Marcian Tobay

I really can't help but feel like "Raise the Level Cap" and "More End Game Content" are akin to the "it has electrolytes" argument.

We have 20 levels of new content that can be experienced, at the very minimum, 4 different ways. I can do some weird science jumbo that says we just got 80 levels of content. I'll do it. I have the chalkboard on hand.

Please post in this thread. Thanks!

I found it in the nick of time! The video I was hinting at in the beginning. I don't know if it's a parenting fail or an awesome music video, but I'm going with ABMV.

I present: Very little girl singing Zydrate Anatomy. A parent filmed their precious little girl singing about how fantastic future-heroine is. Complete with erotic moans and discussion of the gloriously disgusting drug market.

And they said they'd never make my dōjinshi canon...

Mechanically, they're all the same.

And I absolutely believe that Serge would trade "Information" for clothes if the Information was good enough. The entire world of Praetoria runs on secrets, lies, and backstabbing. Everyone has a secret they know that they'd kill to protect as well as one they are lacking that they'd kill to have.

Give me a character and I can make up, on the spot, why they would trade their services for Information. Here, let's do Serge:

• Serge is a passionate Loyalist who gets by on currying favor with Cole. Giving him the info he needs to please Cole is vital to the system, ah, coincidentally deciding that he's the most prominent fashion designer out there.
  
• Serge is a passionate Resistance member. While he only pretends to be gossiping and shooting the breeze, the idle talk he gets while dressing those blueberries helps his brothers and sisters to chomp 'em before they get chomped first.
  
• Akin to Arbiter Fabulous, Serge's passion for fashion is genuinely wicked. He attains his "rare" garments from illegal sources that the Emperor would confiscate. You are assisting in this process.

These are off the top of my head. Your mileage may vary.

Lookee here, Paragon Studios is getting some rave reviews. Check out this guy over here and this lady posting this. I don't even know who this person is, but they are all on about your game.

But me? I consider my job to keep things balanced. I've done it before, and I'll do it again. Now, I've gone through and made a laundry list of bugs, glitches, and fixes that need to be implemented before I'll even acknowledge that you're light years away from Brock, the true master.


So listen up and grab some coffee. Some people call me a troll. I call me honest.

• Too much dialogue. I don't care about this "morality" junk. Everyone is targetable. That was cool until you started justifying different view points. It made my mind think hurt and I got angry and logged into an unrelated game just to ragequit. You want a story? Here's your story: That guy's HP is a lockbox that's keeping you from Experience. GO GO GO.
  
• Matt Miller's shirt in the Vid Docs is an odd shade of yellow. It would not go with my wardrobe. In fact, I'm not sure it goes in his. Now, some may say that the fact that my entire wardrobe comes from the clothes that fall out of the bags Good Will carries their donations in would negate my fashion critique. To them I say how do you know where I get my clothes?
  
• When I kill someone, it still says "Defeated". I don't want "AxeMaster BloodFesting" to "Defeat" someone. If we change our stances, we should be able to change our victory messages. I want "You have melted the face of your enemy through the sheer power of rock and roll" to appear in each defeat.
  
• Face melting.
  
• Automatic grammar check. Look, this is America, and America doesn't futz around with schoolin'. It's why we're ranked the 11th in the best countries in the world. So the social expectation is too high. When I type something, I want a program that figures out what I -meant- to say and post that instead.
  
• Up the team max to 9. I've done everything I can with 8 person teams and need variety. Why are you stifling our creativity still!?
  
• Why the **** do we have a profanity filter!? Are you ******* serious about this!? Who the **** cusses in the game, anyway!? Your patronizing attitude that we will swear is ******* **** and you should be ashamed.
  
• War Witch keeps talking about taking things to the next level, but our level cap is still 50. Are she and I playing different games!?
  
• Sexy Jay is rather sexy. He gets no complaints from me. He can rock on with his bad self.
  
• Castle doesn't return my calls anymore.
  
• No Big Red Ball. Oh yes, I won't forget.
  
• Not enough pandas.
  
• Praetor Duncan looks like some cheap knockoff of Ms. Liberty. You even placed her in the same spot! Geeze, how lazy can you people be!?
  
• The box to this game isn't scented. I'm fairly certain its law that all games be either dipped in Old Spice or Axe Body Spray unless you get the "Chick Edition", which costs 25% less and is scented like flowers and condescension.
  
• Seriously, Castle, was it something I said?
  
• You allow people to make lists that stopped being funny after the first point. If you want to foster a true community, you'll reign in on the unfunny posts.
  
• You nerfed my Spi0erm4n character. I suppose you're going to make up some excuse about being a character rip off. I'm sorry, but as far as I'm concerned, There's no 7eter 7arker in Marvel comments. Maybe a "Peter". Learn to Spell. BackAlleyBrawler sucks at ticket arbitration.
  
• So, even in Praetorian Earth Cole can't afford a back to his helmet? Did he, like, only have half the INF for the recipe?
  
• Your sheer number of badges is breaking my immersion. Everytime I got a badge, I imagine my Super Strength Tanker collapsing under the sheer weight of them.
  
• Castle, I can change. I... I can change.

So, until you take care of these, I'm giving the game an F TRIPLE MINUS!!!111 This expansion is a disaster, and I'm going back to MARS.

Sincerely,

Marcian Grubb

((Edit: Okay... which one of you red names changed the last word to "MARS"? Well played. Well played. ))

Agreed with your post. I'm almost tempted to turn off gaining Exp so that I can stay in Praetoria for as long as possible.

This has completely refreshed that "I haven't injected City of Heroes into my veins in a whole 30 minutes" feeling I... actually never had.

So happy with Going Rogue. Incredible.

I agree with everything he said, the good and the bad. One thought and one exception:

1) Did you guys give him a review account? I can't fathom another way that he has Ninja Run and the Mission Teleporter and misunderstand that the latter is to be rarely used. Edit: Warden De Dios makes me look the fool.

2) If you don't understand that Praetoria is a morality tale in which everyone is wrong to a degree, your review borders on invalid. His pointing out that he was doing something bad for The Resistance (Which he calls the good guys) is like saying that Pyramid Head's behavior is abhorrent. Ya think!?

Other than that, I like it. He managed to nail the game for several legitimate complaints while still highlighting it's strengths that have kept me here. Better yet, he didn't summarize at the end. He let viewers make up their own mind.

This guy rocks and it's a decent review.