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  1. Tossing something else in. Don't know if it's be brought up already, but if it has, it needs repeating anyway.

    Alternate animations for Teleport. For example, doing something like using the costumes change animations for Lightning Bolt or Dimension Shift or Smoke Bomb.
  2. Steelbane is sort of a cross between a Terminator and Bender.

    Wardsman is nod to Hyperion from JMS's Squadron Supreme.

    Shadow Scourge is a nod to the Void, the evil version of the Sentry.

    Burning-Star is a female version of the Sentry with the split personalities and energy powers.

    Ahreman the Red is a cross between Black Adam and Kid Miracleman.

    Agonus is sort of a cross between Destro and Dr. Doom.

    Omega Nuclear Driver, in his current incarnation anyway, is what would happen if Dexter (from Dexter's Laboratory) built a miniature version of Liberty Prime from Fallout 3.

    And Black Reckoner is a nod to the current direction of Daredevil, with a vigilante gaining control of a clan of ninja assassins.
  3. If I actually used Facebook more than like once a month, I might be concerned. But I also signed up with an alias too. ^_^

    Regardless, if any of my real information was on that ridiculous site, I'd be pissed.
  4. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim View Post
    Based on this thread I've decided to roll a Kin/EnA brute.
    I started one grayside, still a lowbie though. If nothing else, you'll look all sorts of nifty when the powers are active.
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lastjustice View Post
    ...Black Cat gained gear from the Tinker to amp up herself after she lost her other powers. (she's rerolled a couple times.)


    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lastjustice View Post
    Jubliee as mentioned became Wondra with the Wizards tech. (she's currently a vampire last I heard.)
    She's in the process of becoming one. She hasn't finished her respec yet.
  6. They're doing ads on websites and everything!

    *Disclaimer- I do not know how long CBR with have a Going Rogue background on the main page, but that's what it is as of 8/17.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Decorum View Post
    Just checking. You do know AE has a lot more than just farming in it, right?
    Pfft. Don't be silly. AE only has 3 maps, total, and the only critters are gimped custom NPCS. There can't be anything else to do in there.
  8. I guess I should not be surprised at all the players going out of their way to try to PuG out of the opening zone as fast as possible, but... geeze. There's like, how many plot and dialogue options?!
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Shadow State View Post
    Do you mean the syndicate stuff? That's been on live since I17.
    Really?! I'll need to doublecheck for these Syndicate pieces. I don't remember them and I didn't see them last night.
  10. Former mutant Prodigy, who could pick up the knowledge of anyone within a certain radius, stayed with the X-Men as a base coordinator after he lost his mutant power. There was a plot when he still had his power where he tried to change things so that he kept all the knowledge he gained, but I don't remember how it was resolved.

    Magog also set up training for the JSA All-Stars so that they could still fight without their powers.
  11. Energy Transfer.

    Any power that has that slow jumping up and landing with a double-fisted smash, like Thunderstrike and Total Focus.

    Jump Kick, changed to anything less flippy.

    Energy Transfer.

    Can we get some alternate Dual Pistols animations that are more spaghetti Western and less Equilibrium?

    For the elemental powers that have weapon attacks (Ice, Fire, and Earth), options so that you could use either all attacks with the elemental weapon or all attacks with no elemental weapon. For example, being able to change Stone Melee so that all the attacks use the Stone Mallet, or Fire Melee so that all the attacks involve burning hands.

    And for Breath of Fire and Frost Breath, being able to change the origination area of the attack from the "mouth" to the hands.

    And did I mention Energy Transfer?
  12. I never use blatant misspelling or goofy punctuation in names. Stuff like Spectre/Specter is okay, and hyphens are the only punctuation I'll use.

    Powersets have to sync up visually by animation and color. For example, stuff like Rad/Rad and Rad/Kin work. Ice Blast/Dark Miasma, and, say, Fire Melee/Elec armor are out.

    No Shields unless it's paired with a weapon, but the elemental scimitars count.

    Always log out in a Day Job location. If forces beyond my control hinder that, go back to the character and get them in a Day Job location.

    Can't really explain why, but I got into the habit of never doing the hero tutorial and always doing the villain one.

    No common IOs or full IO sets before lvl 47. I've been pushing up my usage of IO sets though. Used to be that I didn't bother until the late 30's, now I start tinkering with them in the late teens and/or early 20s.

    I also have a couple costume design elements I stick too, and there are a lot of pieces I'll never ever touch, but those "rules" are too difficult to explain here. >.>
  13. Purely on some variation of the strength/invulnerability/flight/speed/ combo platter powers.

    Wildstorm's Mr. Majestic
    Image's Captain Dynamo
    (On a quick sidenote, there's a subplot in the Image mini Dynamo 5: Sins of Our Fathers, which deals with how three Superman analogues, Omni-Man, Cap Dynamo, and Supreme, teamed up to deal with a galactic invader character.)

    Mark Millar and Lienel Yu's new character Superior seems to be yet another Superman clone too.

    Marvelman/Miracleman is an expy of Captain Marvel who's an expy of Superman.

    And as far as alien from another planet arrives on Earth with the combo platter of powers, technically you have Goku, and then Omni-Man and Invincible too.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Father Xmas View Post
    Well you could have brought up Juno as well, it seems that there's a lot of hate there as well.
    Juno also had Ellen Page to pick up Cera's considerable slack.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ChrisMoses View Post
    More people saw the Expendables.

    More people say Scott Pilgrim is the better movie.
    I don't know about "the" better movie, but it seems to be getting better reviews on the whole. I did expect Pilgrim to do better than Expendables, tbh.

    I saw Expendables, and while it was entertaining, it's an 80's action movie with 2010 special effects. The plot was average and the dialogue was rather hit and miss.

    The biggest complaints I've seen about Scott Pilgrim revolve around Cera recycling his schtick and the movie being too stylized. One review even compared it to Speed Racer. Ouch.

    I'll be curious to see how the movies do their second weekends.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by ChrisMoses View Post
    I don't think you can value a movie's worth simply on the viewers it attracts opening weekend.
    Oh I agree, but Hollywood sure loves its opening weekends.
  15. I just don't get the handlebars on the back of the Resistance shoulder pads. Do Resistance members double as waterboards or something?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by bjooks View Post
    ...
    Can't direct you to the pics of the Alpha or Omega auras, but I can tell you this: ALL the auras already in game will now also have a "combat aura" option. That's pretty awesome, actually.


    From Zombie Man's guide:
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    Oooh, wasn't expecting that at all. Very nifty.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kyasubaru View Post
    Correction: The booster is a collection of the in-game items that come with the Complete Collection version of Going Rogue. If you prepurchased Going Rogue on the NCSoft store(to get Pistols or Demons early) you do NOT get the Complete Collection stuff and you must buy the booster.
    So I need to spend another $6.99 to get the Alpha and Omega sets? Bleh. Lame. Looks like my Doomsday homage will be sticking with the Mutant Booster. >.>
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay View Post
    While I certainly agree that the Joker and Batman are overhyped to a degree, they all do have a reason to be scared of the Joker: He's smarter than all of them. Watch any movie that has a multitude of villains (World's Finest, Under the Red Hood, Dark Knight). The Joker will always come out on top, and not just because of plot armor. Much like Jeremiah Berek of 7th Sea, the fact that he's so far out there grants him outside thinking that allows him to access strategies most other people can't conceive. He is the dark mirror of Batman: He can win if he doesn't have time to plan.
    Character shields and author favoritism aside, unpredictability from an otherwise completely human character -should- only go so far. Against low tier characters and hapless citizens? Sure, I'll give you that. Against characters capable of destroying a city block with the equivalent of a wave of their hand? No way.

    At least Deadpool has his fighting skills and regen in addition to being bat@#$% insane. The Joker is just crazy. That's it. Nothing else.

    And like I've said before, this wouldn't be an issue, (to me, anyway) if the comics didn't amp up the Joker's body count to ridiculous levels and stick to the weak defense that "Jokah so cah-razy!" he gets away with it.
  17. By pure coincidence I logged-in just in time for this.

    So, um, neat and all, but... praytell why for art Malta attack?

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Daegoth View Post
    Debt Protection please :x
    Wasn't run like the usual invasions. I saw a bunch of level 54 boss robots and a few soldiers, but the lag got so bad once things hit the fan it was impossible to pick out anything the size of a PC.
  18. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Lord_Nightblade View Post
    Doesn't Joker scare the crap out of the rest of Earth's villains?
    You'd think they
    would get together and try to eliminate him, if only to keep him from screwing with their own plans at some later date.
    Joker scaring other villains is one of the things I utterly despise about DC. Characters like Black Adam, Zoom, Grodd, Deathstroke, Luthor, Prometheus, Bane, hell, even freaking Catman, among a multitude of others, are better than that.

    I can see certain "big picture" villains keeping Joker around for the chaos he creates, and the Joker is so focused on Batman anyway. But being afraid of a him? No, just no.
  19. Never got a Scrapper past level 18, so I'm looking for something new with GR. Haven't gotten MA or Regen very high either, but I'd like something flashier visually if possible.

    As such, a few questions.

    So between DM/FA and MA/Regen, which would better in terms of survivability and damage output? MA/FA is another option if that syncs at all.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by BlackArachnia View Post
    OK, either we all listen to critics, and take their word for everything, or we ignore them.

    Do you really think they are going to give the Expendables a high score? No.
    Who cares how the Expendables is rated? That is missing the "point" of the movie.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by BlackArachnia View Post
    Are we going to listen to the same type of people that look at comic books as being childish and amatuerish instead of something that can have a great story and great art work?

    NO!!

    Well, to quote another man, "I may not know art, but I know what I like."
    Did you even check any of those links I posted? Sarcasticgamer.com is reviewing the comic, and destructoid.com is in there too. A far cry from the elitist reviewers with no sense of fun you're talking about.
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by ChrisMoses View Post
    Read the other thread on the first page on Edgar Wright's quick comments about SP's motivation if you're really curious. He nails it.




    I have a friend who is a movie critic for the Dallas Morning News. He knows nothing about the book or the premise this is based on. He saw it last night, and his quick email to me said, "Saw it last night. I must say, I was kind of blown away. It’s a fantastic movie: visually, creatively, etc…."

    I'm expecting big things.
    And according to other critics, Scott Pilgrim is Twilight for boys.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Desi_Nova View Post
    No, It's been down for over a week
    Longer than that, I've been trying to copy characters to either the GR or test servers from Virtue for at least 3 weeks and it hasn't worked yet.
  23. -You unlocked Epic Archtypes once you got a character to level 50.
    -Players were excited about what AE might have to offer.
    -You had to run to the far end of Mercy to "Eliminate the Infected."
    -Dual Pistols? Demon Summoning?! Shields?!? Someone's been posting while drunk again.
    -Hazard zones had level restrictions to get in.
    -Sidekicking. You're too far away from your sidekick. You're too far away from your sidekick...
    -There was no Cimerora.
    -You'll look like Popeye when you deliver a Knock-Out Blow and you'll like it!
    -There was no Oroborous.
    -There were no IOs.
    -We don't need no salvage here.
    -There were no day jobs.
    -No Patrol XP either.
    -Oh c'mon, we'll never get to alter the colors of the powers.
    -Powerset Prolifer-whatnow?
    -There were no Markets.
    -There were no customizable weapons.
    -Burke wasn't hanging out in Mercy Island.
    -There was no soft-capping.
    -There were no Boosters.
    -Blasters used to deal more damage the closer they were to dying.
    -There were no Vet powers.
    -There were no VEATS.
    -Villains only went up to level 40.
    -Rogue Isles? What Rogues Isles?
    -What are these Arenas you speak of?
    -There were no "temporary" powers tied in to origins.
    -PVP? Here?
    -You could six slot a power with, say, accuracy and not have to think about diminishing returns.

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Gehnen View Post
    ...stores didn't have map markers. You had to remember where to go.

    Of all the QoL improvements, this ranks second only to Super Side-kicking in my book
    Oh man, I had forgotten how much that used to drive me crazy.
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Cynical_Gamer View Post
    *boggles at the people calling Scott Pilgrim a hipster movie*

    I don't think you know what that word means.
    It's geek chic, which is all the rage in Hollywood these days.