JB0

It might be that the different heads need more space and are generally higher quality. For example the head turret of the VF1S seems to have a wraparound visor while the J has widescreen and A has close to 4:3. If I recall, they show the cameras behind the 1S visor a few times, and it's not that diffrent. Remember, teh green part isn't a sensor, just a window. But the head has to be larger for the lasers. It's got to have cooling equipment for 2 on the J and 4 on the S. I'd stud the body with cameras, and provide a 360-wraparound view. ... Like the YF-19. Anyways, remove the centralized sensor suite, and you can't easily blind the pilot with one shot. Make the head JUST a laser turret. Both pretty good points. Also has a "lip" over the visor, which should make it harder to get a clean shot into the sensor window(have to be closer to straight line because it's recessed). Possibly outweighed by the large side sweep. And not really useful against the combat they were seeing most of(but it'd be good against lightly-armed opponents). Translation: I like the Sound Force Valks. Kidding. But I believe that WAS part of the argument behind the Sound Force design.

HAHAHA!

That is incorrect. "Well, there's actually valid uses here. If you run out of gunpod ammo, you aren't restricted to the (presumably low-power) head laser. The wing lasers are larger and have more room for heat dispersion mechanisms, which generally means more power is possible" is DIRECTLY relevant to the quoted text. The tangental comment about the YF-21 and VF-17 is merely an observation about a weakness of the YF-19 design relative to other VFs. To conduct a strawman attack, I would have to actually present your argument as "The YF-19's lasers are better than the YF-21's and VF-17's lasers." I believe any rational person will find that I did no such thing. I could pick random fallacy names to throw back at you. Or I could just continue on with business as usual and not look for a way to take offense. I think I'll do the latter. Particularly as I'm not actually attempting to engage in a debate here, merely pointing out a practical use for large lasers in battroid mode. Throwing fancy words out doesn't make you look smart, especially when you misuse them. O NOES AD HOMINEM!111

I can go one better.Vin Diesel is... Captain N: The Game Master. Rated R for language and sexual themes.

Don't be presposterous. They CLEARLY banned anything over a quarter-inch long, or featuring un-natural colors.

I've heard that battroid feet make an excellent replacement for tank treads, too. Well, there's actually valid uses here. If you run out of gunpod ammo, you aren't restricted to the (presumably low-power) head laser. The wing lasers are larger and have more room for heat dispersion mechanisms, which generally means more power is possible. The YF-21 and VF-17 forearm cannons are probably more useful, though. The greater range of motion should make it much easier to blast something in GERWALK or battroid. They're among the few VFs I think could be effective combat machines sans gunpod.

The YF-19 can. But they're lasers on the 19, not machine guns.

Yeah... Nintendo's sold the Metroid movie rights TWICE. I don't even want to THINK about how many times IronMan's been picked up. Just because someone purchases an option doesn't mean the project ever materializes.

As always, your contribution to this thread has been worthless. Thank you for stopping by. 396906[/snapback] Someone should put that in their sig.

Arcade joypad is an oxymoron, unless you're playing on a Nintendo Super System cabinet. But I AM baffled as to how you can get any reasonable reaction time out of an analog flight stick. Arcade games tend to assume you have a digital joystick, and a rather tight one at that. But then, I'm baffled as to how anyone can think a gamepad is a better weapon than a joystick too.

It's a word in the english language. Canon means it's the "real" story. In Macross, as well as any other franchise, canon stories are the ones that make the actual timeline. Non-canon stories "never happened." Except in Star Wars, where non-canon stories happened as long as the canon stories don't contradict them.

*laughs* Liner-note-wise, that's proper. All 9 disks should've come in the same kind of case, thoug(unless by "looks diffrent" you mean that the art is white instead of a random color). I think it's on their webpage in 2 places, as well as at the end of the disk 8 liner notes. Hence the laughter.

They tried to run Mobile Suit Gundam right after they got sick of repeating Gundam Wing. People had aneurisms and they canned it before they finished the run.

Odd, because I hate the A head. 'S all J all the time here. Wasn't that done in Mac 7 already??? Everything else was... Nope. They added colored smoke streams to one in The Galaxy Is Calling Me, though. Well, it WAS a half-assed jury rig. Was a better design than the flying green things. I don't think I saw ANYONE fielding particularly good space combat vehicle. ... I take it back. The QRau and FAST-pack'ed VF-1 were decently loaded with verniers.

Somewhat ironic that that Lucas quote came out while he was insisting the original version of Star Wars didn't exist and it was Special Edition or nothing. He DID lie. My VHS remasters clearly say it's the last time Star Wars will EVER be available in it's original form. He's ruined their value now. The bastard. Actually, what they WANTED was for this to be the original DVD release, with both the original AND Special Edition in the same package. Instead, we got a THIRD version.

You could download rips from the LaserDisk remaster now, and they'd be better than your VHS copies. But yeah...it'll be nice to have it on DVD. I'vd got the pan+scan VHS remaster, and it's starting to look a tad ratty. "Each original theatrical version will feature Dolby 2.0 Surround sound..." *laughs* On the upside, they aren't doing the remix idiocy. On teh downside, they're calling a stereo mix "surround sound."

It is a little-known fact that Roy's preferred beverage was fresh lava, and that he crapped granite.

They all use the same basic technique. They load a bunch of samples into the PS sound hardware, and then load some "sheet music." Same premise as the SNES and later MIDI hardware(sample-based MIDI first hit the PC with the Gravis UltraSound and Creative AWE boards, if anyone remembers the DOS days). Uematsu's FF compositions all have a "synth" feel because they're all based on the original FF1 music, which was ... NOT sample-based. All his recent FF work is trying to rehash NES music while "punching it up" with more instruments(or instruments period). And the funny thing is... that music sounded pretty good on the NES. It's only stale when you try and fit it to a paradigm it was never designed for. It's a lot like playing techno music with a classical orchestra. * As for what he can do when he's free of that legacy... he contributed part of the Chrono Trigger soundtrack, but without knowing which tunes specifically, it's hard to say. I don't know of anything post-NES that I can point to and say "Uematsu did this." *This has been one of my long-running complaints with the series. They simply refused to adapt for a very long time, so they were selling a game designed around the constraints of the NES through to the end of the PS1's life. FFX was the beginning of the end of that, and FF12 seems to have blown it entirely away(or 11, if you count it. It's certainly a new take on things).

Yeah... Lap'Lamiz calls Bodolzaa to end the silly peace treaty shenanigans, then brags to Britai. And he laughs in her face about how mind-numbingly stupid she is. Or something to that effect.

Because it sells. Thanks for making my point. FF8... *shudders* Wow. I am in awe of your amazing wit. I am interested in FF12. Which is something I hadn't expected to ever say about an FF game. Squeenix is trying something new for a change, and it looks like it should be fun.

I could be wrong, but I dont' recall any dialogue to that specific affect.... It's in there. Bodolzaa only came over because his underlings were all contaminated by culture. That's also why Britai, Lap'lamiz, and Kamjin(maybe) joined forces with us to defeat Bodolzaa. He was going to kill them all anyways, so they had nothing to lose. But their original interest at the beginning of the show that kept them from the Macross to smitherens and getting on with life was that we had reaction weaponry. They wanted them for themselves, so capturing the Macross seemed like a good idea. So our weapons DID gain their attention, but it was to capture, not destroy. Except the Grand Cannon was activated AFTER the orbital bombardment, and took them by complete surprise. They didn't know it was there when they opened fire.

And people wonder why we mock the show.

And I keep seeing PC and going "Why are we talking about personal computers now?"

Magic batteries. Seriously... something about putting flower of life seed pods in a stasis field and the seeds get pissed because they can't germinate and dump lots of energy while trying to break loose. And magic waves that let mecha transform, along with a lot of other wierd voodoo effects. That's what the novels said, anyways. I'm pretty sure the seeds in stasis part was from the cartoon, and the magic waves are novel-exclusive.

Schadenwawa?