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Googleshng - January 4 '99- 1:30 Eastern Standard Time
I finally got a Dreamcast memory card. Now if I get games for it
I can save them. Yay.
As for this week's guest host spot, I was planning to give it to Sharkey, but he's busy biting
the heads off of chickens in a guatamalan freak show or something like that, so instead, this
Thursday, Q&A will be hosted by the big guy himself, Mike Tidwell. You know, the guy who'd sign
my pay checks if I got'em. 8) Should be interesting.
I still need money, so you should still go here:
Cosmic Connections. Hmm... I could probably REALLY get some cash by telling my gender for
cash, but then I'd need to give out my address and stuff, too much work.
One more thing. Today someone sent me a huge Escaflowne spoiler. Didn't see that one comming,
I mean, game spoilers come with the territory, but who'd have thought I'd have my favorite anime
spoiled? Oh well, at least it was something I kinda suspected anyway.
Oh! I almost forgot! Paws went and redid those pronounciations so now you can hear them.
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Oh yeah, Tifa.
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Fan Googles
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How do you pronounce...?
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Listen
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In the PSX:
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Grandia
Long game.
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In the Genesis:
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Phantasy Star 2
Must play 4...
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In the Gameboy:
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My cousin's copy of Pokemon
May your lungs burn!
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In the SNES:
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Civilization
Sid Meier rules.
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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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A Boy and His Blob
Coconut=Coconut
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In the Saturn:
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Albert Odyssey
It doesn't get chibier than this.
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In the N64:
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Nothing
I was busy today.
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In the Dreamcast:
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Soul Calibur
and now I can save it!
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Comparison
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Konbanwa Googlesan,
Here, a nice little Grandia vs. FF8 game for Mr. Cynical yesterday:
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Grandia |
Final Fantasy VIII |
| Plot |
A shorter, less epic, less save the world plot line with few major
events |
Main characters having close calls with death, epic "save the world"
story |
| Characters |
Less developed, cutesy characters, which have no real world
equivalents |
Very real, very accurate teenage characters that have motivation for
their actions |
| Gameplay |
Interesting system involving the combination of skills and magic,
loads of fun |
Interesting system involving the combination of items and magic,
loads of fun |
| FMV |
Animé style cutscenes with slow polygons as the norm, with
terrible
pop-in |
Gorgeous FMVs spread throughout the game to emphasize an important
scene |
| Music |
Gotta admit though, the FF8 music doesn't hold a candle to
Grandia |
Terrible terrible music. This Turkey is DRY!!!!!!!! *sobs* |
Americans like flashy stuff they can relate to over cutsey anim with a
less-than-epic plot or a good plug through television commercials. But
if you think about it just a little more, you'd realize that FF8
actually has stuff going for it *gasp* I've been playing RPG's since I
was a wee lad of 7, and you know what? I like FF8 better too. I'm not
saying that either one is necessarily better, just that each has their
own good points, and you shouldn't dismiss as slime anything made by
Square, as you claim we all proclaim as God the same.
-Hoenir Aesir
PS - HTML can go jump off a cliff and die.
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Googleshng:
Before I say anything else, let me say why I picked this letter
of all the ones I recieved on the subject. This person did their own HTML. That's always
nice. I know it's debate fodder, but oh well. I got an awful awful lot of letters
comparing the two games, but I think it can be put quite simply. Grandia and FF8 are
both very good games (oh, and I don't agree that Grandia is challenging in the least)
that don't nessessarily appeal to the same people. Some call Grandia too cute, some
call FF8 all flash, some say they hate both because they're too linear. The bottom
line is that more people seem to have enjoyed FF8 than Grandia (and a lot more people
played FF8) and debating won't change that. So let's drop it shall we?
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Japanese Lesson
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Google-sama , the recent talk of adding -san and -chan to one's own name has
made me curious. What do all these suffixed mean? I don't know any of them
(Except sama). Lord Googleshng , please help me!
-Freezer
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Googleshng:
OK, here's a rough translation of a bunch of happy little things
to tack on to someone's name in Japanese:
-san: It's like saying Mr./Mrs. basically.
-sama: Basically like Lord/Lady.
-chan: doesn't translate well, but it basically implies cute little girlhood.
-kun: again, doesn't translate well, but it indicates being male.
That reminds me, I really should fix my little signiture so people quit picking on it.
Hey, while I'm at it, here's the basic definition of Bishonen: A guy who really really
looks like a girl.
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Phantasy Star Questions
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Yo,Googleshng,
I was recently digging though the piles of crap in my basement when I found
my old Genesis! All the TV hook up cords with it and everything! Also my
favorite game ever, Phantasy Star 4, just happened to be in it, and the
instruction book for the game was tapped to the bottom of the Genesis, weird
since I didnāt do that and I donāt have any siblings. I have only played PS
4 but thereās all sorts of references to previous PS games in it. I donāt
know if youāve played the game, but thereās this one part where Chaz has to
get Elisdeon (donāt know if thatās the way itās spelled) and when he does
all these pictures come up showing past events from past PS games. What
events are these? Also, in Termi, thereās a statue of some chick holding a
sword and she has a cat by her legs. Who is this? Who was the main
character from PS 1? Is Alys, the chick who dies, in PS 3 or something cuz
when she meets up with Rune she says that she knows him from a long time
ago? I donāt know. If thereās any other weird stuff about PS 4 that you
could mention that would be much appreciated. Thanx in advance,
Chris
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Googleshng:
You can't say I didn't label THIS spoiler. 8) OK, in the
original Phantasy Star, the main characters are Alis (yes, same person as Alys in 4),
Miau (a talking cat), Odin (big fighter), and Noah (or Lutz, lousy inconsistant translators).
When you find Odin, he's been turned to stone by Medusa, and at one point you have a
nightmare in which a monster that looks like Dark Falz/Dark Force wipes out your whole
party. Oh, and then there's Lassic's Air castle towards the end. I THINK that covers
about all of the references to the original game in 4 (aside from the music and such).
As for 2 and 3, well, 3 isn't made by the same team so it doesn't really count, and as
for PS2, all it's responsible for is the decaying ecological control computers all over
the place. In other words, even the rest of the PS series agrees with me that the original
is great. 8)
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This isn't the personals people.
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Go0gs' I was wondering if you could help me out. I can't find the woman of
my dreams and this pretty much sums it up.
Wanted: Female. 18-mid 20's. Has vivid thoughts of changing her name to a
nonexistent one that would make a good RPG character. Understands that a
soundtrack can make or break a game. Plays RPG's for plotline reasons, not
CG and propagandist hype. Likes fantasy novels. And understands that
sometimes it's a necessity to sit in front of a game for 4 days strait.
Okay, so I'm reaching a bit here. I doubt this person exists but I figured
if anyone could find out, it would be the all mighty Q&A entity such as
yourself.
=Loki=
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Googleshng:
You know, an awful lot of that applies to me. Heck I played
Xenogears for 2 weeks straight getting up only to meet biological needs. I don't like
fantasy though. Ick. In general, most fantasy authors just spend way way too much time
describing trees. Still, there's probably several people fitting that description who
will be telling me so today. Hey wait a minute, you're LOKI and you can't find a girlfriend?
Oh, and before you all jump down my throat, I was really really low
on letters that weren't about FF8 vs. Grandia, OK?
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Translation Woes
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Hey there 1,000(insert 94 zeroes)000shng, (clever huh?)
I got Final Fantasy Anthology for Christmas, eager to play an
"official" version of FF5, and just looking forward to the nostolgia of
FF6. Anyway, I've played only about an hour of FF5 and I've noticed
something. Is it just me or is the language in FF5 slightly more
"adult" than FF6? In exempli: "What a load of crap! It's just cause
you've got the hots for her!" and "It's a pirate ship for
chrissakes!"(or something to that effect). Now I know this is nothing
compared to "Sheeit" and "Bastard!" but however, I would have thought
that Square would have inserted similar language into FF6, instead of
just the direct text straight from the cart. Any insight as to why
Square didn't fix a sum total of about 10 words in FF6?
Ephidrina
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Googleshng:
FF6 had already been translated, so Square just recycled that
one verbatum. As for FF5, well, the anthology is one of the sloppiest rereleasals of
all time, and Square didn't bother to hire a decent translator for the thing. So we
wind up with a really awful surly translation for it. Sucks, doesn't it.
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Grandia without FF8? WOW!
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Hey Googleman,
In Grandia, is Guido a secret character or am i close to getting him. I'm in
Savanna Wastelands or whatever and I just wanna know because he looks cool
and I'm tired of Milda and her magicless self. I know this is probably a big
spoiler for people and i'm sorry, but I just gotta know.
-Gadwin's special move..Dragon King Slice!
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Googleshng:
Well, I'm pretty sure that stuff in the instructions doesn't
count as spoilers. Since you're about as far as me and Guido's moves are listed after Milda's
in the instructions, I'm inclined to agree with you on your little theory.
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