Ironik

It says he's trying to atone for what he did. Very much like some iterations of Kang in Marvel comics.

Plus the whole anagram thing: Mender Silos, Lord Nemesis.

Fix'd.

Of course it would take less time and work. Nothing new is being created, it's akin to a copy and paste. (Which is not to say it's as easy as c'n'p, just that porting something which already exists from one part of the code to another part of the code is a lot easier than a guy sitting down and working up a whole new animation from scratch, testing it, then adding that code into the game. By using existing old animations, you're eliminating two entire steps, each of which require more time and effort than the last step. Which, I would hazard, is precisely *why* so many of the "new" animations are really just imports of other animations.)

I thought you meant replacing the guns with flashlights in E.T.: The Extraterrestrial.

Whatever you do, for God's sake don't read every word I write. Only read the ones which fit into your predetermined point of view.

Also,don't forget to put words into my posts in order to spin what I say to your skewed argument.

Oh wait... you're already doing that. Nevermind, carry on, Mr. Beck.

...add in the "Match" temp power and, well, boom.

I expected the new animations to be of the MA and SS quality, especially since they were given their own call-out in the press release. Unfortunately, I get the sense that the Party Pack and the new animations were done by the second string, since there's almost no verve to them and precious little (if any) originality. (I mean, really, Michael Jackson dance moves? Is the new animation team from WoW or something? Why duplicate something from that game instead of striking out in a new direction? Especially considering WoW has had the MJ dance emote for over 5 years now. If you're going to raid '80s dance moves, go for MC Hammer or Breakfast Club or *something* other MMOs don't do.)

I'm going to log in my Mind Blaster right now to look. I think you're on to something with the character exhibiting no overt histrionics, just standing there (I imagine with a smirk) laying everyone low.

Edit: The new Psi animation is Power Push, looks like. There are a couple that I like, such as Psychic Scream. It's recycled, but the addition of floor-level effects gives it a bit of a twist. Psionic Lance I don't get at all, unless it's bugged. Looks like the power goes backward and to the left for some reason. The pose is really silly.

I save what I know I'll need in future and sell extraneous ones. The problem is that everyone wants the same bits, so those go for a million each. There's no point in selling the 3 or 4 I have because I need them too. On the rare occasion I manage to get, say, an extra Luck Charm, it goes on the market. But those times are few and far between, because you need Luck Charms for essential IOs. Almost no one makes Intangibility or Interrupt IOs, so the salvage used there goes unwanted. But Luck Charm, Masterwork Weapon, Inert Gas and Demonic Blood Sample are used for the more popular IOs like Accuracy, Damage and Range.

It goes back to my issue earlier in the thread, namely that IOs and salvage are "either/or" in terms of desirability. Either the IOs are going for tens or hundreds of million of Inf, or they go for zero. There's almost no middle ground. Same with salvage. It's either 300 grand a pop or there are 1,426 of them sitting there for sale.

The reason more people are blue is because the whole CoV experience is badly thought out. I don't know who was responsible for making those design calls but they were completely wrong-headed in every way imaginable.

I don't know how many times I've heard that the aesthetic of the Rogue Isles is simply ugly and depressing. Which it is. I can kind of see the point of that, but there are NO bright spots whatsoever, so it becomes unrelenting. Aside from the uniqueness of the maps and apparent "variety" of the architecture, the zones themselves are horribly designed and the worst of them is Mercy island. Whose bright idea was it to create such a complicated, non-intuitive and death-trap-ridden zone for the beginning levels? From CoV's beta onward there were numerous complaints of people getting lost, not being able to figure out how to navigate, and even when they did stumble across the right way to go, they would often end up running from snakes only to find themselves in blind alleys to be shot down by Longbow... only to rez and restart the process. There was so much frustration engendered by Mercy that people simply logged out and never came back. (My cousin was one of them and a couple people from my late, lamented SG joined him.)

But the real death knell for any MMO is to stifle the players' creativity, which is what redside does. It treats the game like a single-player game, putting you on rails to follow the "minion of Arachnos" thread for your character's entire career. You can't deviate from that even a little bit, so there's no way to tell your own story. Roleplayers are forced to ignore all of that stuff and even non-RP players become annoyed at always being a toady. That's why CoV's economy ultimately tanked: people just disliked the game in general.

The bright spots were the new ATs. Brutes and Masterminds and Stalkers... all very cool. Now with Going Rogue, players can choose whether to take those new ATs to Paragon City or the Rogue Isles, and they're still overwhelmingly choosing blue. I'd contend that merging the markets saved redside as much as was possible, because that allowed players to actually get the things they wanted rather than exist in a state of continual frustration.

Oh, for the days of unlimited knockback. You haven't lived until you've blasted a lieutenant 10 stories into the sky, watching them become a dot and then come screaming and flailing back down to the ground to go splat. Talk about a hoot!

Oh, yeah, this is a huge one for me. I have never seen a game with so much sheer variety, from the character creator to the bad guys we face.

I mean, we can fight 10-foot, 2-armed, knife-throwing cobras and giant walking mushrooms and petty street thugs and alien monkeys and animated totems and giant robots and a ginormous cell. What's not to love about that?

Also: kicking people off of high places. I never get tired of that. Never.

I believe the key word you're overlooking there is "possible." I agree with Sam, namely that porting animations from one power to the rest of the powerset and porting over extant animations from other powersets would vastly increase the potential combinations. I don't know if that would be less work, but I suspect it would be, and it would've been an efficient use of development time.

As an example, some people might want to have *all* of their Fire Blaster or Ice Blaster attacks to come from their character's mouth. I can't imagine it would be all that difficult to simply add the "Fire Breath" animation to every single fire and ice attack. It certainly seems simpler than creating a single new alternate animation for each attack. Similarly, I can imagine Radiation Defenders and Mind Defenders/Blasters would like all or many of their attacks to emanate from their characters eyes. Again, seems like less work to just have that animation available across the board. The animation already exists, so all you have to do is add it to the other power and adjust the timing.

Personally, I'd love to have the Gunslinger, Mastermind and Lady Grey dual pistol animations available for my Dual Pistols character. the flashy animations are fun, but I'd also like to have a more subdued powerset for a more "serious" character. I can't see how that would be more work than creating entirely new animations for each power, especially seeing as how some of the "new" animations really are just ports of existing ones.

I was just looking at the new Blazing Bolt and I think it looks pretty sad, frankly. Way back in beta I saw a Fire Blaster use Blazing Bolt and based on the extreme coolness of that one power alone I made my own Fire Blaster. The "oomph" of the animation and the deep, resonant sound it makes, all lend it an air of the character digging deep and really unleashing hellfire on someone. It's the nuclear option of the fire set. By contrast the new animation is a wet firecracker.

A lot of Blaster animations are still bugged, too, which is a shame.

I wonder if that's true. Most likely it is, but I do see an awful lot of catgirls, demons, robots, cyborgs and assorted furries running around.

When I read the press release, that's the sort of thing I was expecting across many (if not all) powersets: the ability to change the emanation points for everything. It was a bit misleading in that regard.

No way.. If it's going to be cold, it ought to at least be pretty.