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plus it still has to have room for the mechanics for the feet to slide out, the landing gear bays, and the supports for those things as well as the room for the knee hinge to collapse into. And it all has to be sturdy enough for people to yank on the legs during transformation.

there isn't as much space inside those legs as you might think. I've opened up the yf-19 and the vf-0 legs and they're both incredibly cramped for space.

unbelievable.

shatner responding to JJ regarding his cameo, or lack there of.

It's just too bad that it seems that in general, the gaming audience has moved away from the more realistic space sims.

they've been talking about bruce for the longest time. I thought WB put an end to that because they didn't want it to potentially interfere with Nolan's Batman.

nice.

I'm enjoying it. Sure the writing isn't quite there yet, but like Scream Man said, a lot of shows take a while to get their legs. And since this show was one that got pretty seriously affected by the writer's strike, i'm more inclined to cut them some slack. Besides, season 1 was already better than anything in Heroes Season 2, imo.

yeah, will rent.

Too busy playing to talk about it. been playing Too Human, Lost odyssey and Tales of Vesperia, and civ: rev. plus the COD4 mp maps wsa half price this past weekend so I need to pick that up again.

It's not just the proportions on the 1/48 (fighter) that I like better, the ver 2 1/60 has big gaps on the legs and under the nosecone that bother me. But whatever, it's still sweet.

I can't wait for Wipeout. It's pretty much the only game I play on the PSP and I can't wait for 1080p, 5.1 surround sound goodness

Well, it's never so simple right? I mean, some things are cross genre and fall into "general level of quality". The basic mechanics and presentation are like that, imo. It shouldn't really matter what genre the game is, sound and visuals should be good. We can debate style but we can all agree a game shouldn't have clipping, or poorly recorded audio, for instance. But some stuff is genre specific. I mean, I read a review for mass effect where the reviewer complained there was too much dialog...WTF? I also have different expectations from japanese or european developers from north american developers. Different design and play philosophies.

Which is fine, if all the games were in the same genre. I mean, if I'm choosing which FPS to play, of course I'll play the 9~10 games. But as far as JRPG's go... Lost and tales received good marks, for the genre. Duke disagreed with that, which is why I asked him to point me towards better JRPGs. I mean, i can understand if we're just talking about games in general...yeah, why waste time with Mercenaries (or whatever) when you can play COD4. But if you want to play a specific genre, it doesn't matter that COD4 got a "10" because it's not the type of game you want to play.

Gotcha... but going back to the origin of this, I said that tales and lost received good marks, Duke said they did not. Just because most games get good marks, making them "average" doesn't mean that those games are not good games, or even average games. There's a pretty clear distinction here between the actual game and where the game places in comparison to all the other games. And yeah, I agree that relying on the the numerical score isn't the best way to go.

Uhm, no... it's been a while since I took a math class, but 8 out of 10, is not Average. It\'s a B, still above average. It depends, the technical glitches are not nearly as pronounced as some reviewers made them out to be. It\'s a solid dungeon crawler. The main problem with it is that the levels are linear and scripted and unchanging so if you do the 4~5 runs per class to get all the loot, it gets boring very quickly. The game really needed a dynamic level engine like the one in diablo or other modern dungeon crawl games. The voice acting and animation are pretty horrible though, Which just makes it all the more difficult to go through and grind. Some of the gameplay mechanics seems kinda arbitrary. Some of the smash attacks affect you when you're in the air and because the hit detection is weak, you can be heat even though you look like you're beyond the range of the smash graphics. And since there's no way to heal or dispel DOTs, being affected by one is pretty much a death sentence but even that's meaningless since the game doesn't penalize you for dying, other than making you watch that canned valkyrie animation. Some reviewers complained that the game is always the same since the enemy scales to your level, but they're only half right. If you start a new campaign with your old character, then yes, it's the EXACT same experience. But if you use the replay function in the game like you're supposed to, the game puts in new enemy types and configurations so the actual encounters are different and you don't have to sit through those horrid cutscenes. But i actually enjoy the actual gameplay. When you know what you're doing, wading into a horde of robot goblins and throwing them into air with some big ass hammer and then burning them down with your big ass plasma cannon can be very fun.

oh sorry. misunderstood your post. And yeah.

Uhm, not really, 360 has all the current JRPGs that have been released in the US., Lost Odyssey, Infinite Undiscovery, Tales of Vesperia, Blue Dragon. Those are 360 exlcusives, Sonata and FF (what the hell are they on now?) are both on the 360 and PS3. I think right now, there are more RPG's and JRPG's for the 360 by far compared to PS3. And I was cheap, my PS3 can't play PS2 games... as I didn't own any PS2 games, my need for this feature was nonexistent.

Well, looking for more current titles, I don't have a PS2 or an xbox, so i need current gen titles.

which is why I go to metacritic and I can see all the major reviews plus user reviews. Veperia got an 80 on critic reviews and 9./10 from users. Lost odyssey fair a little worse, most reviewers liked it and those that didn't usually thought that way because they didn't like traditional JRPG gameplay... they wanted "innovation". But users gave it an 8.4 so again, not a bad game. Neither are great games sure, but they're supposed to be decent. Anyways, If Duke is going to say there are better JRPGs out there to play but can't name any, then, imo, he's just being snarky.

now you're just being snarky, they both got solid 8's from most review sites.

I would be interested if: more realistic sculpt than the battroid GN-U extensive detailing including tampo printing of at least all major markings the line focused on valkyries that do not already exist in the 1/60 line. alternate payloads such as missiles/bombs, non standard gunpods, etc.

the connection boom isn't too long to retract. It just requires a telescoping boom and that requires some high end materials and a good design.

In my defense, those two got good reviews. So let's here some of your pics then, point me in the right direction!

yeah, I had an itch to play a JRPG... now I remember why I haven't played one since FF7.