Keith

I think this gets right to the heart of the situation. With Shadow Chronicles, Yune wrote himself into a pretty big black hole. The Alpha fighters ARE useless. The Shadow Alpha's are even more useless. The "colony" ship they left on has no guns, and it's doubtful they have much in the way of supplies. Even pit-stopping at Earth, it doesn't seem likely they took time to stock up on much, and even then, there's no "protoculture" left to fuel their endeavors. A future sequal would need a new tranformable fighter. Yune is incapable of designing this, and yet, they know their leftover fanbase will "not" accept a non-transformable fighter. Yune refuses to acknowledge his limitations, and hire someone ::gasp:: creative from outside to solve this problem for him. there will be no Shadow Rising until Yune figures out how to make a transformable fighter! And then explain where this magical new invention that runs on the Protoculture they don't have came from. Louie Nichols? Are we to believe he's the new robotech deus who can build anything their plot needs? What facilities on board their ship would they use to manufacture these fighters? Trials? Something that can beat their non-descipt level of enemy tech? Which is apparently still vulnerable against min-hand powered arms (ride armors). I can't help but think Kawamori secretly "does" follow this situation. He took the next logical step that Yune "should have" thought of, i.e. EX-Gears. Had Yune thought of that, it would have been derivative of Ride-Armor yes, but it would have also solved some of his plodding problems with a more direct interface for their pilots to Robotech to. But now he can't even dream of attempting it without fans calling him on an obvious foul. Check and mate! If only Yune had been brave enough to try what the Chinese did, which is ripping off real world fighter planes with derived transformations, but now Astro Plan has beat him to that punch. If he were smart, he'd use his last best chance, and go for a basic Zeta style flip transformation, and hope that Bandai/Sunrise won't go after him. A small ugly-ish fighter that folds in half for its transormation? Fans would accept that, but oh wiat, Kawamori's done that too with Eureka Seven... A Gattai fighter perhaps? Nope, Aquarion . perhaps a smaller mecha that ejects from a larger one..Kissdum... Maybe he can rip-off Starscream from the TF movies?

I'm up to the first character switch in XIII, and I really do have to wonder exactly what they were thinking. Beautiful game, sparse but interesting story so far....but why strip down the play mechanics like this & still use ATB? I hate turn based RPG's that are still turn based but tear out the heart of being turn based (i.e. attack you while you're issuing commands). Either go full action RPG and let me dodge, or leave the option to have the enemy wait until I'm done issuing commands. With that said, I do still like the game, but I'm very confused with where they were going. Dare i say they should have gone with a Bayonetta style engine if they really wanted it to seem more actiony, and drop the RPG thing all together if they didn't want to make an RPG. Damn, this game is pretty though Also boo! for lack of Japanese audio, really square?

It's not their fault. They don't have G.I. Joe to tell them not to do drugs. Hell, they don't even have the freakin' Gobots, poor kids. Back in our day, we had Turbo Teen to tell us that if you were stupid enough to drive your car through a mad scientist invention, you "WILL" turn into said car if you try to take a shower. But kids now, have you seen the garbage they have for cartoons?

And I say be a man, unless you truly do think Japanese kids are tougher than pansy-ass american kids.

Damn, I thought this was gonna be a summer release. With that said, I wish I could travel into next year to bring back a bluray!

-SCHOOL RUMBLE -Gurren Lagann -The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya -Nadia -Gunbuster -Diebuster -Kare Kano -Mahoromatic -Midori Days -Aquarion -Chobits -Gravion -Godannar -Ikki Tousen -Ikki Tousen Dragon Destiny All of that will give you a general mixture or a well rounded budding anime fan.

Has anyone seen any shops that still have Frontier bluray Vol 5 + box still in stock?

Damn, I laughed so hard seeing Shrek in the "Sense of Right Allience," that not even Bruce Wayne turning into Spider-Man could top it.

Nothing, he was a washed up old soldier who sold out to protect his own ass. He lead other soldiers to their death, and at the very end forcably has a streak of concience, then dies like the back stabbing bastard he was. A good episode in its rightful context, but robotech makes it infinately inane trying to glamorize the character.

I just wonder why Rainy Boy didn't get the "Wolf Treatment." Was Macek snoozing during that episode? That would have been a perfect opportunity to kill off a significant Macross character. They could have made him Max, and say the Invid killed Milia, and he went ona solo mission to rescue her, got captured and turned into a cyborg that now hunts other humans or something.

Don't you mean "sucksessfully" I hope that "one" episode you watched, was the epic season finale.

I made my secondary MGO character female just to mix it up a bit, and tried to give her a bit of a Yoko look (red ponytail, red bikini top, big sniper rifle). It's too bad they've yet to add "really short shorts" as a clothing option!

You know, after Crisis Core, I wouldn't mind a handheld remake, but I'd love a full PS3 version, somehow using the Advent Children Renders, that included a redone version of CC as well. Now that XIII is almost out, has there been any news on Vs XIII? I'd almost be willing to bet it will be a far closer traditional action/rpg than XIII turned out. Plus, I realy want them to finish it so they can get started on Kingdom Hearts III. Hell, if Squenix is smart, they'll do an HD Final mix PS3 re-release, ala GoW collection.

As awesome as that would be, what if they were actually following a Vajra mating call (aka "Aimo") from all the way across the galaxy.

Here's my question, does the omission of all but 3 main Mospeada characters in shadow chronicles depiction of the Mospeada ending retcon them out of robotech canon? Or was Tommy Yune too afraid to tackle redesigning Yellow, just imagine the agonizing over whether to give him huge tits, or a six pack. Plus reminding robotech fans that Jim was a lolicon would automatically void their fandom! Ah Love, Live Alive, thank you for your epilogue.

Can't help but remind everyone that Grandia is up for download on the playstation store.

You know, I still haven't gotten around to playing VIII, but I find that hilarious, and entirely possible after reading it. Considering how everyone went apeshit with Aerith, that'd be a balzy & comical movie for Square to have made.

Haven't watched the clone wars series?

That thing he said!

Funny how in one topic you've found god regarding cursing, but here you are racest as all f^ck. Priorities?

Sorry, much like myself, my PS3 refuses to even acknowledge that dubs exist.

I believe episode III makes the franchise stronger as a whole, especially the mirroed scenes between Vader's downfall & redeption (making the wrong choice not to back up Mace, and the right choice to back up Luke).

I'll translate for you. Anything you do that kills a lagger despite their obvious lag, makes you a noob. If you really want to piss off laggers one day, equip CQC lvl 1 & Blades lvl 3. Sneak up behind them, get them in a hold, and triangle for throat slit. They'll immediately hit their lag switch to prevent from dying. As they magically un-die/respawn exactly where they were, grab them again, repeat, until thier attempts at saving themselves kill their connection. Just discovered that last week, and damni is it funny.

Shouldn't spambot topic be closed?

Protocola!