Googleshng:
I don't know about Rhapsody, but Vanguard Bandits is full of Working Designs treats! There's the big shiny box, and the big shiny instructions, and the big long Lunar 2 demo. What's sick was the $80 and $100 price tags on Phantasy Star 1 and 4 when they came out.

Googleshng:
There were just as many bad RPGs back in "the good old days" as there are now (well, ratio wise), it's just that they weren't translated. Now, everything gets translated. So, you can chose for yourself whether to buy lousy games or not. If they suck, don't buy them. Anyway, the fact of the matter is, more great games come out nowadays, faster! Look at this year! Chrono Cross, FF9, Lunar 2, LoM, LoD, VB, just to name SOME of the games that did/will come out THIS YEAR. If you look back a few years, ONE RPG, maybe 2, would come out. The ratio of good games isn't what matters, it's the number. Now is better.

Googleshng:
Those relationships have a MAJOR impact on the end of the game. Basically, if you let people die like crazy, and do stupid things when you have choices, they'll like you less. Talking to them makes them like you more. So, chances are, you want to keep them happy.

Googleshng:
Yes, one of the choices in turn based, but from what I've heard, it's just a weird crippled version of real time so it sucks. As for changing mid-way, nope, you're stuck however you start. I really just don't like that game myself.
Oops, someone just told me that you can change it anytime from options. I stand corrected.

Googleshng:
You can be , or Kama, but you have to pick one! Anyway though, that does seem to be a growing trend. I don't have any feelings about it either way myself... so, I'm going to stop now.

Googleshng:
Well, if it's the old model, you more or less have to give it CPR. Blow out the dust, remove the game, put it back in, push it down, then back up, then down, and try it... agter about 20 reptitions the game should work for a good few hours. If it's the new model that actually works... I think Nintendo still offers to fix them actually.

Hey Goog,

As a big Phantasy Star fan, I know where the quote is from. "Can you spare a cup of cola?" is said by a bum in the town of Gothic, in the original PS for the Sega Master System.

- Andrew P. Bilyk, "Aegis"

Hey Googleshng,
Did you know that if you spell your name backwords it spells gnhselgoog? Isn't that weird and disturbing?
-Freezer

Hey Googleshng,
I heard Koudelka was a real stink bomb of a game. Have you played it? What do you think? The highest score I've seen for it was a 6.8. Lovely :\

-Glow

Why Sire, what a way with men you seem to have!

-Xeno(I'm not ashame to slap my name on senseless quickies!)chick

Can you ask paws to do the pronunciation of Gau from ff6 and Irvine Kenneas from ff8 i can prounounce Irvine but the last name is tricky.

Thank you,
Moogleshng

P.S, Im Moogleshng and moogles will rule the world soon.

;_;

Dear Google,
for those of us not very proficient in Japanese, what does "Yaoi/shounen ai" mean?

Matt

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