mikeszekely

Aw, man... I should have asked for one of those for Christmas...

In other words, it's like they took AEUG vs Titans, added a few mobile suits, jacked the Z Gundam music, put in all of the crappy first Gundam music, and turned it back into yet another One Year War game. Yeah, we REALLY needed another one of those. Forget it. I'm taking a pass unless I find a used copy at Starland, or until they just come out with Gundam ZZ: AEUG vs. Neo Zeon.

The game is out in Japan now, and I could import it if I wanted to... but again, I already have AEUG vs. Titans. Is it worth $60+ shipping to import Gundam Vs. Z Gundam? Are the few additional Z Gundam mobile suits worth it (especially since I heard they made the Gaplant a lot slower)? Was it worth it to add the ZZ Gundam? Did they bother to add any other Gundam ZZ mobile suits for the Axis missions, like the Gaza-C or the Zaku III? How different is it really from AEUG vs. Titans? At the moment, I'm seriously tempted to import it, but I'm restrained with the thought that it might just be an upgrade of AEUG vs. Titans, and that it might come out States-side anyway.

What's wrong with him taking credit for his own art work? He's not claiming the works in Macross Design Works. Just his own drawings, which were on the net before Design Works went to the printers. The only reason for getting lawyers involved would be for Kawamori, SN, and BW to by the designs for a later production as they're very good. That comment was in reference to mikeszekely saying that the images by greg lane were done by kawamori. it was sarcasm. Okay, before we continue this argument, let me stress that I am very much aware of the totally fan-created design for the VAB-2. They are the black and white images that hellohikaru posted at the beginning of this thread. I do not know the name of the fellow who drew those pictures, and if he is in fact Greg Lane, and if those images were the ones linked to at the bottom of this page (the links are now dead), then that would explain much of the confusion. I'm not trying to claim that Kawamori drew those pictures. I am, however, stating that the COLOR pics found on the same page are most definately Kawamori's. The color pictures are on page 24 of the Macross Design Works book, at the end of the "Color Works" section. The images are repeated on page 134 in the FBz-99G entry. According to the circles, the fighter was drawn in February of 94, and the Battroid in January.

*Buzzer* Wrong! The first pics in this thread are a very well-done fan design. The sketchier, color drawings in the one link ARE Kawamori. You can find those pictures in the Macross Design Works book, in the FBz-99 entry. The only fan thing about it is the assumption that it is, in fact, the VAB-2. While those sketches may have been earlier designs for the VAB-2 and inspiration for the FBz-99, there is nothing to indicate that they are, in fact, the finalized design of the VAB-2. then kawamori's lawyers should be told about this greg lane fellow who takes credit for those drawings, and to whome, credit is given on that website in question (http://unsd.macrossroleplay.org/vab-2.html) "Images provided by Greg Lane" "Provided by" could simply mean that Mr. Lane scanned the images from the Design Works book, then gave the scans to Mr. Henwood.

If my wife ever told me she was worried about what her coworkers thought of me, I'd make damn sure to be as big an embarrassment as possible when I met them. I mean, I just don't get how she can ask something like that of you. It's like "you're an embarrassment, so change who you fundamentally are." You gotta lay down the law, man, before you find yourself without any toys and miserable.

Not necessarily, I watched CCA for the first time before I saw Zeta and I understood it fine. I'd recommend pciking up the original movie trilogy and CCA. Why bother skipping the best, though? CCA wasn't even that exciting. I reccomend the original TV MS Gundam and Z Gundam.

After you've wasted all that time transforming, then sure, it's easier to move an arm than the entire ship. But you could have probably moved the entire ship and got off one or two shots for all the time it takes to transform the damn thing. The only thing I can think of, and this is because it always seems like they don't start charging the gun until after transformation, is that perhaps the charged energies inside the gun are too hot, creates some sort of magnetic/electrical interference, or in some other way interferes with or damages the rest of the ship. That would necessitate the need to transform so that the gun could be held away from the rest of the ship.

*Buzzer* Wrong! The first pics in this thread are a very well-done fan design. The sketchier, color drawings in the one link ARE Kawamori. You can find those pictures in the Macross Design Works book, in the FBz-99 entry. The only fan thing about it is the assumption that it is, in fact, the VAB-2. While those sketches may have been earlier designs for the VAB-2 and inspiration for the FBz-99, there is nothing to indicate that they are, in fact, the finalized design of the VAB-2.

"Fully" being the operative word there. There are in fact two VERY short OVAs. They were bundled with some model kits in Japan or something.

You see how long it takes the battle 7 to transform so some of its defencive weapons wouldn't be clear to fire. Also the gunship undock from the ship while its transforming it won't have defence like the rest of the ship. the pinpoint barrier if it has one won't be as strong as the main. If I was attacking battle 7 with my fleet Ill attack the gun ship soon as it transform and maybe ram it with one or two of my ships to push it away and play keep away. The gunship will most likey be very slow and not very maneuverable compared to any of the other ships of the fleet. Also keep the escorts busy or destroyed since mac 7 they pop in the moments notice. edit: and to as Yeah, I never did really get into the whole Battle 7 transformation... seems to me like it would have been easier to just made sure the flight deck was clear of the gun section, then just point the bow in the direction of whatever they wanted to shoot at. I mean, the New Macross-class carriers mostly operated in space, so I don't imagine that angling the entire ship to shoot at a target would have been any more difficult than transforming the whole damn thing, and it probably would be easier to continue to launch and land Valkyries if it DIDN'T transform. That said, though, on the whole I like the Macross-class carriers. In their actual carrier mode, they look decent enough, and having the flight deck on the ship instead of attaching two smaller carriers makes sense to me. And while I don't see much of a reason to create a variable capital ship, the Macross-class looks fine in attacker mode, and even pays homage a bit to the original Macross by using the bridge section as the head, the engines as the feet, and the flight deck (in place of the entire carriers) as the arms.

Or, in other words, you can break it down like this, and with my personal rating on a 1-10 scale Universal Century (aka original) Mobile Suit (MS) Gundam (TV series, movies) - 9 MS Gundam: The 08th MS Team (OVA, movie) - 4 MS Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket (OVA) - 9 MS Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory (OVA, movie) - 6 MS Z Gundam (TV series, soon to be movies) - 10 MS Gundam ZZ (TV series) - 8 (it starts off like a 4, but ends like a 9) MS Gundam: Char's Counterattack (movie) - 8 MS Gundam F-91 (movie) - 7 MS V Gundam (TV series) - 7 G-Saviour (movie) - 1 Future Century (1st Alternate Universe [AU] Gundam) Mobile Fighter G Gundam (TV series) - 6 After Colony (2nd AU) New Mobile Report Gundam Wing (TV series) - 6 New Mobile Report Gundam W: Endless Waltz (OVA, movie) - 7 After War (3rd AU) After War Gundam X (TV series) - 8 Correct Century (4th AU, or possible the glue that binds all Gundam together) Turn A Gundam (TV series, movies) - no score, I haven't seen it Cosmic Era (5th AU) MS Gundam SEED (TV series) - 8 MS Gundam SEED Astray (OVA... I guess) - no score MS Gundam SEED Destiny (TV series in progress) - no score And before anyone says anything, yeah, I'm sure I'll get a lot of people that don't quite agree. A lot of people love the 08th MS Team, I personally thought it was the worst Gundam series I'd ever seen. Also, people tend to like V Gundam, which I thought was more like a decent AU series than a good UC series, and I also tend to like Gundam X a lot for some reason, even though most people don't seem to care for it. Go figure. On a similar note, Gundam Wing was (and unless SEED is working here, probably still is) the most popular Gundam in the States, with record ratings when it aired on Cartoon Network. For a lot of Americans, myself included, it was our first real taste of Gundam. A lot of people hold the series in high reguards because of it, but (especially when compared to UC Gundam), I find it to be a trite super-robot show full of pretty-boy pre-teen heroes. Finally, I don't care how much better the animation is, yes, I liked the original Gundam TV series much better than the movies, and yes, I do think that Z Gundam beats all, including the original.

This guy ;; Here's what EA says what their next gen Madden will look like Where did you find that picture at? It looks gorgeous..... That was from Magic box. Here's pic of the next gen NFS from EA I can't find any of these Next Generation images..... Here's the link I got it from http://www.the-magicbox.com/0412/game041202c.shtml In other words, it's conceptual art and NOT actual screenshots from actual games.

I think buying Criterion was bigger than buying Origin, since buying Criterion gave them Renderware, and the royalties from anyone who uses Renderware (including GTA, if I'm not mistaken). But I do see your point. In any case... my beef with EA is worse than my beef with Microsoft. I don't mind Windows XP, and I don't have Office installed on my computer. I use Firefox instead of IE. I hear about their anti-trust suits, but it doesn't seem to trickle down to me. Instead, I give Microsoft props for bringing me Xbox. But EA... they're just cockbites. I mean, first they wouldn't release games for the Dreamcast because they didn't want to compete with Sega Sports. Then they buy up little companies until they're the largest 3rd party developer around. Then they don't want to have their games Live enabled, because they want you to pay for their crappy service. Then they start stiffing their employees. Then, when they do have to compete with Sega Sports, they buy an exclusive license with the NFL instead of pricing Madden more competetively or actually working to improve the game. And now, they're buying a sizeable chunk of Ubisoft, who if I'm not mistaken, is EA's non-sports #1 rival. A good bit of that affects me directly.

Given that I'm a gamer first and foremost, and tend to spend most of my free money on videogames, I haven't been able to justify spending money on larger diecast planes or model kits. I did, however, try collecting some of the "Hot Wings" planes you used to be able to find in some department stores' toy section (I got mine at Ames). They were like Hot Wheels, I suppose, but they were planes instead of cars. I got the F-14, F-15, F-16, F/A-18, F-20, F-22, F-117, B-2, and SR-71. I have no idea what happened to the company, though. I'd have liked to collect a lot more of their stuff.

Missed the boat on that one. They've been buying smaller developers up for years. yes, EA buys developers, but I don't recall them buying publisher And again, it's one thing to buy a smaller developer, but a totally different thing to buy into their largest competitor.

The NFL thing won't count for much, since you always have the option to play non-licensed football games, or non-football games. But when EA starts buying out their largest competitors...? Anyway, there's already rumors going around that EA will dump Madden and mark up their football game to $60 to make up for the ridiculous ammount they paid the NFL.

Everyone I know that bought it played it for maybe a week and shelved it. I borrowed it from one of my friends, and while the setup is pretty cool, control stick sensitivity is still an issue, and a lot of the buttons on the controller are used at start up, and that's it. I personally would have rather paid less for a slightly smaller controller, especially if anything that could have been eliminated would have made your field of view larger. In other words, I think it's a pretty cool idea, but for the price, you could buy an Xbox, a Nintendo DS, a PS2, or three brand new games.

You forgot Mechassault! That's probably the only mecha game for the Xbox that I liked.

your argument is one that has been thrown up time and again, and really its a non starter. Sure countries can get their hands on Su-27, Rafale ect... but do they have the money to buy a E-2 behind it? the money to match the intensive air superiority training pilots recieve in the US? Do they have the experience and the traditions of the USN or USAF? Will they even have a sufficient number of planes? Its unlikely on all these counts. US air superiority is pretty much implied today. I'd be worried more about new generations of russian SAMs. Holy have you seen the defence budget today? 450 Billion dollars. And the military is stretched thin as it is, and is really not designed for the mission it needs to do, and people want to saddle it with more missions that really are obsolete and just waste more cash. Its time to look at priorities, and what you are proposing isn't one. Complacency isn't a good thing. We assume that our air superiority is implied, so we upgrade our planes with cheaper fighters that aren't really any better. One day, we'll wake up and realize that US air superiority is NOT a given. $450 billion... and you yourself admit that the military is stretched thin. I think my priorities are straight... defense should be a top, if not THE top priority. Again, there are plenty of other areas of government spending you could cut first. How about, instead of paying $40 for a hammer or $200 for a toilet seat, the government gets their crap at Wal-Mart for $2 and $6, respectively? How about we nip a few senators' pet projects? Streamline the federal government itself? I mean, we have something like 11 federal agencies that handle intelligence gathering. I can see some of them having differenct focuses than others, but with that many, some of them have to be redundant.

I thought the JSF was the new Commonality And that's why the JSF isn't really any faster or more maneuverable than the F-16.

Like others have said, if there is less of a need for an interceptor, and more of a need for multi-role attackers, then the move does make sense. I NEVER said that we don't need attackers. We definately need aircraft that can make precision strikes at ground targets. The need for attackers doesn't negate the need for interceptors or air superiority fighters. It is the job of the air superiority fighters to secure the skies and allow attackers to hit ground targets without worrying about being shot down by enemy interceptors. I do not believe such thinking is "Cold War mentality" either. The companies like Dassault and Mikoyan have a track record of being less than discerning about their customers. (A considerable portion of Iraq's air force was Mirages). It's not a stretch to imagine Rafales or Flankers in unfriendly forces. "Multi-role" is exactly what we don't need. Multi-role is in the 90's and 00's what "Commonality" was in the 60's. It's a method of cutting costs by using one plane for more than one role/branch that works okay rather than use multiple planes more suited to specific situations. A "jack of all trades, master of none." Personally, I'd rather my friends in the service had the best equipment possible. If government spending needs to be cut back, instead of taking it from defense, why not force polititcians to pay for limos themselves? They can certainly afford it with their ridiculous salaries.

The mecha in both shows look pretty similar. The designs work fine for me, but not really liking their paint jobs...

Then maybe we can get Master Replica bongsabers. Am I the only one who doesn't like Jedi? They're a bunch of panty-waisted do-gooders. They're like the Mormons of outer space. Oh, I'm with you. Dark Side all the way. Well, it wouldn't be Star Wars without somebody with a lightsaber, but I'd really rather see a show about more of a "one the fringe" kind of character, and definately NOT a NJO story, and NOT an X-Wing or Rogue Squadron show.

I think you should have had three choices in the poll. I'm all for progress, and as sad as it is, the F-14 is past its prime. But IMHO, so is the F/A-18, and the Bug is not a suitable replacement for the Tomcat.