Nightphall
-
Posts
735 -
Joined
-
As a fan of irony:
Someone in Peregrine last year didn't clean up their spawns. I'm a scrapper, so they're no big threat to me. I defeat them.
One of them drops the Apocalypse: Chance for Fire Damage proc.
I wish I still had that screenshot. I did let the entire zone know, and to the individual who didn't clean up that spawn, I thank you still to this day. -
Quote:Nice, but this idea was already used in Superman: The Animated Series.Originally Posted by Nericus
Convert the Batman/Superman story World's Finest to live action. Joker gets some Kryptonite and comes to Metropolis to have Luthor pay him to kill Superman. Batman arrives on the scene to lend a hand.
Not saying you can't feature the two villains, just use a different plot. -
There are somedays where I feel like the following:
-Running through a well written mission or arc
-Playing a Challenge or "Boss Rush Mode" mission or arc
-Farming for tickets due to my stubborn refusal to pay the prices on the market.
Why I haven't most in 3 months: (Some reasons may be the same as what others have listed)
-Missions filled with gibberish, as if the person was typing with a boxing glove, have been appearing constantly
-Unfair, brutal, and cheaply made custom enemies that make Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 look easy. To make it short: Custom enemies are not balanced. I like a challenge, but there is a reason the Nintendo Hard era ended. I don't want to play a game I can never hope to beat.
-Too many farms. Far too many.
-No one ever wants to run a "Boss Rush Mode" with me.
(Though I wish the main game had something like this......and no, just several AVs in a TF does not count. It would have to be every featured AV in the entire game.)
-
This line comes from the Star Trek/X-Men crossover:
Worf: Parallel dimensions! I despise them. They are no end of trouble.
Wolverine: Tell me about it, bub. -
Quote:Dammit. Someone beat me to the response.Originally Posted by kheldarn
p.s. - there are five lights. -
Rogue Isles Villains and Paragon Heroes.
I always complained that we didn't run into them enough, especially blueside. Pre-issue 18, the only time you fought someone in a wild costume or with a name like 'Evil Man' or something were archvillains and safeguard missions. (You could count the villain group in the STF, but a lot of people skip past that part) This wasn't as much of a problem redside, as costumed heroes and villains appeared A LOT.
Now with tip-missions we get to see more of them. There were blueside players who didn't know those two groups even existed! -
Quote:Same here.Originally Posted by kangaroo120y
I also have this Graphics card and those drivers, no issues here, or on the other machines running different nVidia cards.
-
Quote:How in the world do you know what feet tastes like?!Originally Posted by Dark One
Swiss, pepper jack, or provolone? Because if it's swiss, then bleh. Cuz that stuff tastes like feet.
-
Quote:Forum rule violation!Originally Posted by The_Spartan
No.
10 Post Penalty. -
Yay, no more stupid AE exploits.
-
Quote:True. The mother box held up, but it wouldn't have lasted forever. (Like when Superman used one to go up against an evolved Doomsday)Originally Posted by Justaris
Funny enough, they actually addressed that very point in the comics that are the basis for Apocalypse. The rig Batman is wearing and the motherbox provide him with some minimal protection (enough not to get dead). He gets pretty beat up though, and comments in his inner monologue that Darkseid is beating the crap out of him and could kill him, but won't because it'd be stupid. Fun, but stupid, as he needs Batman alive to disarm the hellspores.
But being Batman, he took it off when Barda told him that it would help heal his wounds, saying "I can take care of myself"
Now had it been the Batman Beyond suit, which is durable enough to take multiple blows from Superman, it may have been a different story...... -
Quote:I may be one of the few people who ran a few of these farms just to put salvage back on the market, after I got tired of seeing no common salvage on the market.Originally Posted by Feycat
Oh, they give tickets. I've heard a lot of people using it to solo farm, not xp but tickets. A front-loaded ambush will max out your tickets in about 5 minutes, then you reset and leave.
The problem is that pretty much no one uses their ticket rolls for salvage of all things. Not to sell anyway. They use it for recipes, and may use tickets for the salvage to make THOSE recipes, but not one's wasting tickets on gobs of salvage.
It's not my fault that some people are so impatient and greedy that they are willing to pay millions for a piece of salvage that you can almost find lying on the ground.
-
Quote:Well for what it's worth, DC Earth is larger than Marvel Earth.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Since when is the Earth in the DCU four times larger than Earth? -
Quote:I'm not sure, but I think Superman thought he saw Doomsday.Originally Posted by MisterTorgo
Who did Superman believe Batman was? It was Darkseid, right? I would think that, after all this time, if Superman was still starting a fight with the dark lord of Apokolips with not even enough force to kill a Regular Human™ in a batsuit, then he needs to rethink his line of work.
I often read superhero books for some imaginative, well-thought knuckledusters. It bugs me when the fights as presented interfere with my suspension of disbelief. As someone else mentioned, it's about internal consistency.
And knuckledusting. -
Quote:I've heard of some of those people before, like The White Death and Audie Murphy.......but wow.Originally Posted by Unknown_User
If you go to cracked.com, they have list of some things
5 most epic one man rampages in history of war
5 real life soldiers who make Rambo like a wimp
6 soldiers who survived things that would kill a terminator
Anyways it goes show that a trained human being is capable taking some punishment and keep on going to kick butt. Batman has trained his body and mind to do something similar to the examples listed.
-Edit-
Oh yeah it's Cracked.com come so links might be NSFW
I've always wondered where the idea of Solid Snake and other Metal Gear characters came from..... -
Quote:To be honest, I took a month to convince myself to switch from XP to 7.Originally Posted by NuclearToast
Screw XP, I don't care what the Black Friday weekend deal is, I'm sticking with Windows 7.
--NT
The desktop got 7, and I still have XP on the laptop. Vista is just a dust collector now. -
EDIT: Changed the subject title. The original didn't really fit.
I know a lot of people get into fits whenever Batman fights villains with superpowers, whether they be from his own Rogues' Gallery, or many of the metahumans that populate the DC Universe.
"He's only human! He shouldn't be able to dodge lasers!"
"A blow like that should have killed him!"
"Batman can't beat anyone with powers"
I don't know what it is......maybe people forget that Batman's suit does a rather decent job at preventing damage (in our game's terms, it provides greater than normal resistances to Smashing, Lethal, Fire, and various others.) Not to mention the various martial arts training methods that he used to learn to work through pain and the like. And that's even if you manage to hit him in the first place. (And I didn't mention the other features of the costume)
When it comes to fighting people with powers, I agree.....depending on the opponent. Villains like Clayface and Metallo would require Batman utilizing his gadgets to beat them, but say someone like Weather Wizard or Dr. Arthur Light......once Batman gets up and close, neither of the two have superhuman endurance or invulnerability. One punch from Batman will knock them out. Something I wish more people would realize. Even superpowered people who don't have super strength take out villains with normal punches from time to time.
But when it comes to other heroes in either DC or Marvel, to quote a trope I saw on the internet today:
Quote:Some fans can be downright irrational at times. If Juggernaut punches Cyclops through a wall, people are fine with it. If Batman gets slammed through a wall by Solomon Grundy or Bane, people howl and say he shouldn't be able to survive an attack like that at all, while forgetting the degree of protection his costume provides. As far as I know, Cyclops doesn't have any special protection when he gets hit by superhumanly strong opponents.It's actually pretty common that when comic book characters fight, characters with superpowers take superpowered hits without serious injury, even though their superpowers have nothing to do with superhuman strength or endurance. I.E. a character whose ability is to shoot Eye Beams can be punched through a concrete wall, pick themselves back up, and continue fighting as though nothing happened.
Anyone have any other examples regarding the two in a certain circumstance?
1. A normal trained human who can survive superhuman blows with explanation (I suppose Powered Armor heroes could fit in this group)
2. A superpowered being who is not invulnerable but still survives them -
Quote:Or join the military first......get into Special Forces if you can, and then become a cop. (I know a few real life examples are usually sought after higher organizations, like the FBI, Secret Service, et al......and I know some former Marines have gone on to be detectives or SWAT team members)Originally Posted by Lastjustice
This sums it up well. I dont really see the point in doing this. I mean I get the spirit of what they're doing but it rarely helps much in practice. I just shake my head everytime I see one of these stories pop up. If you want to go on patrol in say a neighborhood watch, not wearing an obvious outfit probably makes it easier to catch badguys in the act. Wearing a big neon sign saying you're here to annoy criminals isn't the healthiest or more helpful option.
If you're hellbent on fighting crime.....go become a cop. Get some real authority, training and back up to handle the situation since they're likely the people you're going be calling anyways. Unless you're wearing an outfit that's actually granting you some real level of protection than +2 against cold damage (aka a sweater.) then you're probably just putting on something that makes it harder to fight, run or patrol in.
I'm all for people standing up to criminals and not being walked on. This isn't the way to do it.
I guarantee you'll be much tougher and more experienced than a beat cop who only went through the academy, and nothing before that. -
Quote:Hmm.Originally Posted by Schismatrix
How about the friends i've had who have been regularly training in martial arts for over ten years? Admittedly none of them have ever put on costumes to roam the streets looking for crime...
I guess it depends on the training. Like people who teach the martial art the way it was meant to be taught. You had to become a weapon when the government banned weapons back in those days. Lethal strikes, dirty blows, and everything in between.
The watered down competition versions however? I could train in them for 15 years, and it still wouldn't be enough. -
Quote:Not to mention the 10+ years of training that he underwent.Originally Posted by _AzA_
[Batman has just fought off Scarecrow and a group of Batman wannabes]
Batman: Don't let me find you out here again.
Brian: We're trying to help you!
Batman: I don't need help.
Dr. Jonathan Crane: Not in my diagnosis!
Brian: What gives you the right? What's the difference between you and me?
[Batman lowers himself into the Batmobile]
Batman: I'm not wearing hockey pads!
lulz
Most of the RL superheroes train for like a few weeks, if at all. Even military training at it's longest is about 14 weeks (for the USMC). There are additional training programs after that, but generally not to the point where you are considered invincible. (Unless you undergo Special Forces training, which I wish even beat cops could undergo......but that would probably make for a vastly reduced police force, as not everyone can complete such harsh training)
Now, if people in the military began training at the earliest possible like the Spartans did, and then decided to become a superhero, that would be an entirely different story....... -
Quote:I should have checked before I posted....I said the exact same thing in a previous post.Originally Posted by Forefinger_
I've thought many times that the character creator in CoH needs a serious upgrade. They have a better system in those Smackdown vs Raw video games, and I haven't played any of them in years.
As extensive as out character creator is, the Smackdown VS Raw games really do put it to shame, with the exception of the original Smackdown. -
Quote:This.Originally Posted by Mirai
I might look into Marvel Comics again some day, after Queseda leaves. -
You are welcome.
-
Where to begin.
In an issue of Game Informer, I was reading a review of Final Fantasy X. (2001 was it?) I then see a preview of City Of Heroes, and think "I'd like to try that." It was still a few years out though.
The game launched when I was still in the middle of basic training (United States Air Force), and I didn't have a PC at the time. I did however, see someone playing it on their laptop when we were at Security Forces training.
Though I didn't get around to buying the game myself, as I didn't get my own PC till 2006. (PS2 games ate up the vast majority of my off duty time before then......hey, I was a 20 year old single male, and that's the best time to game for ungodly hours.) I honestly don't know how I survived that long without a PC though. If I could go back in time and buy one earlier, I would have.....but oh well.
April 11, 2006, and have been here ever since. -
Quote:If anyone stood the best chance (and did the best job at it), it was John Henry Irons. But some people unfairly called him a rip-off of Iron Man, despite the only thing they have in common is a suit of armor.Originally Posted by Nericus
There was no way any of the four "Supermen" were going to take his place.