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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.

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.

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.

I changed mine up.

You can't know that for sure!11

...I'd watch it.

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.

Wow. That's a lot hotter than NeoGAF's translation claimed. I kinda want the uber-box.

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.

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.

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

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.

What. The. Hell? Someone put Bay out of our misery, please!

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.

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.

Iwadare, Mitsuda, and Sakuraba all in one soundtrack? Sold.I didn't even care about Kid Icarus until just now.

Oddly, I feel the opposite way. Some subplots in Macross are truncated due to LACK of time.The only episodes I can call out as filler are Global Report and Phantasm. Make no mistake, I really LIKE Phantasm, I just don't see where it actually ADDS anything other than the Magic Bicycle of legend. While I think the post-war arc could be handled better if there was a plan from the start to do it(by the Triforce, the reopening of that love triangle just makes me want to punch Hikaru), I think in many ways that epilogue is what MAKES Macross in my book. I'd be very worried about it being truncated or deleted entirely in an attempt to slash out the excess. How about that one episode that consists almost entirely of Hikaru and Misa trapped in an alley talking to each other. Booooooooooring. Hey, why even introduce Kakizaki? He's going to die without doing anything at all. Total waste of screen time, let's just have Hikaru broke up about the death of some faceless mook that never even showed up on-camera. At BEST we need to kill Kakizaki the same episode he's introduced*. And man, why did it take so long for Hikaru to get over his pacificistic sissy ass, sack up, and start killin' bitches? Put him in a fighter plane from day one! Moral qunadries are for lame girlie crap with sparklie prettyboys! Eventually, you excise all the chaff, the deadwood, the filler, the empty space, and you're left with... a soulless husk of a show that doesn't have time to convince you any of these people are worth caring about, or that they're anything more than cardboard cutouts of the standard cliche characters. At best, the characters all feel forced, because development is rushed to fit into an abbreviated run. By the bullet points, it's just a leaner, sleeker Macross, but somewhere along the line, the soul was chipped away and thrown out too. Just because it doesn't advance the primary narrative doesn't mean it's filler. *That's a personal peeve of mine, shows introducing people, trying to convince the audience they MATTER, and killing them off all in the same half-hour episode.

Did I? Funny coincidence there. On-topic, I really do like the aesthetics of Tron: Legacy. Though I wouldn't be caught dead driving that bike.

Minor quibble. They DID have space carriers to attach to the ship. They're attempting to rendes... rendez... randay... MEET UP WITH and dock with ARMD-1 and ARMD-2 before the fold accident. The Zentradi shift their attack to make it impossible to meet up with them. Then Global attempts to duck into the atmosphere and fold behind the moon to get some breathing room, and everything goes REALLY wrong. Leave the revised mechs to Gundam. Let the VF-0 be our Katoki Version. Just my opinion.

You're a good man. The world needs more like you. Apparently XSeed lost their shirts on Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. Was expensive to localize, and they didn't move very many copies at all. (Anecdotally, I can still find the collector's edition in large quantities locally, though your mileage may vary). Which is probably why we haven't seen more of the Legend of Heroes games. XSeed is run by fans, crazy fans even(they brought Korg DS-10 over, for pete's sake), but they can't really stay in business by bringing over sequels to games they lost money on. ... Where'd I stick my Bracer emblem? I'm in the mood to wear some nerd bling.

Correction: Kawamori designed one version of Sony's robotic pet Aibo. Not the original or most common ones, either. He designed a limited collector's edition version late in the product line. And wasn't the only person to have such a model.

To be fair, Aquarion is transforming planes. It's just a more Getter Robo style of transforming planes.Vision of Escaflowne had a transforming steampunk dragon, though! WITH A CAPE. Now, what's with the hating on MASK?

He did mecha design for Turn-A Gundam. Specifically, the title mech.Apparently, making a Gundam with a moustache counts as derailing the franchise. As opposed to making a bunch of vapid prettyboys driving super robots and playing war while spouting a bunch of inane, hopelessly naive, pseudo-philosophical drivel, which is A-OK!

Well, go back and say hi to Lucca after you play CT.

Definitely. Xenogears is actually my favorite graphical mode for the era: sprites for characters on top of polygon backgrounds. It really leveraged the strengths of both styles. Very few games did it, though(Star Ocean 2 is the only other one I can think of offhand). But polys for special effects wasn't uncommon in sprite/tile games, and often provided a rather striking effect(see: Symphony of the Night save points). On the other hand... giant robots.And the one thing I'd complain about is that the Super Dimension Gear Yggdrassil IV only shows up for about thirty seconds in the entire game. Chrono Cross is largely unrelated to Chrono Trigger... until you get to the end-game and suddenly it's highly relevant.On the other hand, Cross name-drops several CT characters in an unrelated context for reasons I'm still unclear on, so playing CT can actually ADD as much confusion as it removes(Glenn and Magus are not Glenn and Magus, and probably not even related). Hilariously, the game blocks you from naming Serge after Crono or any convenient variant. It does NOT, however, block you from naming him after people who are actually RELEVANT to the plot. On the THIRD hand... why the crap have you NOT played Trigger yet? It's one of the best JRPGs around, and an audivisual masterpiece on top of it(one of the few games I've just stopped playing to listen to the music for a while). Though on the fourth hand, Chrono Cross is no slouch either, though I'm admittedly one of the few that feels that way. It even knows how to be (relatively) subtle at times, which was never really Square's forte. My single favorite sequence in the game is when the party catches up with Lynx. Without making any overt spoilers here, several visual cues through the map ratchet the tension up progressively higher, and it all culminates with a single line of dialogue that manages to take all that tension and congeal it into a huge ball of certain dread the instant before the crap hits the fan in a highly unexpected way. When the game gets things right, it gets them VERY right. But on the fifth ha- you know what, this analogy stopped working about two paragraphs ago. Both games are great, whether played as standalone or in sequence. Chrono Trigger is BETTER, but I think Cross takes a lot more flak than it should just because it couldn't live up to five years of ever-more-impossible expectations for the sequel to a game as highly-regarded as Chrono Trigger. ... And when you're through with both of them, go play Xenogears, if only so you can say hi to Lucca in the tutorial area in the first town. Lucca is the best, and her absence in the REST of Xenogears is even worse than the travesty of a slideshow known as disk 2.