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Quote:This brings the saying "same difference" to mind, but that is for another thread....Originally Posted by RobertoLyon
"powers" over "spells"
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Quote:To each his own I suppose......Originally Posted by Laevateinn
All my characters are godlike in power, and I don't forsee myself being bored anytime soon. I enjoy breezing through a game utterly devoid of challenge or difficulty.
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Quote:And those who obtain godlike powers eventually become either very bored or morose, because nothing ever seems to be able to challenge them.Originally Posted by MageX
Yes they are right. you feel unique and different but not quite heroic. at least i don't. thats the reason my main toons are a fire/kin troller and a mastermind, i get to feel like i own the battlefield ina gamestyle i like.
Maybe not a remake but definately major improvements.
I like the levels of power here. If I could breeze through everything even on the highest of difficulty levels, my stay here would have been VERY short. -
Quote:I realized that as well, and when it came time for me to reenlist, I laughed and told my supervisor I was seperating.Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
I had country in my list once. I even took an oath to defend my country from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
And then one day I realized that my country had been taken over by domestic enemies a loooooong time ago.
At least my schooling is paid for, or else I would've felt that I got nothing out of those four years. -
I'll be honest, I thought about going to Aion, but I didn't because:
- I really wasn't ready to start a brand new MMO. And I will only pay monthly for one at a time.
- I had just bought several used games, and there was no way the wife was gonna let me spend 50 dollars on another a day later
- I'm happy here.
- I have too many other side projects going on at the moment (Unplayed and unopened console games that I'd really like to get to, DnD campaign, MUGEN, RPG Maker)
- I'm of the kind that waits till an MMO has been out for a good while to try it out (I am aware that it has been out longer in Asia)
- Did I mention that I'm happy here?
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To respond to an above post as to why we couldn't win the Rikti War without IOs......
Didn't the war happen before ED? The heroes then wouldn't have needed them. I wasn't around pre-ED, but I heard several powersets were good......too good. (Pre-ED Invulnerability is one that I hear about often.) -
Quote:Then send in the villains. I'm pretty sure there are many Brutes and Masterminds that would not mind this.Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Heroes generally don't consider genocide an option.
Not to mention the scrappers who drool at the thought of taking on an entire world of enemies. -
I'm beginning to understand more and more what people mean when they say CO should have been a console game instead of an MMO.
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Quote:Ugh, the same happened to me back in July. I suppose it was my fault.....I was overtaxing the motherboard by using a video card that was apparently too much for my PSU to handle.Originally Posted by Canine
My PC died about a month ago. PSU went, and decided to take the Motherboard with it. Goodbye to the old faithful Asus SK8V/Athlon64 FX-53 system that's served me well over the last 5 years
Since then, I've taken a bit of a break, played through and thoroughly enjoyed Okami on my Wii, and finally gotten round to completing Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii, too (a mere 3 years more or less after the date on my last Zelda save game).
I've also had a week and a half of hassle and annoyance trying to get my new system sorted. But I'll not dwell on that.
I'm currently installing patches/drivers/applications on my shiny, oh so shiny new PC. So while windows is updating, I thought I'd say hello again (not that many people will necessarily have noticed that I was gone).
New system :
Dell U2410 monitor (it's bloody *huge* compared to the old 17" Sony Trinitron I had).
Antec 602 case.
Corsair 650W PSU.
i7 920 D0 stepping overclocked to 3.40Ghz.
6Gb Corsair RAM.
GeForce GTX 285 1Gb.
1 x 500Gb HDD (will be getting more drives eventually).
LG SATA DVD burner.
Transplanted my old Creative X-FI sound card, G15 Keyboard, and G9 Laser mouse.
Vista 64 bit.... Urk. There had to be a drawback. Got a Win 7 Upgrade voucher though, so I'll likely be trying that eventually.
And a sodding great hole in my bank balance....
So far it seems rather nippy. I've yet to see if that state of affairs will last once assorted bits and bobs get installed.
Got a new ASUS about two weeks later though, as well as another more powerful PSU. Since I was already spending quite a bit already, I decided to just get a new card as well.
Everything has been good since then. -
If I ever get a billion influence, I'd hold a random series of contests and give half of it away. Really.
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If there were no evil?
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Quote:EDIT: Was a rant, but I misread how you were saying what you said.Originally Posted by Epic_
Panic mode maybe? seems i16, Didnt do much to keep people interested. Add to it that Aion and CO have went live, and all the lag issues (not ncsoft issue)on east coast servers i dont know maybe there player base is dwindling. I for one play once maybe twice a week now down from everyday.
What this could mean, and im just saying is that we get could a rushed out GR to try and get back players. People loose interest and coloring powers cant bring them back. -
Ooh, and I have the 12th off as well.
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If it isn't this weekend or next, I'll just have to miss out on it....
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Geezers.....lol
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Quote:Same....grew up with the NES era of gamers (I'm 25)Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Just turned 30 on Wednesday.
I'm right between the young'uns and the old timers in this thread it seems.
For some reason, the games never got old, and I still discover NES games that I never knew existed. (Screw uberleet graphics, the gameplay of older games almost overshadows that of most modern games) -
Quote:Originally Posted by joshx
they finish with a comment on the fact that the servers are empty.
i made a post it was time for a server merge, as a new player, saying i cant find find any full teams going ever but during the short prime time of usa, ya, i got trolled and flamed like a nutcase
Sometimes, it's not about what you say. It's how you say it. Still does not make it a good idea. -
Quote:I would actually support this. However, the trial would have to be hard. Nintendo Hard. SNK Boss hard.Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
Maybe that's something there should be a trial for, like respecs used to be before they started just giving them out at random.
Of course, some people would then complain its too hard. Oh well, guess they don't have what it takes. -
Quote:Not Battletoads, but I was also able to beat Contra without the use of codes. (It took two months to get it down to a science however....luckily it was during a summer break)Originally Posted by Reiraku
I've beaten Battletoads and Contra, both without codes/warps.
Bayou Billy was a different matter. As was Deadly Towers.
No one I know has ever beaten Battletoads though. -
Quote:Another problem that I see is that most gamers these days (Mostly the ones under the age of 19) think that graphics are the only thing that make a game.Originally Posted by Tir_McDohl
I went back to college a few years ago. During my days there, I got to know the younger generation of nerds and gamers. I found that while they were just about as good as I was in the newer games (Call of Duty, 3d fighters, etc), when we went to a 2d game or a throwback of some sort (side-scrolling shooters, platformers, Street Fighter 4, old school 2d fighters), I was suddenly far better than them.
There's some sort of huge difference in the new and old. Precise timing and bullet hell gameplay isn't rewarded like it used to be. Instead of timing that dragon punch to counter the guy who jumped at you, the newer games tend to reward hours of practicing borderline exploits in order to do five hour long combo strings. You don't need fast precise movements so much as you need "twitch" reflexes to fire at your enemy as soon as possible. The entire concept of bullet hell throws the younger generation of gamers for absolute loops, as evidenced whenever we played Aegis Wing, a VERY VERY easy (compared to old school) side scrolling shooter on xbox live.
Sure, I kinda sound like grandpa gamer over here, but the kids today seem to have been brought up on entirely different mechanics than the older gamers were. They aren't necessarily worse, they're just not as exposed to a variety of gameplay as some of us. Hopefully retro gaming enjoys resurgences often enough to let them in on what they missed, though.
I once was behind a kid and his dad buying a game. His dad was picking out a few games that I wouldn't have minded trying, only to have his son say "don't get that. The graphics are horrible." I really wanted to head-desk the nearest wall.
I remember games being fun, regardless of what the graphics looked like. (Nostalgia kicking in now....lol) -
Quote:I felt like this since this generation (PS3, 360, Wii) of gaming started. Some of the reason for this was so that developers could appeal to the "casual" gamer.....the person who either does not have hours of time to play, or does not care about how easy or hard a game is. All they want to do is play.Originally Posted by PsychoPez
I just bought an XBox a month or so ago. Today's mega blockbuster games are mind-numbingly easy. I could've beaten Mass Effect with my eyes closed. Now granted, I'm playing my 3rd playthrough just to get all the achievements, and it's more grinding than challenging, but still.
Gears of War - mostly easy.
Mass Effect - mostly easy.
Left 4 Dead - mostly easy.
Last generation did not have this problem as much. It is much more apparent nowadays.
I guess you could buy DLC to get a game to last longer (since some of the longest modern games top out at 20 hours max)....not a fan of that at all though. If I pay 60 dollars for a game, I want a complete product, not a half-finished game that only looks prettier, but pales in comparison when it comes to content to its predecessors. (Looking at you, King Of Fighters 12.) That, however, is for another thread. I could go on for hours.
(Bought this up in another thread a few weeks ago: If only the price of a game were determined on how long a game lasted.....I feel bad for anyone who paid full price for Heavenly Sword, only to finish it in a few days.)
I just decided to stay in the era of PS2 and before. Screw this generation. -
Quote:I see what you did there.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Actually, though this is some time in the past, analysis done by Arcanaville and others showed that Brutes and (especially) Tankers would never get regen because it would be weaker for them than other sets, not even close to overpowered. This is especially true against alpha strikes, which is something Brutes and Tankers face often. (MoG is now pretty good for alphas, but still not always ideal.)
i suppose a reworked version of regen would be doable. Add some def and res toggles to help with alpha strikes and a reworked regen toggle that gets stronger with more enemies around you. Maybe add a theme like superior psi res and def to distinguish it from regen. Call it something like... "Willpower." -
Quote:This is all true. However, there will be some that will still say "so what the devs should have been using that time to create more content"Originally Posted by Thunderspark
Perhaps some people are never quite satisfied, or perhaps they don't fully realise the work that goes into creating much of the content we enjoy. The power customisation might seem like a simple task, but anyone who has read their earlier posts about colouring powers will know the real story behind it.
A lot of the powers were precoloured, and they needed greyscale versions in order to let players customise them. This meant they needed to remake the artwork. Then they had to 'attach' powerset to the players much like they did for Dual Blades and Katana customisations. Now, im no developer, but that alone sounds like a mammoth amount of work, never mind adding in all the interface bits and pieces so players can actually make the changes.
Okay it's not 'Going Rogue', perhaps the most anticipated update in the history of the game, but it offers a much more diverse world to enjoy and in my books that can only be a good thing. Though im still slightly disappointed that they haven't announced any customisation options for mastermind pets, im quite pleased with I16 and to me it shows that the devs still care a lot for the game.
Just remember, what appears to be a 'simple update' can often be far more difficult to accomplish under the hood.
It all comes down to what you said: Some people can never be pleased, no matter what you do. -
Quote:You haven't seen anything yet. Try playing it on Galaxy and Universe level.Originally Posted by Shadowclone
Star Ocean on Ps2.
Its a two disk game and itsn't only the fact that its ridiculously long that makes it hard but its filled with a ton of puzzle/maze places.
Or better yet, try playing Star Ocean 3 on the 4D level.
Oh man, I NEVER want to do that again. -
Another Edit: Has to be a Nintendo game......whoops!
Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels. Been stuck at World 8-3 since I was 11 years old. I'm 25 now. (SNES version, so I have had my progress saved for that long. Really.)
I tried to repeat the path I took so many years ago last month. I almost wanted to travel back in time to ask my younger self how he was ever able to do it.