City of Amnesia

It is a rather sad fact that Big O has only made an appearance in one game (Destiny or just D).
The post apocalyptic setting has a lot to do with it, much like Gundam X in SRW which has only been in two games (Alpha Gaiden and R). Plus, Big O can't fly or go into space, which most SRW mechs can.
Pity really as Big O is a potential powerhouse unit if it could be upgraded to fight in those environments. Strong mêlée and ranged weapons, but like most super robot types, not much on dodging. Thus, the strong arm shields. Roger as a pilot is also a strong character and would be very interesting to see his professionalism play off the more hot blooded type pilots. Also with the way SRW sometimes works with enemies becoming allies, we could even have a final battle that has Roger and Schwarzwald teaming up against Alex and Big Fau.

The possibilities are great, but sadly I don't think any of it is going to happen.

Enjoy a video of Big O in action in SRW: D re-enacting the end of episode 1.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh5Uk2JAYII

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RegnirpE3yA <- O.o

2) ...personally, I think Big O is the perfect candidate to star in its own video, or at the very least make it into some of the other mecha games (ARE there other mecha games?). I had about 1/4 of a video game planned out back on PCF.... the only thing missing is which console would be better suited to it, and he rest of the plot/stages of the game. I bet ya, if Bandai started designing a Big O game, they'd find one hell of a market!

3) I would pay money to see Rog go up against some of the Gundam pilots.

I believe there's a translated script to this game (the GBA one), on it's GameFaqs page. I would've loved a translation patch for it, but I didn't see one back when I was looking for it, so it probably doesn't exist. I got a chance to play it for awhile, but couldn't get past the... second or third battle? I don't remember, the whole 'language barrier' thing was keeping me from getting into it.

I read the script but was overall unimpressed. Roger had a friendship going with Treize of Gundam Wing I think. Dorothy was understated, and Angel was more akin to Beck in a sort of friendly nemesis/person with no scruples role. Except more spying and less giant robot building. Schwarzwald was most disappointing of all, because without the backdrop of the city without Memories, he loses his mystique and becomes merely a bitter old man who thinks humanities going to die anyways so might as well speed it along...

I believe that Roger at least appeared for another game, a Dreamcast game that was later ported to the PS2 I think. It was Super Robot Wars style, but enlarged to include a wider range of the (Bandai?) characters. There was one infamous screenshot floating around of Spike Speigal and Jecht Black of Cowboy Bebop fame sitting in Rogers living room talking with him (!), which, if it was ever translated and voiced, would probably result in a time paradox.

Mr. Finale and I would like to point out it's JET, not JECHT. "THIS IS NOT FINAL FANTASY X" ....And also....


GREAT SCOTT!

WELL.

UH.

Shut up.

I didn't even like Final Fantasy X...

I would sell my house to see that!

Man, it's a small internet. That's my video; I uploaded it the other day to show a Big O fan what Sudden Impact looked like in D.
Big O definately needs to be in another SRW, especially as I could never really get into D. The space thing isn't really a problem; Boss Borot's in space all the time, and he's not even airtight. Even Bonta-Kun makes it in space and that's just a suit....

Wow, i just noticed that they had dorothy with pigtails and the roger dude with really short pants on (holy shit!).

I have been tring to get a copy of the game. And this game did come with an exclusive BIG-O SD figure.

there are about 4 games big o is in. srw r, sunrise world war, srw alpha + alpha 2

i've got 3 of those downloaded and sunrise world war for the ps2. if i ever figure how to up load these things you can get them in a torrent from me.

Let's not forget the creations of Shn275! They're not challenging enough to call full-fledged games, but they're still fabulous.

yuppers. o and i forget taisen d, w and ex big o is in also.

Actually, if you read my first post, Big O is only in SRW D. If anyone says it is in any other games, they are lying.

am not. i accutlly got (very few) screenshots! now if i could just figure how to configure them.

Something tells me you're fighting a losing battle here, Shadow D. Wingnut knows his mecha it seems, and I shan't argue with the man about it (although I maintain the assertion that Gundam SD Force is and will always be awesome and superior to Gundam Wing).
War.

Then they are fake as well.

I can't fully argue the point with you Vegeta as I have not seen the second half of SD Gundam Force, but I wouldn't say the first half is better than Wing.

i took the screens myself. i just wish i could figure out how to post pics. (-n-)

Time for a bump.
As you may or may have not heard there is a new game in the franchise called SRW: Z. We don't know much, but it seems to be for the PS2 and has the following series in its lineup.

Overman King Gainer
The Big O
The Big O 2nd Season
Zambot 3
Daitarn 3
Xabungle
Zeta Gundam
Char's Counterattack
Gundam X
Turn A Gundam
Gundam SEED Destiny
Mazinger Z
Great Mazinger
Getter Robo G
Grendizer
God Sigma
Aquarion
Eureka Seven
Orguss
Baldios
Gravion
Gravion Zwei


That's right. Big O is back in the lineup and having the plotline of the second season as well will bring even more tomatoey goodness to the game. I would have posted this much sooner, but the bandwith was expired for a while here.

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v617/BigMoney/dowant.jpg)


Now then... how to play it on a non-jap PSII >_>

Aren't there hacks for that kind of thing, Gummer?

Probably, not that I know any of them... also, lacking a PSII might be a problem.

I'm in the same boat. But the consoles are pretty cheap now.

Promo image time.
Said image would stretch out the page too much, so you get a link instead. (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v371/RedWingnut/1210848204316.jpg)

Here's the first part of the newest SRW Z PV.
http://www.mediafire.com/?qwgjnqiquzy
Everybody should check out the 1:10, 3:10, and 6:21 marks.

Update time for Z attack videos.
Big O... SHOWTIME! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcrDVnXsUos)

Punching attack. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs6plHLx-6A)

Sudden Impact. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Ex_hJvw_w)

More to come as they get posted.

In the Sudden Impact video, I like the creative use of the Prairie Dog for a surprise attack. I'd love to see that in a fully animated fight.

Mummy Big Duo. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0xgu2qxHJ0) Makes very good use of the cloth then gets owned by Dynamic Kill Sudden Impact.

The voice actors sound really.... pathetic in this one. "Big O Action" is just so unenthusiastic.

Chibi Mummy and Chibi O are just frakking awesome tho... And Schwarzwald, ohhh Schwarzwald

Final Stage and the end of Big Duo Inferno and Alan. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZPXhhD6jkU) Complete with Schwarzwald's ghost.

And now the moment we've been waiting for. The all attacks video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik-N5bbQiQQ). WTF on the MAP attack though. BTW, the brown haired girl you see with the blue mech is the real robot route protagonist for this game. Her name is Setsuko Ohara and the mech is the Balgora.

Well the map attack is from "Hydra" ... that's the electromagnetic plasma sphere Big O uses to disintegrate the Hydra once and for all.

I must say tho... Big O kicks ass in that game. As he damn well should!

Oh I remember what it was, it's just using it on your own people that's a dumb idea.

Some attacks for Big Duo and Big Fau. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6gZTMxPwfo) Schwarzwald has a wicked cut-in pic.

Beck's RX3 all attacks. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR09DktnG4w) Yes, you really do get to use it at one point.

RX3 lookin' pretty good there. The makers of this game deserve a lot of love for being so fastidious with the details.

Loved the cut scenes with Schwarzwald and Rosewater, LOVED EM.

Beck RX3.... WHAAAAAT!?!??!?! This actually makes that hunk of junk look awesome. Also, I like how they have "The Great" in addition to "Sure Promise". I was expecting "Token" of all things for RX3... but "The Great" works too.

(http://img372.imageshack.us/img372/7898/beckrx3srwxc3.png)

So how many mechs from Big O does this make so far in the game?
- Big O
- Big Duo
- Big Duo Inferno
- Big Fau
- Archetype
- Bonaparte
- Beck Victory Deluxe
- Beck RX3

At least on Setsuko's route on Mission 11 where Big O units first appear, in addition to Mummy Big Duo, there are a pair of Archetypes to fight as well.

Also from watching a user on Youtube play through the game, Big O can seriously rape just about any unit out there even without upgrades when seemingly everyone else in your party has trouble even scratching the enemy. Things like the Cromebuster suck EN like no tomorrow, but that's about the only drawback to it.

That sounds about right. ;D

That. Was. Fucking. Boss.

I'd pay to see Blum et al dub that dialog, just because I know it'd be hysterically awesome.

I hate to revive an old topic, but here's every attack for Big Duo and Big Duo Inferno....

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XOTc0NDg4ODQ=.html

just posting this cause I found it a few days ago.
It's only a rumor, but the new SRW game is supposed to have Big O in it. But not a scenario from the manga or anime. It's apparently a new scenario made for the new srw game specifically. Oh, and in case there is any confusion, I'm not talking about SRW Neo for the Wii, I'm talking about the new unnamed SRW game for the DS that's supposed to hit Dec 2010. I got this from a google search that took me to a Japanese site. Big O, Gundam 00 and some original characters are supposedly the only Robots confirmed as far as I know. Keep in mind this is only a rumor, but most rumors about srw tend to come true. So as far as I know, Big O is going to be in a DS game.
In July srw og saga 2 is coming out.

I want this game.

Anyway, if anyone other than Beck were in the RX3, it probably would have had some moments of epic ownage, just as they are displayed.

How cute, it thinks it's people.

*fires Rick Deckard laser*

So...I discovered the world of Emulators...and the 14some odd Gundam games on SNES...but anyway, what platform was SRW on? I think I might get me a ROM of it...

The last few SRWs were for GBA, but after those I lost track. They look kind of snazzy, so I might guess PS2 or some such.

Srw is for
NES
SNES
N64
Gamecube
wii
playstation 1,2,3
Xbox, 360
Gameboy, advanced, color, XP
DS
and wonderswan color.

I have all but the xbox and playstation ones.

on emulators.

The ones that have Big O, (D and Z) are for the GBA and PS2 respectively. Both are in Japanese of course, but of you want to play an english SRW that isn't Original Generation, Alpha Gaiden (PS1/X) has been fully fan translated. It shouldn't be that hard to find.

Thanks for the help!

If you can get a hold of it, Big O is in Sunrise World War.
I have a copy of it I bought for $29.99 a few years ago. You can get a PS2 emulator for Pc's and a usb to controller connecter and you can play it on the PC, and not need to get a Japanese PS2, or download it. It's a worth while game.

I don't understand the draw of these games. Everything's out of context, out of scale, or it's just re-hashing. Instead of dynamic fights, you have turn-based auto-win. No thank you!

For me, I'm addicted to tactics games...

Me too.
Mostly TPSRPG's, which is what SRW is.
I can't wait for the new game. I hear a teaser trailer will be out next month. But I'm not sure if it's true.

... It's a strategy game?

What happens when you lose a hero? Do they return for the next fight?

Yeah. you just have to shell out money to get their mech fixed.

Unless of course it's a mission objective that they not get shot down. If one of the losing conditions is that they do get shot down, and you lose them in battle, it's game over. So save often if you're not sure about a choice you're about to make.

Tactics, well as I've mentioned. X-com is very cheap on steam if you're into tactical games

(It's SO tactical..possibly too much)

(Theres also freeware variants I think)

Robo Battle is a free version of SRW, sort of. It's a knock off, but it's still fun to play.

Free is always good. Or good in the sense of..even if it doesn't pan out, you didn't really lose anything on the deal.

Yup.

Oh and I thought I should let everyone know the rumors where right. There will be a new SRW game for the 3DS this December.

I found it! I found the screen shot of SRW DS. And yes Big O is in it.
If I read it right, SRW DS is SRW D for the DS. I think it will be released in English. I really hope it is. I can't tell if the Big O scenario is new and made for this game or is a re-do of the mission from SRW D.


http://d.hatena.ne.jp/saiyuu/comment?date=20060428

I don't think that one's real. Just look at the date. That article is over four years old. The Gravion stuff looks lifted right from SRW Z, and the Big O image is the D sprite.

Maybe, but hopefully it will be made.

Bump is for good reason.

So SRW Z2 was confirmed recently. You can check it out here (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2011-01-05/super-robot-wars-z-2-psp-game-adds-geass-gurren).
Big O is confirmed to be in this title.

I saw a story in a magazine that Original Generation will be made into an anime. Thought I'd share.

It's been an anime for a while. It's called SRW OG Divine wars. Is it going to be released in English by any chance? I don't think it's been fan subbed.

Maybe that's what the article said: that it was going to be English dubbed. I didn't read it, I was more interested in the Initial D article.

Divine Wars was finished being fansubbed some time ago. There has been no word on an english dub and I don't think there really will be. There is also a sequel series to DW airing right now called The Inspector. As DW covered Ryusei's route through the OG1 game, Inspector is doing its best to cover as much of OG2 as it can. Personally I think its doing a good job. Crunchyroll is streaming it with official subs, but of course there are groups that use those subs and put them to a 720p raw for their own torrents. They can be found at the usual places. Inspector is up to episode 16 as of this post.

^I shall check that out.
And I'm hoping to translate a little of SRW D. I'm not good enough to translate the whole thing. But maybe I can translate all the attack and mech names. And Pilot names, seeing as I know most of these in English already.

And mom said learning Japanese wasn't useful. Bah!

This forum has put more effort into the mecha from big o than konaka did.

(Before you get offended, thats kind of a compliment)

Too true. Too true.

SRW Z2 is going to have a new storyline for the Big O route I hope. Seeing as in Z they did season 2 there is now a small hope for an OVA. I doubt we could get a full season out of Z2, but an OVA would be nice.

So I just found a Japanese blog with a bunch of images from Z2.
Norman and RD both get parts this time around.
here (http://tomagoki.blog89.fc2.com/blog-date-200809.html) is the page with the Z2 images.

Where the fuck do these bots come from?

And ok sorta important stuff. I had some of the names translated and my computer fucked up. And it deleted it. Fuck.

So now I'm trying to redo it and my computer is being mean. blargh!

Your guess is as good as mine.

I finally have the means to play Z in English on Visual Boy Advanced...now to stop being lazy and put it all together...

Um... Z was for PS2. VBA plays GBA games. Do you mean pon-station? it's a chinese ps2 emulator. Or did you mean D?

...I don't remember now. It was the one where you and Domon are fighting Dark Gundam and Big-O comes out of nowhere, not to aid Dark Gundam, but to attack Domon specifically, knocking him off the map. It probably was D. I haven't started playing yet, I still have to patch it together. I'm being lazy.

Hey...600th post. yay.

EDIT: No. It isn't D. It's J.

SRW Z2 pt.2 has a new preview video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH2-rOG2zFs) which includes a mini-movie of all the mechs fighting the Z2 origninal enemies. Check out what happens at 1:57.

Totally not surprised by Big O being in a 4th SRW game. In the words of a Japanese game reviewer "Big O is a god in SRW games! With two pilots that can enhance its power, almost unlimited HP and easy to string together wide area combo attacks The Big O is clearly a winner when it comes to Super Robots"

So yeah, were the fuck is our 3rd season or OVA? If your not gonna make a new season at least make an OVA explaining other characters actions during the last two episodes.

If nothing else I would love an SRW anime featuring Big O in it. I know you cant get Big O till later in most SRW games, but it'd still be cool to see an over arching SRW anime with all the mechs. Or, you know, an English release of these games.

Edit;
you Forgot to mention that at around 11 minutes Big O shows up again. And apparently it seems Dorothy will be second pilot for every mission, if those cables and her stance are anything to go by.

These games need to seriously come to America. Dai Guard fighting along side Big O? Fuck yeah.

Dai Guard? I agree however. Why can't Japan realize if they did publish the games in English it would be like Fry from futrurama saying "Just take all my money".

Oh licensing... how fickle it can be.

Also, the reaction would be more akin to: http://youtu.be/4I862QJ_u0o (http://youtu.be/4I862QJ_u0o)

Weirdest 4 seconds of my life, but ok then. I agree. Licensing is easy to get, while somewhat expensive. But the return on the investment of releasing these games in English would make quite a tidy profit.

My friend can do a perfect impression of Fry. He recorded himself doing the I C wiener skit and I cracked up. I was laughing so hard I nearly fell outta my chair.