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Weeeeell... It is actually a three part OAV that has been re-edited into a movie. The only legit R1 DVD release of it is the US Manga Corps part 1 DVD... they never brought out parts 2 or 3 though... or the movie. They did bring out dubbed and subbed VHS of all three parts though. If you are hard up for just DVD and only DVD then your only option is the bootleg. Give me a sec and I'll find you a link to a place that sells them. Edit: GO HERE ----> DVDs for the only Area 88 DVDs there are.

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Well she did pull him out of that pool of water in Britai's ship, saving him from drowning... she always seems to specifically talk only to him in danger situations trying to warn him like in the epsode when the barrier goes kablooey... she did do all his housework and laundry at home... she seems to have a very maternal, almost suffocating relationship with him later in the series which prompts him to break away from her and see Minmay... Misa has always been the motherly, quiet and "dependable" woman in Hikaru's life whereas Minmay has always appeared to be the glamourous, rebellious and "needy" one.

But you have to remember that Commander Kinryu was not a main teir motivating character in Macross 7, he was just another one of the many background characters who had little effect on the plot or main characters. His glamorized death in Macross 7 was another famous storytelling crutch: the martyr. A character that no one really notices or cares about who rises up and does something increadible at the cost of his own life, leaving the survivng characters saying "such a man, we hardly knew ye". Roy Focker on the other hand was Hikaru's "father figure", the big brother and sempai who had a major influence on his life. Roy had to die in a way that a father would: defending the family. In both TV and DYRL Roy dies in defense of those he cares about, not offense. He dies trying to save Hikaru from Kamujin in DYRL and he dies flying a defense mission in the TV show. Roy, albeit he was a drunkard and a womanzier, dies being the protective father or "sempai". How is this for further oedipal things: Roy was sort of Hikaru's immediate father figure of which he looked up to and sought approval from... and Misa, being the flight controller was in a sense his mother figure, watching over him and scolding him when he was not living up to his potential. So in a sense Hikaru's father dies and he ends up with mother.

Roy's death in the show is a classic (now stereotypical) storytelling device in which the young man is thrust into the father's leadership role by his death. It's all very oedipal, but in the end it serves it's purpose... which in this case is to move Hikaru into a position of real importance and responsability. As for how Roy dies, at least he died in a dignified way in both renditions...

I was channel flipping last week and caught the promo for this... at first I was shocked into paralysis, like looking into the approaching shockwave from an atomic blast... then my deep rooted animal instincts took over and automatically changed the channel before severe brain damage set in. I have single-handedly lost a good deal of respect for humanity from seeing that. I also wish harm and cancellation on that show... who am I kidding, it's on Geek TV it will run til the end of time... <_<

Is it just me or would me driving that thing look like a monkey f**king a football...? No thanks, I'd rather ride down hill in a shopping cart wearing nothing but a burger king cardboard crown... I'd I'd still feel safer than on that deathmobile.

I agree that the reviews section is a waste of space. I don't go there... I know a lot of people who don't go there... but somebody does go there or there would be no posts in it. Who are we to take away someone else's section in benefit of our own? Also people tend to abuse OT forums and get into needless fights. OT forums really only work when you have a small group of people who get along with each other on a regular basis. Macross World is like Grand Central Station... too many people to keep something civil without a constant police presence. For nice OT talk with Macross come on over to VEX Forums (www.valkyrie-exchange.com). We have a nice group of friendly folks over there who have nice friendly OT threads now and then that don't get erased.

Not really... I remember quite a lot from Outcast and pretty much from the minute you get that lightsaber the game works things into it that make you use it on every level after you get it. The first real level you have it on is Nar Shadda and I remember using it quite a good number of times just to progress in the game and the very next level is Bespin and they start throwing the reborns at you like they where cracker jack prizes. Every freaking Jedi I came up against in that game would die by only one weapon: the lightsaber. I shot at them, I lobbed thermal detonators at them, I tossed detpacks and tripmines at them, I shot rockets at them... everything just bounces off of them or they block/dodge it. The only way to kill them was to get into a "lightsaber fight" which pretty much entailed you just running at them clicking the fire button and hoping they die. The game will not even let you sneak up on them or snipe them! I tried that too! In Bespin there are tons of spots where those dorky reborns jump out at you and if you are patient and observant enough you can see them waiting for you. I pulled out the destabilizer and charged it up to shoot them only to have them "miraculously" just absorb a full destabilizer blast or they "sense" you are targeting them with a conventional weapon and they spring to life and charge at you with their lightsaber. Oh and they can somehow block the destabilizer shots with their sabers but you can't. How douche baggy is that?

But they don't force you to use it all the time like they do in Outcast... the only times I really pulled out that dumb thing was when I had to, for the boss fights for instance.

Could there be a rational reason why this frame is flipped? I think we can assume that the producers knew it was flipped... perhaps there was some other glaring issue that they wanted to correct. For instance: that deck officer signalling the takeoff, is he on the right side of the plane? Was there something against him being left handed?

Actually I played JO before I bought it... one of my friends lent me his copy for a week. Due to the size of the levels in that game I barely beat two levels before I had to give it back. I bought the game with the impression that it would be like Dark Forces I and II in that the lightsaber stuff would be kept to a minimum until the last few levels... but in JO you just end up going from one slashing match to the next after about level 5. I stopped playing it by about the swamp level just because it go annoying. Anyway Star Wars names everything Jedi this and Jedi that... Melee weapons are for piss in FPS games anyway, at least they switch you over to Tomb Raider mode when you have the lightsaber. Edit to add: In hindsight, yes it was a mistake on my part to just blindly buy the game. But it was at a time when I was hard up for a new FPS game in a market that was shallowing up with not many quality FPS choices... I liked the first few levels but the game just went gay on me. I think it is very dumb that all jedi instantly dodge and block all gunfire and prevent you from using any other weapon against them but a lightsaber. There where spots in that game that I knew there was a dumbass reborn up around the corner so I laid a bunch of detpacks and tripmines... the buttmunches just waltz right trough it all, exploding all around them and they take no damage! IMHO it really, really takes the fun out of a game when you are forced to fight in the way they say you have to. That is the glory of the FPS genre in that you can fight in your own style and still succeed in many ways... you can lay traps, you can hit and run, you can sneek and pop or you can just do a full frontal attack guns a' blazin. In JO you have to fight the stupid dark jedis on their "turf" and that just burns me up. It's stupid.

The VF-1S is reserved for flight squadron leaders. In SDF TV you never really see any other squadrons (except for split second shots of them getting blown away) and you never see any other squadron leaders other than Roy and Hikaru as the story pretty much focuses on them. There is also a pretty good chance that most of those 20 VF-1S fighters onboard got blown up real good over the course of the various encounters with the enemy... leaving only a handful left over. That "20" number was most likely what they had on hand when the initial attack on ataria island took place. By the time they got back to earth and by the "Love Drifts Away" episode I'd imagine they would have been restocked... but after the battle they would have been back down to a handfull again. I myself would have liked to have seen one of the other squadron leader's VF-1Ses just to see what kind of goofy paint job they had.

I'm sitting at home in my office now doing what you said. The doorknob on the door behind me is my target. I can literally see it... but it's a blur as it resides just off the periphery of my field of vision. I can see behind be but I cannot interpret what it is. If I had to pick out a speck in a big blue or black void I couldn't... and if the bad guys where big enough for me to easily see I'd think that I'd be dead long before getting the chance to look behind me.

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I just thought of something... I want a star wars game that lets me play someone like Han Solo: a smuggler! Think about it, it would be like a combination of Dark Forces and Privateer! You'd be your own boss and go where you wanted, BlasTech blaster on your hip and some weird alien at your side... you could be the noble legit trader or be a smuggler and deal in arms and drugs!... then blast your way out of trouble! You could upgrade your ship with new things, buy new guns and gear... That would be sooooooo freaking boss. They could even make some of it online play compatible so you could wheel and deal with other smugglers... or stab them in the back and steal their cargo!

Now THAT would be my speed! Think how cool it would be with you as one of the thousands of clone troopers in the fire line... blaster rounds whizzing by all over the place... walkers behind you belting out support... frenzied combat at it's best! Woooooooo!

I'm still hesitant... mainly because I got so bored with JO's weapons and enemies. You can only shoot so many stormtroopers, greedos and things before you get bored with the game. I can remember when I first played JO... I loved it. The first 4 levels or so were so cool and fun... ... then you got the stupid lightsaber... From that point on the game got really, really dumb. Everything became a force puzzle or a lightsaber fight. You'd bump into a pack of enemies rapid shooting at you and your only line of defense was the lightsaber... you'd run into a dark jedi or reborn and your only way to kill them was force powers and the lightsaber... meh. I recall quite a good number of jedi being whacked on Geonosis by droid soldiers so it is possible to kill them with a gun... you just are not allowed to do it in the game... which pisses me off to no avail. Not all of us want to be a Jedi... some of us want to be a storm trooper so we can kill a bunch of people with our blaster rifle. That is what I liked so much about Dark Forces, the first game in the series... you where a normal human commando up against the empire, not some faux-jedi come hero slashing and force gripping your way through the game. If Galaxies where not so freaking boring and pointless I would have liked that game... but alas... I'm just going to save my money for a first person shooter and not a jedi simulator. (If anyone has not picked up on it yet I am very demanding of video games. I've been playing them since the eighties in the arcades in high school and I've come to realize one thing: life is too short to waste on a game that is bland or just more of the same... I'm not trying to "dis" star wars or this game, I just want to make sure it is what I think it is and that I don't rush out and waste my $50 on something I will get very, very angry at and end up trying to resell for a quarter of it's value.)

To the point on the mission difficulty: I have heard everywhere that "the game lets you pick missions based on your skills". That leads me to believe that it is either a good thing: making you learn how to play the game, or a bad thing: making you jump through hoops in order to get the prize. JO was fun for me up until you got the force and lightsaber... I got really sick and tired of fighting dark jedi after dark jedi that "cheats" with force powers. Give me an M16A1 and a few grenades in the game and I'll show you what makes a jedi!

Thanks, my mind is made up.... this game stays on the shelf. Edit to add: MY type of games (Half Life 2, Doom 3, Battlefield Vietnam and Men of Valor: Vietnam) are due out in the next few months anyway...

I've been looking at this game on the shelves for a while but I just don't want to buy it... unless someone playing the game can answer me some questions: - are there guns in the game? I got sick of the lightsaber on JO fast... if there are guns, are they the dorky same ones that have been in every single freaking Star Wars FPS since days one? - can you just go rouge and start killing the rebels? - I've heard it has some sort of adaptive mission structure that will coddle you if you are sucking at the game but will totally smack you down if you show any sign of being good at it, is that true? - every one of the compu-geeks in the office is playing it and from what I saw over their shoulders it looks like JO with a skinpack and new levels... not worth the $50 price tag.

Still though the F4 Phantom has zero rear visability out of the RIO seat... it's worse than the VF-1X. I still think that the mirrors are the things the pilots use. A good number of "modern" fighter used two or three rear and side view mirrors in their cockpits just like the VF-1 series. Still, aerial combat is so fast and precise that I doubt something could sneak up on a pilot without at least some warning from radar or sensors to alert him. F Zero mentioned the pilots in Vietnam, nine times out of ten american planes where shot down by AAA or SAMs... most AAA in vietnam had no radar warning all, you just see a bunch of tracers zip past and you hear a bunch of thumps and noises and next thing you know your plane is lit up like a christmas tree with fire lights and master cautions... as for SAMs most planes in the 'Nam "Saw them coming" on the radar before they could actually see the SAM. Then again spotting a sputtering flying phone pole out your cockpit window is usually a sign that it's too late to do anything to get out of the way anyhow. My guess is in the future more emphasis is put on electronic sensors and radar much like it is today and those aid the pilot in his perception of the battlefield.

I'm an avid Aliens fan so I guess I'll have to look up this set when it comes out... I did want to make a couple points that have been rattling around inside my noggin while reading this thread though... I was not disheartened when Hicks and Newt got killed in Alien 3 as those sort of things happen in real life. How many soldiers who survived battle met their end on the trip home? Yes it is a kick in the teeth but so is that whole movie. Alien 3 was meant IMHO to be one big boot to the groin of the franchise. Think about it, Ripley has spent her whole life since the Nostromo fighting the Xenomorph... her life has been one giant nightmare. The end of Aliens was sort of an illusion that she got everything back (her sanity, her daughter, etc.) only for her to "wake up" and realize that it was all a dream amidst a nightmare. It makes literary sense, no matter how horrible it seemed to the viewers. Alien: Ressurection was a train wreck. At least Alien 3 kept the same dark feel and texture of the original story... A:R was nothing more than a half-assed summer action movie "featuring" Alien critters. The movie was populated with B actors, bad SFX, very very poor production design and it changed gears so many times you'd think it was stuck in a ditch trying to work itself free. If you watch the Alien movies back to back to back to... ugh... back... you get a better picture for how they all relate to each other. Alien was the first "act", it established the characters and set the pace for the franchise. Aliens was the "development" act in which the main character is put into the worst situation they can imagine (return to LV426 that is swarming with Xenomorphs). Alien 3 should have been the "final" act in which the main character confronts the issues and her nemesis and puts them to rest. Alien: Ressurection is the cartoon that follows the feature... while everyone walks out of the theater.

With. Tis better to have the option than have no option at all... anyway you might be able to use them on something else later on...

I have an honest question here as I don't know the real answer... I've heard a lot of people claim both sides of this argument so here is the question I must ask: Can a fighter pilot really crank his head all the way around over his shoulder and look out the back of his plane? Wouldn't the combination of his helmet, his seat and the force pushing on his body as he speeds along sort of prevent him from doing that? I'm sitting still in a chair in my offce and the best I can crank my head around is about 90 degrees and I gain about an additional 10 degrees with eye movement... I can't see directly behind me, it's a blind spot. If I lean foreward in my chair and twist my torso in conjunciton with my head and eyes then I can see directly behind me. But if I was in a fighter the spot I'm looking at would be filled with the headrest from my ejector seat. So what's the deal then... can a fighter pilot actually look behind him? ... or does he only really only have about a 180 to 230 degree field of view in front, top and on the sides and he either uses mirrors or a RIO to see 100% behind him?