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Err... no. Super Mario World is better then most platformers we have today. Chrono Trigger is better then most RPGs we have today. Super Contra is better then most action shooters we have today. Zelda: A link to the past is better then most action adventures we have today. Unlike 3D graphics.... 2D graphics still hold their own now a days. Its not about nostalgia, I have owned every major console, with the exception of the Sega Mega Drive, and I can say.... the SNES is not about nostalgia... its fact, the SNES has better games then what we have today. I have a mint condition SNES that I play everyday. Very few PS2 games are as fun as Actriser, Super Adventure Island 2, Super Mario RPG, Super Mario World, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy IV, Yoshis Island, Earthbound.... the list goes on. I tried playing Super Contra yesterday, and it wasn't really as fun as I remember. And Actraiser was never fun. Zelda, Mario, and Chrono Trigger are indeed still fun... but Mario and Zelda you can play on the GBA, and CT on the PlayStation. Why not pick one of those instead of the SNES? In fact, aside from Battletoads and Double Dragon, TMNT: Turtles in Time, and the Megaman games, you named all the SNES games that are still fun today.

You'll be saying the same thing about the PS2 in 10 years, I guarantee it. Very few games stand the test of time. This is why I said this poll won't work. You just can't remember the "amount of fun" you had with your SNES, NES, or Genesis that long ago. You CAN remember how much fun you just had with a PS2 game 6 weeks ago. Absolutely. And that's why, if this poll came up again 10 years from now, I'd have to pick whatever's current then.

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Not only is Rogue Squadron not on rails, about 40% of RSIII isn't even in a fighter. Don't get me wrong, the game looks amazing, and for Star Wars fans, it gives them the ability to play through just about all of the best moments from the triliogy... but there's seriously a ton of other games to play between now and then. And for the hardcore gamer in me, there's too many that look better than RSIII, so I'm thinking that I'm going to have to overlook that one.

The first one definately should get credit for helping the industry get where it is today. But that doesn't necessarily make it the best. Go back and play some of those old NES games. The only ones that I can really still play today are Mario, Zelda, and Megaman. Also, there was an insane number of beat 'em ups back then... Saying that the first is always the best is like saying that you'd rather drive a Model-T everyday instead of *insert car of choice, mine's a Mitsubishi 3000GT*. Or that you prefer zeppelins to air liners for your trans atlantic flights. Or maybe you'd prefer to do your computer stuff on an Apple ][? I know that I certainly prefer my Pentium 4 VAIO. Sure all of those things were necessary first steps to get where we are today, but I'll definately take the technology of today!

I did love, and still do love, Megaman! So should I point out that Megaman X7 is coming out on PS2 in October, and a Megaman Anniversary Collection with Megaman 1-8 is coming out for PS2 and Gamecube in February? Or that a second Megaman X collection is rumored to be works as well?

Okay... this is from a hardcore console gamer who's owned just about everything is his lifetime... PS2. (Dreamcast would be a close second, just for Samba de Amigo...) For those of you who picked the original NES or the SNES, I applaud you... they were excellent systems back in the day... but I'd also say that your memory is clouded by nostalgia. I've played both consoles recently, and there are very few games on the NES that are still fun. The SNES does a little bit better, except so many of it's best games have already been ported to the GBA. If you picked SNES, then, you might as well have picked GBA, because at least the GBA also has Megaman Zero and Castlevania. Unless you're a Final Fantasy fan. Then you go with PS2, where you can now play 9 out of 10 Final Fantasies (Poor FFIII). And yes, the crap to good ratio is high on the PS2. But that's true for ever console that's ever been made. If you doubt me on this, dust off your SNES, Genesis, or NES, again I say dust it off and play it. It's a truth in the industry that 80% of the sales go to 20% of the games. Now, why the PS2, with it's weaker processor and ridiculously low ammount of RAM? Well, I haven't cared for Nintendo's first party games since the SNES, and I'm not a big Star Wars fan, either, so... yeah, there's a few Cube games that I enjoy, but not too many. And yes, while hardware sales for the Cube sales are on the rise, and PS2 sales on the decline, don't kid yourself and say it's because the Gamecube has better games now. It's because 52 million people in the world already own a PS2, to something like 10 million people with Gamecubes. This late in the PS2s life, most of the people that want one already have one, and now that the Cube's only $99.99, they're snagging it for a second system. I think the Xbox is unfairly blackballed for being a Microsoft product, because I can honestly say that I've enjoyed it a lot more than the Cube. The problem with the Xbox, though, is that when I look at my library of Xbox games, most of them were also released on the PS2. So, if I didn't own an Xbox, I'm really only missing DoA 3 and Halo (and down the line, Ninja Gaiden). Now as for the PS2, it plays all of your old PSX games, so right off the bat you've got the FF fans covered. But although I enjoyed them, I can't really call myself a fan, so I'd better give some other reasons for picking PS2. Okay, Ace Combat, Zone of the Enders, Onimusha, Time Crisis, and Gran Turismo. Not to mention that, as I said, if you don't have an Xbox or Cube, you can also enjoy all those other multi-platform titles.

At least the N64 had GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, and the AKI wrestling games (still considered the best to this day). I picked "other," and my other choice was the Philips CD-i.

Yes! Two ways, in fact! The first way is if you own something called a "Dex Drive" for the PSX. The Dex Drive allows you to take saves from PSX memory cards, transfer them to your PC, and then from the PC you can transfer it the same way you would any other PC file. Second way is if you own a PS2 and can't find one of those old Dex Drives. When the PS2 is in browser mode, transfer your game save from a PSX memory card to a PS2 memory card. Now you need another tool like Dex Drive to transfer the save from the PS2 to your PC. There are several tools out there for that, like the Shark Port (since Datel split from InterAct and stopped doing Gameshark, I think the newer one is called "X-Port.") Instead of e-mailing, IM-ing, P2Ping, or finding a server to host your file so you can send everyone the link, FYI, I believe www.gamefaqs.com hosts game saves.

Why're you so upset about the delay? If it was supposed to come out in early September and got pushed back, I'd be more understanding since September was a crap month for games. But c'mon! We've got just over a week until Viewtiful Joe (I've had the pleasure of playing it, and it's really as good as the magazines are saying), plus that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game is looking pretty sweet to us fans of the old-school Ninja Turtles games. On top of that, if you're a multiplatform gamer like me, there's also Megaman Zero 2 for GBA, plus Megaman X7 on PS2. Then shortly thereafter, Castlevania (PS2), Double Dragon (GBA), Ninja Gaiden (Xbox), Final Fantasy X-2 (PS2), Need For Speed Underground, Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space, Sonic Heroes... there's actually a ton of games coming out between now and Christmas that I want... to be honest, I think I'm gonna pass over Rogue Squadron III.

I'm sure, when first Gundam came out, there were only supposed to be three Gundam prototypes. In Kunio Okawara's MS Design Collection, the RX-78-1 is a prototype built at Jaburo, and the back story for the RX-78-3 is that it was built at Jaburo from the remains of the two Gundams destroyed during the Side-07 raid. Also, supposedly all three of the Gundams at Side-07 were RX-78-2s. No back story is given for the RX-78-4, the RX-78-5, or the RX-78-7. The RX-78-6 got some back story for being included in Zeonic Front. Who knows, that means we might get back story for the 4 and 5, since they're both going to be in Encounters In Space. Abombz!!, the aquatic Gundam is the RAG-79-G1. I don't know if that's considered Gundam G-1 or if the RX-78-1 is. Probably the RX-78-1, since the G-2, G-3, G-4 are all in the RX-78 line, and RX-79 implies that it came later. No back story is given for it, but it's part of KO's MS Design Collection, too. And I couldn't find anything that said that Alex is G-8, but if G-6 rolled out in November, and Alex was testing in December, it could very well be. Despite being the "official" explaination, the idea that the RX-79[G]s were built from spare RX-78 parts is still a pretty weak attempt to explain why there are yet more new Gundams in another One Year War story.

It's more odd when you think about the other GG and Zentraedi ties. Like how GG built the VA-14 as a VF-14 variant especially for Zentraedi pilots. Or how much Q-rau tech went into the YF-21/VF-22.

As far as I can tell, the VF-17 Brando flies is an S type. From Macross 7, you can see that the VF-17 has a regular gunpod. In an earlier discussion we had at the old forums, we decided that the laser was an optional weapon that the Ravens happened to use, possibly developed after Macross 7, that works with the same gunpod, in place of a traditional magazine. This is all the Compendiums says, "One multipurpose seven-barrelled gatling gun pod (with retractable handle and fore grip, folding stock, muzzle sensors, and strap) mounted with an exit port and stealth covers in lower main fuselage in all modes or ejectible from lower leg section into manipulator in Battroid mode (one spare gun pod magazine or one gunpod beam adaptor stored in lower main fuselage in Fighter mode or in opposite lower leg section in Battroid mode)." It also goes on to say, "(Internal standard equipment capable of being exchanged for other weapon packs.)" I have no idea what kind of VF-1 Maria used. Since Maria seemed like a very Millia rip off, I always kind of thought of it as a VF-1J. As for the VF-1X-Plus, I'd quote the Compendium again, but there's just too much info. You can check it all out here. To summarize, though, the older regular VF-1s have the control stick in the middle, ala the TV series, older engines, HUDs on display panels, and different avionics. The VF-1X-Plus has the control stick on the right, throttle on the left (like the YF-19 in Macross Plus), improved avionics for space, a better cockpit with a different ejection seat, HUDs that display right on the canopy, and newer engines that give the VF-1X-Plus all-around better performance. There's a theory going around that, since DYRL is supposed to be a movie within the Macross universe, that the VF-1's in DYRL are VF-1X-Plus models, and the ones from the TV series are the older kind. That would kind of make sense, if you catch the subtle differences between the TV series and DYRL, but personally I think that's just an afterthought, and the VF-X-Plus think was just a way to put the VF-1 more on the level with contemporary VFs so that you'd have a reason to be flying them in the VF-X games. Sorry, I get the black screen of death on my VF-X2. I never got to play as the armored VF-1 or VF-11.

Now granted, my UC Gundam experience so far has just been first Gundam and the One Year War OVAs, and all just this summer. But of those Gundams, I really have to say that 0083 wasn't that bad. A few things that didn't makes sense, a plot hole with a colony drop, but it was still an interesting bridge from the One Year stuff into what I know about Zeta and ZZ. The 08th MS Team was, in my opinion, the worst of the One Year War stories. I don't see how the plot hole that is the RX-79(G) can be explained at all, and even if you can get around that, that was by far the worst cast ever! Karen had no personality, Eledore was a fruit, Michel was an annoying complainer, Terry was a "Oh, I'm a jinx, woe to me!" gloom and doom kind of character. And while Shiro demonstrated some admirable qualities, he also showed that he had no business in the miliatary. The ONLY thing that the 08th MS Team deserves credit for is it's very realistic portrayal of war and combat. But even then, 0080 outshines the 08th MS for more powerfully showing the effects of war. Naturally, the best One Year War story is the original Gundam series.

But as I learned when studying different meteor impacts on the Earth and Moon, a shallow angel impact often does more damage than a head on impact. As for velocity, that would indeed make a difference... but we really don't have any info on how fast either of the colonies were falling. I think plot hole makes the most sense. I can overlook it, though. OT: Anyone catch the newspaper Al was reading at the end of 0080? The banner says "UN Spacy." Is that because Mikimoto was on the staff, like a nod to Macross?

0083 may have had it's plot issues, but c'mon, no series did more to wreck continuity than the 08th MS Team. I mean, wasn't the whole point of the original Gundam series that the Gundam was the only one of its kind? In 0080, you can kind of explain Alex as being that it was so late in the war, and it was just a test bed for new technology... but in the 08th MS Team we have a whole unit piloting Gundams! Yeah, my biggest issue with 0083 was really what they were really targeting.

DUE TO THE NATURE OF THIS TOPIC, THE WHOLE THING WILL CONTAIN SPOILERS. IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 0083 STARDUST MEMORY, AND YOU THINK YOU MIGHT, STOP READING! Okay, that said, I just finished watching Stardust Memory again. The first time I watched it, it was only the second Gundam series I'd ever seen, and I had no idea what was going on. Now, I'm trying to watch all the Gundam series by chronological order according to their story, not their release, so I've finished watching first Gundam, The 08th MS Team, War in the Pocket, and lastly Stardust Memory. The whole story makes a lot more sense to me now, but I still have some questions: I haven't watched Zeta yet, but do they mention the colony drop from 0083? In the last episode, Gato adjusts the colony's course and reveals that their intended target wasn't Jaburo. Later, after it's all over, the admiral is giving a speech about creating the Titans, he says something about it falling on a grain farm in North America. Why was the Delaz fleet more interested in attacking a farm than the Federation HQ? At the very very end, Kou goes to visit a farm, where he runs into Keith, Mora, and Nina. There's a big hunk of junk in the middle that might have been from the colony. Was that supposed to the farm? I thought colony drops were supposed to be more destructive (in the first episode, when the Albion is flying to Australia, they point out that the bay they were flying over was where Sydney used to be, and that it was now the largest man-made hole on the planet)?

I liked Chrono Cross, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 4-6, Final Fantasy 8 and 9. I don't care what anyone else says, 7 and 10 were mediocre. Secret of Mana was fun, but I didn't really care for any of the other games in the Seiken Densetsu series. The SaGa series was pretty mediocre, although I did have some fun with the first PSX SaGa Frontier. Xenogears was a blast, and no, so far Xenosaga is not up to par with it. Bushido Blade and Bushido Blade 2 were alright, I wouldn't mind playing another. The Bouncer was pretty so-so. I kinda agree with what someone else said: if not for Final Fantasy fanboys and girls, I think Square would be done. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that Square sucks... they've done quite a few good games, mostly RPGs. But I don't think they've done enough to be reguarded as highly in the industry as they are. Developers that deserve the real credit, IMHO, would be Capcom, Konami, Sega, and Nintendo.

Well, I know I got the Cowboy Bebop Movie about two weeks before its street date at a Fred Meyer department/grocery store in Springfield, Oregon. I don't know if my local Suncoast (in Torrance, CA -- the Del Amo Mall) had it that early, but he told me they'd never release it before the street date, for fear of the studio embargoing future releases. I don't know, maybe movies and CDs do get shipped early. But believe me on this one, a videogame can get canned the day before the street date, and we'd never see it in the store. I remember a bunch of stores were selling Mortal Kombat early. Well, I wasn't working for Gamestop then. I'm just saying what the case is now. Sometimes, we do get games early. An example is Madden 2004 was supposed to come out on a Tuesday, but we got it and started selling it at 8:00 on Monday night... not even a whole day early.

And at the rate they're going with this, many of us will have died of old age before part five comes out. <_< Seriously, about one every six months... so maybe end of next year?

I'm with you. The only one I have is D for the GBA, and I can't figure out jack.

This has come up before, and as far as I know, it doesn't matter if you're playing a copy on a modded system or the real thing on a Japanese console. A large number of the games are simply defective.

I played Ace Combat 4. Played it several times, as it's still the best flying game on a console (Lethal Skies, both of them, sucked, as did Top Gun. Air Force Delta Storm waited to long and made you put up with too much crap before you got a cool plane. Didn't playe Aero Elite, though). But you know what? I don't think AC's game engine would work for a Macross game. You kinda need a more simplified one to free up controls for transforming. Also, a more versatile engine would make transitions between modes smoother. To tell the truth, Battlecry didn't have a bad engine... just really crappy missions combined with a really lame story.

I TOTALLY disagree. Sure, VF-X was bad, and VF-X2 takes some getting used to. I'll give one point to Battlecry for having better control, and another for having better graphics. But, VF-X2 has more VFs, a way better story, and more interesting missions. I mean, I haven't really played BC since it first came out, but what I remember the most was a truckload of enemies attacking the stadium from all sides, and only me to protect it... not fun. I mean, I like it when a game is challenging, but when I think I'd rather work part time at Wal-Mart (because at least I'd get paid for that), something needs to be done. Don't forget the unusual amount of baby sitting missions! Sure, but that one was by far the worst. I mean, yeah, VF-X2 didn't have the best controls or the prettiest graphics. But from what I can tell, the story is OVA quality, and I do love to fly the VF-17 and the VF-22.

Flying around in a Zeta or the Super Gundam with ZOE's controls... ::drools:: Is the Ball in it? EiS has TWO Balls. (That didn't come out good, did it?) The regular kind from the TV series, and then the one from the beginning of the 08th MS Team. AEUG vs. Titans doesn't have any Balls.