Okay, since I'm no good at introduction, I'll just steal the Japanese idea, and do a self-introduction!

Hi, I'm Curtis Harmon from the news team here at RPGamer. I am a freshman at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, majoring in Computer Science. I've actually only been playing RPGs for about two and a half years now, due to the tragic fact that my parents absolutely refused to let me have a gaming system in the house until I just brought one home without asking. ^_^

My favorite Console RPG is Final Fantasy 4j (hardtype of course!) and my favorite PC RPG is Rogue. My favorite game soundtrack is the Soukaigi OST, composed by Hiroki Kikuta, which is often overlooked because no one has ever heard of it. I like tomatoes and thoroughly dislike onions. I watch a lot of anime and listen to a lot of J-Pop, making me inundated with Japanese culture (which my roommate hates me for). As for sodas, Pepsi is the best, down with Coke.

Anyway, surprisingly enough I got no complaints about the sudden juggling of Q&A people so much, which made me quite ecstatic. I don't really have much else to say to start this off, so I think I'll just cut to the letters, a surprising amount of which were printable!

Jasconius:
It is OBVIOUS that you need some work on your rhyming ability there, so I made a list of words that rhyme with hey just for you. May, grey, lay, stray, neigh, stay, ray, slay, pay, a, play, moray, hay, bray, say, and of course Koreigh! Oh wait, that's pronounced ko-REE. My bad. All this messed up pronunciation is why we should all speak Japanese anyway!

miyu:
Well my secondary man, first off, J-Pop is a very expensive thing to get into, because all full Japanese CDs cost 3,059 yen, or about $29, plus you have to pay for shipping. So if you can find a friend with some J-Pop music first, that's the best way to go. If not, some of my definite favorites are Two-Mix, Yuko Sasaki, Ayumi Hamasaki, Yukie Nakama, and SES. SES is really a Korean pop group, but they released a great Japanese album too.

miyu:
Gee, I haven't played it or anything yet, but Famitsu gave it a 20-something out of 40, so I'm not particularly anxious to play it.

miyu:
Hmm, I'm afraid to admit it, but I don't have a Gameboy. I have heard, however, that Biomotor Unitron for the Neo Geo Pocket Color is actually quite a fun game, with a good translation. And since the NGPC is just cooler than the Gameboy, I'm going to give that as my official recommendation!

Jascii:
Grandia, huh? Well, not basing my opinion at all on our wonderful review, I can't decide whether I like Grandia or Final Fantasy 8 better. I'm leaning towards Grandia right now because I absolutely *love* its battle system. It flows really smoothly, and it doesn't get boring at all.

I really like some aspects of Thousand Arms, but dislike others. The dating scenes are just fun, the story has been neat so far, and the songs by Ayumi Hamasaki are great! (kudos to Atlus for keeping the original Japanese songs) However, I detest the battle system because it is so boring and tedious in random battles. New isn't always good, and this battle system proves that. Overall I'd probably give TA a 7, although I'm only 11 hours into the game.

Did I mention that I hate TA's battle system?

miyuski:
Well, you your "friend" must have missed the hidden save points, because I distinctly remember there being at least one save point in that dungeon. Make sure you have Siren's Move-Find equipped on someone, and you'll have find many more save points. :)

As for dying while supposedly pausing the game, I'd suspect someone of either purposefully or accidentally unpausing the game and running until you got in a random battle. If you have a sibling, I think we all know who the logical suspect is....

Lettuce no Miko:
Hahaha. No. Oh wait, that was the answer to the poll. As for your question, I'm not thrilled about M$ being so big as it is, so I would have to say that I wouldn't buy the X-Box, if it even exists. I put very little faith in rumors, so I still don't believe it will ever become unrumorified.

The Island Fish:
I'm tempted to say "HELL YEAH!", but reason tells me that the best part of FFT was building up your customized party by winning battles and playing through the game. I think just putting parties together and battling online would be pretty lame. The best thing I can envision is a game where there are two or three players in a war like in FFT, but all playing on different sides. The battles could be set up so that everyone has the same basic oppurtunities to build up their parties. They could battle each other pretty often, and part of it could be against the computer.

Actually, now that I think about it, if done right, FFT Online could be the most kick-ass game ever. I just don't trust Square to get something like that right on their first try. ^_^

mizu, the prophet of water:
Well, I've only seen as much as you, but I really have to agree. If this is the type of game we can expect, I don't foresee Sony getting any more of my money anytime soon. On the other hand, it *is* only a demo, so I'll reserve judgement until I see some actual gameplay. :)