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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.

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.