Techbot Alpha

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

You know, a couple of days ago I remembered something old that I've been meaning to share for some time now. Remember how I whined that all the facilities we use belong to Arachnos? Well, there's an old game that has sort of a parallel to this.

Remember Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver? In that game and its sequel, you play as Raziel, once a vampire now dead (about as dead can be), but who has the ability to rematerialise on the physical plane by way of portals that the Elder God provides. He can die on his own and return to the spiritual plane, but if he needs to become physical again, he needs the Elder God's portals. So, in an echo of the "Well, Arachnos can just shut down the reclimators!" this is exactly what happens in the series' third installment, Legacy of Kain: Defiance.

Having pissed off the Elder God one too many times, Raziel finds himself unable to use the portals to return to the physical plane, simply because the Elder God won't allow him. So what does he do? Well, he finds a rotting corpse, possesses that, climbs out of the ground and WILLS it into his earlier form. Take THAT, Elder God! Try and stop me from materialising now!

This brings me back to an old idea I had about reclimators, arbiters and so forth. Suppose CoV allows you to choose whether you want to be affiliated with Arachnos or not. Even on just a superficial level. If you ARE, then you resurrect at their reclimators, shop at their quartermasters, train at their arbiters, use their helicopters and so on and so forth.

Suppose you don't want to be affiliated with them, though. What then? Well, you can resurrect at the old hacked reclimator down at the hovel that the Stricken have rigged up to service their own. You need to train, you go look up one of the old masters, bedraggled old men living in quats in the ghettos, who just happen to be old, knowledgeable supers who gave up their lives of crime. You need to shop, you can always stop by the Golbricker training facility, the Hellions' warehouse or even the Lost's stockpile. Sure, you beat 'em up every day, but money is money, right? You need to travel, I guess you can use the ferry. Or, if not, then you can always catch a smuggler's boat between the islands. I mean, if heroes can do that to get to Striga, why can't villains do that to move around?

This would go a long way towards dissociating us from Arachnos, at least on the cosmetic level. And PLEASE remove that paper mission about getting brownie points with the Spiders. I want to punch whoever wrote that.

Originally Posted by Warkupo

You can tell when TA is mentally broken because he starts talking like the Rikti...


On the subject of enhanced AI, I really prefer that sort of things in very specific Story Arcs or in Task/Strike Forces. I don't want to always have to think really hard about what I'm doing every time I get in the game, but at the same time I still like that there's opportunity to be challenged if I so desire it.

Originally Posted by Blue Rabbit

Here's a tip to young drinkers: don't.

Originally Posted by Obsidius

Reminds me of the Art Institute of Chicago

What the team should do (if the in-game pieces are constructed right) is allow us access to the armor sets used in the Midnighter Club

Originally Posted by Psylenz

Sorry this thread has grown faster than I have been able to keep up. I am old I guess.

Two points I would bring up:

The Rikti aren't evil. They are acting in self-defense to provocation by powers from this world in an attack on theirs, no?

By whose defnition are the Rularuu evil? I guess my point is that alien points of view are another facet in the crazy, puppy killer faction. Is an alien desire to be dominant in the universe any more evil that human's desire to fill the vastness of space with colonies? True villains are the ones who know the societal boundaries and attempt to achieve his goals regardless of the rules or consequences.

Originally Posted by Emberly

Oh man, numbers! I love numbers!

*looks at numbers*
*doesn't understand what they mean*
*associates any lower numbers with personal axe to grind*
*posts ignorant opinion*

And anyone who disagrees is a troll! fanboy! mouthbreather! doomsayer!

Originally Posted by SwellGuy

Well ignore doesn't have to be permanent. If someone is really irritating me I ignore them. Often you see people quoting them which reinforces leaving them on ignore (they are just trolls or complete morons) or taking them off.

Originally Posted by M_I_Abrahms

So, take a month of time, and lose the 'true Villain' badge and perks, whatever they may be...