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He's saying it looks like a KKK hood. Looks more like a troll to me, but I'm not talking about the SDF-1.

why bother putting skinny legs in fighter mode? Just slap on belly plates.

Now that you mention it, ODST dude can also flip a warthog... Oh well, *insert line about miraculous strength enhancing armor* moving on...

Maybe they are loosing but they're still winning.

I liked the campaign in ODST. It's not as tactical as an actual stealth type FPS or even COD but it's a nice change of pace from the regular Halo formula. Still, the non linear story telling was a great deal of fun and it was a blast having half the cast of Firefly as your squadmates.

I noticed that too. And I thought only spartans were able to carry those turrets because of their bulk and weight?

Played ODST firefight last night for a few hours. Had lots of fun but encountered some serious lag where the screen would lock up and then resume but as if no time had passed, that is when play resumes you don't find yourself mysteriously dead.

I'd get the vf-2ss. I'd pose it along side my other gundams and the valkyries would all point and laugh at it.

But X-men was always about disenfranchised teens running around playing superhero.

Quick, take pictures of your toys outdoors, remake the mars sequence from SDF: Macross!

Got ODST, it's a blast... it's fun to be back in the halo world even if you're no longer an unstopable instrument of death and destruction.

do you mean like select the valkyrie you want in order of most to least? Because if we can just vote as many times as we want kinda defeats the whole point of the poll.

Probably just don't realize this poll actually matters and it's not just the usual fan wank that we do around here.

I think the idea is that they were only detected once they started moving, but whatever.. the pods were far enough away to be beyond visual range and the Macross detected them before the attack so... it makes no sense either way. haha.

Nope, not dead yet http://www.collider.com/2009/09/07/exclusi...a-movie-update/

You should just continue doing these recaps and we can compare notes at the end of the season.

WRONG, the SAP makes it even cooler, there's nothing cooler than a blast shield for your robot's face that protects your robot's awesome face when you fire the awesome gun.

It was the first console FPS with a decent control scheme and while it's not the best it's a solid well balanced shooter... in the console world that makes it gold.

But it was hardly an "ambush" in the traditional sense. They knew they were coming and had warning. And it is in space, it wasn't like they jumped out behind them from an asteroid or something. Anyways, I feel I need to explain something at this point. In Lone Wolf and Cub there's a scene where a disgraced guard asks if it was right of him to charge into battle or if he should have stayed next to the palaquin. *This* is the joke I was referencing. I'll only say that I have a nasty head cold and say I should have explained the joke at the beginning of all this. ,

I saw old Bourne: midlife crisis, it was surprisingly fun!

And yet the opening sequence of them attacking the shuttle starts with one of them getting hit and blowing up, immediately followed by another. edit:: It is extravagant when compared to other escort missions that only had 1 squad. Launching six squads on what is supposed to be a secret mission to earth on the other hand does seem a bit much. And Hikaru then becomes the most incompetent CAG of all time to not notice 18 fighters being rescheduled for 1 mission.

Are we talking about Max here? Yeah, I think Max and 2 other guys could have held off 60 fighters for 10-20 mins, sure. In other episodes we see max taking out 5-10 fighters by himself just in the opening salvo, that dude is a killing machine. The show took great pains to show hw badass max and how ineffective the battle pods were, I don't think it's out of the question at all. And at 18 fighters that's almost 10% of the SDF-1's valkyries at the time. No, I got that and your mocking, like the rest of your argument doesn't make sense. Why is laughable that one animation error would be followed by another. It's already been established with max and his uber missile payload that the animators felt the need to fudge the script when they felt the need.

Only in that you need to keep adding to the number of fighters to remain consistent with what you said previously. Previously you held that the animation was infallible and mocked my answer of "animation mistake" but in order for what you're saying to work we need to have 6 unseen valkyries and change the designator system that was established and remained constant for the previous 23 episodes and that gets adopted again following this particular episode. So either way, there are animation errors. My way just leaves it at that, your way needs to add script errors on top of it. And if you keep adding numbers to th escort squad it becomes increasingly less impressive that Max was able to hold off until Hikaru arrives and it just makes Hikaru that much more impressive that he was able to do in one fell swoop what took 12 fighters something less than 20 mins to accomplish. And only kinda, it goes to the idea of what "best" is. Is the best pilot someone who gets the most kills or is it the pilot with best awareness of the greater battle and who works with and the other pilots?

Yeah, who needs dialog, let's just make up our own story. Oh wait, that was Robotech. edit in response to your edit: So either way, "meh, animation error"

How is this show still on?