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    "And this time we're not stripping your rank as a disciplinary action!" "Welp, there goes plans A through P." Edit: Also, I like the inversion of the Admiral Kirk thing. At the end of Trek IV, Kirk gets busted from admiral all the way back to captain as "punishment" for saving the world after commiting numerous crimes, and released from his desk shackles. And Isamu gets promoted as a reward for saving the world after commiting numerous crimes, and chained to a desk.
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    They also made it an exceptionally aggressive "technically you can earn rewards through gameplay" system, the tangible gameplay benefits are VERY tangible, they actively advertise those benefits every time you die, their fix to the problem was more or less laughing at people(they reduced costs, but also rewards at the same time so the end result was exactly the same), and the cosmetic benefits included "can play as Darth Vader"... which ties directly into their biggest mistake: pulling this with a mainline Star Wars game. You do this crap with a free-to-play cellphone game or some random downloadable RPG, the mainstream doesn't care. You do it with Star Wars, and people that don't know what DLC, microtransactions, loot boxes, or B buttons are suddenly have an opinion. They put everyone's eyes on it, and it generated nuclear amounts of heat.
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    In fairness, after the stunt he pulled, it was probably best to make himself as scarce as possible in very short order after the Sharon Apple incident. Even if he WAS a hero, the brass knew it was wildly accidental. That he had PLANNED to use a stolen prototype fighter to blow the hell out of Earth's orbital defense satellites and then proceed to blow two hells out of the new prototype fighter platform at its official public unveiling, making everyone involved look very foolish(if not outright incompetent in the public's eye). Even if they couldn't actually court-martial him for one-shotting the Macross(AKA the Space Pentagon) due to the PR issues associated with locking the "hero" of the Sharon Apple incident up for all eternity on charges of high treason(or possibly just executing him, cloning him, and executing him again), he was NOT going to be a happy camper if he stuck around very long.
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    Hey, better to overdo it than underdo it. Also, in Macross 7. Their test for "have the zentradi stopped killing everyone yet?" was "stab a random visitor to our ruins and then when she bleeds on the floor we check the DNA". It was... perhaps not the CLEANEST test of character they could have executed.
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    Macross VR

    JB0 replied to louiev12's topic in Games

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! ... I'd play it.
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    Actually, in Star Trek the SPEED scales exponentially. Warp 10 requiores infinite power because it is infinitely fast. It is a terrible way to design a speedometer, and resulted in every newer vessel having more decimals on the top speed because they could all go past warp 9.
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    He's gonna save the giant ape with the power of love. Familial love, I mean, not anything icky.
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    Also weird capitalization. Nothing says alien like two apostrophes and a capital letter in the middle of a word. Bonus points if it is a Q.
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    You know, in hindsight it is hard to say why it took so LONG for someone to do a Rampage movie. Good call, Warner. You're getting the mileage you ought out of the Midway purchase. This is a way better idea than Asteroids: The Movie was.
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    Given Max and Millia raised a family of seven while holding down major jobs... I think there was a significant effort to ensure the infrastructure for childcare assistance was there. I mean, it makes sense if you're trying to repopulate the planet AND man a bunch of colony fleets. You have to arrange some sort of mechanism to reduce the burden of childcare so parents can afford to have a bunch of them. Oh man, so there could be DOZENS of Hikarus out there, all ineptly bumbling their way through romantic minefields while listening to Minmay CDs and leading fighter squadrons?
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    Well, yes, but Disney already bought Star Wars.
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    AtGames pulled it off! ... Is this compatible with their SD card reader, I wonder... Yeah, but the Symphony port wasn't very good, as I recall.
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    That is pretty darn cool.
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    The best part of the PSP remake was that it included the original as an unlockable bonus feature. That was most of what my PSP disk was used for.
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    That is fantastic. True story: The first time I saw ROCK ON instead of LOCK ON was in a Megaman game. Rockman in Japan. To this day I am unsure if it was intentional or not.
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    It kind of is. I am mostly AMUSED by the lighting situation in the statue, not UPSET by it. The second pic is, admittedly, the first thing that came to mind, though. And the statue still needs a diffuser so you aren't obviously staring at an LED behind a window. Even lighting is important for this effect, and this is most of the actual problem with it, as well as what prompted me to comment on the whole thing in the first place. The Bandai one appears much better diffused. And they still should've prioritized lighting the fire effects over the visor. If Bandai's effort is as weak as either of the Robotech ones, I'll go ahead and laugh at it too.
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    Castlevania X is a pretty sweet game. I say this as someone who doesn't usually get along with the pre-Symphony Castlevanias. 'S got style in spades, and the controls are fluid enough that you aren't fighting your character while still rigid enough to lend everything a sense of momenteum.
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    Meanwhile Hasbro went the other direction and turned Sky Lynx into a pseudo-Concorde.
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    Waitwaitwait.... "vacuum tube digital sound system"? Really? REALLY?! They're actually going to cram one of those dumb-nuts hipster retrotech vacuum tube amps into the base so it has to be plugged into a wall to make sounds? Why not go whole hog and store the sound clips on an 8-track too? Is that the point at which things become "too hard"? You can't check ONE MORE bullet point and use a crappy storage mechanism to go with your crappy amp? Heck, even ompact casstte wold get that pseudo-nostalga cachet.
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    The lack of cannon swivel on the jet backpack is the one big disappointment I have with SoC Dancouga. It is something I would hope is fixed in a V2(but it seems unlikely).
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    That's a shame. Not that he's a bad toy, mind you, but the state of the art is a bit more advanced than it was when he came out a decade or so ago. It'd be nice to see a fresh take.
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    Only because they were asleep at the wheel and no one was minding the store.
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    I think you've confused Chiba sound units with sound boosters. The latter was a hardware upgrade not entirely dissimilar from the traditional FAST packs, while the former was a unit of measurement for song energy. CSUs existed primarily to put a number on Basara's singing so everyone knew PRICISELY how good it was. (And occasionally Mylene's, usually to remind us that Basara was better.)
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    Regarding the "powering up" of music, I think M7 could have gotten away with it by being just slightly more ambiguous. Basically, just get rid of the visual song energy effects. No other change. Personally, I'd also get rid of the Chiba Sound Units. I dislike making explicit quantitative measures of song energy, and would rather they were vaguer about the actual power levels. But I think striking the visual effects alone is probably "good enough".
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    Mazinger is INSANELY popular in Japan, as one might expect the founder of a genre to be. Apparently it still holds the highest viewership ratings any anime TV series has ever pulled. I honestly just can't see a market for the Orbots, no matter how hard I squint. There's no japanese presence at all(a major factor for this line, with most installments not marketed outside Japan), and only a minimal fanbase in America. I think if it was a simple repaint of the existing Godmars mold, it would be just barely within the bounds of plausibility, given the low cost of a niche repaint. But with the original design being a MODIFIED Godmars... new tooling just ruins the plans. Molds are expensive to make.
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