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More importantly, Next-gen console DOES NOT MEAN GameCube, PS2, and XBox! They ARE THE CURRENT GEN, NOT THE NEXT! The next-gen consoles are the Xbox2, PS3, and ... I think Nintendo is calling there's Revolution right now... None are yet available. So NO NEXT-GEN CONSOLE HAS ANY METAL GEAR!

That still doesn't excuse the sheer number of DVDs out there with pretty much the same content. Yah. Movie companies have gotten into a bad habit of doing that. Widescreen and fullscreen was bad enough, especially since widescreen only became... err... widely available after DVD came out. And DVD allows both versions on one disk. But Noooo.... they have to have limited edition(which rarely is), collector's edition(again, rarely), special edition(third rarely), standard edition, signature edition(whatever that means), bundle edition... It's enough to make me want to stab someone. To movie companies: You aren't using half the space on the disk to begin with. Put widescreen and fullscreen on the same disk and QUIT MAKING 30 DIFFRENT PACKAGES OF THE SAME THING! And yes, that banner IS hilarious.

There's a reason for that, a reason why widescreen exists and why televisions are moving to a widescreen aspect. It's closer to how we naturally see. Try and put your fingers at the very edge of your vision. We actually view the world in a wider aspect ratio than most movies are filmed in. I know. I also know that some people can't stand to have a screen that isn't completely full.

Yes, we're familiar with it. This line of discussion was prompted by an explanation of said info. And 5 is incomplete, as it should include ADV's Southern Cross and MOSPEADA sets too..

I'm sure it's going to end up on one of the fanbase pages before long so even if people miss the re-airing it will eventually be seen. I personally see no difference between this and trying to buy a car. The same make and model of one year can come in many different colors. With or without: sunroof moonroof alloy wheels cd changer leather interior power windows power steering automatic engine size cruise control and etc.... which even when going to the dealership you are stuck to choose between what they have on the lot unless you preorder the car. If you can't find one you're looking for you have to wander around dealership to dealiship asking if they have the type of car you want. Isn't that just a frustrating? So just about any market out there is confusing it's consumer in some way. I agree it would be nice to have one all inclusive set. When I heard the Remastered RT was coming out I sold my original dvd's only to learn afterward the sound effects were changed and that the audio was subpar in opinions of some fans. I'm still without dvd's because I don't know where to invest my money again.. back into the originals or the new video? But you only buy one car either way. You don't go out to collect the entire 2004 Toyota lineup. With the DVDs, you're coming back for more purcahses, because you want the whole series. You also have no option to customize DVDs before purchase, much to the dismay of many Star Wars fans. I grant the average consumer the ability to understand singe disk/box set releases. I expect them to get confused by 3 diffrent boxes of the same thing, plus a 4th related box*. They're pr'ly do something like buy all the complete boxes, then grab the first legacy box and get pissed because it's stuff they already own. And some people WILL mix up the diffrent boxes and wind up wiht a mix of legacy and remastered, and pr'ly a complete or original series box too. And signifigant duplication. *I do grant the original series sets should exist. But I do not believe ADV should push the "It's part of Robotech" angle. They should let it be a standalone product. Animeigo is sort of stuck, though, because a lot of people think "Robotech is a dubbed version of Macross." I'm sure they've fielded more than one complaint about "only releasing the first third of Macross."

Much like Transformers The Movie, yet I still hear fans asking for a widescreen version of that. That was made tv aspect? Strange, but it does make the fact that there are no widescreen versions available make a whole lot more sense. I do seem to recall differences in pan and scan between different versions of the movie, but maybe I'm misremembering. A lot of movies are actually produced in 4:3. Even live-action ones. Funny thing is the film they use actually has 4:3 frames, so it's not a lot of extra work, really. And they KNOW they're going to do a home video release later, so they may as well keep teh matte'd out area in mind while filming. Hence, full-frame movie releases. Personally, I prefer widescreen. It just looks better to me.

There's an interesting point in there that I don't think was intentional... The fact that they feel the need to even put the DVD guide (mentioned in the next-to-last paragraph) up on their site shows something is wrong with their marketing. There really SHOULDN'T be 4 diffrent ways to buy what is essentially the same product on the market at once. And it's actually worse then that, because ADV is making an effort to blur the lines between original programs and Robotech version, creating a percieved FIFTH version of the product through their insistence of plugging Robotech in the text of said packages. All it does is confuse the average consumer. Which brings us back to the O'Brien show rant. Comedic or not, it's actually a real problem, if not exactly on the same level as starving children, opressive dictators, and my stubbed toe. They are either A. a pack of idiots who deserve to be shot for their mind-numbing incompetence, but will have to settle for the reduced sales cause by confused and annoyed consumers, or B. the most ingenious punks that ever walked the Earth, by figuring out how to trick people into buying the same thing up to 4 times, plus a 5th purchase of a closely related product.

Congratulations, sir.

Yes, but Wolf's head got blown open like a water balloon. Meryl lived. REGARDLESS OF WHAT KONAMI SAYS! Besides, this isn't about who's hotter. It's about Snake submiting to torture and letting an ally be murdered.

UGH! Makes me glad I don't own MGS2. The # of times I retried that scene because my rapid-fire skills were unpolished and I refused to let her die was... well, more than I care to count. And they're gonna just snatch it away?!?! SNAKE IS NOT THAT KIND OF GUY! I SAID SO! YOU WILL NOT MAKE A MOCKERY OF ME!

There's actually several of those. And I hate the HalfLife case. Why anyone would WANT their computer to look like it was pulled from a trash dumpster is beyond me.

There's FIVE games, plot-wise. Not 2.

That's actually in the vast minority of efforts. 2 games, really. 3 if we count the totally retarded FF4 easy type effort. One of which genuinely needed to be done. (note that FF2, 4, and 5 were fan-translated BEFORE Anthologies, Chronicles, and Origins were created). The FF translations just get the most publicity because, well, they're FF. The SRW games have gotten pretty fair attention. Alpha was an early PS1 translation effort(it's a shame LNF folded before they finished it). 3 is done(albeit with misarranged battle quotes resulting in some exultations of victory when people die and severe distress when they survive). And efforts of varying degrees have previously been expended on SRW2, SRW1, SRW4, SRW R, and SRWGaiden. My reference is http://donut.parodius.com/

Gaiden was remade for PS1, too. Common title is Shin Masoukishin: Panzer Warfare.

One. A GameBoy Color game called Metal Gear: Ghost Babel(renamed "Metal Gear Solid" in America to confuse people). As I understand it, it's a transitional game, to fill in the gap between Metal Gear 2 and Metal Gear Solid(and clean a few plot inconsistencies up)

Oh, let them be. I'm going to wait for the next delusional person to say.... "It shouldn't be that hard to make a ray-gun to enlarge ourselves to the size of Zentraedi. Just attach a flashlight to a broomstick, put a hair drier on the other end, and plug it in." That's just absurd. No one would EVER think that's possible. You need a laser pointer to make it work, DUH!

Pushing Lord of the Elementals would be a good idea too. As it deals ONLY with the SRW original mechs, there's no giant mass of anime references to decipher. And as a prequel, there's no worries about what happened in the prior games. It could be sold as a standalone strategy RPG.

Gotcha. I can see that point of view. I always thought this girl's costume ruled for sheer costuming skill. Not really "hot", but still... I've got photos of her from last year and this year's AKon. And I've seen her without the helmet. She has a nice face.

I doubt SRW will ever have a legitimate english release. Very few people in the USA know what Mazinger Z and Getter Robo are, much less why they would want a game where they can fight together along with 8563 other heroic mecha from 316 diffrent series against 9734 villainous mecha from the same shows, regardless of whether Gundam Wing and Evangelion have been added. Of course, ILLEGITIMATE english releases happen... http://agtp.romhack.net/ And welcome to Super Robot Wars 3, the ONLY english game in the series to date, as well as to the world of fan translations. The almighty Gideon Zhi is also working on (at least) SRW Gaiden. Too bad LNF self-destructed before they got Alpha done, though...

It COULD be a player glitch. Unlike a VCR, all DVD players are not created equal. And some have really stupid bugs in them. BTW, READ the liner notes instead of just asking about them. Animeigo mentions both in the liner notes and on their website that disk 9 has no notes.

They weren't entirely compatible, is the problem. Like the concert hall fire. Isamu COULDN'T get in the latest edition of Galaxy's Dumbest Police Chases because he was ... otherwise occupied. That's why Guld was allowed to verbally abuse Isamu for not coming to Myung's aid. Isamu couldn't tell him "oh shove it you green-haired bastard" because HE WAS RIGHT. Isamu completely blew Myung off in her hour of need for a night of wild sex. AND it's why Lucy didn't tell Isamu that Myung was leaving. She wasn't just a freaky stalker that hacked his answering machine and deleted to his messages(best explanation of the line in the OVA). Or the YF-19/YF-21 fight with the live-fire accident. Since Isamu (logically) got hospitalized after Guld crashed his VF-11, the fight(cool as it was) couldn't happen. And movie viewers were spared that bit of overly-contrived nonsense with the loading live ammo into Isamu's gun, then stealing it and shooting him. The above scenes in particular annoyed me from the moment I saw them, and really detract a lot from the show with their raw stupidity. The story is better off without all 3. There's some sweet scenes in the OVA version, but in my opinion the movie version is the one to watch, if you have to choose. It has 30% less retarded filler(yes, a lot of it is filler), and 300% more Guld kicking the Ghost's cybernetic ass.

Never had the tolerance to kill a PS1 pad. Though it's given me a few blisters(there IS a reason I use 3rd party pads almost exclusively).

ROM packs were rarely used. RAM expansions were what helped most games.

During the PS1 VS Saturn period it was a lot of mediocre or bad games VS a few good or great games. Should I point out that most of those were released after the Saturn folded in America? And personally, out of that list the only must-have title I see is MGS. The others range from "don't care about racing games" to "moderately good" to "OH GOD WHY DID I SUBJECT MYSELF TO THIS?"(FF8). Most of my favorite games haven't been the reason I got the system, they've been titles I picked up because I owned the system. Things like Tales of Destiny, Valkyrie Profile, Bushido Blade... stuff most people overlooked, but turn out to be damn fine games once you get a copy. The reason I got the system was Lunar: Silver Star Story. Which turned out to be something of a slap to the face as a long-time Lunar fan. Yes, The Silver Star needed a remake. But completely rewriting the plot, making villians out of heroes, stripping out all the major "scary badguy actions" like enslavement and muder of entire cities of poor widdle humans, and just in general making a mockery of everything I loved about the game? No thanks. ... But that's a rant for another thread. Enough, since in Japan it was going equal to PS1 untill Sega axed it for Dreamcast. The Panzer Dragoon series would be my specific nomination, though. Or Albert Odyssey. Others might go for Shining Force 3, but I personally never cared much for strategy RPGs. Heck, if Sega hadn't pissed Wokring Designs off, we might have got the Lunar remakes on he Saturn, and a good bit sooner than the PS1 versions. But I can generate a list of reasons to own a Jaguar. Or even a Virtual Boy. Every system has a few must-have games. EVERY system.

But still, even if someone had to buy another unit because one became kaput, they still bought another unit and Sony still sold another unit. That's irrelevant. The numbers they print up during the lifetime of a system are used to show retailers how many potential game buyers there are out there. When in fact there are far less due to this very reason. There might be 100 million PS1's manufactured and shipped to stores, but I'll bet that less than a quarter of them still exist. I thought the point was to see how many units they sold, not how many units are out there functioning. That would be what they say. What they IMPLY is that all of those systems are in use. They want people to THINK there are 10 million people out there with PS1s.