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Of course Bandai would choose to localize a Gundam game on a dead system...
It's not like they didn't just announce one for the PS4.

I wouldn't count on it getting anything more than a digital only release that gets swept under the radar...

This is typical of the way Bandai treats Gundam in the West.

Anime games still get physical releases here in the US like Sword Art Online Lost Song, Dragon Ball Xenoverse, J-Stars Victory Vs+ and Dengeki Bunko: Fighting Climax. Mobile Suit Gundam: Extreme VS Force could get a physical release over in the west.

Except none of those were released for a dead system.

And I think the last DWG game being digital only in the West says it all about Vs Force's likelihood of a physical release.

Weirdly enough we actually got a physical release of Reborn over here.

Warriors games are apparently stupidly popular in Europe.

I've got this shit on preorder. A Gundam themed single player game with deep mechanics? Sign me up! Defintley gonna add it to my Vita library and put it to the front of the backlog for me to play. I'm gonna prove that I want this game and more in the future, as a Gundam-loving Vita owner.

About the dead system thing... yeah it is. But at the same time though, I've heard that for a lot of these super niche anime games, the PS4 and Vita sales numbers are near the same. It's not like the PS4 version is gonna sell 10 times as much as a Vita version. Again, just what I've heard.

Plus, I think if we could get Greg Miller and Colin Moriarty, two former IGN guys who have a Vita loving audience, to talk about the game a fair bit and give it a bump, the game is not completely doomed.

I would love it if they make a Gundam fighting game similar to the PS1 games again. I had fun renting those from Blockbuster as a kid.

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Finally finished my Try Burning Gundam.

So people are bombarding the shit out of Extreme VS Force reviews on Amazon Japan and giving the game a ton of 1 star reviews.The game came out today or yesterday so that's why. But I think I'm still unsure if that's due to it being a legitimately bad game, or people just sending the game's rating to hell due to it not being a proper EX Vs game.

If they just fucking announced Maxi Boost on PS4 already, none of this shit would be happening. Bandai wouldn't look like greedy Japan-centric idiots and the angst over Force getting a western release would lessen.

Haven't yet started on the long range booster yet but I have gone through the box and I'd thought I should mention this to anyone thinking about getting into the IBO line but haven't gotten the main gundam yet.... get this set and not the Gundam on it's own. The long range booster comes with the whole 1/144 Barbatos kit and the things you can do with the booster are really really cool. Think I'll keep mine linked with the Graze custom (I think its the best configuration out of all of them). The best thing to compare the booster too is the GN-Arms from Gundam OO with a nod to Gundam Seed's meteor.

I imported the first game for PS3 way back when. The base game is fine, but they're doing the same thing as Capcom releasing a new version of Street Fighter 4 every year so I can kinda see why people would get pissed over that.

Also the game is kinda meh, it's really nothing to get this worked up over...

I thinks a lot of it is fans wanting a good ORIGINAL idea for a Gundam game.

Yeah, Gundam Breaker kinda did that and it's a pretty fun game. But let's face it: most Gundam games are pretty meh.

Besides, most Gundam games can be played with little to no knowledge of the Japanese language, so I don't see what's stopping people here from just importing them when it comes out in Japan...

Not sure about PS4 but most older gen games are region locked

The PS3 isn't.

Ps4 isnt either sony is usually pretty good abot ghat.

Ps3 is odd. The games aren't but the consoles are.

I just watched a bunch of IBO episodes in a row since I forgot watching them in the last 3 weeks.

I did not expect the pilot of the Gusion to be this enourmous muscly blond dude who also has his kids use Auto-Vijana. Or for the grunt suits to be Gusion derivatives. It was interesting to see Akihiro's subplot and him moving up from a background character. Same with the one kid who has the sister who looks exactly like him.

So McGillis is plotting for a change in Gjallerhorn, and plans to use Tekkadan for his own ends. Interesting. Can't wait to see more McGillis vs Tekkadan action as a result and see if they will let him in. Also, se get to see the whole weird aristocracy Gjallerhorn has going on and the young girl that I presume McGillis is gonna get married to. Yuck. I can't beleive whoever comissioned this marriage didn't see anything wrong with it. She's so cute and innocent, what the fuck.



Honestly, with the pace the story is going, I kind of think we are gonna get a season 2 of IBO. The story is moving at a medium pace, and we're halfway through the show and nowhere near close to Earth.

Man I really wish we were getting that Gundam game on more than just Vita.

Recently built the RG Red Frame and love it!

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More images here if interested: http://imgur.com/a/XViph

Well, if this game sells well, we could Extreme VS on PS4 over here. And that is a much much more robust version of what the Vita game has to offer.

I am trying to save up for one of those along with other kits, but other stuff gets in the way.

First episode of Thunderbolt is up on GundamInfo! It seems to cover the first 2 or 3 chapters of the manga faithfully.

I just watched the episode too. It's a faithful adaptation and the animated and audio components make Thunderbolt even better. Especially the Jazz.

Although I didn't expect it to have such a quick pace. I read the manga kinda fast but this is going near the same pace I was reading it lol. I hope they slow down the story a bit more when we get to more of the character development chapters/bits. I just hope this quick pacing at the beginning is just to draw people in for the rest of the series.

I am kinda disappointed with the youtube video that Gundam Info gave us. Hearing it was the first Gundam show to be animated in 4K made me excited since I have a 4K laptop, but the youtube version only gives us a lousy 720p.

I hope Bandai restocks the HGs, since I looked up the FA-78 on amazon and it is out of stock and super expensive now (like $60).

I'm sure its something like they'd rather people pay to see the full resolution version rather than give it out for free on their channel. Which is perfectly fair.

I didn't mind the resolution. What bothered me was the fact that the subs were 1-2 seconds behind the dialauge.

Oh yeah, that bugged me. But I am not really sure if that is the youtube caption's fault or Bandai for badly timing it.

Also, the next episode comes out in Feburary.

Guys, hold your seats. The Gundam Unicorn novel series the OVAs originates from is getting an 11th installment early next year out of nowhere. After the novels ended around 2009, 2010, there's suddenly going to be a new volume.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...ly-2016/.96920

My main concern is that will an episode 8 for Unicorn be made due to this if this has any relevant story content. I mean, Episode 7 just left us hanging with that battle with the one ship. Maybe we can get an in series explanation of Full Frontal without having to look it up in the books/online?

Current State of my booster:

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Next to is my first Barbatos (I'm not build the included one) for size comparison.

Also thought I'd point this out: http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/i...226_002534.jpg

As you can see these are soild one piece versions of Barbatos's canon, so if you want functional moving canons you'll have to buy another op1 set which..... doesn't seem... that bad of an idea.....

It'll probably only end up adapted if it takes place before the end of Unicorn, as the show and novel have different endings.

Still, that's very interesting.

I just want my damn Full Frontal explanation/backstory.

Also, how do the Unicorn novels end?

Well wouldn't they have announced it at the same time as the Vita version if they had any intention of bringing it over? Look at how many Japanese games get a PS4/Vita dual release in the US. It just seems strange to me.

I'm gonna try to answer this in the best way that I understand it, but Japanese companies like Bandai still make no fucking sense to me even when I try to rationalize it.

Gundam Extreme VS' primary market is Japan. The way the series primarily works is that there is an Arcade game that is one version ahead of what is released on consoles (Ex: PS3 with Full boost now and Arcades with Maxi Boost). That's all well and good since Japan still has a lot of money coming in from arcades, and the developers try to please both the console and arcade players with exclusive suits/features, e.t.c. And they usually try to release the next iteration on console after the arcade version has upgraded to their next version, so there isn't an arcade drought like what happened when Full Boost PS3 came out before Maxi Boost Arcade. But they usually announce the console version is coming in the later half of the year before it comes out.

The problem is that there is no announcement for Maxi Boost on PS4 because this Vita game is in the way taking up the air. Or even if we know the game exists. I think Bandai is afraid of saying anything about an VS game on console next as it would take away from Force's sales. And if they announced Force localization alongside Maxi Boost PS4 announcement/localization, Force would have suffered. Why would anyone in the west want the Single Player Vita spin-off if they knew in the coming months the real VS game would come out?

Well, now that was an episode.
It worked really well for an emotional episode, never too dramatic but always full of heart.
Smooth Mika.

From what I gather after the Unicorn's newtype frame awakens it straight up gains sentience and chooses to leave.
Granted, second sources and all that, so do take it with a grain of salt.

I saw that episode today. Kudelia is so cute and awkward in a legitimate way and not the usual anime kind where they make the girl clumsy/incompetent. Made that scene a lot more interesting.

Also is interesting that despite finding an interest with Kudelia, I think Atra would be okay with this, after learning about the whole polygamy thing. If both Kudelia and Atra are down with this, Mika is gonna be fucking happy as hell by the end of the show, both literally and figuratively.

Huh. Interesting, sort of what happened in episode 7, kinda. Tacky as hell and convenient to keep the technology out of later installments but whatever.

So in the future We've stopped having funerals? Or is this another one of those "we're human debris, we don't matter" kind of things? Because the second idea makes sense, though I don't see how Mars can't have had a single funeral that the boys could have heard of.

Also, this is the most forward romantic Gundam I've seen, let alone Shounen anime. Did not expect that from Mika, nor the random make-out session during that meeting.

I don't know, about that, I would like to think Tekkadan doesn't know because they have never got the opportunity to go to a funeral.

And yeah, that make out scene was the most random thing I have seen in this show so far. Naze essentially saying "Well, someone died, let's fuck to make a new kid to replace him" just was out of place. Made sense for his character and the role of the scene but just... ew....




She just wants to see if that Alya-Vijana system enhances performance in areas outside of mobile suit combat. :D ;)

Wait, what? I'm not sure you fully understand what I'm asking. Extreme Vs Force just got announced as coming to the US for Vita, right? Well, why aren't they taking the Digimon Cyber Sleuth/Akiba's Trip/Toukiden Kiwami/Natural Doctrine/etc route and releasing it on PS4 as well as Vita? It seems like they'd make more money doing it that way.