You wanted to know what people's favorite RPG's are and so I will tell you and you upon hearing it will do something. That something is not within my powers of knowing, but I know you will do something. My favorite RPG is not by Square.. nor is it for PSX or SNES.. it is for the Saturn! That's right my favorite RPG is Panzer Dragoon Saga! Which leads me to a question.. Novel concept eh? A question on a Q & A page... Well any way my question is this: Are there any plans for a sequel to PDS? That game ends off on so much of an 'I want more' note... Hmm.... I think I'll go play it again...

Greetings to you Thor,
How are you, I do implore?
I ask, but there's more.

I'm am playing this
game that I call F F 3
and I wonder this...

I rescued shadow
After the end of the world
Inside the Thieves cave

I was then amazed
The game was talking as if
Shadow was female

What is up with that?
Is Shadow a boy or girl?
I would like to know.

By the way thor guy
I am not illeterate
just not very well read

As this haiku shows
This hundred foot tall squid god
can read and write fine

Not much to say, just I wanted to comment on what extremely boring road trips can do - Using a Car TV and my old NES, I was able to beat FF1 in 8 hours. Not that I'm extremely proud of that, what I'm extremely proud of was managing to kill a Giant with all my party at level 4. Insane? Yes. Even worse? Looking at Texas scenery from the eyes of a 11 year old brat who hates long car trips. (Admitted, 5 years have passed since then, but the record still stands, anyone care to stand up and do it, without an emulator on frameskip = max, or game genie codes?)

I think I know where the whole thing behind the dubbed/subbed anime debate stems from.

See, the way I figure, most people who are really into anime were brought into by someone else who was into anime. The thing is, a lot of people who were REALLY into it early on were big subtitle freaks, mostly because early dubbing was so bad. However, most people who have become anime fans recently are only big on subtitles because the person they started down the anime path with was big on them as well.

The thing is, a lot of the more recently dubbed stuff is pretty good. I only found this out recently because I, too, had been a subbed-only person until I met this big anime freak at school who actually watched dubbed anime. This was because he got into anime himself, and wasn't dragged into it with the premise of 'dubbing is the work of Satan.'

As for 'Evangelion,' yeah, the first two tapes are pretty... weak on the dubbing. But it does get better. I can't imagine having to read all the subtitles by the end - stuff just happens so fast. But anyhoo, I won't go and spoil Eva for you. Just go see the rest, ya monkey!

The is really on one good reason for not doing it, and that reason is space. On second of of CD quality audio takes up 44,100 bytes on a CD, average song length is 4 minutes, windows calculator tells me that is over 10 Meg, average square game has 50 songs, that's 500 Megs, and you can't loop properly with Red Book Audio. Then don't forget that 15 Minute last boss anthem Nobuo throws in, thats another 40 Meg, that leaves 100 Meg for code, art, movies, sound effects, yada yada yada. Every game that I've seen use CD Audio for their music had about 10 unique songs, none looped right, and the majority were crap. (Tobal was cool though, eat that Chuji!)

Secondly if everyone could just pop the CD in their Discmans and listen away what would happen to the sound track market in Japan? It would cut off Nobuo's secondary income, then he'd starve and not be able to finish the 50 songs for FF9.

With the PSX's synthesizer circutry you can fit a whole song in the 44,100 that used to be a second in another song, that leaves more CD space available for poorly translated text (Which is worse FF7's "Off Course!" or FFT's "I had a good feeling!"), and cheesy looking monsters (the gremlin's near bone village in FF7 looked like the crazy cravings for honeycombs). And anyone who says synthesis is crap go play FFT a little while (but close your eyes to avoid all that bad dialouge) and listen to sysnthesis done justice.

We've had a nekkid FuSoYa, and a talented Shadow Zero, I want to see a drunk Chocobo... ^o^

The "porno books" would float around and randomly open to a page with a picture of a nude woman.

("Hey!" "What?" BANG! "Oh!")

Ick, I hate mint chip. On the topic of nakedity on the SNES, in the game Brandish there was a water sprite of some kind. She had a nice close-up of her unclothed top half when she converses with the main character. Nothing much to see, though, as her bountiful blue bosoms were, shall we say, "featureless". Brandish was a pretty cool game, by the by. Well, fairly groovy. Sort of. Maybe. I wouldn't know, because I'm illiterate.

Mmm... mountains of joy...

Love (in an amazingly not-yaoi-at-all way),

So...erm...what was Terra wearing when she was in her Esper form? Or doesn't that count? <g>

One problem nobody seems to address is the number of characters you have in your party. Whatever happened to having (at least) four characters to fight with? Playstation RPG's all seem to use only three characters in a party, and it sucks! To make things worse, they not only do they take away an extra fighter, but they try to compensate this loss of versatility by making every character equal in battle (note: in this sentence the word "they" is used primarily to refer to final fantasy 7). Using four or more characters makes battle strategy much more interesting and fun. Final Fantasy 4 used (whoa!) five characters in your party, and was arguably the most fun RPG ever.

PS>>say I'm sorry for my lengthy letter too. both this one and yesterday's.

PPS>>someone who stays up all night wondering if there's a dog. you know. "god of dog"? uh. never mind. sorry.

...At one juncture, I'd been fighting Armored Wasps (I THINK that was what they were called) for quite a few minutes before finally realizing I was only doing 1 damage with each attack (I was trying to learn Hoken).

...That was a mild irritance...but at least I learned Hoken.

...Much less pleasant was ten minutes or so later when I got into a battle and suddenly realized I had *1 HP*. ...And by the time I reacted, I had already hit Triangle twice.

...A Hobgob killed me.

A zarking HOBGOB.

I had gained a level and learned Hoken.

P.S: Shane Monroe's live Retro Radio kicked ass.