DarkGob

Then maybe you should have said that because that is not even remotely close to what you actually said and it changes the meaning substantially.

The point is, pretty much no matter how you slice it, you get more now than you did before. And what else could the devs do, exactly? There's really no way to temporarily "unlock" a powerset to try it out in any meaningful way. Let you level it up to 10? You're not going to learn anything about how it plays in 10 levels. Level 15 maybe? Level 20? Where do you draw the line? Eventually it gets to the point where the devs are giving that away for free too. And access to the Beta/Test servers? If they let just anyone on the servers will be flooded with people who have no intention of actually testing anything, most will just want a sneak peek at what's coming up (which is what already happens). Or simply play stuff for free on Test that they would otherwise have to pay for on Live, which defeats the purpose of having to pay for it.

The reason we're getting all this cool stuff (and at a much faster pace than before, I'll remind you) is because of the new business model.

Things costs money.

Except for:

Access at least 8 Archetypes (Blaster, Brute, Corruptor, Defender, Dominator, Scrapper, Stalker and Tanker)
At least two Global Character Slot Tokens across all servers (details on the Global Character Slot page)
Create costumes from billions of combinations
Play as a Hero or Villain up to Level 50
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Join Supergroups
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Play in 45 different game zones
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Reward drops including small Inspirations, Training (TO), Dual-Origin (DO), Single-Origin (SO) and Special Enhancements
Receiving email (not sending)
Inf cap of 25 million inf per character
Limited inventory
Ability to buy anything from the Paragon Market
Read the Official Forums
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HOLY CRAP LOOK AT ALL THAT NOTHING

Thanks for that unpleasant mental image.

Being offended is about the best thing that might happen to someone with an eating disorder. Far worse would be triggering.

You're assuming the fight will last more than the half-second it takes Statesman to punch the ACU's head off its shoulders. I always viewed it as a close-up of him about to attack one particular ACU in a group of many.

I'd like to see you do better with the Random button.

I actually meant that the cartoons I made with my friend hadn't aged well. When you cross Dadaist humor with a 13 year-old the result is rarely pretty.

I managed to get the cartoon maker running again (mostly) on a virtual Win98 install and watched a bunch of the cartoons I made when I was 13-14 (15 years ago, geez). I gotta be honest...they have not aged well.

I can't believe someone else referenced that, I was going to make this exact same post when I saw this thread this morning. <3 The Spider-Man and X-Men Cartoon Makers.

Fixed to match my first experience with TFs back in late 2005. If the game had stayed like this I can't imagine I'd still be playing (never mind it even continuing to exist).

Weird...could have sworn there was a Malta something that did that, but looking at the Gunslinger on PW it doesn't even have holsters to draw from.

Do you not know what rhetorical means?

It's more interesting than a punch in the junk, that's for sure.

Maybe, I wasn't even watching the head because I had seen reports that it couldn't be defeated anyway. I guess if it was that low on HP you might be right.

In the end it's all 1s and 0s anyway.

See but that's the thing, you're going with this assumption that there is only one correct Batman. The Batman character is 70 years old and has seen lots of different versions and styles. Nolan's take on the mythos is just as valid as the deliberately campy 60's show.

Nolan set out to create the most plausible world where Batman could exist and he succeeded. You could still have Poison Ivy and the Penguin in this world and they would work just fine (ecoterrorist, gangster with a nickname), they just didn't fit into the themes that Nolan wanted to explore. But then you start getting into Batman's more super-science enemies, like Mr. Freeze and Clayface, and you have you start inventing pseudo-science handwavium explanations for their abilities. And there's nothing wrong with that, but you can't do that while your intention is to make the world as realistic as possible.