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    Man. The cheapest prices I'm seeing on any Alternity Prime is kind of expensive for a Deluxe-class size. I might have to pass on that... He's out already? How is he? Worth buying if you already have Springer? As much as I've enjoyed the new Generations Voyagers, where's the Deluxes already? I really want IDW Megatron and Trailbreaker/Trailcutter, mostly want IDW Bumblebee, and sort of want Orion Pax.
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    My local TRU still has Thundercracker in stock. I still passed. Don't ask me why, as I never collected Alternators or Binaltech, but I ordered Alternators Optimus Prime. $35 seemed reasonable. Now I'm kind of thinking I might like Alternity Prime, since the GT-R is one of my more favorite cars. Is his alt mode in scale with the Alternators/Binaltech version? He seems a little pricey...
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    The original G1 toy had yellow eyes, yeah... I'll even grant you that the Marvel comic book did, but the cartoon didn't, Power Master Optimus didn't, G1 Prime in Beast Wars didn't, Dreamwave G1 Prime didn't, IDW Dreamwave Prime doesn't. Next you'll be telling me that you think Megatron's helmet should be black, or that Galvatron's primary color is silver.
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    I have basically the opposite reaction. I grew up on the cartoon, and in my mind Optimus is red and blue... like the Hasbro MP-10. The blue on the Takara version may be similar to the toy, but my parents never bought me the original Optimus, so it's just too dark to me. Almost purple. Then there's his dull, dead eyes. Definitely loving the Hasbro eyes better.
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    A few days later, and I have to say that Microsoft's about face doesn't make me any more interested in the Xbone, just less interested in the PS4. The PC gamer in me is pretty console apathetic now, but at least the Xbone was giving me reasons to get in Sony's camp.
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    From a usability design POV, it's got issues. To be honest, I was willing to overlook the issues. You learn the system, and yeah, some stuff takes additional steps, but the new Windows Explorer was pretty boss. Then I bought a Windows 8 laptop, installed Steam, and had nothing but issues. So I reformatted and reinstalled Windows 7, which isn't as easy to do as it used to be.
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    All Microsoft has to do to have a surefire hit with Windows 9 is to put relabeled Windows 7 discs in the box.
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    Sideswipe was my first Transformer, but sentimental attachment to that didn't prompt me to pay a ridiculous amount to import Lambor. I guess I'm more attached to Wheeljack and Jazz because I grew up watching the G1 cartoon. Then again, if licensing issues prevent them from being released in the States at a reasonable price, I'll probably pass on them, too. Dai Atlas, Star Saber, and any other character from a Japanese-only release has zero meaning to me. I might pick one up in a Deluxe-class or Voyager class size, but there's no way I'm paying Masterpiece prices for them. As for Optimus Primal, I was in high school/college when Beast Wars was on, and I rejected it out of hand then. I didn't watch it until just a few years ago, and while I'll gladly admit that it was actually a good show, I still fall in the "Trukk not munky" crowd when it comes to Transformer designs and toys.
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    Not to me, who never got Fire Convoy the first time. But Ginrai works too. Hell, I might even consider buying Armada Prime in a Masterpiece. I'd love an MP Jazz or Wheeljack, but I'm sick to death of Bumblebee.
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    I think I'm with you on this. I don't even mind the price tag, I just don't feel like putting up with the launch drama. I'll do like I did with the Wii U: if I walk into a store, there's one on the shelf, and I've got the money to burn, I'll buy it. Otherwise it's not that big of a deal.
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    I think what it really boils down to, for me, is that there are enough games that come out only on consoles and not PC that I need to own a console. However, there aren't really enough exclusives that make me lean one way or the other (Nintendo being a special case where I bought a Wii and a Wii U for first-party content almost exclusively). If the Xbox One was released in a vacuum, I'd overlook the flaws, buy one, and get on with my life. That's not the case, though. The reality is that they're releasing a console with a number of anti-consumer features around the same time as their primary competitor is releasing their box without those anti-consumer features, plays 90% of the same games, and costs $100 less. Brand loyalty only goes so far...
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    To summarize: playing catch up. That being said, I like the new, flatter icons, thinner fonts, and that thing they do with the background is pretty cool. Honestly, I'm all for new features that make iOS less of a pain to use... I just wish Apple's misguided faithful wouldn't try to claim features that have been in Android are somehow new now that they're in iOS.
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    Fixed. Seriously, the game industry needs to stop screwing around and trying to cram multiplayer into everything under the sun. Just give me a solid singleplayer experience.
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    I dunno, Mega Man in Smash Bros just justified my purchase of a Wii U. Throw in Mario Kart 8, a new Mario & Luigi game, Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds, Super Mario 3D World, a new Yoshi's Island, and Pokemon X/Y and I've got basically what I expected out of them: safe but fun first party games. At this point, I don't expect Nintendo to dominate a console generation with bleeding-edge specs and unrivaled third-party support. I just want a handful of fun Nintendo games.
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    Well there you go. It just made the "I'll consider it" list. In other news, PS+ will be required for online multiplayer. I honestly couldn't care, because A.)I'm already a PS+ subscriber for the "free" games and discounts, and B.) You're unlikely to ever actually see me play anything both online and multiplayer.
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    Well, there's that. There's also my PS+ membership carrying over, and the whole streaming PS4 games onto the Vita thing. At $300, I'll buy one. At $400, I'll think about it. More than that, and I just don't think I play consoles enough anymore to justify the cost.
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    Super Meh. I haven't liked a Final Fantasy since IX, and I don't think renaming Versus 13 to 15 is going to change that. And yeah, I'm in the minority, but I have never liked any of the Kingdom Hearts games. If Sony could just skip to the part where the PS4 also costs $500, I can go back to ignoring the "next-gen." Oh, and I'm seeing shots of a camera looking doo-dad in some of the shots with the PS4. Please tell me that sucker's not mandatory. I was planning on leaving my Wii U and 360 hooked up; I don't have room in front of my TV for a new camera/sensor for every game console under the sun.
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    As long as there's no game-breaking bug, I've actually hit a point where I'd rather play even a console port on PC than actually on a console. At least with "next-gen" graphics maybe consoles ports won't look like butt anymore on my PC. And hey, there's been some pretty good PC versions of console games, too. Sleeping Dogs comes to mind.
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    If it works like PS+, you also won't be able to play them anymore if you cancel XBL Gold. The problem with most of what I heard today is that I have no idea how much of it is XBone exclusive. New Battlefront and Witcher 3? Heck yeah... but will they come to PC? Forza 5 is the only game I know for sure that's XBone exclusive that I really do want to play (since Forza 4 and Forza Horizon were the last two Xbox 360 games I put any serious time into), but I sure as heck don't want to play Forza 5 $500 worth. I'll check out Sony's presser later, then probably go right back to my PC.
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    Yeah, as I understood the story, Lamborghini started out as a very successful manufacturer of tractors. The tractor business was apparently good enough that the founder started collecting sports cars. The clutch busted on one of his Ferraris, and he figured out that Ferrari used the same clutches he used in his tractors. So he went to Ferrari and told them he wanted a better replacement. Ferrari told him that he was just a tractor maker and didn't know jack about making sports cars, Lamborghini got pissed and decided to give Ferrari the metaphorical finger by making his own sports car. Even sold the first ones at a loss to keep them competitively priced with Ferraris.
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    The franchise being Final Fantasy XIII, or Final Fantasy in general? I more or less agree either way.
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    Ah. Ok then. I can go back to ignoring the movie toys almost entirely, then.
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    Just like they kept calling Mirage Dino? So... Knowing Bay's history of names/alt-modes, coupled with the total lack of personality he's given to anyone not named Optimus Prime/Bumblebee, in the movie he'll be called Fart, he'll have three minutes of screen time, and he'll have a total of one line, probably about violently killing a Decepticon which no one in the movie will think is out of place for one of the "good guys." Hasbro will sell him as a Deluxe-class toy as Cliffjumper, which I won't buy, even if they repaint him in "G1 colors," because he won't look even remotely like any existing character in any way, shape, or form. ...unless they have a Human Alliance version. But only because I like the Aventador.
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    Why can't it be both?
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    Ohhhh...
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