her. Hmm... she seems to see all sorts
of crazy Xenogears stuff.
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