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I hope it curshes both. ... But it won't hurt either, as the people they market to don't give a crap. They believe you should take it up the rear and ask for more. And no, I don't just mean die-hard sports fans. Many many gamers believe that they have to roll over and accept whatever is offered to them, even when it is known to be a horrible product.

And yet some people still cling to the belief that there will someday be an MPC Beta. Hope and belief are diffrent things. No one EXPECTS it to happen, but a lot of people WANT it to happen.

What's all this about monopolies, and EA has killed the entire market for football games? Am I the ONLY person that remembers the days of unlicensed sports games? Just because you don't have XXX team's logo and Joe Blow's latest stats doesn't mean the game is any diffrent. In fact, they tended to be BETTER games because they were worried about making a good game, not one the licensor would approve of. ... Of course, they also weren't relying on names, stats, and graphics to sell. They were TRYING to sell games based on good solid gameplay. And at one point after licensing had taken over the sports game industry, unlicensed hockey games were considered superior to licensed ones because the NHL, in a brief attempt to clean up their image, forbade licensors to include fight sequences. In a subgenre where fight sequences were often more elaborate than the actual sport part of the game, this was a recipe for disaster. They relented when it became obvious that people EXPECTED fight sequences in their hockey games, and wouldn't buy ones that didn't have them. Fact: all this means is that next year's football games won't have "your" team's logo in there. Big deal, get over it. If it means that much to you, well, they'll almost GUARANTEED to include a logo designer anyways, so you can make your own logo, name your own team, and VOILA! You're playing as the Vice City MegaPimps or maybe even the boring old *insert REAL city/team here*.

Just mentioning it in case someone forgot/missed it. Personally, I'd like to see both shows out there again. With the option to view them in their original form. ... But then, I'd also like to see them show up in Super Robot Wars. And that won't happen either.

Didn't they also say there would NEVER be a remastered Robotech, that it wasn't possible, that all the edit lists had been lost? And that Director's Cut Robotech COULDN'T exist, as the televised version WAS the original cut? They have no credibility. Stuff they say can't or won't happen has a nasty tendancy to happen. Stuff they say will happen... doesn't.

I DO seem to recall wading into Hell. I don't recall having to die first, though. ... Wait... you DO get killed at the end of episode 1. Unless that's shareware only... It's been AGES since I've played Doom. Much less the full version.

By contrast, if I'd seen the movie first, I never would've looked at any other Ghost products. I didn't think the movie was just a bad Ghost in the Shell movie. I thought it as a bad movie.

If they want to handle the original works like they did Rawbooteck, we're overdue for a new version. I hereby predict that HG ordered them to cease production and begin work on a new, dubbed version.

That was done in the manual. Your guy was the comm officer or something. Everyone else went in while he stayed behind in the landing ship. Everyone else got maimed/mauled/killed/posessed/turned to shotgun-wielding zombies before you ever set foot on the ground. He peeked out to see WTF happened. Then went on a homicidal demon-killing rampage. And Doom2's story was as simple as the first. You didn't blow the poo out of the demons in time, and they invaded Earth. You must go on another homicidal rampage.

If I recall, the "creators" let the Dairugger 15 license lapse, and don't want to pay the asking price for a new one. So no vehicle Voltron ever. Sucks, don't it?

The manga is WAY better than the movie. For one, Major Kusanagi isn't a simmering pile of depressed suicidal angst. For 2, it's just massively better written. 3, They don't prattle on and on about one philosophical point. There's a lot of thought-provoking stuff in it, really. But it puts the ideas out there and lets you mull them over. 4. SEBUROS!!! 5. FUCHIKOMAS!!! Note that 4 and 5 are the ravings of a fan that read the manga first. While the Seburos are very neat handguns and the fuchikomas are fun characters, they are HARDLY constitute a massive diffrence. But long story short... Shirow needs to be involved in the adaptations of his work. He is not in the first movie, and it is painfully obvious. It's heavy-handed, preachy, and kinda WTF at several points. Also... the footnotes and end notes in the graphic novel(I ASSUME they kept them for the new edition...) are worth the price of admission alone, IMO.

tri-Ace's art is being messed with too. Not as much, true, but I think the combination looks pretty good, actually.

That's a good point, actually. The Cheyenne could fill a role that was supplanted by the VF-1.

I've never really used reviews for guidance, beyond genreal theme. I usually just rey on instinct. Amazingly enough, this mechanism serves me fairly well. I'm somewhat good at dodging the real stinkers and picking out the gems.

I have a question. WHY make a Doom movie to begin with? Think about it. It's one guy with a lot of guns shooting a bunch of zombie marines and demons. There 's no room for any character development or story advancement. It's just a gorefest. This is why game movies don't work, as a general rule. You either remain faithful to the material, and turn out a REALLY boring movie(watching a game IS NOT fun), or you rewrite things and alienate the core fanbase you're relying on for initial ticket sales.

Darn right. Never understood why it gets so much praise.

Napster killed nothing. The recording industry killed themselves by oversaturating the market with me too's and then charging damn near $20 for a CD that cost them next to nothing to make. CD sales were on the way down, file sharing or not. Actually, it WAS Napster. Sort of. When the RIAA attacked Napster, it started a boycott of CDs. Most of the Napster users were using it as a preview system, and actually buying CDs. So the users felt that it was an attack on legitimate purchasers. And legitimate studies up to that point had connected INCREASED CD sales to file-sharing. After that firstl lawsuit, it was all downhill. Boycott starts, CD sales fall, RIAA cites hard #s as evidence of file-sharing damage instead of just preaching their pet theory, RIAA is unable to shut down modern sharing programs due to their decentralized nature, so they commit PR suicide and directly attack the consumer, causing further reduced sales as they alienate their purchasers even more, reduced sales cause more lawsuits, lather, rinse, repeat.

Lenneth/Hrist is DEFINITELY an improvement.

Valkyrie Profile's a good game. Lenneth doesn't look quite right as a redhead, though(or would that be Hrist?...). And personally, I'd shift the feathers to white.

But, but... I HUNGER.

Heh. ... Actually, light-up thrusters would be pretty cool...

Not really. A story from the PoV of a destroid pilot on the Prometheus, to use an old example, wouldn't necessarily mess with the original storyline. Just add to it. Not gonna happen. The Destroids don't transform, and we all know that non-transforming mecha are just bit-players in the Macross universe. I know. It was just the first example of a "side story" I could think of. And YES! @ KingNoir. Clean things up, but keep the show essentially as-is. No replacing the 80s designs with modern 21st century ones, no changing things after the fact, no making Kamjin Minmay's biggest fan. Just visual polishing. It'd be nice to have a version of Virgin Road that didn't make my eyes bleed. If you want a full remake, go watch DYRL. Granted it's not the same depth a full series offers, but it's still a pretty radical rewrite.

None I can think of, really. BUT... SegaCD. Sega Saturn. TurboCD. 3D0. CD systems with built-in save RAM. Also all older machines, because f'ing Sony made the memory card an acceptable way to do things.

... *winces* Ya know, neither the plane nor the action figure looked that bad when I was a kid. DAMN YOU FOR SOILING MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES! On the other hand, I was always quite annoyed that it didn't transform, because aside from being a toy of a "transformer"(as all transforming vehicles were Transformers, and Robotech was CLEARLY a rip-off), it was obviously intended to change forms at one point(Look at the tail fins! They're HINGED!) yeah, the tail is hinged so it can hold the boosters. Yes, it does come with boosters. I don't think mine did. Could've been a defective package, though. ... Did the thruster feet unfold too? I'm not SURE on this point, but I think they did.

... *winces* Ya know, neither the plane nor the action figure looked that bad when I was a kid. DAMN YOU FOR SOILING MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES! On the other hand, I was always quite annoyed that it didn't transform, because aside from being a toy of a "transformer"(as all transforming vehicles were Transformers, and Robotech was CLEARLY a rip-off), it was obviously intended to change forms at one point(Look at the tail fins! They're HINGED!)