Heya. I'm Thor Antrim, former loveable Q&A Dude. Every single damn one of you are no doubt wondering where I've been all this time. Wish I could tell you, but you'll just have to wait for the full story on Thor's Homepage of Recalcitrancy. (Don't be shy, it's not shameless self-prostitution if it's the only a way we can keep in touch, right? Good, now say it till you believe it.)

Groovy. How about I read some of these letter thingies?

Have you ever played DDR? If so, what's your favorite song?

Hello Thor,

Well Google hinted (STRONGLY) that I should ask you this question. Have there ever/will there ever be a wrestling RPG? If so what do you think it would be like?

Thanks,

- Malzra

Hey, Thorometer. Heard you might be throwing in a guest column during RPGamers few weeks of hell coming right around the corner. Best of luck to ya, a little Thorsday Madness back in the RPGuru slot would be pretty insane!

Moreover: After years of begging, pleading, and bribing, I was finally able to purchace FF6, Xenogears, and both Suikodens from a local rental store. Are there any other rare but good RPGs I should be on the lookout for?

Is Snood the work of the Devil? If the Snoods fought the charicters of Slime World, who would win?

-Magna Maduin

Hey, Oh God of Thunder Who Was Hit On By the Ladies Much During His Reign of Q&A (I remember reading about that scary lady that asked for your tounge measurements.)

1) Did Tidwell ever pay you?

2) What's your worst MMRPG experience?

Well thanks, Oh Thunder God Who Had Way Too Many "Hammer" Jokes Made in His Career.

- Braro Stmor

I think you're cool. I wish you still worked at RPGamer.. I'd have to say you and Brad are the all time best.. I miss ya both.. anyway, here my questions (Google and the other weekend person wouldn't answer.. bah!!)

Suikogaiden is a text RPG, something that hasn't really been shown here. Is there any plans for the first, 'Swordsman of Harmonia' or the second 'Battle at Crystal Valley' to come here? I'm a huge fan and wondering.. also, why I can't find any information about it on the net, it did get released, right? If it did get released, and information was released, do you know where I can get some, and if where the game itself? Also, what about Suikoden 3? Any pics or details on that? These are games my dreams are made of.. Thanks for yer time

- Buu
(Thor is the best.. long live Thor!)

Has anyone else realized about how the "decline of society" happened at the same time as the 32-bit RPG? I think the two are connected, and not in some pansy "Squall using a gun blade caused Columbine", but in a more immature manner, one that we don't really notice that much.

Lets start with FF4, the first game with a major story line. Who's the main character? Cecil, of course. Started out as a Dark Knight, turned into a Paladin. Mr. Goody Too-Shoes "I know six white magic spells". Good guy, over all. Heck, he was a GREAT guy. Sure, the Dark Knight thing was probably a rough conversation starter, but as soon as he became a Paladin, you better BET Rosa was bringing him home to her mother.

Now, though, who was your favorite character?

If you were a guy, probably Kain.

Ye olde backstabber, silent man, down right rude dude, and bad arse. The antihero, the negative trait person. But, deep down, didn't you think about how cool it would be to be Cecil? Great with a sword, able to do the most damage, being able to do multiple things, being so damn cocky that you'd jump in the way of a wounded Ninja? So, you might have traits from both. Lets say, Kain's silentness and Cecil's selflessness. Lets move on to FF6. There was no "hero" character that guys could really identify with, other than maybe Leo or Sabin. Or Edgar. But, all of those guys are the "good dudes". Leo dies just to strike down the evil clown, Sabin left his country but felt bad about it. Edgar, well. Edgar played hero AND got laid (the "After five minutes she was telling us the plan" thing.)

But end result, who did we all like? Mr. "..." Shadow. Professional badarse. Once again, we sorta came up with some mixture of the two. Either Leo's sacrificing, Sabin's willing to do the right thing, or Edgar's need to play hero. And Shadow's "Yeah. You want to mess with me?" attitude. Square got wise to us. "Why throw in the good guys? Lets just make the arse hole character the MAIN character."

So, in FF7, who did we have to identify with? Chainsmoking Cid, vampire Vincent, Mr. T, Red 13, and spikey-haired, silent jerk Cloud. If we borrowed one trait from each, we were messed up. All were jerks or sterotypes, or silent, or some other bad trait. We had no good to secretly let us think about.

And in FF8, well. Nothing much changed, except for Squall becoming partly good natured at the end. I ended up identifying more with Seifer's rival complex than I did with Whatever Boy. And in FF9, we got a pervert. He goosed Dagger at one point. That's just sad.

And what do we have now? We've slowly become more apathetic, more worried about how the outside world views the culture. I can almost imagine if the "Games cause violence" thing had happened when FF4 was around, we would have just laughed and ignored them, confident that we were right, and we'd win in the end. The Cecil thing to do. Now we right in your face rebuttals, do parodies, and gripe about them. Or, in some cases, laugh it off but worry about how this would affect us. Something that Squall or Cloud would have done. Now, either this is sorta correct, or I'm way too influenced by video games.

Thor! Huzzah! Leather mugs all around. ;) Anyways, I’ll keep this brief: Stay wonderful. You can’t go wrong! Especially with those hands.. ;) Women may swoon at your feet, but I faint away in style at your fingertips. Wait, that sounds bad. Err.. nevermind.

Stay famous, you handsome devil you ;)

- Kristy

Hey how's it going. Interestingly enough you're doing this two years to the week that you left Q&A. Also, have you gotten in trouble for your norse hammer and it's powers.

Also are you worried that Xenosaga like another promonent prequel and have an obnoxious character nobody likes?

Also since your among the greatest people on earth, you can borrow my chourus of singing monks who bear my name which are the Gregorian ones.

- Imperial Mog

Thooooooor!

I don't get it, what is it about you that makes you so cool? Bad-Boy Appeal? The refrence to a Norse god? Raw charisma? Tell me, please!

Oh, Slime-boy, didn't see you there.... Hey.

- Happosai
"I say the old pervert must DIE!"

• Superman #1
• What is this thing?
• Help me I am trapped
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• Might as well
• mention this
• one last time.