Nethergoat

it's a mediocre console fighting game that wants you to think it's an MMO.

Instant Healing as a toggle.


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RP can handwave anything.


My position has the inherent advantage of not needing it.

Lets see, I can believe a mental patient, or a game developer.


Hmmmm.....


In any case, as probably the single most outspoken opponent of in-game advertising the primary 'moronic' thought in your post is the notion there were enough of us to affect the program in any direct way. On the con side were me and a handful of others, on the pro side was essentially the entire generation that grew up in a world with every nook and cranny plastered with advertising, who not only didn't find anything objectionable but claimed ads would increase their game immersion.


Because nothing says Rogue Isles like a Derek Jeter crosstrainer!

The time for due diligence is before posting, not after whining about people who didn't read your mind. I'd expect someone who's been here 8 years to understand how forums work.

Pimping other games on the CoH forums while going out of your way to heckle the people making an effort to save this one while endlessly trumpeting how realistic you are.

It's great you've spent lots of money supporting the game over the years.
It isn't great that you've decided your new role in the community is playing Forum Wet Blanket.

Well gee, that's not how public forums work.
Unless you quote posts, which you didn't.


Anyway, this post in another thread nailed you and your ilk to the wall:


Have fun yapping!

1: Well, the publisher is the one who canceled the game out of the blue, blindsiding the development team as much as the community. Which makes them the logical source for further interrogation.

2: See above.

3: If we were "ignoring" the news we wouldn't be fighting to save the game.

4: I thanked NC over the years in the only language they care about: $$$.


That isn't giving up, it's realizing one tactic isn't going anywhere and looking for another route to the goal. The Titan crew are still serving as a hub for the efforts of those trying to save the game.

Gratz!
Now, go play GW2 and let all us unrealistic losers keep fighting for this game.

Succinct!

Lately I'm adhering to an old proverb: if you're not manning an oar, get the hell off this boat!

Congenital pessimist that I am, I find myself agreeing with this.
I'm following everyone on Twitter, I'm signing every petition that comes my way, I'm joining every online protest I can make.

If nothing else, it's introduced me to a lot of fantastic people in the community that hadn't previously come to my notice. It's also changed my opinion about a lot of folks around here- that old saying 'you don't know who your real friends are until you actually need them' applies. A guy like TonyV who I didn't get along with turns out to be exactly the sort of person you want on your side when disaster strikes. And all the people in Ultimus' Final Reveal thread, people with no post history but who've been playing for years and grabbed a final opportunity to connect with the wider community.

Then there's the why aren't you like me, way too cool to form an emotional attachment to a silly game? Also, GW2 is GREAT! contingent.

I like the crowd I'm running with.
If we end up bashing into a brick wall, as seems likely, we do it with the finest motives and in excellent company.

I refer there to the original spate of trolling, not this post-ban troll-pology.

But your affection for the troll is noted and my weighting of your future comments has been adjusted accordingly.

I stand corrected- apologies for the mis-characterization.

And why should they, when we have you around to share your incredible insider access with us, the great unwashed?

Your services to the game only grow more amazing with the passage of time.

It hasn't bothered me at all.

*shrug*


Maybe I'll feel different after I apply that 60 day timecard I picked up on Amazon for eight bucks.

But I don't see the game getting hugely more entertaining for me- I'm not a person who generally appreciates a massive range of power options or perceives character construction as a major game draw. It'll still be WoW in tights whether I'm playing as The Inferno or some other, more involved template.

I'm not quite that bad off, but I understand the feeling.

I haven't been able to log in because now the load screen fills me with despair.

Which is stupid, it's like not visiting your terminally ill friend because they're probably going to die and that makes you sad.

Well, not quite the same because the game doesn't care if I play or not, while a friend certainly would appreciate visits...but similar emotional logic.

While I could still afford to play, raising my son left ZERO time for gaming so I took a year off.

Small children play hell with your leisure time....

Like you're some rough-handed icon of the proletariat? *eyeroll*

But I'm not surprised you could have been one of the derelicts who showed up on my BBS message board back in the day burping 'WERE R TEH FILEZ?!?'

CO was designed for consoles.
And while I'm sure arcade console fighters played a part in the genesis of the mechanism, that isn't any sort of recommendation.

WOW YOU ARE AWESOME! AND YOU LIKE BLOCKING!
YOU SHOULD TOTALLY MARRY CO!!

Not if, as I do, you find them despicable.

It is a console game mechanism.
I despise console game-style gamplay.

Call it 'action', call it whatever you like- it's a concept rooted in gamepads and CO's original hybrid console/PC model, and I dislike it intensely.

If you don't mind it, that's fine.
But it is entirely fair to call it a console game mechanism because that's exactly what it is.

Or an MMO. It's a hybrid which, fortunately from my point of view, failed in its attempts to attract console support and so has evolved in the direction of an actual PC game. But which still bears design scars from its misguided PC/Console stages of development.

It's enough of an MMO to maintain my engagement for now, but that doesn't improve my opinion of the residual design concessions to the console market.


You seem to be making the presumption I dislike the mechanic because it is difficult. On the contrary. In practice it isn't much different from those dumb WoW raids with their scripted bosses, only it broke out of the dungeon lair and infected the entire game. And there's no 3rd party player mod to automate your responses.

It is a mechanism that hails explicitly from console design, and it does not appeal to me in any way.


That said, I *do* like it as applied to holds. It removes the binary 'helpless/fine' dichotomy of CoH and makes getting free more pro-active.

However I'd prefer if they'd left it at that.