Perspectives with JD | September 26, 1999

Welcome to my first, of what I hope will be one of many contemporary updates to this section.

On my tenure here at RPGamer Editorials, I digress -- Perspectives -- a number of things will be changing to cater to the ever evolving RPG Community. First and foremost a name change. I assume Why, will be the incredulous sentiment or question on my decision for such a name change.

Simply put the answer is this. As defined by a given dictionary, the word Editorial means An article in a publication expressing the opinion of its editors or publishers. Most are neither, and as far as true editorial opinion, well that simply has not been put to exercise by us editors, at least not yet. I'll further touch up on this at the closing. In any event, the basic premise of such a categorical term for this section seemed quite ludicrous, at least from my vantage point. Therefore I believe a name change would be better suited or at least more applicable. Perspectives -- it's got a nice ring to it, I think. At the very least, it will be the first of many steps on a changing path for this section.

Today's update is a grab bag of opinions, highlighted by the Old School vs New School debate, Final Fantasy 8 and the raging systems war debate. The latter of which isn't quite surprising, especially with the recent releases of the Dreamcast and Final Fantasy 8.