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Not even in the same company. It'd just be nice to see some R-Type fighters get the same treatment the Vic viper is getting. The Gradius link is just an easter egg for the fans. No continuity connection.

I highly doubt it. Given there appear to be mounting points for his coronation armor, I'm pretty sure they planned a G1 paint scheme from the start. Besides, have they EVER passed up a chance to do a repaint and sell the same toy all over again? A sprue issue would mess up Seeker repaints, too. I don't see any possible way AT ALL that they thought there was only going to be one deco job for that mold.

Yeah. I know different materials hold paint different. Seems to me, in my amateur opinion, that those wouldn't hold paint well anyways due to location and function. It'd scrape off pretty fast, if I had to bet. And on top of that, Hasbro tends to use less paint when they can, and they could easily have felt the cost of the paint wasn't justified, especially given the high scrape factor. So if they couldn't mold it in the right color to start with, it'd be very likely to stay the wrong color. Just saying, given the character lends itself REALLY well to redecos and there's circumstantial evidence a G1 paint scheme was planned from day 1, it's not likely to be a gang-molding issue unless someone was terminally stupid(which has happened before, admittedly).

Which would be pretty darn stupid of the mold designers given they'd almost invariably planned for a cartoon color scheme when they made the mold(I seem to recall discussion about it having mounting points for a crown and cloak), and they've ALREADY started doing repaints for the rest of the seekers. Personally, I'd bet Hasbro made the hinge pieces black for some sort of durability reason(I don't recall hearing about them being failure points, but...).

Oddd.... I saw it and thought "BOMBA!!!!!"

http://www.eants.co.jp/valis/ is the official game site. Contains non-safe content. Both in the traditional "naked women" sense and the "WTF did they do to Valis?!?!?!" sense(hint: they lesbian tentacle-raped it).

Seems Telenet Japan finally announced they're closing up a week ago. Not exactly a big name, but they had some recognizable titles back in the 90s. Valis was probably the most prominent. Personally, I liked El Viento and Gaiares. For you new-fangled gamers out there, they also did the early Tales games for Namco. Tales of Phantasia SNES Tales of Destiny PS1 Tales of Phantasia PS1 Tales of Eternia PS1 Tales of Destiny 2 PS2 They were one of those companies that just never managed to make the 3D transition. Kept their heads above water longer than most did, though. Probably thanks solely to the Tales of ... paychecks, which had them tucked neatly out of sight in the end credits. tri-Ace was formed by Telenet's Wolf Team(responsible for El Viento, and the original ToP, which was their last game before they left and formed tri-Ace). I'm sure the loss of that chunk of talent didn't exactly boost them up the success ladder any. Last I heard of them they'd licensed someone to do a Valis porn game(not like the character design didn't lend itself to the concept....), and then some more porn from other licenses they still held. Seems that didn't pay the bills either. News courtesy of Insert Credit. http://www.insertcredit.com/

PS: As soon as my wife quits ranting at ME about your complete and unmitigated incompetence as a pilot, I'm going to come over there and strangle you for fueling that rant.

According to Insert Credit, the feature attraction is an arcade-perfect port that's "not even vaguely based on the Sega Saturn version."

I declare Gamlin honorary cannon fodder for that sin!

Nope. Just his planes.

They also forgot to advertise it, so no one knew it existed until it left theaters. Which is probably for the best. Which was the same problem the traditional animation had. The audiences weren't running from cel animation. They were running from bad cartoons. Lilo and Stitch, for example, did GREAT. Despite being right smack in the middle of the exodus.

It was Millia. She headshot-ed him before anyone saw her. Then went for Max, who was already moving. Dogfight/foreplay ensues.

Kakizaki, hands down. Aside from the fact that he flew a brownie and LIVED(for a while), he was actually improving.By the time of Burst Point, while he certainly wasn't a super pilot, he was holding his own in combat. It was just dumb luck that placed him that extra bit closer to the Macross when all hell broke loose.

Wasn't the LAST Transformers motion picture infamous for it's excessive violence? That's the Hollywood logic. "Well, this bad conventional cartoon bombed, and this pretty kick-ass CG one did pretty good.... obviously it's the medium's fault, since consumers are too stupid to tell a good movie from a bad one." I'm aware there's a tradeoff. I would've preferred more robots done to a lower quality standard. And if it forced them to simplify the designs, well, I guess I'd've just had to live with it...

I'm not mad at the movie. For all it's flaws, it WAS better than I expected. Which admittedly doesn't say much, but... I enjoyed it, when I wasn't groaning at idiocy like the acoustic analysis of computer signals, or just wishing they'd hurry up and DO something. I WAS disappointed at the end, and I really wish someone else was in charge for 2. But it wasn't a complete and total trainwreck. More like a fender-bender in a parking lot. I enjoyed Stealth too, for what it's worth. I seem to recall that one carrying a VERY low average opinion here. But people apologizing for the movie's shortcomings, and explaining how it HAD to be that way to draw a mainstream audience, when the mainstream audience complained about them too... I view that as an insult to my intelligence.

That's a digital stick, just like the Horis are. I picked up Hori's Fighting Stick EX2 the other day. DOA4 stick with less boobs. Seems to work pretty well, though I've yet to actually connect it to my 360. Random MAME shooters seemed more fun than WARTECH!!1111 Senko no Ronde.

Everyone I've heard has said the movie was too long and needed less people, more robot. This includes non-fans. It even includes my parents' generation. It includes the movie critics, too. Even ones that admittedly went in thinking the movie would be steaming poo came out saying it would be good if it was shorter, and that it had too many characters. Almost everyone there knew, in the most basic sense, that a movie called "The Transformers" was about cars and trucks and things that go turning into giant robots and beating the poo out of each other. None of them needed a solid hour of teen angst and SEKRIT GUV'MENT PROJECT to make them warm up to the idea. The ones that DIDN'T know came expecting a Hollywood blockbuster action film with lots of explosions sprinkled liberally throughout the film. They didn't need an hour of teen angst and SEKRIT GUV'MENT PROJECT to make them warm up to the idea. A. I was talking about G1, not Beast Wars. B. I said no one PISSED on anyone. C. it was a sarcastic jab. D. The fundamental problem with Bumblebee pissing on Secret Agent Man is it WASN'T funny. I'm one of the people that thought it would be really hard to screw Transformers up, and that the franchise was right up Micheal Bay's alley. Why he backed off from his USUAL spectacle of violence this time is anyone's guess. ... Though I guess I should remember he did The Island in the future. That one was pretty badly paced with a yawn-inducing first half too. And believe me, I'm NOT a fan of Hollywood's attitude. Especially when they mis-identify the formula. Remember how after The Matrix, EVERY SINGLE MOVIE had excessive "bullet time" shots? And then after several bullet time movies flopped, they quit using the effect almost totally? Or how about the fall of hand animation? Wher Hollywood decided Shrek and Toy Story were popular because they were CG. A bunch of bad CG movies alter, they've pretty much concluded people don't like cartoons. Then it's a good thing there weren't any big names, or we wouldn't have ANY robot. I'd've rather they used a lesser special effects team than ILM, and spent the cash they saved on more robots and comprehensible action scenes. Also: Bay may be known for shooting cheap, but he's also known for making big explosive spectacles. AKA what everyone expected, and what the critics have said shuld have been done. Correction: We'll get more movies featuring giant robots as background props while teens angst over SEKRIT GUV'MENT PROJECTs, because that's the Transformers formula. IF the human plotlines were sandwiched between action scenes, I'd agree. The problem is the action scenes are sandwiched between human plotlines. Entirely too many of them, with several scenes dragged out to painfully long. The movie has no balance, and serious pacing issues.

Has ANYONE made an analog arcade stick for the 360? And would there really be much point? Most of the games you need analog for aren't well-suited to arcade panels.

I thought Starscream ripping the F-22s apart in midair was pretty awesome, personally. This may just be because it was the only action sequence in the entire film where you could tell what was going on. I had much higher hopes for the last movie. I wasn't expecting great writing. But I WAS expecting it to have explosions and gunplay and robots kicking robot tailpipe scaterred through it. I'll be skipping movie 2, unless I hear it did a complete 180.

Oh for.... IT'S A MATTER OF DEGREE. Yes. We ALL KNOW humans were in the original cartoon. In every single episode, even. We aren't complaining about the EXISTENCE of humans. Just that THERE AREN'T TRANSFORMERS IN MOST OF A MOVIE TITLED "THE TRANSFORMERS." And that the precious few 'bots that DO make an appearance have NO character development(or even appreciable script in most cases), because they pissed the entire movie away showing us that the teenager was angsty and the computer hacker would've been really really smart if she'd actually managed to impact the story at all. The movie is long, slow, and boring. Largely because it has about three times as many characters as the story can handle. I give it this much credit. It knows how to pace a story. The stories may be mind-numbingly stupid, but they're far better paced. Oh, and no one pissed on anyone in the cartoon. In conclusion, I present a very brief review from a non-Transformers fan. "I didn't even SEE the original series and I feel like this raped it a little."

Ooooohhhh... *pokes a few related item links* ... I'd better stop that. Might spend the rest of my life in debt.

Holy crap! Mobi-chan was the thing that drew your cards in the first SNK/Capcom Card Fighters game! They got REALLY obscure on some of those references.

Or Sparkster.... Be afraid, be very afraid.

But the variable camber wasn't. Remember the first scene with Guld on the ground in the YF-21? And they show the surface of the wing deforming? That's the variable-camber part. It lets the pilot adjust the curvature of the wing.