Arnabas

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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Dark_Respite View Post


    Actually, that would be rather neat in its own way. Equally melodramatic is that Psyche mindrides into MANTICORE, and now their baby girl has Mommy and Daddy sharing the same body...
    So if someone tells him to go **** himself, would he sigh, shake his head and say "If only I could..."?
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    What I want to see is the ability to stack control effects to overcome an enemy's status resistance in the same way as one would "stack" attack damage to overcome an enemy's health. Get an enemy down to 75% status and he's debuffed. Get an enemy to 50% status and he's held/slept/stunned for a short duration. Get an enemy down to 25% status and your control effects begin to stack for much greater duration. Get his status down to 0% and that enemy is permanently defeated - frozen in ice for the cops to pick up and thaw, turned to stone forever, slowed down to the point it would take him 100 years to blink, that sort of thing. Think of the Gorgon Medusa - she never "killed" anyone, in that she never stuck a knife inside an adventurer, but she turned thousands to stone.
    I have always liked this idea. It just makes sense to me.
  3. In no particular order:

    1) Animated hair
    2) Fingers
    3) Bare feet that look like feet, not boots with toes painted on
    4) Multiple powers to choose from at each tier, so that you can have 2 chars with the same power sets but different individual powers.
    5) More customisation for powers, allowing the player to choose how the character uses the power (I.E. Firing blasts from eyes, hands, etc)
    6) Character movement based on abilities (I.E. a super-reflexes character twisting and dodging attacks in a manner visibly different from on with invulnerability).
    7) The ability to interact with the environment based on powersets (using flight to rescue kittens from trees, using super strength to move obstacles blocking one's path, grabbing a phone pole to swat someone, etc)
  4. This show is on, what? Once every 6 weeks?
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Talia_Rayvyn View Post
    Exciiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiited!

    I'm only disappointed they replaced Megan Fox with another mannequin actress. They should have brought her back, kept Sam single or replaced her with someone who has a purpose other than to be pretty.
    Carly has a purpose: get together with Sam and give birth to Daniel.

    Hellooooo.

    Also: I'm assuming that the one-eyed bot at about 1:30 is Shockwave, yeah? Not that he resembles him in any way, shape or form other than the one eye...
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Leandro View Post
    Parts of my brain shut down in protest last time I tried to make sense of his rules.
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Kawkazn View Post
    Sad, cause those lawsuit should be focused on the people causing the problems.
    This.

    I feel bad for Sony. Part of me wonders if this was all related to the business a while back with Anonymous and people just wanting to "get back" at Sony in any way they can. So basically now we have someone attacking Sony and then someone deciding to file a lawsuit against them for being attacked. I'd much rather see the perpetrators of the crime being targeted.

    But they don't have pockets as deep as Sony, so why go after them?
  8. Arnabas

    Dr Who 23/04/11

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Hyperstrike View Post
    You apparently forgot this fella.



    And this fella.

    I didn't forget them. I just don't really count them as regular companions, especially Jack.

    Now, my understanding is that River has images of each of the Doctor's regenerations. I wonder if she also knows the order that he went through them, or if they are just randomly assembled images. Also, the thing that confuses me a bit is that she spoke of her final encounter with the Doctor and the "date" (for lack of a better word) that they went on. If they are meeting each other in reverse order, that meeting should have been their last meeting before the library from her perception and their next meeting after the library from his perception, no?
  9. Arnabas

    Dr Who 23/04/11

    I actually enjoyed it a fair bit. People can hate on Rory all they want, but I like him. He's fun. He's also the first male companion since the 5th Doctor, so I am glad to see that they're keeping him around.

    Love River, but I am wondering how they'll work things out with her. She sould be younger each time we see her, so at some point we may need a new actress if they don't alter her story. I can't see anyone else playing her.
  10. I have no idea what this is....

    Poor Kevin Nash is looking old.

    And "Patricia Velas-kwez"? (she was considerably hotter as Anck Su Namun)
  11. Ok... "Isn't Flatulence just the best?" got a serious laugh from me...
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jophiel View Post
    When I played my AR blaster with the sniper rifle model, I used to love using the snipe to take down the last guy. The animation of holding up and aiming the rifle, then... BANG!
    I really enjoy using this on that last guy who-- upon seeing all his allies go down-- tries to run away.

    "I'm gonna make it! I'm gonna make it!"
    *Blam!*
    "Aaarrrgghhh!"
  13. That actually made me laugh out loud... Not what I was expecting.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Defenestrator View Post
    ... I'd worry about the movie being all over the internet before it opens in the U.S., but movies premiering earlier in other places is not entirely uncommon.
    I know it's pretty common, but I just never knew why. Especially a lead time of over 2 weeks, which seems like a lot. I've waited this long, I can wait a bit longer. It's just the whole pirating thing that makes me think it's a bad idea.
  15. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Eva Destruction View Post
    I assumed that was a given. They'd still be "intended for teams," but it's been demonstrated time and time again that people can run them with far less than the minimum team size, so why make people looking for a challenge jump through a bunch of hoops to get it?
    /signed x 1000

    Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

    I have been saying for AGES that I would love to be able to solo TFs (in no small part because-- despite having played from launch-- I have not been able to play more than roughly half of the TFs because can never get on a team to do them (limited play time)).

    I would happily go through the TFs with no reward just be be able to see them. Also, this would make my character feel epic. My favourite story to do with my main tank is the Jade Spider, because it's as close as I have ever felt to soloing a TF.
  16. I have been happy with the recent posters I have seen.

    After some discussion her about whether or not they'd be allowed to refer to him as an actual god or not in a film that kids will be seeing (as opposed to Thor, the Extradimensional Being Utilising Advanced Technology that Appears to be Magic When Perceived by Primitive Minds), I have had my concerns somewhat alleviated by the movie poster with a close-up of Thor and the caption "The God of Thunder!"

    Glad to hear the movie is actually good.

    Your impression of the fight scenes? (Something else criticised recently)


    Edit: I hate you for seeing is so long in advance of me.

    Edit 2: BTW... what is the rationale for film opening more than 2 week earlier there? Surely they know that people who are dying to see it will probably find it online in about another 12 hours or so, possibly then choosing not to spend money to see it in the theater...
  17. Quote:
    Originally Posted by GuyPerfect View Post
    This image was rendered over the course of about two and a half weeks:



    Incidentally, this only applies to Hero radios and special missions, as far as I can tell. If you run newspapers redside, you don't get them. Ever.

    It's the one case where devs hating villains was actually good for the villains.
    Yep.

    I hate this room with a passion, although for me, I only have issues upon entering this area. I can look in from the hallway with no problem.
  18. I don't know what to say other than this is really, really sad news for me. I gasped loud enough for my wife to come see what was wrong.

    I feel like I should write something... deep... but I have no words.
  19. Arnabas

    QoL Issues

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill View Post
    I *believe* we've been told part of the reason we can't is that these aren't pre-rendered cutscenes (such as in Guild Wars or Aion.) The models are there and running through a script. When (for instance) Breakneck jumps down and rushes whatsisface, the NPC model is actually doing that.

    The solution for this would have to start with creating pre-rendered videos as opposed to the scripting they use now.

    Tiny bit of work...
    Yep. Early on, there were stories of people being able to lock onto a target, hit follow and then show up in the cut scene, attacking NPCs as they delivered their dialogue. Never saw that, personally, but supposedly it happened.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Ironik View Post
    I don't see anything wrong with the fighting. It's just a brawl, coming after another brawl. Frankly I'm relieved not see yet another shaky-cam quick-cut who-the-hell-can-tell-what's-going-on strobe effect "fight."
    This. I'd much rather have a scene like this than more shaky-cam.
  21. Well, I hope they make an adjustment to the solo option. This makes 3 nights now that I have waited 45 minutes without being able to get on a team...

    I have 45 minutes left before I have to log off, so even if I get on a team now, I won't be able to finish.
  22. Just out of curiosity, how long do people here actually wait in queue? I find that every time I enter the queue, it says the average wait is about 3 minutes. After about 20-30 minutes I usually get tired of waiting and move on to something else.
  23. Arnabas

    I'm a superhero

    Ninja!
    Poof

    **disappears**
  24. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Defenestrator View Post
    As someone who did scrape up the cash for it, I say you will not be disappointed if you do.
    **Starts counting pennies...**

    I'd love to see this done for Peter David's run on the Hulk. I have no idea how they compare in size, though.