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SyntheticPolygon posted:I'm kinda of hoping there's more focus on the robot's though, Oh man, you're gonna fuckin' love Gaogaigar.
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# ? Sep 10, 2014 02:05 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 10:19 |
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Hi clawshrimpy I know you're reading this, come on in and post about how great GaoGaiGar is! The water is warm
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# ? Sep 10, 2014 04:59 |
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Paper Lion posted:Hi clawshrimpy I know you're reading this, come on in and post about how great GaoGaiGar is! The water is warm Man don't bring that evil in here.
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# ? Sep 10, 2014 05:11 |
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I normally don't mind more activity in the super robot thread, but some things come at too high a price. Never again. Never again.
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# ? Sep 10, 2014 07:53 |
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Paper Lion posted:Hi clawshrimpy I know you're reading this, come on in and post about how great GaoGaiGar is! The water is warm No! Don't tempt the fates! I'm glad I missed the incident and only read bits of it after the fact. That's something that I never want to see happen again. I just hope that my dismissal of him won't act as the final straw that summons him...
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# ? Sep 10, 2014 09:30 |
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SyntheticPolygon posted:That... that sucks. Yeah, Imagawa tends to focus more on characters and people kung fu fighting on foot alongside/against the robots. It's just what he does. G Gundam has the biggest focus on the robots of the stuff I've seen, and it still has Master Asia. He's still one of the best robot show directors out there, he just has his quirks. (that are amazing)
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# ? Sep 10, 2014 16:04 |
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Are there any robot shows that are more about the robots than the characters, and not just in a screen time "show off the robots more so it sells toys" sense, but like as relates to plot or whatever? I just want to watch robots blow each other up for 12 episodes without these silly squishy humans having boring conversations for 70% of the episode.
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# ? Sep 10, 2014 16:14 |
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Schneider Heim posted:In the Philippines, Daimos got a homegrown English dub, and I watched the entire show on primetime weekdays as a kid back in the early 90s. One of my friends managed to upload the first episode online: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B1FCKINLhgOaVHNDUUNrclpoMjQ/edit?usp=sharing Friend of mine lent me her box set of the Filipino dub for Daimos. It is an amazing dub and really fun to watch.
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# ? Sep 10, 2014 16:15 |
I'm totally down for Clawshrimpy to come back, just so I won't be the worst poster in ADTRW anymore
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# ? Sep 10, 2014 22:17 |
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ninjewtsu posted:Are there any robot shows that are more about the robots than the characters, and not just in a screen time "show off the robots more so it sells toys" sense, but like as relates to plot or whatever? Yes. Transformers, and shows inspired by it.
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# ? Sep 11, 2014 01:07 |
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Machine Robo was all robots. Though the main character is just a human shaped robot.
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# ? Sep 11, 2014 01:09 |
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As is his sister, but I guess it'd be pretty weird if she wasn't.
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# ? Sep 11, 2014 01:22 |
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Is Dangaioh worth watching? The OP rocks.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 03:38 |
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It's alright, it has some talented animators working on it and I feel like that's mainly the reason to watch it. Kinda felt indifferent about the cast and the story. Still, at 3 episodes it goes by rather quickly so there's no harm.
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 03:43 |
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GorfZaplen posted:Is Dangaioh worth watching? The OP rocks. And um, there's probably where they blew all their budget on. With 3 episodes I can't even say they told a quick yet self-contained story because they didn't. The show literally just ends... with no real closure as if they ran out of money. Yet it's probably still better than its sequel, the ironically named "Great Dangaioh"
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 14:47 |
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Dangaioh is one of those shows that while flawed as it's own thing, is perfect when included in a SRW game
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 15:38 |
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drrockso20 posted:Dangaioh is one of those shows that while flawed as it's own thing, is perfect when included in a SRW game
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# ? Oct 1, 2014 16:31 |
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I know that K didn't sell because of the lack of UC Gundam, but was it really bad? I actually enjoyed it more than W (which is EVERYONE LIVES: the game. L was the one I didn't care about.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 03:47 |
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Schneider Heim posted:I know that K didn't sell because of the lack of UC Gundam, but was it really bad? I actually enjoyed it more than W (which is EVERYONE LIVES: the game. L was the one I didn't care about. Imagine L, except where the partner system is dumb and stupid and no fun.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 03:52 |
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I kinda enjoyed K. It was easy as hell but dang if that criticism doesn't apply to a ton of modern SRW titles anyways.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 03:57 |
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Schneider Heim posted:I know that K didn't sell because of the lack of UC Gundam, but was it really bad? (It's kind of interesting at their slow attempts to get rid of the mecha holy trinity. Getter had a one game grace with W and then disappeared along with UC Gundam. Mazinger had a hilarious terrible showing in K consisting of Mazinger itself and just about nothing else) The big problem with K is that its Partner system basically doesn't work except for putting combiners into one squad. You kill stuff much faster with solos than with pairs because of how broken Combo is. A game being easy is one thing if it's intentional but a game where its supposed unique selling point doesn't even work is basically a game design failure IMO. There's also some other issues with K which seems to be developmental in issue, such as how the music composer plagiarized tracks (at least from better games I guess, like Warcraft 2)... Finally, there's the reason why K is so infamous - the writing. As far as I can tell, the crossover elements are not done that well, and the main hero of K - Mist Rex has entered "Ironic Meme" status amongst the community. I believe he was intended to be an "rear end in a top hat who slowly learns to stop being an rear end in a top hat over time" Archetype but written so poorly that he basically never stops being an rear end in a top hat so... final character result: rear end in a top hat with no tact who tells people to get over their dead wife because man, that's just a small thing you know? I suppose if you play SRW by auto-skipping all the text it probably wouldn't bother you as much though. quote:L was the one I didn't care about. L basically just had Iczer which is cool, but K had a much more inspired cast list including Gun X Sword, Dangaioh, Zoids Genesis and so on.
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 04:17 |
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Didn't K also change SEED Destiny almost as much as Z did? Like Cagalli was essentially the leader of the main team and they ended up doing Destiny from her perspective, during which she just said "gently caress this" to sitting on the sidelines and went to space to knock heads?
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 05:26 |
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TARDISman posted:Didn't K also change SEED Destiny almost as much as Z did? Like Cagalli was essentially the leader of the main team and they ended up doing Destiny from her perspective, during which she just said "gently caress this" to sitting on the sidelines and went to space to knock heads?
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# ? Oct 2, 2014 05:46 |
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# ? Oct 16, 2014 22:50 |
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Didn't use anything for scale, but it's a fittingly big box.
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# ? Oct 19, 2014 19:54 |
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Here's some more concept art of Jinraiger. I think the design is really busy and it makes me wonder how they intend to animate it, since I don't imagine they'll get a crazy high budget. Looks wicked as hell though.
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# ? Nov 15, 2014 08:19 |
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post the best battleships ya got
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 02:19 |
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Fairly sure this originated the transforming battleship concept?
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 03:03 |
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THE GIANT ARM BATTLESHIP
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# ? Nov 17, 2014 06:00 |
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Just thought I should post that thanks to Gunbuster I got an A on my assignment concerning black holes and time dilation in Astronomy.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 22:30 |
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TARDISman posted:Just thought I should post that thanks to Gunbuster I got an A on my assignment concerning black holes and time dilation in Astronomy. Coach is proud.
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# ? Dec 8, 2014 22:46 |
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Just finished watching VOTOMS. It was pretty fun, with some haunting setpieces, but I can't help but wonder how experienced the staff were when they made it. The cinematography was kind of flabby and amateurish, particularly early on, and it often felt like they were making up the plot as they went along, resulting in some clumsy, obvious welding together of plot points (much about Captain Rochina's characterisation and the Secret Society's goals and motives failed to make sense when examined as a whole, for instance).
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# ? Dec 17, 2014 02:34 |
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Yeah I agree, and also will include the warning to not continue further unless you want to see chirico as space wolverine jesus
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# ? Dec 17, 2014 02:40 |
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muike posted:Yeah I agree, and also will include the warning to not continue further unless you want to see chirico as space wolverine jesus Oh, I don't intend to go any further. The original show was fairly self-contained (which is, paradoxically, why I'm harder on the wobbly bits - they don't feel like hooks for additional stories, but simply stuff that the writers didn't think through), and the final scenes were good enough and struck an appropriate enough tone that I don't want to see them get ruined by Fyana getting insta-fridged in the sequel. Kinda like how Aliens is the best place to stop in its franchise. Speaking of, I wish Fyana had been given more to do in the Quent arc. I mean, yes, her not getting into many fights made serviceable character sense given her circumstances (she's not a big fan of fighting unless she's backed into a corner/Chirico's in immediate peril that she can do something about), but it's just plain fun seeing someone who isn't Chirico pulling the same insane one-man-army poo poo against hordes of bad guys, and that was a real highlight of the Space Battleship X/Sunsa arc.
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# ? Dec 17, 2014 02:53 |
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Yeah Fyana's cool when she's not absolutely helpless and may be the only jewish love interest in anime
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# ? Dec 17, 2014 02:56 |
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muike posted:Yeah Fyana's cool when she's not absolutely helpless and may be the only jewish love interest in anime I think 'helpless' is unfair (apart from that one time on Sunsa which I'm giving a pass because it's an obvious mirror of the episodes earlier in the arc where she had to do the heavy lifting for an incapacitated Chirico). It's more that she doesn't happen to have Chirico's bloodlust, and keeps getting put into positions where anyone, including our hero, would have no choice but to sit around and twiddle their toes (and we know this because Chirico also gets put into those positions, but less often and for shorter periods of time). The end result is still a relative lack of opportunities for the badass super soldier love interest to do cool things, though, and it's an absolute crime that the Berserga DT never got a proper fight.
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# ? Dec 17, 2014 03:08 |
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I kinda like Shining Heresy since it's weird in a way that just clicks with me. Definitely doesn't feel right after the way the tv series ended tho but I guess it's flawed in a way I like, if that makes sense? And Alone Again is alright and a decent end to the space Catholic stuff. Phantom Arc is the worst thing though Srice fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Dec 17, 2014 |
# ? Dec 17, 2014 04:18 |
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I'm still bitter they never found a way to do a buddy-duo crossover thing with VOTOMS and Mellowlink---myriad problems such a thing would present be damned!
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# ? Dec 17, 2014 16:05 |
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Fyana is my favorite character in VOTOMS but in the last arc she basically becomes Allelujah from Gundam 00. I'm pretty sure 80% of her lines by weight are her going "Chirico!" in various tones of fear.
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# ? Dec 17, 2014 16:32 |
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I liked the prequels + The Last Red Shoulder more than the show itself, they make for a pretty thematic and self-contained story. The first episode of Shining Heresy was fun too, because it had two overpowered badasses going at each other.
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# ? Dec 17, 2014 17:52 |