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  1. Mr March
    Amazing. Loving it.
  2. Mr March
    People still make these posts on the internet?
  3. Mr March
    So I purchased Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and gave it a spin. The engine and interface are familiar to the original FC3, but everything else has changed dramatically. The gameplay has elements of FC3 but is also quite different and to say the game design is unique is understating. The game is unapologetically reverential to 80's action movies and 80's science fiction. Amusingly, the game even utilizes cutscenes in low resolution 2D animation that one would expect to see in a 16-bit era video game. The voice acting, music and sound effects are all 1980's trademarks, right down to Terminator and Aliens actor Michael Biehn starring as the absurdly named "cyber-commando" Rex Power Colt, the hero of the story. Narratively, Blood Dragon isn't going to impress anyone, but the gameplay is thoroughly enjoyable and the style is pure 1980's love. The game abounds with callbacks to sci-fi/action films of the 1980s both well-known (a helicopter mini-gun sequence featuring Little Richard's Long Tall Sally ala Predator) and little-known (lead Rex has a character design reminiscent of something out of Metalstorm). There is even a reference to the old U.S. government anti-drug propaganda from the 1980's, "Winners don't do drugs". It is a great laugh. The game play is engaging, the setting is entertaining and the cheesy over-the-top story/characters are hilarious. Blood Dragon isn't destined to be one of my favorite games nor will it win any awards, but it is a great deal of fun and a real treat for anyone nostalgic about the eighties. At $15 on Steam, this game is a real bargin. On a personal note I have to say this to many Macross World members; if you are not playing Blood Dragon, you are missing a game that features everything you complain is lacking in "shitty modern games" played by all those "dumb kids these days". Blood Dragon is marketed DIRECTLY at the 30-40 something gamer lamenting his good old-days of the 1980's. Someone heard your bitching and actually paid it the attention it doesn't deserve, LOL! This is YOUR game. There is no excuse for any of you (and you know who you are) to be missing it.
  4. Mr March
    Oh, you silly litigious Americans While I doubt this lawsuit has any chance of going anywhere, the filing of it does touch upon a dirty secret of tech demos in modern video game marketing. This tech demo controversy isn't new, but something that many people - consumers, game reviewers and industry folk alike - have been lamenting as a corrupt and underhanded way to sell your game for some time. Supporters have said these "fake" tech demos are no more akin to movie trailers featuring scenes cut from the final film. But I've heard it said that game play demos for a video game - by their very nature as interactive games - have to deliver more on what is shown in a demo than a film does with a trailer. Many have argued with some legitimacy that one can cut scenes from a film and still have a story but when game play is cut, that IS the product. Maybe I'm biased (even though I have never and will never purchase this game) but I admit I kinda enjoy seeing a company that tries to irresponsibly exploit my consumer nostalgia get sued for doing just that.
  5. Mr March
    Nope. Though not for reasons of reshoots or script revisions. IMO, this World War Z film adaptation screams stereotypical Hollywood at it's worst; buy rights to the name of a popular property, produce a mediocre film 180 degrees from the source material and market it as something different when it's anything but. Steering clear unless my trusted review sites/positive word of mouth lead me back.
  6. Mr March
    I like the color choices. Nice work.
  7. Mr March
    A quick look and a positive review from Giant Bomb. There's some good stuff in here. Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon Review (with Quick Look embedding at the top) http://www.giantbomb.com/reviews/far-cry-3-blood-dragon-review/1900-576/ Definitely feeling good about this game now. Odds are good I'll grab this
  8. Mr March
    I think you nailed it the first time out. Not worried about the wings, they are dramaticlaly distorted in almost every piece of line art, much like the VF-1. I think it's perfect and I'd lean toward larger wings as more realistic.
  9. Mr March
    Zinji I am indeed. And I create quality coloring as well zpaolo Look on the bright side, no one else has built a CG Fan Liner (at least to my knowledge). So I doubt anyone will be able to argue with you if you fudge some dimensions here and there to make it all work
  10. Mr March
    Gawd this looks so good. I adore the creativity dripping off every shot.
  11. Mr March
    I'd love to see you create a Fan Liner. Sadly, I have no other line art of the Fan Liner than what is already on my website. As part of my next update, I do have a much higher resolution scan of the old line art with much truer colors. I suppose it won't hurt my next website update too much if I post it now in the hopes it helps inspire you to create another amazing CG model for us all to enjoy
  12. Mr March
    I love this design. The one on the right is my favorite. I don't think you're sacrificing anything that significant by going with the thicker legs; this mecha is in no danger of being too showy or over-designed. The only danger I see in this design is being too awesome
  13. Mr March
    Was just about to post this. Astounding footage.
  14. Mr March
    Well, this is pretty damned amazing. I went to your DeviantArt page and saved all the variants. Very impressive work. It's really nice to see high quality models of some of the underdog mechanical designs from Macross. THanks for posting.
  15. Mr March
    This is incredible. Well done!
  16. Mr March
    Looks on course to be a good sequel. If it can do as well or better than the first film, I'll be happy. From what I've read, all involed are just as serious about the characters as the creative talent behind the first one and that's what made that original film stand above the others. I say thee yay!
  17. Mr March
    I've been fortunate enough to have missed any Martin fans like this, but I know well from my many other days past in other fandoms what it's like to deal with them Thankfully the musical parodies are more entertaining, LOL. Not that ANY adaptation needs justification for being an ADAPTATION, but George R.R. Martin is actually WRITING episodes of Game of Thrones aside from being a co-executive producers of the show
  18. Mr March
    Cool. Went over there and got it. Thanks!
  19. Mr March
    While I hope to simply share and not inflame, IMO most geeks are the LEAST QUALIFIED for any judgement of taste, particularly OVER TIME. If the internet has revealed any truth about humanity, it has proved most geeks lose grip on the pulse of popular culture even faster than the average person and if you give geeks exactly what they CLAIM/THINK they want, they invariably hate it. And how I wish it twas not so
  20. Mr March
    Wow, where did that drawing come from? It's fantastic. Not so sure about the colors, but the line art is amazing.
  21. Mr March
    Great new trailer. I still like Cumberbatch's voiceover during the first trailer more, but this is a solid display for the new film. Definitetly interested.
  22. Mr March
    Cumberbatch's on the cusp of super stardom, so he's definitely going to be doing whatever he wants very soon. Fortunately he loves playing Sherlock I've not read American Gods, but the adaptation of the story into an HBO series already has my attention simply because it's HBO doing it. I'm familiar with Gaiman's work and I have some faith that HBO will do right by him.
  23. Mr March
    Good trailer, but I'm still in love with Trailer #2. I've watched that a great number of unhealthy times
  24. Mr March
    I was wondering when word of this would hit MW Not sure I'll get this. It's clearly made with love, but pandering to all my loves has been done before again and again and again....and yeah, I'll wait for reviews. However, i am buying Far Cry 3 soon
  25. Mr March
    "Niche" would best describe fandom, at least here in North America. Course, the fandom for Macross has always been niche, but I supposed the degree to which it is niche has varied from time to time. For the most part, Macross is nowhere within the pop culture consciousness and I can think of no "mention of significance" even within the larger discussion of popular entertainment among the main genre collectives online (with the exception of it's link to anime and/or Robotech). Naturally, none of this has any impact on the production of Macross product in Japan. If anything Macross has seen a rather sizable surge of product and merchandising for many years now, so everything seems ducky
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