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The majority I've seen have been decent games that are suitable for all audiences except those which feel they need blood and tits in their games to prove they aren't children. I've seen very few Nintendo titles that were ACTUALLY kid-oriented. The whole "Nintendo is kiddy" argument is a joke. And a tired one. Translation: "You're right, but I'd rather call you a meanie than concede the point."

Even if the project had been intended for peaceful purposes, the accident still could have happened, and likely WOULD have as they attempted to find the limits of the organs. It was a quest for the perfect power source. No fuel, no mess, no heat. Just free energy. The fact that it was tapped for weapons first is almost tangental. It would have become the backbone of the protoculture civilization if it had worked out instead of blowing up in their face.

Gameplay is of paramount importance in ANY video game. There's a good reason I enjoy Scrambled Valkyrie. And it's pretty clearly got nothing to do with faithfulness to the license. Same for 2036, lack of transformation control and all. And they made a sacrifice somewhere else in the design to get it there. I'd have to flip through some games and spend more effort studying the models than I really care to if I wanted to peg exactly where the designs deviated. I still don't see how it affects the actual fun-ness of the game. I was more bothered by the lack of head laser action, and even that didn't affect my overall enjoyment. Like I said, I don't even notice the lack of wings unless I'm actually looking for it. First time the argument came up, I dug out Battlecry, turned it on to check, and was surprised to see they WEREN'T there. I NEVER would have noticed if it hadn't been pointed out, because I'm usually too busy actually playing. Never played Invasion. I thought Battlecry was helluva fun, though.

LOL NINTENDO AM TEH KIDDIEZ GAEMZ!1111 Never heard that one before... *rolls eyes* Fun fact: JVC paid Sony lots of royalties on VHS. Because the fundamental technology behind VHS was licensed from Sony, who patented it for... Beta. So what everyone ignores is that Sony made money on VHS AND Beta. They didn't really CARE who won, even though they created Beta. And contrary to popular belief, Sony was not the only producer of Beta. Much like JVC did with VHS, they licensed the platform to a wide variety of vendors. BTW, if you'd care to explain how Sony's ability to survive staggering incompetence of the type they're currently demonstrating with the PS3(which they've demonstarted before with the MiniDisk, Digital Audio Tape, and a host of other products) has any bearing on whether the PS3 will be a success, I'm all ears. Sony is shooting themselves in the foot on the PS3. With a rocket launcher. If I were them, I'd be betting my future as a game company on the PSP. ... Again, this parallels Nintendo, who sustained their market presence through the GameBoy. Though the PSP has some stiff competition in the form of the DS. And from what I've heard, most PSPs are being used as media players instead of game machines.

edit: i forgot to read today's posts...lol. I can work with that, and then maybe transmits it to all the ships that the PD had? 415253[/snapback] The Bodol fleet, destroyed, the varauta defeated soundly, the protdeviln converted to good... all because the protoculture never invented a mute button. Yeah. But when you gotta eat, you gotta eat. Remember, the PD were using it as food.

Flashback 2012. There were a few sequences where we see Minmay leaving her home with an unhappy look, IIRC. 415195[/snapback] 2012 sucked, though. *dons asbestos suit*

Life energy? Life energy for a human is the process of breaking down food. Humans are pretty much an internal combustion machine. 415199[/snapback] Wasn't the acupuncture comment enough? Do I REALLY have to guide you every step of the way?

I'm having serious doubts the PS3 is gonna survive. Sony's following the traditional pattern of the video game industry, where the dominant hardware company grows overconfident, believes they are invincible, and then shoots themself in the head. 415183[/snapback] All the companies are having the same problem 360's smoking problem, the Wii's retarded name and several other considerations that just aren't making me personally happy with all three companies. 415188[/snapback] Only Sony is making the same mistakes that led to the fall of the House of Atari, the Kingdom of Sega, and the Nintendo Empire. MS is still playing the traditional "Man, I wish I was number 1" role, and Nintendo is doing their own thing, which has become what they're best known for post-SNES. Of course, Nintendo's the only one to fall and remain relevant, so clearly they're doing something right.

Good thing the reissues haven't done a lot for me. I always wanted Mirage as a kid, and Alternator Mirage is a must-buy, but a reissue would be plagued by the same problems as the rest. It's a clunky brick with no articulation.

I'm having serious doubts the PS3 is gonna survive. Sony's following the traditional pattern of the video game industry, where the dominant hardware company grows overconfident, believes they are invincible, and then shoots themself in the head.

I found the graphic novel of the genesis arc at a HalfPrice Books. It's not very good, and doesn't cover what we really want to see. It's the "Zor sends his secret spaceship to Earth to hide the protoculture from the Robotech Masters" and "Woo, look at the magic ship rewire robot probes and change it's guts!" crap from the beginning of the novel series. All the silly voodoo crap that made the novels even worse than the series. Same for us all, I think.

Again, it's not strictly a physical thing. It seems to be more along the lines of life energy, or something. ... Maybe the protodeviln should've just done acupuncture for lunch?

Wait... FAQ & Feedback ISN'T the off-topic forum?

That's actually one of the better ideas for an expansion I've seen pitched. Set it just a few months before the Macross' launch, as they finalize crew selection, through launch day when all hell breaks loose. Show a bit of what's going on in the world and the lives of our future stars. Minmay'd just won a singing contest or something. A bit of detail about that might be interesting. Compendium mentions she was in Macross City because her aunt was mroe supportive of her dreams of stardom than her parents were. Animating a bit of Minmay/parent drama would be nice too. Hikaru was a stunt pilot, visiting because Focker invited him. Not really a lot to show, especially since the show is essentially from his PoV, so he gets established really well on launch day. ... Maybe a brief cameo, as our new star bumps into him. Sort of like how Minmay was introduced in the original series. She was just some girl Hikaru and Focker ran into while they were wandering around catching up. Max is a big question mark. There's a lot of room here, especially since it's never even been established why he was in Macross City. Were his parents miltiary contractors involved in the reconstruction? High-ranking officers? Owners of the Macrossnold's hamburger joint? Were they just tourists visiting the island for thje biggest event in recorded history? We know nothing about him before he was assigned to Vermillion team. Everything that applies to Max can also be pinned on Kakizaki. ... You could easily make a short story that revolved primarily around Max or Kakizaki, actually. They also leave an opportunity to sustain the show after launch day. Going with Kakizaki would make it tragic, since we know how the story ends. Especially if they carry the story through to Burst Point, though there's no reason to aside from a sadistic desire to animate his death again. Probably wouldn't fly, sadly. Might would've when they did Flashback 2012, but now it'd require something stronger to engage viewers than "Look! More Macross!". It's really rather sad that the closest we've gotten to this was the old Robotech comics.

What if they're chasing Depp's booty?

I thought the coolest was the 1J Millia... Mmmm, Millia Strike...

So how often did they battle the PD in an atmosphere compared to space? Very rarely. Basara uses it mainly against fighter pilots, as they DO show up often in atmosphere. Maybe the speaker pod hijacks the radio of the ship it hits? *really reaching*

A very butch chick. But yeah, I screwed up. Sound energy != actual sound. This is a basic point, and I'm surprised that self-proclaimed adults didn't catch it, especially given the various other non-sonic properties demonstrated by sound energy, such as luminosity. The primary purpose of the sound boosters was to focus and amplify the sound energy, which was Chiba's term for what the protodeviln called anima spiritia. Not actual sound. There WERE speakers on the sound boosters(and integrated into the Sound Force VFs), but they were only used in atmosphere.

It also results in a massive increase in accidental incest. *laughs* I can hear Darwin spinning in his grave now. Also, most of the survivors of Space War 1 had no plans for space travel. They were accidental travellers. BUT! The analogy isn't totally flawed. The modern-day cheetah exhibits a shallow gene pool and general poor health. Every current cheetah is more closely related genetically than brother and sister. And they have dull claws, weak jaws, lousy eyesight, bad EVERYTHING except speed(which they can't sustain due to poor stamina). There's very good odds that at some point in history the cheetah population was decimated by something. The surviving population that modern cheetahs are descended from was very small, and apparently consisted primarily of the cheetah version of Steve Urkel. But the point is, it's an entire population almost completely destroyed by something beyond their control.

Doubtful. Remember, it was originally developed as a theatrical release, intended to be projected onto a fifty-foot screen. That necessitates a fairly high level of detail. Same as above. But yes, DTS would be nice. Ditto for DYRL, if it hasn't already had it. Lossless audio streams would be better for both, though. DTS is still lossy, it's just far less lossy than Dolby Digital. Having an HD set IS a must. If you're stuck with 480 lines of resolution, there's not a real point to moving up to a better media. But whether it's a marginal improvement or not once you have the resolution increase is highly debatable. I see too many faults on my existing DVD collection to honestly say there's not room for improvement. Obviously, not everything will benefit from HD. Sort of like when they copied Sorcerer's Apprentice over for Fantasia 2000. While the film grain wasn't an issue at all for the home release, when you were in the theater it was massively visible, and it was made worse given it was sandwiched by footage that was originally filmed on the larger IMAX film.

According to my fiancee, in the novels it was explained that her hair was just too short at the time to wear a pony tail comfortably, so she went back to the other look at least until it had grown out more. 414833[/snapback] That's at the end of the first novel, I think. But she doesn't seem to ever get it out. Day of Sagitarius and Someday in the Rain are 4 months later(I found a timeline yay!). Her hair should have grown out some.

You mean aside from it's the best VF-1 design ever?

If I recall, Kaifun is a somewhat distant cousin. For what it's worth. *looks it up* According to the Compendium, he's her cousin, but not by blood relation. Looks like his mom married into the Lynn family and he got dragged along with her.

Actually we do. It is mentioned in the series that the PC's gathered as many of the Anima Spiritia people as they could to combat and ultimately imprison the PD. It is implied that this is not a common ability. It is also reinforced by how the Jamming Birds so utterly failed to do what Fire Bomber could. I'm sure they all sang their hearts outs, but were unable to muster the pure passion required to generate "Spiritia Force" (for want of a better term). It's probably a matter of degree. We DO see literally everyone on the M7 fleet is capable of whatever Basara does in the series finale. Starting with Veffidas, who was closer to Basara's mindset in the first place(though it begs the question of why they bothered outfitting him and Ray with a sound booster if they didn't think he was capable of using it). Apparently the impending death of the universe provides suitable inspiration. Basara himself, of course, rises even further above normal.

So you're expecting a THIRD HD media to appear? Or you genuinely believe the people buying HDTVs don't want HD material to view on them?