I, Kazan, bid you welcome to the RPG Dueling League, dedicated to the art of pitting the greatest warriors of the RPG Multiverse against each other in honourable combat! Within lies the greatest showcase of fighting talent you will ever lay your eyes upon! Here, you will be able to vote on a series of Battles. weekly where the greatest warriors will square off in combat! Fighters are split into divisions, aptly named for the fighting prowess of those within. The victors each week continue on in a typical eliminations-style tournament, until a victor is crowned champion of each division. Here, you'll also find exciting bonus matches and other spectacles to seduce your battle-starved souls, enough honourable combat to fill even an old man like me with joy! Questions? Go here! In addition, there's another small tournament called Not Ranked, which pits an even wider assortment of unique, secretive and unknown warriors against each other in a similar vein. If you're looking for a favourite, it wouldn't hurt to check that out as well. The DL is more than answering the question of how fighters stack up. It's a repository of information about RPG's varying from the obscure to the well known. Every bit of data gathered from every dank duengon and musty library in the RPG universe is gathered here. If you youngsters want to talk about any RPG of any stripe, you're welcome here. Check out this center of learning and find out new information about your favorite games! You've done a good job paying attention, students. Here's the news for Season 46: Not Ranked is returning soon. If you wish to find out more, contact Tonfa Baton at our forums! Looking to make an impact? Have an opinion about a fight, or merely wish to tell a story about how your favorite fighter wins (Or how that dishonorable hated fighter loses?) Send in a comment on a fight this week! The fans who come to vote and write create some of the magic of our universe. If not for your contributions, we would not have seen the 'magical' side of Ghaleon, nor seen the fate that befell Zidane when he tried to outsmart Fou-Lu. So send in a writeup today, and help make the site a better place! Now here's Chisato to take you Behind the Scenes! So, I've been thinking. Always a good sign. Funny. Well, we have some spare time, you might as well go on. You see it's funny because Gilgamesh doesn't like it when Ultros thinks. Yeah, thanks Odin. Anyway, today's topic for our inane ramblings before the start of the show is FF: Dissida. What, that fighting game? What's the deal with these games where you take huge casts of characters from other genres and make them beat the crap out of each other. I mean, there's Super Smash Brothers, that upcoming Mortal Kombat vs. DC Comics game, Dissida... There's a Castlevania game coming out, too. That just adds to my point. All of a sudden games are coming out that are gigantic crossovers. These fulfill certain requirements. First, they introduce the series to people who maybe aren't fans of the RPG genre. Second, they are more likely to make money. Third, they appease fans of the original series who might not see another game for a few years, or however long the development cycle is. Now, hold on a minute. Wouldn't it be better to make 2 seperate games, one for each series? Not always! In something like cinema, that would be true, because movies based on comic books or other franchises generally sell well, and there's little point in bogging down a successful IP with a crappy one in some attempt to revive the franchise. But things are different for video games. Video games take tons of money to make, advertise, and ship, and it's hard for video games to make a profit nowadays, much more so than movies, who can have a more flexible budget. Combing two franchises in a fighter is cheaper because they can adopt the battle system of whatever fighting game is most popular at the time. In addition, since there are multiple franchises involved, theoretically the interest in the game would multiply and draw in people who normally don't play video games, or at least games in that genre. It also keeps the fanbases pleased. Let me get this straight. You think the future of gaming is going to be quickly made, cookie-cutter, bland fighting games that are noting but blatant pandering to fanbases in some attempt to improve the bottom line, irregardless of the quality of the game in question? The future...is NOW! Alright, that's enough of that. Hello once again, Readers! Chisato Madison here, ready to begin Week 4's Behind the Scenes. In order to make up for the incredible wall of words you just plowed through, I promise that the following interviews will be pretty short. On with the show! ... One of us is an ancient, legendary creature, and the other one causes it to rain all the time. Ohohohoho, I crack myself up sometimes. You see, it's funny be- RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH THAT'S NOT FUNNY! GIVE THAT BACK, I NEED THAT TO BREATHE! Thanks. Gimmicks are never funny. I respect gigantic flying whale things as much as the next man. Of course, I'm not the next man, I'm the lord of time and I can kill you in minutes. What I'm trying to say here is, I'm gonna win. ... Okay, thank you very much. Next! ... ... What? I told you this was going to be short. It's interesting. You see- No, you've talked enough. Let's give, uh, Gilgamesh a shot. Eh, I got nothing. I was going to go on about how it's sort of a coincidence with Riou's True Rune and Crono's revival after eating a face full of Lavos, but that's really convulted and lame. Really all this comes down to is two silent meatbags beating on each other. Though one can heal. They both have healing, I guess? Revival don't count, son. ... ... Ugh. I'm so tired of looking at those dead fish eyes. Get lost, you little freaks. Those are the eyes of a killer. So, the time as come, brother. I had hoped this day would never come. I wish you luck in the coming duel. And the same to you. You'll need it. I'm not going to hold back! I expect nothing less. Time to see what you look like when you're knocked off a horse. You won't get the chance, if I make you a Boyd-kabob first. We'll see what happens. I suppose we will. I'd better go train. My axe needs sharpening. See you in the arena. I'll take my leave as well. What do you want from me? There's nothing to interview about, one has an axe, the other has a lance, there's not a whole lot to ask. What is it with the DL and awkward matches? If you ask me, it's because of flouride in the drinking water. That's why I stick to straight whiskey. Put down the pamphlet, skull. Heh. This'll be a cinch. Yes, that's right, another FE9 character! I mean, I'll mop the floor with you! Guess I'd actually better do some interviewing. Talk about the match, gentlemen. I pump Soren full of lead, and then I wait to handle either that dude who never talks or the woman who won't shut up. I'd like to see you aim that thing when you're on fire. You'll be cinders in seconds. That's what I like to hear! This is gonna be fun. No, fun is actually winning this damn thing. And now, in the interests of brevity, Odin takes out the trash. I'LL MOP THE FLOOR WITH YOU! AHHHH! I KNEW I SHOULD HAVE RECYCLED! NOT THE FACE! NOT THE FACE! YOU ARE THE TOILETS, AND I AM THE DRAIN CLEANER! FACE THE WRATH OF GUNGIR! You know, we should let him out more often. It's pretty entertaining. Hah, look at them run. Light's are just adorable. Try making them eat dirt sometime. It's hilarious! Ah, good times, good times. Well, thanks to Ultros's little lecture, we got done pretty early today. I don't know about you guys, but I'm ready for a party. Let's go have an ice cream social! A WONDERFUL IDEA! YAAAAAAY! See you during Finals week!