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Seems that way to me. Makes sense, if it is... reduces most of the balance concerns.



I'm still working my first two characters through praetoria & haven't covered anything but the level 40-50 tips, so I'm more than happy with them giving task-forcers and level-cappers their due.

Nah. We'd generic-lawyer ya back from oblivion. Character personalities aren't trademarked. The names aren't a total match, so there's no worry there, and the appearances are nowhere close. There are many more homage references that are more overt and apparent on all three of those-- like every one of the PPD radio mission contacts. (They also wouldn't meet the need for generic'ing, for that matter, but they're closer to it than any of the Oban: Star Racer crew)

Ditto.

Have the DVD here at my work desk-- we occasionally have to indoctrinate newcomers to our particular form of madness with a video lunchbreak.

Alternate ADVANCEMENT system is a better term.

By unlocking the new slot and equipping it, your character advances much as it would by leveling, but by selecting what to equip into the slot, you have opportunities to personalize the character or choose where the advancement will be.

By tying it in to the crafting mechanics, they break the process of getting and slotting that power into more incremental steps. (getting the unlock, getting the loot drops, getting the RIGHT loot drop for what you want to slot, etc.) That way, one slot unlock won't be "done and forgotten" in the first week of a new issue's release.

You're assuming that marketing guys actually appear on film....

So... kinda like the Team Fortress 2 "Meet the" archetypes series?

How do you think I feel? I was about to complain about finding this thread late...

Well, reinforcing to the devs that ONE animated tail piece was the critical deciding factor in spending $10 on a costume set is NOT going to help curb the mindset that 2 complex dances + 6 loosely-related emotes is worth $8 :P

Doesn't fake nemesis have a problem with clipping in doorway? No indoor missions for you! :P

I don't know- guess I'm solidly in the opposite camp.

I concede that the genre certainly has its share of big guns, blades, and muscles... but when artists of that style move to a title, I generally unsubscribe.

There are rare times (more common in manga than US comics) where size distortions are used more to convey impressions more than actual representations, which I'm fine with, and when its used in intentional parody or even "revel in the ridiculousness of it" like the Expendables (well, they tried. Maybe "True Lies" is a better example)... I can suspend my disbelief and enjoy it...

...but those unwieldy-fugly-functionally-backwards stylized swords, guns, muscles and armor... presented seriously for any length of time just annoy the heck outta me. They're too operationally useless- too counterproductive for me to enjoy-- most of the time.

It's a weird duality for me, though. I couldn't even bother with Gears of War 3, for example, because of the screaming stupidity presented as some kind of gritty "reality." but I reveled in the much more ridiculously over-the-top madworld... probably because it never pretended to take itself seriously.

I guess tone and presentation are the defining factor for me.

Here in CoH? Some "bigness" is OK, given the genre, but the tone has to be consistent for me to immerse myself in any 'shared world.' Adding gear with even more exaggeration than what we already have- or that the enemies already have- would break that. Granted, our NPC encounters do have a bit more "bigness" than our PC's, so there's some room for accommodation.

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One last observation in our differences, samuel_tow: I HATE being bigger than the foes I fight. I've always felt like the bully fighting people smaller than me. I know it's ridiculous-- sparred with a high-school-state-level boxer that was 6 inches shorter than me in BASIC-- he kicked everyone's butt with pugle sticks-- but I still can't get over the feeling. I blame grade school lunchtime scrapping. A third grader fighting a first grader = bully. A third grader fighting a 6th grader = notsomuch. Size generally followed those lines back then & I never really got that feeling out of my system.

Hmm... I'd ruled this out since if I head in right after work... figuring traffic in, I'd probably get there at 10:30. Now it looks like I'd be getting there right when the fun begins!

Making parallels between the New Testament and SUPERMAN CANON?

Dammit, you KNOW better! Some WB exec gets a look at this, and suddenly they've got their next big neverending series- Nazareth -- probably with Kristin Kreuk as Mary Magdaline...

You do excellent work that's very appreciated & really reaches a different audience than the dev work, but I understand completely. The deadline of an issue's release puts you under a lot more pressure & you DO see something official paralleling your work. Doing other videos (NO RETIREMENT 4 YOU) would probably be less pressure and maybe even give you some more creative freedom.

Go for it!


...Just remember- when I win the lottery, I'm still funding your CoH feature-length film.

I lost track of the conversation. Are we talking about PvP or RP now?

He still wouldn't be one, due to missing other prerequisites, but don't worry, you'll never be called to recant. The wikipedia article for Lord Recluse lists the creator as "Sean Michael Fish" aka Manticore. Since they credit Jack for Statesman, I'd wager that this wasn't a generic attribution.

Poor Sean was probably going nuts looking for names for this one. He managed to finally find the only venomous North American spider that didn't have a corresponding comic book character named after it.

Not a bad idea to nudge it up. When you have something that needs large pugs to respond whenever they occur, it's good to encourage the "drop everything and come" behavior.

- Giant monsters are public events- people see them, so they add atmosphere and flavor for people in the zone, even if they don't participate.
- The immediacy of responding feels heroic- you're answering the emergency call.
- NOT being able to answer the call because others aren't interested is... well... demoralizing.
- Yes, you need to manage the rewards against the risk of padding, so we don't have a repeat of winter lord powerleveling, but reward merits can be managed (like the TF timers)

I decided to make her an omnipotent clairvoyant lycan invulnerability tanker instead. "Hairy Sue" wasn't taken.

Sometimes they are.

Unfortunately, we have some people here with doctorates in hysteria & much more free time, so ... notachanceofthisworking.

Yeah, general problem with new-phrase creation.

- Some will use it in the original context, which, in this case, pointed to specific characteristics of an object of derision.
-Others will see it used mockingly but not grasp its original context. They'll start applying it to unrelated things that they just want to mock.
-Soon, people apply it just to things they don't like.
-Those things will eventually have people that DO like them, who are going to see the Mary Sue label used, not know what it originally meant.
-Eventually, some of these people will grow to identify with the label, now losing all context and value, and proudly declare "I'm mary sue and proud of it"

- and yes, before you ask, I did check to see if "mary sue" was available on any of the servers. You sickos already took it. Now what do I call my omnipotent clairvoyant invulnerability tanker, dammit?

That's similar to my thoughts.

Pre-I13 PvP was had issues that REALLY limited its participation to a narrow group that had a particular mindset. Where THEY saw the problems and what I recall THEY were advocating for was, in a way, something that would only reinforce that isolation and narrow the group further.

The devs wanted to do something different- they asked, 'what would widen the appeal of PvP to more people?" and thought that widening the range of viable builds, lessening the rock-paper-scissors effects of some of the extremes, and dampening down on the possible extreme team builds would have that effect. They wanted more casual PvP'ers to enjoy PvP.

What they missed was that all the changes they did, while theoretically meeting those desired goals, made something that performed so different from the PvE that the casuals didn't want to commit time to playing and that was so antithetical to the wants of the existing PvP'ers that their rage would be neverending. heck, that uproar was so loud that many of the potential players this might have appealed to made up their minds without even trying.

I still reject your application of the phrase as overly-broad... to the point of making it useless. It encompasses too much that it should not and loses the context of the phrase's origin.

Silver Gale's use is much more tightly-defined, useful, and consistent with that origin.

No he is insane because he c... nevemind, he's just insane.