Golden Girl

GR has been out for a week now, and any discussion about the game setting will involve details about the set up of Praetoria - if you want to try and avoid even the most basic info on the setting, avoid any threads discussing Praetoria.

None of those are plot twists or spoliers - they're all blindlingly obvious

You seem to have a rather fuzzy idea of what exactly a spoiler is

You're playing a DP Blaster, right?

Which AV do you want a screenshot of? Stop being so cryptic

Maybe he's too busy dumpster diving out on the Grandville streets?

Well, you have Recluse, so it's pretty much the same

Well, it's the same basic story, but with upgrades of the models, maps and lore to make it sync with Praetoria 2.0.

Positron said they have

And any so-called "buzz" about it has clearly failed to translate into actual box office numbers - its feeble performance this weekend follows it's disastrous opening weekend, so even "word of mouth" hype on top of "critical praise" is clearly not having an effect.

The theater chains are getting badly burned by it too - like with all movies, they're under contract to keep it on the same number of screens for a certain number of weeks, regardless of it's performance - so this weekend, even though it made less than half the amount as it did on its opening weekend, it was still on the same number of screens as its opening weekend, so it's been playing to even emptier theaters than on its opening weekend, with the theaters unable to yank it for something popular because of their distribution contract.

Praetoria will be getting some high level content connencted with the Incarnate system - and War Witch ahs also said they want to expand the the setting.

Because good and evil exists wherever humans exist, regardless of whether people can fly or not.

There's no more crime on Primal Earth than there is in Praetoria - it's just that in Praetoria, the biggest crimnals are working for the authroities

The devs have even given us the neat little twist of replacing the mugging spawns with PPD harrasment spawns - only now, the citizens are in danger from the very people who would be protecting them in a normal society.

Actually, it's more of a copy of the Rogue Isles, but with the evil dialed up a bit more:


A power-crazed Incarnate ruling with an iron first from his huge tower - Tyrant/Recluse.

An inner circle of very powerful, very dangerous and very evil villains with their own agendas and plots - Praetors/Patrons.

A network of female psychics recruited at a young age to serve the dictator - Seer Network/Fortunata Seers

A corrupt and thuggish police force - PPD/RIP.

A "survival of the fittest" doctrine amongst the playable section of the governing organization, with betrayal, double-crossing and brute force as acceptable ways of advancing through the ranks - Destined Ones/Powers Division.

A mad scientific genius operating semi-independently form his own personal power base - Neuron/Doctor Aeon.

A Failed super soldier experiment based on using the dictator's blood/DNA, with the results left to roam beneath the streets - Ghouls/Arachnoids.

Plus:

Intense and open rivalries between the various sub-groups of the ruling organization that frequently spill over into violence.

The widespread and frequent use of torture by the security forces.

A tightly controlled media, with any journalists who step out of line being targeted by the dictatorship.

Teachers who step out of line are also targeted by the dictatorship.


The extra evil of Praetoria is the durgged water supply and the thought police - those take it to 11 - while the Rogue Isles are still just a 10.


Basically, whether you spend your time shouting "Hail Lord Recluse!" or "Hail Emperor Cole!" just depends on how clean you like the streets of your fascist nightmare.

Not when the heroes of Piimal Earth are there to help

You mean Tyrant has rigged the sonic fence to collapse the moment he loses power?

That's not what Tyrant's doing - he's trying to make humans behave like robots - he's decided that humans can't be allowed to be humans and make the mistakes that are part of human nature - so he's stripped them of their humanity, and reduced them to the level of drugged zombies who don't even have the most basic human rights like freedom of speech and freedom of thought.

The loyalists are serving a fascist dictatorship of nightmare proportions - it's very existence is a crime against humanity.

Among toher things, Tyrant's govenrment does the following:

Drugs the citizens to be docile and unquestioning

Enslaves all young psychic girls and destroys them in the Seer network

Imprisons anyone who speaks out against the dictatorship

Carries out mass murder on a daily basis

Has thought police on almost every street corner

Opens fire on protesters

Has torture chambers under the police buildings

Controls the media and education system

Makes critics or anyone who tries to tell the truth about the government "disappear"

Plans to invade Primal Earth with the intntion of wiping outn every single superpowered person there and enslaving the rest.

All loyalists enable this utterly evil system to continue to exist, and are guilty of supporting the worst examples of evil so far seen in the game.

I and 3 friends went to "Vampires Suck" this weekend - not because we thought it was going to be anything other than trash - but beacuse it's fun to mock how bad these kinds of movies are.
Two of them play console games, and the other one is a hardcore Trekie - none of them had the slightest interest in seeing "Scott Pilgrim".