I'm planning on getting FE, but I have to beat PoR first. I'm the type that's obsessive about restarting anytime someone dies, so it's taking me a while. Plus the fact that I have other games I'm working on beating too. So I doubt I'll get FE at release, but I'll get it eventually.

Never tried Batallion Wars, although I want to. Gotta clean out some of the rest of my backlog before I even think of buying the GC version.

A 20" Symphonic (Walmart brand) flat screen CRT SDTV with mono sound plug in the front. I hate it. Plus it's starting to screw up - the sound cuts out sometimes and the picture starts getting darker or gets lines.

Hopefully I'll be able to get an HDTV around Black Friday or sometime.

I've played the PC demo and I absolutely loved it. It'll probably be my next DS game that I get, or I might wait and get it on the PSP when I get one in September. Just depends on whether or not I want to trade stylus controls for prettier graphics and an easier-to-see board.

It's an ingenious concept though, and I really enjoyed the little bit I played of the demo.

I watched the broadcast, but I missed a lot of it due to problems with it loading as well as freezing mid-broadcast. I remember them mentioning the ragdoll physics as well as the different characters having their own styles of play. Also I caught briefly something about the health system not having health packs. Like I said, I had problems with it loading as well as randomly freezing up, so I only caught random snippets of the whole thing.

Thanks in advance, Jody!