New games? Who needs 'em. - January 6th, 2000 - Drew Cosner
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed within this column are those of the participants and the moderator, and do not neccessarily reflect those of the GIA. There is coarse language and potentially offensive material afoot. I don't think I can ever watch "The Usual Suspects" enough times. Don't say we didn't warn you.
Today's topic is interesting: how will you survive the overall game draught in the coming year? My solution is actually pretty simple; I'll just not have any money to purchase games with. I'd say that circumvents the entire issue rather effectively.
And now that we have that short intro out of the way, on with the show.
| Letter #1 |
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2001 being a slow rpg year? I certainly hope so! You can't tell me that everyone out there had a chance to buy and finish every good title released over last year, can you? 2001 is everyone's catch-up year.
~Dr. Uzuki, who's "survival stratagy" is to buy Lunar 2, Persona 2, Suikoden 2, Star Ocean: The Second Story, and finish Front Mission 3, Wild Arms 2, SaGa Frontier 2, and FF5 not to mention every other non-rpg offering that came out last year.
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General opinion is that people will be playing all of the great games they bought during the past year's RPG boom throughout the coming year, either for the first time or all over again. Which means that today's column is going to be both short and boring. Sorry.
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It's easy to survive the dry spells in 2001. You see, all throughout 2000, I bought some EXCELLENT RPGs.. Chrono Cross, FF9, DQ7, Star Ocean 2, BoF4, etc etc.
I play them once, and put them up until I get some free time.
So you guys can be bored all you want in 2001, Us lazy SOBs have it made. =)
[KiTA]
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A-yuuuup.
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Its really really simple:
Buy the games you couln't afford/didnt' have time to play during 2000.
ZDX-duh.
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Mmm hmmmm. Next.
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My survival strategy for the coming year? To thank God I won't become even further behind, finally beat SaGa Frontier II (that last boss is *impossible*!!) and try to catch up. Yes, that's right, I haven't played anything that came out after SFII. FM3, Dewprism (or whatever it's called now), Vagrant Story, Lunar: Eternal Blue, Chrono Cross, FFIX... I could cry.
E.E.
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Do you see where this column is going? No? Okay, I'll give you a few more, then.
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Greetings, fellow lifeform,
My survival strategy would be to try to finish at least a few of the 20-or-so games that I haven't had time to play/finish yet. Some of which include, Silent Hill, Breath of Fire III and IV, Ape Escape, Harvest Moon: Back to Nature and FFIX. Maybe get through at least one New Game+ in Chrono Cross...blah blah blah...
And maybe get my hands on Incredible Crisis. Wouldn't want Mr. Takahiro to have to commit harakiri, y'know?
~Sei
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Okay, okay, I'll stop. This column is a good'un, ain't it?
| I bet you say that to all the columnists |
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Loving you is the scariest thing I've ever done, Buffy.
~Ian P.
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Ian, being me is the scariest thing I've ever done. I am a member of this society in that I continue to share the same general space and time with the rest of the world's population, and I'm presumably capable of mating with other humans to create viable offspring. But if you want to get all caught up on petty technicalities, if I get down on my hands and knees and lap at the ground I can pick up dirt and fuzz, which means, by extension, I am a Hoover vacuum cleaner.
I don't know what that means, either. Read into it whatever you will.
| Man cannot live on Solid Snake alone. (Man that sounds bad.) |
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Bad lineup for 2001, Chris says? Dead wrong. Why?!
One word: Metal Gear Solid: Sons of Liberty.
That's all we need...
~Zack Elle returns to his Wall of Voodoo
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Yeah, Sons of Liberty looks pretty good. Between it, Final Fantasy X, and Silent Hill 2, that's an entire 3 games I'm looking forward to for the PS2, and unless at least one of them is amazingly innovative, I probably won't be convinced to part with 300 dollars of what should probably go towards tuition. Just call me Mister Jaded.
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Well, now that there aren't enough games to play in 2001, I can focus on other, lesser, priorities like school.
-Fares
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Well, yeah, I suppose we could do that, too.
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This has nothing really to do with the given topic... but hear me out.
In yesterday's column, Sir Blaze stated, "I don't know about everyone, but I
think that Shenmue and Skies of Arcadia on the PS2 would rock!"
This bugs me. Really bad. Why would they rock any more on PS2 than they
would on Dreamcast? Let me point out a few things... first - the Dreamcast
is half the price of the PS2 with a trillion times the quality games (which
includes all of PS2's future releases). And second - the PS2 doesn't have
enough memory to hold the detail that either of those two games possess.
What I'm basically saying is... go buy a Dreamcast. Don't whine and complain
that it's a horrible system with good games. The games are what make a
system good or not. I honestly don't know why anyone would want to own a PS2
right now...
Okay, this ended up completely not making sense.. whoops?
(Chris)
...who stays up nights wondering how Yu Suzuki is ever going to possibly
finish the Shenmue series...
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I couldn't agree more. I don't know why people are so anxious to shun the deserving Dreamcast, or why a game's existence is only validated in their minds by its appearance on the PS2. Save graphical prowess, in every possible category the Dreamcast is currently the superior machine. It has games worth owning that are both innovative and not 128 bit upgrades of 32 franchises, as well as an affordable pricetag and a realistic network that already exists. It pains me to see gamers giving it the cold shoulder over the PS2, which has yet to prove itself in any discernible manner.
Graphics whores.
Closing comments:
Okay, people, here's your simple topic for tomorrow: what did you think of that FFX video clip? Personally, I'd like to point out that the freakin' music sounded 16 bit, but we'll save all of that for tomorrow. Do write in now, y'hear?
-Drew Cosner, the uncle who insists on calling you "chief."
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