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I'd probably go for the argument that the Tomahawk has two fire modes, personally. It's a fairly straightforward way to have them both be right.
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In a similar vein, I was always disappointed Basara came out of his coma when he did, because (yet again) he stole the spotlight and choked another character's chance for meaningful contribution. I would've greatly enjoyed a few episodes of Mylene growing as a character and a singer. It would tie directly back to the existing plot point of Mylene's sound energy not being strong enough. She could stop being overshadowed by Basara in multiple senses. AND it would provide an indirect chance to explore Basara's character, as Mylene has to figure HIM out to figure out why he's so much more effective than her, both as an entertainer and as a "fighter." But as always, every time anything interesting started happening, Basara was all "Nope, none of that happenin'. I'm the star here. HEY EVERYBODY! JUMPIN' ON THE PLANET DANCE!" He's still singing over Mylene's solo, even from within a coma.
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I don't deny that money's always been a goal. Otherwise you give it away free, or for the cost of media, or encourage people to copy it for their friends. I just dispute that it has to be SOLELY about the money.
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I very much was not saying that Rock Band was intended to be unprofitable, or that profit was not a concern. I was saying the guys in charge with Rock Band genuinely LIKE video games, and wanted a quality product, whereas the Hero folks were following corporate mandates to milk as much money out of people as possible as fast as possible. I don't understand why it has to be "for the love of the game" OR "to make money". It's possible to do both. And yes, in the old days, there was far more room among the "big names" for creativity and making a game just to see if it was viable. Rising costs of high-quality development have made "experimental" games more risky, since the odds of a game turning a profit are much lower. And increasingly bloated management with no connection to the product makes it much harder to get a game through that does anything unique or interesting, because they have their idea of what makes a hit, and it's constructed in the Hollywood tradition of making a checklist of superficial things the LAST big hit did. I think it's a difference between large developers and small developers. And yes, there is a difference. Ask Falcom why they don't outsource parts of the game production to save money, and your response will be "but that's the fun part!", regardless of which part it is. Not making this up, that actually happened. Japanese developers have a certain reputation because they were on the Nintendo. It's really that simple. People old enough to remember the Nintendo want to maintain the narrative that the West killed games and Japan, Nintendo especially, saved us from the incompetence of stuffy western developers that didn't know fun from a wet paper sack. It's an absurdly simplistic view that requires glasses that aren't so much rose-tinted as solidly opaque with rose paint, and ignores the vast majority of video game history. But it's very prevalent. It may die off as the XBox generation takes over. But I suspect it's too late to preserve a realistic portrayal of video game history in the public eye. The new generation will learn from Wikipedia, which bends over backwards to preserve the illusion that all the important things happened after the NES and that there's a proud history of lock-step console generations. .
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Only if it's G Gundam!
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See: Guitar Hero vs Rock Band. One company actually liked making music games, the other flooded the market with so many sequels, spinoffs, and "standalone expansion packs" that they pretty much killed the genre single-handedly.
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In fairness, EVERYTHING is improved with the addition of G Gundam.
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Well, yeah, but... he was always flying again in less than a week. Fir Isamu, that seems minor.
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Because it never stops being funny.
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He's apparently had several some minor disciplinary actions, but nothing HUGE as of Plus's time. http://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/index.php?showtopic=26483&page=1 although the canonicity of that list is subject to debate.
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Shenanigans! Tesla's battery would have giant antennae, throw ball lighting twenty feet, and power every device in your house wirelessly.
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Didn't they, though? I know Isamu has a proud history of "antics", I'd be very surprised if he HASN'T wound up in the brig a time or two. Also, there was that time he kinda-sorta stole a prototype next-gen fighter craft and attacked UNS HQ with it, culminating in the death of a fellow test pilot and maybe-murder of a beloved pop idol.
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The Protodeviln twins would like to argue the point. I think this is a great idea. We could call it Macross 7: Special Edition. Maybe even get George Lucas to record an introduction for us.
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AmiAmi: "Pre-orders closed" Yeaaaaaaaaaah. Sorry guys, I'm not gonna sit there refreshing all night in hopes I land on the lucky second. I'll just have to live without a Gunbuster, unless/until it hits regular full release sale.
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Cripes, I find out about it and all the preorders are already closed?
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Oh, hey, this IS the newbie thread. Sorry for the wallsotext.
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See, at first, I think Kaifun genuinely believed in pacifism, and that fighting can only beget more fighting. He genuinely thought he was helping. I don't recall him actively trying to start fights before the end of the war, though he made a few (frankly laughable) attempts to convince a group of civilians that were living mostly-normal lives thanks to military goodwill that the military needed a stern talking-to. But he was an idealist thrust into a situation he had no understanding or comprehension of, and made several missteps, some of them very large, while learning the lay of this strange new land. I kind of think that if he'd MET Captain Global and they'd had a frank discussion about things, he would've come around some time BEFORE the end of the world instead of at the eleventh hour. Global was the kind of man that Kaifun didn't think existed in the military, a man who was in it to protect the civilians instead of gettin' his kill on. That's someone that he could've respected, albeit grudgingly. Granted, the same is true of Hikaru, and Kaifun's assumptions and standoffish attitude prevented THEM from sitting down and having a nice chat. But then, Hikaru was REALLY good at taking any social situation and steering it to it's worst possible conclusion. It's a minor miracle he never provoked a duel to the death just by playing video games or anything silly like that. Post-war Kaifun is a different beast altogether. I think he told himself he was a pacifist acting in the service of the greater good. He might've even convinced himself it was true. But he is blatantly enjoying it when his rabble-rousing causes problems for the military, especially Hikaru, which isn't an attitude I feel pre-war Kaifun would have indulged. And he was actively STARTING fights, not attempting to END them. That's so opposed to his pre-war beliefs I don't really know where to start. He wore the mantle of pacifism to hide an angry, bitter, vengeful spirit, and lashed out in the only way he could at a world turned upside-down. It's easy to roll the two together, as they bear strong similarities superficially(and, well, ARE the same dude). But they're come from very different places mentally, and they carry different goals. That's the thing. Kaifun held that belief pre-war. He was sure if we'd just sit down and TALK to the aliens, everyone would realize it was all a big mistake and we weren't all that different from each other after all. Which, well... he wasn't WRONG, as it happened. But getting everyone seated at the table was REALLY hard. The zentradi weren't exactly the kind of folks you could just ring up and be "hey, sorry about the gunfire. Big misunderstanding. You guys wanna swing by later and we can talk this out over a pint? Cool, see you at eight." He's very similar to Basara in that regard. Just less flamboyant about it, and better at communicating the point. Unfortunately(or perhaps fortunately, given how the story plays out), Basara had some friends in high places, and was in fact working for the military after a fashion. Not that he saw it that way, what with him being Basara and all. But any attempt at prosecution would've been stymied. But in my book? Basara would've been shot down on the field of battle. None of this "get out of my line of fire, you fool" crap. Gamlin should've ventilated his sorry butt. Yeah, I don't regret watching Mac7. Zinjo summed up my thoughts on it very well. Personally, I think the worst part of it is post-Stargazer. It falls into some of the most blatant padding of the run I've ever seen.
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See, I think there's a B beteween A and C. He accepted force was sometimes necessary, participated in the final offensive. Arrived at point B. Then he got home, and tried to make sense of the devastation. And arrived at point C, where he's an abusive alcoholic who does anti-authority protests just to stir up trouble. I'm not saying he isn't a giant poopyhead at A and C, just that for a while there in the middle he wasn't an antagonist.
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I think it's important to note that by the end of the war, Kaifun's accepted that violence is sometimes the only language two parties have in common. He even participates in the final battle, albeit not in an armed role. Basara, by contrast, never changes. Certainly, Kaifun resumes his claims of pacifism post-war, but it's not the same belief, and comes from a much darker place in his heart. One Basara would be revolted by. I think it's important to differentiate the two phases of Kaifun.
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Energy Conversion Armor (ECA), some gathered trivia
JB0 replied to Mr March's topic in Movies and TV Series
Yeah, it's completely counter-intuitive to us here in the real world, but it's consistent with what they're supposed to be doing. I enjoy that the original show tried to keep things as credible as a story with 30-foot men and transforming jets can, even in places where it makes it look wrong. -
The march of progress. New small companies will rise, become big companies, and be the new hated incompetent behemoths that get by on name recognition. Yeah... I wouldn't be so sure about that. I mean, how many expansion packs have the released for Mario Kart so far? And they STILL haven't made another F-Zero!
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HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pro as hell. I... wish I remembered what e-mail I used for that. I'm sure the box is abandoned, but... if it's still live, I'd like to see this mess.
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So Konami's taking a page from Capcom's book, then?
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Say it ain't so! Anything but that!