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Quote:Actually, Sharkhead does look worse. It is, without a doubt, the ugliest zone in CoV with all of that damn black sand everywhere. Worse of all, it seems to be the most egregious practitioner of Sam's "three door" accusation, as I seem to recall using the same cave or warehouse door three times in a row each on separate occasions. That said, it does get kudos for Potter's Field being one of the more visually interesting graveyards in the game.Originally Posted by Nethergoat
Hey, it doesn't look any worse than the rest of CoV.
Back in the day I always made a point to stick around Sharkhead as long as humanly possible, running papers until they stopped giving them to me, so I could skip over Nerva entirely.
And how could you skip over Nerva Archipelago? It's the most beautiful and diverse zone CoV has to offer, with the little town in the southern end (complete with Crey menagerie), a Longbow base (that also has a menagerie), a full-fledged jungle filled with monsters and a lost city and a wrecked pirate ship, and at the very north, Circle of Thorns central and the gargantuan Thorn Tree. -
Quote:And abandoned office maps?Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Those doors that never open? Those lead to the sections with management offices with windows. Which also have their own elevator shaft. The first sign of trouble those doors seal off the management from the rest of the building. That's also why the accessible floor plans seems so bizarre and anti-ergonomic.
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Quote:What window? There are none in office maps.Originally Posted by Obscure Blade
I imagine an employee and his boss looking out a window at swarming hordes of Banished Pantheon zombies.
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Quote:....Originally Posted by ketch
Aaron Diaz of the webcomic Dresden Codak has done a bit of brain storming on how he would reboot the X-men franchise. It's a fairly interesting take and something I think a few of you might enjoy taking a look at here: http://dresdencodak.tumblr.com/post/...s-x-men-reboot
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Quote:Next time, try opening without a strawman, then I might take your arguments more seriously.Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Well, if you judge the quality of film by the number of explosions, yes.
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It's theorized to be somewhere in the southern United States or Central America, as it's supposed to be built on the alleged site that Emperor Cole "defeated" Hamidon. This is concluded from where the background lore describes Hamidon itself emerging from South America to attack.
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Quote:Sarcasm?Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
I've heard that Liefeld gets work because he is professional, polite, and always gets his pages done on time.
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Quote:Heh. Really? It's not the most exciting of Trek films, but it wasn't dull.Originally Posted by Oliin
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, ... Those things are what I'd call dull.
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Quote:No I'm not saying that. I loved Return of the King, Gladiator, Braveheart, and Silence of the Lambs, but those films fit into the 20% implied earlier.Originally Posted by Oliin
Obviously everyone's tastes differ (I personally liked The King's Speech well enough despite it's being Oscar bait), but you're saying you didn't like The Hurt Locker, No Country for Old Men, The Departed, The Return of the King, Gladiator, Braveheart, Unforgiven, or the Silence of the Lambs?
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Quote:The Artist, The King's Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, Million Dollar Baby, and A Beautiful Mind just to name the more recent, egregious winners. One word sums up these films:Originally Posted by Oliin
I think you're possibly more looking at nominees than winners. Or at least I hope you don't think 80% of the winners were unengaging. I mean look at that list, there's a lot of good movies on that thing. There's a lot of 'Oscar Bait' on the list of nominees lately which is unfortunate. Of course just because it's blatant Oscar bait doesn't mean it's a bad movie either.
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Quote:And yet I've seen critics praise the "unengaging" films and most of them even win Oscars for Best Picture*, and I'm like "wut?" Clearly critics and the Academy enjoy being bored to death.Originally Posted by Oliin
Well see that's not a good movie either, if you're falling asleep to it then it's not engaging at all. On the other hand there's movies that are more like Schindler's List, There Will Be Blood, and No Country for Old Men. None of those movies are what I would consider fun by any stretch of the word but (to me) they manage the engaging part wonderfully and end up being bloody brilliant films. They're not movies I'm going to watch frequently though because they're not exactly fun films.
*Mind you, I'm not saying all Best Picture Oscar winners are "unengaging," but a good 80% percent usually wind up to be. -
Except some of us are cynical enough to realize that Trailers Always Lie and don't base our expectations on them.
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Quote:Well, for me, fun is probably the most important aspect of an entertainment medium. For example, a movie could be the "best," most "artsy" film ever, lauded for its camera shots and dialogue, etc. etc., but if I feel like I'm about to doze off while watching it, it's not a good film in my opinion.Originally Posted by Oliin
Sorry, I tend to divorce finding a film fun from any sort of 'rating' I try to give it, I'm odd. The AvP movies really left me flat in terms of enjoyment, sure they did provide the Aliens fighting Predators thing but for the most part I was very lukewarm on them. Prometheus on the other hand I had a lot of fun with in spite of its generic plot and plotholes.
Oddly I significantly disliked the recent Star Trek movie in spite of its being very well-done. It just seemed a mass of action beats thinly strung together with small bits of plot ... in other words very much a modern action flick. Unfortunately for me that's not what I generally go to a Star Trek film. -
Well, I played through that mission twice so far and I'm pretty damn certain both times that Keres was an EB.
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Another week I skip, as the only things I'm interested in from the Paragon Market are powers, emotes, and costume pieces.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Texas Justice
I've used the Nem Staff to single pull Romulus at the end of the Sister Solaris arc in DA. He spawns with the Keres (ParagonWiki claims she spawns as a Boss, but I thought I'd seen her spawn as an EB) and several Minotaurs and Cyclops Bosses in a tight clump. I've used it to single pull the Minotaurs and Cyclops when they spawn in clumps earlier in that mission. I've used it to single pull Reichsman during Max's arc in DA. He spawns with Requiem as an EB.Quote:Originally Posted by Crystal_Smoke
I've only ever seen Keres as EBs in every mission they appear, including that one. Maybe they get downgraded if you have 'no bosses' set, but I didn't think EBs ever did that (hence, the several mentions of them in this thread).
</threadjack>Could it be that whoever wrote the wiki page for Sister Solaris' arc is... *shock!* wrong?Quote:Originally Posted by Texas Justice
If they get downgraded to Bosses based on those settings then several of the missions must have them hardcoded as EB's. Since the missions don't follow the No Bosses setting for the Minotaur's and Cyclops, I don't see why it would on that one specific Keres in that mission. -
Quote:Hey, AVP promised me Aliens fighting Predators and they gave me Aliens fighting Predators. I wasn't expecting anything more than that. All my expectations were fulfilled.Originally Posted by Oliin
Personally I kind of ignore most everything from the AvP movies. If they'd been good I probably would have cared about anything they added, but really ... they weren't.
Eh, I would personally rate it higher, but not everyone's the same. I really enjoyed myself. I've been starving for a new space opera film. The last new space opera film I saw was the re-imagined Star Trek film from a few years back.Quote:Prometheus on the other hand was ... ok. I'd give it a 6.5/10 or so. Nothing special exactly but it did have some very well done performances and it was stunningly shot.
Truly, with the previous cancellations SyFylis made, this has been truly a scarce age for space opera. -
And the Cimeroran caverns which now have been reskinned as catacombs for Manticore's mansion and creepier catacombs for the Halloween trial mansion.
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Quote:That's actually more epic than the Geordi one.Originally Posted by Ouul
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Quote:I guess the halls beyond the rug have pressure plates that alert the residents?Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle
I quite like the Knives' dojo. The whole point was that it doesn't have stairs because they wouldn't need them, what with their membership hopping around in a ninjaly manner. The maze with ambushes was also creative and fun if somewhat nonsensical.
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Quote:See? I knew someone out there was creative enough to come up with something.Originally Posted by Dark One
There's two companies, Weyland Corp (Peter's) and Weyland Industries (Charles'). Charles died in '04 and Peter was born in 1990. It is possible that Peter is Charles' son (maybe born on the wrong side of the sheets, maybe not). The boy starts his own company, possibly to fulfill some item in Charles' will. If his was successful, the two companies merge at some point in the future.
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Quote:Well excuuuuuuuuuuse me for trying to be helpful.Originally Posted by Mazey
And?
That's still completely beside the point.
Even if, magically, your experience makes everyone who reads it a 100% better player and they never make a mistake ever again, what about all the people who don't read it?
The discussion at hand is not "I suck, recount how great you are in the hopes I improve." its "Could we have more consistent difficulty settings please?" -
Quote:It's true.Originally Posted by Venture
The timeline for the Weyalnd Corporation, both in the character of Peter Wayland and in the off-screen material, does not jive with the one in the Aliens vs. Predator movies, or so I'm told.
Nevertheless, I'm sure some obsessed AVP fan is feverishly working on a way to explain the Peter Weyland vs. Charles Weyland and associated timeline conflicts. -
Well that's frankly why you should steer clear of mirrors and black cats. I can understand three responding to the pull, it happened to me with a few of the Minotaur/Cyclops groups, but the whole kitten kaboodle? If that really happened, the RNG must really hate you.