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Anyone here keep up with the manga? I barely read the first chapter or two but I've watched all the Anime series and the two live action movies. I just finished watching the newer most accurate to manga series so my interest got peeked to the max after realizing how awesome the plot was. Little factoid- The actor in the second Guyver film is David Hayter, the english voice actor for Snake from the Metal Gear Solid series.

The manga is way better though I don't plan to own or read it again accept for humor factor. I don't think I'll ever watch the anime haha.

I prefer Old School stuff, and songs that actually talk about things beyond glorifying the ghetto and all that crap. I'm not much of a fan for the stuff that was considered ground breaking for simply being inappropriate but I do love a lot of the humor in them. I mean really, who would do a song about butts and expect to be taken seriously? One major thing I enjoy about hip hop are the artists who make samples In House then create a mix beat that is more than the electronic version of a riff. I enjoy a lot of softer songs in general though that have more content in the complexity of the song itself rather than oversaturating with loud instruments and roughly delivered lyrics. (Not that I don't enjoy those things it's just that I don't feel like listening to heavy stuff all the time.) The Hip Hop culture does have an intelligent side that does not get a lot of publicity. Sure you might find an article but it certainly isn't going to have it's own TV Special in the States. I wish their could be more black groups who actually play real instruments though. It's disturbing how many of my so-called people flock to these OPPORTUNISTS and that's what I think of the popular scene all these new guys are opportunists taking advantage of a people who have a long history of destroying themselves. I've heard my fair share of stories about relatives/cousins/friends/ and acquaintances who decided to try and become rappers by selling their lyrics to these guys in hopes that they'll be the next new face. It's a pretty disgusting system in my opinion and I hope it dies with the current scene. The hip hop genre in general is capable of a very high level of versatility. You can do whatever the heck you want with it. Gorillaz is a good example though I don't know how anyone hear feels about them. The musical artist is pretty damn talented and they both even got commissioned to do the newest version of Journey To The West in China. This was a couple years ago so I really don't know what those two guys are doing now. A DJ from Japan who is now dead was quite impressive as well. NUJABES real name Jun Seba, he worked with rapper who goes by Shing02 who has lyrics more reminiscent to real poetry rather than the glorification crap. Their are actually quite a few artists who don't get a lot of publicity because they aren't surrounded by drama or funded by a major record label, but none the less, they are beyond simply good. The ones who actually play the physical instrument, record it's sound and use a keyboard or whatever synthesizing device and transfer it to create a mixed track. Then they go ahead and play the real instruments live, that really says something about down to Earth people who aren't simply milking the genre dry of 50 year old topics.

Ah yeah, I just looked over the copies that my brother has been collecting. After reading his other stuff NOiSE is best for intruducing people to his style and BLAM! is still his masterpiece work. Very fitting considering that it was indeed based off his debut piece of the same name.

Ah I didn't notice the Quad AC firing the Sniper Cannon in that vid. It's at 2:52, the cannon is extended while not in the prone position, Which I guess makes sense for Quads since that was the case in earlier games, they just can't fire while in flight. I can't tell if that's the case now though.

I love fighting snipers unless I have no idea where they came from, sneak up on em from the shadows then UNLEASH HELL! Of course I've never played any game long enough to call myself an expert but I do feel quite satisfied with knowing I did a good amount of damage. I usually go with a mid-range versatility build in every game I play so to a lesser extent I have everyone's weaknesses...OTL

You guys now about this guy? Blame!(Supposed to be BLAM! but yeah translations) NOiSE Biomega Abara Digimortal Knights of Cydonia Wolverine SNIKT! Breaking Quarantine He's also an architect and a big fan of the HALO video games. I first discovered his work when I came across his single volume manga called NOiSE. It mentioned how it was a prequel to BLAME! which sounded familiar to me and when I looked up BLAME! It felt like something I may have seen before. Anyways he is the first artist I started digging info on and started up my desire to learn more about the creators of many works in different mediums. People in general are either highly drawn to his work or find it mediocre. I've met some who have found his work completely appalling but I have yet to find a reason that was beyond their taste in art. As a fan of his work I admit the one thing no ones seems to bring up. He does not like drawing manga, he is not very patient and it is obvious by the evolution of his style. However considering how much work he puts into drawing massive structures and epic scenes who could blame him? It does seem he listens to criticism given the drastic change in style from his current international hit BIOMEGA to the one he is currently seralized with Knights of Cydonia. The style changed from increased realism down to a simplified typical anime appearance with less lines to confuse would be readers and more whites and blacks. I do feel the epitome of his real style so far can be seen with the last few volumes of Blame! and the general style of Biomega. I hope he goes back to it with the end of KoC. Though Like I said before he is not very patient and oh dear I talked to much. Anyways my brother is also a huge fan since I introduced him to his work and has been taking up a similar style. OTL SORRY FOR SO MUCH CHATTER

Ah you mean H.A.W.X. that confused me. I get confused easily... After spending some time with the game the faults have become more obvious. I love how DFM changes the dynamics of mutliplayer but I also see how players have learned to abuse it. It could use a little more refinement. The game in general has always been half near accurate flight sim and half arcade shooter. With Assault Horizon it feels even more like an arcade shooter that I grew up playing and a flight sim with the added sensitivity of the stick and rudder. The one thing I did want to see in an Ace game is something that they still seem to refuse to add. BLACK OUT!!!! If anything we should be forced to black out in multiplayer if we perform manuevers that are simply beyond superhuman. There could be points for how much stress your pilot can take before they black out as well. It would be as simple as forcing the Aim Assist off of mutliplayer for COD or BF or any FPS.

All frames can use cannons, I guess your referring to if they can move with the large sniper cannons. Though as far as I can tell there still is no video featuring a tank using the sniper cannon. I believe Noob or Niji stated that the tanks can in fact move while firing the weapon. As to whether the other frames can at least perform some sort of skid while firing the weapon is yet to be confirmed. It seems that the Quads have the single design most suited for accurate fire of the weapon due to the stabilizing spikes they deploy when in the firing position for the sniper cannon. I for one am still curious as to whether we can fire the cannon from a different position (albeit with a significant draw back). It would be quite fun to have the ability to push your frame over the edge and risk some serious damage to yourself in order to pull off a crazy manuever such as firing the sniper cannon at point blank. Well their are still the Overed Weapons, and I doubt we have scene the full extent of the variety of OW's we'll see in the game. We might even see an OW that bares a silhouette appearance to the trademark weapon of the AC. A high calibur cannon with impossible range and explosive damage potential the return of the Grenade Launcher in it's most destructive and toughest to use form yet. One can only dream haha. Now that would be awesome. A single weapon that will wipe out all opponents in it's path, I think that's what the capability for the OW's in general might be. And given how the AC's move in this game, I'd say it really is a lot like bringing out the Queen in a chess match. In a team vs team match the one carrying the OW is going to be one heck of a target. God I'm loving how much this game is turning to be a living chess match. That's why it seems so similar to Front Mission (not Evolved, the real Front Mission games) because it's got an appearance that blurts out obvious possibilities for real thinking players in a way that should be extremely approachable to new players while at the same time not sacrificing the potential near invincibility of the top tier players. AH SORRY I TALK TOO MUCH!!

So I've been doing a bit of digging before I hit the hay today. At first I was a little skeptical about the new design based on whether or not this was the closest to what a realistic mecha would look like. But given what I've come up with and my observation of the various designs, I have to say I'm quite impressed with how close they've gotten with designing this time around. They're starting to look more and more beautiful every time I look at them. Of course there certainly is still a good amount of flair here and there but not nearly as much as it was with the older games. It also makes sense that the AC's are being labeled as a lost technology because of how advanced the internal workings of the cores must be in order to have generators with such a high output and variability. Which makes me realize how much stress a frame must go through. Like in AC4-FA, screw the pilot blacking out their supposed to be upgraded super humans in a gel-capsule cockpit anyway. I wanna know how many hours of maintenance these things have to go through haha.

Ah I don't think anyone's going to be that good with the sniper cannon, it's got a pretty good drop and it will be hard to track the quicker AC's with it. Also staying in one position will not be recommended unless you've got a defensive post that is strong enough to defend itself. But having something like that happen would be pretty cool. I stated earlier how it would be bad ass if each AC was capable of carrying enough firepower to take out several opposing AC's which would also be dependent on the skill of the player and how comfortable they are with they're AC. I think the missiles move at a good pace, it's a matter of positioning yourself for the best angle of attack. Plus we haven't seen all the missiles, so I'm still hoping for some spreaders or something about or around 7 warheads capable of being shot at one sitting, from different angles then high velocity straight shooters.

Yeah, I was really worried because of those small problems that could turn into big ones. But if the game overall performs well and I can get my good shots in then I'll be fine. Nothing like dropping bodies with a few well placed shots.

It's gonna take way more than a mindless machine calmly telling me I'm in a scan mode to loose my temper . Namely whiny kids who scream hacker and noob everytime they die, though honestly I find the being called noob after killing someone rather humorous. Seriously though, I'd rather have the new scan mode system over the persistent radar considering how much I love to sneak around.

Food porn...I think I gained 10lbs just looking at this thread, I need to go running. http://www.firehousesubs.com/ ^ Certainly not to extravagant Not as healthy as Subway But I would say it's better than Quiznos I don't know if anyone said anything about it though. But yeah their subs are like BLAM!! Stock full of flavor.

Hey dudes! I've been playing BF since 1942. And I enjoyed how Bad Company was very console friendly even though I'm originally a PC gamer of the series. I've been playing BFBC2 and I found the MP way more fun that COD, with the fact that there is real Attrition on the battlefield and real teamwork as well. So I've been hearing and researching that BF3 has a feel closer to COD but it does have way more equipment that BFBC2. I heard the maps weren't as fun for the RUSH games but that overall it's superior to BFBC2. I'm planning on renting both BF3 and CODMD3 (just to play the story and get it done with), but yeah I was a little weary about BF3 trying to fit too much on consoles. So what I'm asking is if BF3 is still fun in the BF way more than it is trying to adopt COD. I'm pretty sure you guys already talked about this so if you did then I'll just dig through the thread.

I'd like to hear what Niji and Noob have to say about the UI since they are the only ones here that at least to my knowledge have actually been playing the game.

So, I rented the game for PS3 and noticed differences from XBOX. 1. I got used to the controls way quicker and the compaign was a lot easier for me though at the same time I felt that all the AI was somehow smarter so it definitly wasn't simply because I played through it already on the 360. 2.Online is way more hectic (WAY MORE PLAYERS) and I ran into a lot of pilots who were either insane good or found out ways to spam DFM on me. I researched some more info on it, it appears people advice using the default mode instead of classic. I'll have to try it when I finally buy a copy of the game. Playing a helicopter only deathmatch was freaking awesome, no one knew how to fly the damn thing except for me I completely murdered them haha. 3. I checked the leaderboard, apparently the top player in the game has a kill ratio of 200/1...Am I freaking seeing this right!? maybe it's also taking down AI opponents or something but damn that's some crazy ratio.

Yeah it did they just recalled it due to all the beta testers were apparently taking their final exams at the same time they were testing out the particle affects of the moonlight and karasawa weapons. Epileptic seizures were reported at alarming numbers and they had to push the game back for further development and promising free fixed copies of the game with artbook, headset etc etc as consolation or $100 dollars cash. (They felt giving them greenbacks would make them forget that US currency isn't worth 1000 times more than Yen. It kinda feels like that at this point the game has so much of what I wanted in the game in the first place I just want it to come out so I can actually get bored of it.

Well I do have a bad habit of being able to see small writing <has super tiny handwriting

I'd have to go back and watch Chaotic Century and New Century, quite frankly I enjoyed the chaotic century over new century, though Berserk Fuhrer is still my favorite zoid. New century had almost the same exact thing happen every episode, that did not appeal to me to well it felt more like a comedy overall. Plus I'll just go ahead and watch the newer series too though I was turned off by the whole BLOX thing they had going on. Like I said before I'd prefer the real Battle Stories turned into an anime over anything else. Or heck if someone racks up the budget and gets good people on it, I could dig a live action version.

Not worth preordering for you. As an original AC player, I am quite pleased with the path this game is taking. The QB doesn't look like the QB of AC4-FA, it reminds me more of the original standard boost of the PSX era. The invisible cieling is an example of sacrificing looks for gameplay. It might not look pretty, and it's gonna piss of aerial players (heck I like spending some time in the air too.) But the way I see it, this will help balance out fights between aerial frames and low ground heavies. One cannot simply start flying around willy nilly now you have to think about gaining altitude by staying close to a wall which does add some predictability to your movements. Meaning if you keep jumping on a wall and screw up then you better start doing something else. Care to explain what makes the UI ineffective? As far as I can tell it's kinda hard to see considering my laptop isn't exactly a large television screen. But it looks far from ineffective, I can tell what's going on, I can even read the numbers that only the person playing would be able to see. Or do you just don't like having permanent radar anymore? I did think a lot about Front Mission in general when looking at this game. Not because of Front Mission Evolved but more like the game has become a living chessboard where tactics and strategies can be clearly scene just be looking at the map. Last time I checked, piloting a highclass machine always comes with a digital voice informing you of mundane operations. Except this one is fairly important considering you cannot use weapons in scan mode. But something tells me people will still complain about losing with scan mode up even though they had the blue screen staring at them and even the voice telling them everytime they use it.

Immortals was hilarious, my brother is going to be pissed when we make him watch it. There wasn't that much slow mo at first which I thought was nice, but the slow mo scenes oh god were they overdone to hell. I tell you, one scene with zeus laying down some godly spanking was so retardedly funny even though it was supposed to be serious.

I know it's just that Armored Core is devoid of any actual film/show anything so it would be nice to see one once ya know. And I don't read fanfics, I have a real book to write

The series in general could be way better but to be honest, I think I'd prefer an Armored Core Anime in that style :/

I wish they'd just reboot the whole thing and make it about the original battle stories the Zoids models were built for. I recently checked out the wiki's in hopes of hunting down some parts and models. The war from the original toy line sounds pretty freaking bad ass. I'm talking whole squads of Liger Zeros and Berserk Fuhrers here.