Googleshng:
I'm basically printing this to give myself an excuse for bashing PE2 a bit. Start with a blatant rip-off of a Resident Evil game, right down to a half-hearted attempt at putting in puzzles, and the plot. Anyway, then remove all vestiges of horror, except for one movie which is honestly just a tad nauseating, not scary at all, and the scene from RE2 where a licker drops through a sky light. Now, keeping your inventory at a painfully small size, limit the ammount that can be put in item boxes, put item boxes in extremely out of the way places, and don't link them, leading to having to waste half an hour every once in a while moving the contents from one to another. NOW punish people for running from fights, an give money and MP for beating fights, so there's no real attrition, put boxes of infinate handgun ammo all over the place, but make monsters take 200 or so hits before they go down, so you have to visit these ammo dumps after every fight, which boil down to standing still and shooting one monster for a while then switching to the next. Finally, cut back on the FMV segments a bit despite them being the game's selling point, and make bosses with painfully high HP and cheesy attack patterns, turning them into frustrating 15 minute ordeals rather than horrifying experiences. Now you have PE2. Oh, and did I mention how simple most monsters look?

Googleshng:
Uh, that's the only way you can play on the higher difficulty levels.

Googleshng:
You'll get plenty of godly junk on the way there.

Googleshng:
Barbarians can jump, which is amusing, and Sorcs are pretty fun, but I have a soft spot for necromancers.

Googleshng:
Phantasy Star, Xenogears, or FF6. That's as specific as you'll get from me.

Googleshng:
Phantasy Star, which was the first console RPG period.

Googleshng:
That can be taken in many ways. There's games I haven't won until a year after I got them since someone borrowed them, I still play the original PS... be more specific.

Googleshng:
Heck no. I think Square's being a bit too egotistical to rerelease games for the WSC. It's like they're testing the waters to see if they could sell their own console or something. Besides, I've already played all the FFs.

Googleshng:
Am I going to buy the DW1 and 2 rerelease? Simply put, NO SMURFING WAY! While Enix has made some pretty fun games, in my personal opinion, the first 2 DWs are not examples of this. The only appeal Dragon Warrior has, aside from possibly some weird zen deal with character building, is nostalgia. Like many people, I played Dragon Warrrior when it first came out, but unlike most people, I have no warm fuzzy memories of it, because before DW first came out, I had already played the original Phantasy Star, when IT first game out. PS is so superior to DW in every single way that it's disgusting. If I had the nostalgia thing going though, getting DW1+2 would be a great deal. As for PokŽmon, yes, you can trade from the old ones to the new ones, but not vice versa. I personally am getting Silver, just because I know one person getting gold.

Googleshng:
I believe some obscure monster occasionally drops broken spears, but I wasn't paying attention, due to the answer to your 4th question. To take out those slimy walls, you have to make ice crystals for the big icy rays on the ceiling to bounce off of, then shatter the frozen pillars. I didn't keep any artifacts, but it'd really be a question of personal taste. The most damage possible in the game comes from doing the following. Take your 3 best mages. Give them those magic power boosting accessories, and Ether Scepters. Then have them all learn Mystic Cross. There might be a better spell to use, but this is good enough. Now when you fight a boss, just use Valk's special first, followed by all your mages in ascending order of magic power. The last two bosses are the only things that can survive a round of this on normal, and they can't survive 2. The catch of course is that you have to bring the mages CT gauges down before you can hit'em with a 2nd volley, but later skills and Charge potions make that a non-issue. Finally, I kept Arngrim around the whole game just because he's spiffy, and Mystina just because she's so non-heroic. It kinda sucked sending up good ol' EXP doubling Lucy though.

Googleshng:
Well, it's always nice to reiterate this point. What I'm always saying is that the PSX2 won't have anything decent AT LAUNCH. There have been about 3 PSX2 games announced that seem interesting too me (and oddly none are RPGs), but none of them are going to be available AT LAUNCH. In other words, the day everyone recieves the PSX2s they've preordered, there won't be any really great games to play on them... well, old PSX games I suppose. Therefore waiting for hardware price drops and decent games is a better way to go if you ask me. As for your DC question, I'm drooling over So'A, and see ShenMue as an arcade classics collection with a really long intro. Not that that's a bad thing. 8)

Googleshng:
I don't recall ever seeing the original letter this person is grumbling about my not responding to, but anyway... while I never did that part myself, I'm told stealing from dragons will take you far. 8)

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