: Ask Me Anything! :

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

In an effort to get to know everyone! I am going to open up a "Ask me Anything!" Post a comment with a question that you want me to answer-- something you're curious about, it can be anything ranging from silly to personal.

In return I'll ask you something-- it may be silly or serious-- all depending! After you have answered my question, you can feel free to ask your own-- and you can do it until one or both of us gets tired!

Hopefully I'll get to know a lot of you better and vice versa

Comments

[dorchadas]

What is your favorite JRPG and why?

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

There will always be a part of me who is intensely fond of Xenogears. I have played many JRPGs before then but none dealing with those issues of faith. Being a college kid when that came out and having been brought up in a sort of conservative household, those issues were mind blowing! And you?

Also if you could be destroyed by any of HP Lovecrafts beasts.. who would you choose?

[dorchadas]

Despite all the Final Fantasy I played back in the day, it's probably Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. I'm much more interested in character-focused political thrillers than battles to save the world from evil gods of death nowadays, as much as I have a residual love for FFVI and FFX.

Still have Second Chapter sitting in my Steam list...I really should get to that now that Third Chapter is coming out on PC...

(I have a bit of a grudge against Xenogears for its lazy appropriation of Judaism, but more against Square for pulling funding to make FFVIII. Not that FFVIII is bad, but what with Disc 2, think of what could have been...)

--Also if you could be destroyed by any of HP Lovecrafts beasts.. who would you choose?

Hmm...probably a dimensional shambler. Being yanked into another dimension gives me good odds of arriving somewhere Planck's Constant is different and spontaneously ceasing to exist or something, which sounds a lot less painful than being eaten by ghouls or having my brain stuck in a jar by mi-go.


If you had unlimited money for 24 hours, but the source dried up after that, what would you buy?

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

You know, I loved Trails in the Sky too! I thought it was a wonderful game, I also liked how it wasn't about supernatural stuff-- but the poltical stuff was amazing, it was a more cozy less ensemble cast version of the first couple of Suikodens, but with much more required reading (and the chest texts-- brilliant)

I started 2nd Chapter, I need to finish it up-- and I will probably end up getting Trails in the Sky: 3rd on steam too, because the series is that good!

I cry when I think about what Xenogears 'could've' been-- oh well,

As for that question-- I'd buy a really nice house, one that both Owen and I would love-- I am taking it for granted that it being fantasy money, the house could be paid for instantly.

[dorchadas]

(and the chest texts-- brilliant)

One of the parts I liked a lot, too...and I read somewhere that in Japanese they're all the same but each chest had its own line rather than all calling the same generic text, so during localization they got the idea to add unique messages. Best decision.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

I am actually a bit disappointed with 2 because most of the chest texts were the same-- but I think I read that they remedied it for 3rd--