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Ironically my PS1 copy of SOTN was one of the games I traded off to pay for my 360 and my inititial batch of games! (Still have my Saturn version, though) ... I'll probably download this puppy so I can have the game in English again (bad voice acting and all). "You steal men's souls. And make them your slaves!" For what it's worth, the famous dubbing job is because it was a last-minute effort. Konami'd been telling them all through localization that they didn't need to dub it and the japanese voices would be fine, because everything had text attached. Then while they were finalizing everything to ship it off to SCEA for approval, they said "Oh yeah, you guys need to dub this into english," and they had to whip up some voice clips in a hurry. ... The sad part is that a last-minute effort came out better than probably 90% of all video game dub jobs up to that point.

And then Superion shows up to retrieve Bumblebee's parts and G.I. Joe craps their collective pants while he blows a few hostile tanks up.

Quoted for truth.

I don't remember Millia's VF-22, but I DO remember her kick ass VF-17!! The only VF-17 I ever liked. 422608[/snapback] The VF-22 doesn't get near enough screen time. It shows up in the last episode, and her and Max start tag-teaming stuff just like the old days... and they animate about 4 seconds of it. I gather it has more of a presence in the OVA, but I haven't felt the urge to find that yet.

In Trek's case, it's due more to budgetary concerns. Cheaper to slap pointy ears and a fake nose on a real actor than it is to create something new. And then there was the Next Gen story to explain why everyone was so close to human. Turned out that the galaxy had been seeded with protolife by an ancient superspecies, so everyone looked the same because they WERE the same(protoculture, anyone?). But I find that a serious failing in most sci-fi. On Earth it took a cataclysmic disaster to even give the mammals a chance. Had Mexico not been smacked with a giant rock 65 million years ago, we might be just a tad scalier today. I don't demand an exploration of alternative biochemistries or anything, but the assumption that parallel evolution will lead to all planets featuring a life form physically similar to humans at the top of the food chain is a tad weak.

Yeah but I reason that it became convenient to stay into cars once they realised the humans were not cars but flesh and bone organisms. At first it was a disguise (just like the vf1 being kept a secret by the military about being transformable into a giant robot as long as possible) but then as time went on, alternate modes aided them in certain tasks. Take devastor for example he can actually be useful as a set of construction robots when used in vehicle mode. By transforming into those things you can actually do useful task as well as kick ass in robot mode equiped with standard weapons for fighting and stuff. Humans use and built construction vehicles because they are useful to us, so the question is: "why not steal our designs or way of doing things for convenience?" 422400[/snapback] Right. The disguise part went out the window as soon as they realized vehicles needed squishie pilots or they'd be spotted real fast. Hence, the Dinobots were created.

I remember that show! GAH!

Maybe as the figure went from prototype to production, they realized that their initial design was either not cost effective to make, or flawed? Just a thought .... 422379[/snapback] In this case it might just be that Starscream is too trigger-happy to get by with just one cannon and 2 lasers(the cannons are mirrored, right? They didn't just move it from the right wing to the wrong one?).

Well, they laerned a valuable lesson that time. Kids get pissed if you blow up all their favorite characters at once. Anyways... I was 4. Don't really remember seeing the movie at the time. I DO remember seeing it on TV much later, with a CG-ed intro and ending framing the entire thing as a story told to some kid by Powermaster Prime.

Those were thier commands true but they are people like us. That's why I like macross: the aliens are not all hostile they have a human side too. If they are 90% like us humans (remember they share a lot in common with us in DNA as shown in the tv series) it might be worth a try to reason with them. Even among humans on Earth, there's people you can't negotiate with. And remember, Lap'Lamiz called Bodol precisely BECAUSE Britai was being silly and negotiating a cease-fire. Prior to cultural contamination, the zentradi won't consider any sort of truce. After it, they're scheduled for vaporization by the boss. The humans didn't do any of that. Aside from the booby-trap cannon firing, it was a purely defensive war. WHAT did the higher-ups do to anger the zentradi? There's only two times in the series that anyone besides the Macross attacks before armageddon: The initial encounter(the ARMDs nuke some suckers), and when Kamjin launches an attack on the Macross sitting in the ocean(but the missiles never reach the zentradi). I know that. But the UN DIDN'T take a tough stance. They were mostly vaporized before they had a chance to do ANYTHING. And what I'm saying is that the decision to fire the grand cannon had no impact on anything. Had the UN negotiated with Britai directly instead of Global doing it independently after Britai initiated the proceedings, Lap'Lamiz STILL would have reported Britai for rampant sissiness, the main fleet STILL would have defolded in Earth orbit to purge the contaminated zentradi and their contaminators, and the planet STILL would have been blasted back to the stone age. Once Bodol arrived, there was no time to do anything but gasp in astonishment at the sheer size of the fleet. He opened fire as soon as his fleet got comfortable, and he wasn't listening even if someone DID try to make contact with him(cultural contamination, kill 'em for the good of the zentradi, etc). But that decision had no impact whatsoever on the outcome of the war. The Grand Cannon was not fired until AFTER Bodol's bombardment. Also, the Grand Cannon firing wasn't to reduce their numbers adequately, it was to show that we had a big freaking gun. And first reprisal to a Grand Cannon firing wouldn't be bombardment of random targets, it'd be bombardment of Alaska Base. You don't kick the dog because a mosquito bites you, you swat the mosquito. The UN was confident that they had the biggest gun in the galaxy and could awe the zentradi with the awesome might of humanity(and presumably let the zentradi assume they had more than one such cannon). They had no fear of reprisal because they were sure there was none coming.

The pre-negotiation Grand Cannon fireworks never happened. Only the post-armageddon Grand Cannon fireworks. The zentradi fleet defolded and opened fire before anyone could really do anything. Even if we HAD managed to get in touch with anyone, Bodol'd already decided to wipe us out by the time a cease-fire was seriously being considered. Besides, I doubt ANY right-minded zentradi would accept a cease-fire. Their entire purpose is to blow stuff up. Not talk to it and make friends with it. While it was a strong symbol of how little the higher-ups thought of their underlings' opinions, even when the underlings were the only ones that KNEW anything about the enemy, it had no bearing on the end result.

You missed it. Low-Vis Starscream's been beaten to death in between new mold VS old mold discussions. There WILL be a cartoon-accurate paintjob, but Takara's releasing it as a fan club-exclusive thing. So pay to join the fanclub, then mail-order Cartoon Starscream. No word on a Hasbro release yet. So we don't know what paintjob they're using, or even if they're bringing it over.

True, but how the heck could it be considered a Chrono Trigger sequel? Everybody from the original dies somehow, and you don't even time-travel. You're not even able to go to the same region of the world. There's just too little to connect the two. 421865[/snapback] Lunar 2's in the same boat, and it's a sequel. Well, Nall lives, but everyone else is stuck with the effects a thousand years generaly have on a human body. And many games have sequels that aren't even set in the same world, much less with the same characters. Final Fantasy and the "Tales of" series spring to mind. Chrono Cross deals directly with the effects of the original adventure on the world. It's a closer sequel than many other games that bear the label.

Xenogears bombed pretty badly. Of course this MIGHT have something to do with the fact that it was unadvertized, and released in a half-completed state because Square stole the Xenogears budget to boost FF8's budget, leaving them with nothing to spend on disk 2. Tales of Destiny. Valkyrie Profile. Parasite Eve. Symphony of the Night. Lunar: Eternal Blue(rockin' it oldschool on the SegaCD). Crystalis(rockin' it older school on the NES) I do like CT a lot, though. It's a fun game, with a lot of replay value. And it's an audiovisual masterpiece. The game's beautiful, and it has one of my favorite game soundtracks. Been debating starting a new file recently. It's been a few years since I messed with it. I've probably run through Super Metroid 3 times since I last touched CT. If the game's already perfect, why does it need remaking? And the writing isn't good enough to make a cartoon series out of it. And Chrono Cross DOES count. It's a darn good game, and if people hadn't had impossibly high expectations to start with it would've been hailed as one of the better games on the PS.

If MacrossWorld flooded the GameFAQs poll with votes, they MIGHT give Zelda an extra percentage point or 2. If it doesn't end with FF leading by at least 10%, I'll be very surprised. And even elevate my estimate of the average GameFAQer intellect above "mud."

Contest is best series, as a whole. I haven't cared for either series much lately. Been in a more action-oriented mood.

FF will win. But I'm not voting. I'm ignoring the "contest" as I do every year.

After Sound Force is formed, he IS part of the military. And whether he's an ace or not depends on if he has to kill them or just remove them from the battle. He takes entire squadrons out of the fight single-handedly. I thought the M&M VF-22s were...

That I can accept, but even then, Max was still able to fly through all the Varuta defences alone in his VF-22 even with his "diminished" ability. However I doubt it was age that blunted his edge, it was most likely his command. You don't get into too many dog fights in the Captain's chair. 421314[/snapback] Max was probably sneaking out and blowing crap up in his VF-22 when no one was looking. I bet "The Masked Fighter Pilot" was a popular topic of M7 news. Right behind "That Crazy Rockstar Fighter Pilot". So you are saying that Basara is drunk? 421316[/snapback] nah, he's more probably stoned 421340[/snapback] That... actually explains a lot.

I never really saw the argument for anti-war sentiment in the original series. At the very least, it's far more subdued than most anime with the theme. Heck, one of the major story points is the anti-war Hikaru realizing that there ARE times where fighting is necessary, and becoming a highly-respected squadron leader. And the Macross itself, Earth's biggest and baddest warship, winds up saving humanity in a violent, if highly unorthodox, manner. It's really a refreshing change of pace from the standard "WAR IS BAD! STOP FIGHTING BACK!" of so many other shows(*cough*Macross 7*cough*), and I appreciate that they DID acknowledge that sometimes every peaceful solution fails and you just have to fight back. As long as we've got destroids!

He defeats a LOT of varuta pilots, though. Sure it's non-lethal, but he still removes them from combat.

NANANANA Cain't touch this!

The stealth valk IS cannon. You just can't see it because it's stealth.

Alternate attack... Dang it, now I have an image of Isamu, Texas Ranger doing a pinpoint-barrier roundhouse kick. This is all your fault, somehow. I thought he was referring specifically to artificial manufactured pop stars, of which Sharon is the pinnacle. From that angle, he WOULD respect Basara, who not only isn't manufactured, but has actively resisted "selling out," even though it would make him more famous and get him lots of money. ... Story-wise, of course. In reality, Fire Bomber is more manufactured than Sharon.

*laughs* True. I guess blue hair gives you supernatural abilities just as well as anything else. Hence why I said it becomes an endurance match. Basara's gonna become less effective as he tires. While the same is true of Isamu, Isamu's not in any danger.