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I don't like the half-naked Sentinel either. So no hypocrisy here.

And if they could've printed gray reliably at the time, he'd still look like that today.

Iron Man looks intentionally under-detailed in that pic to me. Sorta like the New York Godzilla ads that only showed the lizard's foot, eye, etc. They want to show off that they have an Iron Man without actually showing what it looks like.

As much as they did for the rest of their content... Which, without being able to actually SEE any of their content, sounds like absolutely none.

I've heard conflicting reports about the frame rate. It's probably not an issue except in a small handful of cases. ... Unless cavia went Drakengard on things and pushed for too much too soon. Drakengard had horrible slowdown and popup issues because of it. Was still pretty darn fun though. To heck with Devil May Cry 4. I want P.N. 03.2! Seriously, I need to play some of the later DMC games. DMC1 was good, but needed a bit of polish IMO(most notably to me, the roll command was configured unintuitively). I'd've probably appreciated it more if I'd played it before PN3. Both games are actually built on similar principles, but PN3 benefits from being the producers' second attempt at that style of play. Interestingly, DMC4 will be the first game since the original to have one of the original producers at the helm(at least if GameFAQs' current credits can be believed).

I'm not touching the Battlecry comment. I'd heard nothing but good things about the PS2 Macross game. Personally, I love the older sidescroller Macross games... The PS2 GITS game benefitted greatly from the developer. Cavia's a pretty good group from what I've played. Which reminds me... *checks something* Ooooh, someone DID pick Bullet Witch up for localization!

What do you mean by real game? Because there's a good bit of existing Macross software across multiple systems and genres, with the most recent entries being the Windows Macross VO and PS2 SDF Macross games.

Wikipedia has a seperate entry for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itano_Circus If Wikipedia is trustworthy, Itano Circus covers more than 3M does. Either way, it makes sense that more than one term would evolve for the same thing.

Reminds me of the old Shogo mod that never really got off the ground.

:'( I gather the DVDs are extended versions, though. That should be worth something. And during the pre-release hype, I heard they were going to have a commentary track... by Haruhi. If I knew any amount of japanese, I'd buy them just for that.

Isn't that what this IS?Do you mean "goes back to the '95 remaster and does a proper anamorphic transfer of it," or did I miss some horrifyingly ugly part of this mess?

What emu and version are you using? I haven't had any serious glitches in some time. If you're not using original disks, it's also possible you have bad games. The standard idiocy of ISO/MP3 sets injects a LOT of variability into things, especially when people botch the cue sheets later. Some games really don't like variation. I don't know the original disk issues with the emus. I know most PS1 emulators work better with disk images than games, though(has to do with crappy drive system emulation as I understand it).

If I made movies, I would Sub-stitute Namor for naval captains in random Sub-marine shots.

I am suddenly compelled to go find a copy of Freespace...

The europeans are used to it. Heck, they used to treat things as if the US Dollar and UK Pound were a 1:1 exchange rate. You wanna talk about being shafted, that was basically an immediate doubling of price. 1:1 USD/Euro is downright cheap by comparison.

Heh. That looks like a bad model kit hack.

It was GOING to be able to, if you purchased an external dongle like the XBox1(keeps the DVD playback license cost out of the system). It's not going to now. Nintendo decided there was no point, what with you being able to buy an entire standalone DVD player for 30$. The "classic" controller is like a handle-less DualShock, if I recall. 2 sets of shoulder buttons, 4 face buttons, select, start, and a pair of analog sticks(dunno if they're clicky). I'd be hesitant to place Saturn and 32x bets, but SegaCD has good odds. It's a matter of processing power and system complexity more than licensing. Both systems are very complex and fairly powerful. I wouldn't place bets on either of them being practical on the Wii.

I'm still waiting for a localized Rondo of Blood. But I hate NES Castlevania, so... whatever. If they offer Ninja Gaiden, though... What I've heard said is that just wrist motions will work, but they'll be "more fun" if you make a complete fool of yourself.

Reverse-engineering alien technology isn't that easy. You can't just hand a caveman a nuclear reactor and say "Here. Fire sucks." There'd be massive tech leaps while you figured out the easy parts and worked up from there. Good grief, the water car? It CAN be done, for the record. It's just not practical due to the mass of the catalyst required to split the water apart. That and water doesn't carry a whole lot of energy relative to other fuels. Other more realistic attempts, like natural gas, have failed because gasoline has a massive existing infrastructure that alternatives don't. You can't pull up to any street corner in the world and fill up with a couple gallons of CNG. No one wants to build the refueling facilities until the vehicles are there, and no one wants to build the vehicles until the refueling facilities are there. Government COULD mandate the addition of natural gas pumps to existing stations, but it'd put a lot of them out of business. Recent years have also seen a very hands-off government in terms of business. Religion's easy. You can justify other inhabited planets as easily as you can a planet that's a few billion years old instead of a few thousand. Education isn't greatly affected. I can see military spending jumping. Especially space defense programs. The fact that we agreed to not put weapons in space and never revisited that agreement says a lot about how many aliens we know. Or that we're doing pretty good and most aliens take their cold wars hot. It's highly odd that humanity as a whole considers itself inherently superior to everything else on Earth and inherently inferior to everything off Earth. Also worth noting that the odds of finding another inhabited world are infintessimal. There's just too many stars out there to check. Indeed. We actually KNOW our current laws of physics are fundamentally broken. No one likes to talk about it, but... No coverup needed. You can rig plenty of nice, deadly toys with stuff in your average garage, drug store, and/or Home Depot. Simple bleach + ammonia = good clean homicide for the whole building. A wine bottle, rag, and match is even more fun, as it involves fire. Individuals are just too smart, stupid, or apathetic to do it. Nations have too strong a sense of self-preservation. Sure the US could run around nuking people in a power grab. But the rest of the world would rush us pretty fast, and there's limits to how quickly we can vaporize stuff. We can take anybody in a fight, but not everybody. And past experience tells us that spies can and will sneak any "superweapon" details out of the nation, so our enemies will be very close behind us. We've also got a lot of really fun conventional techs that don't get used. Any idiot nation with a rocket can gain high levels of firepower cheaply. Step 1. Put a satellite in orbit with some rods made of a dense material like tungsten or depleted uranium. Step 2. Shoot rods at target. Step 3. Wait for rods to land on target after accelerating at a rate of 9.8 meters per second per second for the entire trip down from orbit. Step 4. Smash stuff good. Of course, you have to either have defenses for your satellites or convince everyone they're comm devices. Otherwise people start shooting at them, and they blow up easy.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to buy an NES/SNES/Genesis(it was on all 3)? Though the arcade machine has the advantage of steering wheels and a gas pedal.

Pre-order and pray, I assume. With only 400,000 in the entire US, and previous eBay fiascos indicating a possible worth of thousands of dollars, I don't see very many people getting them. Certainly not everyone planning on it.

I don't know, but I want to!

Sony's argument is that BluRay's capacity will be needed for hi-def games down the line, similar to how the first-year PS2 games were all CD-ROM, but now fill a (single-layer) DVD. More likely, they just want a headstart on market integration of BluRay. A 600$ movie player, HD or not, isn't viable. If they can move the PS3 though(And according to SCEEurope, they could sell the PS3 with no software just because of the Playstation name, so they don't see a problem), they win the HD format war before it ever really starts. But like I said, BluRay is only PART of the price. The "Cell" processor is an absurdly expensive part too. And from what I've heard, their graphics processor ain't exactly cheap(though it may be next to Cell and the BD-ROM drive). Scrapping the drive may shave 50 bucks off, but it still won't be cheap. What it WOULD help is yield. Their current yield limiter is the blue laser diodes used in the BD-ROM. They have a lot of difficulty making those.

Bump! Haruhi-ism must not die! Seriously, though... Someone added Yuki to Mugen. While this video isn't the best use of the character(see for better applied use), it wins it all back in presentation style.Poor Ken and Ryu never stood a chance... For those unfamiliar, Mugen is a homebrew fighting game with an open character format and roster, so anyone can add a character if they can imagine it.

Same here, save the last sentence. I don't know about actual hours on Sony systems, but my PS1 library is signifigantly larger than everything but my 2600 and 99/4a libraries. My PS2 library isn't exactly dwarfing anything, but it IS larger than any of my other current-gen libraries. But I think the PS3's price tag issue extends beyond BluRay(though it's certainly PART of the issue). Remember, MS is taking a loss on their 400$ DVD-only system. HD gaming just isn't mass-market affordable yet without feature sacrifices that MS and Sony don't want to make. The silicon is just too high on the ladder for a reasonably-priced console.