mikeszekely

I'm mikeszekely, same as here, but I don't really have anything to play yet, even though I've had it since July.

RvB is classic good times! Shame it had to end. Oh and godzilla, if you're thinking people here aren't going to complain, even when they like what they're complaining about, you're on the wrong board.

It's funny, but no sooner than I post in this thread than I get a card in the mail that basically said my movies are backorderd and aren't expected to ship until 11-2. Kinda nice of them to let me know.

I'm not actually saying that either game is bad. I've played and enjoyed both games. But aside from having a pretty-boy villain with a big sword, I don't see the obsession over Final Fantasy VII. The game is average at best, and brought nothing new to the series besides hideous 3D graphics. Likewise, with Halo, yeah, when it game out, it was probably the best example of an FPS on a console (although I was still fond of Perfect Dark). It wasn't without its flaws, though, and in the meantime, the market has been flooded with other, often better shooters. (Sadly, not the new Perfect Dark.) Yeah, some Bungie types have said in the past that they're not connected. But Alex Seropian said in an interview that the Master Chief and the protagonist from Marathon are the same person. And all the other signs are present.

Thanks, that helps a lot! I only have a cell, no home phone, so I always think that I'll wait until after 9:00 to call, and I always forget. This web version was a lot easier for me. And I'm still in process too. In fairness, it does say to allow 4-10 weeks, so maybe JsARCLIGHT just got lucky? Or maybe it has to do with where you live?

Four weeks? I sent away for mine back in July, and I haven't got anything yet.

No. But it's not any more overrated than Final Fantasy VII. Oh, and Oihan, back to your original question,

No.

Halo 2.5? I'd agree. Graphically, it's not one of the better-looking games on the 360. That's especially noticeable on the first level and how poor the leaves look. I looks like the cleaned up the textures from Halo 2 and added more bloom lighting effects. Combine that with the short length of both Halo 2 and 3, plus Halo 2's abrupt ending, and you walk away with the impression that Halo 2 and 3 were initially one game, that Microsoft decided to split to capitalize on the Halo hype while saving something for the 360.

I missed all that. Hmm.

Yeah, but Sega themselves officially stopped supporting it. They don't even service them anymore.

I guess. I mean, no one called be anything rude last night, but I did have one guy who basically hung around and picked people off while they were weak after firefights who yelled "Bullsh*t!" every time I killed him.

What's the verb? I can read "This year" "Macross 25th Anniversary" and "Macross Frontier."

You mean the ending?

I played straight through on Normal. The only thing I can think of that might have screwed it up was that right when I started the 9th level, I shut off the Xbox without saving, so when I picked "Continue solo game" it was back at a checkpoint on the 6th or 7th level where I'd saved previously, so I exited out, picked campaign, and picked to start on the 9th level. Oddly enough, I started a new campaign to go skull hunting, and during the opening cut scene, the Achievement popped up.

Getting back to Halo... the damn game's broken. I just finished the campaign on Normal... I got all the Achievements for each level, but I didn't get the one for finishing the campaign. Explain to me... how can I play through all nine levels on Normal, watch the ending credits, and not have finished the campaign? That means I probably didn't get the EVA head either...

I'll settle for "original when it was on Dreamcast". Samba de Amigo is officially coming to the Wii!

Loran's a boy, dude. I answered you in a PM, but now I think you mean in the Gallery Mode, right? If that's the case, for me I'd finished Official with everyone, then played Original a few times. I think it does help to play as Loran, Heero, and Domon first.

I guess Halo 2 ended so abruptly because they decided to take one whole game, cut in in half, and then make us wait three years for the second half because they were doing who knows what with it. They certainly were doing much with the graphics. While Halo 2 was pushing the envelope for the original Xbox, Halo 3 looks only slightly better. The environments, especially the poorly rendered leaves in the first level, look hideous compared to games like Gears of War.

You're done already?

Well, I wasn't going to get Halo 3, but a friend of mine couldn't decide between the Collector's Edition and the Legendary Edition, so he bought both, came over, opened the Legendary, took out the actual game box, stuffed the Collector's Edition inside in it's place, and gave me what essentially amounts to a regular edition with a black box instead of a green one.

Sorta Macross related, but does anyone know where to find any of Yoshiki Fukuyama's non-Fire Bomber stuff? I managed to find a copy of 1.2.3 by Humming Bird pretty cheap a few years back, but I can't find anything else. I'd buy them if I lived in Japan, could actually find them, and they weren't running about $40 a piece.

Looks like all Bay's griping was for nothing, although the writers' strike could still affect things. Story The article is really more about Paramount's relationship with Dreamworks, but buried within in this key paragraph: So, in a Hollywood where sequels keep getting shoveled out until they stop making money, Transformers will continue.

Double-check with Egan, but I'm 99% sure the VF-X games are official canon, but none of the other games (M3 included) are. That's not entirely accurate. Macross II is a sequel to DYRL, which in the pre-1992 days you're talking about was regarded as the canon events of Space War 1. And it's oversimplifying the situation to consider DYRL a straight retelling of the TV series; if you're going to continue continuity from DYRL, then you have to accept that DYRL retconned a lot key points, one of them being that the Macross was a Meltrandi ship instead of a Supervision Army ship. So, yeah, Minmay existed, the SDF-1 existed, and the Protoculture existed in the Macross II timeline. But the concept of the Stellar Republic is a later addition to continuity; prior to 1992, we don't know what kind of organization the Protoculture had. And there is no mention of the Supervision Army in DYRL. The fact that the Macross became a Meltrandi ship in that timeline instead of a Supervision Army ship indicates that they were, in fact, ditching the Supervision Army from that timeline. The facts are simply that the Protoculture existed in some form, created the Zentradi and Meltrandi, and are now gone. We can't use SDF Macross to fill in the blanks because DYRL as canon overwrites the SDF Macross version of events. DYRL only fits in the official continuity as a movie within the universe... it's allowed to be historically inaccurate.

Oh, it'd be funny if he was only throwing a fit because he's losing. If you watch it subbed, you'll see he's actually throwing fits because it's loading, and then it becomes a whole lot more disturbing. Subtitled I hope that kid was just acting for the internet attention, because if he's for real, he needs therapy, now, before he goes on a rampage that gives Jack Thompson more full for his fire.