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Winter of Anime 2013 |OT -6| How much lower can we go?!
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Really? I found the animation in this episode to be much better than in the last. There may have been some kinda off shots, but I didn't find them to be very pervasive or badly done.
I find that something Kyoani does a lot on "cheap" scenes is having the whole body of the character sort of bounce in a loop of two or three frames while they talk, instead of just making the mouthflap. I can't say it's much of an improvement, and that sort of thing was very present in episode 7, but this time I thought the acting was more realized for the most part. I liked the part where Choi is looking at herself on the water, when they go to school, for an example.
Yeah, the angles and scene composition were very elaborated, maybe a bit overkill (for some people, I love it). The episode was very Takemoto in that regard, he likes emphasizing the depth of the screen to some degree in his layouts.
That high angle shot really tickled my fancy because the animation for that part was very lively and well-made, particularly the grandpa walking. I don't know why he used that perspective though, I get that he was able to show the whole space in a static shot like that, but were we supposed to focus on the table, or something that could only be seen from that angle? Or was it implying something else? Maybe someone better at getting this stuff like Jexhius could answer me this one.
as for the podcast - Robert has some truth, but he misses the point of the on why Bandai failed in the main market place. Aniplex has the backing, has the tech, and has the product. They werent born stupid. Bandai was and still is too much connected to Saban's boys to even care. This Star Blazers mountain isnt totally true, explain Haim Saban and Al Kahn? Robert is doing a disservice here.
https://twitter.com/KazHiraiCEO/status/306757344770019328
Still the best parody twitter account out there.
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Dude, it has the guy from Ape Escape! You can't beat that.
still waiting on crash bandicoot.
Does it have Solid Snake?
Oh boy, I sure can't wait for all those Net Yaroze game characters I had minutes of fun with on those bundled Magazine demo discs!
When I think of "Playstation All-Stars" I think of Colonel Radec from Killzone, Emmett Graves from Starhawk, and Zeus.
You're thinking of Super Smash Brothers Brawl. Don't worry though, Sony has you covered.
Chet Rippo
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Is this for real? Does the game really have Raiden but not Snake?
Kind of hilarious that as big as MGS is on Playstation it was nintendo that got Snake into their game. That was probably one of the stipulations of putting him in there that he couldnt be used elsewhere in a similar fashion. Of course Im just speculating.
The sad thing about that game isl ike you said, nobody knows or cares who those characters are. they arent beloved exclusive mainstays or hugely recognizeable characters. Thats where Nintendo, no matter what kind of shitty tech they have, has a leg up on the others. You know who Kirby is. who Mario is. They have identities. They have a history of great games to remember and generations of followers.
none of this has anything to do with anime lol.
Well, from what I remember of episode 7, the animation did a pretty good job of staying on-model but it was pretty boring overall. I think this episode had more interesting animation than 7, but there were a lot of weird moments that took me out of the show like some weird shots of Tamako and the looping baton-and-Dera animation (I also noticed the CG crowd but I thought it was a nice touch, lol).
Choi looking at herself in the water was definitely a nice scene. I think that was the scene that best conveyed to me a feeling of, "I want to look nice in this new environment and situation." It was a nice touch of character development that I really appreciate.
Lol, yeah, I got the feeling that the angles were a Takemoto's thing. The perspectives used were definitely a lot different than anything else in the series so far, in my opinion. As for the high-angle shot, I can only speak on how I felt watching the scene, but it was a scene that had me going, "Aha, I see why that happened!" later on. When I was watching the scene, I definitely thought it was lively because Anko had a lot of expression in it. I noticed the grandpa rising out of his seat and leaving, but I didn't really think much of it. To me, it was a nice way of showing the grandpa leaving without putting too much focus on it.
Ninty in the end is screwed because all the hardware bs they pulled. Its a sorry sight.
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are you drunk novid
Chet Rippo
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Yes, I guess so they could tie in with MGR.
no im listing to the ANN podcast
Well they fucked up next gen in a way but don't count them out quite yet.
There is a loyal fanbase that keeps them alive even in bad times but they wont be a juggernaut like last gen. Probably third place again.
All of them are done.
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Then you should be drunk. I don't know how anyone could listen to the ANNcast sober.
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Video games were dead before it was cool to claim they were dead.
I agree!
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Which is more dead: anime or video games?
ANNCast Bro-takon 2/22/2013
Somehow even in the expanse of bad podcasts I have listened to over the years this one stood out as being particularly bad. The hosts invited some guys from Otakon, which, wow, must be relevant to an infinitesimal section of the audience. Questions are occasionally thrown at them about what their lineup looks like, but they are unable to talk about or announce anything. The podcast quickly devolves into exchanges over the disbelief that anime conventions have been around for twenty years.
Typically I will fall asleep while listening to podcasts, but this was so boring it wound up being aggravating. I ultimately settled for silence.
Somehow even in the expanse of bad podcasts I have listened to over the years this one stood out as being particularly bad. The hosts invited some guys from Otakon, which, wow, must be relevant to an infinitesimal section of the audience. Questions are occasionally thrown at them about what their lineup looks like, but they are unable to talk about or announce anything. The podcast quickly devolves into exchanges over the disbelief that anime conventions have been around for twenty years.
Typically I will fall asleep while listening to podcasts, but this was so boring it wound up being aggravating. I ultimately settled for silence.
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How can you kill that which was never alive?
yea
Videogames aren't dead. The outmoded home console model is what's next to the execution chamber.
Hey it was alive and well in the 70s/80s!
I don't think home consoles are outmoded. They're just making the wrong ones with the wrong games right now.
I believe in Metroid Dread.
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Mobile-only future for video games is about as disheartening as CGI-only future for anime.
Nobody really ever cared about Metroid.
Why are we talking video games in here again?
This coming from the guy who thinks Objective-C is responsible for the iOS look and feel. lol
I'm also not sure where you got the idea that I cared about PS4 RAM but you go on ahead and play your little game.
Anime podcasts never stay long on my phone. All of them are too boring. Same goes for those US magazines. Kicking myself in the past for the money I wasted on Newtype USA, Animerica and Otaku USA.
FPS were good. But they have changed everything, from what a game should be to how "artistic" it should look like. When you have a top heavy genre dictacte everything in a industry you going to have massive dislocations. Thats why THQ is dead.
I said ObjC/Cocoa. It's like grouping C# and .NET together.
What's so great about GDDR5 anyways?
I thought uDraw was why THQ is dead.
a new form of ram that has less bottle necks.
All I wanted was for them to talk about anime or really anything that could even mistakenly be interpreted as interesting. It felt particularly offputting after listening to Anime World Order do a really fantastic interview with Michael McConnohie and Melodee Spevack.
uDraw was the straw that broke the camels back. They were fucked either way but that disaster merely sped up the process.
looks like old form its on these gpus from newegg
More WH40K games would have saved THQ!!
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You say this, but I don't see iNiS working on Ouendan 3!
The problem is the same with the TV industry now. Nobody wants to write for TV any more unless they have A Seth MacFarlaine deal - and it sort of the same with video games - they aint writing unless they get production credits and money. Thats why the US TV ratings outside of The Following has been so fucked up. 0.9 in NBC's Do No Harm, to 1.8 for CBS's new show. Now the executives want more pilots based on Book series - because thats the only way you going to get some type of audiance.
Writing for video games seems like the sort of thing one wouldn't want listed in their body of work.
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