Woah, mine is next week too.  But I'm older than all you kids ;)

To be fair, that's in the middle of friggin nowhere and I still don't think those are used panties.  I think people really exaggerate these things.  It may exist but it's hardly normal or common.  You think you won't find any strange crap in some backwater place in the US?  I spent a great deal of time walking around Akihabara and while there is plenty of weird stuff there I didn't see anything like that.

Wasn't that trailer released like four months ago?

Anything is OK if it was in the Bible!

That said, I had never even heard of Lyle's Golden Syrup before.  I googled it and read the wikipedia entry and yeah, it's a Bible reference, though it's not really clear why that was chosen for the logo.

Just goes to show how desperate people are for information about this game.

It's basically just the credits rolling.  I'm not sure why they even posted that.  It says nothing about the game one way or another.

I hear I thought this would be a thread about sailing.  I like sailing...

While I'm certainly not going to deny the consensus that there are more titles on handhelds these days, I don't think that statement is fair.  The original Valkyria Chronicles is probably my favorite game on any system in the last 5 years  (though the sequels have jumped ship to PSP...).  The PS3 has gotten some solid titles this year like Nier (which is fantastic), Resonance of Fate, and Atelier Rorona.  There's also FFXIII too if you're into that...obviously a very divisive title.  Then there are WRPGs like Oblivion, Fallout 3, and Dragon Age, and soon the PS3 will be getting Mass Effect 2 as well.

Well, the mechanics of some games are limited by being on the PSP (lack of dual analog sticks in shooters, for instance), but FFT is about the worst possible example somebody could pick to try and make that point.  It's a grid/turn-based strategy game.  Where exactly is the limitation?

I think I am going to go ahead with the somewhat arrogant plan of trying to set things up so that I can get all four base endings by only having the replay the final assignment.  There are basically only two conditions:  Is popularity greater or less than 80% and do you get more or less than 30 stars on your evaluations (out of a possible 36).  The combination of the two conditions gives four possible endings.

The popularity thing should be trivial for me at this point.  Even if I get my popularity up to 100% (which seems likely at the rate I'm going) it's easy enough to intentionally bring it down by just accepting a bunch of jobs and not completing them.  The tricky part is the evaluations for the king's assignments.  I assume you still have to complete all the assignments (meaning at least 1 star), so that means a possible spread of only two stars for the final assignment.  I have to be careful not to keep getting three stars on everything because that would actually give me too many points at the end no matter how badly I did on the final assignment.  Does anyone know if the turning point is strictly greater than 30 or greater than or equal to 30?  This will likely matter.

Me too, Eusis.  Me too...

Well all three are on the PSN and while that doesn't help the graphics I think it does help with load times.  Reading from a hard drive is a lot faster than the PSX's CD-ROM drive...

So I've heard multiple people claim that getting the true ending in this game is challenging.  Either I'm missing something or I'm actually totally awesome at this game...

I'm still on my first playthrough and am currently most of the way through finishing request #5, so I'm still less than half way through the game.  And yet my popularity rating is already at 74%.  I've also gotten 3 stars on every assignment except for one early on when I still wasn't clear how the evaluation worked.  I know what I'm doing now so unless there is a big difficulty spike later on I'm pretty confident I can keep getting 3 stars.

I have been doing side-jobs for characters as well, though maybe not at quite the rate of the normal jobs.  Since I don't seem to have any trouble keeping my popularity up I think I'm going to spen shift priorities a bit for the second half of the game.

Oh yeah, and since I've been doing so many jobs I'm totally loaded.  I have way more money than I even know what to do with.

I played it when it came out on the SNES.  That shouldn't be unusual, I think it sold pretty well.  And I've always seen emulators as a pretty fringe thing.

Wait, what?