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So does this mean the game has a "aim mode" ala Vietcong? That is hands down the best feature of that game and I can zap VC from across the level like that... and judging from some of the other comments it seems these game developers have the typical problem that most game developers do: they have no concept of how real world firearms work thus they make the guns "random" to try to recreate recoil and rapid fire shooting. Several games have done that correctly (MoH, Call of Duty, Vietcong) and several have done it terribly (any Star Wars FPS)... I guess I will have to reserve judgement until I actually play the game... but from the sound of it they have some serious aiming issues.

"Aiming" is one of my pet peaves on FPS games and to me many games just don't "do it right"... can someone fill me in on this "aiming issue" people seem to be having?

Macross 7 is an aquired taste. It is "different". I myself have not aquired the taste... I tend to spit it out fast and wash my mouth out. Some people like it, some people don't. Some people wish complete and utter death to it and some hold it on high like the golden calf... but it's that way with just about anything in the world any more.

I've got a statue of minmay I made out of chewing gum and paperclips and it is yours for... ummm... (reads post again)... $79.99! a steal! Seriously, buy the 1/60 GBP armor that is due out this month... or put some of that to a down payment on the Q-Rau that is also due out shortly. A Penny saved is a penny earned, and when you add some other dead presidents to that pile in no time you can buy something bigger and better. Don't be in a rush to burn that loot on something you might not want.

They could and most of them do, like I said we are only seeing a handful of "semi not nice" responses to newbies, like 1 out of 10. And almost all of the ones I have seen lately have been very to the point and polite, it's not like the days of the classic Skullone molotov cocktail greeting.

MacrossWorld does have a slight tendancy towards "FNG Syndrome". Old troops are in no mood to hand hold the newbies "who will be dead in a week anyway" so they either ignore them or berate them endlessly. This habit is not as widespread as some make it out to be but I agree it is a little harsh to be a newcomer to a site and get slammed on your first post. then again in defense of the old troops slamming the FNG's a lot of the things they slam them for are spelled out quite clearly in the message board's rules page, which let's face it, no FNG reads. Seems to me we have six of one and half a dozen of the other, who is the greater evil the old hand occasionally spanking a newbie or the newbie who is technically "doing something wrong"? Neither side is right so it is up to us old troops to wait for the lieutenant to come by and tell the FNGs what to do... if they step on a mine in the meantime just see to it you are not walking next to them.

There comes a time when all true fans must draw the line between a hobby and a sickness... 1/48 is a hobby... 1/18 is a sickness. Toy collecting is like a drug, you buy the small ones at first and then you need to buy bigger and better to make you happy... buying a 1/18 scale valkyrie will be a huuuuuuuge hit on that toy bong that most people will die from... those who do not die will envy the dead for they will only find joy in a 1/10 scale valkyrie... and then a 1/6 scale one... and then a 1/1 scale one... and then the looney bin because they just bought a toy they can neither hold nor transform.

All my 1/60s stay in fighter mode due to their nature to become floppy over time... combine that with a ten minute transform time with parts swaps needed from your parts pile and 1/60s become a real hassle to own. Buy them if you like them but I'd say "play" with them as little as possible and leave them for "display only" like I do. Heck, even sitting in your display cabinets with no outside pressures the 1/60 yammies start to droop over time. Aw shucks, just buy some 1/48s!

I'm very interested in this game and have tried to DL it three times at work on our DSL, every time my DL gets booted for some reason... even tried DLing it on the other mirrors they have available... so I tried to DL it at home on my dialup, left it on all night and it dropped off. Looks like I don't get to play this game until it comes out... Oh well... I have my vietcong fist alpha to keep me busy... but it is kind of hard playning VC:FA knowing what happens to the character you play as right off the bat...

This is the original first edition boxed game I've been talking about... and come to think of it the only Battletech game I have ever played: This is the original box art. And the original box contents. I've also been doing some remembering about that first box set and some things that have come back to me... If I remember right this first boxed edition of the game came out in 1986/87 ish, hot on the heels of Robotech in the US, and having a name like "Battletech" made certain people (like me) think it was somehow related to Robotech. One look at the cover of the box and the playing pieces removed all doubt in my mind that this was either a Robotech product made to cash in on the tabletop wargaming industry (that was just starting to boom) or it was a ripoff of the Robotech "thing" with the same units just named differently. LEGAL MATTERS ASIDE in the late '80s when my friend bought this game both of us knew the units were from Robotech (cum Macross) and I recognised the Crusher Joe unit and the Dougram units as well. Both he and I had assumed that either HG or the original japanese companies had given FASA permission to use the designs and we even were under the impression that the Battletech game was an offshoot or "story brother" to Robotech... after all at this same time the Dougram units had been licensed to Revell and released under the Robotech model line so us two dimwit 18 year olds put "2 and 2" together and thought Battletech was a Robotech product. I even remember seeing Battletech plastic model kit "miniatures" in the comic/gaming stores that were just ports of Macross model kits... the freaking things even came with Hikaru and Minmay sticker sheets! I wish to heaven that I would have bought some of those things just to see what the copywrite lines on the packaging said at this point... As time passed and we went our sepparate ways I noticed that the Battletech stuff began to in no way resemble the Robotech things.. this started with the computer games and then on to the other games like Battletroops, Aerotech, Battletops and so on and so forth. That was about the time I noticed that the original unit designs went bye bye... this led me to believe one of two things: HG or Bigwest wanted to separate their cash cow from this burgeoning tabletop geek fest or they did not originally sanction those designs. I didn't care one lick about Battletech so I went on my merry way... up until about seven years ago when I returned to the states and got a job working with a bunch of leftover tabletop gamer geeks, jaded by the collectable card gamers. They asked me to come play a round with them and they told me the whole sordid story of Battletech and it's woes. In the end I am left feeling this way: licensed from the "original creators" or not FASA was simply cashing in on the "trend" at the time of table gaming and battlin' robots and their "licensed" creation got away from them as time marched on. I myself wonder when the HG lawsuit against them was brought as it was settled in '97... ten years after the game went public. I know the courts are slow but My guess is that HG, if they did not in fact license the designs to FASA, simply did not care at first (like with most of the license infringers at that time as Robotech was dead in the market)... only after they saw FASA raking in the cash from eager table gaming fanboys did they finally step up to the plate and sue FASA. After all, why sue a penniless basement company that is boosting your designs? They would not be able to pay you much for their "infringement" if you swatted them when they were small... but if by some twist their stuff took off you can wait until they get some coin in their pockets and then sue them for a nice voluntary out of court settlement. I'm either making HG out to be the devil (which I am known to do) or I am making FASA out to be a bunch of quick loot artists that got caught in a legal loophole when their invention got big enough to "notice" they had someone else's proprietary designs at their core. (there, that should piss everyone off)

I don't remember that one from the original game boxes... Then again I am trying to remember something that I half-heartedly played long long ago in the late '80s at a friend's house when he was "first kid on the block" (if you count an 18 year old as a kid) to get the "new" Battletech boxed board game. I remember seeing the units when he was popping them off the cardboard standee things and I kept telling him all the units were from anime but he did not believe me.

Don't forget that FASA also lifted a good number of designs from Fang of the Sun Dougram for some of their units. From what I can recall the entire first set of Battletech units (the ones that came in the very first boxed game that came out in the late '80s) were all lifted from anime... I can't remember one unique unit that they created at the time.

EVERYTHING is legal when you have enough money and the right paperwork... jets, machine guns, missles, grenades, tanks, choppers... I personally know a guy in Nevada who owns TWO General Electric Miniguns, all above the boards and all legal and legit. Private citizens in the right state, with the right paperwork and background checks, and lets just say "more disposable income than Bill Gates" can legally buy and use almost any piece of military hardware on the market that has passed through the propper channels. ... and for the people who might think this auction is a come-on my question to them is: who in the world would have the kehonies to fake something like this? An auction as audacious and conspicuous as this one will attract attention, positive and negative, and someone doing this on a larf would be in for just what happened: a little visit from Club Fed.

This thread is still going on? Geeze. Shock is shock but from the twenty pages of posts on this issue I think several MW members have deep-seeded HG PTSD issues.

I'm still buying a whole set, they look great to me. I even have a full set of the original fat-assed poorly proportioned flimsy as hell brittle wing Gakken toys and in my eyes outside of being the Spud Webb of my Mospeada toy collection these things will have a place of honor. Price is price, I pre-ordered my first one with Kevin at VE so if they do sell out then I'm on the ups with it... and if they do flounder then the other three can be had on eBay for cheaper.

No Zombies and No Umbrella make JsARCLIGHT something something... Marge: Go Crazy? DON'T MIND IF I DOOOOO! Seriously though it is nice to see at least they are trying to expand the series so it doesnt become what it already is: stagnant. And is it just me or in those pics does Leon get attacked with a Chainsaw a few times more than any normal human could possibly survive?

MORE NEWS FLASHES OF TOY SEXUALITY! Fraggles Red and Mokey finally admit they are lovers and leave Fraggle Rock in search of San Fransisco and a marriage license! C.U.T.I.E.S. toys throw off their frilly dresses and flowers and don flannel and cropped haircuts and demand to be called C.O.P.S.! Weeble People change their motto from "Weebles Wobble but don't fall down" to "Weebles Wobble BOTH ways, sailor!" After having a Culture Club tape "inserted" into him, Teddy Ruxpin spoke his true love for long time companion Grubby! Wuzzles no longer deny that being "two animals in one" also makes them transgender! Ninja Turtles fall in love with Green Power Ranger! Shirt Tales have done away with hoaky '80s feelgood jive and adopted Gay Pride slogans on their shirts! Pillow People attempt to have their names legally changed to "Brick Tough Burly Men" to stop the gay bashing they constantly receive! Monchichi "Biker Slave" and "Naughty Clown" outfits sell out in record time in Greenwich Village! Smurfs hold town meeting to discuss the growing epidemic of Smurf on Smurf Smurfing! ... and once again lastly Gamlin releases counter story to denounce Basara straight claims, tells Macross Gossip Weekly he and Basara are more than just "constantly annoying"!

Why are we talking about the sex lives of toys made for little girls again? NEWS FLASH! HOT OFF THE PRESSES! Jem and the Holograms come out as lesbians, tour scheduled with Madonna! Poochi tells Village Voice she likes "other dogs"! Strawberry Shortcake caught with hands in Cookie's Jar! Rainbow Brite claims "my name ain't the only rainbow around here"! Scott Tracker and T-Bob discuss their "living arrangements"! Care Bears reveal that they neither care nor are bears but homosexual midgets with gland problems! ... and lastly Basara finally admits to Macross daily news that he is in fact straight, contrary to all the evidence against him!

Generally when a cartoon TV show in america releases a movie that is usually the last curtain call for it... it's final bow... it's "jump the shark" moment. After a feature, shows that generate movies usually fall off the face of the earth never to be heard from again usually because they can never outdo the pomp and pagentry of their movie selves. I myself like the idea that the Simpsons went ten plus years without making a movie... this way the movie will be their swan song as they go quietly into the night.

These things have sort of been bugging me all night so I decided to ask the question: Why in the world are they making a Kakizaki battroid from DYRL? You never once see his unit in battroid mode. Won't they confuse some of the "less experienced" people who may have only seen bits and pieces of DYRL or the Clash of the Bionoids travesty? I like Kakizaki just as much as the other guy but talk about going straight to the bottom of the "did not see" barrel and making a toy from it... makes me wonder if other "not seen in the movie" battroid super posables are coming next like the Super Ostritch battroid and Elintseeker batttroid.

I personally don't know what to think of this... On one hand we have the rampant speculation of a R1 DYRL release and on the other we have HG bumfunking BW... My opinion of this matter is that HG is just dusting off those molds and giving them one last run through to line their wallets a bit more with grey area material... and on the flip side of the coin what is now preventing them from making DYRL anniversary edition MPC toys?... or DYRL anniversary edition SD toys?

I've been asking for people for their spares since the 1/48 VF-1J's came out... no luck. By the grace of god I got a Hikaru TV pilot that someone didn't want but I'm not holding my breath for those meaty hands.

Allthough the bike is from an anime cartoon that has just soooo much basis in reality I always was under the impression that bike was more of a drag bike than a crotch rocket. When it comes to drag bikes it has a few things going for it... but as for a crotch rocket it is useless. Having sat on one of the 1/1 mockups (those mockups are just for display, no engine or other things to make them work) I got the feeling almost of claustophobia behind that ferring and sitting back in that ramped side seat. That bike has more in common with a top fuel dragster than a street bike. I think that is why I like the design so much, it just screams speed with absolutely no handling.

To the best of my guesswork it will be about the same size as the McFarlane version as the Akira action figures were close to 1/12, if not a scosh bigger. (Think of it this way: Dragon army dolls are 1/6 and they are about twice as tall as the McFarlane Akira figures).

Neither can I... But the day I saw one of those real life mock-ups of Kaneda's bike in person and got to sit on it with the ferring down I have an all new respect for that design. I wish I could remember the name of the guy who makes those 1/1 bike mockups because they are one of the neatest things I've seen a geek do in a long time. I might have to get that bike toy just to have some fun with it... and it seems it is in 1/12 scale to boot which will match most of the other real world bike models there are on the market.