This is bizzare. My mom came home tonight along with some people who I MIGHT have gone to high school with. That's just flat out creepy, so I'm staying up here writing the column rather than double checking on that. Anyway, here's Josh.

Josh: My one condition for doing this whole guest-hosting thing was to be allowed to plug the editorials. So I'll be nice -- I'll only plug the editorials twice. I'll plug the editorials once in the beginning. I'll also plug the editorials once in closing. In between the opening and closing there are no editorial plugs. Also, after the end there are no plugs for editorials. So, to get on with it, I'll plug editorials now. So without anymore ado, let me plug editorials. Here is the plug for editorials: Editorial Plug.

Josh:
So Google goes from being a slime, to a man/woman, to a polygon made by Phantasy Star -- I'm sure he's very proud that you at least put him in a game he likes (or at least with a name he likes).

Googleshng:
Hmm... I can't be an android or a cat or a Farmer or a Dezorian? Awwww... oh well, at least this way I get ears that look like horns and big claws.

Josh:
Well, first you get down on your knees, fiddle with your rosaries, bow your head with great respect, and... Oh, wait, that's the Vatican rag. Well, Google will know (I hope).

Googleshng:
A few people have been asking me this. Anyway, you get them in a lot of places. If you're hanging around a base full of rebels, and you talk to them, they could give you one, I think you can get an extra difficulty level on an aircraft carrier, everything else I've gotten from the computer. Poke around web pages.

Josh:
Since Google's the guy who probably knows the corporate stuff and all, I'll explain to you why it won't make a difference: I doubt that this will have any way to prevent people from selling, say, a bottle cap, and including a CD as a coaster for their drinks as a reward for their patronage. But don't quote me on that if I'm wrong.

Googleshng:
Well, first of all, basically what Square and EA did was get married. Squaresoft is extremely recognizable in Japan, and EA is extremely recognizable in the US, so they agreed to stick eachother's names together so that they would pull in more freaks who haven't heard of both. 8) As for the lawsuit thing, well, if they won, people would have to just bookmark the pages of CD pirates rather than just look on Yahoo. 8)

Josh:
What does that make gameboy colour?

Googleshng:
Don't forget the Saturn and the SMS, they're black too, the NES and Gameboy grey, does the Virtual Boy count as black? The really creey thing about this theory is that I've never thought of an exception to it (Turbo Grafix 16, NeoGeo, black). Well, the PSX2 is black, and I'm pretty sure the X-Box is too. No word on what color Nintendo's is, we can only hope. Hmm... everyone run out and by a Dreamcast! In just a couple months, it's library will include RE4 and PSO, not to mention Soul Calibur and Chu Chu Rocket are out already. 8)

Josh:
Well, since double CD cases don't fit in padded envelopes, or most CD racks/trays/towers, it's a giant conspiracy to get people to buy double-CD oriented things. Either that or there's someone pushing pirated double-CD-cases out there for dirt cheap, and these companies are cashing in.

Googleshng:
Marketing ploy. To the average mindless impulse buyer, seeing a double CD case means they're obviously getting more. Why get that thin game when there's thicker ones for the same price? So, in a word, evil. I salute Capcom for what they did with RE3 and Dino Crisis

Josh:
Well, if I were to say who I liked the best, I'd probably get killed -- or I could be a narcissist and say myself... Tough decision, I think I'll go with the universal answer statement: "Only once, but I was drunk."

Best RPG is a tough one. I'm really partial to Star Ocean 2, and have probably logged more hours on that game than lots of others. But then again, I loved Parasite Eve, and that was a short game and I don't own it to replay... But then again, there's a special place in my heart for FF4j. And worst goes to Legend of Legaia -- the only RPG I've been unwilling to finish.

Googleshng:
Front Mission 3 is a lot like Mech Warrior, except that it's turn based, doesn't have ancient flat shaded graphics, is set in the real world in the not to distant future, so there's cities and stuff to fight in, and it has all kinds of cool features like pilots who can get out or be knocked out of vehicles, mech sized shotguns and melee weapons, it's all quite cool. As for best/worst RPGs, well, my personal favorites are of course Xenogears, Phantasy Star, and FFn (n being a number I can never really decide on, usually 6 though) not nessessarily in that order. As for worst RPG, well, if you want to get technical about it, the worst RPG is the original Dragon Quest/Warrior. It has no plot to speak of, you only have one character except for one little side track, the entire game is just countless ours of character building as you walk the surprisingly short distance between the only save point in the game and the Dragon Lord. I suppose you could argue that there's a weird zen character building mindset you fall into, but I think honestly the only reason most people like it is because it's the first RPG they ever played. My first RPG was Phantasy Star, no where near as much character building, great plot, 4 characters on your party, mind blowing graphics (considering it's 8-bit), cool music, set on 3 planets you can go between in your spaceship, monsters you can try to communicate telepathically with, and it's the only game of any kind I've ever seen in which one of the main characters is a talking house cat. Well, that was certainly ranty. 8)

Josh:
And in other news, Star Ocean 2 did rock. And Precis is my woman :P

Googleshng:
Out of your options, I would personally go with Koudelka, but that's just a matter of personal taste. As for a Xenogears sequel, so many rumors fly around about one that if Square ISN'T working on one at the momment, I'm sure they will eventually just to shut everyone up. It would have to be a prequel of course, and there's plenty of potential for that!

Googleshng:
As for why your Blockbuster doesn't carry FM3, well, renting games sucks! Don't do it! The places that rent games out only carry games they've heard of, and they don't go out of their way to hear about games either. Besides, FM3 is a long game, there's no way you could finish it on a rental. 8)

Hello, Josh.

Goodbye, Josh

~Susan, AKA Silkenray, now with amazing tilde action!!

I noticed someguy sent in an E-mail saying that Magic Knight Rayearth is the only anime Subbed/dubbed at the same price. That's not true though. Slayers is the exactly same way.

Aoshi19

Dennis looks EXACTLY Like Bill Nye... and he's kinda a science guy too!

Hayabusa

What is the point of the Clear file in Breath of Fire 3.

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