Googleshng:
The reason people aren't looking forward to FF11 is that, for a great deal of people, Massively Multiplayer Online RPGs simply aren't fun. It's impossible to have a plot, and there's a bunch of losers from AOL wandering about speaking L1K3 TH15, trading hentai links, and killing eachother. The best case scenerio you can get is finding some friends and character building with no real purpose. To make a game like this in the FF series, the whole point of which is great stories and customizing your party, is just an incredibly stupid premise. As for FF10's online support, you're a tad off. Originally it was officially stated that it was going to have some online report, then rumors cropped up about that not being true. Now those rumors have been officially confirmed, so we have a story. I think... I haven't actually read that story.

SoA talk time! First of all, the style of this game is just plain cool. Being a pirate with your own airship in a world where people live on floating hunks of rock with nothing but air below and around them is such a cool concept and I can't stress that enough. Next, there's the gameplay. Dungeons are Zelda-esque with some really interesting puzzles. Normal fights use a rather interesting system where everyone shares a pool of special points needed for casting spells and using special moves, adding a lot of strategy, and the learning of new spells and special moves is very customizable. On top of all that, once you have your own airship, you can customize it quite a bit, gather your own crew, build your own base island, and engage in highly strategic ship to ship combat. On top of all that, it's full of other amusing little things.

Now, as for these other things, I haven't seen Saber Marionette J, have seen R though, if I didn't think CC'd do a good job, I wouldn't have hired him, my page is at http://chrysm.dhs.org/~googleshng/ but the server is currently down, wah, and, the nicest thing you can do for me when sending a letter is stick <br> before every return.

Googleshng:
OK, let me clear up two misconceptions people seem to have about me right now. I do own FF9. I played it for like two hours to see what it's like. I am not however playing FF9 at this point in time. SoA is that fun. None of those anime series you mentioned are particularly good, especially after being filtered through US TV censors. I never had a problem with the monsters in that forest, or the dragon. Just get yourself a nice spear. Finally, FF9 is shorter, so you might as well finish it first.

Googleshng:
Don't even bother with LoD. It's a halfway decent game, but compared to anything like FF9 it's not even worth looking at. Anyway, the big one you forgot is Lunar 2. Past that, it's time to get a new console really.

Googleshng:
Well you just disqualified a good chunk by disallowing game soundtracks. Let's see, that leaves Weird Al, They Might Be Giants, random 80s techno, and J-Pop. I've never even heard of any of those you mentioned. 8) Shenmue DOES pick up the pace eventually yes, just stick with it. As for FF9, I'm only two hours in. Oh, and it's been scientifically proven that Sega has the worst marketting department in existance. Heck, they released Skies of Arcadia, their best RPG in years, ON THE SAME DAY as FF9.

Googleshng:
All 3. My favorite is still the No Pendant Ending. Also known as the REALLY bad ending.

Googleshng:
The title can e translated as No need for Tenchi!, or This End Up! I GUESS that explains the exclaimation point. Anyway, as for why there's so much of it... there just is. Several long series, a bunch of spin-offs, and too darn many movies. Generally everyone seems to think only the original OAV series and the movies are worth watching, and at that I'm still not impressed.

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