• VV|AFK: Yours truly, sort of Away From the Keyboard.
• BrianG: (aka Kupan) Brian Glick, one of the writers for the Gaming Intelligence Agency.
• [Person]: The FF9 Instant Hater. Notice that:
  
  1. How quickly he announces Final Fantasy IX will suck.
  2. How he makes such a judgement on some outdated concept sketches.
  3. How he makes comparison to Grandia, a rather good RPG anyhow.
  4. How, near the end of the log, he threatened to hump me.

Back to the main story...

The log begins at 1:42am, 1.29.2000, in dalnet #square.

[01:43] <BrianG> THE GIA GETS THE FIRST SCOOP ON FINAL FANTASY 9, 10, and 11!!!!!!

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[01:43] <BrianG> :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[01:44] <Trilless> ..... Kupan? o_O

[01:44] <Typhus> Jesus fucking christ. O_o

[01:44] <BrianG> go look at the site

[01:44] <BrianG> we're still revising and collecting our bearings

[01:44] <BrianG> but i just spoke with our japanese dude for like 20 minutes RIGHT after he stepped out of it

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[01:46] *** Typhus changes topic to '[Squaresoft Chat] Final Fantasy IX in October, US. Final Fantasy X and XI to be PS2 games, XI being online only. '

[01:47] <Typhus> Dude.

[01:47] <Typhus> Fucking amazing.

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[01:47] <[PERSON]> Typhus: Where'd you learn that?

[01:47] <Coran> XI is ONLINE ONLY?

[01:47] <VV|AFK> www.thegia.com

[01:47] <[PERSON]> WTF how is XI online only?

[01:48] <BrianG> broadband PSX2

[01:48] <BrianG> they're REALLY pushing broadband

[01:48] <BrianG> FFX is online too

[01:48] <BrianG> you have a chocie

[01:49] <Coran> Are you serious?

[01:49] <Qual|away> aah on sec

[01:49] <Osirus> yeah

[01:49] <Typhus> I MUST SEE LOGOS

[01:49] <Typhus> :D

[01:49] <BrianG> dead serious

[01:49] <Coran> Kupan you aren't full of shit I hope.

[01:49] <Coran> ONLINE ONLY?

[01:49] <Coran> FUCKING BRILLIANT.

[01:49] <BrianG> i talked with our japanese guy for like 20 minutes

[01:49] <Trilless> Where are you online from Kupan?

[01:49] <Coran> That would be so awesome.

[01:49] <BrianG> dude we'd kill ourselves by posting a lie ;)

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[01:49] <BrianG> trilless at home

[01:49] <Coran> Wilyneko

[01:49] <Coran> Topic

[01:49] <Wilyneko> Coran

[01:49] <Osirus> and they sketches were right

[01:50] <Coran> FF9, 10, 11 info.

[01:50] <BrianG> well, they're not TOTALLY right...not everything was exactly as in the sketches, he said, but they were CONCEPT sketches adn VERY close to the final thing

[01:50] <BrianG> supposedly the black mage is EXACTLY the same as the sketches

[01:50] <BrianG> but we need more info before we post that

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[01:50] <[PERSON]> Uhm, dude.

[01:50] <Typhus> Dude.

[01:50] <[PERSON]> If those sketches are really FFIX.

[01:50] <Wilyneko> OMG

[01:50] <Typhus> This is weird

[01:51] <VV|AFK> BrianG: None of that answers my pressing question: Are there Sabotenders?!

[01:51] * Wilyneko go read.

[01:51] <[PERSON]> FFIX's gonna suck.

[01:51] <Wilyneko> BTW, Coran

[01:51] <DarkWombat> ...

[01:51] <BrianG> [PERSON], they are CONCEPT SKETCEHS

[01:51] <Melonzoo> that is fagtastic >:<

[01:51] <BrianG> very EARLY sketches

[01:51] <Typhus> I'm in a haze, that they actually displayed three Final Fantasy titles.

[01:51] <Wilyneko> Different Class rocks.

[01:51] <BrianG> VERY VERY EARLY

[01:51] <Coran> What?

[01:51] <[PERSON]> Brian: But they look like something out of Grandia!

[01:51] <BrianG> but the final game IS very cartoony

[01:51] <VV|AFK> [PERSON], you have set a new world record for passing judgement on a game

[01:51] <BrianG> and is VERY fantasy

[01:51] <Coran> You bought it!?

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[01:51] <Coran> YAY!!!

[01:51] <BrianG> and VERY colorful

[01:51] <Wilyneko> Coran, Pulp - Different Class.

[01:51] <[PERSON]> Grandia assraped Final Fantasy and the result is FFIX. :P

[01:52] <Sakurambo> Anyone here seen the film "UHF"?

[01:52] <Cluny> UHF was great

[01:52] <Coran> I haven't even bought it yet.

[01:52] <Coran> No money :(

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[01:52] <Wilyneko> Yeah, I went there wanting to buy Velvet Goldmine s/t

[01:52] <Wilyneko> didn't have it

[01:52] <Coran> It's a great album isn't it?

[01:52] <Typhus> God, Final Fantasy nine in october. That's amazing.

[01:52] <Wilyneko> so I bought Pulp instead

[01:52] <Wilyneko> uep

[01:52] <Typhus> Eleven months after FF8. :P

[01:52] <Sakurambo> It's a better movie. ^^

[01:52] <Coran> You finally heard Mis-shapes :>

[01:52] <Typhus> That's a much shorter period than FF7-->FF8

[01:52] <[PERSON]> Typhus: GRANDIA ASSRAPES FINAL FANTASY NEWS AT ELEVEN.

[01:52] <[PERSON]> :P

[01:52] <BrianG> actually, the ff9 in october HERE may not be right

[01:52] <Osirus> I can't wait to see that trailer of FFIX and FF The Movie

[01:52] <Wilyneko> Online only? How gay :P

[01:53] <BrianG> since they only said 2000 at the sohw

[01:53] <Wilyneko> Coran: Yep :P

[01:53] <Typhus> Coran: I doubt that.

[01:53] <Coran> Mis-shapes I like more than Disco 2000 almost.

[01:53] <Qual|away> trill give me a sec to get it

[01:53] <Wilyneko> er, Yep :)

[01:53] <[PERSON]> I like the medieval concept for FFIX, but how cartoony is it?

[01:53] <Typhus> the GIA would lose credibility should this not be true.

[01:53] <Typhus> Wily.

[01:53] <Typhus> www.thegia.com

[01:53] <Typhus> Now.

[01:53] <[PERSON]> I mean, is it as cartoony as the concept sketches, or a bit less?

[01:53] <Osirus> FFIX in Ocotber in america:)

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[01:53] <[PERSON]> (God, I hope a LOT less)

[01:53] <_Rei_> Ty: that scares me

[01:53] <Typhus> FFIX, X, XI announced.

[01:53] <chrono^^> there we go :D

[01:53] <_Rei_> shit burst lag

[01:53] <BrianG> can you add "www.thegia.com" to the end of the topic please?

[01:53] <BrianG> we've got the internet scoop on this right now

[01:54] <BrianG> hell

[01:54] <BrianG> the world scoop

[01:54] *** Cluny changes topic to '[Squaresoft Chat] Final Fantasy IX in October, US. Final Fantasy X and XI to be PS2 games, XI being online only. http://www.thegia.com'

[01:54] <IceDelta> B heh

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[01:54] <BrianG> i hope you don't mind if i'm being insufferable right now

[01:54] <VV|AFK> Could you also add to the topic that [PERSON] is the first person to pre-hate FF9 :D

[01:54] <BrianG> but we've kind of got SERIOUS bragging rights now ;)

[01:54] * [PERSON] humps Brian. "I don't mind at all, baby."

[01:54] <[PERSON]> Shut up, Vincent. Don't make me hump you too.

[01:54] <VV|AFK> Ooh baby.

[01:55] <VV|AFK> BrianG: When can we expect the GIA to sieze the white house? :D

[01:55] <Typhus> XI = Online only.

[01:55] <[PERSON]> I don't pre-hate FF9, I am just...CONCERNED.

[01:55] <Typhus> IX = October US.