On September 05 2014 04:39 MoonBear wrote: That scene was so good in Unicorn. But the Japanese version is way better.
There's a comment in the youtube vid I wholeheartedly agree with, and it's about how the 3rd enemy actually looks competent for awhile. It makes these scenes so much better when it doesn't need to be against a major villain for the guy not to be a helpless stormtrooper. Why did that thrust not do anything to the heroine's robot it hit at the end though?
On September 05 2014 04:57 Parnage wrote: Sitting here reading all of this Gundam talk and I'm just like.. Battletech or bust bitches.
LoGH, ffs. For Ketara too, if he likes ddown to earth shows about war and societies.
On September 05 2014 04:39 MoonBear wrote: That scene was so good in Unicorn. But the Japanese version is way better.
There's a comment in the youtube vid I wholeheartedly agree with, and it's about how the 3rd enemy actually looks competent for awhile. It makes these scenes so much better when it doesn't need to be against a major villain for the guy not to be a helpless stormtrooper. Why did that thrust not do anything to the heroine's robot it hit at the end though?
On September 05 2014 04:15 Sufficiency wrote: This conversation is comparable to the MBS in SC2 vs BW, except the early UC (esp 1979) was not remotely comparable to BW in terms of successfulness.
I'm sorry but this made me laugh so much
The point of an analogy is to make the argument easier to understand by bringing up a similar argument. (Which also never happens, because once you propose an analogy the original argument gets lost as people get caught up in debating the legitimacy of the analogy and offering even more analogies.)
Compared to your run-of-the-mill average enemy he doesn't just shoot a rifle that bounces on the invincible mecha's plated armour then die to the first shot/swing aimed his way, he's already like top 10 in terms of performances.
On September 05 2014 05:57 Alaric wrote: Why did that thrust not do anything to the heroine's robot it hit at the end though?
I think this part could have been animated better.
When the Jegan moves in for the kill like that, it only uses the one thruster. You'll note its not positioned so that it can use its leg thrusters to move forwards. Marida opens up the wing binders on the Kshatriya and leans backwards so that she can use all of her thruster power to back away from it and keep the same momentum. The Kshatriya can do this because it has more thruster power than a Jegan and the wing binders, so it can position all of its thrusters to fire in the same direction. They're both moving through space at the same speed and the Jegan can never hit her.
The blast of fuel from the thrusters also momentarily blinds the pilot (he was trying to do the same thing to her by putting the sun at his back but she's a newtype and she doesn't need her eyes to know where he is), and then she counterattacks and gets him.
Basically, the Jegan pilot was an Earthnoid and thinking in two dimensions, and Marida was thinking in three dimensions.