Ironik

Lots of good ideas so far, some that come to mind for me:

No PvP. PvP has given us nothing but headaches and wasted resources. The thing I hate the most about gameplay is Suppression and while the Devs will deny it all day long, Suppression exists *only* because of PvP. The only way I'd even think about PvP is if everyone were equal within the PvP arena. Bullets, fire blasts and ice blasts would all do the exact same damage with slight secondary effects, for instance. The way it stands now, it's way too random and certain builds rule over all others. Rock-paper-scissors is a ridiculous way to try and balance PvP.

More variation in mission maps. If dynamically-created content wasn't doable back then, I would've poured more resources into the variety of instanced maps.

No rooting. CO removed rooting from most powers and thus increased the fun factor a hundredfold. Being able to "run and gun" is terrifically fun and I can't even think of a good reason why every power needs to root our character in place. Certain special abilities such as sniping or an uber power should be rooted -- that's a trade-off for their uberness -- but to just hit someone? No.

Get the lore straight. You need someone on staff whose job is to police the story bible and vet everything so that it makes sense within continuity.

Power customization from the get-go. Not just coloring powers, but also their emanation point. Choose hand blasts, eye blasts, forehead blasts, etc.

Travel powers at level one.

Capes at costume creator. Even if they had to be added later, I never would've written game lore around the fact they were added later. Just add them and be done with it. We don't need game lore to explain why we suddenly got the Stealth pieces, so why capes?

I prefer my humor to be, you know, funny. Also, a smidgen of accuracy is good, too.

Were I writing a story about this, I'd have some device Manticore uses to shield his thoughts from Sister Psyche. Or, alternately, have her agree with his methods.

"Stopping villains before they get too powerful" doesn't automatically mean killing them. It could be that Manticore only kills those who are a clear and immediate threat to the populace or have already murdered someone. He's just cutting out the middleman.

The greatest flaw about the Joker in the Batman comics is that he's been portrayed as a multiple murderer, a mass murderer and serial killer. Yet Batman never kills him. Then Joker inevitably escapes from Arkham Asylum and kills again. The blood of those who were murdered is on Batman's hands. Manticore is a direct Batman analogue (with Green Arrow's signature ability overlain), so it's a relevant comparison. I'm not opposed to heroes behaving this way and still calling them heroes. Sometimes a hero has to make the tough choice and live with the consequences. So long as he lives and acts under a strict code and never breaks it, I'm good.

That's insane. I'll bet you could duplicate yourself with a tremendous degree of accuracy. Too bad it's for a bad game from a terrible company.

Anyway, there's a wishlist item for CoH2 right there.

I was wondering if I were misremembering the credits or what. Obviously they were expanded for the new regulars, but the song seemed different.

I thoroughly enjoyed the episode -- the new guy kept all the stuff that worked about the first season and expanded the scope in terms of area of operation and size of the cast. great action scenes, nice twists and humorous dialogue. What's not to like?

The people who are the most fervent about something are converts and the betrayed. So that's the way I would go.

Alex Talma -- Alex means "defender of the people"; a talma is a cape named after a French actor -- I like to give characters names pertinent to their superhero identity, but non-obvious ones people would have to research in order to "get".

Alex Talma grew up like any little boy in Paragon City: idolizing the heroes who protected the city. Collecting the trading cards, reading Hypertypes Magazine religiously, taping the posters of his favorites to his wall. While his friends idolized Statesman or Positron, Alex had no favorite: he loved them all. He wished fervently that he had powers so he could emulate his heroes. Both his younger brother and sister shared his passion and they spent many nights peering out their window hoping to catch the slightest glimpse of a superhero flying by. They would slip into sleep knowing they were safe from harm as their heroes were always on guard.

The modest cape-style home Alex grew up in was typical of New England towns, and his neighborhood was full of laughter and life, an enviable idyllic childhood. Eastgate was lovely, up until that day in 2000 when the Trolls, in all their drug-addled brutality, placed bombs in the sewers beneath Paragon City's nicest suburb. When the bombs went off, the caves under the neighborhood collapsed and the entire area collapsed in a violent cataclysm now known as "The Hollowing."

From the small park across the street, 13-year-old Alex watched his home fall into the chasm, taking his family with it. He can still hear his sister's screams. He can still feel that moment when they stopped. As the Trolls rampaged through the area, no one came to help. Caught completely off-guard, the city's first responders took more than 20 minutes to get to the scene and were never able to get control of the area. The Outcasts poured into the area after the Trolls, pillaging and wreaking even more havoc. Already traumatized by the colossal destruction, Alex was further terrorized when a gang of Outcasts made sport of him, taunting him for his tears and beating him.

A hero saw the fracas and came to Alex's assistance, but was driven off by the Outcast's superior numbers. When Alex turned 18 and left the orphanage behind, that hero was the first to die at his hands. Love turned to hate, worship betrayed by circumstance, all compounded by the trauma of watching his family die conspired to make Alex reject his former idols. Worse, he wanted to get even with the ones who wronged him by letting his family die, by leaving him to the cruelty of the thugs.

With a single-minded intent, Alex devoted every waking moment -- and more than a fair share of his dreaming moments, as well -- to plotting how to take down these so-called "heroes." All of his idol worship in his earlier life gave him the knowledge of different kinds of powers and abilities, the ways heroes fought. Now he turned his obsession into designing ways to counteract those methods, to neutralize their powers. He would slip out of the orphanage and practice first on the homeless, then he would hunt the bigger game of low-level gang members, until he finally graduated to heroes.

Jimmy Steel, that hero who had left him to the mercies of the Outcasts, was helping clean up in the aftermath of the Rikti War One when Alex took him by surprise. It was Alex's 18th birthday... and the birth of a terrible, misguided spirit of vengeance, C A P E.

Awesome, thanks TbA!

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Fatheaded Homer's Pint -- spider-pig, spider-pig....

Fatheaded Hen Imports

Pro Maidenhead Thefts -- rascal!

Handmade Sheet Profit

Deadpan Theorem Shift

Dastard Phoneme Thief

Ahead Tromped Fishnet -- aw, now Black cat is ko'ed too?

Heft Apartheid Demons -- a very special issue

Deathtrap Fiend, Homes -- yo, he was framed

Hardhats Deepen Motif -- they always do

Hardhats Pediment Foe
Hardhats Impede Often -- two for the Wrecking Crew!

Panda Smothered Thief -- will Jack Black lose the weight?

A ha! Demon Spider Theft -- he so did
Feared Demon Hath Spit -- ...upon our favorite character.
Demon Feared Pith Hats -- if only we'd known! We could have avoided all of this!