Scarlet Shocker

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Sounds to me like you're full of hot air.

Wake up, Scarlet: I have plenty of fun playing this game EXACTLY AS IT IS. Suggesting that I should be playing something else when I am perfectly happy with what I'm playing right now because YOU are not happy with it is remarkably backwards, sort of a "get up so I can sit down" mechanic. If the game is not hard enough for you and difficulty settings don't cut it, then perhaps YOU should look for another game to play, because I'm perfectly happy here, now, as things are, and I don't believe it falls on me to bring up arguments as to why it SHOULDN'T change.

Here's what always boggles my mind: People have been telling me that I should team or die. When I flip them a birdie and explain that I'm perfectly happy, they tell me I should play something else. What kind of sense does that make? Where is the logic in that? How does my happiness in the game and refusal to partake in others' completely arbitrary "better" way to play transpire in to me not having fun and needing something other to have fun in? I wouldn't have stayed here for five years if I wasn't perfectly content, and as far as I can see, I'm not being forced into doing anything I don't like any time soon.

That argument makes no sense, yet it keeps recurring. And it boggles my mind.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

I know full well what I'm losing. Waiting, grumbling, rushing, aberrant playstyles, singing to someone else's tune, too much chaos for me to care about what's going on and the inability to simply let of the keyboard any time I damn please. I take a very hands-off approach to playing this game, in that I watch TV while I play it, and will occasionally simply swivel my chair away from the game, alt-tab to listen to music, walk out of the room to chat with my family, lie down to have a nap and a huge number of spontaneous things that are harmful to a team. I also don't enjoy people's breakneck speed of gameplay, constant rushing and unreasonable quest for ultimate power. My playstyle does not fit well with settings where I depend on other people and other people depend on me, so I'm not missing much. I team enough to know that.



"Should" is a bad argument, if for no reason other than because I can simply counter with "no, it should not." No, signature characters should damn well NOT be tougher than me. If anything, I should be a signature character, I should be the Galactus event and I should be the big name and THEY should be scrambling to put together some means to take me down, not the other way around. This is my escapist fantasy, damn it! I want it to cater to my fancy of being the greatest, not constantly remind me that even with all the super powers out there, I'm still a no-name nobody who can't wipe his *** without seven other people holding my hand, if you'll pardon my English.

You have your fantasy, but please kindly avoid telling me what mine "should" be.



I happen to abhor, despise, detest, hate, scorn and overall not really like events like these very much, indeed. The whole purpose of such an event, to my eyes, at least, is to tell me that I suck, that I'm weak, that I'm worthless and the only way my existence and my spasms actually matter is as quite literal cannon fodder. Literally, the only use for me is to hurl my body at someone ELSE who gets to take up the spotlight in the hope of taking out a few more hit points before I'm smacked down like an irritating insect. Precisely what all the minor critters in a game like Doom or Quake are designed to do, when you think about it, and I have personally never dreamed to be a meaningless minion for someone more important to pop-cap on his way to the big time.

For years people have been asking what the point of being a super hero in a whole city full of super heroes is, when all that results in is you being just as mundane in your everyday life. I suppose if someone is incredibly cool, popular and awesome in his real life, his dream game might be to play meaningless gnat who doesn't matter in a city bursting at the seams with them, but since my life is nowhere near as successful, that just doesn't work for me. "Epic" events do nothing for me but reaffirm the reality that I suck and I could never do anything meaningful by myself. Specifically, I feel like I needed someone to do it for me.

It's like large 8-man teams a lot of the time. What's the point of being one one when half the team can fall asleep and the other half won't even notice? I prefer to do my own dirty work and perform my own heroics, and I prefer feeling like I, personally, and just that cool.

Other MMOs have "epic" content aplenty, and that is over half the reason why I'll probably never play any of them. This one focuses on ME ME ME, and that is pretty much the sum total of why I'm still here.

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I should not, that this is not to say you are wrong and I am right, but merely to explain why I enjoy that this game takes a different approach, and why I would be devastated if it did an about face and did what I've hated in every other MMO.

Originally Posted by RiOTWRAiTH

i think people need to stop sphincter-clinching over other peoples spelling and typing. when erudite psudo intellectuals begin looking down on people because they have better things to do than use spell check, it makes me feel like people are going out of their(the're/there) way to make themselves look better by trying to make me look worse
its your interernet, you can do what u want with it.please grant me the same courtesy(sp?).
were not all such cunning linguists.

Originally Posted by Techbot Alpha

I have major, major issue with this. Especially where I've been grumbling about the LRSF lately.
The game is incosistant with the major NPCS. One mission where I had to save GW's backside, and she got faceplanted by a team of Longbow. Yet, she's an AV, a Patron no less, who suddenly goes from patsy level to Godmode when you have to fight her.
Same with the likes of Positron. I've Duod him on Hero setting before. Then I fight the sod in the LRSF, and he has 'lolh4xskillz'.

Some AVs and EBs are fine. Others are far from it.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

Nowhere in the manual have I seen it explained that I am mandated to play with another person ever. It just suggests that I might want to. But just because other people exist in the game doesn't mean I have to team with them. Just because I CAN team doesn't mean I HAVE to. And, no, the game has not been dumbed down nearly enough.



Except, in this game we too are super beings that shouldn't be easy to wipe, yet that is exactly what you suggest the enemies do to us. The game does very much NOT need any toughening up. If you want it to be harder, you are welcome to increase your difficulty setting. You keep your hands away from MY difficulty settings and kindly avoid telling ME how hard MY game "should" be. I don't play it for the challenge, but I fail to see how that is any of your business.



GMs and AVs are more than tough enough for what they represent. Maybe you enjoy a game that constantly reminds you your character is an insignificant gnat and he needs the help of seven other people just to tie his shoes, but I do not. I enjoy the game when I am the hero of my own story, when I am strong enough to take care of myself and where THEY need to band together take on me, not the other way around.

Your opinion is fine and all, but I fail to see why you can't have that now, when this is expressly why the difficulty settings were expanded upon.

Originally Posted by Thyristor

The author of 'Eats, Shoots and Leaves' was Lynne Truss

/pedantic mode off

Originally Posted by DreamWeaver

You can then attempt to hunt them down when (not if) it explodes.

Seriously, custom PCs are only as good as the people that build them and you should get references from people who've had work done by them before. I paid - repeatedly - for that mistake but at least the shop was local and a good deal of huffing and hard stares around other customers meant I was only paying for parts, not labour.

I've always heard pretty good things about Rock Direct, but not uniformly good. Alienware machines look fabulous but are even more overpriced than VAIOs (though not as explodey, and with great service).

Originally Posted by NightErrant

We mess up Space Time all the time in Ouroboros.

Look at Mender Silos's TF and SF.

They have opposing goals.

In one, you prevent Lord Recluse from taking over Paragon City. In the other, you help him.

I'm seriously expecting the Coming Storm to blow in and Ouroboros to be revamped by GR...

Congrats on saving Breakneck though!

Originally Posted by Vega

Jeez, I am SO sick of this comment it makes me want to puke!

Originally Posted by Lycanus

I also can't get around being a villain for several reasons.

I know why some people think that villains and anti-heroes are "cool". It is because they perceive these people as breaking the rules and acting independently of society and the like.

Of course, in reality, while they are reacting negatively to the outside influences, they are still being driven by those outside influences. They're letting themselves be controlled by something other than themselves. There are very, very few villains that are acting out of Free Will.

Darth Vader is reacting to a desire to never be powerless again, his one major act of Free Will was shortly before his death.

Lex Luthor is reacting to the fact that Superman is more popular than he is.

Sauron is a slave to his own pride and fear of final destruction.

Most versions of the Joker are driven by a mental defect that makes it impossible for him to relate to people.

And so on.

Heroes, by contrast, look like they're bending to the will of society in general. However, the bounds of society exist for a reason. If you sit down analyze and consider your actions for their overall benefit, most of the time, you will find that the manner in which accepted society wants you to behave is the most efficient and effective way to behave. However, since loads of other people are taking the same action merely because "that's what you're suppposed to do" it tends to bury the people that are making the actions out of Will rather than expectation.

It's one of those cases where it is rather hard to tell whether someone is acting out of Will or not because so often the choice of Will mirrors the choice of Expectation (someone acted out of Will in the past to lead society that way, however).

It is very easy to do the selfish thing, the thing that benefits just you and only for the short term. It is very hard to do the right thing all the time.

Villainy is sort of like driving the wrong way down the highway for no better reason than because you were told not to. They're the ultimate victims of reverse psychology. And, eventually, their petulant attitude will catch up with them.

Personally, playing someone that is doomed to be caught in a metaphorical and spiritual head on collision is not my idea of fun.

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Of course

I have 3 that are like permanent, and the other 2 slots get used for seasonal or event outfits.

Originally Posted by SoulTouch

I recieved -40 negative points on my rep on my last RP post, so heres for another 40

ROFLRP

nao do eeet.

Originally Posted by Westley

So it's YOUR fault all the good names are taken!

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Originally Posted by Bionic_Flea

Immobilization protection, a little defense, and a great place to stick IOs.

Originally Posted by Dark_Respite

Carnies are living proof why Gabriel's Hammer and the Revolver are always worth carrying. They might laugh at everything else, but they HATE getting hit with those.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Originally Posted by xoxman

Doesn't seem like a very good solution to the "problem" at all, but thanks for the help. Amd DL13, I loled.