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Both problems are, logically, solved by the computer. Remember the pilot doesn't have direct control. The pilot just points and clicks, and the computer figures out how to move hte laser to hit the target and how to move the arm to keep it out of the deathray.

Yeah, but Palladium's got a thin wallet, and HG is a gold digger. If someone else offers more...

Yah. I believe it was directed to his successor. He was trying to talk him out of pursuing the stealth technology ultimately used in the F-117. Johnson may've been a living legend, but he wasn't infallible.

From what I've heard, it's not that great. Developers are saying that it has too much floating-point and not enough everything else, and that it AND the 360 offer enough power to make current games in HD, but not enough to really try anything more processor-intensive gameplay-wise. It's not really that smart. They'll have to launch a new system anyways. Public opinion states that newer = better, and someone else will force their hand. That's why the 360 exists. The XBox was NOT in need of an immediate upgrade. MS made the new system anyways to ensure THEY were the first out the gate instead of Sony or Nintendo. The big problem I see is this entire generation is a year or two early. HD is JUST becoming approachable. MS and Sony have very expensive hardware to do HD, Nintendo is capping things at 480p to keep the hardware at a reasonable price point(I assure you Nintendo will start the NEXT hardware generation because of this, and Sony and MS will follow suit to ensure they aren't percieved as behind the times). The Wii will hurt later, the PS3 hurts now, and MS' wallet hurts because the 360 is being sold at a serious loss. 2 years later... HD would be affordable for a game machine, and a lot more of the market would own HDTVs. MS could be MAKING MONEY on the XBox for a change, Sony could have avoided the 600$ price tag entirely, and the Wii wouldn't be staring at premature obsolescence.

To be fair, MS did it even worse. If you had multiple XBoxes, multiple TVs, and multiple copies of Forza, you could hae a widescreen cockpit view if you jacked them all together via LAN. Heck, the original Doom did it with 3 PCs and a LAN. I miss the days when Kutaragi was funny instead of demented, though.

Fair enough. My 'Cube library's not very big(about a dozen games right now). Nintendo-branded titles in it are Custom Robo, the Primes, FZero, and Starfox Assault. I consider all 5 to be pretty darn good. Prime 1 especially. I consider it to be a contender for best in genre. It's got competition in Super Metroid and Link to the Past, but few other action-adventures can even touch it. I'd be pretty upset if I lost access to those and PN03(which I admit I'm in the vast minority on). Rest is 4 multi-platform, and 3 don't cares. That was why it was my first of the 3 survivors of the generation. It didn't have the most games by a longshot, but it DID have the ones I most wanted. The PS2 and XBox had strong arguments too, of course. And the PS2 had more I wanted, honestly. I just didn't want them as much. The XBox has been the big surprise of the generation. It's come out a lot more fun than I expected.

Are the first of the Classics 'bots out yet? I didn't think they hit for a little while longer, but I haven't kept too close an eye on things. Most of the Energon toys didn't register on me, really. So I probably missed Skyblast. And I just sorta ignore the naming issues and call them by what they should be anyways. Probably stupid. But... *shrugs*

I actually like that a lot. But then, I've been waiting for a proper Skyfire toy for ages. Yamto's been providing Jetfires for ages, if you slap a tad of paint on.

What's wrong with the GameCube? It's got a strong library, if not exactly the largest. Also worth noting that the GC had a strong first year. It wasn't untill year 2-3 that it started faltering.

Ah. Was probably just the emus of the time, if it was a few years ago. SegaCD emulation only started in '01 and it's not simple or well-documented hardware, so it was still iffy for a long time. Good plan. Shining Force ticked me off on the SegaCD, actually. Thing ate every last bit of save RAM I had for one file. WTF kind of insane logic is that? I'd bet money that they are. It's very rare that a store DOESN'T want people to throw money at them. Personally, I say screw preorders. Get it off the shelf. If there aren't enough to get one off the shelf, the preorders are gonna be a disaster anyways, so just kick back and wait a few months.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, it looks like the chest locks actually WORK on Hot Rod! I also like that they're painted, as is the grille. Those parts on Mirage look a tad flat.

I think you're thinking of The Lost World. The first JP was fairly close. Heck, Crichton even cowrote the screenplay for the first movie.

AKA perpetual motion machines.

Prime actually looks kinda like a naked Cybertron Prime. But other than that... And unfortunately for Prime, naked isn't the Transformers style. It also makes no logical sense for a warrior mech to have unarmored vital bits(not that transformers make logical sense anyways...).

I don't like the half-naked Sentinel either. So no hypocrisy here.

And if they could've printed gray reliably at the time, he'd still look like that today.

Iron Man looks intentionally under-detailed in that pic to me. Sorta like the New York Godzilla ads that only showed the lizard's foot, eye, etc. They want to show off that they have an Iron Man without actually showing what it looks like.

As much as they did for the rest of their content... Which, without being able to actually SEE any of their content, sounds like absolutely none.

I've heard conflicting reports about the frame rate. It's probably not an issue except in a small handful of cases. ... Unless cavia went Drakengard on things and pushed for too much too soon. Drakengard had horrible slowdown and popup issues because of it. Was still pretty darn fun though. To heck with Devil May Cry 4. I want P.N. 03.2! Seriously, I need to play some of the later DMC games. DMC1 was good, but needed a bit of polish IMO(most notably to me, the roll command was configured unintuitively). I'd've probably appreciated it more if I'd played it before PN3. Both games are actually built on similar principles, but PN3 benefits from being the producers' second attempt at that style of play. Interestingly, DMC4 will be the first game since the original to have one of the original producers at the helm(at least if GameFAQs' current credits can be believed).

I'm not touching the Battlecry comment. I'd heard nothing but good things about the PS2 Macross game. Personally, I love the older sidescroller Macross games... The PS2 GITS game benefitted greatly from the developer. Cavia's a pretty good group from what I've played. Which reminds me... *checks something* Ooooh, someone DID pick Bullet Witch up for localization!

What do you mean by real game? Because there's a good bit of existing Macross software across multiple systems and genres, with the most recent entries being the Windows Macross VO and PS2 SDF Macross games.

Wikipedia has a seperate entry for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itano_Circus If Wikipedia is trustworthy, Itano Circus covers more than 3M does. Either way, it makes sense that more than one term would evolve for the same thing.

Reminds me of the old Shogo mod that never really got off the ground.

:'( I gather the DVDs are extended versions, though. That should be worth something. And during the pre-release hype, I heard they were going to have a commentary track... by Haruhi. If I knew any amount of japanese, I'd buy them just for that.