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Remember this is only his WWII preliminary costume (altered a bit for combat from being the mascot of the military). This is not the final cossie he'll be wearing in the Avengers after they thaw him out of the ice as it'll be too badly shredded after.....

Thats pretty much the explanation Marvel will be using yes, at least with Thor. (How they'll explain Dr.Strange though I have absolutely no idea).
How does it go again; 'Science so advanced its indistinguisable from magic'.


Cool!, thanks. Theres a link I'd missed, I'll have to rewatch (handy as I've just picked it up cheapish on Blu-Ray).

Technically they are Hydra troops outfitted with [Marvel NDA] weapons designed by the Red Skull that uses the powersource known as the [Marvel NDA] hence the eerie glow to them.

First off, Parker is intelligent... but he is no Stark-level genius innovator, so no, I don't subscribe to that as a plausible idea (which is probably the reason why Raimi also went the mutant spider-glands on wrists route)... and you're not seriously saying said mutant route is not accurate artistically because he's not shooting webbing from his butt? - are you?.

Ahahaha hahahah... too funny!.

Plenty of shots of all that in the Project Rebirth lab part of the film I imagine.

Good grief, It makes you wonder why Marvel hypes up the film as much as it does in conjunction with Columbia. If the studio ever does get back the franchise I wonder what they'd do with it differently as a 100% Marvel property, I mean... Avi Arad, Kevin Feige, Stan Lee, Gale Ann Hurd and the usual crowd are usually involved anyway in one way or another as executives whatever studio is producing, and I remember those guys hyping up the Ang Lee 'Hulk' as revolutionary and the best thing since sliced bread, the definative version... before it flopped, only to be involved in the subsequent reboot as well. A lot of the same people from Marvel are involved every.single.time.

I think we don't have enough zones that are used to their fullest extent, thats the problem.
We have Boomtown, Perez, Creys, Shadowshard, Dark Astoria (and you could argue a couple more) that have not been touched in years and are ghost-towns on most nights (most populated EU-server: Union).

One could argue a possible cull, and / or reinvestment and reinvigoration of the content in those zones. The day we stop pushing for exciting enviroments being used to their fullest extent is the start of the apathetic slippery slope imho.

I like the darker colour-scheme, I like the slight re-imaginning of the suit (the lattice and hexagonal texture of the Raimi-suit was very iconic). In my opinion they are just trying to disassociate from that.
I like the less obvious spider chest icon, I really despise they way they have felt the need to unnecessarily tinker with the gloves design and tried to be all contemporary. I imagine its from the same idiotic production design department that decided to put a flourish of red on Thor's boots and gauntlets.

But I absolutely disagree with web-shooters If they ever went down that path. Stan's original concept or not... It just doesn't make sense for a teenage schoolboy to be capable of inventing a scientific breakthrough like infinite supply of super-strong webbing and its practicle application through wrist-shooters in his bedroom. Totally dumb idea - just-don't-go-there. >.<

And yes, part of me too wishes Marvel didn't have this inate reboot compulsion if films don't perform as hoped. There is really no need for it whatsover in my opinion, cinema audiences can make the leap of imagination with another actor in a role and there is no guarantee that this the new cast will last any longer than Raimi's cast.

Silly Marvel, absolute folly. Andrew Garfield is 28 for heavens sakes, he may look younger than his years (as Maguire does / did) but for how long?, they going to reboot continuously to keep Spidey a youthful sub-thirty?.
I think they should do a trilogy, possibly a cameo in the Avengers film or a following Marvel film, (Namor, Dr Strange, whatever) ... but retire the character from the silver screen after that. He's have a far more enthusisatic audience as a live-action 1-hour weekly Tv series with cliffhangers that would allow multiple storylines and explore the character's many Nemesis' without flogging the franchise to death on the silver screen.

Thwip™ .o/








Edit: Three claw scratches on his left cheek? and on zooming into the X2 resolution picture linked at Superherohype.com you can definately see that a few of those stains on his suit have a dark green tinge to them (left glove/r.hand side on pic particularly). Lizard blood?.

Thats interesting, (and being an Atlantis mythology enthusiast I'm intrigued) but I think if underwater is attempted the Kingdom of the Coralax would be a perfect fit for existing lore rather than trying to shoehorn in something to CoH that is foreign.

Besides, In the thirty years of PnP lore in the other game, Atlantis has already been a zone for decades. As the other studio's enviromental artists search through the PnP books for zonal inspiration, in-time it too will be attempted online to sit alongside the other underwater zone.

I like the calls for a Norse-inspired Asgardian type of zone, as i do the calls for space and extra-planetary zones.
Ancient Egypt also has merit I feel should pre-history be attempted.

Really, I thought it was very well done.
Depth of field-check, a nice sense of depth re: different stages and sinking down fathoms deep-check, a wibbly-wobbly™ distortion effect that is noticable but not restrictive re:combat - check. A swimming animation and bubbles streaming from your breathing.
I'm interested to hear what you feel isn't achieved convincingly enough for your tastes Aura.

What I felt was a missed opportunity for CoH was not to implement an underwater zone first. I'm sure a convincing one could now be achieved anyway what with Ultra-mode, and the Coralax have been in-game since Halloween 2005, you'd of thought an underwater kingdom of the Coralax could of been attempted in the last five years.

Because you wouldn't want to ape the competition?

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...I'll get my cape.

Agreed, besides... look at the horizon in the picture, no Castle in the background!.
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