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renegadeleader1

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  1. With 2199 the creators are trying to keep a fair amount of realism, and where this concerns the real Yamato wreck they had to make the change. When the wreck was rediscovered a few years ago it was fully surveyed and the ship is not in good condition. as the ship started to sink it capsized causing the main gun turrets to dislodge and fall off as contrary to popular belief the cannons aren't bolted on. Just after submergence the B turret's magazine blew tearing the ship in half and completely obliterating the ship's citadel. All that's left of the ship is the bow ending just aft of Turret A's mount pointing skyward, and the stern ending half way through Turret C's mount upside down in the mud.
  2. The original Gojira is always worth watching as a monster movie classic. I also liked several of Kurosawa's films like Kagemusha, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, and Ran. Seven Samurai I thought was okay, and I really want to see Throne of Blood, as I enjoy seeing all the different takes on Macbeth. I do have a curious question though, Is the war film Letters from Iwo Jima considered Japanese despite being direct by Eastwood?
  3. I've been playing the new Tomb Raider game, and I'm not sure how to put this... Its a great game, but I don't like it. I've played every TR game going back to the first one on the PS, and there was that sense of wonder and exploration in each of the games, but there's none of that in here. Its like they went out of their way to make TR for dummies. There's almost no exploration with the maps being very linear going from point A to B with hidden items not so hidden. In the event you get lost there's a button for survival mode that highlights where you need to go, and what items you have to interact with to do it. The original Core Designs games were ball busting punishment difficulty wise pretty much leaving you on your own to figure things out along with wonky controls. The last three Crystal Dynamics games(Legend, Anniversary, Underworld) made it slightly easier and struck a perfect balance with vastly improved controls. I enjoyed them a lot more than I am enjoying this current one. People have told me it plays like uncharted, but I've never played it. My other pet pev is that this is supposed to be Lara's first adventure(as opposed to the other 3 games that already covered that) so she's not used to killing yet. Its a little annoying hearing her scream "Please, I don't want to kill you! We can work together we don't have to kill each other!" All while 20 enemies are chucking molotov cocktails and shooting you.
  4. Neither side gave much of a damn for protocol or ettiquette in the Pacific Campaign. It was a brutal, ugly, disgusting conflict. It didn't help that Japan while signing the geneva convention on POWs didn't ratify it. When word of prisoner treatment and atrocities got back to the allies it made a bad situation worse. By the end the allies had to issue orders forcing soldiers not to kill anyone surrendering just to get intel, while the Japanese issued orders to systematically kill all pows in their camps. Nearly 30% of western allied pows died in captivity with the Chinese having it much worse. Of the hundreds of thousands Chinese taken prisoner only 56 were repatriated. On the Japanese side of things once a captured soldier surrendered to the allies and was removed from the front their surival rate skyrocketed. POWs were rare though due to indoctrination that suicide is preferable to capture, that allies killed surrendering soldiers on sight, and to surrender would mean you would be an outcast who would not be able to return home. The average Japanese soldier was not made aware of what the Geneva convention was, or that the allies followed it, part of which is the imforming of the enemy of who they have prisoner. The Japanese war office withheld these names from their own people to keep up the pretense that no Japanese soldier surrendered, and fought to the death. Note: I'm aware of the policy here on "political statements", and I took that under consideration while trying to explain the historical context of WII Pacific Campaign's beligerents attitudes towards each other. If I have violated the policy I apologize, and accept full dicipline.
  5. I'm looking forward to the next Tomb Raider game. Reviews have been good so far, and Crystal Dynamics last three TR games (anniversary, legend, and underworld) were very fun. Even the new "realistic" look of Lara doesn't bother me.
  6. As far as I know, the only one left is variants of the Tupolev TU-95 bear bomber in active service. The B-52 had all theirs removed as part of the H model upgrade plan.
  7. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8J8SzBhjqaQ'>
  8. You obviously haven't talked to a girl at an anime covention. They creep me out!
  9. I really appreciate this. I know how hard it is to pass on something you want because of money only to watch someone else scoop it up. I also got my hopes up seeing Nyx and Echidna still listed under Queens Blade, but both were out of stock. Those are the only others besides Shizuka that I wanted. That's Branwen. She's a dragoon. Half dragon, half human, and an emmisary between the two species. Unfortunately her dragon that she rides got injured, and she sold herself into gladiator slavery to save him. That chain tattoo on her leg gains or loses a link depending on wether she wins or loses a match for her scum bag goblin master. I feel bad for her, but if she gains her freedom it might be a bad thing since her slavery keeps her dragon half power in check. When enraged she can't control it, and given the way she's been treated she may destroy half the world. Anyways I agree that figure is amazing, even her revoltech figure which I ordered today looks good. Even with the odd joints. Did you know the artist that created her used slave Leia from Return Of The Jedi as inspiration? She also has one red and one blue eye. Her along with Annalotte and Shigi are the three figures I want from the Rebellion series.
  10. 1.The Shah of Iran never returned to his home country. He passed away in Egypt and interred at a mosque there.2.I'm pretty sure those aren't Cutlasses in that Black Tiger photo. Either that or heavily edited.
  11. To me Scrapped Princess which I just got done watching a couple weeks ago has one of the best endings I've ever seen. I can't say enough about this show, its about as close to perfect as an aime can get. Yeah I know that's saying a lot. Vandread is also pretty good.
  12. She was already this probly involved Venus De Milo...I don't hate Megan Fox, and I think she has some untapped potential, but she's stuck with either crappy horror movies or bay films. Not exactly roles that that give you a chance to shine. I'd like to see her cast in something a little more serious just to see what happens. If she stinks that's fine at least we know. Bay movies could make Patrick Stewart look like crap. EDIT: speaking of which I wouldn't mind seeing Patrick Stewart voice Unicron in some form.
  13. Anybody know when I can find a reasonably affordable figures of Echidna and Shizuka from Queens Blade? I really don't want to spend more than 60-80 bucks US for them.
  14. Okay did you see the same thing I did?
  15. There's always Madlax or oldschool Golgo 13.
  16. So there's a Godzilla strain of Xenomorph now?
  17. The only thing I want to know is what the plot twist is that may or may not explain/cancel out alien 3/resurrection etc.
  18. Gearbox also released Duke Nukem Forever.
  19. Its from the melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. There is some like a hundred different figures from that series of the characters in bunny girl outfits. I love bunnygirls personally, but the ones from this series never appealed to me because they all look under age.EDIT: Wait nevermind, the styling kinda threw me off. The figure is actually from the To Heart series of visual novels.
  20. All this talk of of Deadspace 3 and being scary reminds me Colonial Marines is coming out soon. Truth be told the xenomorph scares the hell out of me more than anything else like the necromorphs. I think it plays on childhood fears from when I watched parts of the first two movies when I was very young when I was told not to. Pure nightmare stuff there. I'm not sure I'll be able to play it when its released, and if I do I'll be looking behind me every five seconds... which will probly be when the floor gratting will give way and I have a heart attack
  21. I picked up Witcher 2 for the 360. I haven't got a chance to play it yet, but I heard good things about it. I think it might have gotten overlooked by a lot of people in the fantasy rpg department due to Skyrim.
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