Ever wonder why so many people mail RPGamer and you about how bad video games are instead of going to the official sites and mailing to them what they think is horrible? I mean, if the actual gamers were mailing Square and saying, "In FFVII, this/that was horrible." don't you think they'ld actually listen? If big companies want to sell games, they have to do what the players want right? No game sells if a company does everything the way it wants to for its various reasons without doing anything the gamer would want.

Oh yeah, and that FuSoYa sprite was just wrong.

I just beat FF8 and I'm confused. I can't really ask anyone about it cause I'm the only person I know who beat it and the only person within this area code I think who even has it. The walkthroughs I've seen say something like "now sit back and enjoy the last movie" at the end. If I had to give the FF8 ending a rating on the weirdness scale from 1-10, I'd have to rate it as a conservative 12.8. So instead of being totally rude and blurting out "that dog yapping at Seifer in the demo is the last boss" or some other tripe, I'd like to ask you: What's the weirdest event that's ever occured in a console rpg? The way I see it, my lack of understanding stems from a) my limited comprehension of the storyline or b) the Japanese act as weird as possible to confuse and intrigue Americans long enough to purchase their video games.

If you can come up with something truly bizarre then maybe it's b. Otherwise I guess I'm playing it over when it gets to the states. Thanks....

ps - buy everquest. it's fun.

Being originally from Italy, I know that most of the commerce industry over in Europe, in this case: France, does not have too many "legal" or "moral" problems asking "China" for "imported games". Off course, we all know that China runs the biggest pirating industry in the known "universe" and it is quite "unlikely" that the import laws of the european countries would do much to stop illegal Chinese imports. Hence, stores all over Europe have Chinese burns of games like "ff8" and the like. (the only thing that is fishy with my theory, IMHO, is that they have the right packaging, or maybe they didn't?)

Just a quick point on the Dual Shock controller, I dunno if you've played it (it is an action game after all) but Metal Gear Solid, if used with a Dual Shock actully asks the player to place the controller on their arms a few times.

So maybe Sony has already had a few liable cases concering disgruntled Dual Shock users...

Just thought you'd like to know.

Well, I got this little story from a mostly reliable source, but even if it is totally apocryphal, it's still severely amusing.

Theoretically, a man was using his lawn mower for a (!) hedge trimmer, having lifted it up off the ground and proceeding to abuse his poor bushes with it, when he dropped the weighty thing and did some pretty messy things to his feet.

So, this Darwin-award candidate then decided to sue the manufacturer of the device for not putting a warning sticker on it saying, to some extent "this is not a hedge-trimmer".

Luckily, the particular judge on the case had a low stupidity-tolerance threshold, and told the guy "There is not enough room on a lawnmower to squeeze on enough warning labels to save an idiot from himself."

Perhaps the Sony attack-lawyers better look this judge up, rather than chopping down another few trees for their instruction booklets.