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CP gems don't have any long-term effects. When they disappear, they remove one point from the collector's charge gauge at the bottom. But the game's handling of them is such that they're distributed randomly among ALL characters. If someone has an empty CP gauge, they can still collect the gems. When you get a half-dozen and your 8-CP mage doesn't get any because a chargeless fighter took 3, it's... frustrating.

I've heard RE4 speeds things up quite a bit. Don't quote me on it, but I THINK I remember hearing something about quick evade moves(can't recall for sure, don't wanna look it up). Either way, RE isn't a raw action game. The controls and limited items encourage a more calculated approach to the combat.

Second everything. Including the bit about Aelia(I actually liker her more than Lenneth, but you don't have an option there). And when picking attack orders, consider the entire party. Some combos look good as a standalone, but don't mesh with what everyone else is doing. And some dismal-looking ones work great when fused with the rest of the party's actions. If you order things properly and time your hits right, you can almost make the enemies bleed XP gems. Or CP gems. Not as pretty as XP gems, but a few of these go a long way towards keeping the mayhem levels peaked if your fights take more than a few turns. And until you get mental reaction, mages NEED these to do anything but idly spin their staff around.

Ok, settle down. No, you can't strafte - it's a 3rd-person shooter, doesn't lend itself well to it... StarFox Assault did it well enough. Robotron did it better still, though.

Dun have the game, but I somehow doubt it. Very few games let you sidestep.

A Tommy gun.

Yes. You don't really need to know anything before you start. Which is more important, your wife or a tri-Ace game?

All admins do it. That's why the boards don't pin edit notes for them.

AYANE FOREVER! YOU MUST DIE! PURPLE HAIR POWER!

Tad pricey for what amounts to a stand-alone movie player... I can see the logic behind not offering software, though. With very few exceptions, expansion sjust don't get wide support. Simple case of "I can make base unit game that everyone can play, or expansion unit game that everyone/10 can play... Hmmm..."

Towards them??? 357817[/snapback] They're all around me, and I can't stay in one place all the time. Well, I COULD, but the bathroom's kinda crowded, and I get hungry sometimes...

This reminds me of something else... WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL ... From a software point of view, it actually seems more like a 32x, but I had the SCD pic already. SCD actually DID bring a logical and high-demand advancement(though as an accessory, and an expensive one to boot, its market was severely limited). The leap from cartridge to CD drove publication costs down massively, while at the same time vastly increasing the space available for home games(since arcades were less concerned with cost, they could and did stuff a CD's worth of ROM on the boards sometimes). DVD came after games had started going multi-CD on a routine basis. There was a clear demand for more space. Games now are still coming almost exclusively on single-layer 4.smth GB DVDs DESPITE the availability of multi-disk and dual-layer options. I don't see how there's a demand for a quantum-leap in space at this point. Which brings us to the other side of expansions... the 32x was unwanted fluff that not even Sega took seriously(the damn thing didn't even have software available for the first week after launch).

If I turned my back on people for stupidity, I would have to walk backwards a lot.

Heh. They're using Pepsi Prime in the comparison shots. "And remember, only Pepsi has 70% of your recommended daily allowance of energon."

Aww, crap, did I forget to lock the door behind me?

As I understand, the reason he said that was actually because he got annoyed with people asking over and over "what happens next?".

Exactly the reason why I stay away from 5.1 remixes. Sure, it may envelop you now, but it sounds nothing like what it's supposed to. 357115[/snapback] At least with Animeigo, they just mirrored the audio for plain-olde stereo instead of 5.1. Considering the original track was mono.... 357125[/snapback] Really? I thought Animeigo just released it in mono. That's what the package claims it's encoded as, though I didn't actually check.

I think the real actor is just the japanese being wierd with commercials. PSP has a suspend mode. You can kill it anywhere and come back to it at the exact same spot. So saving's not really a problem, as I understand it.

I'd say play on hard even if you're going for the B ending(which he'll pr'ly hit if he's just playing, and not yanking walthroughs down off GameFAGs or something similar). More characters, more items, and just all around more fun.

Because odds are good the PSP port was a contractural obligation. As I understand things, Sony's had to blackmail a lot of developers into making PSP games by refusing them other things unless they agree to make X number of PSP games. So the PSP is getting a lot of quick&dirty ports because companies are trying to fulfill that obligation as fast as possible.

Arcade version was the original. People usually think of the Saturn disk, though. Takes a hell of a machine to emulate the ST-V, though. My Sempron 2800, while not the best computer ever, is still decent. And I can get 16% of full speed on MAME with max frame skip. I'd assumed modded Saturn or disk swap. Saturn emulation is still pretty bad as far as I know. Heh.My reet warez is all out-of-production stuff, as far as I know. I don't mind theefing it if it don't hurt nobody. And I do buy remakes/ports when they show up. *chuckles* Moral, but illegal(despite what some abandonware sites claim). Copyright doesn't care if they're selling it or not. Yes. Unreleased prototypes are still copyrighted.

Where's the lie? It is the first time people can just watch the show the way the Japanese did, rather than reading a subtitled translation of it. 356681[/snapback] "As it was originally presented" means, among other things, "in the original language." The japanese are not in the habit of airing domestically-produced programming in english. You could make an argument for a similar experience, but the original presentation is diffrent unless you're using the japanese audio track with subtitles disabled. Some of the other things implied by as originaly presented would be with the 1st airing opening, ending, and commercial cut. Speaking of commercials, "originally presented" implies the existence of vintage ads in those cuts, too. And 1 episode a week. So it's not really a similar experience either. It's just more marketing buzzwords. What they MEAN to say is that it's the first time Macross has been available as not-Robotech. Which is a bald-faced lie. It might be the first widely-distributed english RealMacross release, but it's not the first.

Except they were sorta-maybe killed off because Kawamori doesn't want to revisit them. They kind of DID have "the end" stamped on them, though. The TV series closed the story rather effectively. Most of Hikaru's plot in the TV series revolved around his romantic interests, misadventures, and screwups. Once you finalize all of that, there's not a lot left to do.

I was god for a while. Got temp-banned for it. ... Now we know the REAL reason A1 was bumped.

*kicks* Those are DISK images. The games weren't even on ROM chips to start with! ... Well, assuming you meant the Saturn version. The ST-V one IS on ROMs. And yes, it bothers me to see a technical term that actually refers to a specific piece of technology misused just because it's easier to write than "pirated software."