I make back-ups of saves I put a lot of work into. My back-ups don't always work though... My USB-sticks are very suicidal.

Speaking of losses, the rabbithouse just lost it's roof, it was blown away by the wind. I better go fix that O_o

Finished Wild Arms 3! It took me 2 hours to beat the final boss. Someone at Contrail is going to die for that. Final bosses should not have 10 forms and take 2 hours to beat. Thank god Clive is so great. At one point, het had 12Hp left, I had already used valiant on him and thanks to SOS Support he had doubled his attack power. Then he criticalled doing 16000 damage. Why are all the hot RPG guys either married or gay?

It's okay now, it's in the past. It's a funny story now, more or less. Nomrally I also add what I wanted to do after that failure. I applied to another college because I wanted to work with animals. Before I could enroll I needed to get some experience so I could skip the first year.

A petstore hired me as a parttime help. The store was filled with all kinds of animals (I petted a spider and a frog!) and the owners brought their own animals (4 dogs and 2 cats) with them to work. I had to do all the dirty stuff, including cleaning 20 fishtanks, there was a fish decaying in one of the filters... But the owners were really nice and complimented me on not being affraid of the animals (I bossed their huge dog around and cleaned the fishtank with the piranhas).

After half a day at work I was constantly sneezing, coughing and eventually my lunch ended up in the toiletbowl. My sister had the flu at the time, so I blamed her. The next week it was time to clean the cages of the rabbits and rodents. The same thing happened.

So I had some of my blood tested and it turns out that I'm allergic to dogs, cats and the food they keep in open boxes in the store. One cat or one dog isn't a problem, but several of them are. Yay...

Hah, I predicted Sonic games would be released for the Gameboy over 10 years ago! The guy from the store still owns me a free game.

Golden Axe is part of some sort of Sega collection for the PS2.

Oh and another point for the Rev. I never owned any Sega systems and with the Rev I'll be able to play Sonic games on my own console. And not the crappy 50Hz conversions, but speedy 60Hz Sonic! Nice.

I wanted to be a teacher. Everyone was screened before hand and if there was anything wrong, they would say something about it. But in my case they didn't say anything. When I had been in college for 3 months or so,I had to hear things like "You'll never get a job with that voice", "Your voice is very childlike" and "Your voice is to high and soft" everyday. I was determined at first and I contacted two of those... what do you call them in English?... persons who help you with speechproblems. But they concluded my natural voice was very squeeky. One of them did they I did have a good voice if I tried to growl like a bear. That was pretty much when I quit.

Actually, a good hobby can help you get a job. My dad runs the local 'schutterij', a group of people who organise the carnival, birdshooting (not real birds, calm down) and other events in town. Potential employers are always interested in it, because it shows he has leadershipskills and the like. Is running a guild (a succesfull guild with hundres of members), that much different? It's just that games are not as widely accepted as shooting wooden birds...

Female, 19 years old. Currently in high school. Long story, don't ask. I live somewhere in the Netherlands, in a little town that doesn't change all that much. I go to school in a town 10km to the south with a name that could be translated to 'City of Death'. Lovely, isn't it? I read too much and my friends discribe me as a crazy bookhugger. I also enjoy archery and RPGs.

Uhm... I couldn't finish my college education because my voice was to squeeky. My plans for the future crushed together with some hopes and dreams. How's that?

As for tales of loss related to games... My mega memorycard decided it would be fun to delete all my saves. And when I asked my dad to install Office 97 on my laptop, he tought I had said Windows 98. I lost a lot of saves and other stuff. And yes, I was smart enough to make a back-up, but the back-up died before I could put the data on my laptop again. Oh and it took a week to find all the drivers for my laptop. Thanks daddy...

I'm not going to get all worked up about a few changed crosses. And the smoking thing, as long as it doesn't change the personality of the character I don't really mind. You don't always notice these kind of things. Badrach smoked in the Japanese version of Valkyrie Profile, I found out about that after I finished the game twice.

IIRC Mastiff was a new publisher when they released La Pucelle Tactics, I don't blame them for taking the safe path. Most publishers drop these habits after a few games. Heh, look at what Atlus did to Persona and what kind of localizations we are getting now.

I don't remember that, but I do remember Roger Bacon and other characters referring to the events in Koudelka.

IIRC the events of From the New World take place after the stock market crash in 1929 and that several characters are going to make a cameo.

What I want to know is if the pink bat will appear in this game. Can't have a Shadow Hearts without a member of our favorite vampire family, now can we?

Are they that bad?

But it seems logical they picked these games: less trouble with licenses.

These games don't have any mecha from anime series, do they? Not that that ruins te fun. I'd buy shit if it were made from SRPG and mecha.

Watched Deep Rising again, I have a weakness for pulpish science-fiction horror junkfood like this. Barely justified giant seamonsters sucking your fluids out when you are still alive. And they are fast. Seamonsters > zombies. Okay, the movie is unoriginal, but it doesn't take itself seriously and that makes it okay. It's fun.

Namco had nothing to do with it. It's Falcom game published by Konami >_>