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Originally Posted by Tenryuu

They're about as awkward as one another, but I gotta say I don't see too much of a resemblance. One looks closer to a bird and the other is a Matt Smith Frankenstein's monster.

Originally Posted by NinjaPirate

Except, y'know, hardly anyone knows about the film Re-cycle.



-np

Originally Posted by Durakken

What are you talking about?

Jason was 14 when he became Robin, 16 when he died.
This would have placed him at the age of 21 when he returned, Dick 25, Tim 17, and Bruce 40ish.

This is the same in both the comic and movie.

There is no need for the change and it's a detriment to his story as well as future stories so they're just shooting themself in the foot with it.

Originally Posted by Durakken

There are a number of other variations that are acceptable and it's an adult themed movie. They don't need to make Jason older than he was. That's a cop out.

Originally Posted by Durakken

One of the things that really annoyed me, and may this is just my pet peeve, but they once again put a pre-Tim Drake Robin in the red/yellow/black costume and this time I feel it is worse because a number of people who saw the previews thought "yay Tim's gonna be in this" and they show Jason in the old costume...oh and not to mention the upgrading of the suit between these two variations was because of this event so it doesn't make sense to have Jason wearing it...

other than that i think it's a pretty good movie with a few good jokes, mainly that came from Dick and Jason.

Originally Posted by Felderburg

Well, I have to say that I kind of thought that they had been a "group" before fleeing, but their actual "nation" was only founded once they got to North America and started the whole Oranbega thing.



Regarding the Rogue Isles: not sure who this gives the argument to, but at the info (http://www.cityofheroes.com/game_inf...arly_year.html) you can see this: "The main cluster of the group, home to Spider City, is at the 50 mile marker, outside U.S. jurisdiction. From there the smaller islands string toward the US coast."

Sooo.... that's pretty close to the U.S. I suppose you could also calculate the range given a short submarine trip of, say 30 minutes to 2 hours, and use current real world small sub speeds + CoX tech advancements...

Originally Posted by StormSurvivor

Spoilers, in case you really expected otherwise, silly reader.






In a conversation between Protean an an off-camera voice, Protean asks, 'Who should I look for in Praetoria?'. They reply, 'Mr. G will be waiting for you.'

This seems to link up in my head as the note writer, as they do mention possibly recruiting Protean. I thought it would definitely be a new character, but that article does seem to hint that we'll be suprised.

Originally Posted by Durakken

That is just an idiotic thing to say. Especially considering how the devs act in character and out of character randomly so you never know where the information is coming from.

Also Azuria IS an authoritative source. She "may" have her own agenda. That's true. Do you think I'm not taking that into account when I say that she is an authoritative source?

Originally Posted by Olantern

I leave it to others to explain the tangled history of Mu vs. Oranbega, which is rendered more confusing by the fact that much of the Mu-related side of it was written second (during CoV development), even though Mu is the "parent" civilization.

As for the Atlantis thing, yes, there are clear similarities. (Note that I'm writing in this paragraph about popular culture, not the CoH backstory.) Both are sometimes cities, sometimes continents, both are sometimes said to be "lost" (Atlantis far more often than Oranbega), both are associated with enlightenment, splendor, and riches, and so on. That said, while Atlantis was first mentioned by Plato in the late 5th century/early 4th century B.C., Oranbega is a much more recent idea. The concept of Oranbega, also called Norumbega, really took off during Europe's Age of Discovery in the 1500's-1600's. This rich and splendid city, whatever it was called, was usually placed in the vicinity of present-day New England. Eventually, after Europeans started poking around the area and failed to find a utopian city of gold there, Norumbega disappeared from the maps.

The important part of that story, for CoH purposes, is "placed in the vicinity of present-day New England." When the early developers decided to place Paragon City in the American Northeast and to include a subterranean, ruined city, the decision to call it "Oranbega" was a tip of the hat to those sixteenth century stories. The connection to Mu came later, when it came time to flesh out the backstory of the magical enemies CoH-Oranbega was created to hold.

So, why not call it "Atlantis?" Because of the development arc. When pondering questions like this, it's important to remember the order in which the lore develops. First, the developers come up with a broad concept ("Let's have the magical enemies be based in an underground city."). Second, they come up with names and broad outlines ("Circle of Thorns," "Oranbega," etc.). Only once all this is done, and the related mechanics are ready for prime time, do they attempt smooth the backstory into the rest of the setting ("Where did Oranbega come from?"). The development doesn't happen from the setting's distant past forward or from start to finish. It's a piecemeal operation. The backstory is not a novel; players should stop expecting it to work like one.

Originally Posted by The_Alt_oholic

I hope to see that CoH will be getting product-facing in GameStops. From the website "exposure", it doesn't look like much "exposure" at this point. I'll probably head to a GameStop and check out what I see and post again.

Exposure/Critique
Nothing on the GameStop main page.
Nothing on the GameStop main PC page.
Not listed in the "with bonus" selections for PC games.
Listed on Page 5 by Release Date with no date listed.
GR does make position 3 under PC>Roleplaying>Massively Mulitplayer (under WoW and StarTrek, and just above Aion). You have to know what you are looking for to get there.
And here's the actual game page from the site :: http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/Prod...oduct_id=77978
Screen Shots make the game look empty. We need some shots of group battles and Rikti raids. It's nice that they are showing new content, but the shots need to be of new content with full teams.
The Notice section needs to be clear that the information outlined is for the "super booster" as this implies what is with the game and this seems it is very limited what comes with the game.
The "Bonus Details" link doesn't work for me. (EDIT :: oh, that's the mousepad. Don't make much sense unless you know that it is a mousepad. Nothing to indicate that is what it is.)
The Box Cover Art leaves something to be desired to me. After all this time, I would assume it was clear to the people that play this game - if not the DEVs - that the game is about the characters that we make and not about the "signature characters" that we can't play. The game box showing Statesman and Clone-of-Statesman standing back to back like they are defending each other is very fitting for the traitorous Statesman. However, this doesn't express what players will experience in the game. It certainly has no meaning to anyone that isn't familiar with the game. It doesn't express anything heroic or villainous - just cosplay. The cover isn't going to attract attention and I have fear that it will blend in on the shelf. It isn't that the art is bad - it just isn't taking much from the thousands of comic book covers that it could be using for research material. (and I'm not just talking about max-slidered women in "with skin" top - I mean - holy socks! - look at your audience! Two out of two "heroes" are men? Not very much like the composition of the City that I run in around in every day.)


I hope to see more stores carrying and promoting the game.
I'm looking forward to a flux of new players into the game interested in exploring the new content.

Originally Posted by Duncan_Frost

"On Patrol" is whenever you go street-sweeping, which I guess is detected by some funky code or other. It isn't anything to do with the Day Jobs because they had the dialog before those were introduced.

Originally Posted by Leandro

Guys, new characters get one of those enhancements, apparently at random. They're nothing to go crazy about. You can enhance ONE of your powers more than you naturally could until level 20, but afterwards, the cheapest double aspect IO does the same and has bonuses, too. They're no big deal.

Originally Posted by Forbin_Project

It seems to me the OP knew he never had 168 million on the character in question, and when he misread the amount he'd get for selling the enhancements during the respec he fell prey to his own greed and assumed the game was making an error in his favor. So he jumped at the chance to sell them without double checking to see if the number he thought he saw was right. As soon as the respec was over he went to check his windfall and lo and behold he found that he screwed himself over.

Of course the real people at fault are the devs. The OP can't accept responsibilityfor his own actions.

Originally Posted by Commander

Huh?

You mean after you respeced, instead of reslotting the enahncements, you turned them in for inf. on the respec screen?

Originally Posted by Optic_Spark

Hey folks.

I have to say that i was pretty unimpressed with the Q&A.

Most of it had to do with GR. I wanna see G.R. as much as the next person, but I was looking forward to more questions dealing with the game itself as opposed to a yet to be released expansion.