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DYRL timeline is currently "non-canon", as it is a "movie" within the Macross universe. Therefore, Komilia was born in 2010, not 2019. You think $25 was fair for Magic Engine? So far it's ver 0.9.9 beta 5. Maybe I should wait until ver 1.0?! Yeah, but 2036 and Eternal Love Song are also non-canon. They're set in that alternate universe, in the space between DYRL and Macross II.

Then definately, the one for you is Let's Fire!! It has the regular and TV versions of Seventh Moon, and the duet versions of Planet Dance and Totsugeki Love Heart.

A shame, really. It was probably one of the better AU Gundam series, in my opinion. A more original story and better characters than Wing, and closer in feel to the older Gundam series. Not to mention that it had some nice mecha without being over the top like G Gundam or Gundam Wing.

While any of those 80's cartoons would be fine (I'm all for SilverHawks, Captain N, or the Super Mario Bros. Super Show), when will the 90's cartoons get some love? I mean, I'd love to have the Tick, Eek the Cat, and Ren and Stimpy in my collection.

Yes... forget about Gundam. Why? Because you will never find a person who will give you an unbiased opinion about it, specially since 90% of ppl here seem to dispise it. If you can rent.... rent as many as you can without listening to anyone. Ppl bash Wing, but you might miss out on something that you might enjoy if you listen to them. If you can't rent.... buy the first DVD of the series that are available and see if you like anything you see. If you don't.... its not really a big loss. But if you do like.... expect to be spending alot of money on it. Have an adventure spirit.... walk into this unknown region without a map. Best advice I heard all day. I mean, for every one person that says they liked a certain Gundam series, another will come up and say that they didn't. Ultimately, you just have to try it and see. I do find it ironic that people here tell you to watch the Gundam movies, but not the TV series, because they think that the TV series is too old and poorly animated. Yet they seem to universally be in favor of a TV show that's not much more recent, and for several (Animefriend) episodes, much more poorly animated. No, I'd definately go with the TV series over the movies... the movies are so crammed that they borderline on incoherent if you're not already familiar with the story. The pacing of the TV series works much better. I think it's more in the lines that the movies are subbed, whereas the TV series is dubbed only. I think it's safe to say that the majority of fans here (and anime fans in general) prefer subs over dubs. Thus the reconmendation of the movies. Heck, if I can find an R1 MSG subbed with good translations, I'll be first in line to pick that up. I prefer subs too... and bad as they were, I have the old Anime Cartoon bootlegs.

Yes... forget about Gundam. Why? Because you will never find a person who will give you an unbiased opinion about it, specially since 90% of ppl here seem to dispise it. If you can rent.... rent as many as you can without listening to anyone. Ppl bash Wing, but you might miss out on something that you might enjoy if you listen to them. If you can't rent.... buy the first DVD of the series that are available and see if you like anything you see. If you don't.... its not really a big loss. But if you do like.... expect to be spending alot of money on it. Have an adventure spirit.... walk into this unknown region without a map. Best advice I heard all day. I mean, for every one person that says they liked a certain Gundam series, another will come up and say that they didn't. Ultimately, you just have to try it and see. I do find it ironic that people here tell you to watch the Gundam movies, but not the TV series, because they think that the TV series is too old and poorly animated. Yet they seem to universally be in favor of a TV show that's not much more recent, and for several (Animefriend) episodes, much more poorly animated. No, I'd definately go with the TV series over the movies... the movies are so crammed that they borderline on incoherent if you're not already familiar with the story. The pacing of the TV series works much better.

Not violent, but definitely just as harmful as being a violent influence to minds that can't/don't know any better. Movies like 2F2F, 'Gone in 60, etc like to justify felonious, criminal behavior for a "higher" moral ground in the end of a story, allowing its main characters to ignore laws that the society (you, me, law enforcement) believes in and upholds. This basically amounts to an "ends justifying the means" mentality and that is NOT the way accomplish one's goals or desires... Not to mention that every since the original Fast and the Furious came out, every kid with a Honda Civic suddenly thinks he/she is a street racer by weaving in and out of lanes and doing 90+ on the highway during rush hour.

As a coherent story, I think the original TV series is better than the movies. Problem is, if you want it subbed, you have to buy bootlegs with horrid subs. And for the full story, you really have to see the original series, Zeta Gundam, ZZ Gundam, and Char's Counterattack. (Stick with ZZ... it starts off corny, but improves after awhile.) Again, unfortunately, excluding Char's CA, you'll have to buy boots. But believe me, it's worth it... especially Zeta. Aside from those... I thought the 0080 and 0083 OVAs were alright, but 0083 is just a confusing mess if you haven't seen the original series or movies. I didn't care for the 08th MS Team. Just my opinion. The F91 movie was alright... I think if they would have made it the planned TV series instead, it could have been pretty good. I'm watching V Gundam right now, but so far, I'm not impressed. Despite being set in the Universal Century, it's so far removed from the classic stuff that it plays out like an AU Gundam with some of the most boring or lame mobile suits in all of Gundam. As for the AU Gundams, Wing was okay... if you over look all the pretty boy heroes and the fact that it's a retelling of Gundam through Char's CA... and that watching Gundam through Char's CA is more entertaining. And I kinda liked Gundam X. That's all I've seen so far.

Then don't. And yes, visually, Macross Plus and 7 look more like DYRL... but for story purposes, they go with the continuity of the TV series. No Protoculture city on earth, no translating alien love songs. Instead, pineapple salad and blowing up Ontario.

I'm really interested in getting some subtitled Japanese horror films on DVD, but I want to avoid eBay (I've just had a few bad experienced there, and would rather deal directly with a store). Animeniacs.net of all people had the Ring series, Kourei, Kairo, Uzumaki, and Suicide Circle, which is great... but I can't find any of Hideo Nakata's other films (specfically Dark Water and Joyuu Rei). Does anybody know any webstores that have a nice collection of Japanese horror films?

Hey, it shouldn't be hard for Kill Bill to be Tarantino's best work... considering that (in my opinion at least) his movies have ranged from garbage with no redeeming value whatsoever to artsy sort of style over substance kill fest.

Why on God's green earth would I want to forget Need For Speed Underground? Just because Project Gotham 2 came out? Dude, have you actually played Need For Speed Underground? I don't mean to take away from PGR2... it's a very good game in it's own right... but NFSU is just mind blowing. And if I had to reccomend one over the other, NFSU wins hands down. Actually, I feel kind of sorry that PGR2 had to release so to NFSU... a lot of people are going to overlook it in favor of NFSU, and they'll be missing out on a great game. Well, there's always the Platinum Hits...

Why, at the beginning of this thread, everyone's like "oh, he's talking about the Matrix!"? The Matrix trilogy had the same directors the whole way through. Yeah, I guess it's true that if a movie kicks ass, a studio will go for an easy money sequel, even if the original crew doesn't want to get involved. But for what it's worth, I kinda liked Reloaded and Revolutions. And I didn't care for any of the LotR movies yet. The first one was boring, and the second one had rotten pacing.

Screw EB (where the associates are like used car salesmen, and don't know anything more about games than what they read from the company e-mails). We at Gamestop have the Zelda Bundle NOW.

The act of being a prequel and a sequel at the same time is an interesting concept, but doesn't guarantee greatness. And having potential isn't the same as living up to the potential. Now if T4 has the same director as T3, I'm going to have to pass on account of how much I hated T3. If James Cameron gets back on board though, I'll probably see it in the theater. I'm not the kind of person who's going to sit here and compain about lack of original ideas. I'm not predicting that T4 will suck or that T4 will be great. All I am saying is that T3 was an abomination.

Outside of Nintendo first party, I've found the GC to be lacking. Even though you don't care for fighting games, I'd still go with Super Smash Bros Melee, and definately grab a copy of Super Monkey Ball 2. Even if you find the main game kind of boring, the mini and party games are a blast. I think Monkey Billiards is actually the best console billiard game out there, including the stand alone billiard games. GC was lousy for RPGs. The only good one that I can think of is Skies of Arcadia.

Yes... the Compendium is considered the source for Macross information, but no pics. And while I do have a lot of respect for Dave's old site, I'd say that www.mahq.net has a better blend of the canon info and pictures. Check these out: VF-11B VF-11C VF-11D Custom Jamming Bird VF-11MAXL Custom Sound Force Type VF-X-11

Because it was. Not only was it an embarrassment to the Termintor name with the gay jokes and horrible visual gags, the story was weak, the acting was dire and the action was terrible, neutered to almost PG-13 levels. Yes! That's exactly what I've been trying to say! That was the only movie I went to the theater to see and wanted my money back. And I saw Sweet November at the theater! Don't worry, Agent, I'm not faulting Arnold. I am, however, faulting the director, the guy that wrote the lame script, and the actor that played John Connor.

Thanks for the info, but it seems the old forums are down until an IP issue is resolved.

I was bored at work today and I was looking through the PC stuff (I'm more of a console gamer). Anyways, I'm seeing all these packages you can buy to add planes and scenery and new paint jobs and stuff to Microsoft Flight Simulator. They all seemed to be designed for 2002 and 2004. That got me wondering... are there any places to get Macross stuff that I can add to Flight Simulator? And if so, what versions would they be compatible with? I mean, a friend of mine gave me Flight Simulator 98... is that enough, or should I pick up a newer version?

For every 48 people here that like it, 51 love it. Check out this old thread. With Macross, like many other works in life, IMHO, it's best to at least view all the parts of the set, and then decide for yourself which parts you liked and which parts you didn't. The tone of Macross 7 is very different, though, and even the people who love it best admit that it takes a few eps to get into. Well, in other words, I reccommend everything you don't have. You should go to Best Buy and get Macross Plus and Macross II. Then poke around on the internet for the DVDs that haven't been commercially released here (I get a lot of my DVDs at Animeniacs.net, but I'm not sure what Macross stuff they have). Those ones would be DYRL, Flashback 2012, Macross 7 (I do know they have the complete FX set, which includes the movie, encore, OVAs, and Macross 7 Plus bits), and volumes 1 and 2 of Macross Zero. Volume 3 should be out pretty soon. And there's that 20th Anniversary DVD out, too... get that if you're feeling really hardcore.

Why does everyone keep saying that T3 was going back to or reminicent of the first Terminator movie? The first one was not full of cheesy bits like Arnold putting on the girly sunglasses or that whole "talk to the hand" bit. T1 was gritty, for the day. T2 was so gritty that it's still gritty today. T3 was just corny.

I love those designs. But I thought that those designs were around the Macross 7-era (unless my knowledge has been poluted by crappy RPG sites...). Sort of. The only thing we know definatively is that the SW-XA1 was developed after the VF-17, to create a fighter that retained the stealth of the VF-17 but had higher atmospheric performance, so they started the Stealth Wing eXperiment with the basic design of the VF-1, because they had loads of combat data on it. And even then, that backstory is not considered canon. Does it matter if it's around Macross 7's time period? There was a lot more going on then than just what was happing to the Macross 7 fleet. As long as the story is good, I don't care when it takes place or if it overlaps with another story.

Does the special edition include a new version of the movie that didn't suck? I mean, I loved T2, but T3 was the only time I went to see a movie and actually wanted my money back. Not only was it a mediocre action flick full of lame pop-culture cliches and a vet who's tougher than the guy who's supposed to lead the human resistance, but an ending that was a 180 from the theme of the first two films and an insult to the fans who saw them. I'd poke myself in the eyes with a fork before I see another Terminator movie done by the director of T3.

I'm a console gamer too, and while that keeps me from building my own system, I don't use that as an excuse not to have a good computer. My main system is: Sony VAIO PCV-RZ32G 2.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 with Hyper Threading Technology 512 MB of RAM 80 GB hard drive Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1 nVidia GeForce MX 440 with AGP8X 1 cable (TV cable) input 2 S-Video inputs 1 i.LINK S400 input 8 USB 2.0 inputs A floppy drive A Memory Stick Drive (convenient, since I have a Sony Cyber-Shot digital camera) A Sony DRU-510A DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-R/RW burner An LG GCC-4480B CD-R/RW DVD-ROM Giga Pocket Sony 17" LCD monitor. Being that I spend a lot of time on this machine, but my wife likes to play Solitaire, I wound up buying a second cheap machine just for her to play with. It's: eMachines 2.5 GHz Intel Celeron 40GB hard drive 256MB RAM a generic CD-RW drive A floppy drive 6 USB ports Some kind of bulky eMachinese monitor. And that's really all I know about it, since I never use it. If you want to know what printers, the eMachinese has the Lexmark that came with it, but I tossed the crappy HP printer that came with the VAIO and replaced it with an Epson Stylus CX3200 printer/scanner/copier.