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Editorial Archive for April - June 2000
June 26, 2000
- Moo Dame
Joshua Maciel
The Flaw of Final Fantasy VIII
Brett Smith
A defense of Suikoden 2
Cheryl Lachowicz
The Religious (and Social) Importance of Terranigma
Danel
Why do we play RPGs?
David Sanders
FF Anthology: Proof of Square's Dark Side
Asmodean Es
Parents Don't Understand / Science Proves Games Are Good For You
The Freelancer
In Response to "Defense of Final Fantasy 8"
The Freelancer
Suikoden and Wild Arms: Expectations and Reality
Mike Benedetto
The Defence
Michael Harnest
Just a little complaining about complaining
_Mog_r
In response to 'A Double Standard in RPGs'
Nathan Larkins
Difficulty in rpgs
starry wishes kirby
Re: See? Square Does Listen!
Shanyou
Indecision 2000
Joshua Maciel
June 19, 2000
- Oops! I Did It Again...
Joshua Maciel
Don't judge an RPG before it's released
Brigitte I. Cornwell
Michael Harnest. . . (Grrrrr!!!!)
The Dark Lord
Defense of Final Fantasy 8
Doug MacDonald
Suikoden II and Wild Arms 2: A Double Standard in RPGs
Howard Kleinman
Comparing Apples and Oranges to RPGs
kris wolfe
A Gaming Combination
Matt "The Freelancer" Callanan
A Rebuttal to Final Fantasy VII's Grandeur
Mike Duran
[Caution: Obscenity] Sarcasm: It Does the Mind Good
Mitchell Gyde
(Caution: Obsenity) Is it an Editorial, a Poem, or a Song? None of the Above! That's My Word
Mitchell Gyde
"...Whatever."
Mistress Nightshadow
RE: Final Fantasy VII's Grandeur
Mike White
Life after Square
Rando
Not the Ivory Gates
Reclining Tiger
See? Squaresoft does listen!
Squall Fong Wong
Rebuttal to Mistress Nightshadow OR Help, I'm Living With my Parents, and my Mom Won't Stop Playing Final Fantasy
Usagi Vindaloo
Change
Zabuni
June 11, 2000
- M&M&M&M&M
Joshua Maciel
"What Makes a Good RPG" You Ask? What Have You Been Smoking?
Mitchell Gyde
An Analogy: The Progression of Gaming According to Michael
Michael Harnest
Final Fantasy VII's Grandeur
Michael Harnest
Expanding Webster: A Short Plea
Michael Harnest
Parents Just Don't Understand
Mistress Nightshadow
June 3, 2000
- I Love You, I Would Date With You
Joshua Maciel
Banon is Missing, Final Fantasy VI Does Not Gain Credentials
Michael Harnest
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall...
Mistress Nightshadow
Bitching about Square, are we?
Milliardo Peacecraft
All Generalizations are False: The Fangirl Takes Offense
Raincrystal
Are PC RPGs getting any respect?
Richard Mitchell
Girlfriend In a Coma or an Exhausted Child? The reason FF8 is not a masterpiece.
Xerdo Pwerko
Music Piracy
Joshua Maciel
Prohibition
Joshua Maciel
May 28, 2000
- Open the Floodgates!
Joshua Maciel
It is all in the Execution: My Two Cents Worth On Fanfics
Chad Harger a.k.a Graeystone
Well, What if There Wasn’t a Final Boss?
Chris Politz
Aerith/Aeris -- Which is Right?
Dustin Perrault
Art – a reply to Rebuttal to: "Squaresoft Isn’t Fooling Me"
Eternal Eclipse
Academic RPGs
Mistress Nightshadow
Reply to: Square at the Pearly Gates
Raincrystal
Judging a Book by its Cover
Sheepieman
May 23, 2000
- Settling in
Joshua Maciel
PlayStation and Religion? Nonsense!
Brett Smith
Reviving an Old Debate: The True Message of Xenogears
Dorrin
Rebuttal to: "Squaresoft Isn't Fooling Me"
Geoffrey Russell
God in Japan, or Why Everyone Likes Sexy People With Wings
Kris Wolfe
The Existence of Old and New RPGers
Mark Gross
Emotion
Raincrystal
This Gamer Is Scared
Raincrystal
Response to "Square at the Ivory Gates: God and Angels in Squaresoft Titles"
Rana Loreus
A few words for the discontented RPGamers (Old-School or otherwise) out there...
Tabris
Nothing Really Changes Anyway: A Response to Change is Good
WMAdoy
Why the Consoles Will Survive
Joshua Maciel
May 16, 2000
- Dial-ups: Communist Plot
Joshua Maciel
Rebuttal to "Why you think you like FF6 the best."
Barry Dancer
Change is Good
Chief Ug
Final Fantasy is no longer Final Fantasy
eX-finn
Square at the Ivory Gates: God and Angels in Squaresoft Titles
Evan Jenkins
Pompousness [Pokémon TCG Spoilers]
Geoffrey 'ePaulson
Rebuttal to "FF7 vs FF8" by Yuffie Janice Tanaka
Kaeru
In tha year of tha Boomerang
Mike Dore
Will On-Line Console RPGs Work? Depends...
Matt Hayes
Graphics: Who needs them?
Mike Wasson
Old-school RPGs? New RPGs? What's the difference?
Nyoro, Frog of Darkness
FFVII... Has Squaresoft really sold out to the RPGamers?
Nightshadow
Reply to: Ganondorf Dies and It all Seems Worth It
Orpheus Tay
"Kubla Khan" and FF7: A Literary Analysis
Raincrystal
Time limit, next RPG...
Radrisol
Self-Depreciation -or- Dating: The Abridged Manual
Sage Gaspar
Game Developers - They Do More Than They Have To
Squall Fong Wong
The RPG Dichotomy
Joshua Maciel
May 11, 2000
- And the Trumpets Shall Sound
Joshua Maciel
May 7, 2000
- And the Trumpets Shall Sound
Joshua Maciel
Editorial: Squaresoft getting back to what made Final Fantasy good.
Aaron Brunner
On Fanfiction: Wish Fulfilment, Missing the Point, and Finding the Balance
Azusa Kuraino
I may be the only one left...
Arvind Vashisht
In response to many responses to my editorial
Anon Ymous
Why FFVII-VIII And SquareSoft DOSN'T Suck
Ben Gilboa
It's Not Pandering If...
Brett Smith
Why their aren't true FF sequals
CBurt85
In Defense Of Squaresoft
Chris Galli
A Letter to My Love
Cheryl Lachowicz
FF6 is fun fun silly willy for me! Not wakk wakk wakk
Dimastines
Just a fool throwin comments around
Dark Holy
rebuttal to Joe Rinaldi's rebuttal to Jason Dow's The Fear of the ONLINE RPG
Dan 'Frogerk' Slotten
Ganondorf dies, and it all seems worth it.
Four Finger Wu
Selphie- (side note)
False Prophet Maduin
The basis to most RPGs.
Aaron Brunner
Why Ghaleon is the Greatest of all RPG Antagonists
Howard Kleinman
Why can't a game just be good
Jason Birdwell
Character development not necessary? I beg to differ!
Jason Connor
Reply on the "Bias against Nintendo"
Jamez East
Is Square becoming a copycat?
Jon Gibson
Rebuttal to David Sanders to Scarmiglion... Interpretation
Sauron
Hail to the Square God!
Katherine Tierney
Fear Through Ignorance
Lara Sköld
Aftermath
Mark "Intrasonic" Gross
"I have a theory"
Macabre
See it here folks! A man who can predict the future of Aidyn Chronicles!
Noble Duncanson
My sincerest apologies go out to this man...
Poe22222
Ratings Would Be Fine-- If "They" Meant What They Said
Raincrystal
In response to "Why you think you like FF6 the best" by Luke Adams
Richard Snyder
shut your hole Luke Adams!!!!!
SHADOW ASSASIN
"He's like a brother to me," and Why Those Words Don't Have Any Meaning
Sage Gaspar
How SRPG's kick Traditional RPG's a**es
Steve Metzger
Squaresoft is pandering...do we have a problem?
Tabris
FF8 vs. FF7....
Yuffie Janice Tanaka
May 2, 2000
- The Eds of Evil
Matt Prince
One Man To Have The Power of Many
Bill Campbell
Rebuttal to: Why you think you like FF6
Edrees Hatef
In Response to: "Grammar..."
Martin Haller
Grammar
SageGaspar
Why I Think Googleshng Is Female
Raincrystal
Role Playing? Character Development? You take the term "RPG" too seriously, friend.
Roger Romer
You're Kidding, Right, Square? Please Tell Me You're Kidding.
Whitney Reynolds
"He's Like a Brother To Me"
Geronimo
It is all in the Execution: A Rebuttal to Intrasonic's Editorial
Chad Harger
How SRPG's kick Traditional RPG's a**es
Steve Metzger
Square Deserves Better Fans
Poe22222
More about Final Fantasy VIII
Jacob Horner
April 26, 2000
- God Save My Grades
Joshua Maciel
A Character Analysis of Nanaki
Brett Smith
Rebuttal to Magentice@aol.com's "The Problem with Modern Gamers"
Jacob Fronczak
The Differing Natures of PC and Console RPG's
James Wylie
SquareSoft Isn't Fooling Me
Macaroni
Censorship Through Extortion
Mitchell Gyde
Obscenity? You Don't Know the Meaning of the Word
Mitchell Gyde
Mad Lucas' First Treatise on RPGs
Mad Lucas
Character Development in the Future
Matthew Peck
Grammar:The Essence of Quality Writing
Stephanie Waugh
Bias Against Nintendo
Thomas Maluck
April 19, 2000
- Rumplestiltskin Ain't Got Nuffin' on Me
Joshua Maciel
Feedback for your begging
Brett Smith
Out of Character? WHAT character?
Cheryl Lachowicz
The Console War: Know Your Role
CX
In response to "Another Elitist Bastard Letter" by Mephtik-X
DJ EuphoriKa
I don't believe I'm reading this tripe...
Drew "Cutriss" Lanclos
Final Fantasy..RPGs..the fans..and the sequels..
Dai
Enter the 8-Bit (Again)
Endarire Elward
On the On-line Console RPG Debate...
Hayden Dawson
More Crap About Final Fantasy 7 and It's Ending
Jake Gus
A Reply to Another Elitist Bastard Letter
Jouni A Harjunmaa
Violence in Video Games
Jonathan Keller
Rebuttal to 'The Fear of the Online RPG'
Joe "Tabris" Rinaldi
Why you think you like FF6 the best
Luke Adams
Why Bother?
Matthew Furrow
The Developer's End of the Console War
OniNemo
Selphie's Role in FF8
Rob Janney
Rebuttal to Scarmiglion
David Sanders
Scart, Gloves, and an FF7 Spoiler
Tifa Worshipper
The Graphics Debate - Who's Really To Blame?
Andrew Gonzalez
April 9, 2000
- An Overused Cliche Approaches...Command?
Joshua Maciel
Why We are Lucky to be Role Players
Chris Steidel
Sega's Ambitious Dream...
Joshua "Darien" Maciel
Comments on FF7's Ending
Maduin
The Fear of the Online RPG
Jason Dow
Another Elitist Bastard Letter
Mephtik-X
Who is Ultimecia? I think I know...
Peter Williams
Action-Based Character Revisited
Richard Allen
Pokemon is Mental Crack!
Durandal
Women, RPGs, and New Game+
ShinKarasu
Selphie's Importance
The Psycho
An Editorial Approaches...Command?
Joshua "Darien" Maciel
April 3, 2000
- So You Want to be a Hero?
Joshua Maciel
An Interpretation of Final Fantasy VII's Ending
Brett Smith
A Pointless Letter on the RPG
dsanickl
PC RPGs, translation, and a lot of other opinionated stuff!
Kris Wolfe
The Problem with Modern Gamers
Magentice@aol.com
The Importance of Correct Grammar
Moux Cow Petau
The Personalities of RPG Heroes
Paul Elliott
Addition to Usagi Vindaloo's rebuttal
The Steel Gunner
Why Graphics Shouldn't be so Important
V L B
The Sequel to End All Sequels
Joshua "Darien" Maciel