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rikiryou Posted on May 6 2004, 11:36 PM

  Hmm, I somehow know about this before... don't remember how, or why, but it's screwed up all right. I'm also reminded of that Simpsons episode where they go to Japan and that gameshow... 

"In America, you reward knowledge......here in Japan we punish ignorance!"

M7-

Just thought I'd get that out of the way.

Druna Skass Posted: May 1 2004, 11:47 AM 

Is there any other show out there that just fires people up as much as this one does?

Yup. Star Trek:Enterprise tends to get people very fired up too. (ENT-, by the way.)

Noyhauser Posted: Apr 30 2004, 01:42 PM 

Maybe you should read more about the series themselves. A 2 hours OAV series cannot have anywhere close to the character development that a 24 hour long series does. Thats why they both came out at the same time. Macross Plus does have a plot and some character development, but it was primarily inteneded to be a showcase VFs and be an action movie. That cannot be disputed. The Mechas in Plus were right up front. IT STARTS OFF AS A COMPETITION BETWEEN TWO NEW FIGHTERS. How can it be secondary when Guld and Isamu engage in battle for approxomately 40% of the whole series?

Maybe because character development takes up the other 60%, thus making mecha secondary.

In no particular order:

-B5 Starfury

-X-Wing

-Kilrathi Dralthi from WC (kill these pancakes by the dozens, but they look cool)

-Hellcat from WC

-Colonial Viper

-Peregrine class from ST (more of a PT boat than an actual fighter, but still....)

Aren't they supposed to show the whole run in one sitting at some point?

And I'm guessing I missed when they showed all of Season 1 together....

There may yet be hope for seeing this game in the states......(see the Copright debate thread). Hopefully we'll know more this summer.

UN Spacy Posted on Mar 27 2004, 02:18 PM

  Hahahaha. Look at the Captain running for his life. 

Lol. Gloval's really hauling ass out there. Its probably made out of the same material the portals are....don't we see a Super 1A blow up outside one later on in DYRL?

For HG to fall back on "We can sell anything because we're a store, we don't need rights" is odd in the face of the infamous C&D letters they sent out.

I voted DS9 all the way!

It changed the paradigm, took dramatic risks, and asked some tough questions especially in regards to spirituality and morality in war.

ENT is seriously lacking in quality and will hopefully be put to pasture soon.

TNG was also great, but I think DS9 slightly edges it out for me.

TOS is where it all started, and was great and still has a few eps that stand up real well (though I enjoy most of them).

One good point to mention is: Why give your ace pilots or higher ranking officers an indicator of who they are? Clearly if the enemy realizes that 001 is the squadron commander why not just gang up on that plane and take it out and leave the rest of the squadron is dis-array. The same can hold for the 1J theory. The enemy could realize these aren't standard planes by there markings thus changing attack stratagies.

I don't think the number's important. If they want to kill a good pilot they just have to aim at the VFs that aren't Brown and White!

Looks interesting, but I'm not sure how the Cycs will work in FPS......its gonna have to be pretty good to fit into my videogame budget though......ROTK, Starcraft:Ghost, that X-Men RPG and maybe even that ST game that just came out are on the list......

One of my Texan friends tells me that the local PD has two APCs, lovably dubbed "Bubba 1" and "Bubba 2" (they do a lot of drug intercepts).

"Perhaps we should exchange mono-syllabic expressions of arrogance in person..."

Great news, I've been watching this regularly since it came back on the air.

Ditto on the Weinstein ep, but its similar to the banned Seinfeld episode where Kramer accidently burned a Puerto Rican flag. It was pretty funny, a bit of physical comedy but everyone blew it way out of proportion.

I'd have to go with Wing Commander for real hollywood type flops. But it popped into my mind right when I saw this thread-Mutiny in Space! I couldn't believe it when I saw it on MST3K Santa Clause and some witches flying spliced footage from Battlestar Galactica....

But then there was that one with Raul Julia trapped in Casablanca.....and Parts: The Clonus Horror with Peter Graves.....so many bad movies.......

I'm plenty steamed.....but with the original Macross finally coming to Best Buy, it doesn't really matter, as I'm much more interested in that than a few new RT clips and a new theme.

Ladic Posted on Nov 19 2003, 03:05 PM

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I don't get the bitching, if you don't want to pay more then don't, easy as that.

Yes, I would of been ALOT better if they did this to begin with, but they didn't no point in crying about it now.

Better to have the option, than none at all. 

This is the most inane line of reasoning ever. Its the same as saying crap product is better than none at all, so consumers have no right to criticize merchandise because they should be thankful that they even have the option to buy anything. (This argument comes up often when the new RT comics are criticized) Talk about a supply-sider theory.........

bsu legato Posted on Nov 19 2003, 03:11 PM

1) Fans were supposedly told there would not be any remastering. Period.

2) These new editions come out how soon after the 1st Edition discs?

3) The "new" footage is a bit much, IMHO. Just more "special edition" crap to grab the fan's cash.

HG had better stop milking that cash cow. It's teats are sore and bleeding. 

Eloquently put Bsu. Simple and too the point.

Look, I'm definately gonna be voting with my dollars. The option (and subsequent decision) to simply not buy these new sets occured to me as soon as I heard of them. That doesn't mean that there's no room for legitimate criticism of this move. This move is nothing other than milking the cow....unless they've animated a significant amount of entirely new sequences to include, there's absolutely no reason this wasn't the initial release.

HG, move on stop milking the fans and put out a new, quality product (like this oft rumored RT 2004....soon to be RT 2005).

Is the game out yet? Is it any good?

to say the least.

Seriously, this is f@#%-ing ridiculous! I mean, wtf! I've tried to be neutral on this whole issue because I love RT (and Macross) and I don't think HG's particularly evil, but COME ON!

There is no reason for this, none at all except to milk even more money. Why didn't they release this way back when instead? This is a blatant slap in the face to fans who bought the first ADV release (like me).

Between this, and the dearth of RT:BISI info (Robotech: Believe It when I See It) its really starting to become hard to retain any sort of consumer goodwill towards HG........

I agree with bsu.

yellowlightman Posted on Nov 11 2003, 01:36 PM

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Sometimes I got a better deal since I have yet to read the original books. Granted, the 'purists' criticize me for never having read them, but all the same I think it allowed me to enjoy the movies a lot more. I know if I had read them, I'd probably be too busy finding fault with the movies to really enjoy them.

For once it pays to be part of the uneducated masses.   

I disagree with that statement. They're incredible reads, some of the best I've ever read. I read them first, but I completely enjoy the movie and don't sit there and pick it apart. There's no way they can be carbon copies of the books because they're a different medium-you have to accept this going in to them.

Effect Posted on Nov 11 2003, 07:55 PM

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I agree, the Arc Troopers are badass. No talking at all in this episode but then again there was no need. Actions speak louder then words.

Not true....the sarge talked to Obi-Wan through the hologram. Grand total: 2 lines of dialogue.

I thought it was awesome when that one ARC trooper caught a blaster shot in the head when they were pinned down.

I know they're only three-four minutes but I find myself really getting into them when they're on.

The second Ep was sweet.....the third starts in 10 mins! I'm also glad that they put them up on the web so you can catch up if you miss one. That space battle was kick-ass also.

Saw this tonight, and thought it was very cool. I think following them all might be a problem, but we'll see. Realistically, I think I'm gonna have to wait for a DVD release or 'marathon' to catch all these. Also, it would have been cool if they showed two tonight, especially since the first one was really just an elaboration of the end scene of Ep II.

nathan Posted on Nov 7 2003, 05:39 PM

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How many infantry are going to stand up to a 30+ foot tall mecha with more weapons than a tank?? Sure they can do it but a lot of them are going to get killed in the prossess. What you really need the infantry for is keeping and policing the city once the Destroids and Valkyries have taken it.

I'd assume that the Destroids would be susceptible to knee-capping (ambushing a mech and try to jam a satchel charge in it's ankle or knee), or swarming. Again, works most effectively in urban settings, so if you want to take a city, you'll probably need more 'conventional' forces.

Also, I think the destroids of the future would be more like non-transforming battroids, instead of the lumbering SW-1 kind (Monsters excepted).

Are you sure that's true?.....The stargazer seems to be a reassembly of a number of Constitution class elements, kinda like DS9's Frankenstein fleet with the Excelsior. But its possible i guess.

Nightbat® Posted: Nov 4 2003, 10:29 PM

as for when Earth was destroyed in DYRL

Either Hikaru was lying to minmay about not knowing what happened

and Misa was off duty sleeping so deep it resembled a coma

and the footage of the game is truth

But this doesn't seem the case in DYRL

they both were quite surprised they were on earth (and what was left of it)

Then again...they never knew how the bombardment ended since they folded out of there

Bold is mine.

And I think that that seems to be the key point. They probably wouldn't have know if the attack was a localized one, or a planet killing bombardment.