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Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Again, that's not keeping up. Even Con minions is keeping up, since there are a shed load more of them for each player on the team. Making there be more of them AND +4? Again, I'll have to see how that pans out in practice not just theory, but it sounds a little cheap to me.

And that encounter at least sounds fun. We'll have to see.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

Hmn, this bodes well...pft.
+4 on the teams of peeps I know should be doable. Hell, Alpha has enough defence to negate a chunk of that. But I agree just from reading the description that it sounds 'Not good'.

@Furio


Yeah, that's not keeping up from the sounds of it. Thats 'The Computer is a Cheating *******' in action, just at a glance. Boss fights being tough? Sure, that makes sense. But the rest of it just sounds like....well, I dunno. I'm gonna have to try it out for myself.

Originally Posted by DocArcus

Right now 3D is just a gimmick. This is not the first time we have gone though a 3D craze. We have one every 20 or so years. The 3D lovers always claim that people that don't like it have to suck it up and get used to it because 3D is the future, but that still hasn't happened. There is a large percentage of the population that have issues with the current type of 3D. Large enough that no movie will ever be 3D only. Until there is a 3D system that doesn't cause headaches, 3D will not be the standard.

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

Sometimes people's head shape don't agree with the glasses themselves; I had an old pair of glasses (prescription) that would give me one monster of a headache if I wore them for more than an hour.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Every 3D animated movie ever made, how about? There is no "passable" 3D. It destroys the colour of the movie as you're watching it through coloured filters, it makes me, personally, crosseyed and gives me a headache and the glasses always get covered in filth just as I watch even if I wiped them beforehand.

And all of that for a pretty shallow optical illusion that just on its own has the capacity to make my head hurt like I was dropped. There is nothing redeeming in 3D, and I am sick and tired of not watching movies because they air in 3D.

Do you have any idea how long I waited to watch a decent copy of Avatar without watching it in a confusing, colourless mess?

Originally Posted by je_saist

Actually I'll take issue with the statement that he has no talent.

Okay, for the record, I think Simon Cowbell is a gigantic *****. My first introduction to him was his appearance on Top Gear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd4VraE4o68

Really, try watching that video and not developing an urge to call the Malta and take out a contract on him.

That being said, Simon has demonstrated quite a bit of talent in picking musical acts, at least in the UK market, and he's not actually a bad driver, at least on the Top Gear Test Track.

Too bad he's not as fast as an actual recording artist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFbVgA6J878

Originally Posted by Lothic

They've been CGIing stunts for almost decades now. I'd agree it's probably far easier to "fake a stunt than it is to fake a performance". But they've been making steady improvements to the stunt side of things for years. To believe that they'll never master the "performance" side of things is a bit naive at best.

Originally Posted by Mothers_Love

I think the stuntman's guild has more to worry about re:digital dopplegangers than the actor's guild.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

"3D" needs to die in a fire, and soon. It has ruined more good movies than I care to mention, and I shudder to think about it coming to games as a natively supported feature. I'm not just against this because it craps all over image quality and makes me cross-eyed. I'm against this because I hate the technology on principle and would hate to see it proliferated any further.

Originally Posted by JKCarrier

I keep reading that there's supposed to be some advance warning before one of those Cheating Circles of Death appears, but I never saw any such indication. I just got blindsided by them over and over again, as did the rest of the team, until we finally gave up. I'm glad some people are getting enjoyment out of it, but you couldn't pay me to run through that meat-grinder again.

Originally Posted by Lascher

Sadly tho, I see the next while being dedicated to incarnate development, rather than new content....too bad, IMO. The direction the game seems to be going is more focused on effects and powers and reskinning, which I feel is a shame, sorry to say. I doubt we will see alot more real content in Coh.

Originally Posted by Luminara

I'm hoping that it was the location of a cache of food or weapons, or a safe place, but it was more likely the revelation that everyone is host to the virus/microbe/fungus that turns people into zombies.

We'll find out next year.

If I have to wait a whole year, I'm starting my own zombie apocalypse. *twitch*

Originally Posted by Fritzy

In case you missed the main point of my OP, I think something as important to the future of the game should be based on principles more profound than those relying on the RNG and Luck. Ramiel's Arc to open the Alpha Slot was a foundation that should be built upon instead of becoming an important but isolated mission.

In real life, I am the father of two grown kids and the proud grandfather of two wonderful children. I raised my kids with purpose and direction and they are succeed in life and the work place.

Imagine how those kids would have turned out if, at every important point in their life, I rolled the dice and solely allowed RNG processes to determine their fate. Progressing in the Incarnate System is no less important to this game than how the rearing of children is to their futures. We want those future Incarnates to be skilled, tested and proven worthy to claim the title and the huge reliance on RNG processes that is in place now is NOT the way to achieve that goal.

Originally Posted by galadiman

Well, to be fair, (re: Rick panicking) on one hand I agree completely; on the other, it was his push to come here, his hopes were apparently high, then when he gets there, the door is not only closed, but someone is apparently inside actively watching them. Might send a lawman (who is probably somewhat accustomed to being able to command a modicum of acquiescence) a little batspit.

Of course, what I was actually thinking during the panic in question was, "Dude, the building is BIIG. You're not in imminent danger. CHILL. There might be another way in, dummy! GO AROUND!"


And to (Quiet American, if I recall correctly), re: talking^8, I really LIKE the talking. Too many people insist that DOING is the most important thing, "DO SOMETHING NAO!" But in this kind of situation, each decision could very well be LIFE or DEATH, for ALL of them. [I recall the mushroom incident - (paraphrasing) -"There's only one way I know to figure out if it's poisonous..."]

So while it is dramatically less interesting to the viewer, it seems more real that in any plan as vital as these plans are, you'd spend 90% talking/thinking about it, then the rest of the time actually carrying out the plan.

And I recall a favorite movie of mine that is 90+% talking to my recollection - "The Green Mile." Also, come to think of it, "The Shawhank Redemption" is similar... In fact, if I didn't know any better, knowing Darabont direct... NM, just found out that Darabont actually wrote those, so THAT makes sense. LOL at me, just don't point .

Originally Posted by Lothic

You may be right. But as for me I don't watch the Oscars anyway. I probably won't watch it with these two hosting it either, but at least they aren't going to make me watch it any LESS than I already do.