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  1. JB0
    Yeah. Armored Core V just came out, and it's a totally different beast. And that vid is priceless.
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    We also already have games that are lost FOREVER because the servers have been shut down and they either used always-online copy-protection or are online-only games.The publishers do not have our best interests at heart. Once bound to internet-connectivity, a game has a finite, and possibly extremely short, lifespan. I can still play Combat, Mine Storm, or Parsec TODAY. One of these games was published by a company that simply no longer exists. One was from a company that changed hands roughly umpteen-bajillion times, most notably once to an owner that killed all video-game-related projects. One was from a company that simply hasn't been in the video game market as more than a parts supplier in almost thirty years. On the other end of the spectrum, Tabula Rasa was only playable by ANYONE for a little over a year. And this is ignoring that the game you love may not be the game you will own after the next patch rolls through. This used to be optional(on the console side, it wasn't even an OPTION), but if the game MUST be connected to a central server, it becomes mandatory. And at the same time, patches have become more and more likely to actually change your gameplay experience. If you're new to the game, you literally CAN'T see what the game was like before you started it. If you aren't new, well... I hope your memory is good, because we're counting on you to tell future generations what version 1.0 of World of Warcraft was like. Good or bad, it's become one of the most influential games of the last decade. Please don't let it become another Super Mario Brothers. We don't even know WHEN that came out, but it at least has the excuse of being released at a time when people were convinced video games were dead forever. This is the future. As someone with a strong interest in the history of video games, It is not something I'm happy about.
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    THAT I could endorse.I think I've said before it sounds like a fun idea. I admit it'd never happen, but I'd like to see a story told from the eyes of a Destroid pilot. It'd be a very different take on the same story, and give the poor ground-pounders some much-needed street cred to boot.
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    Sadly, I don't have a 1920*1200 version. In fact, the file I have is UPSCALED to fill that 1680*1050 display on the right.Nonetheless, I can upload the original 1500*980 copy I have, so you can do what you will with it with a minimum of loss.
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    Am I alone in really really NOT wanting to see them using modern gadgets? I honestly LIKE anachronistic retro-future technology. It's an integral PART of science-fiction in general to me. Genuinely curious if that's just me.
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    It does indeed suck.And I got it before the limited edition shipped, so no artbook for me.
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    Except James Tiberius Kirk was the man. He could back his actions up with quality results, and wasn't afraid of advice. Bay is likable and very earnest, but he's got an ego an AU wide and no sense of quality writing or story pacing.
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    Be honest here. This is just the first step in your scheme to convince Hollywood to do a Macross 7 movie.
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    Surprisingly, this comic makes me feel a little better about the situation.
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    And Macross Chronicle is far newer than that. To be fair, that's from a video game based on a movie that's officially classified as a fictional dramatization WITHIN the fictional universe. I trust that about as far as I can throw it... without owning a copy. Everything in 7 and Plus we don't actually know they're using original fold engine designs from the Macross and Zentradi vessels. They could be improved designs with different characteristics. In fact, we KNOW the drives in Plus aren't the same as the ones in SDF Macross just from the size of the things. They're not really fair comparisons. In-narrative, his "speculation" in Global Report is presented as a statement of fact in his report, not idle speculation. That implies his engineering staff is SURE that's what happened. He's not making random guesswork, he's basing this on the reports he's gotten from his engineering staff. Because he's a captain, and that's what captains do. Hence why he's willing to trust the gravity generators at other points in the series. They know what went wrong and how to avoid it. Here in the real world, the additional facts presented in Global Report are presumably there to give the viewers insight that they would not otherwise have. While it may not be the BEST writing to include this explanation in the middle of a clip episode some dozen episodes later, it would be the height of bad writing to go back and offer an explanation that has no effect on the narrative and is incorrect on top of it. In regards to this issue, Global is a trustworthy and well-informed character in-show. He has nothing to gain by lying to his superiors, and his crew has nothing to gain by lying to him. So there's no reason to doubt his explanation within the fiction. I posit that he is serving as a mouthpiece for the staff out of continuity. So there's no reason to doubt his explanation of events outside of the fiction. I admit I can make no statement as to the translation accuracy, but... I can't do that for the Macross Chronicle articles either. In both cases, I'm forced to trust the work of someone else.
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    Global Report, however, states that the fold system and gravity controller malfunctions were determined to be due to system instabilities arising from the booby trap's activation. The failures were not part of the booby trap per se, but were caused by it nonetheless.So we have conflicting stories. Personally, I tend to put more weight behind the one written during the original production over the one presented a quarter-century after the fact. Han shot first, and all that. But as I'm not in charge of the franchise, I just get to grumble about pointless retcons. Seriously, that has to be the most pointless retcon I've ever seen. It has NO effect on anything whatsoever aside from a few fans discussing the minor details of the franchise.
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    So in a desperate gambit to derail the FF13 babble for a little while, I pose a question... Does anyone need more Wing Commander? Because there is some. REAL Wing Commander, none of this arcade shooter nonsense. And it's FREE. http://www.wcsaga.com/news-archive-2012/the-darkest-dawn-is-cleared-for-launch.html Really surprised EA hasn't sent these guys a cease and desist letter at some point over the last decade, but there you have it.
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    I changed mine up.
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    You can't know that for sure!11
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    ...I'd watch it.
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    As always, I'm not really sure what to say. The world's lost a very talented individual, and is a bit duller for it.
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    Wow. That's a lot hotter than NeoGAF's translation claimed. I kinda want the uber-box.
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    It's okay, I beat you both over in the "SDF on Bluray" thread. And if I'd had actual Famitsu scans, it would've gotten a dedicated thread, since it seems thread-worthy but I don't fully trust random posts on gaming forums.
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    That wasn't in reply to me, was it? It directly follows my post, but I don't think I've spoken ill of DYRL anywhere in the thread.
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    Apparently, you can quit being nervous. Seems the latest Famitsu magazine had a page you might be interested in. http://gematsu.com/2012/03/hack-macross-hybrid-packs-announced-for-ps3 http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467273
  21. JB0
    They should've done the trailer like this: "From the creator of Tarzan! John Carter of Mars. Coming soon to a theater on Earth." THAT is how you sell a movie based on a hundred-year-old Edgar Rice Burroughs novel.
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    What. The. Hell? Someone put Bay out of our misery, please!
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    If a remake WAS happening, I think Global Report could be saved. Back off the titular report a bit, and give more of a view into the man himself. Show more of him writing the report, and thinking events over, talking to Misa about it.He doesn't get a huge amount of character time(largely by virtue of not running in the same social circles as Hikaru), and it'd be a good opportunity to step back for a moment and show how a major secondary character is dealing with things.
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    I enjoyed the movie. Thinkin' about digging the bugs up for comparison purposes. Mars Dog of Mars is the best film of the year so far.
  25. JB0
    Iwadare, Mitsuda, and Sakuraba all in one soundtrack? Sold.I didn't even care about Kid Icarus until just now.
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