SilverAgeFan

*forehead slap*

Right. Thanks!

Feral bounding, fore paws touching ground between each step? Couldn't help but think that as I was playing with back flips and tumbling. (Tapping jump as you run down the street can lead to multiple somersaults--which may please some folks I know in The Carnival of Light.)

Also makes me hope we either get travel customization or a small suite of additional runs with GR or an expansion down the line. Having even one alternative does wonders to freshen up getting around the game space.

Because it looks goofy on some characters? And because you can stack it with sprint?

Anyways, I bought the pack, I like the way the jumps look and feel. The run is a bit goofy. I know I risk rotten tomatoes from anime fans but the run is just too... anime for most of my characters. Wondering if there is a bind that could turn ninja jump on as I jump just so I get the flips for some more acrobatic characters?

I must say I'm a bit disappointed in the costume parts though. For one, I was really hoping that the belt, similar to the samurai armor belts, would be available on something other than robe tops. But it's not. This costume set just feels too... self defined? I know clipping can be a concern... but, c'mon at least open up a few of these parts so we can find new uses for them.

Interesting. Are you suggesting that each costume item in addition to a pulldown for texture mappings and patterns should have an additional pulldown for the reflectance of the material? OR are you asking that all existing texture maps be homogenized, i.e. how shiny tights went missing for nearly five years from boots and gloves?

Unless you're willfully being an ignoramus about it, here's a video to give you a clue:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2wHvSA9AEg

Go ahead and be critical if you want, but being over 10 years old, this artform or sport (depending upon your perspective) has made its way into mainstream culture in at least one famous opening movie sequence:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuZQfZ-WxTk

If you can't see a connection between some of the ways these real life athletes navigate urban spaces and how the movements of characters such as Daredevil and Spiderman have been portrayed over the decades, then it's beyond me. And yes, sometimes things come along that are distinct enough from everything else that they warrant a new word, regardless of buzz. Parkour is one such thing.

You must be mistaken. This simply can't be true. The 5770's JUST were released. As in this month. The 5870 has been out a little bit longer. The 5770 is intended to be a more affordable version of the 5870 & 5850's. I'm still waiting for clear word on the 5870x2 or 59x0 (whatever they are going to call it) to see if it bumps the 5870 prices down.

Your husband may have had another couple recent cards in xFire, but not the 5770 because that would be strange to go out, buy two 5770's two weeks ago and then buy a 5870 this week for about the same price to replace those two cards.

Bubble helmets nao!

Wonder what this means. New skins and models in Praetoria? (Which was to be expected...)

Or will they, like DDO and LotRO, be upgrading to become DX11 capable? The game currently makes good use of bumpmaps. And if I understand DX11 hardware tessellation correctly, that sort of information could add loads more detail for folks with new systems without low end systems seeing any impacts (or improvements...)

Seeing as I'll be putting together a new machine FINALLY sometime soon (before 2010) and am seriously considering going for some version of the 5800 cards, I'd be pretty happy if it were the latter.

Anyways, thanks for compiling and posting these tweets.

Was just watching stuff about DX11 and hardware tessellation. Not a huge techie here but I found myself wondering if older games that make use of current bump map technology could be retrofitted to work with this new feature when it becomes available.

They've made it pretty clear that full on side switching will be what GR brings. Via a bit of a convoluted story driven path, any hero can eventually find there way to "this Earth's" Rogue Isles and any villain to Paragon (as something other than a bank robber! ).

The part about a parallel Praetorian Earth is their way of making totally new city maps. There was a dev comment a while back about them going back a ways in history of "our Earth" and comparing it to the coming "Praetorian Earth" as they sorted out which villain groups came into existence there and in what forms. Honestly, I wouldn't doubt if the Praetorian Recluse was an underground freedom fighter of some sorts, staging a very subdued (yet surgical?) campaign against Tyrant. This may mean whatever form Arachnos (as freedom fighters?) takes may be much more subdued and hidden in the shadows of an alternate Paragon. I don't expect to see Praetorian Rogue Isles. Also, I don't know how they will swing it storywise, but I expect for us finally to be able to navigate a version of Paragon sans-war walls.

Since GR is a whole new box, it allows them to bump the minimum requirements (only modestly most likely for marketing reasons though) and do a little more with the city architecture. I think that this is one aspect of GR that the "It's BEAUTIFUL" comment in the trailer alludes to...

Anyways, yeah, it's been made clear that honest to gosh come back to native Paragon/Rouge Isles side switching is in the cards with GR.

Hmmm... that doesn't fit the genre. Plenty of side-switchers have joined and even lead groups on both sides of the black/white(red/blue) morality fence in classic comics. I'd hope we have the option to do the same.

But as is alluded to here and has been asked more succinctly elsewhere: Can groups be deliberately taken grey(purple)?

Especially if you do it the weekend of a new release or a free re-sub weekend post new release that encourages alts (power proliferation, new sets, etc.).

No. No it doesn't. If you slow down and read objectively, the author thinks highly of CoH and its place in MMO history. I find his criticisms of the game (and all other entries in the sub-genre) to be spot on. The items he outlines are things many of us overlook due to a love of this game. Just the same, would you reject a game that had all the good things you like from CoH but also allowed you to punch baddies (or good guys) through walls, worthwhile secret identity content, graphics closer to those of the upcoming APB, and an overall more dynamic and responsive gameworld? I know I wouldn't.

I see his inclusion of CoH in his list is him making an early call that CoH is a classic. One that maybe he no longer wants to play, but nonetheless a key entry in the history of the genre and one he whose legacy he'd like to see go on.

As far as the comments, come on peoples, tease apart a few of them. Some folks are just plain saying CoH doesn't belong on the list. They don't qualify that assessment. For some, it's probably just too early. Surely, others simply hate the superhero genre. Sure, a couple make clear they didn't like the game the way it played and nothing will change their minds. But others commenting are just jockeying to squeeze their own top 5 favorite MMO franchises into that list.

Only in a world where any and all criticism = bashing does your thesis make any sense.

To be fair, Jack in several interviews leading up to the release of CO did assert that it was the spiritual heir to CoH. The notion that CO is CoH2 did not spring forth from a vacuum.