Slaunyeh

I think sending him back to the 80s is far more punishment than the spanking.

Heey. If heroes started to get smart, us villains would have to start getting smart too, and I really don't think the hero community wants that to happen.

Imagine if we, you know, just shot the hero in the brain instead of tying him to some elaborate torture device, gleefully explain the details of our overly elaborate scheme and then leave just before the hero is killed, giving him ample time to escape? No good can come of this. I kindly suggest that you heroes go back to being naive do-gooders, and we'll stick with the gloating plot exposition.

I realize the city hall in AP was decided on, but I have to ask, why not Pocket D? It might not be quite as iconic, but CoH has more than one side to it, and it's not everyone who can freely visit Atlas Park.

While I have a lot of alts (35 on virtue, at the latest count) of various allegiance, I had hoped to bring the one who's been the most important to me over the years (rather than the one with the prettiest costume), but alas, Glaciation is thoroughly redside. I don't really want a lowbie alt to be the last character I log into.

(Perhaps pointlessly romantic, but there it is.)

That's a pretty cheap prediction to make without any sort of timeframe attached. I agree, within the next one hundred years, TSW will go free to play and/or be closed down.

F2P is horrible and a blight on the industry, but it's also currently a very popular way to squeeze money out of people, so I'm sure it's not entirely unlikely to happen sometime in the future. For a lot of games.

It is also worth noting that while Funcom had to do a lot of initial downscaling due to TSW not selling as well as they had expected (and how they reached those expectations is beyond me, they seemed quite unrealistic if your name doesn't start with B and end with Lizzard), the game is apparently doing well enough now that they have been adding to the staff again since then.

Everyone enjoy different things, but so far I'm quite proud of having managed everything without resorting to walkthroughs (I'm usually really bad at ruining the experience for myself, but so far I've managed to avoid it).

And by everything, I mean "everything". There's this one investigation mission in Egypt that still vex me. My hebrew and arabic just isn't good enough. Gah!

The mission in Kingsmouth with the bible verses and musical notes was pretty tame compared to some of the later ones (the only tricky part was actually finding an online bible in latin. The Vatican really need to step it up.


I love it.

(Edit: Oh, and here's what I do when they leave written clues in game that is, for some reason, not linked in your quest log: I take a quick print screen of the instructions. That way I can easily access them any time I need for the length of the mission.)

It's better to crash and burn by copying something popular, than to crash and burn by trying something new, I guess. As one of my friends put it, "if I wanted to play WoW, I'd be playing WoW".

In the industry's defence, the trend does seem to finally be shifting, and there's been a couple of recent games that actually went out of their way to be not-WoW. Like GW2 and TSW. So hopefully, in the future, we'll see A) companies daring to try new things. And B) publishers accepting that they are not going to get umpteen million subscribers, whether they blatantly copy WoW or try something different, and plan accordingly. The MMO market just isn't that big, and an MMO isn't a failure just because it has to "settle" for 300,000 players.

Honestly, what kills good games more often than not is players fearing that the game is dying and leaving because they don't want to invest time in an obviously dying game. Players and producers alike really need to stop panicking. I don't recall this knee-jerk panic reaction in the pre-WoW era.

Two people is one more than you need!

Either way, I'll be on Virtue, dancing into oblivion.

Well, clearly this angered someone high up in the Celestial bureaucracy!

That explains so much!

What I dislike about TOR is how it will give you a small army of almost identical attacks. Almost, but not quite. Like my juggernaut who has about six different basic single-target attacks that does, more or less, exactly the same thing. But they all have different rage costs, cooldowns and whatnot, so I can't just ignore them. And they don't replace previous attacks, so I end up with an action bar full of almost-but-not-quite identical single-target attacks. To me, that makes combat pretty frustrating.

And that's at level 30. I think I have a few more coming.

GONE FOREVER.

It's the NCSoft way.

This is so incredible important to me, and very few games even get close to the smoothness of CoH's animations and, more importantly, transition between those animations. Sometimes you can forgive it because the "kinetic immersion" isn't important to the gameplay, or if the gameplay is so awesome that you can overlook it, but for me this is a very high priority, that most games seem to fall short on. Particular MMOs where, ironically, I find the lack the most jarring.

First, I should probably apologize. My post was a load more snarky than it needed to be. Really, my point was captured in the "whose talking about outfits?" part. Because it's not really an outfit thing that sets a game like B&S apart from CoH. Sure, you can be practically nude in CoH if you like, but that alone isn't enough. B&S takes it a lot further than that. And B&S isn't even ashamed of that, so there's not really any reason to make excuses for them. The art and animation style was picked quite deliberately.

Now, not having played B&S, we don't know exactly how bad it is, short of what people have posted and what they themselves have marketed. So maybe they, and their players, exaggerate the issue. Maybe not.

But having recently given TERA a whirl, I'm not really expecting much. I had to stop playing TERA when my heavy-armour warrior got her first armour upgrade. Her butt-cheeks were showing. In full plate. That can't be comfortable.

I guess I'm not 16 any more. I find stuff like that more silly than sexy.

Who was talking about outfits?

But sure. There are certain... female standards of the superhero comic genre that CoH allowed you to model fairly closely. No one's saying that it didn't? (uh, doesn't!)

Personally, I'm just comparing this to this. B&S is so silly I can't stop snickering at the shameless beefcake. I don't mind that you like that... I like a good laugh as much as the next guy. But c'mon.

(And no, from your post history I'm not expecting you to get the difference. But that doesn't mean the rest of us can't share a good laugh.)

What it lacks in decency, it makes up for in indecency!

*badum-tssh*

Agreed.

To balance the equation, we've also been accused of being idiots who should totally have predicted this doom years ago.

Anyway, I think one of the major issues was that the game started really slow. At low levels you'd just stand there and trade blows with a Hellion while waiting for your attack to recharge. It doesn't help that combat becomes fast-paced, dynamic and fun in the late 20s if it's a chore to get there.

For some reason, the chief complaint I hear about the game from people who no longer play CoH, is the repetition of mission maps. I never had a problem with this myself, but I accept that this has been a major issue to some people. Although, while the mission maps could have been more varied and/or dynamic, it's also worth noting that these are the same people who have grinded the same WoW dungeon for years. I don't know if I trust their definition of repetition.

They could have shut the beta server down two years in advance, too. What's your point? We're not allowed to be sad about these new powersets never making it to the live servers?

Is it somehow less important? If you want to impose that kind of justice, you've had it your way. My turn, right?

But I'm sure you're a smart guy who already realize how dumb that argument is, so I'm just going to pretend that you didn't insult your own intellect by posting this.