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In the PSX:
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SaGa Frontier 2
Very odd game.
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In the Genesis:
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Shining Force
Too many knights!
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In the Gameboy:
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My cousin's copy of Pokemon
DIE!
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In the SNES:
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Civilization
Get out.
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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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Nothing
Poor little thing.
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In the Saturn:
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Nothing
No games yet
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In the N64:
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Goldeneye
Head hits only.
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In the Dreamcast:
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Soul Calibur
This victory strengthens the soul of... Gustave!
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Googleshng - March 8 '00- 1:30 Eastern Standard Time
Since SaGa Frontier 2 DID arrive yesterday, I don't have
to go cause harm to any postal employees after all. Oh well. Oh, and in response to the one
person who was wondering how I can order so much stuff through the mail when I'm broke, first
of all, "so much stuff" consists of 2 games and a movie, and second of all, I didn't order them,
they're christmas presents. See why I hate the mail now?
Anyway, this week's guest host is Andrew Bilyk, one of the many newbies in RPGamer's news division.
He kinda slipped off before I asked him what obscure games he knew about, so I guess you can just
consentrate on questions about working here that the old staff is too jaded to be able to answer,
or just ask a bunch of (spoiler free) SaGa Frontier 2 stuff.
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Hey hey hey!
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what ever happened to that big old cuddly fat chocobo? He hasn't been
in a final fantasy game since FF4. He was cool, you'd give him a carrot
and he'd hold your stuff for you. I miss him. *sniff sniff*. And yes,
i know he was busy with chocobo racing, but couldn't he at least make a
cameo in any other games?
-The Pansy of Doom
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Googleshng:
Well, the obvious reason there is that since 4 your inventory
size hasn't exactly been limiting, but if you recall, in FF7, sometimes when you summon
Choco/Mog, instead it just has a fat chocobo fall from the sky.
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More crystal stuff
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Actually, in reference to that question about the water crystal shard behind the border, there IS a way to get it.
Much later in the game, after the tower is sunk, you can go back(it's timed since you're underwater). The shard is
the Mimic job.
-Divine Id
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Googleshng:
An awful lot of people sent me this sort of thing, most also
saying how to beat the boss guarding it, but I try to avoid printing unnessessary
spoilers.
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I love Mad Libs
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Hi Googleshng,
The thought for this just popped into my head earlier. Just think up a word
for each number, then plug them into the text at the bottom. Its funnier if
you don't read the text first, of course. Hope you like (and will post)
this.
Bart
1. Noun
2. Noun
3. Noun
4. Proper noun
5. Noun
6. past-tense verb
7. Proper noun
8. -ing verb
9. Noun
10. Verb
11. Noun
12. Adjective
13. Noun
14. Noun
15. Adjective
16. Length of time
17. Noun
18. Verb
19. Adjective
20. Noun
21. Noun
22. Verb
23. Noun
24. Noun
25. Verb
26. Adverb
27. Verb
28. Length of time
29. Verb
30. Pronoun
IMPRESSARIO: The 1.___ and 2.___ are waging war...
Draco, the West's great 3.___, thinks of his love, 4.___.
Is she safe? Is she waiting?
Draco: Oh Maria!
Oh Maria!
Please, hear my 5.___!
How I long to be with you!
Narrator: The forces of the West 6.___,
and Maria's castle was taken.
Prince 7.___, of the East,
took her hand by force,
but she never stopped 8.___ for Draco...
Maria: Oh my 9.___, so far away now.
Will I ever 10.___ your smile?
Love goes away, like 11.___ into day.
It's just a 12.___ dream.
I'm the 13.___, you're the 14.___.
Our love is 15.___ than the sun.
For 16.___, for me there can be,
Only you, my chosen 17.___...
Must I 18.___ you? Our 19.___ promise?
Will 20.___ take the place of spring?
What shall I do? I'm lost without you.
Speak to me once more!
Draco: Come, Maria, follow my 21.___.
Maria: We must 22.___ now, my 23.___ goes on.
but my 24.___ won't give you up.
Ere I 25.___ away, let me hear you say.
I meant as much to you....
So 26.___, you 27.___ my heart.
I will be 28.___ yours.
Come what may, I won't 29.___ a day,
I'll wait for 30.___, always...
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Googleshng:
That was a pain in the neck to HTMLize, so I hope you enjoy it.
I'll have to mess with this thing later myself.
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Xenogears
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Hey Goooooogie,
I need help! OK, I bought Xenogears many millenia ago, but have yet to beat
it because oh one battle.
The Ft. Jasper/ Babel Tower fight near the end of Disc 1 is IMPOSSIBLE! Fei
and Elly at Babel Tower don't stand a chance while Bart and the Lil' Chica in
the Big Blue Mecha(heh, my nickname :-) kick ass at Ft. Jasper, I mean its
one extreme to the other. Fei and Elly barely survive the first fight, then
get punked on the second, because I run outta fuel and they just eat me up.
Help me out! I want to beat thisd game so bad, but this is making it hard!
Mephtik-X
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Googleshng:
You aren't the first person I know to get stuck there. Anyway,
first of all, unless you haven't ever upgraded Fei and Elly's gears or something, they
shouldn't suck. Elly's a tank when properly equipped, and even if you run out of fuel,
spells are fairly good on those two (if you use the right spell). Anyway, just try to
conserve fuel, if you have any deathblowers, give them to Fei, and you should be fine.
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Even more on Radical Dreamers
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Google:
You recently received a letter saying that Radical Dreamers and Chrono Cross are "the same"
and that Radical Dreamers is just a "Teaser" for Chrono Cross. This is absolutely untrue. Chrono
Cross is based on Radical Dreamers; nobody could dispute that--however, Radical Dreamers is
far from a teaser. It is a complete game unto itself, and in fact, the plot develops completely
differently than Chrono Cross. Despite the fact that many of the characters who appear in Chrono
Cross originally appeared in Radical Dreamers, they are two very different games, with two very
different plots. Alright, here's where the SMALL spoilers come in--although they are mostly
Radical Dreamers spoilers, not Chrono Cross spoilers. For your convenience, I'll go through the
normal spoiler procedure (please note that there are no major spoilers, but I'm just playing it safe):
In Radical Dreamers, the entire game takes place inside a fortress of Yamaneko's called the
"SnakeBone Palace". You do explore the same area in Chrono Cross, although the events that
occur therein have almost nothing to do with the events of Radical Dreamers. Contrary to what the
person who wrote into you before said, your part does not consist of Serge, Kidd and Glenn, but
of Serge, Kidd, and a mysterious mage named Gill who is later revealed to be none other than
Magus (or Maou) from Chrono Trigger, who incidentally does not appear in Chrono Cross.
Finally, and this is perhaps the biggest spoiler in my message, the person who wrote in claimed
that in Chrono Cross "Crono, Marle and Lucca are present". Although I have not beaten Chrono
Cross--I'm about 1/2 done--I know that this is not true, since in Radical Dreamers, it specifically
mentions that all of them were killed shortly after the events of Chrono Trigger (at least one of
them, i.e. Lucca, by Yamaneko, which was one of the reasons for going after him in the SnakeBone
Palace in the first place).
Anyway, I hope that this could clear up some of the confusion regarding Radical Dreamers. If you
have any questions about Radical Dreamers, feel free to contact me at eric@teamrpg.com. Thank
you for your time.
-Eric Reichel
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Googleshng:
OK, if you really want to read it, highlight that huge gap
there to see it.
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Fine, I'll print one
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Hey Google,
Actually, both pronunciations of Xenogears are correct. Xeno is the
French root for strange or alien (as in xenophobia), which according to
Oxford can be pronounced either zee (as Paws does on her sound clip) or
zeh, with the rest being identical.
Gary
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Googleshng:
I'm pretty darn sure that xeno isn't french originally, but
that's not important. Actually I'm surprised at how many dictionaries say both of those
are acceptable. Anyway, most of these letters are along these lines, so let's let it
drop here, shall we? The point is, the pronounciation here isn't wrong, so it doesn't
need to be changed, so I don't want to hear anything else on the subject. OK? 8)
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