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But I liked Macross 7. If they could have found a way to do the story without Sound Force, yeah, it would have been better... but I still liked it.

If you want my just my three favorties, two off the bat would be the Gundam Mark II and the Nu Gundam. In my opinion, they are the two most elegant takes on the whole Gundam design. Every Gundam before them was too much like the robots of 70's sci-fi. Every Gundam since has been too stylized or over the top. That'd make my third choice come from one of the alternate universe stories. So for that one, Gundam Virsago from Gundam X. It had what's cool about Epyon and Shenlong from Gundam Wing amalgamated and polished until you had a supremely cool, supremely evil Gundam.

I'm curious, what are your favorite mobile suits from each Gundam series? This isn't a poll, because I didn't feel like listing a few choices from each series. Just write in and tell me which ones you like... but just one from each series. (I'm grouping all the One Year War suits together, but if you want to break them up by series, go ahead. I just don't want to see stuff like "From Char's Counterattack, I really liked Sazabi, the RE-GZ, the Jagd Doga... etc, because that just gets ridiculous. I only want to know your one most favorite for each series.) My list is thus: One Year War - Gouf Zeta Gundam - Gundam Mk II ZZ Gundam - Bawoo Char's Counterattack - Nu Gundam Gundam F91 - I'll go with the RX-99 Neo Gundam... but in my opinion, UC mobile suits are all downhill from Char's Counterattack. V Gundam - Victory 2 Gundam G-Saviour - I'm gonna go with the J-Saviour from the game version. G Gundam - Master Gundam (but Manager Gundam gets props for the tie and cigar) Gundam W - The Endless Waltz version of Deathscythe Hell Gundam X - Virsago Turn A Gundam - Borjarnon! Gundam SEED - Blitz Gundam For you manga lovers out there... Sentinel - Sigma Gundam Under the Gundam - D Gundam 3rd Hathaway's Flash - Penelope Gundam F90 - RF Gouf Silhouette Formula 91 - Silhouette Gundam Gaia Gear - Zorin Soul Crossbone Gundam - Crossbone Gundam X-1 G-Unit - Gundam Griepe

Ah yes, always nice to see people unafraid of giving their opinion. So here is one right back at you. I can't really comment on the Macross TV series. However, I imagine I would not like it as much as Robotech considering I don't like reading my television shows and I don't plan on learning Japanese. I also like the voice acting in the Robotech series. BTW you smell like a Macross snob. Don't take it personally, Deadzone. From time to time, we get snots from RT.com who come over just trolling over, looking to start a flame war. Now, whenever someone comes around, admitting that they're not familiar with Macross and talking about Robotech, we instinctively reach for our guns. In all fairness to you, you weren't trolling, you were just asking an honest question. The honest answer is that Jack Archer was made up for Battlecry. He may or may not have turned up in the comics later, but he was definately created for the game. As far as the whole reading subs vs. watching dubs, I can respect your opinion (although I myself prefer subs, as the Japanese voices are usually much better than the American dubs). However, unlike other anime that's been shown in the States, where they just translate and maybe change a few names here and there, that's not the case with Macross/Robotech. Robotech is actually a meld of three unrelated shows, and much of the story has been edited and re-invented to make all three parts fit. The original Macross TV series is a much more mature and slightly darker story than the Macross Saga of Robotech. And, Macross has better sequels than Robotech, that take the story in a much different direction. While we do have some fans here who still claim to like both, many of us actually drop RT entirely for Macross. If you ever get the chance, check out the original Macross and see what you think. For more info on the differences between Macross and Robotech, check out Leb's Site or the pinned topic in the beginning of this forum. For more info on Macross in general, check out the Macross Compendium.

If you're gonna unite all over the place... try to form some sort of mighty robot like Voltron, would ya? Otherwise... it just sounds a bit frilly. EDITED because spelling things correctly is fun. And I'll form... the head! Go! Voltro... uh, Macross Snob force!

I couldn't have said it better myself. I mean, given the average age of gamers today, why would they keep the TF game with the characters we grew up with away from us... and give us this Armada crap instead?

Mods, sorry if this is the wrong spot for this. I wasn't sure where to put it. I was wondering, though, if Big West has an official website. It's definately not www.bigwest.co.jp, and www.bigwest.com is some sort of real estate site. The official Macross homepage doesn't have any links to an official Big West site, either. If Big West has one, does anyone know what it is?

Too bad it's not one of those printable dealies that you can actually use in the store.

A lot of people that haven't bought one yet would buy one if the price dropped that low. Combine that with the fact that SCE shifted half their resources to the PSP, and the fact that the PS3 is tentatively scheduled for 2006 or late 2005, and we have to realize that things are winding down for the PS2. On top of that, as many people pointed out, the DVD playback is a nice bonus, but not a prime selling point anymore. So, I'd say that right in time for the big Christmas drive, it's possible that Sony could do it just to kill Nintendo's sales. I mean, you can say that the Gamecube was worth it at $99.99, but when people have a choice at that price, I'd say most people are going to go with the PS2. I actually hope that the PS2 drops, because then I can talk my uncle into getting that and Need for Speed Underground. Of all the people that game with me, he's the only one that can match me on racing games (sadly, I kill him at everything else), so it'll be mad fun to match up our custom machines. However, given that the rumor started at Target, it's hard to think of it as more than a rumor at this point. Even if the internal fliers exist, it could be something like "Buy a PS2 for only $99.99 if you buy it with x number of games/accessories," rather than an official drop from Sony. We at Gamestop haven't heard anything. Of course, we're at the bottom of that corporate ladder, so even if the higher ups know something, they wouldn't tell us.

Yeah, that'd make sense, except that Haro was found in the wreckage of a colony? I'd suppose it's possible that there was the colony wreckage on the moon, and then the Feddies were dumping junk out of A Baoa Qu onto the colony, figuring that they'd just use it as some kind of landfill. Then Haro kinda rolls down in to the colony wreckage.

How'd Haro end up on the moon? We see some wreckage of a colony (would have made sense if the Delaz fleet dropped theirs on the moon instead of Earth), and in it, Camille finds Haro. But, last I checked, Haro was on White Base right up until the end... which would be A Bao A Qu, right? So, even if A Bao A Qu was anywhere near the moon, it doesn't explain why Haro was in the wreckage of a colony instead of wreckage from White Base or from A Bao A Qu (which is technically still out there, right?).

If I have to pick from that group, I'd say that the girl that plays Sailor Moon is the most attractive to me... but that there are a lot of other Japanese celebrities that I think are more attractive...

Only during cutscenes, or tutorials, or when you're using one of your special powers. 2D gameplay... the stuff that Capcom does best! Yeah, I bought two actually, one for myself, and one for my bud. Even though everyone who's played it has had nothing but good things to say about it, I'm afraid that it's not going to be "mainstream" enough to generate the kind of sales that it deserves. Oh, yeah, anyone figure out what to do with that big barrel just after you get the speed up power?

My wife never quite got into Macross TV, Macross II, or Macross Plus. She watched DYRL, but was less than excited. Flashback 2012 made her cry, because she immigrated from China, and it made her miss her family back in China. She loved Macross 7, though. She would watch like six or seven eps at a time, and stay up until after 2:00 in the morning to do it (which is odd, because she's normally like a 10:30 bedtime person). She got so into it that she was even listening to Fire Bomber in her car for awhile. I got her to watch both eps of Macross Zero, so far, too. She likes them when she's watching them, but then kinda forgets about it. OT: I'm yet to get her in to any Gundam since I started to collect them on DVD. So far, that's been all the One Year War stuff, and it doesn't look like Zeta is going to win her over either...

Oh sweet Buddha... I'm not the only one! 90% of the stuff I listen to is from Korea. My favorites include BoA, Shinhwa, H.O.T, JTL, Take, Moon Heejun, NRG, Eugene, S#arp, and Lee Jung Hyun. I also really enjoyed Seo Yeon's first CD, the special album that Lee Jihoon did with Shinhwa's Shin Hyesung (not that new Group S thing they did with Kangta, though), MILK, Dana, Space A, and Chakra's older stuff. I used to like some J-Pop, but that was before Utada Hikaru and Kuraki Mai got really popular. You know, back when the stuff that Tetsuya Komuro worked was considered gold. I especially liked MAX, Globe, and ELT. Most of the American stuff that I enjoy is older stuff, like Kiss, Def Leppard, Queensrcyhe and the like. I do really like the Juliana Theory, though. In fact, I used to hang out with them around the time they were just getting started, and I was at their very first show ever. That's pretty much it, although I do kinda like Stabbing Westward, and I'm thinking about picking up that best of Rob Zombie that was just released.

I wonder... did you ever buy the N-Gage or not, VF-17?

funny. i got busted so many times in HS for playing games on my TI-83 My TI-86 kept me awake during trig class in HS. Damn! I was lucky even to have a calculator that could add... And Trig... did I even take that? Funny, I don't remember. I was more of a history, language, and poli-sci student than math or chemistry. me too. i sucked at math, but my damned HS made me take all those crappy Chemistry, Physics and Trig/ Analytic Geometry classes.... Oh, wait, I did take trig, in my 11th grade year! I remember now! It was a Chicago math course... for those of you unfamiliar with that it means that the grading scale was slightly different so that each letter grade was 12%... like 88% was still an A, and 76% of was still a B... and to get an F you actually had to be lower than 50%. Now, that was combined with an agreement the teacher had with the class... do all your homework for a grading period, get an 8% bonus. Not points, %. I did my homework by copying the odd answers out of the back of the book, and then writing "?" or "SEE GRAPH" for the evens, as if I didn't understand or worked the problem out on a piece of non-existant graph paper. With the funny grading scale and the bonus, I had a B in that class... which meant that I probably earned a D...

I saw the Rundown, and I really liked it! In fact, I'll probably buy the DVD when it comes out. Yeah, I'd say that the Rock is a better actor that people give him credit for. I could buy him as Conan, but probably not a Terminator. Not to mention that Sean William Scott is hilarious, both on camera and off (did you see him on Leno when he kept flirting with Leno's second guest? Good times...), and Christopher Walken is just brilliant.

No kidding. Apparently they're already talking about T4 going ahead without him, and his abscence from Hollywood will hardly help King Conan get the green light anytime soon. T4? It ain't T without Arnold. In Reese's flashback from the original Terminator movie, that Terminator didn't look anything like Arnold. I think they used different ones now and then and after the first one, the "Arnold" versions were probably special models meant specifically for John Conner. I rather like the idea I read a year or two ago that hinted T3 might have the *human* that Arnold's Terminator was based off of. Make it something tragic. Older hero of the resistance maybe slightly out of his prime, but copied by the machines first to undermine and then to demoralize. And I liked T3. Especially the ending. No offense, but to like the ending to T3, you pretty much have to ignore T2's message, since they're basically contradictory. Not to mention the lame cliches and sight gags in place of T2's darker stories and T1's classic on-liners. Oh, yeah, and the fact that the supposed brilliant leader of humanity in the future is whiney sissy? After T3, I'd expect the brilliant leader of humanity to be the vet. Sorry... T3 had a nice car chase with the fire truck, and that's about it.

funny. i got busted so many times in HS for playing games on my TI-83 My TI-86 kept me awake during trig class in HS. Damn! I was lucky even to have a calculator that could add... And Trig... did I even take that? Funny, I don't remember. I was more of a history, language, and poli-sci student than math or chemistry.

No kidding. Apparently they're already talking about T4 going ahead without him, and his abscence from Hollywood will hardly help King Conan get the green light anytime soon. T4? It ain't T without Arnold. T3 wasn't Terminator with Arnold...

As long as we're talking about sequels that spit on the themes of their predecessors, let us not forget Terminator 3. Granted, it took the whole movie to do it, but it still did it.

I must correct you here. This Valkyrie Development History states that the VF-1A Valkyie first flew on November 29th. This was in the year 2008. Nanashi's Information Group http://manuals.macrossmecha.info/vf1/fact/...tory/index.html "...development team completed basic design 2005; one non-transformable VF-X flight test machine and one transformable VF-X-1 produced; first flight February 2007; space-worthiness tests begin in June 2007. Decision made to formally introduce the VF-X1 November 2007. and "Development and mass production of VF-1A starts November and December of 2008...." http://macross.anime.net/mecha/united_nati.../vf1/index.html Also see: http://www.anime.net/macross/story/chronol...1999/index.html "November 29 Maiden flight of the first trial production VF-1A variable fighter." -Macross Compendium Thanks, WJ, but you'll notice that I have the correct dates in parentheses. The date of 2006 I took from one of Aegis' earlier posts. I was giving him the benefit of the doubt of having got that date from a legit source.

In the interest of protecting you guys, the consumers... I reprint my post from another forum about the N-Gage... Now, as I was saying... don't waste your money on the N-Gage. The concept was great on paper, but console sucks. It's cheaper to buy a nice cell phone and a GBA SP. Oh, you wanted it for the mp3 playback, too? Since it'll cost you another $100 for 128MB N-Gage memory card to save your mp3s too, just buy a seperate mp3 player, anyway. You'll probably spend less money and end up with a better phone, mp3 player, and game console. It wouldn't be fair of me to make these arguements without explaining, would it? So... Why is another cell phone better? To use the N-Gage as a cellphone, you hold the top part of the console (where the shoulder buttons would be on the old GBA) to your ear, with the screen down. Not only will you look so lame that Ralph Wiggum would beat you up, but you're going to end up with thumbprints all over the screen. Finally, the official carrier for N-Gage is TMobile. Don't like TMobile? I heard AT&T will also provide service for N-Gage. Sprint? Maybe. Verizon? Nope. Bottom line, you can get a cheaper phone with better features and have more plans to choose from if you just buy a seperate phone. Why is it better to buy a seperate mp3 player? N-Gage uses proprietary memory cards. That is, memory cards that only work for N-Gage, about $70 for a 64MB and $100 for $128. Now, depending on how much memory it comes with, you can get mp3 players for under $100. Yeah, there are some more expensive ones, but those are the ones that count their memory in GBs. Also, they tend to use common memory cards like Compact Flash (which is like half of what it'd cost for N-Gage card) for their memory upgrades. And BTW, since the N-Gage memory card goes where the game card goes, you can't listen to an mp3 while you play a game. Why is the GBA better than the N-Gage? While the GBA may be sticking to 2D, those 2D graphics look good, and a lot of the games play like (or even are) classic SNES games. As for the N-Gage, PS2 graphics? Not even close. PSone graphics? Closer, but trust me, games still looked better on the PSone. The graphics are blurry, with choppy framerates. Control on the N-Gage sucks. The demo game we had to play was Tomb Raider, and while Lara was always a ###### to control, the N-Gage version is so bad that it's unplayable. The vertical screen makes almost no sense. Oh, and to change games (or swap out games for your card with mp3s), you have to remove the back cover, pop out the battery, get the card out, put another card in, put the battery back in, and put the cover back on. Oh, and since the game cards are about the size of a quarter, definately expect to lose some. To play the game, you have to have to go through several complicated menus. For ease of use, N-Gage definately gets an F-. Oh, and what about those games? Well, as I said, for the 3D games, they looked and played better on the PSone. For the 2D games, like Sonic N, well, most of them are ports from GBA games. Except that they looked and played better on the GBA. Bluetooth support for multiplayer was a great idea... except that the changes of two humans anywhere near each other who actually bought this turd AND copies of the same crappy game are so slim as to be impossible. In conclusion, if you want a great portable gaming platform, get a GBA instead. If you were looking for a cool device that included many different functions, you're better off buying the devices seperate, or at least waiting for Tapwave's Zodiac (game machine + mp3 player + Palm Pilot, compatible with all current Palm Pilot applications and with two hot swappable secure digital slots). If you want 3D, PSone-ish looking portable gaming, wait for the Sony PSP or the Tapwave Zodiac. And if for some really sick reason you still want an N-Gage, do yourself a favor and wait a few months until they're on clearance.

Reagan and Arnold... huh? Agent One, sounds like we have similar taste in elected officials! As far as Arnold's movies goes, I think I liked Predator, T2, Total Recall, and True Lies the best. And of course, you can't forget Conan. Collateral Damage wasn't half bad either. The worst movie he ever did though was End of Days, followed closely by T3. One wonders how one Terminator movie can be and all-time great, and the very next one is crap and cliches... not to mention that the third Terminator takes the message from the second one, takes a dump on it, and throws it out of the window of a moving bus.