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Heh. Sometimes it's mroe fun to make up a story. Teh mute button makes DragonBall Z watchable.

As opposed to, say, Final Fantasy? 376716[/snapback] With a little trial an error (or even better, a FAQ) it doesn't take long to figure out the commands. I'm not disputing that. I'm just saying, dullness and ease of play haven't exactly stopped localizations before. Haven't played Giren's Greed, but I have played Front Mission 1 and 3. Forget why I quit playing 1, but 3 I was just spending more time in pre-battle menus than I was in battles, AND hit the point where I was getting my ass handed to me repeatedly no matter waht I did. The latter doesn't bother me in and of itself, but I'd rather it either hand my ass to me fast or only do it once or twice, not 6-8 times in a row, with each time taking an hour or so. It's a good game, and I'll come back later. It just becomes very easy to sink a lot of time into it and gain nothing.

True. As opposed to, say, Final Fantasy?

'Kay. Just making sure.

When did HG hire Mister Ed?

Which is almost all lifted straight from DYRL. 376339[/snapback] In what way??, the animation for the game was made years later and it's even made in computer IIRC 376490[/snapback] SOME of the Saturn game animation was made years later. MOST of it was clipped from DYRL, digitized, and pasted in. 376578[/snapback] WOW!! I want to see a version of DYRL? with all that animation! Request new DYRL? directors cut! 376609[/snapback] Would actually be a good idea. The movie could do with the game lead-in. As-is, it's a somewhat disorienting beginning, especially if you haven't seen the TV series. ... We ARE both talking about the DYRL sidescroller, right? I didn't miss a game anywhere?

Seems Atlus licensed SRW Original Generation and OG2 for localization. Sure it's not the anime crossover licensing nightmares we(or at least I) WANT to see, but ... SUPER ROBOT WARS! IN ENGLISH! LEGALLY! http://atlus.com/cgi-bin/press?press_release_id=11

How does the saying go... 2% of the users, 98% of the attitude. Don't get me wrong, Macs are great machines, just not enough (in comparison to PC) software out there. Of course this is getting OT. That's my PoV too. Yeah, I do too. So much for that argument. As for Mac and Linux zealotry vs. Windows... the reason is probably because Mac and Linux users actually have something to be proud of with their operating systems. Please... I can crash any of the three in 5 minutes with the right software running. Admittedly, I haven't had much of a chance to muck with OSX yet, so my last experience was with the hacky kludge that is OS9. But I wouldn't be surprised if I could take OSX down equally fast. An operating system needs to do two things. It needs to provide a usable interface and it needs to run software. Windows is way ahead on the running software side of things, just because it has 95% of the market so most software is Windows-exclusive. This also makes it way ahead of the "running poorly-coded apps that explode in your face if you breathe wrong" side of things, just because there's more apps. Interface is down to personal preference. All things considered, the Mac interface is roughly equal to the Windows one. Linux has minimal effort spent on user-friendliness. The general attitude from the Linux camp seems to be that if they had to learn to do everything the old way, then so do you. It's the problem of having the entire OS and interface designed by computer geeks. I've got nothing against any of the OSes, really. But when people start ranting about how mine sucks and I'm a retard because I don't use their OS and so forth, it doesn't exactly engender any good will. The Mac heads are the ones most often running their mouths, but they look rational when a Linux zealot starts talking. ... Or acting. *shudders* One of the nice things about the Mac side is that while they can talk and talk and talk and talk, they CAN'T reformat your hard drive and install MacOS while you aren't looking(subject to change rapidly, as OSX86 has a hack out to let it do just that now). Linux zealots can and some of them will.

May've been a minimal amount of usenet quibbling, but the online world was massively diffrent back then(and lots smaller). I disagree with your point of view on the TV series. The TV series is vastly superior in terms of writing. Agreed with teh movie version of Plus, though. So, I have only the OVA of plus, I take it I should really get the movie edition. I've read before too that it's better. Basically it was quite a surprise to me that there would be so noticeable difference. Yah. There's a lot less suspension of disbelief in-between the beginning and the end(most notably the bullshit "I stuck live ammo into his gun so he'd throw it away and start punching me and I could steal his gun, then shoot him and frame him for attempted murder all at once" segment is gone), and the YF-21 VS Ghost fight is light-years ahead of the OVA version.

Which is almost all lifted straight from DYRL. 376339[/snapback] In what way??, the animation for the game was made years later and it's even made in computer IIRC 376490[/snapback] SOME of the Saturn game animation was made years later. MOST of it was clipped from DYRL, digitized, and pasted in.

Was it set per block of hours plus per minute if you went over? (like cell phone plans do now?) Just curious.... 376405[/snapback] Depended on the ISP. I think some were free on those hours. I'm glad we got past the per-minute charges on internet usage. Even today, a lot of thngs just run faster during those hours. Lot less people hitting the servers.

And as long as you don't preach it, I don't mind. I'm a firm believer in competition, and I'm glad to see Apple's market share rise in recent years(though it's still got a long way to go). Mac users are just an easy target for jokes because of the zealotry with which a small minority will push the product. I'm sure you know the kind I mean. At the rate things are going, it'll all be Linux cracks in a few more years, though. The Mac zealots have calmed down a lot, and the Linux guys are getting louder lately.

If Harmony Gold is evil, then you should probably turn off your computer and chuck it in the trash because Microsoft is evil as well. Or reformat and install Linux. ... Hey, OSX x86 has a hack out to make it run on ANY IBM clone instad of just Apple's. Apple isn't evil, right? Ten thousand raving fanboys can't be wrong.

Which kind of metal? 376382[/snapback] I'm betting magnesium.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!... I'd watch it.

Yah. That was what I meant too. PLAY AS TEH JPOP SINGER!

No. While sexually segregarted, the zentradi in teh series are coworkers, not archnemesises... nemeses... whatever. Because no matter where you are, english is the language of choice for aviation.

Ah yes... all the way back to Art of Fighting, if I recall. I always play as him. Galford has the dog(was checking something for someone recently, and that was one of 2 characters that got playtime) Didn't realize he was a pallete swap + new head. I'll have to look closer next time I fire it up.

*thinks* Was Hanzo, right? I like Samurai Shodown, but I don't play it very often.

Which is almost all lifted straight from DYRL.

Or even ... MG VF-1 Version Katoki. 376315[/snapback] *Stabs you.* Aww, c'mon.... Ver. Ka. is the ESSENCE of superfluous redesigns. Actually, when looked at from the right angle, most of the "main" Gundams are redesigns of the original RX-78. They all have the same basic design, same color scheme, etc. In continuity they're massively diffrent, but out of continuity it's all explicitly intended to be a rehash of the original Gundam.

Or even ... MG VF-1 Version Katoki.

Mine began as a joke, really. Was in a moderately technical discussion, and I thought it'd be funny to use some sort of redneck hillbilly name, so I adopted "JimBob McQuade" as an alias. For some reason I continued using it. Then dropped the McQuade, because it was too long. Then shortened it to JB, because I'm chronically lazy. That's become my standard pseudonym. I pin a zero onto the end when I can't use JB, either because it's taken or there's a minimum name length.

There's actually TWO Katoki redesigns in the Gundam Wing line. First, and primarily, there's the "custom" versions that were, in continuity, alterations of the ones they ended the series with(Wing Zero Custom, Deathscythe Hell Custom, etc). But Endless Waltz ALSO featured a few flashback sequences to before the start of the TV series. These showed the original Deathscythe, Wing Gundam, Sandrock, Heavyarms, and Shenlong. Katoki redesigned the original mechs for those scenes to match his vision of the Wing universe. In continuity, those were the same mechs as the TV series, despite (in some cases massively) diffrent appearance. A few of the Ka. versions also feature equipment that shouldn't be present at that point in the continuity. Out of continuity, of course, both versions were merely Katoki expressing his distaste for TV series designer Kunio Okawara's aesthetics. The Ka. designs outside of Wing are little more than Bandai looking for excuses to sell the same model over again. Seriously, a Ka. Ball? It's a METAL SPHERE.

The Katoki redesign of the Wing Gundam was for the OVA. A lot of the other Katoki redesigns ahve been for the sake of releasing "version Ka." model kits.