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I think Ultra Magnus is the best example. I don't really mind the trailerless Prime. Sure it affected nostalgia and truck mode, but it had no real impact on the robot, which is what the point was. But Ultra Magnus without a trailer is... not Ultra Magnus. If you aren't gonna include the trailer for a Magnus release, you may as well paint him orange and call him Stacks.

No? It's been sprite-based for it's original PC incarnation and subsequent SegaCD game. Went polygonal on the PS2, but was still a 2D game.

A Guncon would've actually been a major step up. Strip the orange paint off and a Guncon looks like a real gun. Was playing with one of the older gray models once, a gun collector walked in and started trying to identify what model gun it was. That's not going to happen with Classics Meggie, because he's very clearly a made-up weapon(Hasbro's even selling it as a "blaster"). Personally, I think with a more subdued color scheme he could do justice to the original anyways. And I intend to buy him just to spite all the politically-correct anti-fun whiners out there that made people abandon toy guns in the first place.

I dunno... it IS Japan...

I like them too. I LOVED that feature as a kid, though I have no clue why. And I loved the GoBots too, honestly. They turned from robots to vehicles, which was the important part. They're just an easy joke.

Yah. The rubsigns were among the most identifiable traits of Transformers. I mean, if it didn't have rubsigns, it could be anything. Even a GOBOT!

He looks like Prime's kid brother.

http://project.baka-tsuki.net//index.php?t...Suzumiya_Haruhi for the translations of the novels. http://www12.brinkster.com/stratoct/haruhi.htm has a "Haruhi Theater" story that's not listed on the wiki-based translation. I found it amusing. Haruhi plays RPGs the way I've always said they should be played.

Common misconception. Space is a pain in the ass to keep things cool in. There's nothing for conduction or convection cooling to work with, so the only way to cool off is radiation. And that works both ways. The sun carries a lot more energy when it isn't filtered by several miles of air first.

Easier yes, but I'm not sure it'd be more efficient. And there's still a lot of energy being dumped to sling the ship around, and likely far more limited supply of reaction mass than fusion fuel. That's not really a good plan for a space fighter, though. If you quit thrusting, you lose electricity. And battroid mode will have dead turbines most of the time regardless. Electrical generation should be isolated from the turbines for a VF, if for no other reason than battroid(the VF-1 seems to have been designed primarily with aerial combat in mind, so non-thrust in space may not have been a major consideration). That makes good sense, actually. It gives the laser a reservoir to draw on during times of heavy electrical load, when it might demand more than the generator has to spare. Or just allows a laser that uses more power than the generator can supply under "average" conditions. I figured part of it would be that the zentradi seem to use primarily energy weapons. That tells us what technology was like when their mechs were designed, and what they were designed to defend against. What armor they have should be better at deflecting energy attacks than projectiles if their weaponry is a good indication. Of course, we also had centuries of experience with the traditional gun and weapons-grade lasers were close to cutting-edge, so the gunpod may just be more reliable. Unless the disrupted system is the hand or arm actuators. There's also the VF-1 strike pack, to add to the list. Adds a bigger energy weapon than the head turret, and is most definitely NOT intended for atmospheric combat. That's another good point, though. Projectiles are easier to use in an atmosphere.

I doubt power drain was a primary concern, given they were usually seen thrusting constantly, which is gonna suck power too AND consume the much more limited reaction mass as well as fusion reactant.

There's no broadcast HD stations in your area?

It's worse than that... Roy's VF is not only alternating between gunpod and fighter nose, it's also alternating between VF-1A and VF-1S. Sometimes it's even got nothing under it BUT the VF-1A laser. As for primary weapon... the lasers probably SHOULD be, owing to their limitless ammo capacity. But the gunpod seems to be the favored weapon. Maybe cooling issues on the lasers restrict their use, the zentradi armor is more resistant to optics than projectiles, or just old habits die hard.

Older FPSes worked nicely on consoles, though(provided there was enough power available, which there usually wasn't). Wolfenstien, Doom, a bunch of not-iD games that no one ever really cared about and never actually GOT ports, as long as it's a 2D map it works. It's only the ones where you need control of the view angle where it becomes an issue. And thumbsticks suck in general. Got nothing to do with FPSes. RIP Beyond Good and Evil.

Unless your ass is on the wrong side of the foot.

I think the fact that they've already done the movie makes the "making of" a most wanted feature. As-is, it's little more than a pre-made Mystery Science Theater clone. The stuff that truly makes it "A Haruhi Suzumiya Film" is all in the making of story.

What you say? FORM BLAZING SWORD!

The majority loved the 2600 stick and NES pad too. Are you going to tell me they aren't hideous hand-crippling nightmares? The DualShock is crap. There is no sense to the design, and the only reason it reigns today is that a bunch of twits that got started on the PlayStation refuse to accept change.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/clips/clips-u...e-in-202896.php Uwe Boll actually REFUSED to fight someone with real credentials. He also lied to his opponents about them getting any training beforehand. Then changed the rules at the last second to "win by knockout." Which Uwe meant as "beat the poo out of them and see if we can't put someone in the hospital." Moral of the story: He makes bad movies AND he's a nutless bastard.

I... ummm... that is... errr... ... Plead the fifth?

Clones are people two?

I'd rather have Rio. Upkeep is cheaper. And there's less wierd questions about why you have a girl that doesn't speak english locked in your house.

Freud was a few coins short of a 1-up, though. And con exclusives suck. Mass market plzkthx.

Why do I love Prime so much more in black?

Most PS2 games fit on a SINGLE-LAYER DVD. Those that don't(all... three of them?) fit on two single-layer DVDs(or 1 dual-layer DVD if the game industry would embrace that paradigm). Some are still on CD-ROM(Gradius V was the last I noticed). And all but Final Fantasy Online use largely uncompressed data so they can run off the disk. The fact that the PS3 has a hard drive games can decompress data too helps immensely. As has been pointed out, there's basically no PC game that fills a DVD, despite being expected to run at HD resolutions for several years now. And that's because they ship heavily compressed and install to a hard drive. Some XBox 1 games do this as well. Ninja Gaiden, for example. MS really screwed up by not making the HDD mandatory for the 360. BluRay just isn't needed for games. CD was good for two generations, DVD should be adequate for a similar period. The PC game industry needs to get off their asses and move to DVD as a system requirement instead of making it a limited special edition gimmick.