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I think the fact that they've already done the movie makes the "making of" a most wanted feature. As-is, it's little more than a pre-made Mystery Science Theater clone. The stuff that truly makes it "A Haruhi Suzumiya Film" is all in the making of story.

What you say? FORM BLAZING SWORD!

The majority loved the 2600 stick and NES pad too. Are you going to tell me they aren't hideous hand-crippling nightmares? The DualShock is crap. There is no sense to the design, and the only reason it reigns today is that a bunch of twits that got started on the PlayStation refuse to accept change.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/clips/clips-u...e-in-202896.php Uwe Boll actually REFUSED to fight someone with real credentials. He also lied to his opponents about them getting any training beforehand. Then changed the rules at the last second to "win by knockout." Which Uwe meant as "beat the poo out of them and see if we can't put someone in the hospital." Moral of the story: He makes bad movies AND he's a nutless bastard.

I... ummm... that is... errr... ... Plead the fifth?

Clones are people two?

I'd rather have Rio. Upkeep is cheaper. And there's less wierd questions about why you have a girl that doesn't speak english locked in your house.

Freud was a few coins short of a 1-up, though. And con exclusives suck. Mass market plzkthx.

Why do I love Prime so much more in black?

Most PS2 games fit on a SINGLE-LAYER DVD. Those that don't(all... three of them?) fit on two single-layer DVDs(or 1 dual-layer DVD if the game industry would embrace that paradigm). Some are still on CD-ROM(Gradius V was the last I noticed). And all but Final Fantasy Online use largely uncompressed data so they can run off the disk. The fact that the PS3 has a hard drive games can decompress data too helps immensely. As has been pointed out, there's basically no PC game that fills a DVD, despite being expected to run at HD resolutions for several years now. And that's because they ship heavily compressed and install to a hard drive. Some XBox 1 games do this as well. Ninja Gaiden, for example. MS really screwed up by not making the HDD mandatory for the 360. BluRay just isn't needed for games. CD was good for two generations, DVD should be adequate for a similar period. The PC game industry needs to get off their asses and move to DVD as a system requirement instead of making it a limited special edition gimmick.

Both problems are, logically, solved by the computer. Remember the pilot doesn't have direct control. The pilot just points and clicks, and the computer figures out how to move hte laser to hit the target and how to move the arm to keep it out of the deathray.

Yeah, but Palladium's got a thin wallet, and HG is a gold digger. If someone else offers more...

Yah. I believe it was directed to his successor. He was trying to talk him out of pursuing the stealth technology ultimately used in the F-117. Johnson may've been a living legend, but he wasn't infallible.

From what I've heard, it's not that great. Developers are saying that it has too much floating-point and not enough everything else, and that it AND the 360 offer enough power to make current games in HD, but not enough to really try anything more processor-intensive gameplay-wise. It's not really that smart. They'll have to launch a new system anyways. Public opinion states that newer = better, and someone else will force their hand. That's why the 360 exists. The XBox was NOT in need of an immediate upgrade. MS made the new system anyways to ensure THEY were the first out the gate instead of Sony or Nintendo. The big problem I see is this entire generation is a year or two early. HD is JUST becoming approachable. MS and Sony have very expensive hardware to do HD, Nintendo is capping things at 480p to keep the hardware at a reasonable price point(I assure you Nintendo will start the NEXT hardware generation because of this, and Sony and MS will follow suit to ensure they aren't percieved as behind the times). The Wii will hurt later, the PS3 hurts now, and MS' wallet hurts because the 360 is being sold at a serious loss. 2 years later... HD would be affordable for a game machine, and a lot more of the market would own HDTVs. MS could be MAKING MONEY on the XBox for a change, Sony could have avoided the 600$ price tag entirely, and the Wii wouldn't be staring at premature obsolescence.

To be fair, MS did it even worse. If you had multiple XBoxes, multiple TVs, and multiple copies of Forza, you could hae a widescreen cockpit view if you jacked them all together via LAN. Heck, the original Doom did it with 3 PCs and a LAN. I miss the days when Kutaragi was funny instead of demented, though.

Fair enough. My 'Cube library's not very big(about a dozen games right now). Nintendo-branded titles in it are Custom Robo, the Primes, FZero, and Starfox Assault. I consider all 5 to be pretty darn good. Prime 1 especially. I consider it to be a contender for best in genre. It's got competition in Super Metroid and Link to the Past, but few other action-adventures can even touch it. I'd be pretty upset if I lost access to those and PN03(which I admit I'm in the vast minority on). Rest is 4 multi-platform, and 3 don't cares. That was why it was my first of the 3 survivors of the generation. It didn't have the most games by a longshot, but it DID have the ones I most wanted. The PS2 and XBox had strong arguments too, of course. And the PS2 had more I wanted, honestly. I just didn't want them as much. The XBox has been the big surprise of the generation. It's come out a lot more fun than I expected.

Are the first of the Classics 'bots out yet? I didn't think they hit for a little while longer, but I haven't kept too close an eye on things. Most of the Energon toys didn't register on me, really. So I probably missed Skyblast. And I just sorta ignore the naming issues and call them by what they should be anyways. Probably stupid. But... *shrugs*

I actually like that a lot. But then, I've been waiting for a proper Skyfire toy for ages. Yamto's been providing Jetfires for ages, if you slap a tad of paint on.

What's wrong with the GameCube? It's got a strong library, if not exactly the largest. Also worth noting that the GC had a strong first year. It wasn't untill year 2-3 that it started faltering.

Ah. Was probably just the emus of the time, if it was a few years ago. SegaCD emulation only started in '01 and it's not simple or well-documented hardware, so it was still iffy for a long time. Good plan. Shining Force ticked me off on the SegaCD, actually. Thing ate every last bit of save RAM I had for one file. WTF kind of insane logic is that? I'd bet money that they are. It's very rare that a store DOESN'T want people to throw money at them. Personally, I say screw preorders. Get it off the shelf. If there aren't enough to get one off the shelf, the preorders are gonna be a disaster anyways, so just kick back and wait a few months.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey, it looks like the chest locks actually WORK on Hot Rod! I also like that they're painted, as is the grille. Those parts on Mirage look a tad flat.

I think you're thinking of The Lost World. The first JP was fairly close. Heck, Crichton even cowrote the screenplay for the first movie.

AKA perpetual motion machines.

Prime actually looks kinda like a naked Cybertron Prime. But other than that... And unfortunately for Prime, naked isn't the Transformers style. It also makes no logical sense for a warrior mech to have unarmored vital bits(not that transformers make logical sense anyways...).