Dr_Mechano

Actually I think the Rularuu Eyeballs are pretty much THE Kryptonite for most of the toughest characters except Controllers/Dominators (yay Mez!).

Their attacks are weirdly typed meaning most sets won't have major resistances to it besides Stone, the Bosses hit incredibly hard meaning one or two can spike you or your pets down and they've got enough To-Hit to ignore defenses.

The tech for this is beyond ancient in gaming terms.

The game Blood did the 'fight on the train towards the engine' level with exactly that kind of tech is the first I can remember seeing it used, it was used later in the 1st Unreal Tournament for an 'assault' map (assault and stop the train).

The terrain itself was basically a conveyor belt, the train didn't move but the level itself moved giving the impression of speed where there was none.

It also worked if you feel from the train and died as your head would be carried along on the conveyor belt making it look like the train was speeding off into the distance.

Now the question comes wether they could do that in THIS game using that sly illusional technique.

Alright fair point, it will introduce a whole new generation to Rocky Horror.

I saw the film first then a large group of us went to see a stage performance.

Being a somewhat portly man I lacked the figure for a Frank N Furter outfit BUT I am a 'meatloaf' build so that allowed me to dress up as Eddie, however friend went Full Frank and even had help from his fiance to learn how to walk/dance in high heels.

Though we did have to go to some...interesting...shops to pick up stilletos in a male size 12 (UK shoe sizes different to US, just thought I'd note, 12 1/2 US size apparently) and the rest of the outfit, amazingly friendly staff though.

Thankfully London has an area called Camden aka 'the central London area of weirdness' where there are a range of interesting shops.

Yeah it is about the audience participation, to the point where someone in the crowd is 'designated heckler' (a friend was asked to be the heckler) so the narrator can provide snappy improv comebacks at him to the insults he threw.

Everyone danced, everyone joined in for the songs and on the whole was a really great night.

I'd recommend to anyone to go see it live and preferably dress up if you do, remember you don't always have to go Full Frank, you can always just be Eddie.

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For those of you that haven't seen/heard the original movie version (it started as a stage production before becoming a movie with the cast of the original stage production, then once the movie was done, went back to being a stage production)Here is the Tim Curry original of Sweet Transvestite

He got those closed attitudes by being as offensive as possible, hence skewing the results of his data, which isn't very scientific.

CoH has survived all that would threaten it so far, even the biggest hit that could have been disasterous (CO) turned out to be a mere blip. I know CoH will survive DCUO.

The point I'm saying is the community is already good, it doesn't need to get much better, heck even our Trolls are either amazingly amusing (I love you ResidentBaka!) and Golden Girl has some merit on occasions.

If you think what you've experienced here is bad...well I must say you really haven't experienced the worst forums that MMOs can offer.

Remember the fact Blizzard were threatening the whole Real ID thing because they realised their forums are a complete mess? Openly hostile to new players asking question, generally rude and what useful information there is on there was buried under a ton of crap. It is seen as the worst gaming forum on the internet and Blizzard had to threaten to reveal players names because they thought that was the only way to clean up its image.

The Eve online forums are...strangely civil for a game where griefing is seen as part of the gameplay but I think thats because the game has a learning curve that curves so hard it turns into an overhang. Even there you will still get big arguements.

I won't even get started on the CO, AoC or the many unofficial WAR forums, the APB forums while the game was running were equally terrible.

Generally these forums are on par with the Eve forums, civil discussion happens.

The 'Twixt' story he went out of his way to antagonise as many people as he possibly could IIRC and generally acted like a [censored] all under the banner of 'scientific research' most of which was absolute bupkiss anyway with him skewing the results as he saw fit.

Lets take the guy who posted his video review of CoH/GR, the guy made an ungodly number of errors in it, had clearly 'not done the research' and while he asked for opinions, when people pointed all that out he got incredibly defensive and wouldn't admit he was in the wrong.

So don't act so heartwounded by a simple disagreement from other people.

Am I interested in DCUO?

No.

It has a COish art-style and much like CO is focusing on trying to be a console port (press Z to talk to a contact instead of just click on them? Really CO?). It has the whole WoW 'costumes as gear' element which just sucks in an MMO where customisation is key and generally doesn't look like a good MMO, I've played enough bad ones to spot a 'meh' one (I've played all the MMOs I've listed above, WAR, AoC, WoW, CO and attempted to play Eve but just couldn't get my head around it, Eve isn't bad just completely newbie unfriendly) .

The new Final Fantasy MMO is accused of this and according to all reviews it is basically a really, really awful console port.

Dr Steel does not confirm to you rules of morality!

The future is beauty....beauty and robots

Of course a hero would say.

Actually...why would I want the genuis level mad science super power...I know someone far more worthy of such a power.

Gah...Sweet Transvestite...what did they do to you?!

Eh...sorry but most of those covers really kind of sucked, far too pop orientated for my tastes.

Edit:

Why was transexual removed from the lyrics if she says Transvestite the moment before...that makes no sense!

2nd Edit:

Also being played by a woman who still uses the term Transvestite has unfortunate implications moving Frank N Furter from pre-op transexual to post-op transexual, sorry just found that mildly amusing.

Annnnddddd

You can already do this anyway.

Select the white skin option.

Select the 'tops with skin' option on the female body.

Select the white colouring.

Tada you've just made someone nude because the clothing actually blends in and takes on the skin colouration thing rather than being an actual solid piece (which is very annoying at times).

Or you could just select one of the many...many...many other colours that can 'sort of' match, you'll just have to be green and naked instead of flesh toned.

I'm honestly not sure whether that is a typo or not...either way I chuckled.

Citadel is almost entirely all filler, I'd say it is the worse designed of the bunch at the moment, even moreso than Synapse, at least Synapse has a small bit of variety in the maps. Citadel is same map, same enemy group, all the time and the plot usually consists of 'clear out a council base to find something...oh nothing there...ok clear out another council base...and repeat until the last three mission of the TF'.

Numia is the worst time waster though, the grand tour of Paragon is a large time sink, completely boring (you either zip from Zone to zone clearing out grey mobs or you do what most people do which is dispatch people to the zones in advance) and overall in terms of the plot, virtually pointless.

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Yeah did Manticore TF yesterday and Hopkins was met with, "wait..is that the end AV?" and "This boss is particularly tough." response from people who hadn't run it before. You spend the entire time chasing Countess Crey but because the storyline actually ends in a Story arc they can't let you actually catch her...which just makes Hopkins even more disappointing.

Rocky Horror has a big culty geek following (and a slightly more mainstream one here in the UK thanks to it being the home of Richard O'Brian).

The average American isn't going to even know about Rocky Horror.

Also, curse you Americans for getting this waaaaayyyy earlier than we Brits do.

Strange tangent...but it appears the the new Guitar hero is also tied in with this, since that is releasing a Rocky Horror download pack (Time Warp, Sweet Transvestite and Hot patootie) on the same date as this episode of Glee airs.

I would love to see a poster mockup for this.

One thing did kind of make me chuckle with regards Emperor Cole's plan...

Huge Battleship: Spoilers: Incoming, no refuge!






He mentions that he'd take down the Mediport grid and thus it'd be a matter of days before eventually his army would succeed by grinding the heroes down.

1) Some people CAN self-revive Marcus...Fire/Dark/Regen scrappers/Tankers/Brutes can all get back onto their feet without need for the mediporter, infact with Fire/Dark it makes them stronger than ever for a few moments. Regen Scrappers can always just wait until Revive kicks around and then revive straight into a MoG.

2) Anyone with the ability to revive other people...there are lots of them.

3) Howling Twilight...that is all.


Though I would like to see the shock on his face where he wittles down a massive group of Paragonian/Rogue Islanders only for the last one standing to fire off Howling Twilight...then all the superheroes get back onto their feet, dust themselves off and get ready to go again.

*bursts through the door* Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!

Anyway...no, I don't feel bad, because those people I save, just love to push me around, literally, I'll be standing there, chatting to some of my heroic friends and boom, ped shoved halfway down the street!