Dr_MechanoEU

Hmm speaking of staff fighting.

Well...Staves aren't exactly known for large variation.

They're essentially a length of stick for hitting people with.

Now admittedly this is where you can do a lot purely with textures, After all a carefully sanded and polished stave (oo err? possible) would have different textures to a big hitting stick picked up off the ground. Sure you can have a fancy metal hitting stick but...a hitting stick is a hitting stick...

Of course judging from what was seen of the leaked animations the Staff fighting could double up as Spear fighting, which honestly does open quite a bit of options, though that style of fighting with a spear is inherently Eastern and even then it's more fantasy than actual battlefield use but hey, this is comic books we're talking about.

European spear fighting consisted of pretty much just planting your feet into the ground, jabbing the guy that was coming at you on horseback with the hope you startled the horse sending the rider flying or killed the horse (both result with a guy on the ground flat on his back/face, which usually resulted in everybody stomping the guy to death) or killed the guy riding it.

However, as mentioned, 'standing there and jabbing' doesn't make for a very good powerset...hell that's one possible animation compared to Eastern (I believe it's the Shaolin monks who use a more free form spear style which stuff seen in Dynasty Warriors is based on but I'm kind of foggy on that) style.

Sorry kind of rambled there.

TLDR version: A hitting stick is a hitting stick, there's only so many ways you can make a hitting stick...but hitting stick + Spear = lots of variety.

Personally.

Would have included the 'additional weapons pack' in with Titan Weapons at release and then introduced an additional 4 weapons later down the line for purchasing.

Now I am willing to agree with Bosstone, the models themselves (with exception the Steel bar in a boulder weapon) are quire a bit more detailed than most of the weapons we've gotten for free before, I think only the Romulus Augustus/Nictus Broadsword option is a rival in being very ornate.

Keep in mind that most of the 'ornate' designs were included in paid for packs. The weapons from the Martial Arts pack and the Valkyrie blade are more fancy than most of the unlockable ingame ones.

Still Titan weapons does come with a fairly puny amont of models at its base so rather than pulling models away and then releasing them as a paid for pack, just include the models in the first place, then in a month or so, crank out a weapons pack.

I am disappointed at the lack of a Vanguard and Rularuu option for Titan weapons though.

I say simple double the points cost.

So the sets in the super booster pack are only available to VIP subscribers and they're 800 points. If a person subscribed, buys the points to buy the costumes then unsubscribes you've still gotten around $20 out of them and thats if they only buy 1 of the costume sets, considering there's 2 sets, that's 1600 points they'd have to spend.

Well...someones going to say it, so might as well get it out the way...

Giant Fish weapons (possible Carp) for Broadsword and Katana with a Swordfish for Titan weapons.

What?

You knew it was going to happen...

On a more serious (in a joke costume piece thread? How obtuse!), take the Brain Tank design, remove the bowl and instead put a kitten infront of tiny lever controls (or failing that, a keyboard). Call it the Catmando head piece.

This kind of thing would be great for a 'and now for something completely different...' type pack where it's not really a theme or a set but just full of weird individual costume pieces.

Yeah most of this could have been solved with a name change.

Calling it Gunslinger was...yeah...that was a bad idea.

Calling it something like "Wild West Saloon" would have probably been better.

Or as mentioned better yet create two Wild West packs a "Gunslinger" one and a "Saloon" one, I'd have bought both.

I will point out that if you want an Abstract Game, I'd recommend The Path, it's about as close as your going to get to an 'arthouse' type genre game.

As for the complaints against MSG4, well...put it this way, there's actually more hours of cutscene footage than there is in gameplay from what I've been told although I imagine it's about equal.

There's 8 hours worth of cutscenes and about the same in gameplay, meaning 50% of the time, you're watching a cutscene of some sort. That is the point where you go "if you wanted to make a TV series/Movie...just go and make a damn TV series/movie".

Games are there to be played, if the person wanted to watch something passively they'd have picked up a movie/tv boxset.

Now don't get me wrong, Cutscenes done well, absolutely fine, they explain what they need to, don't detract from the action and generally tell a story. However I think ever since the first Half-life (which showed that cutscenes don't need to take you 'out of the game' since everything was done with the ingame engine) the need for cutscenes has been getting less and less.

I know that approach works for a game like Half-Life 1 and 2 which aren't amazingly story heavy like say...a JRPG but Jesus, 8 hours of cutscenes?

Ah thanks guys. Well glad he's left to go into another job and not left by being 'released', wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Hate to be 'that guy' but where is this confirmed?

Curious to see a link or a quote if I may.

The 'Super Boosters' basically nolonger exist apart from as a 'sale item'.

Now you have to buy the costume and the power (ninja run, being able to switch body type at Cosmetic surgeons etc.) seperately. The costumes are listed under the Costume>Costume Bundles tab.

This means that to actually purchase what was once in a Super Booster ends up costing you usually twice as much as you would have paid previously.

It's why a lot of people, once hearing about freedom, basically went out and bought all the super boosters they were missing since it was a lot cheaper to do it that way.

Wow Gec..have to say...honestly can't disagree with anything you said there, well thought out, well explained...damn.

So yeah...erm...what Gec said..

Sorry but don't see the point in a seperate thread for this when Zwillinger is already looking at and taking feedback in the other thread.

There are plenty of suggestions on how to improve the Superpacks in the UNofficial super pack thread as it is. It's kind of pointless to create two seperate threads for it.

Still, while we're here. Remove exclusive costume pieces, keep exclusive ATIO sets.

That will cut 95% of the complaints against the Superpack.

I see this as going one of two ways.

Either people take to the TPN as they have done the BAF and Lambda, in which case there will be quite a lot of recipes knocking about and thus the price won't be astronomical.

Or

Players ditch the TPN like they've did the Anti-matter and the Underground thus leaving anyone with Dual Pistols simply hoping to complete a TPN then farm BAF and Lambda to unlock the slots since the recipe will have a price so astronomically high that most of the time it will be sold not on the market but on the forums for prices over the 2 billion inf cap.

Yup agreed, he's fair and balanced reviews on MMOs, infact probably one of the fairest I've seen.

They're very indepth and look at all the things people should look into in an MMO, definitely recommend watching the video series.

Ok was thinking of rebuying one of my favorite boardgames, I still have it but a lot of the miniatures are missing and some of the furniture. This would be Heroquest. Now thankfully it was vastly more popular in the EU than it was in the US so the prices aren't as high but for an in decent condition set, you're looking at least £50.

A mint condition sets you back £125!

Looking at the US prices just...damn...a mint set can set you back a serious chunk of change, in the $200+ price range.

I'm now very jealous of a friend who managed to grab a near mint condition (everything was there but the box was slightly worn) Advanced Heroquest box from a Charity shop for £1 and it sells online for £200+.

It also surprised me, doing some research, that the US didn't get many of the expansions for it and when they did, they were in limited number.

Kellars Keep, Return of Witchking were available but Wizards of Morcar*, Against the Ogre Horde and the Adventure design kit were released only in the EU, while the two duo (designed for two players) adventure packs (Elf and Barbarian) were only released in the US. This means that the expansions (I have Kellars Keep, Return of the Witchking and Wizards of Morcar) are also fairly expansive to buy.

*Morcar was the name of the DM in the EU version of Heroquest, he was called the rather crappy name of Zargon in the US edition...why they changed this I have no idea.

Anyone else been surprised by something from their childhood fetching this much cash (especially in non-mint condition) second hand?