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Chicks dig giant robots.
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Defiance Industries posted:Yeah that's not really what I was talking about. BT has had a long-running problem of asking players to role-play away problems with the tabletop game. The solution to introducing Star League technology was politely asking players not to use too much of it "because it's rare" and the Clan dueling system came about because they had no rule for balancing fights besides tonnage at the time. Fights also taking forever to end because both sides are down to one torso with a ML shooting at each other because the early designers expected everyone to roleplay that they were retreating before their mech got totalled. I did get to see a BT game end with two Mechs that had popsicle sticked each other (I think a Warhammer and Crusader) and they agreed to pop their hatches and just settle it with a fistfight. After rolling up their characters using Mechwarrior (RPG) rules, of course
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Aug 16, 2020 18:24
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GD_American posted:I did get to see a BT game end with two Mechs that had popsicle sticked each other (I think a Warhammer and Crusader) and they agreed to pop their hatches and just settle it with a fistfight. The Battletech cartoon WAS a documentary!! I hope the loser honored his agreement to. the. letter.
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Aug 18, 2020 04:11
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10 pages and no mention of Combattler V. Shameful. It fights with yo-yos! Okay, it's an obscure show, but Combattler V has a loving awesome Japanese opening theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdLgwOAwBlY Here's a better version of the song, but without the original opening: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgcYnZ8wJzQ It got a 2012 fake remake (I think they used it for a pachinko machine because lol, Japan loves pachinko), and it loving kicks rear end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNTzcRBCXbs
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Aug 18, 2020 10:45
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GD_American posted:I did get to see a BT game end with two Mechs that had popsicle sticked each other (I think a Warhammer and Crusader) and they agreed to pop their hatches and just settle it with a fistfight. Isn't this basically a Metal Gear final boss
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Aug 18, 2020 12:00
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Bogus Adventure posted:10 pages and no mention of Combattler V. Shameful. It fights with yo-yos! Schwarzwald posted:thinkin' 'bout those robots again
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Aug 18, 2020 15:15
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Defiance Industries posted:See, that's what I mean when I say that the game never decided if they wanted to be an RPG or a wargame. Those are assumptions you make when you are making a cooperative story game, not a wargame based around two players fighting it out. If you're playing Street Fighter 2, you wouldn't assume Akuma players will hold back on their best moves and only use kicks or some poo poo. Well it comes from a time when the distinctions between an RPG and a wargame were less defined. Scenarios and referees were a much bigger part of wargaming at the time. Even the Warhammers were like that in their earliest editions. This is the same reason why tonnage is such a poor points system. It wasn't really meant to be one. It doesn't aim to balance opposing forces. It aims to represent the in-universe constraints on battlemech design.
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Aug 18, 2020 22:54
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Makes me think we need more giant robot fighting games, reminded there was a trailer for a Zoids one, and I think there's a reasonably popular Gundam one.
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Aug 19, 2020 09:55
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Filthy Hans posted:the tall goose Treize shows up in the tallgeese 2 at the end
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Aug 19, 2020 14:34
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Stairmaster posted:Treize shows up in the tallgeese 2 at the end The robit fightin' game I'm playing on PS4 says there's a 3 as well
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Aug 19, 2020 14:54
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I posted about that in the lovely tech thread but the Tallgeese kept killing its test pilots and induced a heart attack in a healthy 23 year old man, and it's not anywhere near as deadly to pilot as the Wing Zero
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Aug 19, 2020 17:38
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I posted about that in the lovely tech thread but the Tallgeese kept killing its test pilots and induced a heart attack in a healthy 23 year old man, and it's not anywhere near as deadly to pilot as the Wing Zero Which then had a 2.0 designed with a system that was even more insanely dangerous than the one in the 1.0, which was also made to look like an evil dragon, which the aforementioned 23 year old man who managed to get away with only minor internal bleeding after flying the Tallgeese decided to take as his own because the Tallgeese simply wasn't hazardous enough to his health Everyone in Wing is loving insane
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Aug 19, 2020 18:39
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Tbf as a 23 year old anime man, looking for a way to die honorably before he fades away is perfectly reasonable.
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Aug 19, 2020 21:34
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He tries to drop a space station on earth
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Aug 19, 2020 22:23
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Gundam Wing is loving insane, but its Gundam design is beautiful. I remember when Endless Waltz dropped on Toonami, and I was stocked AF. Also, I'm a very proud owner of a Tallgeese gunpla, and was happy that the model included the pieces for all 3 versions.
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Aug 19, 2020 22:54
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Makes me think we need more giant robot fighting games, reminded there was a trailer for a Zoids one, and I think there's a reasonably popular Gundam one. I will never not take an opportunity to bring up Robot Alchemic Drive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qUN2SnhY2I It was rad 
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Aug 20, 2020 02:25
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The talk of all the creep stuff in battletech makes me glad that all Gundam wants to do is show you char's rear end
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Aug 20, 2020 11:04
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Wing was my first Gundam, and goddamn it I can't help but love it despite all reasoned arguements against it. My favourite designs in general are always the mass produced ones that get blown up in their hundreds by unique models. Nothing fancy, just a lump of practical metal meant for day to day war.
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Aug 20, 2020 11:53
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I remember watching Endless Waltz at some point, possibly during my Gundam phase, and just found it so utterly boring. I cleared most of the early UC stuff, even if I stopped midway through Zeta Gundam I think and never got to ZZ or Char's Counterattack as much as I should've watched it. And then Gundam SEED Destiny rolled around and just utterly burned me out on the franchise and I went over to Macross after that. 
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Aug 20, 2020 15:07
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Stairmaster posted:The talk of all the creep stuff in battletech makes me glad that all Gundam wants to do is show you char's rear end His clone's name is "Full Frontal". He's the "Second Coming" of Char. e: The main character in that show is RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 15:21 on Aug 20, 2020 |
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Aug 20, 2020 15:16
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I've posted this before but Gundam Wing/Endless Waltz was my intro to Gundam and led me to believe Gundam was a girls show.
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Aug 20, 2020 15:19
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I used to know a girl who was a big fan of anime including Gundam. Seems for a while the done thing was you had giant robot action for the fellas and their pilots' bishie angst for the ladies.
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Aug 20, 2020 16:48
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As someone completely from the outside, Gundam looks like something that might conceivably be cool but if I can't understand even the Wiki synopsis you ain't getting me to watch
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Aug 20, 2020 16:58
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Gundam Wing was the only Gundam series I managed to watch, and even that was kind of hard. I enjoyed Endless Waltz because it was an event on Cartoon Network, and it ended the story. I was free.
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Aug 20, 2020 17:04
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GD_American posted:As someone completely from the outside, Gundam looks like something that might conceivably be cool but if I can't understand even the Wiki synopsis you ain't getting me to watch The basic premise is robots cool, child soldiers bad, space wars cool, space nazis bad, going to space makes humanity psychic which they used to make cooler robots because Gundam never dropped that idea like everyone else did after 1980
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Aug 20, 2020 17:08
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Pretty much every version is some take on 'Humanity builds bigass space colonies and they start getting at odds with Earth, someone crashes a colony into Earth and kills a couple billion people, big horrible war ensues'
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Aug 20, 2020 17:16
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RBA Starblade posted:The basic premise is robots cool, child soldiers bad, space wars cool, space nazis bad, going to space makes humanity psychic which they used to make cooler robots because Gundam never dropped that idea like everyone else did after 1980 Actually the premise of Gundam is none of these things are cool except maybe the robots in a perfect society with no war. The whole thing is basically a guy who lived through the end of Imperial Japan being incredibly, incredibly angry at the entire concept of Imperial Japan and turning that anger into a TV show. But also Bandai gotta sell them model kits so hell yeah more robots don't they own
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Aug 20, 2020 17:27
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Pretty much every version is some take on 'Humanity builds bigass space colonies and they start getting at odds with Earth, someone crashes a colony into Earth and kills a couple billion people, big horrible war ensues' Big horrible war you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9MxWuAdBg0 (Dunno if it's NWS per se, but....uh....it's intense)
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Aug 20, 2020 17:28
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Psycho Landlord posted:But also Bandai gotta sell them model kits so hell yeah more robots don't they own Exactly
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Aug 20, 2020 17:31
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Pretty much every version is some take on 'Humanity builds bigass space colonies and they start getting at odds with Earth, someone crashes a colony into Earth and kills a couple billion people, big horrible war ensues' If I were the Earth government, I would simply not allow the space colonies to act independently of Earthly authority.
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Aug 20, 2020 18:14
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After the eighth group of space colonies declare themselves a nazi empire and invade I'd just stop building them
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Aug 20, 2020 18:18
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Psycho Landlord posted:He tries to drop a space station on earth Tried and failed to do something that Zeon did day one, episode one of OG Gundam. GD_American posted:As someone completely from the outside, Gundam looks like something that might conceivably be cool but if I can't understand even the Wiki synopsis you ain't getting me to watch There's a miniseries called 08th MS Team. It goes like this - somewhere else, while all the pretty anime people are having their melodrama, there's a team of grunts in the jungle and they get a bunch of lovely assignments. Meanwhile, their lieutenant continues to make bad decisions regarding fraternization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EZHetr5pKc If that doesn't do anything for you, I'd skip the whole thing.
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Aug 20, 2020 19:02
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grassy gnoll posted:If that doesn't do anything for you, I'd skip the whole thing. I mean, I don't speak Japanese, soooooo (I did watch it, pretty decent robutt fightin') (even if their 'react to contact' drill starts with the word "eventually")
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Aug 20, 2020 20:18
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Eh, they're not saying anything you can't puzzle out by context. "Are you okay," shouts the sergeant as he dangles his private off a bridge.
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Aug 20, 2020 20:20
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yeah that was fine for a clip but do they have dubbed/subbed versions? I'm fairly Gundam-ignorant
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Aug 20, 2020 20:29
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RBA Starblade posted:His clone's name is "Full Frontal". His secret identity? Quattro Bagina (4th Vagina)
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Aug 20, 2020 20:42
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GD_American posted:yeah that was fine for a clip but do they have dubbed/subbed versions? I'm fairly Gundam-ignorant Yes, just about everything Gundam has gotten a licensed translation at this point. Rightstuf sells the discs if you like those, the GundamInfo youtube channel has stuff up on a rotating basis, and it's otherwise available in the same ways anime has been available.
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Aug 20, 2020 23:06
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Gundam plots are never that complicated, there's just a ton of them.
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Aug 21, 2020 01:46
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I watched Gundam Wing this year, since it was the earliest Gundam on vrv and I remembered people making GBS threads their pants over it back in middle/high school. It was ok, not gonna hit the list of 'must-watch anime' but good enough when stoned on a quarantine night. The reused animations were kinda funny. I want to watch original Gundam but those gifs have me thinking it's aged poorly. E: I guess it was a different thread someone was posting original Gundam gifs in, but it was rough.
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Aug 21, 2020 03:36
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The https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLuuRP8Ep18 Is there a list of all the mid 90's word for mechs used to avoid FASA trademark violation?
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