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Every time I see Den-O, I imagine Xzibit's voice talking about spinning rims.
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Got mine. >
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Quote:Can you actually do that in the game?, Excluding the starting picks, of course.Originally Posted by Kallien
If you want this badly, roll a MM and only take the last pet, or roll a Domi and don't take any of your primary but the pet -
Quote:Friendship can take on the Universe, though.Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Heart: The only super power lamer than Friendship.
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Quote:RebuttalOriginally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Some do come up with the craziest abilities (maybe anime could come up with a non-lame version of aqua man!).
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we're a duo, not a gang. You don't see us going around with cheesy accents and bad hair. -
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Quote:Originally Posted by Kitsune Knight
Bit of a broken record player here, but it's simply a medium. And hell, even Japan's live action stuff can be strange as hell.
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Quote:This discussion is getting kind of off-topic and this thread will likely go down in flames soon enough. I'm cool with taking this to PMs if you want to pursue it further.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
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Quote:My point being I don't see anythings scythe unique enough about those animations to really count it as a unique look.. Looks mostly like a more interactive Titan Weapons user to me.Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Well, no, it's not scythe-specific because the way Death fights is more as a dual-weapons used with kama weapons that he uses pretty much like axes. He has only a few scythe-specific attacks, usually either in executions or his reaper form attacks. What I was saying, however, is he made a primary scythe user look good enough for me to want one.
This isn't really news to me. But , again, there's precedence with kama and how they are used, which isn't really as a direct slashing weapon and more as a trapping and cutting weapon.Quote:Also, what do you envision of being specific to a scythe? An actual scythe has a blade that points sideways of the haft so that it can cut grass on the ground without making you bed over. A what you see passed off as a scythe in fantasy and anime has a curved blade that points down the haft and looks like a giant kama. To the best of my knowledge, such a weapon has never actually existed and thus no traditional means of using it has ever been developed.
I'm having a hard time finding video that actually displays the combat clearly, but the Dervish Class from Guildwars made good use of it's Scythe with lots of hooking and swinging weapons past the enemy and then pulling back.Quote:I don't mean this to shoot you down, by the way - this is an honest question: How do you envision a scythe being used that's unique to it and can't be used for an axe just as easily? In Darksiders II, Death spears the Crowfather lying on the ground, then flips him up to stand the scythe on its end so the guy is hanging off the blade upright, but that's a very specific use for it that's not easily transferable to a genera situation. So seriously - what's specific to the scythe?
I think it'd be interesting to see someone fight using it less as a direct offensive weapon and more as a tool/combat hazard to direct the opponent towards with clever positioning. There's also the whole "impale, then swing to sever" or "Impale, then drag them around" thing as well.
Another good example would be Maka from Soul Eater, Which uses the length and size as a defensive element(staff-style twirling) before delivering a massive, final blow leveraging, again, the size, length and sharpness against the opponent -
None of that looked very Scythe-specific to me. It looked fun and cool, but nothing seemed to take advantage of a scythe's unique properties in that video.
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Quote:More than one character within the same series interacting is still just one series.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
See, from my perspective continuity is just continuity. Differentiating it as "shared" when there's more than one title involved makes as little sense to me as doing so if there just happens to be more than one character involved.
Comics continuity is the equivalent of, well, every TV series made by a particular company being connected just because the same people own the rights.
Things Superman does in Superman titles can and do have an effect on Batman because they share the same continuity. If one of Superman's villains destroys the world in a Superman book, Batman dies too, even if he doesn't ever appear in said book, because they live on the same planet. Even if he isn't ever mentioned in those books, because of shared continuity.
If the President passes a law against vigilantism in a Batman comic, Superman is now a criminal, because they share the same President.
It's different from, say the occasional fun, silly cameo because it's a constant cycle of cause and effect, and, more importantly, effect with no visible cause within the actual narrative. Superman is a criminal now because of something that happened in a completely different story that he had no actual effect in or part in. It's the equivalent of an M. Night Shymalan twist out of nowhere for each character because word from the writer is that all these characters and their actions are connected.
Effectively, every DC comic story is a Superman story, a Batman story, a Green lantern Story, e.t.c. even if these characters never appear in them. Even if there's no meaningful connection between them. Even if there's no narrative reason for them to be connected outside of Editor fiat. -
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So for those of us who care, it's that bittersweet time of year again, when we leave behind the faces, rubber masks, helmets, and explosions that we've grown so fond of and begin a new adventure with a new hero.
Kamen Rider Fourze aired it's final episode this past weekend and the upcoming Series, Kamen Rider Wizard, awaits us this Sunday.
No idea what I'm talking about?
Well Educate yourself, you Uncultured Swine!
On to the Geekery!
I have to say, Fourze is an odd duck, indeed. It was definitely flawed, but it had a heart that's hard to deny. The ending with Kengo was the kind of cop-out I had hoped I wouldn't see again since the end of W, and it's no less annoying the second time around. I was honestly touched and not at all surprised at how Gamou met his end. I have to applaud them for not just having the "Power of Friendship" manifest itself in a big destructive Care Bear Stare of Doom. I also appreciate that we never get to see or hear The Presenters. Some things are just better left a mystery.
As for the rest of the series. I felt potential was wasted.
The show introduced the idea that some Zodiarts can evolve into one of the 12 Apostle Horoscopes and that Horoscopes where the most powerful. In the beginning, several episodes were needed to bring down a Horoscopes, with them usually trying to "groom" the weekly Zodiart who was causing all of the problems of the day, into the next Apostle.
Following the end of the Cancer Horoscopes Arc, Libra suddenly gains a plot-device power that lets the show jump straight into the introduction of a new Apostle each time, and even the characters themselves stop using the word "Horoscopes". What was once a big threat becomes just another weekly monster, even before Fourze gets to spend the rest of the season spamming Cosmic States at everything until it explodes.
The villains where pretty great, though, their arcs and how they ended felt satisfying. Especially Cancer. Cancer was just so damn entertaining. I was happy to see him go down in that perfect "Love to hate him" sort of way. I felt that the "threat-level" of each individual Horoscopes was traded for more of an individual emotional investment and that may just have been a better choice in the long run, considering how the show played out. Each new horoscope was essentially a new character-development moment for a different member of the Kamen Rider Club.
I think this might be one of the only times where "more filler" might have been a good thing.
Fourze's whole powers set-up was definitely a waste of potential as well. Coming off OOO(the previous season)'s great use of the idea of a mix-and match Rider, it only seemed worse.
Instead of the interesting and fun idea of combining multiple switches in a certain combination to get a unique form change, we get the standard Gun Form, Sword Form, mid-Season upgrade, and Super form (also a sword >.<) on top of all the silly looking gadgets.
I have an innate aversion to High-school dramas, so that counted against it right off the bat. This is probably a personal gripe, though, and not necessarily a "flaw". I just know that most of the "drama" will be forgotten by these characters in a few years,whereas the "action" wouldn't, because monster fighting and death and all that. It's a kid's show though, so this is really just one of those times where I have to accept how dorky my hobby is anyway and roll with the punches.
The very large cast of ultimately pointless characters got annoying, particularly since each character had two episodes of set-up in the beginning and two more of focus in the later episodes. JK and Tomoko could have probably just been one character, considering their actual contributions to the group where about the same, an informant.
Both Shun and Miu outlived their welcome very quickly, particularly since Miu never really did anything anyway, and, I'm assuming, the budget for the show restricted over-use of the giant CGI Powerdizer, which was Shun's only real function.
All of this would might been tolerable with interesting or funny writing if,THEY WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO HAVE GRADUATED FROM HIGH-SCHOOL AND LEFT THE SHOW 20 EPISODES IN. These two college freshman still hanging around their old high-school makes even less sense than a Grown American man watching a Japanese Kids Super-hero show.....
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Moving on.
There were far too many set-ups to/actual follow-throughs for Supposed "deaths" for me to take any of them seriously(including the "Graduation").
I did kind of appreciate the "Breakfast Club" aspect of the whole thing, though. That was amusing. For a while.
Gentaro, on the other hand. Was just so damn fun. I'd love to watch him go around and make friends with everyone in the world. I can see how such a relentlessly optimistic and cheerful person might attract a lot of people and he was certainly a stronger character than Hino Eiji of OOO. he didn't have much development, but I find myself not bothered by that very much, whereas Eiji's lack of development and character was a major sticking point for me.
Even his stupid haircut grew on me after a time.
Speaking of which:
Fourze's head looks stupid. Yes I know it's supposed to look like a rocket ship. Still Stupid. His gadgets look silly, his belt looks silly.
I actually liked the idea behind Meteor's design more than the execution, I don't know if it's the skinny chicken legs or what, but Meteor's design could have worked with a little more effort. Beyblade Pikachu did not help things. But he was just so damn funky.
I actually loved the monster design this Season. I'm particularly fond of Rider seasons that establish an overall thematic design for the bad guys beyond "It looks like a bat/spider/car" The constellation motif came through very well, and the intricate styling and Tron lines were cool. Leo horoscopes just looks badass
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If you Rp'd and only played stories you and your friends made up, you wouldn't have started playing the game till issue 14 at the earliest.
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Quote:I have to head off to work so I can't write a detailed response just yet(see me in about eight hours) but I genuinely believe shared continuity in and of itself is bad writing. No matter how "consistent" it is or how "well handled" More later.Originally Posted by Tenzhi
The problem as I see it isn't necessarily bad writing. Some might jump to that conclusion given inconsistencies that arise, but even if comic titles were treated as 'separate shows with shared characters/circumstances' rather than a conglomerate of continuity (as the article was suggesting) many of these inconsistencies would change very little if at all. The Hulk could still be the Hulk in his comic and a super-hero in The Avengers title. What would mainly change is the perception of the reader, and if that's what's important to change then it isn't the writing which is bad but rather the reading.
Inconsistencies are bound to arise even within a single long-running series that isn't carefully planned from beginning to end. This is particularly true if multiple writers are involved, but could happen even with a single writer. A number of inconsistencies may naturally be overlooked by many people, but there will nearly always be a group of them that analyzes and dissects it to find things that the average person won't see without it being pointed out. And the more episodic the content, the easier it is to overlook such errors. -
Quote:This is where the "anime as meaningless buzzword" aspect of things comes into play. Anything that's not what x person specifically wants has to be called something and "Anime" is the something many people choose to call it.Originally Posted by rian_frostdrake
i dunno though, a few additions in one issue years ago is pandering? we can even throw in the natural booster and the imperial dynasty set, as well as the 4 or so more textured robes we got in issue 6 and i'm still kind of iffy on that as being pandering so much as recognizing a massive entertainment medium with more than a few stylistic similarities as superheroic comic books. happily it is not ignored as the spndex or death crowd wants, but it is a significantly different definition of pander than I'd consider using. pandering would indicate that every 2-3 issues we would get more stuff. heck, on primal earth there aren't even Japanese or Chinese enemy/ groups, the tsoo are primarily hmong. and there are a grand total of 4 heroes in wisdom, the "eastern " heroes. only 2 are in game and one of the missing ones is a russian white girl. the big american spandex super-hero comic companies even do better than that.
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Did somebody say spiders?
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Quote:I want a sparkly ghost.Originally Posted by Aggelakis
There are plenty of ghost myths that say you can. Why must you adhere to a single specific mythos?
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Sounds good. No idea if I have anything that can fit in, but it should be fun to see more Flea around.
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Everybody else? Silly question. Bad attempt to insult me as well.
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But to get this back on point, and away from the derail of "premmy hates nerds" One thing this game could certainly benefit from is a more "anime-esque" approach to the storytelling that doesn't hinge on trying to weld together so many different disparaging concepts into one unified whole. i.e. No Well, which is exactly the kind of thing that would serve to staple together different series together into a shared Marvel/DC continuity.
It's all one setting, sure, but it really didn't need to put in so much effort to try and tie everything together. So long as two separate story elements don't directly contradict each other, attempting to connect them together is, as I've said really freaking stupid.
It also would help the writing if more individual storylines in this game where designed to be enjoyed individually, similar to Japanese super-hero stories. Compared to how much of what we have now is tied into storylines that a character and/or their player might not even be able (praetorian stuff affecting Red/Blue Side storylines, Darrin Wade in SSA 1) to experience, the idea of a single arc that begins and ends within itself is very enticing. -
Quote:Originally Posted by Tenzhi
While I'm amused by the article and can at least partially agree with the sentiment, the proof kind of falls apart with the simple realisation that just because the child daydreamed St. Elsewhere doesn't mean the characters involved couldn't really exist outside of the daydream. Heck, the daydream itself isn't necessarily real - it could have been part of the Dallas dream (which was all the fault of Q anyway).
As a stupid hobby that nerds have? Yeah, sur- well no, because it's still stupid, but, then it's just fanfiction it's harmlessly stupid. As an actual aspect of a work? No. It's bad writing, and it's stupid. It's fanfiction being legitimized.Quote:Playing Tetris with the various bits of continuity to try and get them to fit together is half the fun, as the author proved by having fun doing just that. 
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Quote:So very many comics fans and people on this forum do. Even though it's pretty much the worst thing that ever happened to Super-hero comics and has served to completely dilute the very idea of "Super heroes" as a genre. It's being bandied about as a generic Catch-all term for "Unique guy"(which means all the lawyers on Law and Order are now superheroes) Because the Hulk isn't a super hero but he has to exist in the same universe and be on the same team as Captain America and Spider-man so, screw it, everyone is a Super-hero. Super-hero comics has committed itself as a genre to a concept that isn't just needlessly convoluted but is pretty much just bad writing at it's core.Originally Posted by Leo_G
Well, you're not correct here, there are crossovers with the different manga characters of different titles. The difference being, the original title usually has its story set in stone and follows that until the end. Unless you feel the contrived convoluted web of interlocking history of Marvel/DC is a good thing (to me, I feel it just gets in the way of telling a story), then it's nothing like CoX regardless.
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Quote:......Originally Posted by Schismatrix
The many Ultra series come to mind
