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Googleshng - November 24 '99- 1:30 Eastern Standard Time
I made a tiny little oversight and 50 people jumped down my
throat. While I'm glad you're all so vigillent, in the future, could you please make a little
division between correcting a hideous mistake of mine and asking a new question? That would be
perfect.
While I'm at it, I think I'll list some basic dos and don'ts for getting letters printed.
- DO: Keep questions down to modest paragraphs, around the length of most of what
I print. I have some most unfond memories of the editorialetter era you see.
- DON'T: Suck up for more than 1 paragraph tops. I appreciate the praise, but I don't
think readers want to sift through it.
- DO: Sneak in weird references to Weird Al, Transformers, TMBG, Pirates of Darkwater,
etc. It will earn you some extra respect points.
- DON'T: Send multiple letters. This one is a long time tradition for the column.
Multipart questions are fine, and heck, I like them, and resending something if you think
that there's an error is OK, but just bombarding me is in bad taste.
- DO: Send me really really amusing pictures. I plan to print them all, but I'm
spacing them out. I still have this funky Alf thing that I'm saving for a lull.
- DON'T: Send me gameplay questions. My general policy is to answer them personally
if I know the answer, but if you really need to know, RPGamer's walkthroughs will be a LOT more
helpful than I will.
OK, that should cover it. Anyway, here we go! WARNING: The first letter here has MAJOR
FF8 spoilers! If you haven't won, just scroll past!
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In the PSX:
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Grandia
I'm overpowered. 8(
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In the Genesis:
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Phantasy Star 2
Bye bye Nei
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In the Gameboy:
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My cousin's copy of Pokemon
The streets shall run red with blood!
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In the SNES:
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Pokemon
Here Magmar Magmar Magmar!
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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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Punch Out
Gathering dust.
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In the Saturn:
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Nothing
Money for the poor?
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In the N64:
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Super Mario 64
Blub! Blub! Blub!
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MAJOR MAJOR FF8 SPOILERS!
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I know you're going to get a flood of e-mail on this one, but I
figured since you just updated, you may stay up long enough to read this
one, which will hopefully be one of the first.
The evidence is rather overwhelming that Squall is indeed Laguna's
son. Aside from the comments stated yesterday by Temjirim, there are the
following clues.
Squalls blood tastes the same as Laguna's to the Moombas. This is
shown by the fact that all the Moombas in the Galbadia Desert Prison think
that he's Laguna, and after that, you can view a section in the Information
tutorial that states that Moombas recognize people by tasting their blood.
That would be heredity at work.
Second, it's stated in the game that Raine had a child after Laguna
left to go rescue Ellone from Esthar. It's also known that Raine died soon
after Laguna left (I believe it's said to be a year or so). So that child
would effectively be an orphan, with Laguna ending up staying to be the
president of Esthar.
Third, just think of the dramatics involved with the children of
two people who were cruelly torn apart by fate ending up falling in love.
Rinoa, being Julia Hartilly's daughter, and Squall, being Laguna's son, are
able to fulfill the relationship that Julia and Laguna were never able to
have. This goes perfectly with FF8's theme being "Love".
A weaker argument here is that all of the main party members' cards
are held by their parents, when such a parent exists in the game. The only
problem with that theory is it opens up the can of worms that is "Hey, what
about the fact that Cid has Seifer's card?" which I think is on incredibly
shaky ground, considering that is the only piece of evidence towards that
conclusion in the game (but I digress).
I'm not so sure about the figures you used to say that Squall would
have been 8 when Raine and Squall met. Could you elaborate any?
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Googleshng:
OK, simply put, I was pretty sure I read in FF8 that
all the stuff with Laguna Raine Adel and so on had happened 10 years ago. As it
turns out, it was actually 17 years ago, and that pretty much fits in with everything
else. I literally got about 50 of these, so I pretty much printed this at random.
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MORE Personal questions?
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A few questions my good ma...woma...mimic.
1.) Do you know of any upcoming rpg's that will feature multiple battle
engines(a la Xenogears mech and human)
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Googleshng:
Sadly no. Although I HAVE been hearing more and more
rumors of a Xenogears 2, I haven't seen anything offical yet.
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2.) Do you think that having GOOD voice actors for a game is needed in
movie cuts(FF7*8 movie scenes felt a little hollow to me)
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Googleshng:
Yes, the quality of the FMV makes the lack of speech
seem somewhat odd. What I'd really love is Japanese speech with subtitles. I mean,
Japan has GOOD voice actors!
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3.)Do you have any stroyline pet peeves. I personally hate it when
after beating what seems to be the boss, the real leader appears out of
nowhere, with no reference or foreshadowing to announce himself(Tales of
Destiny did this and it really pissed me off).
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Googleshng:
Well, I tend to play games with some really weird plots
so I don't have many complaints. The boss out of nowhere phenominon does suck.
Really I care more about bad motivations. I mean, really what IS the appeal of destroying
the world? Oh, this reminds me. I need a policy on language, don't I? How about this?
I'll replace all occurances of the S word or F word I come across with Smurf. Better
yet, don't use them at all. Keep it down to Smurf, Tanj, Carp, Bleep, Censor, Flup
and other such things. 8)
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4.) Are you a fighting game fan, and if so do you think Capcom should
make a Street Fighter RPG so Ryu can finally find what he's looking for
and stop roaming the Earth?
FF5 rocks by the way
-The Dancing Knight
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Googleshng:
I've never been too big on Fighters. Bloody Roar and Soul
Calibur are pretty cool, and I don't count the Bushido Blades as Fighting, but they're
great.
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I like Pizza Steve
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I think you should have a word with Brad... After all his Jedi Mind Tricks when I played FF3 over
(on my snes.. the way it was meant to be played) I named everyone Steve... Now I'm having a
horrible time trying to figure out who's saying what... Oh man, I'm confused... I think I need to curl
up into a fetal position and cry......
-- Thalados
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Googleshng:
That's pretty amusing Steve. I like playing Chrono Trigger
and naming everyone their real names. Nadia, R66-Y, Janus, Glenn, etc.
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Here's some sillyness
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8 twin brothers that are completely identical in every way are put in one
room together to fight to the death. each of them is given only one item.
these are: a grapefruit, a Jigglypuff pokemon card, an empty box of crayons,
a broken rubber band, 1 inch of duct tape, a mood ring, a spork, and a tire
gauge.
who wins?
-verbal
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Googleshng:
I don't see how you could have 8 twin brothers, but all
things being equal, the spork is clearly the best weapon. It can stab AND scoop!
Truly it is one of the greatest inventions of our time.
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One word spelled L-I-T-E!
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Come on and wreck my car! They Might Be Giants fan? You're kidding me, right? In my
experience, no one's even heard of them! I own all the albums, I think, and I'm working on singles.
Don't look at me like that. It's my brother; HE has a job, HE has money, he has an ebay account,
etc.
Um, what else was I going to say?
"Temple" means shrine. It's also the upper part of the face.
That good enough?
-Cantatrix
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Googleshng:
TMBG are great. You know, Brad liked them too. I still
love Mammal. So the warm blood flows, with the red blood cells, lacking nuclei
to the large 4-chambered heart... maintaining the ve-ry high metabolism rate they have!
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Oops
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Is it a rule to only answer certain questions from letters? Are Q&A guys
REQUIRED to purposely not answer some questions? I say this because on the
23rd, someone e-mailed you, asking you a particularly non-RPG-related
question (about PokˇBaal) and then a REAL RPG question, and you ignored the
RPG question completely. I hope you can explain yourself well; otherwise,
I'll be forced to beat you to a bloody pulp with a rusty carving knife.
-Chronodin
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Googleshng:
Sorry, I got distracted going on about Baal. I seem to recall
that the other question was about how many endings Chrono Trigger has. Well, I seem
to recall the official number is 17, but it fluctuates depending on how you count the
minor variants of the main ending.
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