(damn these torrents are killing my net/speed , sorry about that)

Yeah, I've actually only gotten 5 of the balls and I'm kind of stuck. The music is definitely one of the best aspects here. Pretty nostalgic I'd say.

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You're probably thinking of Mode 7, because two of those games didn't use any expansion chips. (I don't think SoM did, anyway...)

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Ah, yep that's the right term. Yeah when those graphics came up it looked like someone stuck their hand in the screen and broke the game into puzzle pieces! (don't ask)

Shadic: When you say NES2, do you mean the top loading ones? I always wanted one of those, but they're pretty dang expensive. I guess the quality is why though.

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I used zips back in the day, but rars have made my life complete.

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Plot Summary: In their closed-off underground village, Kamina and Simon chafe at the limits imposed by the village elder. Yet all this will change, when Simon stumbles across a fantastic device - just as the village's peace is broken by a violent intrusion.

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From ANN. Sums up about the first episode and hardly does the series true justice!

Genre: Everything, with a big emphasis on insane/stylish mecha action. Ecchi, comedy, serious, romance, drama, everything is there. One can probably argue it's laid out a lot like a regular shounen - except the catch is, it's 27 episodes and it's complete. Basically, it has balls and doesn't bring characters back to life or anything of that sort and nothing is held back when it comes to the plot at all, it's extremely fast paced and I'm in the firm belief it's one of the best paced anime's I have ever seen, it was just perfect. It's also insanely unpredictable, I mean you think you know what's going to happen next and how the rest of the series is going to play out ... forget about it, it's just absolutely insane. Very refreshing. Those who have seen it can probably agree with me ... you just can't even begin to explain it when one brings up the epic factor.



Essentially, probably the most epic anime I have ever seen and I'm thinking I could hail it as my top favorite.


Discuss.

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Boobs?

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Disgaea games are hilariously pointless, but endlessly fun. For that reason I can definitely see myself picking this one up (plus I've never played the original, just the second one. Most seem to say the first had a more interesting plot from what I hear).

Potentially not having voices would suck, but oh well.

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Disgaea games are hilariously pointless, but endlessly fun. For that reason I can definitely see myself picking this one up (plus I've never played the original, just the second one. Most seem to say the first had a more interesting plot from what I hear).

Potentially not having voices would suck, but oh well.

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What, exactly, defines a game as "pointless"? You'd think all would.

Uh, in any case, not having voices would pretty much ruin Disgaea. I'm not one for voice acting, but most of the humor comes from the life the characters gain from it.

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Well it's hard to explain my feelings for this series. I played the second one for only about 60 hours or so and it seemed like I barely scratched the surface of the game, though at the same time the game just felt completely endless. Like there was no end to levels, enemies, numbers, in sight. In traditional JRPG's or whatever I've always been kind of a completionist, maxing out characters, getting all the best weapons and whatnot, but with this series that just seems nearly impossible. So it just doesn't really give me a lot of "satisfaction".

But for what it was worth and what I played, it was fun. It just seems like this kind of game will be perfect for the DS, something you can quickly get into and just have fun with while not having to take it too seriously.

It is almost 5:00 AM, so I hope that makes some sense.
(yay insomnia)


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Eh, this sucks, since I was considering switching to them and all.

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I hate the decoloring wear issue or whatever you wanna call it. Both my SNES and Dreamcast are pretty much brown now.

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lawls, care to explain what happened in the episode?

It's a decent show in my opinion. Something that, if it's on, hey why not? But it's not something I ever look forward to or anything like that. I'd say the 2-part Wii episodes were some of the best.

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After ignoring anime for the last few years, I'm currently insanely obsessed. All within the last month or two, I've finished Gurren Lagann, Code Geass (easily one of my favorites), Texhnolyze, Ergo Proxy, Gunbuster, Diebuster, Elfen Lied, Black Lagoon (both seasons), Full Metal Panic!, Full Metal Panic Fumoffu ... feel free to talk about any of these if you want.

Just finished:
Baccano!

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Baccano is Italian for noise, but Narita translates it as "stupid commotion." Each of the stories in the series involves several unrelated plots intersecting and crossing each other as events spiral farther and farther out of control. Immortal alchemists, mafia operated speakeasies, and many other elements of pulp fiction mashed together for a world straight out of the movies.

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From ANN.

It owns. Great action (pretty brutal and violent at times), downright HILARIOUS comedy at times (one scene had me in tears from laughing), mystery, alchemy, etc. It was very fresh and extremely interesting how it was pulled off in a Pulp Fiction-esque manner, switching between ~20 some main characters and various events stretched out across different years that all came together in the end ... in just 13 episodes!

Let me just post the opening, because it's awesome:
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Currently, I have just started up Darker Than Black (wow the production value is insane! Some of the best CG I've ever seen in an anime), Toward The Terra, and some other random stuff. I plan to finish Monster someday in my life and pickup both Death Note and Berserk eventually.

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I can't really stand comedy central as a whole anymore. Ever since I graduated high school, I started watching G4 and discovery channel, and haven't looked back.

South Park used to be good (when I was like 14), but it's just one of those shows that should've ended 10 seasons ago, like the Simpsons.

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Yikes ... G4?

But yeah, Comedy Central isn't that great at all, the only worthwhile and obvious shows I really enjoy on it are the Daily Show and Colbert Report.

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Originally posted by Joe

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On the topic of actually watching animé, I have one thing to say:
涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱。見て。

Guess what that translates to.

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Ha-ru-hi... eh, I don't know Japanese.

Other than the whole Pokemon/Yu-Gi-Oh!/Digimon/DBZ-style stuff that I grew up watching, the first anime I saw was Evangelion a couple years ago, which was good. In the past few months I've been watching more, such as Claymore, .hack//sign, Rozen Maiden (that was a trip), Death Note, and most recently Higurashi. I've also watched a few Miyazaki films, End of Evangelion (ehh), Rebuild of Evangelion, and an older dub of Akira.

I watched all of Elfen Lied yesterday, but didn't really care for it. Next on the list? Haruhi and Serial Experiments Lain, probably.

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Out of all the anime I've listed above, Elfen Lied is easily my least favorite. I really don't understand the hype behind that one at all, I couldn't bring myself to care for any of the characters besides Nana really. I hated the fact that it felt like a confused plot that was trying to be two anime's in one, some horrible love triangle with some horrible violence on the other side. I didn't mind the blood or gore at all, but with cute loli-esque character designs like the series had, it just felt out of place. On a final note, I had to edit that anime in the list above because I seem to already forget about it.

Anyways, I'm not a huge fan of Lain myself since it's pretty slow, but it's definitely popular. If you like that and enjoy dark/depressing stuff, I'd recommend Texhnolyze, which was made by the same people who did Lain. It offers much more action, maybe violence too, and in the end was a very awesome anime, as tragic as it turns out to be.

As for now, I'm about to finish Terra e... or "Toward The Terra". Let me just simply say, it's one of the most emotional/powerful anime's I've ever seen. They've got some episodes up at youtube if you want to check them out. Episode 1 - Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

Out of the ones you mentioned, Claymore sounds really awesome. I plan on watching that sometime and picking up Death Note again (was keeping up with it when it was new, but kind of forgot about it and just stopped watching. I prefer watching anime in bulk when it's all released I guess).

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Just finished Toward The Terra.

*tears* Talk about epic.

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Ditto.

PIERCE THE HEAVENS

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episode 8.

'nuff said.

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Episode 11.
Then 15.
And 26/27.

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Yeah, 15 is definitely epic too.

I watched 8 again recently. It's even more powerful than the first time.

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This is why I hate having 56K. All my BTs seem to fail on me. :\

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God I don't know how you 56kers live.
(I had not just dial up back in the day, but AOL! ... yikes)

I finished Full Metal Panic The Second Raid last night. Was pretty awesome, much more serious and intense than the first series and actually had more violence/blood. Nice, sadly still doesn't cover all of the novels so the series doesn't officialy end. I need more!

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So I'm (about to) finish Death Note, after just starting it two days ago.



I think it's great but could've been better. It started off so incredibly well, but I think it loses its touch a bit around like episode 12 or so.

When Light gives the Death Note back and teams up with L in a sense for awhile, it was still cool but I thought it was far more interesting when it was Light vs L like the beginning. And I think they could've made Misa more interesting. All in all, the L arc was definitely fun. After that I don't think it's as bad as some people say, but it's definitely not as good. Near and Mello aren't nearly as interesting. Now I'm just waiting to see Kira take over the world or something.

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Death Note was pretty awesome. Overall a great series and had me hooked. It's made me want to pickup Monster again and finally watch it.

Light > L also ...

I didn't think the 2nd story arc was as bad as some made it out to be, but it certainly wasn't as good as the L arc. Like I said above, Near and Mello were definitely not that interesting to me at all, especially Near. On one hand, I can see the ending as an utmost tragedy and pretty well done, on the other I was honestly hoping for Light/Kira to win in someway and basically become the God of the world. But, that probably would've been pretty dark and stretching it a bit I guess.

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