BG-57: Actually, I dare say that Black Isle were the leaders in CRPG-development, until Interplay butchered the lot. Make a game like Planescape Torment, and you're second to none in the RPG-world. With NWN and KotOR, Bioware seems hellbent on filling the gap.
I don't mind so much that it 'departs' from the mainstream FF that the dialogue is almost as bad as Anakin's lines in Attack of the Clones. Yes, I pray it's a translation-issue - otherwise it would declare a large section of videogaming-world silly. (As a sidenote, I fished out some dude's source-code for a utility to hack into FF8 and *cough* alter some stuff. Has anyone been able to compile it? I... need to increase my FF8-experience.)

American Badboy: AGREE.