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It's got nothing to do with space. Star Ocean 3 isn't running any more than FF10, even though one's got twice as much space(and twice as much media costs, for that matter). Disk games are almost pure profit. The cheap games we were promised with the SegaCD, PlayStation, and Saturn never materialized. The companies rapidly realized that they could charge the same as for a ROM cartridge, and pocket massively more profit than they could by reducing prices and selling more units. ... Well, this isn't totally true. They DO reduce the price once sales start dropping off. But we were always lead to believe that games would be 20-30$ BEFORE they were dropped to the bargin bin, not that they'd be re-released after their first run had been finished.

ESRB works quite well, as a matter of fact. A recent congressional review of the media industry found that of the MPAA, RIAA, and ESA, the ESA was by far the best at self-policing. Only fault they could find on the ESA was that it ran ads for M-rated games in publications with a signifigant child readership. Game magazines, specifically. By contrast, the RIAA has no real policing to speak of, just an "explicit content" sticker that's used primarily as an advertising feature, and the MPAA ratings are actively circumvented, with PG-13 and even R movies actively marketed to children on a regular basis.

When will Rockstar admit that they forgot to remove the Hot Coffee minigames... Again, they didn't forget. Leaving unused content on the media is a standard practice.

Yeah but are we going to be paying more than $50 per game? 313283[/snapback] Quite likely not. I'm sure Sony heard everyone's hissy fit when they started talking abotu bumping prices. If we are, it'll only be on the guaranteed sale stuff. You know, sports titles, FF, and GTA.

Hypothetically, it means more diversity on the shelves, as more companies can afford to make games. As we learned with the move to disks, any promise that game costs will be reduced is, ultimately, bullshit.

Indeed. Nothing like a sexual harassment lawsuit against the president to make the media forget about everything else.

Relatively speaking, it IS harmless. Remember, we're talking about GTA here. Given all the rest of the content in the game, having sex with your girlfriend ranks pretty darn low on the list of evils of the world. 313101[/snapback] Ironically, the sex minigame is one of the most wholesome activities you do in the game.. Killing crack dealers, blowing the heads clean off of cops, carjacking, turf wars, drive-by's, acting as a damned federal agent on black-ops, working for and against the mafia, the triads, etc.. Even the tamer competiitions (racings, low-rider, etc) could be argued to be gambling or the ever-ambigious 'organized crime' due to competing for cash. =P Don't forget banging hookers! Or was that not in this installation? And if God of War had been entitled Grand Theft Auto 68 BC, they'd've been all over it. Hacking and modding are NOT illegal. And Rockstar WAS caught in a lie, as they said the hackers created the scenes, models, animations, audio clips, etc, as opposed to flipping one bit to unlock them. It's more like you modify your vehicle to disable the air bag, and the news blames the auto manufacturer. And then the dealerships issue recall notices on ALL cars of your make. And the NHTSA gives it a lower crash safety rating because it CAN not have a working airbag.

Relatively speaking, it IS harmless. Remember, we're talking about GTA here. Given all the rest of the content in the game, having sex with your girlfriend ranks pretty darn low on the list of evils of the world.

Bah. I'm waiting for one with electroluminescent material and liquid crystal in the case, so you can adjust the color and brightness from within the BIOS. 312989[/snapback] Whoa, that sounds like a whole other ballgame than a simple case color 313002[/snapback] Indeed. ... Too bad no one's gonna do it. Variable case colors would be awesome.

Bah. I'm waiting for one with electroluminescent material and liquid crystal in the case, so you can adjust the color and brightness from within the BIOS.

Sulu is Georce Takei. Chekov is... I dunno. 312763[/snapback] Walter Keonig, and you call yourself a fan, hmmm. where have I read that one from? 312943[/snapback] But I knew Takei! Besides, I'm through stabbing myself with plastic swords. Dun even have a Star Wars figure around to try it with.

Sulu is Georce Takei. Chekov is... I dunno.

Actually, they're usually sold at a slight profit. PS2 launched at a loss, but started making profit as Sony got the production streamlined and chip yields up. XBox has sold at a loss its entire life, but MS doesn't care. They can and do subsidize it with their PC OS profits. MS isn't here for profit, they're here to expand market share. Modern business logic says that if a company isn't expanding, it is dying. With the PC boom having died down MS lacks room to expand their primary business. With WebTV and UltimateTV being dismal failures, they HAVE to subsidize the XBox. Saturn fell INTO selling at a loss while trying to keep up with the PS1 price.

Ironically today is the 36th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing too. Strange coincidence...

Reading the article... He apparently missed death in D-day because he was carrying a cigarette case in his shirt pocket. That's the sort of thing people roll their eyes at in movies(as well as a damn close call).

I don't mind that he's on it so much as he isn't sharing it. Love it, JBO. Genius. .... Or do I mean "Jenius"? Oh no! 312519[/snapback] *bows* Thank you.

I'd buy it.

I think it shows up a good half-dozen times, at least. It's in basically every scene where a destroid on the Macross bites it, because they reused the same sequence for every kill. And it wasn't really an official valk variant. Just an in-joke like the beercan missiles.

Purpose is over-rated.

EXCEPT when the original creators have an acronym that they're DE-romanizing for hte japanese title. Either way, though... it's generally considered in good taste to accept the creator's version instead of telling everyone that uses it that they're stupid.

That's funny, because if you WATCH THE SHOW, that U is very much audible. The point you're trying to make is that YOUR romanization takes precedence over the creators' romanization. The creators of Macross romanized it as Macross. The creators of MOSPEADA romanized it as MOSPEADA. There is no question of vagaries of the language, diffrences of translation, or anything else, because it's already BEEN romanized by the creators. Your argument consists of "the creators have no f'ing clue what they were trying to say." Scrap the quotes aoround official, as they are clearly intended to imply that its NOT the official spelling, or that there is no official spelling. The creators DID have an official spelling, they made a whole english logo and a damned acronym around it. You're being a dumbass. That's nice. Shame this is a textual conversation, so all the nuances of sound get lost. Maybe you should use a pronunciation key to type it next time, since you're attempting to represent the sound of the word. Or better yet, use the actual japanese characters instead of making up a romanization. Why attempt to render it into a completely foreign alphabet at all? Also... maybe you should start correcting the spelling of english words. Like know. That's spelled TOTALLY wrong. It should be no, and that's how I intend to type it from now on. U no wear eye'm cuming frum, rite? As of yet, all you've proven is YOU don't know what you're talking about. Or rather, writing about.

I think that's the problem, actually. No one can prove ANYONE doesn't own the rights. So we have... was it 4? diffrent companies all sitting on their "rights" to the show waiting for someone else to move so they can leap like a pack of rabid starving jackals and rip them to shreds. Eventually, only one company will be left, and THEY can get a DVD on the shelves. I suddenly like this plan a LOT. I think you meant gesture, not jester. But jester fits better anyway.

Oh, c'mon. Everyone knows the only GOOD Gundam universe is After Colony.

Teenage Mutant Anime Fanboy Turtles?