Googleshng:
Well, obviously having cat ears is a recessive trait and his parents both had the gene... or something. Anyway, I'm pretty darn sure everyone on staff has played their share of paper RPGs, and I know for a fact not a one of us has the time lately. As for the movie, well, I probably would go see a movie where a bunch of people run around in a 10'x10' hallway filled dungeon for two hours with no real motivation, fighting Gelatinous Cubes, Beholders, and kobolds, swinging weapons only once every minute. However from what I've see, this movie seems to be a generic fantasy movie full of wacky hijinks and slapstick humor. Therefore, I am going to avoid it like the plague. The FF movie on the other hand looks interesting, but when you're rendering 20,000 poly count tear ducts, it's time to put your life in perspective.

Googleshng:
I haven't read that series, but I have heard of it, and similar things. All four Harvest Moons are more or less just tweaks on one basic game. As for Christmas games, well, I already have FF9, SoA, and Shenmue, so that really just leaves Lunar 2 and Grandia 2... which are coming out at like the same time, despite being from the same developer. There's an odd statistic for you.

Googleshng:
Evidently all your HP can be exchanged for 1 MP... so shouldn't healing spells be cheaper? Oh, and yes, isn't blood-soaked little Fei just so CUTE? No wait, that's not what you were getting at...

Googleshng:
ACK! FF9! I must avert my eyes! Ooh, Xenogears stuff. That reminds me of this little comic my cousin drew way back when. This particular one is pretty much spoiler free, most aren't though. The Gazel Ministry one is my personal favorite.

Googleshng:
Well, the big Q is much more fitting for a lightning summon, but FF8 really didn't do him justice. Just a big slimy green bird, not the appropriate snake with bird wings. Better than what they did to Shiva though, or Odin's horse, the double amputee. Anyway, bringing Ramuh back is one more example of going back to the roots of the series.

Googleshng:
Check your facts before sending stuff like this. First off, the DC has a large number of fantastic first party games which are never being ported to anything. The few interesting looking PSX2 titles out there (MGS2, FF11) are already planned to be ported to other platforms. Next, I didn't say the PSX2 didn't have the proccessor power to handle Shenmue and SoA. The issue is that the two systems deal with graphics in very different ways. The Dreamcast is designed to make games with smooth nurbs based models and a variety of other features. The PSX2 is all about raw poly pushing power with no built-in capacity for DC like features. Therefore, while the graphics for SoA were extremely easy to do on the DC, replicating them on the PSX2 would an extremely taxing process and honestly not worth the effort. Now then, as far as great games that won't be ported are concerned, the Dreamcast has Shenmue, Skies of Arcadia, and PSO out. They've also announced that sequels to Shenmue and Arcadia are in development. That's 5 wonderful first party RPGs that you will never see on another console. How many can we think of for the PSX2? 0. The only guarenteed hits they have lined up are FF10 and 11. 11 will be multi-platform, and Square seems to be forming a habit of porting all FFs to PC, so you won't even nessessarily need a PSX2 for 10. Not only does that defeat your point, but I can't think of any point in history when a given console had that many new/upcoming guarrenteed hit RPGs. Finally, as a side note, Phantasy Star WAS the first console RPG released in this country, but that's not really relevant to the point. Oh, and let me just once again state that I am by no means a raving Sega fan. I've never bought any of there consoles until serveral years after their death, paying only like $20, with the exception of the DC because, well, it's worth it.

OK, now that I've replied to this person, there's some nice calm things I'd like to say on the subject of console wars. First of all, none of us here can predict the future. Maybe Sega will suddenly get a ton of support and grab all the third parties, while newer systems never catch on. Maybe Sony will maintain their mommentum just by the sheer number of people blindly buying the thing since the PSX did so well. Maybe Nintendo will sweep in and take all the developers back. Maybe Microsoft will come out of nowhere and somehow snag everyone when nobody is looking like Sony did. None of us can say. If you're low on cash and want to maximise the number of great games you can get, the only way you can really do it is to wait five years and see where most of them all.

Now, I for one don't plan to wait that long to buy all my games, and don't have that much cash. The Dreamcast is out, it's pretty cheap, it has a decent number of fairly good games, and it's not dying by any stretch of the imagination at this point. If it winds up dominating, good for me, I save some money. If not, I still have a nice little machine with enough games to keep me happy, and if there's another console I need to get and can't afford, I could always sell it to someone who missed out on all those great games. So, whether it "wins" or not, it's worth what I paid for it. I'm also going to buy Nintendo's next system, since it also has a low price and a wonderful first party library planned. I'm not buying Sony or Microsoft's systems at this point, because I have no guarrentees. If I bought a PSX2 and it ended up with all the 3rd parties, great. If not, I'll have bought an extremely expensive brick. I can't afford to take that kind of gamble, so I'm going to wait and see, playing Skies of Arcadia while I wait. 8)

Two final thoughts: I'm sure most of us have bought consoles just for 1 good game. A Gameboy for Zelda or Pokémon, a PSX for FF7, and so on. The DC has quite a few. Also, don't expect the PSX2 to suceed just because the PSX did. Nintendo was in the same exact situation not too long ago, plus they had some attractive first party games and a relatively nicer development environment.

hey goog,
I was just reading mistress nightshadows bio which she linked to, and I realized that there is no way to access most of them, unless I'm mistaken.

Thanks,
Malachi

In Japan its always been kweh.

Ah...so THAT'S the blue Chocobo nightmare acid trip.
....yeah.
(is it just me, or is the point alotment slightly scewed for Chocographs compared to ANY OTHER ITEM YOU CAN FIND?!?)
-Tomm

But I LIKE my DVD player!!! Its got a groovy blue light (definately the selling point for me), and it can play games!

-Tallus

The Last Laugh: