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Googleshng - January 5 '99- 1:30 Eastern Standard Time
Today I got a couple of really good letters that either agree
with me or give me a chance to go off on a fun tangent. Anyway, I'm looking forward to it.
Also, remember that discussion about double CD cases over the weekend? I've been meaning to show
you how I store mine. Here and here's
a closeup. All you have to do is get a cheap little flip rack, yank out half the dividers with
a pair of pliers, and you have a nice little CD flip rack that doubles fit in. No more looking
at the titles off the spines in a big stack! 8)
Well, let's get going, and remember, tomorrow Mike Tidwell, the big boss himself, is guest hosting, so
you can ask all kinds of questions about RPGamer in general and stuff. He also has a MAJOR obsession
with Pokémon so he'd probably be willing to talk about that too.
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How do you pronounce...?
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In the PSX:
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Grandia
I really should beat it.
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In the Genesis:
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Phantasy Star 2
Team Sonic good.
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In the Gameboy:
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My cousin's copy of Pokemon
May your feet itch!
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In the SNES:
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Civilization
Sid Meier rules.
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In the SMS:
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Phantasy Star
Always.
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In the NES:
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A Boy and His Blob
Apple=Jack
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In the Saturn:
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Albert Odyssey
It doesn't get chibier than this.
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In the N64:
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Nothing
Too busy gutting SC.
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In the Dreamcast:
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Sonic Adventure
Sonic Team not as good.
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Last one, promise
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I thought It weird you only posted one Grandia V Ff8 letter, showing only one
side of the arguement
so I wrote a little HTML of my own with my opinion.I dont think the games
should be compared but...
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Grandia |
Final Fantasy 8 |
| Story |
A Large world with Many different locations and things to do.Pleasant and
Casual plot. Whilst
not very original, is very refined, and executed extremely well. |
Very dramatic story which demands concentration taking you from the open
sea to the deeps of space.
Tries a lot, and mostly succeeds, but some parts seem to fall flat |
| Characters |
Very well developed, very likable anime style characters. Good Hero and
Heroine. Anime portraits
and voice acting as well as some very emootional scenes help
tremendously.Good villains aswell. Executed Perfectly |
Very interesting and original characters, albeight Hero sometimes can be
a little
too whiny to be likable. A villain nearly never seen, but Seifer is amusing
enough. |
| Gameplay |
Very fun and refined Battle system |
As with most FFs, this battle system is different to any other, and is
very well executed, yoou have absolute control
over what you want your characters to be. |
| Graphics |
Very Anime stylised. Sometimes muddy graphics and awkward camera, but has
a lot of artistic sense.
pop-in |
Beautiful life-like Fantasy/Sci-Fi setting never seen before, with FMV
sliced seamlessly into the
gameplay .However, sometimes this approach falls flat (the Ragnarok scene
would have been superior if in FMV) |
| Soundtrack |
Very pleasant music by Noriyuji Iwadare, using very different styles
(ranging from catchy Falcom-like/Anime style rock to pounding orchestral |
A soaring soundtrack by Nobuo Uematsu. Whilst sometimes dry, there are
twice the number good, spirited tracks. |
| Experiance |
A very pleasant, casual and enjoyable gaming experiance. GameArts know
what they're doing, and they do it well. And most
of all, it's fun. |
What can i say? The FF experiance, unique like no other. Demanding of
your attention throughout. |
I personally love both games, and since they're on completely different
approach and artistic plains all together, comparison
is really rather wasted and stupid. Whilst I like Grandia more, variety is
the spice of life, and I see no reason why either
has to be 'better'. Though with Grandia, I dont think I've ever seen a game
that pulls all the right strings at exactly the
right times.
ShadowX
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Googleshng:
This is the last letter I'm printing on the subject, and I
think it got the point across well enough to make everyone capable of such a thing
happy. 8) I also got some people saying Lunar was better than both and stuff, but
these people obviously haven't been paying attention to my comments on the whole issue.
8)
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Last time for THIS too.
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Hi Googl-my-god-what-a-name
WHO'S THAT LOKI? I want his mail. I played every FF, even the NES ones and
that crap of Mystic Quest,Grandia,Xenogears,Lunar, that THING called Legend
of Legaia (my god what a waste of money), and lots of other RPGs(these were
the most recent ones) My mother likes to kick me at 1:00 am when I'm still
playing, my sister hates me cause I play all the day and she is not able to
play her (ARGH) Tomb Raider while I'm home; my father loves me (cause he
loves RPG too^^) and I'm not bad (wow I'm soooo modest). Please please gimme
his mail! I need a boyfriend!
Happy new year Google!
PS: Are you a boy? If you are,let talk a little more later^^ Wanna my
photo?:P
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Googleshng:
makochan@ruralrj.com.br
meet =Loki= that's
the last time I act as a dating service. That's what the message boards are for... or
something.
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MORE Phantasy Star
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Yo,Googleshng,
Just a couple more questions. If Alys from PS 4 is really Alis from PS 1,
wouldn't that make her like 1000 years old? They explain how Lutz is
translated though the years via the spirit ball and all, but Alis just
living for all that time? I don't know man. Also, Alis's last name in the
PS1 is Landale yes? Why is her name Brangwin in PS 4? Thanx again,
Chris
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Googleshng:
O ho ho! I got a couple letters like this, so it's lecture
time! First of all, that's 2000 years, not 1000, well, slightly more really. Anyway,
if you were to play the whole Phantasy Star series, you will find a number of characters
who spent a thousand years or so in crogenic freeze (Noah/Lutz in PS2, Laia in 3) so
the technology is evidently there. Also, since at the end of the original Phantasy Star
she gets to marry the governor of Motavia (who at that point is the supreme ruler) I
think that pretty much indicates that she deserves to be frozen. That also covers the
last name thing (altough anyone who's read anything by Roger Zelazny will tell you that
changing your name when you live that long is a must). Anyway, there's so much evidence
that they're the same person that the only people who could convince me otherwise are
the makers of the game themselves, and I think they're too busy working on Eternal Arcadia
and PSO to tell ME anything. 8)
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Hey, look who it is!
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If it isn't too much to ask can you please put two things into the column
one of these days? :)
1. The link to the pronounciations again, since people don't memorize those
sort of things.
2. Can you ask people to send in pronounciations? You mentioned it before
but it didn't seem like an invitation for anyone to ask :)
Thanks, and it feels funny to be mentioned in a cool column like RPGamer!
Just kinda a funny feeling seeing your name up there, ya know?
-Paws =^^=
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Googleshng:
Ahem, I have a permanent link to them in my little side bar
there. 8) Anyway, if your ego is overinflated NOW, read this:
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Hey Googleshng,
Paws sounds hot. Not trying to hit on her, just speaking the truth. Anyway,
before I get distracted, I had an idea. Now that's a first, heh. The idea
was to have Paws guesthost. I know you've got a full guesthost schedule for
a while, but it would be great. Just have her answer all her questions in
audio. Sounds interesting, right? (No pun intended.)
-Nova
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Googleshng:
Actually, I got several things like this so I suppose Paws
goes onto the list of potential future guest hosts. Think I'll post it at the bottom.
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People sure seem to like people!
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It seems as though Xenochick is getting quite the following perhaps you
should just turn the column over to her. ;)
-Not Xenochick
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Googleshng:
I got a whole bunch of things like this. This was the best
looking one I could find when I went to post one. Anyway, for some reason every Q&A
host seems to have one person that they unconsiously keep printing letters from.
Remember Shiny Hat, or me for that matter? Anyway, since I'm playing around with it
already, I suppose I'll stick her on the guest host list too.
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Yes, we're for real.
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I've been visiting RPGamer for quite some time now, read many reviews
here, got all the lastest RPG news here and stuff. Well a friend gave
me the Thousand Arms demo and after you like watch the intro, for
instance, it has a list of quotes that game magazines such as GameFan
wrote. After watching the wonderfully done intro about 100 times, I
finally spotted that RPGamer was credited on there for saying, "Four
years in the making, Thousand Arms is an impressive RPG with a strong
anime atmosphere and presence." !!!!!!! I couldn't believe this when I
saw it, because I've always visited RPGamer and always thought of it
like an unofficial place to get RPG info, nothing as big as GameFan and
stuff. Of course, don't think Im insulting RPGamer, it's my favorite
place on the net to be, but I guess what I'm trying to ask is how
official are you guys? I mean I never thought you ranked that high up
with like GameFan and stuff! My friend says ya'll are the highest
ranked RPG site on the net, and I don't find that hard to believe, I
just thought you were a hand-ful of RPG obssessors like myself who
review and talk about games, unofficially. I dunno, maybe I'm a little
confused here...What made me think of this, is if ya'll are like so high
up in the RPG reviewing business, how come you don't get paid (I noticed
like on another Q&A that you or someone else said you don't really get
paid at all, just like a tiny amount every month or so).
Omega
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Googleshng:
Yup. RPGamer is officially part of the video game industry
press. Stuff quotes us, we occassionally interview people, Mike (who I remind you is
guest hosting tomorrow) appearently knows the head of Working Designs pretty darn well.
More importantly though, we get E3 tickets! Although I'm pretty sure that I'm not going
to get any of those tickets unless I assassinate someone in new media... ahem. As for
getting money, that's another story. I have yet to be paid a cent for working here, not
that I'm complaining. I heartell that at some point this year Mike is going to actually
start giving me money, but I'm not the one to ask about THAT. Did I mention Mike's
guest hosting tomorrow? 8)
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