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    I just started playing it. Not really my kind of game (I'm one of the few, the proud, the people who hated the first one). But my wife is kinda into it... and when she's into a game, she expects me to play it for her so she can watch it like a movie. As someone who's never finished the first one (I think I quit sometime after Alice in Wonderland), so far what I've seen makes NO SENSE AT ALL. I kinda get the feeling that, had I played it, it'd still be a bit on the confusing side. Oh, and for those that care, I'm still playing as Roxas. I finished the Struggle (Setzer, from Final Fantasy VI! Is it sad that I'm more excited to see obscure FF characters than Disney characters?) One more thing... anyone playing this game really should check out Penny Arcade's comic about it.
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    If your TV's any good, it'll do that automatically.
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    I missed AFM, but I must have been around since Macross World's early days, since I remember joining from a computer lab when I must have been a freshman or softmore in college... and I graduated nearly four years ago.
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    Okay, but what the hell? At the start, it seems like you have several options to choose, one for each of the mecha series represented, right? So I picked the Macross one... next thing I know, I'm stationed on the Albion helping Kou take down the GP-02. Now I'm a couple of levels in (ReGZ!), and I haven't even SEEN any Macross mecha, let alone flown one. I can say, the controls are definately a little different than the original A.C.E. In the first one, it seemed like almost every button was mapped to an attack, and you just happened to melee if you were close enough. Now you have one weapon button, one melee attack, and you can use L1 to toggle between whatever weapons your mecha is equiped with. Is that Gun Ark that you start with an original? If it is, the original mecha look hella cooler than the originals in the first A.C.E.
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    Because a 52" HD monitor isn't very portable. I mean, I can't even get mine into the john, let alone outside the apartment. And see, portable movies wouldn't be a bad idea, either... but you can either pay $30 for a UMD that you can ONLY watch on the PSP (and only if it was fully charged first, and only if you don't want to use the PSP after, since watching a movie totally drains the batter). Or you can pay $15 for the DVD and watch it when you get back. If UMDs were cheaper, or if they came bundled with the DVD for just a few bucks more, then it'd be totally worth it. Of course, the tech savvy will just rip the DVDs they have, then encode them for a variety of portable devices. I mean my PSP and my iPod can both play movies... not to mention that I just discovered theirs a version of VLC media player for PocketPCs...
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    Not like that. I mean, if that clip was any longer, you would have seen the part where the kid's head explodes from sheer excitement. But I did get a little crazy with the Xbox 360. I bought mine before we closed up from our midnight sale, snuck out a side door, buckled it into the passenger seat, then drove nearly double the posted speed limit so I could hurry up and get it home before someone robbed me at gunpoint so they could sell my precious on eBay...
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    I don't know how the new one is, but I played through a chunk of the first one. The premise is something like an amalgamation of different anime universes allows for mecha from different shows to pound on each other. The story is a little hard to follow (my rusty Japanese likely has a lot to do with it). I mean, it starts off very Gundamish... you're stationed on the Ra Calium (from Char's Counterattack), complete with Capitain Bright Noa. I'm not sure who Londo Bell works for, but a lot of the missions involved fighting with factions that were not part of the Gundam universe.
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    I suspect a better comparison would be this Gundam from Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory (which came out in 1991) to the YF-19. If we are to compare the SK designs of the 90's to Gundam. 385899[/snapback] I think you have it backward. If anything, with verniers in the shoulders and the rounded tops of the pilot areas, Gundams are starting to look more like valkyries.
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    The mecha in Macross II all had a kind of generic feel to them. I don't particularly like any of them, but if I had to pick a favorite from the series, the VF-2SS wouldn't be it. I'd say it's the Gilgamesh that Fef pilots.
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    I'm not saying side stories, or even long TV series, are done for UC. Just for 0079.
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    Nah. I do that on my days off too, and I'm white.
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    Lots of characters in Japanese anime have Japanese names, and are not necessarily meant to be ethnically Japanese. For example, Asuka in Evangelion is German. But I believe, ethnically, he's from Kanto. Unless Kanto, Johto, and whatever are states.
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    Really? I've only been able to find one, and that one gives me a "rejected by tracker" message.
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    Well, like I said, I have the time, so Subsistance might be a worthwhile purchase. But the fact still remains, as someone who's not really that into the series, MGS4 isn't realistically going to sell me on the PS3, nor are any of the other announced exclusives. No, I have a feeling the game that will get me to fork over my hard-earned cash will be God of War 3.
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    Granted, I wasn't using a real PC monitor... I was using my 52" HDTV. I went back to my 17" flat panel LCD after about six months. With some tweaking, I got Windows to look great, and a few games like Neverwinter Nights to run well. But most of my games wound up falling into three catagories (or a combination)... 1) Games that wound up stretched (any Need for Speed). This issue had a solution... unti nVidia updated Forceware... 2) Games that were nigh unplayable due to overscan issues (Star Wars: Empire at War). This issue was mostly because I was using a DLP TV, and you probably won't run into it with an LCD monitor. 3) Games that had bizzare resolution issues that were totally unplayable (Star Trek: Starfleet Command III). Hopefully, with games showing up in widescreen on the 360 retaining that support on PC, like Oblivion, widescreen support in PC games will become more common. That should make the purchase worthwhile. But for the time being, expect to run into the occasional problem.
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    See, therein lies the problem. I'm really not a fan of the series. I played the first Solid on the PSX, and I liked it, sure. I played the second one, too, when Substance hit the Xbox. And again, I did enjoy it, but I really didn't dwell on the story (especially the ending). As a prequel, I really never cared about what Snake Eater brought the story. As far as gameplay goes, I might check it out. I just finished Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams, and I need something to play until Ace Combat Zero. Something besides Burnout Revenge, anyway.
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    I think I just died a little on the inside. For gods sake just let the UC die already. 385498[/snapback] There are plenty of UC stories left to tell, and probably better stuff than what we got with G, Wing, and SEED. They just need to know that there are more UC stories to tell than the friggin' One Year War.
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    I have to say, I'm digging the cover art for Ace Combat Zero. Hey, if you guys can't wait to start shooting things down, may I reccomend a little game called Rebel Raiders: Operation Nighthawk? (Ignore the deceptive name... there are no Nighthawks, or any other real planes in the game, although your starting plane kinda reminds me of a VF-0.) The game really doesn't resemble Ace Combat... all the planes are fictional, and the controls are of a more arcadey nature. On the flip side, though, it's suprisingly fun for a budget game. It's the kinda game where you fly around and spam missiles at waves of enemy planes until you win. Or fight a boss. If this game was $50, hell, if this game was $30, I'd say it sucks and call it a day. But for $20, it's a fun little time waster.
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    Isn't that rumor based on a photo of a chunk of a marketing thing? My bet is that Go isn't refering to the Revolution hardware, but the virtual console software service that you use to download retro games.
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    I'll buy a PS3 when I see a real must-have game. And pretty demos are NOT games. Sadly, MGS4 is actually not a must-have game for me. I never even played 3. And since God of War 2 will be for PS2 (not to mention I'm already envisioning what next-gen Disc Read Error screens will look like), I'm thinking to give it a year or so before I dive into the PS3. If I hadn't already bought a 360, it might have been different, but I have a feeling that a lot of games are going to be multi-platform anyway. I'm content for now. Besides, I doubt I'll have the money for a PS3, because come 2007 it'll be time for me to build a new PC. The Revolution, on the other hand, doesn't seem like a bad deal. Nintendo's trying a gimmick, sure, but that paid off in spades for the DS. Backwards compatibility with the Gamecube, plus the virutal console providing a library of NES, SNES, Genesis, TG16, and N64 games means that there's sure to be something to play on it. Plus, I can see it clocking in at under $200. At that price, I'll take a chance on Nintendo. In any case, it looks like we'll have a good E3 this year. Maybe we'll start to see actual games for the PS3 and Revolution... and some 360 games besides Call of Duty and Elder Scrolls.
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    I agree, there's very little actual role-playing in Japanese RPGs. But like I said, I think Morrowind was just a little too open-ended for me. At least I have a clearr-cut objective. In my opinion, though, the game that struck the best balance between freedom and direction was Neverwinter Nights. The Hordes of the Underdark expansion was even cleverly written so that even an evil character would have motivation to take up the quest (drow stole my stuff). You'd be suprised what is and isn't "high tilt" anymore. I'm running the Windows Vista beta, and Vista will give your PC a rating (obstensibly, so that in the future a game might just say something like "needs a 5 or better to run). Now, I know I have a crappy video card (NVIDIA GeForce 4 MX 440, 64mb), but the rest of my system (2.6GHz Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading, 1.5GB RAM) should be pretty good, right? Apparently not... Vista gives my computer a 1 (out of 10). Well, I was planning on building a new one next year... Well, I don't think that's all of it. I think there's also, "Do you want to spend time installing it now and have it run fine later, or do you want to just pop it in whenever at the expense of some nasty load times later?" Or "do graphics look crisper on your monitor, or did you invest in a HDTV?" Personally, especially since I'm dicking around with Windows Vista, I'm not inclined to do any hardcore gaming on my PC right now. I went for the 360 version, and I don't regret it.
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    I picked it up. I'm playing a dark elf custom class, with a fair balance of blade combat and magic (screw stealth and marksmanship!). I took the Ritual for my birthsign. Well, so far so good. I like that, unlike Morrowind, they start you with some kind of direction (give the amulet to what's-his-name). However, upon reaching the town, I've found the sheer freedom to do pretty much anything beside's find what's-his-name a bit daunting, and haven't played since.
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    I think it's just you. Have you seen their older stuff? They DEFINATELY didn't look like Roy and Hikaru then. Gabe's talked about his influences before, and he's never mentioned Macross or Robotech. Or anime.
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    Hyperspace, here we come! Or, at the very least, it's an intersting theory.
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    I so hope that Megaman: The Wily Wars (Rockman Mega World) is one of the downloadable Genesis games.
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