KingSnake

I could see paying that kind of cash for a feature length SWTOR movie, as in, 90 mins of storytelling, sure. Anything short of that, wouldn't IMO be worth 20-30 bucks. Heck, i've gotten whole seasons of TV shows i like, on sale, for like 20 bucks. But Starwars has a special place in my heart, and i'm an epic fan of the KoToR world, so yeah... i'd splearg. Anything else? Prolly not.

Heh. Logicaly yeah, but I've known, seen, and read a great great many hateful posts, reviews, and threatend boycotts of movies that haven't even been relased yet. I'm sure if you think about it, you have too. And nearly everyone of them go see the movies anyways. And wonder why they are so sucessessful. LOL

And when movies screw up the subjec matter, they rarely "pay" for it. That's kind of the whole joke behind the cracked artical. Repeated geek bussiness just doesn't seem to be worth it. At least, not for thearter sales. I have a theory, since i, myself, am a geek. We geeks, IMO, prefure DvD's to the thearter. I know I do. I'm not a fan of big croweds. And I've spent a ton of money on a pretty wicked home entertainment unit, mainly to play videogames on, but the movies look sweet on it too. So, I personally have no issues waiting the, 4 to 6 months it takes for a movie i like to hit DvD.

I think alot of geeks feel the same way, and thus, you see geek movies kind of bomb at the theater, but make up for it in DvD sales. *shrug* That's my theroy.

I, admit i haven't watch Return in a LONG time, and only seen it once, but i got the impression she sure enough did rememeber doing Sups at some point. Maybe his amniesisa kiss is more like a memory editing kiss... as in, she remember everything that happened in Superman 2, just can't connect the fact it was Clark and not superman at the time... *shrug*

I have a LONG list of reasons i hate Return, a long long list, i'll gladly rant about if you'd like me too. But i warn you, it'll be poorly worded, with broken grammer, and filled with hate. So... you've been warned. heh.

IIRC, he took a ship. Maybe the one that got him to earth when he was a baby... Not sure how that worked as it was a pretty small ship, but eh. I couldn't fly himself to krypton anyways, they had a red sun, assuming he had enough energy stored in his cells to get past the voids of space were any kind of star light was weak, and assuming all the suns and stars from here to krypton could power him anyways, (yellow ones) once he got close to Kryptons red sun, he'd lose his powers and die in a vacume. I'd assuming anyways, that's how it's works in MOST comics, red sun = instant power loss.

Of course, that isn't ALWAYS true as he and superman from earth 2 flew superprime THREW kryptons red sun to distoy his armor in that horid infinite crisis story they told a while back... this being right after the explained how the red sunlight striped supermans powers in a comicbook where he get a red sunlight watch form batman to help Chris Kent fit in on earth with normal kids.... yeah...

Then, doen't even get me started on his "magic" weakness and plotholes that brings up...

But hey, it's a comic book, or in this case, a comic book movie. Logic is subjective in comic books. (as in, subject to the will of the dude writing the story at the time.)

That kind of sounds like me at WORK with my office computer. It's going on 10 or 11 years old, still runs the old Windows 2000 OS, and frankly should have been upgraded years ago. But i fought too keep it a few year back when they wanted to upgrade me... this computer, dispite being old and slow, never, *NEVER* crashes. It's rock solid.

But, it's slow.. and yeah, i've talked to it. Mine are more like pep talks. "You can do it... you can DO it!" (In my really bad Rob Stiner voice... yes, I'm a dork, I made peace with that long ago.) or "come on girl, you got this..."

Sadly, this year i'll be forced to upgrade. Alot of stuff that's critical to my work are dropping Win 2000 support this year, and well... i'll be sad but i'll need a new rig.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around a booster pack with nothing be emotes in it. (If what i read was true.) 8 bucks for emotes *ONLY*? Ah.. I barely use the free ones i have... No custome pices... no cheap gimiky perma temp power? And you want 8 bucks for that?? I'm willing to send 5 to 10 bucks on a booster pack with custome pices since I love char creation. And perma temp powers are fun to mess with, and some are really nice... but just emotes??


Get the wedding peck if your heart is set on getting one of them. At least there's costume options in that one, and some nice ones. (I use the tux on a few different heros of mine.) Unless your one of them people that sit under atlas all day chatting... then new emotes may be worth it to you...

Didn't really mean to imply it wasn't an improvement. It is. It adds flexability and flavor. Also adds complexity if you want to min/max and frankenslot to get the most out of slot and power choices.

You see... funny thing is... I almost always trained fitness for on my builds for the simple fact they were good out of box powers i didn't have to slot, to SAVE slots for other powers... most builds i don't even really slot stam cause i got set bonuses that do the job. Can't do that anymore. LOL

For new guys i make, i'll just plan accordingly. For all 40 of my alts that are "done" for the most part... it'll be a pretty major "recon" for me... revised builds, new powers to explain and work into my builds, and maybe a few "throw a way" powers when i'm just stuck, and a few guys just left as is cause i don't really play them much and won't bother with the hassle.

In otherwords my issues with the change are mainly my own doing. I have very OCD like tendencys when it comes to concept, effectiveness, and throw aways powers. (it took me 3 YEARS before i'd allow my tanks/scrapper to train the fighting pool for tough and weave cause i didn't like taking a throw away power in the form or boxing and kick. It really bugged me the first few times i did it... but i'm better now... >.>)

It's *MY* issue. And I'll deal with it. Just kind of thinking, or typing out loud is all. heh.

So basically........ I'm getting 3 new power for ALL my builds, which is cool, but in essence zero slots to put in them... since i'll still need to slot the inherent fitness line... (which, is normally only a small hand full of slots anyways.)

so all my builds will need massive reworking and prolly reslotting ALL my powers to try and find some slots to make use of some of these new powers i'll have...

It's an OK change I guess. I personally dislike "throw a way" powers, but with no slots to slot into my 3 new powers... 3 powers i might add i'll need to figure out what to take... that matches my concepts... all 40 of them... yeah, this looks more like WORK for *me* then a bonus.

But i am happy for everyone else who really wanted this.

It's still a better read then "One More Day".... No really.

Theres a small part of me that thanks this could make for an intresting storyline... not a perment kind of thing, but a neat story. Most people consider Batman an ubern legend anyways, now having him appear in 2 places at once over gothem... has potental for a good story or two IMO.

But really, I haven't had much intest or hope in DC comics ever since the infinet crisis and 52 weeks. Lost intrest. Haven't gotten it back yet. *shrug* Better then marvel. I lost intrest in that one years and years ago with... well... it'd be a long list... lets just say the X-men revamp, one more day, and civil war were some crappy highlights that drove me aways.

ATM, although i conisder myself a major comicbook nerd.. i'm not really reading anything... it's sad really...

Really dig mine too. Not really a ton of "killing" power on mine, i tend to build trollers for control and support, not offince. But he can rain down chaos and mayheam with the best of them.

Love the combo. The BEST? *shrug* Diffenetly really good IMO.

Pffff. I love steam. >.> I'm way behind the cruve when it comes to steam, only really started using it about 3 months ago when i went on my CoH brake and was looking for some new games to play while i waited for GR. Bought the whole Jedi Knight series for like, 15 bukcs or something like that... Mass Effect for 10... and they all work on my vista computer, a feat i wasn't able to accomplish on my own mind you. (For the JK serise anyways. I played Mass Effect for the very first time like 2 months ago. Man, i've been kicking myself for overlooking that game. heh.)

Got KoToR too, and it works... no KoToR 2 yet... which is a bummer. Hehe. I'm not really computer littereite enough to figure out how to get some of them ventage games to work on my new system, but, 10 bucks or so to get steam to do it for me, is worth it IMO.

As for the OP... eh, I had CoH LONG before i even knew what steam was. So, i have no idea. Sorry.

Heh. It wouldn't have been a bad idea if lvl 1-20 didn't take like 3 days to play. >.> And hitting the "end game" took more then a month or 2 at most. *shrug* Then yeah. But as is, the content we got will prolly be a bit stale in the 4 to 6 months it'll take them to get issue 19 out.

Now don't get me wrong here, they needed to release this when they did to keep intrest alive and breath new life into the game, so yeah, had to do it. It's just... this "explansion" does feel alittle light for a box expansion. I still paided for it, and plan on playing, for the forseeable future, but, yeah, i was kind of expecting a BIT more... at least a new TF to go with the new zone...maybe a new high end TF... *shrug* Yes yes, i know it's ALOT of work to make a whole new zone and 20 levels of content, but, the fact remains, it's quickly blown through too. And sad sad truth in MMO development.

At least if they'd left in the incarnet system teaser, we could split our time between the new content and incarnent sharde collecting. *shurg* (yes, i too was mainly looking forward to the end game stuff.. and saddend deeply to see it put off.)

MM's are good soloers, if your into Micro managment, and are perfectly happy playing pet support then actively fighting. I love MM's, but much perfure to team with them. Mainly because, i'm going to endup playing team support either way, in teams or solo, with a MM, so, the more the marrier. If i'm not in the mood to play team support, i'm not in the mood to play my MM. Hince why i don't tend to think of them as a solo friendly AT, even though i guess they really are. *shrug*

Tanks lack of damage gets "annoying" in the middle levels. (IMO) Lower levels the modifers haven't kicked in yet, so it's ok. Higher levels, if you plan for it you'll have a mature and decent attack chain and things get better. The middle levels, your chain isn't up and running, most sets are lacking a heavy hitter or AoE, and stuff just tanks forever to kill.

Scrappers and Brutes are where it's at IMO for solo play. And frankly, they are pretty evenly matched in solo play, so pick the powers you want, without reguard to AT. If they share powers... go brute. (IMO)

Yeah... I rememeber the pain leveling my Invlun/SS tank WAY back in the day, with utterly crappy damage and no AoE till 38. (realistically 39 or 40, one slot back in SO days was inconaquincal.)

You know what makes *me* feel bad@ss in this game? Melee knockback, and a good, solid "BOOM" on impact. It's all about precption IMO. Footstomp, KOblow, cranekick, shieldcharge, most of the stonemellee set, if it's got a screenstacking crunch followed by putting a mob on it's @ss then it makes me feel bad@ss.

He didn't. LOL, I rememeber reading a spiderman comic years back where peter was losing his powers randomly, IIRC, (think it was tied to that clone mess) but he still tried to use his webslingers, and nearly dislocated his shoulder in the process. Without his strength, webslinging was too dangerious for him.

I can't think of any heros that have *permenetly* lost there powers, and stayed that way but still fought crime. hmm. They lose or switch there powers for stories and story arches all the time, but i can't really think of any that were *perment* or really long term... well, I seem to recall alot of GL's turend into.. what were the called.. Darkstars??? They got new powers from special suits IIRC. And i hear Jubliee is now a vaimpire... somehow... *shrug* That's about it. And well, Superman going Blue for about a year i guess, but that's kind of different i suppose.

Yes, I've ran that in beta. I *think* I was on the first team in beta to beat it the first time, when it was set to an easier level. (maybe second attempt) Didn't impress me all that much. I hear it's alot harder now, but the difficulty wasn't at issue. It was a boring Trial. (IMO) Basically one 2 stage mission with respawing badies. Old news.

Kind of suprised there wasn't a new TF with an expansion. I could have swarn they said there'd be one... maybe they were talking about the COP...*shrug* But eh, what can you do? I'm really hoping I19 isn't too far off.

It's the elec armor that's hurting you IMO. I've got a WM/WP brute myself and he's a beast. I didn't sink alot of money into him, as he was my 3rd brute and more concept then anything, but for a basic IO build with a few nice sets in him, (nothing bank braking) He really stands up.

If i wanted to drop a ton of INF on him, jack up his Smashing/Leathel defence, and pump his HP, he'd be nigh unkillable. And the damage output from warmace with a full furry bar and fast recharge times is very respectable. (plus will powers have the endurance to fuel an attack chain that's got 95% recharge and little in endrad.)

So, if you like the mace, pair it up with willpower and i think they'll feel much more bad@ss then a mace/elec. Or, maybe Invlun. Invlun will shin in packs of 5-7 mobs, with the right IO's can easily softcap, becoming melee solo gods. They won't have the endurance a will power will, so you'll need some expensive IO's and accolades and more endrad in your powers, but you'd prolly end up tougher. (my first brute is a fire/invlun with softcapped defences, with a full invinc, or really near with about 5 or 6 mobs. He can solo 8 man +4's reletively easily. Some groups will give me issues, but all in all, he kicks butt, but he wasn't cheap to build. )

Things to think about.

Huh. What do they look like, in general with the shield? Less dance like? More basic? That if they are different enough i may reconsider my Kin/NRG brute to a Kin/Shield brute... (not a huge fan of the current non shield animation. Can LIVE with it.. but hmm. maybe have to look into shields...)