yellowlightman

This might seem like a weird thing to request, but I figure the people here are pretty international so hopefully someone can help me out. I'm tossing around the idea of purchasing a game for the GC that's only going to be released in the UK/EU. Problem is that not many shops in the US import european titles, so I'm trying to find a shop over there that will ship to me. Anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

The GP32 seems like a really interesting handheld. Official support is lacking, no question about it. But the amount of emulators and homemade games for it make it very unique. Seems a bit expensive from what i've seen (around ~$200) but I suppose since you can download so many games for it... it isn't so bad.

That VF-1A has some serious thunder thighs. I'm a Robotech fan, but I gotta say that recent efforts by HG have been universally disapointing.

Is Rise of the Empire the official name of the next movie?

It'd be nice if the pictures were actually usable, looks like they were taken with a really bad web cam.

Hey Yoshi, have you played Giren's Greed yet for the Wonderswan? I loved the original game for Saturn/PS1/DC/PS2 but the WS game looks pretty different, and I haven't been able to find any comments about it.

I've been trying all night, but all I get is the Ruliweb title screen and that's it.

Bandai Wonderswan! Woo-hoo! It's all about Gundam games and Final Fantasy. Yeah!! <_< I voted for the original Gameboy, loved that thing to death. Been holding off on getting a GBA, although Nintendo's making it hard by making all their good multiplayer games for GC require the GBA, which is kinda messed up. But the only hand held system I actually play anymore is the Wonderswan. I have a ton of games I bought for cheap in Japan. Who says an 800¥ baseball game can't be fun?

Definately looks similar, not exactly though.

Very nice pfun, nice of you to put the side-by-side comparisons in.

Turn-based strategy? Sounds cool. I'd recommend Hypercard, I think you can get it in color now. Seriously though, are you looking for something with actual programming or something that does all the grunt work for you?

Totally agree with you on this one. I think what a lot of people fail to realize is just how revolutionary all those NES games were. Super Mario Bros., Zelda, Dragon Warrior, Megaman, Castlevania all helped defined the genres that are mor eor less the same even today. The NES also afforded developers a lot of freedom to be original. It didn't take nearly as much time or money as it did now to make games, and since so many people had never played video games in the first place... It allowed developers to really stretch their imaginations. The SNES helped polish the concepts of modern gaing, but the NES was their birth place.

Well, we can hope that the delays in updating the page are because they're spending all their resources getting the game ready.

I just think it's interesting that it's developed specifically for the Chinese market, with the hopes of curbing the rampant piracy over there. Should be interesting to see how successful it is.

I'm re-evaluating myself. My collection is a sham! Package is on its way to you, Alex. Seriously though, a collection is just about collecting things. Just because other people might have similar collections with the same thing, doesn't make yours any less worthwhile.

I totally agree Chris, you said it very well. I think the easiest thing to do woudl just to allow custom titles liek the old board and be done with it. To use it as any sort of "reward" is just going to increase ridiculous posts. I think it should be available from the start, because really it isn't that big of a deal.

PD single-player definately went downhill pretty fast, and a lot of the levels were too ambitious for the N64 or not ambitious enough. I would have loved if the Chicago level was bigger, dig that Blade Runner style, although TimeSplitters 2 kinda upped it with their Neo Tokyo level. Both of which weren't big enough to be satisfying though. I think where PD beats Halo was the variety, especially in single player. It god ridiculous because overall Halo only had like three or four levels, it was so repetitive it got ridiculous. Couldn't tell which direction to go because everything looked the same, so they added the arrows... which were just kinda dumb. Liked running over my teammate with the vehicles in co-op though.

Er... You say that after digging up a month old thread? <_<

It seems liek airbrushing it could be hard. I'd try watering some down and hand brushing it on, being careful to not put too much on the brush so that it'd would drip. It'd take longer, but it seems like it'd work.

I definately second that, it'd be great to have some write up info on how you did even a few of the mods to that 1/55th, it'd be very useful to future customizers. Plus it'd be nice to see better pictures of that thing, my pictures from MW Con 3 didn't come out all that great.

Look at xtoys' stuff, hell look at YOUR stuff. That Ostrich of yours at MW Con 3 was awesome.

The Macross Compendium still hasn't update with dates, so I'd be wary as to whether or not these are official. But hopefully they are!

When I worked at this restaurant I had to clean the floor every night with this stuff in a big bottle that said "corrosive." I'm guessing it wasjust industrial strength equivalent of pine sol, but a coworker got it on his how and didn't bother to clean it off and it ate through the top of it. Fun stuff. <_< For those curious, Pine Sol also works on resin. I had Appleseed kit I had painted badly. Left it in silghtly diluted pine sol and just had to brush off the paint. Does it work on regular model plastic though?

The Final Fantasy series while more popular here, is over shadowed by the Dragon Quest series in Japan. As for what it did to the games industry, it certainly wasn't very innovative. Aside from being 3D Final Fantasy 7 wasn't all that different from any previous RPG. The RPG genre lacks innovation. Unless you count the introduction of tons of cinemas to watch, resulting in almost every game nowadays being filled to the brim with cutscenes. Bravo, for that. In 1997 Final Fantasy 7 sold 3,277,290 copies in Japan. In 2000 Dragon Quest 7 sold 3,784,682 copies in Japan. Not only does Final Fantasy 7 have a three year start on DQ7, it also had a lot more money behind it for it's overseas release than DQ7. Source

Gotta agree on the Highlander comment, any movie that manages to work swordplay into a modern environment is cool in my book. Not many movies can do it as well as Highlander though. I just watched the trailer, looks pretty cool. I'm a little unsure on the mixing of all those different asian cliches, it's weird to see Chinese martial arts stuff and Japanese martial arts stuff thrown together, but seeing as how they've been stealing martial arts from each other for the past 1500 years I suppose it's acceptible. One thing that does bother me about the trailer, and all of the movies like the Matrix and Charlie's Angels is regular actors who might be physically fit but without any real budo skills doing all these amazing jumps and kicks. Bothered me a lot in Charlie's Angels, not so much in the Matrix. Knowing how fake it is takes away a lot of the wow factor compared to seeing a Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan movie, because Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan actually knew what they were doing. No matter how cool it is so see Neo take on a ton of Agents, seeing Jackie Chan take on four guys while jumping through car windows and protecting the girl is way more exciting because you know it's real. Oh boy, I went off on a tangent there. Gotta agree with Exo on the Tarantino acting thing, rewatching Pulp Fiction I realized how bad he is. Better than a lot of people, but compared to the rest of the cast he looked pretty bad...