Woolie: "This guy is called ! LOOK HOW COOL THAT IS! BOOM! Isn't that fucking hype?" Pat and Liam: "Yeah, it's alright." Woolie: "Okay, well, look how sick THIS guy is!" Pat and Liam: "Yeah, I wish it wasn't SD." Woolie: "I mean, yeah...oh, well look who it is! Tell me that's not fucking rad!" Pat and Liam: "Oh man, it just showed the grid map. That looks awful. And the more I watch this the more I hate the SD models." Woolie: "Oh shit, it's Gurren! GIGA DRILL BREEAAKEERR!" Pat: "You sound like an asshole." Liam: "Yeah, they made their bargain version of it." It's okay, Woolie. I certainly went nuts along with you watching this!
JM3D Yeah this video might have made Woolie my favorite out of them, and rocket Pat and Liam to shit tier. Well I mean they were already shit tier but still.
The SD style is actually super important as it puts everything on the same scale. Otherwise you have 200m tall Gunbuster basically stepping on enemies of another series that are a fraction of it's size. The Masou Kishin series, which is a bit of a spin-off, features mechs that are properly scaled since they are all original.
The style in general has been shifting more and more away from SD in recent years anyway. They just stop caring about scale and make Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann have a somewhat bigger sprite than the Hi-Nu Gundam despite the canonical size difference because fuck it, people aren't here for accuracy they're here for cool robots
Day 3. In spite of all my effort, that intro is still so hype, that my shit remains lost. I'm beginning to think that it will remains lost for some time now.
I think the reason the Super Deformed style is used is because all the robots have very drastic sized. Gurren Lagann is around 15 meters, the average Gundam is 18 meters, The Big O is 30 meters, meanwhile others like Zambot 3 are around 130 meters and Gunbuster is somewhere over 200 meters. Hell, they managed to make Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann the size of Gurren Lagann and made it work, I can give them major props for that.
This is the explanation I've always heard. There is, to use an extreme example, nothing stopping you from attacking the Anti-Spiral at the end of the game with the Scope Dog, which I think is only around eight meters tall. Having everything in SD makes it easier to ignore the ridiculous differences in scale.
Yup. That's pretty much it. Even in this video we see the 200M Gunbuster drop kicking a, what now, 20M Mobile Suit? The SD is because otherwise the sizes clash. Though I suppose you could just do non-SD and ignore the sizes... thing is they tried that in Shin SRW back on Playstation and it looked really weird. Maybe with the modern animations but it's a risky proposition. Also there was a point where they actually couldn't afford the non-SD likeness rights for Gundam stuff. They almost always had non-SD cutins of the old Super Robots but it wasn't until something goofy like the 15th iteration of the franchise that we got a single non-SD Gundam representation in cutscene form. I think it was only after Namco Bandai literally bought out a majority share in Banpresto in fact.
If I recall, and woolie didn't touch on this, every unit in the game has a size rating, with little normal units like the Scopedog being size SS, to Gundams that are size M, to things like Gunbuster that are XL. But then you get to Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagann, as well as that entire final stage in Anti-Spiral space...and every mech's size rating becomes "Infinity," just for that stage.
Super Robot Wars: the literal quintessential mecha crossover game. These games have some Crisis on Infinite Earth's style bullshit with mecha going on in almost every game. I fucking love it.
IT'S SUPER SPIRAL SPACE, I AIN'T GOTTA EXPLAIN SHIT. but for real, they're not in "actual" space. they're in a pocket dimension where time and space don't matter.
As much I love Gurren Lagann, it had the most frustrating case of foreshadowing I've ever seen. The series opens on Gurren, with a head the size of the death star, about the literally fight the universe. Let me repeat that, "LITERALLY FIGHT THE UNIVERSE." Yea, its perhaps the single most extreme thing I've ever seen, so you can imagine my disappointment when the series was over, and a grand total of 0 universes had been punched. Apparently the writers actually just forgot they had included it. Some people will tell you it takes place in an alternate timeline where spiral energy has run rampant or something, but I still haven't seen a mech punch the universe, so what does it matter?
Evil Ryu It wasn't that space didn't matter. It was that willpower and thought could physically manifest itself within that dimension. Hence Lordgenome getting his body back before BEING VAPOURISED ON A QUANTUM LEVEL.
Brian Reilly So it starts off really good with a bit of depth before getting up it's own ass too much in the last third and ends up being the worst? Does it go the Revolutions/End of TV/Rises route or the End of Eva route in terms of quality?
Thanatos388 The Big O isn't nowhere near as conceited as NGE is. The ending just comes out of nowhere. But considering this was a anime whose second season was pretty much funded by Toonami, it's fine.
Man, I have tried to watch this at least 5 times since its release, but the anti-hype anti-sd crap coming from Pat and Liam just kill my enjoyment every time. It's a shame too; the video is super awesome, and really shows how passionate Woolie is about mech stuff. Shame it has to be hampered by the others.
I think a game like this that's basically a montage of all these beloved series is awesome. Really makes me appreciate all the work that went into it and the history of the genre whether I know the shows or not.
+drunkbygreentea the one downside to this vid, really. The mechs look like they're supposed to, just squished a bit. it looks fine why are they complaining so much?
+drunkbygreentea Well one of them had only played Masokishin 3: Pride and Justice, which isn't SD. I was confused why he hadn't played Masokishin: Lord of Elemental and Masokishin 2: Revelation of Evil God first.
The Getters have eyes because they are living machines. The Getter energy is the energy of evolution and life. The reason why it kills off the enemies in the series (mainly ancient beings) is because they cannot be evolved any further and they simply destroyed via forced evolution. FYI, Shin Getter and MazinKaiser (Mazinger King) are original designs of SWR games, as user's boss mechs. They only later on had their own animes.
I thank you Best Friends Zaibatsu. This franchise desperately needs more attention in the states. This may just be the first step of many to getting these games localized.
Regarding the concept of everything eventually turning into space ships, that's not necessarily always true. According to Gundam's back story, mobile suit type vehicles came about as a result of the colony construction project that started in UC 0001. The reason why humanoid vehicles have an advantage over ships is because they are able to employ the conservation of angular momentum law. Humanoid vehicles, and by extension mobiles suits have limbs which allow them to rotate themselves in any orientation (yaw, pitch or roll) when in space, and only in space. Theoretically they do not require the use of apogee motors, like most ships or jets are always depicted doing, to rotate themselves into their desired position or orientation in space. This is why humanoid type vehicles were chosen as the main work horse of the colony construction force. Their multiple limbs allowed them to not only perform the complicated tasks required for construction (welding, bolting, force pressing, laser cutting, etc.) but also properly orient themselves to do the jobs. This key concept is what led to the development of mobile suits for military purposes and it is for that reason that humanoid vehicles reign supreme when pit against giant warships or fighters in space. Fighters would run out of fuel much earlier than say a mobile suit who would only need to move its limbs to orient itself to take aim. While I still believe that humanoid vehicles would utilize apogee thrusters for extreme precision, their use of them would be to a far lesser degree compared to space jets. It would've been nice if Gundam depicted this more often in the multiple series. Realism is what made Gundam popular to begin with and it would super sick to see an extreme return to that, but that's just my opinion. Also screw Gundam Seed and Seed Destiny all the way to hell, fuck teenage angst, its ruining shows left and right. Sieg Zeon Forever!
Pat, what you have to think about for chest-lasers and the such is that's where the "core"- or whatever main energy source- usual is. The (goods) chest lasers aren't just another attack, its the overdrive "release the limiters" final attack because I just used all my power and broke my mech.
The fact that they didn't show scopedog's best attack, the one where scopedog rams the enemy into a cliff and then the pilot gets out, pulls out a pistol, looks like the worlds biggest pimp and fires is a goddamn war crime imo
Even in budget animation Gurren Lagann can reach the hypest of hype. Too bad no God/Burning Gundam but at least Setsuna got to eliminate the targets a little.
scientist 1:"Here is the ultimate fighting mecha, but it needs a pilot" scientist 2:"what options we have to choose from?" scientist 1:"we got a bunch of murderous assholes to choose from" scientist 2:".... nothing else?" scientist 1:"well, we have shinji ikari...." scientist 1&2:"definitely murderous assholes"
OH GOD... This game is freaking awesome! ANOTHER CENTURY'S EPISODE! For the love of all Mecha/Robot Holy... this Mechaweek can't miss that crossover game!
I really wish this series would come overseas ;-; All of them. It's good to know I don't feel like the only person who knows this series exists, thanks Woolie!
26:15 Pat:Are the Colonies self sufficient without food from earth? Woolie: No, then need earth. Its the other way around the Colony has agricultural plants around a large ring that they can grow plants and livestock in and the surplus food is semi-forcibly exported to the Earth Federation.
Scopedog is the real hero of mankind. Yeah, it's easy to be The Hero, when you have a super expensive top-tier robot and some superpowers to top it off. But when you're a regular guy, another number in the army in the most regular serial mech possible. And you come and stand in the face of monstrous space shit only with your standart issue gun, topped of with your BALLS OF ADAMANTIUS!
demilung The real power of the Scopedog is that it's pilot is almost literally anime John Rambo, and his super power is that he's just super good at not dying in skirmishes.
demilung You haven't lived until you see the video where Scopedog rams Granzeboma into a cliff (In the middle of the galaxy), and the pilot opens the cockpit (Still in space) and shoots Granzeboma right in the dick and kills it.
FYI, The Scopedog's pilot Chirico, is known as an Abnormal Survivor. Meaning he's either immortal(recovering from just about anything), and/or very very very lucky. This actually translates into gameplay. If his machine is at like 25% or lower health, he gets INSANE SKY HIGH stats.
The chest, the head has no reason to exist, its just an unnecessary weak point that exists for style, like 98% of anime mechs. Its part of the inherent suspension of disbelief for the genre. If mechs did exist in real life, they would much more closely remember Metal Gear Rex. The humanoid design makes no sense, at all. Our form exists to serve a very specific set of needs which have allowed us to develop technology in a way that no other species can, but isn't so great at the survival aspect. Fight a bear, and you WILL lose. Fight a tiger, and you WILL lose. Fight a wombat, and you WILL lose. A real mech would need to have a very low center of gravity, and having a head just spits in the face of basic physics. It also leads into my primary mech pet peeve, mech with guns that they hold in their freaking hands. Why? WHY? Why have a weapon that you even have the possibility of dropping, or losing? You need the hands? Then mount it on the shoulder, or the wrist, or I don't care just so long as you can't just drop it!
If it means more mechas can exist in this world, I'll volunteer to be the first mecha pilot and become the villain. Go straight up Lelouch in this piece if I have to!
I love all 3 of those too so, Gunbuster, Gundam 00 ( very similar to code geass), any of the Gundam ovas as long as you have context, full metal panic, Big O and rewatch Gurren. If you want a great American cartoon that parodies all that Megas XLR.
Gotta check out Gaogaigar lol The robot can't handle it's super powerful hammer, so they build an AI controlled robot that can change into a giant hand to hold the hammer for it >_< And that's just part of the awesomeness. Gravion is pretty good too... Linebarrels of Iron is worth a watch too... Oh and Votoms is pretty sweet in its own classic way (the one Scopedog is from)... lol I dunno how it keeps any upgrades in these games since he almost never has a mech last more than a few episodes in the show lol Macross is great as well, sadly you have to cheat to get English sub Macross zero, 7 and frontier... Stupid Robotech messing things up... Still, I think most of the original is intact, apart from names, if you watch the Macross Saga part of Robotech... The voice acting is kinda crappy though >_>; However, Macross Plus is pretty neat... I could go on for ages >_>; Most of the other recommendations are great too lol
Depending on what you read, Zeon Zum Deikum (Char's dad) was either a space hippie (original series) or a bloodthirsty revolutionary who wanted to pick a fight with the Federation without any advantages (Gundam the Origin).
So, just watched this video for the first time. I've been waiting for the release of Tengoku-Hen and it's hilarious, cuz I just googled it and found out that it finally came out in Japan, 3 days ago! Hope to see footage on youtube soon~
Super Robot Wars V, Mazinger Zero and Great Mazin Emperor G steal all the budget... wish they had an super dynamic special...that would be a good homage
When SRW V comes out, I want Woolie to do a solo quicklook so he can mark out at all the mecha including the Battleship from Yamato. No Pat, Matt, or Liam allowed as to not sully the hype.
Yessss, more groundswell for Getter, Big O and Gunbuster. This pleases me. My one regret is that they didn't get to show Chirico's best attack, the one where he rams the enemies into a wall, opens the Scopedog's cockpit, and shoots the enemies with a fuckin' pistol. Absolutely amazing.
Obscene amount of licensing. Plus the majority of Western Audiences only know Gundam, Macross and Gurren Lagann. That's less than 1/10 of the game's cast.
Thanatos388 no, but Aniplex owns Gurren. y'know, the only anime I've ever seen with a 500 dollar blu-ray. (don't forget 80 bucks for a couple episodes of Madoka.) fuck you Aniplex with your shitty prices.
Woolie: "This guy is called ! LOOK HOW COOL THAT IS! BOOM! Isn't that fucking hype?"
Pat and Liam: "Yeah, it's alright."
Woolie: "Okay, well, look how sick THIS guy is!"
Pat and Liam: "Yeah, I wish it wasn't SD."
Woolie: "I mean, yeah...oh, well look who it is! Tell me that's not fucking rad!"
Pat and Liam: "Oh man, it just showed the grid map. That looks awful. And the more I watch this the more I hate the SD models."
Woolie: "Oh shit, it's Gurren! GIGA DRILL BREEAAKEERR!"
Pat: "You sound like an asshole."
Liam: "Yeah, they made their bargain version of it."
It's okay, Woolie. I certainly went nuts along with you watching this!
It was almost sad to see how excited woolie was while Liam and Pat seemed almost like they wanted to hate every second of it
Woolie is proud of this cut he made. Liam and Pat just shit on it.
JM3D Yeah this video might have made Woolie my favorite out of them, and rocket Pat and Liam to shit tier. Well I mean they were already shit tier but still.
On one hand, I was with him on the MASSIVE FUCKING HYPE TRAIN!
On the other, his "No it's not all about Gurren Lagann" shit gold old fast.
+JM3D woolie getting hyped is the best thing ever
The SD style is actually super important as it puts everything on the same scale. Otherwise you have 200m tall Gunbuster basically stepping on enemies of another series that are a fraction of it's size.
The Masou Kishin series, which is a bit of a spin-off, features mechs that are properly scaled since they are all original.
The style in general has been shifting more and more away from SD in recent years anyway. They just stop caring about scale and make Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann have a somewhat bigger sprite than the Hi-Nu Gundam despite the canonical size difference because fuck it, people aren't here for accuracy they're here for cool robots
Day 3. In spite of all my effort, that intro is still so hype, that my shit remains lost. I'm beginning to think that it will remains lost for some time now.
The JAM Project certainly isn't helping it not be Epic as shit.
Same here man holy fuck is that intro boner inducing and not just cuz of how sexy alternate Liam Is in a mech suit
My shit has been lost since that start of last week.
Darkmoon Damn you Cage. Always stealing my shit, and making shit out of it!
I think I lost mine on Toppa Tengen Gurren's 20 Billion Lightyear sized drill
I think the reason the Super Deformed style is used is because all the robots have very drastic sized. Gurren Lagann is around 15 meters, the average Gundam is 18 meters, The Big O is 30 meters, meanwhile others like Zambot 3 are around 130 meters and Gunbuster is somewhere over 200 meters. Hell, they managed to make Super Galaxy Gurren Lagann the size of Gurren Lagann and made it work, I can give them major props for that.
This is the explanation I've always heard. There is, to use an extreme example, nothing stopping you from attacking the Anti-Spiral at the end of the game with the Scope Dog, which I think is only around eight meters tall. Having everything in SD makes it easier to ignore the ridiculous differences in scale.
Ahaha, more like 3 meters. Which is freaking hilarious.
Yup. That's pretty much it. Even in this video we see the 200M Gunbuster drop kicking a, what now, 20M Mobile Suit? The SD is because otherwise the sizes clash. Though I suppose you could just do non-SD and ignore the sizes... thing is they tried that in Shin SRW back on Playstation and it looked really weird. Maybe with the modern animations but it's a risky proposition.
Also there was a point where they actually couldn't afford the non-SD likeness rights for Gundam stuff. They almost always had non-SD cutins of the old Super Robots but it wasn't until something goofy like the 15th iteration of the franchise that we got a single non-SD Gundam representation in cutscene form. I think it was only after Namco Bandai literally bought out a majority share in Banpresto in fact.
If I recall, and woolie didn't touch on this, every unit in the game has a size rating, with little normal units like the Scopedog being size SS, to Gundams that are size M, to things like Gunbuster that are XL. But then you get to Tengan Toppa Gurren Lagann, as well as that entire final stage in Anti-Spiral space...and every mech's size rating becomes "Infinity," just for that stage.
Dan Mastriani To be fair storyline wise all the mechs get beefed up to To Tengan Toppa size for the battle with the Anti Spiral
Super Robot Wars: the literal quintessential mecha crossover game. These games have some Crisis on Infinite Earth's style bullshit with mecha going on in almost every game. I fucking love it.
Is this the one where Simon and Noriko teach the Eva kids the value of HARD WORK and GUTS?
TheBrahma51 Yup
Shinji would want to get in the damn mech then...or we hope he would.
IT'S SUPER SPIRAL SPACE, I AIN'T GOTTA EXPLAIN SHIT.
but for real, they're not in "actual" space. they're in a pocket dimension where time and space don't matter.
Right, it's the Anti Spirals dimension.
As much I love Gurren Lagann, it had the most frustrating case of foreshadowing I've ever seen.
The series opens on Gurren, with a head the size of the death star, about the literally fight the universe.
Let me repeat that, "LITERALLY FIGHT THE UNIVERSE."
Yea, its perhaps the single most extreme thing I've ever seen, so you can imagine my disappointment when the series was over, and a grand total of 0 universes had been punched. Apparently the writers actually just forgot they had included it. Some people will tell you it takes place in an alternate timeline where spiral energy has run rampant or something, but I still haven't seen a mech punch the universe, so what does it matter?
Lolicage Wait, if space doesn't matter, how do things still have defined shapes?
Why do I imagine that said like its from Rick and Morty
Evil Ryu It wasn't that space didn't matter. It was that willpower and thought could physically manifest itself within that dimension. Hence Lordgenome getting his body back before BEING VAPOURISED ON A QUANTUM LEVEL.
"They look like Clamp shit..."
- Woolie talking about Code Geass
Well yeah, Woolie. They did the character designs.
"Evangelion is the antihomage and Gurren Lagann is the ultimate homage"- Pat
Your next line is "HOLY SHIT! THEY'RE PLAYING SRW!?!?!?"
damn you beat me to it
HOLY SHIT! THEY'RE PLAYING SRW!?!?!?
!!!!
D180223 IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I SAID
"...go get a 7-year old child murderer." So who does Pat want? Guts or Sawamura?
I think the award goes to Agito from Air Gear who constricts people to death and bathes in their blood rain for funsies.
+Grantite Now i imagine Guts piloting a mech and i want to throw money at it
7 ear child murderer you mean Char in the Origin
If the mailbag was still around I'd imagine fans sending Pat a bunch of Asuka Ero-doujins after this.
***** It's fine, you know he owns multiple copies of all of them already.
No, send him Rei ero-doujins. I want him to experience the confusion of feeling both intense anger and arousal.
They still accept small envelopes and stuff like that I think...so just send one at a time...don't do this...
People did I'm sure, they were probably just packaged in with bags of Ladybugs
Why would you buy doujins?
I think the chest laser keeps coming back because its symbolic of blasting the enemy with your heart, your core, the center of your being.
Liam and Pat are cray. I'm lovin' the animation and art direction in this game.
Pat watch Big O, it is Batman meets evangalion in the matrix
Brian Reilly So it starts off really good with a bit of depth before getting up it's own ass too much in the last third and ends up being the worst? Does it go the Revolutions/End of TV/Rises route or the End of Eva route in terms of quality?
Thanatos388
The Big O isn't nowhere near as conceited as NGE is. The ending just comes out of nowhere.
But considering this was a anime whose second season was pretty much funded by Toonami, it's fine.
NewTypo NGE should have patted itself on the back harder.
But ok I see what you mean.
You'll never convince him that way. Pat only watches shows out of spite.
Thanatos388 wow, thats a perfect summary of the new bat movies, NGE, and the Matrix all in one sentence. Sir, I am impress
Man, I have tried to watch this at least 5 times since its release, but the anti-hype anti-sd crap coming from Pat and Liam just kill my enjoyment every time. It's a shame too; the video is super awesome, and really shows how passionate Woolie is about mech stuff. Shame it has to be hampered by the others.
Wow. I would never have expected this.
I am pleasantly surprised and impressed.
Absolutely brilliant, like this is the best these past weeks for mecha
D180223 I'm hoping for OGs next :P
I'm so happy to learn that Woolie loves The Big O. It means I'm not alone in this universe.
I think a game like this that's basically a montage of all these beloved series is awesome. Really makes me appreciate all the work that went into it and the history of the genre whether I know the shows or not.
BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG OOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
IT'S
SHOOOOOOOWTIIIIIIIIME!!!!
KinglyRed Well, someone had to do it.
Go! Mega Douche!
...
*Deuce
KinglyRed seeing Big O at the ending just floating in space looks hilarious to me.
Big Duo, it is now SHOWTIME!
I wasn't expecting the Big O!
"Pat:I don't like chest lasers"
Pat demonstrating his shit taste in this video
wow, I can't believe I sat through an hour of Pat, Woolie and Liam nerdgasming...
but it was worth it
GURREN AND GUNBUSTER. HYPE. SHIN GETTER ROBO.
THE GAME OF THE INTRO
SO HYPE
HYPE POWER UNCONTAINABLE!!
Everything needs more JAM Project.
tell those 2 whiners to get lost...
"oh why isn't it proportional waahhh"
SD is how it's always been and how it'll forever stay.
+drunkbygreentea the one downside to this vid, really. The mechs look like they're supposed to, just squished a bit. it looks fine why are they complaining so much?
+drunkbygreentea Well one of them had only played Masokishin 3: Pride and Justice, which isn't SD. I was confused why he hadn't played Masokishin: Lord of Elemental and Masokishin 2: Revelation of Evil God first.
The Getters have eyes because they are living machines. The Getter energy is the energy of evolution and life. The reason why it kills off the enemies in the series (mainly ancient beings) is because they cannot be evolved any further and they simply destroyed via forced evolution.
FYI, Shin Getter and MazinKaiser (Mazinger King) are original designs of SWR games, as user's boss mechs. They only later on had their own animes.
Shin Getter is not an SRW original. The original author made Shin. Only Mazinkaiser is.
Raoh Hokuto
You do realize that the author first made that for the SNES SRW?
+Boris Chan No. Ishikawa made Shin in his return debut which is Getter Robo Go.
Raoh Hokuto
Ar yes you are correct. I completely forgot about Go as a series at all >.>
As a fan of SRW, that opening was probably the best thing I've seen all week.
You know what we're missing from our good ol Super Robot Wars nowadays?
GaoGaiGar.
Don't believe in the Woolie that believes in you...
Actually, don't believe in Woolie period.
I thank you Best Friends Zaibatsu. This franchise desperately needs more attention in the states. This may just be the first step of many to getting these games localized.
Regarding the concept of everything eventually turning into space ships, that's not necessarily always true. According to Gundam's back story, mobile suit type vehicles came about as a result of the colony construction project that started in UC 0001. The reason why humanoid vehicles have an advantage over ships is because they are able to employ the conservation of angular momentum law. Humanoid vehicles, and by extension mobiles suits have limbs which allow them to rotate themselves in any orientation (yaw, pitch or roll) when in space, and only in space. Theoretically they do not require the use of apogee motors, like most ships or jets are always depicted doing, to rotate themselves into their desired position or orientation in space. This is why humanoid type vehicles were chosen as the main work horse of the colony construction force. Their multiple limbs allowed them to not only perform the complicated tasks required for construction (welding, bolting, force pressing, laser cutting, etc.) but also properly orient themselves to do the jobs. This key concept is what led to the development of mobile suits for military purposes and it is for that reason that humanoid vehicles reign supreme when pit against giant warships or fighters in space. Fighters would run out of fuel much earlier than say a mobile suit who would only need to move its limbs to orient itself to take aim. While I still believe that humanoid vehicles would utilize apogee thrusters for extreme precision, their use of them would be to a far lesser degree compared to space jets. It would've been nice if Gundam depicted this more often in the multiple series. Realism is what made Gundam popular to begin with and it would super sick to see an extreme return to that, but that's just my opinion. Also screw Gundam Seed and Seed Destiny all the way to hell, fuck teenage angst, its ruining shows left and right. Sieg Zeon Forever!
I would watch these solely for the intro, but I'm glad you guys did a mechaweek 2.
These are pretty awesome.
Continue if you know the words:
THIS DRILL IS SIMONS'S SOUL!
DAI-GURREN'S SOUL!
HUMANITY'S SOUL!
Mangus Ruiz Flores I'm not even mad.
Alejandro Rodriguez "If there's a hole, it's a man's job to thrust into it!"
Dayakka:
"I GOT THE BEST WIFE IN THE UNIVERSE SWIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!"
Kiyoh:
"idiot :)"
That was beautiful
Woolie doesn't like Gundam Seed = Woolie's great taste in Gundam confirmed.
Pat, what you have to think about for chest-lasers and the such is that's where the "core"- or whatever main energy source- usual is. The (goods) chest lasers aren't just another attack, its the overdrive "release the limiters" final attack because I just used all my power and broke my mech.
Thanks for the hard work, Woolie! Made for a great video
Pat showing approval of Big O's chest laser makes me feel all warm inside~
During the intro the video was at 480p, then, it just went to 720p by itself...
The hype is real
Thanks woolie for this video. I could really tell that he genuinely liked super robots.
The fact that they didn't show scopedog's best attack, the one where scopedog rams the enemy into a cliff and then the pilot gets out, pulls out a pistol, looks like the worlds biggest pimp and fires is a goddamn war crime imo
time for us to bug pat on twitter to watch big O
When you back down so far you wrap all the way around to standing up, it's Mechaweek 2! Now with 5% more Super Robot Wars.
The HYPEST intro on TH-cam
Thank you Woolie. Deep into the original Getter Robo mangas because of this video. Its good stuff. Ken Ishikawa is a fucking master.
It's back!!!!!
Even in budget animation Gurren Lagann can reach the hypest of hype. Too bad no God/Burning Gundam but at least Setsuna got to eliminate the targets a little.
Pat is the worst fan of anything he likes
thx about damn time the world knows the existence of such a god-tier franchise
scientist 1:"Here is the ultimate fighting mecha, but it needs a pilot"
scientist 2:"what options we have to choose from?"
scientist 1:"we got a bunch of murderous assholes to choose from"
scientist 2:".... nothing else?"
scientist 1:"well, we have shinji ikari...."
scientist 1&2:"definitely murderous assholes"
ALL of them? In one Mecha?
MasterAsra Man, Ryouma would probably mutilate Shinji.
OH GOD... This game is freaking awesome!
ANOTHER CENTURY'S EPISODE! For the love of all Mecha/Robot Holy... this Mechaweek can't miss that crossover game!
That FUCKING INTRO!! Hype is spewing out of my eyeholes!
Legit, watching the opening, I lost track of what they were saying cause I was getting TOO HYPED at what was happening on screen.
I'm going to admit... i totally missed the reason for the star sunglasses thing... now i feel bad.
I really wish this series would come overseas ;-;
All of them.
It's good to know I don't feel like the only person who knows this series exists, thanks Woolie!
They didn't even play the game...
100/10
i had no idea you guys were super robot wars fans, i love you guys so much more now
Cant believe I watched this whole thing
- Big O shows up, stomps the shit out of everyone, leaves.
Well, got what I came here for! Later.
AWW FUCK
MY FAVORITE VIDEO GAME SERIES
MY FAVORITE BEST FRIENDS
I CAN DIE HAPPY
...not yet!
NOT BEFORE *TENGOKU-HEN*
Still one of my favorite vids on the channel.
YOOO THE BIG O IS AWESOME
26:15 Pat:Are the Colonies self sufficient without food from earth?
Woolie: No, then need earth.
Its the other way around the Colony has agricultural plants around a large ring that they can grow plants and livestock in and the surplus food is semi-forcibly exported to the Earth Federation.
Scopedog is the real hero of mankind. Yeah, it's easy to be The Hero, when you have a super expensive top-tier robot and some superpowers to top it off. But when you're a regular guy, another number in the army in the most regular serial mech possible. And you come and stand in the face of monstrous space shit only with your standart issue gun, topped of with your BALLS OF ADAMANTIUS!
demilung The real power of the Scopedog is that it's pilot is almost literally anime John Rambo, and his super power is that he's just super good at not dying in skirmishes.
SherlockHyde
So unlike "Magic-hero kids" and "Teenage-BS-Geniouses" he's an actually competent soldier.
demilung You haven't lived until you see the video where Scopedog rams Granzeboma into a cliff (In the middle of the galaxy), and the pilot opens the cockpit (Still in space) and shoots Granzeboma right in the dick and kills it.
FYI, The Scopedog's pilot Chirico, is known as an Abnormal Survivor. Meaning he's either immortal(recovering from just about anything), and/or very very very lucky. This actually translates into gameplay. If his machine is at like 25% or lower health, he gets INSANE SKY HIGH stats.
Woolie you still get mad respect for your unapologetic rage towards Gundam Seed. I'm with you brotha!
>All that scopedog love
feels good man
i feel like such a nerd but i dont care i feel happy i joined in with woolie for giga drill BREAKER!!!!
This is perfect timing, since this is the 4th entry in the series, and it's all coming to an end next month with the final game.
Even Chibi Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann is hype as fuck.
God! I'm so stupid!
MechaMatt throws an Axe!
This intro just got hype again!
I can't be the only one who wish the cast of Megas XLR was in these games. It would be FUCKING EPIC!
Only thing missing is Getter Robo summoning the motherfucking Getter Emperor.
yo pat, you said jet cockpits should be in the middle. do you think mech cochpits should be in the chest or head?
LCFTW93 All pilots should obviously be in the cock. Zone of the Enders was the only franchise to get it right.
he said in the mazinger video he likes the cockpit being in the middle.
The chest, the head has no reason to exist, its just an unnecessary weak point that exists for style, like 98% of anime mechs. Its part of the inherent suspension of disbelief for the genre.
If mechs did exist in real life, they would much more closely remember Metal Gear Rex. The humanoid design makes no sense, at all. Our form exists to serve a very specific set of needs which have allowed us to develop technology in a way that no other species can, but isn't so great at the survival aspect. Fight a bear, and you WILL lose. Fight a tiger, and you WILL lose. Fight a wombat, and you WILL lose. A real mech would need to have a very low center of gravity, and having a head just spits in the face of basic physics.
It also leads into my primary mech pet peeve, mech with guns that they hold in their freaking hands. Why? WHY? Why have a weapon that you even have the possibility of dropping, or losing? You need the hands? Then mount it on the shoulder, or the wrist, or I don't care just so long as you can't just drop it!
Thanatos388 Turn A Gundam did that in 1999. A good couple of years before ZOE.
***** I was only 4 when that came out and haven't seen it so it hasn't happened yet.
God damn it you guys, you nearly killed me with the hype. I need to go watch all these animes again.
So, Evangelion takes place in 2015, right now, and Japan haven't developed EVAs yet? C'mon Japan, get on that shit!
But KURATAS though..
Is it weird that I had tears of happiness watching the gurren sequence and remembering how hype and awesome that movie was?
If it means more mechas can exist in this world, I'll volunteer to be the first mecha pilot and become the villain. Go straight up Lelouch in this piece if I have to!
0:40:04 Robot 1: "Just 1 day from retirement..."
Robot 2: "FFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...."
*INCINERATION*
Can I ask what the intro is parodying?
***** EVERYTHING
Super Robot Wars.
Skill by JAM Project.
Edit: I read that as playing, I thought you wanted to know what the song was called. -_-
What are you talking about? This is Cranky's OI, please do not steal.
@@SarahExpereinceRequiem I mean I appreciate it XD it's good to know the song name.
Hahah Im so happy you guys did this I totally love you guys
Code Geass and Gurren Lagaan are the two mecha anime that I love to death. Besides Evangelion, what other mecha anime should I watch?
I love all 3 of those too so, Gunbuster, Gundam 00 ( very similar to code geass), any of the Gundam ovas as long as you have context, full metal panic, Big O and rewatch Gurren. If you want a great American cartoon that parodies all that Megas XLR.
BIG O!
Big O. It's pretty cool because every epsiode ends with a sick pile bunker.
Gotta check out Gaogaigar lol The robot can't handle it's super powerful hammer, so they build an AI controlled robot that can change into a giant hand to hold the hammer for it >_< And that's just part of the awesomeness. Gravion is pretty good too... Linebarrels of Iron is worth a watch too... Oh and Votoms is pretty sweet in its own classic way (the one Scopedog is from)... lol I dunno how it keeps any upgrades in these games since he almost never has a mech last more than a few episodes in the show lol
Macross is great as well, sadly you have to cheat to get English sub Macross zero, 7 and frontier... Stupid Robotech messing things up... Still, I think most of the original is intact, apart from names, if you watch the Macross Saga part of Robotech... The voice acting is kinda crappy though >_>; However, Macross Plus is pretty neat... I could go on for ages >_>; Most of the other recommendations are great too lol
I seem to recall enjoying Eureka 7... but it's been a while so I dunno.
Depending on what you read, Zeon Zum Deikum (Char's dad) was either a space hippie (original series) or a bloodthirsty revolutionary who wanted to pick a fight with the Federation without any advantages (Gundam the Origin).
I have no fucking clue what the hell is happening in this entire video.
Endless hype.
*****
The ropeyest streams.
Pokemen396 Filled with Getter Rays and Spiral Energy.
So, just watched this video for the first time. I've been waiting for the release of Tengoku-Hen and it's hilarious, cuz I just googled it and found out that it finally came out in Japan, 3 days ago! Hope to see footage on youtube soon~
Fucking GUNBUSTER!
Post edit: When is Japan going to get it's shit together and make a TTGL videogame?
They did...for the DS...and it sucked.
Just imagine Gurren Lagann with the budget and graphical quality of FFXV.
If that doesn't get hyped, I don't know what will
KL13N
Much like TTGL itself. Badly directed, badly animated, pale shadow of Getter Robo.
karry299 Joke's on you dude.
Super Robot Wars V, Mazinger Zero and Great Mazin Emperor G steal all the budget... wish they had an super dynamic special...that would be a good homage
37:50
ITS FUCKING BIG O!
YEEEEE NOT GUILTY!!!
Immediately. Liked IMMEDIATELY for freaking SKILL playing in the intro.
When SRW V comes out, I want Woolie to do a solo quicklook so he can mark out at all the mecha including the Battleship from Yamato. No Pat, Matt, or Liam allowed as to not sully the hype.
Has Muv Luv shown up in any of the SRW games?
Claus Grimhildr Not yet to my knowledge.
"I know this is gonna sound dumb but this is like hammer time."
Pat is really just a self conscious version of MC Hammer.
Alright everyone now lets spam Pat's Twitter feed and bug him to go watch Big O.
Yessss, more groundswell for Getter, Big O and Gunbuster. This pleases me.
My one regret is that they didn't get to show Chirico's best attack, the one where he rams the enemies into a wall, opens the Scopedog's cockpit, and shoots the enemies with a fuckin' pistol. Absolutely amazing.
Cast in the name of God, YE NOT GUILTY!!!!
THE HELL WOOLIE! You deny Chirico's Burglary Dog final attack! THE 2ND HYPEST ATTACK NEXT TO CHOU TENGEN TOPPA GURREN LAGANN!!
Sonuvabitch....... FUCK YES!!!!!! LET THE MECH HYPE PIERCE THE HEAVENS AND BEYOND TOMORROW!!!!
"I was drinking a lot."
Pat, some times I worry about you.
They're playing SRW?! Someone punch me, I must be dreaming.
i was just waiting for scopedog to show up
man i love scopedog
All I want to know is ....WHY ISN'T THIS GAME IN ENGLISH?!
geardog24 Because only 20 people would buy it. And 5 of them would return it immediately because of the shitty map.
Obscene amount of licensing.
Plus the majority of Western Audiences only know Gundam, Macross and Gurren Lagann. That's less than 1/10 of the game's cast.
do you want to pay for all the licencing for this?
Aniplex alone would probably demand the regular version of the game be 120 dollars.
***** Aniplex? Do they own Gundam too? Cause then it would at least reach 400 for having 5 different series in one.
Thanatos388 no, but Aniplex owns Gurren.
y'know, the only anime I've ever seen with a 500 dollar blu-ray. (don't forget 80 bucks for a couple episodes of Madoka.)
fuck you Aniplex with your shitty prices.