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Let's Play Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story 0079 Rise from the Ashes Published on August 26, 1999 for the Sega Dreamcast, Rise from the Incredibly Long Title is a surprisingly good simulator and definitely ranks in the top two of all the games I've owned for the Sega Dreamcast*. Sadly, I can't decide whether this or Powerstone is better, but this is infinitely more LP-able so this is the LP you'll get! Joining me in the full commentary version will be the omnipresent and omni-talented coolguy as well as the effervescent ghost of TheLastRoboKy Set in the mythical land of Australia in the wake of the Duchy of Zeon dropping a giant space hotel on TheLastRoboKy's house, Rise from the Ashes is a game about war and definitely isn't just 008th MS Team with the serial numbers filed off and the love story tossed in the dumpster where it belonged. We play the White Dingo Mobile Suit Team, and as such we are in in direct competition with Blue Swan, Red Opossum, Yellow Quokka, and Green Echidna as we strive to reassemble the pieces of the silver monkey and make our way past the temple guardians to please the ancient talking head, Olmec. Cast and Characters This game actually has a cast!  Fang-1 - Master Pierce RayerThe player insert and all around GM Ace, Pierce Rayer is a faceless mute in game. Also appearing as a surprisingly capable non-Newtype pilot in the strategy game Ghiren's Greed, Pierce Rayer becomes almost single-handedly responsible for driving the Duchy of Zeon back onto their space boats and sending them back to Africa.  Fang-2 - Leung Lee-FaiIs totally definitely not a spy, honest! Fortunately, he's a spy for Federal Intelligence, sent to Australia to keep his eyes on a very specific bunch of McGuffins that we really don't want the Duchy of Zeon to have. Don't worry though, it won't take us that long to find all of the Cyber Planet Keys and stop the Duchy of Zeon from restoring  Fang-3 - Steve BlumSteven Jay Blum is an American voice actor of anime, animation and video games known for his distinctive deep voice. He provides the voice of TOM, the host of Cartoon Network and Adult Swim's Toonami programming block. For some reason the game keeps calling him Mike.  Oasis - Anita JulianneAnita drives the Type-74 hovertruck made famous by the whiny crybaby and the guy named after a Lord of the Rings Elf from 008th Mobile Suit Team. As such, she is our radar and is invaluable to finding and killing the last Zaku that's gotten its stupid rear end stuck in a hole somewhere on the map. As she is not a mobile suit pilot, Anita didn't get a stat card in Ghiren's Greed but does turn up in a couple of that game's cutscenes. She and Pierce Rayer get married after the war, and then get killed by Camille Bidan in Zeta Gundam. CAMILLE IS A MAN'S NAME!  Bob RockBob is the White Dingo Team's mechanic. He tells us what our guns do and makes sure we get new mobile suits when I inevitably get my GM's head blown off in Episode 8. He has the best name.   OlmecGives us our briefings before every sortie.  Visch "Wild Thunder" DonahueTotally not Norris with an Eyepatch What are you Talking About, and definitely not Char Aznable, Visch Donahue is the only Zeon ace stupid enough to get posted to Australia. He leads the local training battalion and his troops like him. He's about as trustworthy as a pile of free birdseed and he's definitely a baddie. His personal "I'm trying to one up Char Aznable" ace logo looks like this:  Two lightning bolts and a skull. Classy SS reference you Nazi cyclops gently caress.            *Games I've owned for the Sega Dreamcast: - Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story 0079 Rise from the Ashes - Powerstone PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Aug 20, 2018 |
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Let's Play Mobile Suit Gundam Side Story 0079 Rise from the Ashes Mobile Suit of the Week: Type-74 Hovertruck  Perhaps the single most deadly unit of the One Year War, the Type-74 is a truck that can loving fly. It's also capable of shooting sound waves through the ground, causing tsunamis, earthquakes, and most deadly of all: granting radar to a video game player character. The demonic Type-74 is spoken of only in terrified whispers even among the soldiers of the Earth Federal Forces, while the Duchy of Zeon have dubbed them the Dämon LKW
PoptartsNinja fucked around with this message at 03:03 on Apr 14, 2018 |
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Apr 14, 2018 02:49
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AAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHAHHAAHHAA
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Apr 14, 2018 02:53
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RIP RoboKy's house.
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Apr 14, 2018 03:21
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First thing I noticed- oh hey, they actually knew where the Australian capital was. RIP Canberra, you were always trash. EDIT- And at least Xarbala knows that Radelaide exists- https://thundergodxarbala.deviantart.com/art/BT-Adelaide-355555046 Why are giant robots always invading Australia Paingod556 fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Apr 14, 2018 |
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Apr 14, 2018 03:25
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Paingod556 posted:Why are giant robots always invading Australia
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Apr 14, 2018 04:22
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Speaking of voice actors being secret Zeon sympathizers, I'm pretty sure your other squadmate's VA is the same guy who does Ramba Ral in MSG Origin. I'm beginning to think that we're among a flock of wolves here given that your squadmates may or may not be two of Zeon's greatest aces 
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Apr 14, 2018 05:13
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For the record, here's one of the clips where Steve Blum talks about figuring out he was typecast as Spike Spiegel and shows off his Guilmon voice to counter it. Dude has phenomenal range.
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Apr 14, 2018 07:11
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Steve Blum is a national treasure.
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Apr 14, 2018 18:17
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I AM MAD. MAD ABOUT ZEON.
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Apr 15, 2018 01:20
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I'm sorry about your house.
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Apr 15, 2018 01:29
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TheLastRoboKy posted:I AM MAD. MAD ABOUT ZEON. As well you should be, they are bad chaps.
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Apr 15, 2018 02:05
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PoptartsNinja posted:Mobile Suit of the Week: Type-74 Hovertruck I remember gifs of this truck that you posted which both confirmed this and which were pretty hilarious. I don't remember what show they were from though. This saddens me almost as much as the loss of Roboky's house.
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EponymousMrYar posted:I remember gifs of this truck that you posted which both confirmed this and which were pretty hilarious. I don't remember what show they were from though. This saddens me almost as much as the loss of Roboky's house. That was the slightly different but essentially identical Space Truck from Gundam AGE!   It's a different vehicle entirely, you can tell because it looks almost exactly the same. Gundam Age was such a great show with so many new and original ideas.  Edit: It was also hilarious after the budget ran out. 
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Apr 15, 2018 02:30
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TheLastRoboKy posted:I AM MAD. MAD ABOUT ZEON. Well given all of the Zeon apologists both in the UC and in reality someone has to be!
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i am still preening about being able to identify blum when both of these guys couldn't btw my hearing is the best
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PoptartsNinja posted:Gundam AGE gifs Also, hi Kirk Thornton! Don't think I didn't notice you in there.
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PoptartsNinja posted:That was the slightly different but essentially identical Space Truck from Gundam AGE! HINOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! 
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Oh, cool. Poked at this game some, but never really played it. Nice to be in on the ground floor. Have built some of the model kits, though. Not many playable mobile suits, but it does have single coolest design of the entire One Year War. They actually released a Master Grade of it. It's a ways off, though.
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Apr 15, 2018 06:51
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Dr. Snark posted:Well given all of the Zeon apologists both in the UC and in reality someone has to be! Not even Thunderbolt could make me feel anything but disdain for Zeon, and that starts out as a show about a dude that likes jazz bullying Zeon cripples. Coolguye posted:i am still preening about being able to identify blum when both of these guys couldn't btw I can only express my passive aggressiveness towards your preening through various vaguely related Gundam series images 
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TheLastRoboKy posted:Not even Thunderbolt could make me feel anything but disdain for Zeon, and that starts out as a show about a dude that likes jazz bullying Zeon cripples. Well, to be fair, the cool jazz rear end in a top hat did used to live in the colony Zeon had everyone exterminated to use as a sniper's nest to kill his friends. Honestly, I'm capable of feeling sympathetic to Zeon, if by that you mean one of the following: 1) The anti-Zabi faction in The Plot to Assassinate Gihren. (They had a guy say Sieg Zeon in a context where I was actually cheering for him! I didn't believe it could happen either!) 2) Ramble Ral. Ral's a good guy.
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chiasaur11 posted:Well, to be fair, the cool jazz rear end in a top hat did used to live in the colony Zeon had everyone exterminated to use as a sniper's nest to kill his friends. I'll add on a #3: Bernie "Hamburger" Wiseman, who probably wins the award for "Nicest Guy In Zeon." Granted that's not exactly a difficult feat to achieve all things considered...
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Dr. Snark posted:I'll add on a #3: Bernie "Hamburger" Wiseman, who probably wins the award for "Nicest Guy In Zeon." Oh, right. Cyclops team. I'd say Hardy was decent enough too, considering how things went in the end. Which, of course, got him stabbed in the back, because Zeon is a bag of dicks.
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AradoBalanga posted:You can't post stuff like that without posting the best one, where the movie (aka, the one with a decentish budget) thought a beam saber was a solid object when it gets cut in half. I don't remember where I put that one, so have this one instead since it's equally fuckin' stupid. 
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Boy am I glad I didn't watch AGE. I think that beam saber levitating out of his hand and planting itself like a solid sword would have made me scream.
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Materant posted:Boy am I glad I didn't watch AGE. I think that beam saber levitating out of his hand and planting itself like a solid sword would have made me scream. AGE is bad in that stupid sort of way that makes it kinda fun to watch (once). For example, the 13 year-old 3rd main character's father (the 2nd main character) goes into space as the 3mc is being born and just sorta vanishes without a trace one day, leaving the newborn 3mc (and the 2mc's wife) to fend for themselves. Turned out he just had a midlife crisis and decided to become a space pirate, ghosting his whole family in the process. He could have called since he wasn't actually opposing the world government or anything, he just didn't loving bother because he got himself a sweet chair with a skull on it and an eyepatch. For thirteen years.
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PoptartsNinja posted:AGE is bad in that stupid sort of way that makes it kinda fun to watch (once). Akihiro Hino is not a good writer...
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nine-gear crow posted:Akihiro Hino is not a good writer... Which is a pity because Level 5 actually does have good writers on tap. Danball Senki, especially the first season, is basically a parallel universe Gundam show and it's actually good.
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nine-gear crow posted:Akihiro Hino is not a good writer... Fortunately, all of the good ideas from AGE got reused for Iron Blooded Orphans.
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nine-gear crow posted:For the record, here's one of the clips where Steve Blum talks about figuring out he was typecast as Spike Spiegel and shows off his Guilmon voice to counter it. Dude has phenomenal range. There was an interview with him I remember where he said he'd go into the recording booth on the first day of a new project. He'd have spent ages working on a voice for the character, he'd give the first take his all and at the end think boom, nailed it. And then the directors in the recording booth would come back and say 'yup, that was great, Steve, but can you do it just a biiiiiit more like Spike Spiegel?' Omnicrom posted:Which is a pity because Level 5 actually does have good writers on tap. Danball Senki, especially the first season, is basically a parallel universe Gundam show and it's actually good. Huh, suddenly interested in this. I thought it was just another merch-driven series.
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PoptartsNinja posted:Fortunately, all of the good ideas from AGE got reused for Iron Blooded Orphans. Well, not the hundred year war thing, which could be cool in a better show. But yeah. IBO is good. Interesting thing, though, is that it was in the preliminary stages just after 00. It just got delayed.
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TheLastRoboKy posted:I can only express my passive aggressiveness towards your preening through various vaguely related Gundam series images there's an eternal supply of those and i wouldn't have it any other way
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I'll just say this about Gundam AGE. It is the only Gundam series that I can recall where Gunpla kits were either shelved and never released, or outright canceled. That should give you an idea of how bad things got; the model kit division, aka the big workhorse department of Bandai Namco, had to axe their own products because they were tied to an unpopular show. But that's what you get when you turn what was to be an original Gundam game into a TV series and not ask the game devs if they could handle the jump from game to TV series.
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Which is honestly a shame. The AGE Model Kits were fantastic and a lot of their grunt suits really pushed the envelope of flexibility. Plus, some of their designs were amaz--  --pretty goo--  --passa--  --Somewhat Oka--  ... ... ... ... ...  
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Man am I glad I stopped watching after SEED Destiny at times. Which is probably something I've brought up in some other thread when the topic of Gundam has come up, but whatever.
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Cooked Auto posted:Man am I glad I stopped watching after SEED Destiny at times. You missed out on some good stuff, to be honest. The Origin manga is a great adaptation of the original Gundam, Stargazer is the best SEED gets, Build Fighters has, well, good fights and fun in-jokes, Thunderbolt combines nihilistic high octane action with jazz, and if you want something a bit longer, Iron Blooded Orphans is good. Gets grim, though.
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TheLastRoboKy posted:I AM MAD. MAD ABOUT ZEON. I'm not saying you should forgive Zeon, but they have some cool mobile suits, and on a more relevant note they weren't aiming for Australia, the Feddies kind of stopped it short by an ocean. Zeon was aiming for Brazil if I'm not mistaken. Still dropped a colony, so that's fair.
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SS-Kumei posted:I'm not saying you should forgive Zeon, but they have some cool mobile suits, and on a more relevant note they weren't aiming for Australia, the Feddies kind of stopped it short by an ocean. Zeon was aiming for Brazil if I'm not mistaken. Still dropped a colony, so that's fair. Don't think I don't have a Gundam series image for this too.  The only good Zeek, is a Zeek that never crawls out of its stinking Side.
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Zeon are a bunch of murderous lunatics, it's just that in a series about how war is a lovely thing even if it's necessary it's going to show off that the Feddies aren't at all perfect and then lust for sweet mobile suits and uniforms will cause 'Oh, well, I guess Zeon was secretly The Good Guy'.
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TheLastRoboKy posted:Don't think I don't have a Gundam series image for this too. Good Zeeks: Captain Steiner Hardy Private Bernard Wiseman Senator Leopold Fieseler Lt. Ramble Ral Lt. Col. Lance Garfield. Edge Case: Commander Cima Garahau Prime Minister Darcia Bakharov You will notice that, contrary to common assessments, the overlap between Good Zeeks and Dead Zeeks is not, in fact, 1:1. However, the ratio is admittedly close enough that the statement is reasonable in a non-scientific context.
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