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Rebecca Phoa - August 10 '01- 1:28 am Eastern Daylight Time
Welcome to yet another exciting Q and A column. Though some of you may be confused as to who to send letters to (it was Chimerasame) or if there is a guest host for today (Khagani has a stomach flu), I'm sorry to say that you're stuck with me. That's right, you have a news reporter writing up the column with no experience at all! Let the crash course in Q and A begin!
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Step Away From the Gear
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Hey, Chim:
Got a Xenogears question for ya. How do you make your characters learn more
combos (or should I say skills)? I think I'm doing something wrong because my
guys are at level 35 and they can only do one skill. The triangle X one. I
look at the percentages and it doesn't seem to be moving.
Sandman-Ash
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Rebecca:
Completing and getting all the deathblows in Xenogears doesn't really have a tried and true formula. All I can suggest to you is to alternate the button pressing. For example, try pressing a series of buttons, then try another (even if the percentages aren't rising). You could also equip a Wizardry Ring that can be found in both discs (after the defeat of Achtzehn, and in the first Anima Relic Dungeon). Another way to get the deathblows, (though people generally wouldn't do this), there is a screenshot of Fei's Deathblows in the Xenogears manual. For each combination, it shows what buttons to press so just tap in the buttons like you're doing the deathblow. Just persevere and you'll get them.
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Working Designs and Lunar for PC
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Hey Ki,
What's the deal with the Lunar SSS remake for the PC? I haven't heard anything about that in a long time and WD's website says it's getting a summer release. If it was, surely there'd be some news about it. You got any info on it?
Also, I heard that an Alex Punching Puppet will be a gift with pre-orders from EB. I hope that's true because my friend is getting a Ghaleon Puppet off ebay. If I get the Alex, then we can have battles :)
--Rahlious
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Rebecca:
The last time, RPGamer updated on this story was way before I was hired. However, the only news I could find was a press release at Working Designs' Newsroom under the title "Working Designs Celebrates Tenth Year as Leading RPG Publisher". However I'm unsure about the Alex Punching Puppet.
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Star Wars Episode 1000: Return of the Radical Dreamers
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Heya, Omni-Animal thing,
I'm sure this has been asked before, but here goes: Do you or anyone who
supplies your answers (read: IRC folk) know where I could find a good plot
synopsis of the original Radical Dreamers game that came out long ago in
Japan? I know it's text based, but surely someone found a ROM (boo, hiss,
evil, yeah yeah...) and translated it.... Ever since the reference to that
original game in Chronopolis in Chrono Cross, I've been curious about it,
and who better to ask than RPGamer? Though you guys don't cover it as it's
VERY obscure(though you should, IMHO), surely SOMEONE out there knows about
it and can provide me with the information... I hope...
Thanks in advance, keep up the good work, ward away the evils of the Q&A,
etc.
XeroZohar, who thinks that "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones"
sounds like an old B-movie.
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Rebecca:
Well I may not be an Omni-Animal thing but I found a nice article on the whole Radical Dreamers game at Gamefaqs which may shed light on your predicament. There is also a lengthy discussion on the whole Magus/Guile theory. Yes, I feel your pain over Episode II's title. It sure isn't the groundbreaking, epic title I was waiting for, but let's just hope it doesn't have a negative influence on the actual movie.
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Star Trek RPG: Archer V. Picard - An Epic Battle Awaits
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Behold Chimerasame! (In lieu of singing monks, we've got Duran Duran here, now, LIVE!)
The topics this week are Star Trek series, and this is an rpg site, rite? I'd pay good cash if a developer could bring a realistic Star Trek rpg to market. You could have a Klingon warrior, a Vulcan telepath, a Human medic, and a Romulan bandit. Now if said fictional developer put serious time into this, instead of shipping out a token product to meet a demands *cough* FFT Greatest Hits *cough*, we could have a sci-fi rpg to help balance out the fantasy-based ones. Mention of Trek favorite characters would be nice, as would voice clips, but I'd like ot see them push off into new territory, as did Voyager. For a mini-game, you could fight Borg against each other, a la BattleBots. Why do I feel as if I've sunk to a new level of Geek-dom? Oh well, keep on truckin'!
IceDingo, Purveyor of Fine Whines
--[ What are you waiting for? http://www.netdragons.com ]--
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Rebecca:
Let me put it this way: a Star Trek RPG could exist in this world, after all Verant Interactive is creating a Star Wars online game, Bioware is working on a Star Wars RPG, and there have been several Star Trek strategy games. Of course, it would have to be a good game. No matter how crazy the hype can get, the game has to be able to stand on its own two feet and then some. Duran-Duran? Hmm...I can't seem to remember that far back.
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What about the RPGamer Newtype Staff List Book?
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Man, where have I been? Looks like there's all new staff at the site(or they
have new names ha).
Anyway, I'm sure you get tons of e-mails, so I'll make this brief.
I'm looking for the Lunar SSS Newtype 100 Collection Art Book, which was
released on April 30, 1997. Now, here's the thing: I used to see it *ALL* the
time! AnimeNation had it, GK-World had it, I even think Amazon.com had it!
And the last time I saw it online, wasn't that long ago! So I fire up my
computer, thinkin' "I got PayPal. Might as well use it". I go to AnimeNation,
to buy the book. They ain't got it. I ran searches, searches, and more
searches. I turned up empty handed each run. :*(
PLEASE, Chime.... You just gotta tell me where I can find this book, man. I
NEED it, man. I NEED It. :D
~Zelgadis
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Rebecca:
Sad to say, all I found was a brief translated
article from the book, although I was unable to find out where you could purchase it. The article is the fifth link down, I hope it helps. You could also try E-Bay if you're very desperate. In answer to your question abou the site changes, all our regulars are still here. The only people that are new are most of the news team and David Looney who works in New Media.
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