Kiralyn
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Hmm, recommendations....
My Hime - pretty good deconstruction of the whole "Magical Girls" thing. (ie., what would happen if the girls with powers were a regular cross-section of messed up schoolgirls. And the world wasn't all happy-flower-time.)
FLCL - crazy trippy bizarre. A blast.
Serial Experiments Lain - crazy trippy bizarre..... but serious, unlike FLCL. Cyberpunk pondering and philiosophizing
Read Or Die (the movie/OVA one) - wacky Alias/James Bond-esque spy action.
Grave of the Fireflies - deadly serious and depressing. But one of the best anti-war movies ever made, IMHO. Saw it in a roomful of folks in college - even the guys were tearing up by the end.
Ghost in the Shell - cyberpunk/action. Although the TV series (Stand Alone Complex) tends to alot more talking/thinking and a good bit less action.
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Won't list Elfen Lied (since even though it's a "regular" series, it's more of a splatter and nudity fest than some H stuff. Really dark.)
Divergence Eve...... that's an odd series. Looking at the pictures you'd think it was a fanservice series - but it's *just* the character designs. The story itself is a pretty serious sci-fi/war thing. The disconnect between the story and "hey, they jacked the chest slider over to 150%!"
is kind of strange.
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Hmm, let's see....
A loooooong time ago, in a "The Tick"-based game of Toon at a gaming convention, our team was rescued by Steering-Wheel-Repair Man!!!
(The Tick had, of course, snapped the steering wheel off our vehicle, as we were trying to go to a crime scene.
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And then there was my first superteam in the miniatures game SuperSystem - Collateral Damage
(yes, they all had only AoE attack powers that affected allies as well)
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Quote:A little expansion on this:
*DDO is free, however you would need to pay if you wanted to play certain races, certain areas, or get certain items - none of which are REQUIRED to play and enjoy the game. The stuff that is bought is not so incredibly uber it makes game drops worthless. Alternatively, you can get VIP access to DDO for 14.95 a month which will give you access to everything the free player would have to purchase. In addition, you earn coin that can be spent in the DDO store to purchase things instead of using cash. VIPs get a certain amount per month, free players can earn coin by earning faction or purchasing coin bundles.
Free players have 2 character slots per server. If you ever spend any money (either monthly sub, buying a game box, buying shop points), you go up to 4 slots. Monthly is 10 while active.
On subscribing: it's been suggested on the DDO forums that doing microtransactions in the online shop is better. Why? Because everything you buy, you'll have always. Subscribe for 3 months ($45) and you get it all..... for those three months, then everything relocks. Spend $45 on points, and everything you buy is there permanently. (Yes, it'll take more than $45 to get everything.... but you don't need to buy stuff til you'll use it, and you don't need to buy 100% of the races/classes/adventures/account options, realistically.)
Oh, and some things can be unlocked via time/effort - gain enough total "favor" with the various factions in the game (completing quests earns favor. higher difficulties earn more), and you can unlock one of the extra races, one or two of the extra classes, and some other features. -
Quote:....to a discussion of the Win7 upgrade.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
...to an all out OS/Platform holy war.
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Vista -> 7 is an upgrade.
XP -> 7 may be an upgrade (don't know enough on the topic to be certain).
But there's lots and lots of people that you'll never convince that XP->Vista is an upgrade. (or even a crossgrade)
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Quote:^Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
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Y'know... the whole OS wars bit was tiresome back when it was DOS/Win9x vs NT vs OS/2 vs CLI-only (or barely XFree, at the time) Linux vs Unix vs Mac ....
That said, I'm a Mac user...... but I'm one who's been using shareware/freeware assistance programs for decades, and is well aware that they only exist because of dedicated amateurs who feel motivated to make them. Mids doesn't have a Mac version? Oh, well. Them's the breaks. If you want it so bad, do what the original author did..... learn programming and make it yourself.
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Quote:Just to point out, "time played" is incoming business, since each month of time costs money.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
No it isn't. If it was, the fact that I've bought three add-on packs, extra character slots, and an edition upgrade this year all would count towards acquired "Veteran's Rewards", because such programs reward incoming business and not time played.Quote:
It's like getting frequent flyer miles, or hotel miles, rental car miles, or a punch card at your favorite restaurant where your 10th meal is half off.
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My one comment on this issue:
The only veteran rewards that matter to me at all, are the costume pieces.
And those costume rewards are most likely the only reason that I grabbed the "6 months+1" subscription deal when it was offered.
Draw whichever conclusions you'd like from this.
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Quote:That was my experience as well. Plentiful -hit debuffs, lots of negative damage (bypassing even the minor defenses that a 5-10 character has), and stuff like sleep/hold vs characters who haven't a chance of having any protection abilities yet. Whee?Originally Posted by Novastorm
I'd have to agree that solo ToT'ing can be very difficult for lower levels. I have several "lowbies" (sub 20's) that end up eating pavement 70% of the time when solo ToT'ing. And, yes, I am in zones appropriate to their levels. It's mainly due to failing to hit the mobs while they have very little difficulty hitting. And -hit/-rchg on a newbie is awful.
My ~20 elec/elec scrapper got slaughtered about every other ToT fight.... even against witch LTs. My lower level (8-14) blasters/tank/scrappers had it just as bad. I ended up farming lots of event salvage on my 35 dualblade/will scrapper, who did just fine against everything.
Only lowbie that did ok ToT'ing was my 4-6 SS/Will brute, who could build up high enough damage while raging to mangle the Trick spawns before they could debuff her too much. -
Relative newbie (under six months) perspective:
Always seeing the invasions in the same places (on the trainers/etc), I assumed that this was where they automatically happened. Seeing lots of AoE heal going off around said trainers, I also assumed the NPCs were doing it. (Dying if I stepped too far away from those areas reinforced this idea.)
This thread is the first time I've learned otherwise.
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Quote:Originally Posted by EnigmaBlack
The only negative I can think of is the mission settings don't effect the door spawn size.
While I did think that this would have been nice (no bosses!), there could be problems with unintended consequences in public areas.
Like, it's already annoying when you're running your 33 around a 30-40 zone ToT'ing, and you run into a 39 boss that someone ran off and left there. Now imagine if you were ToT'ing along and ran afoul of someone's 8x/+4 spawn.
(And *now* think of the jerk griefer - there's got to be a few, even in this game - who deliberately runs around spawning max-zone-level x8/+4 groups in the lowest level areas of the zone. And stealths/teleports/flies away leaving them to slaughter lowbies.) -
Quote:Not having played at previous Halloweens, I can't really compare.... but I will say that I've given up on ToT'ing with anything but my strongest characters - the couple low-mid alts that I tried just got slaughtered. Between the high rate of bosses, and the very common accuracy debuffs.... whee?Originally Posted by Mirai
And I'm not fond of the beefed up ToT spawns.
(My 20 elec/elec scrapper, and my 20 dark/will both got beat pretty hard. The dark even got almost taken down by a witch lieut.)
Edit: while turning in some costume sets, tested another lowbie. 14 MA/Inv scrapper. First try: Vamp boss, pumpkin man, witch minion. Held repeatedly by the vamp (don't have resists yet), superjumped away as soon as the hold cleared. Second try: two witch lieuts. Figured I could beat em, so I hung on. Immobilized repeatedly, used several green Insps, died with one LT down, other still at 100%.
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It'd also be nice if the GM had a bit of an invulnerability delay, so that people can get to it before the faster groups take it down. Might just be a flawed perception, but it seems like the banners take longer to kill.
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That said.... it's alot of fun. And the wide variety of costumes are great! (I love my Knives of Artemis, Harlequin, Crey Agent, and PPD Hardsuit costumes. Sad that they'll be gone in two weeks.) -
I've always found the really inappropriate NPC quotes to be funny.
Like "I hope my kid grows up to be just like you!"...... when I'm on my massive exhibitionist, The Sunbather. Or some huge mutant rockbeast with dripping spikes sticking out all over.
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Quote:Originally Posted by AmazingMOO
- You get another 20 minutes to defeat the GM after the last banner goes down, so it doesn't hurt to wait a bit to let everyone get in place to fight him.
If only. That sucker goes down *fast*.
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Quote:Yeah, those things are great. Got a pile of costumes last night, and the PPD armor suit is my favorite by far. Really want those rocket boots and the gatling arms as costume bits.....Originally Posted by Sardan
One quick aside: if you haven't flown with that costume on, give yourself a treat and do it, even if you have to buy a Raptor Pack. I so dig the look of that costume when flying. Rocket boots FTW.
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Quote:To be honest, that's only the goal for *some* MMOs. Yes, it's a pretty common goal, but I wouldn't say it's required of the genre. (It's the easiest way to keep people playing - and paying - so many companies go that way. The other really common method is making getting to the cap a nigh-infinite grind - see Asian MMOs in particular for that one.)Originally Posted by Kylazin
That seems kind of silly especially for an MMO, where the goal is to get your character to the level cap to become more powerful.
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Quote:Now with Kung-Fu Grip!Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
Because without that extra touch, our characters are more like action figures than they are characters?
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Seeing as how I'm only running on an ATI HD2600 XT/256, I wouldn't want to see it jacked up too much....
....but asymmetrical costuming (like - shhh! - CO has) would be a nice upgrade.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
and recipe slots./droolQuote:Originally Posted by Zombie Man
On all toons. From level one on up.
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Quote:But the real question is..... will I be able to make a Cardboard/Airpak Crate, or will that that combo be limited to the Box AT?Originally Posted by UnSub
City of Crates, due out Q2 2010.
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Quote:Originally Posted by SerialBeggar
After using a yellow Inspiration, your next attack will miss.
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Quote:/facepalmOriginally Posted by Chyll
gamemaster: you're dead
me: you have got to be kidding me
gamemaster: its what came up on the rolls
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Quote:Originally Posted by tanstaafl
Heck, little kittens could chop heads off with a 66.
Hmm, let's see.....
66 Tiny "E" Crit - "Bizarre strike to eyes destroys one and leaves the other blind for two days. Foe is down and helpless for an hour. His appearance is modified by -20."
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re: subscription fees.
Yeah, the free games I've played around with a bit tend to have 1) obnoxious players, 2) be rather PvP focussed [see #1], and 3) have lots of annoying "optional" microtransactions which are pretty much required if you don't want to just be walked all over by the #1&2 crowd. -
Quote:My closest example looks a bit better in motion.... you get more of a gap between the stockings and the skirt.Originally Posted by Mirai
True. You can get fairly close, but not quite.
...and wouldn't punching out a Tyrannosaur be cool?Quote:And a "Lost World" zone in the South American jungle.
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Quote:Yeah, the only reason our RM (and SpaceMaster) games were able to actually get anywhere is that we had a GM who was rational enough to streamline the most excessive bits. /shrugOriginally Posted by BBQ_Pork
I had a couple of D&D buddies who had tried that game. The only thing they had to say about it was: "You had to roll at least 8 dice to take a dump, and could easily miss or Critical Fumble."
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Hmm. Yeah, really. I know WoW has its problems, but it was fun when I played it.Quote:One need read no further than
We should all be thankful they are a good enough writer not to bury the lede, saving the attentive reader the necessity of plowing through the rest of their article. Whatever sickly plant sprouts from such an unpromising seed cannot possibly be edible.Quote:Assuming the first priority of game design is to create a good game, massively multiplayer online role-playing games like World of Warcraft have failed spectacularly, opting for commercial success instead of creative integrity, entertainment value, or compelling game design.
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Quote:Originally Posted by galadiman
Yeah, but in Rolemaster, if you rolled a 66, you usually chopped a guy's head right off. Srs Bsns.
Sometimes, even with a baseball bat. You think I kid.Quote:Originally Posted by Liquid
66 was crippling. You're thinking of 00.
I am a nerd.
Ah, the amount of time we blew in gaming sessions, reading all those hilarious critical hit results.