Calaxprimal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...ors_characters

those are almost all Chinese people from the Three Kingdoms Era.

It would be fun if Recluse fell from power in the Isles, and was replaced by a MOSTLY altruistic guy with Hero Corps on his payroll... and the Villains were new HC recruits who are doing work for the HC at the new guy's request.

Then you could yank back all the bloody arachnos stuff a bit and set up a more over arching story about the conflict between HC and Arachnos.

Well... I suppose those patches are really awesome at their jobs given they get atomized, flambe'd, nuked, irradiated, water blasted, spored, electrocuted, probed, drenched, and dimensionally screwed with every single day of their lives.

And personally, I kinda think that there is a set of range limits on the suckers with relay's set up in locations likely to need them (like the Hero's having Relays set up by Longbow in Rogue Isles and so on).

This reminds me, I need to get down this friggin semi-fanfic that's been eating away at my imagination so it goes away.

Simple, have your toon scream this when their domination goes off

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaBCw59DDVA

I think Azuria needs a redesign, and they might want to throw some sort of guardians down in Magi and the general starting areas, given at least a few of the story arcs we play through have us giving massively powerful artifacts to the starting contacts, who seem to be guarded by one bored overweight donut munching security guard and two longbow.

Might be a place to show a more active presence of high level PPD (you know, Hardsuits, acended... that sort of thing). And for that matter, replace the longbow teams inside Paragon City with PPD themselves. Set it up as sort of an FBI/CIA thing with one handling the domestic (paragon) stuff and the other handling the foreign (Preatoria/Isles) stuff.

It would appear that the most epic of encounters are based more on the build up to the encounter than the encounter itself.

I still think that part of it feeling epic is that you feel like you're going up against somebody special rather than just a mook.

Ok, so I was doing a bit of a breakdown in another thread about how I personally think the keyes trial could be improved, and it got me to thinking...

Why do I feel like none of the current trials are really epic encounters? (Ok, Murauder does feel epic)

I mean Siege and Nightstar certainly don't. Probably in part from the fact they look like the mooks that are prevalent through all of the trials, and probably in part because of how they're usually taken down.

And Keyes? Well... that's more aggravating than epic... you basically take him down in a motor pool after shutting down a pile of reactors.

Honestly, one of the more epic encounters I've had has been Rommie. Admittedly my memories are rusty on much else, but that final fight with Rommie where you're facing off with him on the stage, trying to tangle with him while your friends fend off his Kolumn allies. He's this big burly guy in roman armor who's looks like he could just boot you all over the place, and is obviously running the show. That's the sort of fight where you think that in either a fanfic or "real world" encounters like this, that entire area would be more like the hollows than anything (is it strange that before I looked it up I thought that the "hollowing" occurred because two super-heroes went at it and the force of their blows caused the cave in?).

Next would probably be Reichsman given that he very obviously clobbers you twice before you finally take him on with constant reinforcements showing up. Is it Chaotic? Yep, but it also feels like how a fight between super-heroes and the lord of an entire military should be.

Anyway... sorry for rambling to get to this question:

What is your most epic encounter from the various ArchVillain/Hero battles? It can either be the actual in-game battle, or just the epic level encounter design.

And now I'm thinking Freedom will launch on COV's anniversary.

First time I saw this I had an image of Manti slowly shrinking in on himself as the rear ends of his cohorts all started pushing towards him... tighter and tighter....

I knew that...

I was saying that in order to make the zones feel like distinct entities the devs should either use the characters personality or archtype to set up the art design and aesthetic appeal for the zone.

The Villain in a society of Villains thing probably is mostly for gameplay mechanics (after all, originally the games were completely separate and it wouldn't make sense for us to be in a gleaming metropolis run by upstanding citizens without intervention by freedom corps or the Phalanx being severe). That said, I would have preferred if they'd designed each of the Isles to be owned by each different patron, and the architecture and storylines within that zone emphasizing the owner and their conflicts with the other groups

So, Mercy is controlled by Ghostwidow, thus the zone is sort of haunted house vibe, with sorcery, COT and BP being the main themes and villains.

Sharkhead is controlled by Mako, thus savagery and chaos is emphasized, make it sort of the Freakshow's haven with Longbow presance because it's the easiest to set up in due to no structure

Cap Au is Scorpion, so have it be a gleaming metropolis. A bit like what we have now, but instead of having the sprawl, make it more like a Megacity similar to Star Wars Courescant and have Crey be one of the major players in the area (along with the Goldbrickers trying to muscle in)

So on and so forth for all the zones in the game. Thus you can get some variety in the villain zones. You could also boost the variety of enemies this way, and set up zone wide stories (like having Port Oaks be more about the conflict over control of the docks by various groups), but making sure that they don't become to obtrusive.

You could still have Grandville be the Arachnos zone, but prevent the others from becoming to arachnosy

I think the biggest issues with incarnates is that they're sort of, forced as another put it.

But honestly, it makes little sense when you actually start thinking about it anyway. So, there's the well of furies, found on "primal" earth... ok, why is it only found in ONE particular location in one particular world? Why does it still work on other worlds?

I know we don't know much about how the various dimension work, but I'd think that you'd need to have a "Well of Furies" in every dimension to trigger the Statesman's transformation. I don't think Reichsman was just kinda standing at a bus stop when all of a sudden "JAWHOL! Eich Bin Ein POWER!"

And if it is an extra-dimensional force, why did it decide to attach itself to every Marcus Cole and Lord Recluse(... wait, that's the guy who triggered the fall of Star League in Battletech isn't it?) after only one of that particular entity released the Well? Does this mean that every version of my incarnates now has the same incarnate powers?

Admittedly I haven't looked to much into Incarnates to deeply, and am mostly running on what I've seen in this thread, but it seems like the entire system breaks down as lore comes in contact with it.

as to backstory in general, it'd probably be a good idea to set up something in the Universities that has research on the various villain groups all laid out for people to easily read + access (say it's for college dissertations on superheroes... only reason I can see to go to Paragon City in the first place)

With a name like Enriche, you need to have a Latin mascot.