Lazarus

I'm sure I will get some flak for being negative, but I really disliked this arc. I can't find a single positive thing to say about it.

Many of the authors of those DCs and HoF arcs haven't participated in AE since issue 15 and quite a bunch of those DCs that were really from issue 14 beta are the only arcs they ever wrote. I doubt they are going to care much at all about the requirements being "lessened."

This is about as silly as the argument that the Posi TF and others should not be shortened because it'd take something away from the people who already got the badge when they were long and boring. You know, the people who did those TFs once and said "never again!"

No, it would be them declaring "after reviewing the data we decided that Hall of Fame needed an adjustment."

The fact is that the Devs did screw up with the way they handled DC and HoF. They severely underestimated the ratio of people writing arcs vs those who only play arcs. They also didn't consider that people would also be jerks and downvote each other just to keep the "competition" off of the front page. They also didn't listen to the beta testers about many of the exploits and acted surprised at the rampant farming that followed; many of those people were playing farms rather than helping good arcs reach the top.

"Epic" did equal "takes forever" back in the issue 3/4 days. The Devs have since then shown some reason and reduced the requirements on "epic" badges, "epic" archetypes, and "epic" task forces (all later TFs are much shorter and Posi so far being revamped to follow.)

There is no reason they can see that they were wrong and reduce the requirements on the "epic" Hall of Fame. It's already so hard to keep a 5-star average that who will really care if it's 200 instead of 1000? The few people who already have HoF, many of which might not even play the game anymore or even have participated in AE since then?

Many of those HoF only got there because the author farmed their ratings heavily in the first month before Posi's "how dare you exploit our obvious exploits" hissy fit scared many players away from AE. Many of us remember a certain author who 5-starred every arc he came across and sent an pre-written comment on how you should 5-star his arc in return.

Your mileage may vary, personally I find many of the existing DC'ed arcs to be nothing special, and a few are outright drivel. All DC really says is "this arc matched some Dev's personal tastes", which is in itself another reason that we need more Devs looking at arcs than just Dr. Aeon.

Maybe he started at the end since he got to mine before yours.

I got one sometime this week (been playing Fallout: New Vegas, so tells have been piling up in the meantime.) I didn't look at the timestamp so who knows when it came in.

And if you can do it justice, at least try to do it better. However that is very, very rare; the only example that comes to mind if John Carpenter's "The Thing". The original film was an adaptation of "Who Goes There?" but changed many details while the remake was far more faithful to the source material and a much better film over all.

If the remake is good. A crappy remake can turn people off to the idea of watching the original, assuming they even feel like asking if it was a remake of an older film.

'Nuff said.

I'll agree on this example if we're talking about a direct adaptation of "A Christmas Carol". However in the case of Bill Murray in "Scrooged" the adaptation was done in such a different style that while it has the same basic ideas it's able to stand on it's own merits. If anything "Scrooged" is an example of how to do a remake and make it something of your own rather than a shallow reproduction of the original.

That is an interesting interpretation. Never before have I heard the Uncanny Valley effect being applied to a television show.

Speaking of those baddies, the theatrical release had FX overload in general with visuals and sound. In my opinion one of the reasons the Directors Cut was better was that it replaced many of those scenes with versions that had LESS special FX being tossed around.

Maybe you're not up to speed with all the Tip missions in issue 18 yet, but Flambeaux and Polar Shift show up very frequently in them. By level 20 Polar Shift is a vigilante and Flambeaux has gone rogue, I retooled this arc slightly to tie into that and make you a major factor in this later occurrence.

The 'Gator is obviously not a physicist.

That's the trick I have used in two arcs now. Some of the smaller warehouse and lab maps lend themselves well to this, having a small final room with two boss spawns very close together. In one arc I have two rival heroines arguing over who gets to bring you in, the other arc has the two bosses as a pair of twins who fight like a duo and are designed to back each other up.

Mission Architect is what brought me back after my departure just prior to issue 13. Now a year later I'm long since run out of arc slots, getting tired of bugs never being addressed, and burned through GR so easily that I'm finding myself logging in less and less often every week.

It's news to me.

That's what I'm expecting as well. I wanted to go see Red this weekend but other things came up.

That just leaves the San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and the Tunguska Event.

That is where the similarities between the two movies end. Red has much more in common with The Expendables as it is a) an action film, b) filled with big name stars and c) the trailer doesn't make it look like you need to read the comic to even be able to understand enough to get excited about it.

I also remember that when the Jackass 3D trailer played before The Expendables, nobody in my crowded theater seemed to make a remotely positive comment about it.

TVTropes has had an entry on it for years now: The Other Marty.

There was a short scifi story I read online years back that involved someone who made software called "Cinema Done Right" and was using it to virtually recast old movies. Among the examples that popped up during the story was Christopher Walken as Han Solo, Lance Henriksen as The Terminator, and "The Cable Guy" recast with David Spade filling in for Ben Stiller and Chris Farley replacing Jim Carey.