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  1. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Atlantea View Post

    Well played, sirrah! Well played and a graceful follow-through!
    I exist to serve.

    -when it suits me, my current mood and my own diabolical ends, actual servitude not included, any queries may be forwarded to eatlasermeatbag@hotmail.co.uk, time limited offer.
  2. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
    I have nothing against the CO community, and I appreciate their response, but I just don't like the game itself very much.
    Sums it up for me, really. I like the look and feel CoH has. The same simply isn't true of CO. Don't like the graphics, don't like the mechanics. C'est la vie.
  3. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    In keeping with my usual style, I've gravitated towards the biggest, heaviest, slowest "heavy" tank with the biggest, highest-calibre, fastest muzzle velocity, slowest gun I could mount on it. For the moment, that's the KV3 with a 122mm cannon on top. This is pretty much my ideal for the "power armour gatling gun guy," if you can believe it. It's one of the toughest things at its level, it has one of the most devastating guns and it's slow as all hell. Perfect!
    A friend of mine would be bouncing in his seat in rage right about now. He no likey Russian Tanks Considers them easy mode.

    My highest at the moment is the Lee at Tier IV. I can see why it's called the Garbage Truck. My favourites so far have been the M3 Stuart at Tier III and the T57 Tier II Artillery, both US. I'm giving the German tanks a go, see if their accuracy and firepower is all it's meant to be. So far, not bad. I do like my Marder II when it's playing nice.
    Still tempted to give the Ruskies a go


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    I just hope they get rid of the time sinks. About the most of that crap I can tolerate is pretty much where Darksiders II is right now. It's just "RPG-like" enough to count while not enough to piss me off. Basically, I want a better version of Space Marines, where my other example of the PAGGG comes from. I want to play a heavy armour, heavy cannon marine, and a single-player game is the perfect place to let me do that without worrying about "class balance."
    Yeah, I really wish that Space Marine had been better. It sounded so good from the pre-release stuff, then....nixed at the last minute? We'll never know. It was a disappointment, though. It didn't have enough content, multiplayer grew stale very quickly... I think them going for no cover-mechanics was silly in the long run. Space Marines are tatical, they DO take cover...
    Etc, etc, heh.


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    Considering how much of a botch the PC version of War for Cybertron was, I don't have high hopes. Maybe THIS time I'll get to customize my keys. But I'm not hopeful. Despite liking the Transformers movies (yes, seriously), the Transformers franchise holds very little interest for me. In keeping with my dislike of overly-complex designs that I can never "take in," the Transformers of this generation look like "alien bugs" as an avid fan friend of mine described them. Being that I can't play a game unless I have something visual in it to like, something BIG will have to happen with this game for me to take an interest.
    ...You like Bayformers.
    You like Bayformers.
    You like Bayformers.

    Get out.

    In all seriousness, the MMO is based on Transformers Prime, the animated series, which is quite possibly the best series to release since Generation 1 back in the 80s. And Fall of Cybertron, the sequel to War, is out now. And that's vastly superior (apart from according to the dire hard multiplayer abusers, but hey oh)
  4. Techbot Alpha

    False Hope

    If you expect us to give up without a fight, you've got another thing coming...
  5. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LittleDavid View Post
    Any full body pictures of your guy available?
    Bunch of full body refs here;

    http://union.virtueverse.net/wiki/Techbot_ALPHA
  6. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow View Post
    For me, it's World of Tanks for the moment. Mind you, I HATE PvP environments, but I like the game just too much. Plus, I've finally gotten good enough at it to have SOME degree of meaningful progress. Probably won't last for "years," but I'm still counting my options at this point.

    What I WON'T be playing is any Fantasy MMO or RPG. I'm sick to death of those. I was sick to death of those 15 years ago. Not only do I care nothing for the genre, I'm sick and tired of games trying to be as big and complicated as possible in some effort to "immerse" me in the dullest, least exciting part of any fantasy - the day-to-day grind. Because, as we all know, I secretly dream of being a peasant who spends his day mining rock and forging trinkets. What's more epic than that?

    I'll be looking at sci-fi games of the future, specifically sci-fi games with more vision than to just copy WoW with a different skin (i.e. not Warhammer 40 000 Online). We'll see how that goes.
    Ooo, WoT here too And yeah, still at the 'I'm not bad but still not great' stage, heh.
    Loving my little maxed-out Stuart, though. Run, run, run dakka-dakka boom. Heh.


    Dark Millenium is indeed now single player, but hopefully that will allow it to not have to obey the outdated MMO rules. Even then, it sounded like they weren't sticking too close to the rules anyway. Still hoping that's good.


    Other than that, Transformers Universe is the only one I'm hoping will be quite good. No other MMO really does what CoH did for me
  7. Quote:
    Originally Posted by LittleDavid View Post
    Techbot, I'm tempted to find a way to take that picture of Scarface you posted last year and putting the character in your avatar in place of him.
    That would make me a very, very happy angry-bot
  8. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Pitho View Post
    Activision dropped Brutal Legend, and went as far as to try and sue EA and Doublefine when EA tried to pick it up for publishing.

    EA saving a game; Activision trying to bury something they decided they didn't want to publish anymore. That makes EA less evil than Activision in my book. I'm still sore at them for screwing up the end game of C&C with horrible copyright protection and destroying Westwood studios, but they don't have the CEO who wants to suck all the fun out of making games. And EA saved the game that got me liking Heavy Metal.
    The list of EA's murders;

    -Bullfrog
    -Pandemic
    -Origin
    -Westwood

    There are others. They are also accomplices in the ruination of what should have been the RPG series of the century, Mass Effect. Mass Effect 3 was a farce and a travesty that has earned EA/Bioware a special spot in my own mental hell. Nothing will change that.
  9. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Killerkitty View Post
    -snip-
    Freindly?! You have the GALL to claim that? You've never been friendly. Or reasonable, or polite, or had the common bloody human decency to listen to ANY other side of an argument but your own. 'I am right and you are all wrong!' is the only modus operandi you have ever gone by.

    And now, NOW of all times, when the game might well be dying, you bloody DARE to bring your trite and pathetic little grudge up again?

    In summation, you're going back on ignore. People, please stop quoting the troll.

    Oh, and;

  10. So far, bugs and whatnot included, Skyrim looks like my new home for the foreseeable future, heh.
  11. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tyrannicus View Post
    Actually these days, Activision has done the impossible and actually become worse than Hitler. Though that's like saying the Spanish Inquisition is preferable to Nazi death camps.
    Until they become as EA and it's money grubbing campaign of studio and design slaughter, they will never be The Most Evil.

    EA are the spawn of Satan's own backside, with less tattoos, less heavy metal and rock, and far more suits and immoral violation of creativity and art.
  12. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Killerkitty View Post
    [Union Roleplayers]@Tyrannical: still, let's all just hope -somebody- buys CoH, and hopefully Valve :P
    [Union Roleplayers]KiIIerkitty: ncsoft won't sell it
    [Union Roleplayers]KiIIerkitty: it's not going to happen, the only way is people make a new server or a new game with the same 3d files etc
    [Union Roleplayers]Lightning Blast EU: That would be highly stupid. They are in debt
    [Union Roleplayers]KiIIerkitty: they would sooner die than give up Face
    [Union Roleplayers]@Katrianna: Huh?
    [Union Roleplayers]KiIIerkitty: google why ncsoft doesn't sell off it's failures
    [Union Roleplayers]KiIIerkitty: article from 2009
    [Union Roleplayers]You were silenced in channel 'Union Roleplayers' by @Night.

    Scumbags would sooner see the game die than admit they are wrong...

    'Scumbags'? Oh, you mean the Union channel that you've been trolling ever since you joined it?
    I'm amazed anyone every unblocked you after the first time.

    You slimy, self obsessed, self righteous, arrogant, boorish, pig-headed, rude, vulgar, uncouth, loud mouthed, back-stabbing, scum sucking, putrid and bileous little streak of vile and corrosive gobshite.

    I've been waiting to say something like that. Because bloody hells do you deserve it. If I were there in person, I'd clout you around the face with my gods damned keyboard!
    Get. The Hell. Out.
  13. Did the Council get a revamp too? And I missed it?

    Oh man...this....
    There is not enough sadness and anger Even for me.
  14. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Terwyn View Post
    Very simply? I am going to utilize as many of the character concepts I have created in my own works.
    Same. I may finally get around to drawing SABRE team in their own comic. And some of my villains, too.

    Sad that it's taken this long...
  15. I don't we ever saw eye to eye on 'what should happen with design', especially the 'Revamping stuff makes it a new shiny!!' stance I had, while 'New shines!' seemed to be the Dev team one, heh.

    But gods damn I'm going to miss CoH
  16. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Tyger42 View Post
    Yeah, the "Gabe is the patron saint of gaming" may be a bit much ( though, Valve IS a fantastic gaming company in how it treats its people, I will say that. And has great customer relations policies as well ), but the EA=Hitler thing, that's being insulting. To Hitler.
    Yup. Despite being a total headcase, he also brought a country out of crippling recession, restored it's national pride, gave it a sense of unity and purpose and turned it into an immortal note on the pages of history.


    If he hadn't been a genocidal, world conquest maniac who was so far around the twist you could use him to pull corks, he might even have been a hero.

    Oh, and the vegetarian vs cannibal point is a good one, heh.
  17. Techbot Alpha

    My First MMO

    My first and only. And probably my last if stuff like Transformers Universe and Elder Scrolls Online flop. CoH was unique in it's mechanics, it's setting and it's community. Champions and DCUO can both naff off for being bad, boring to play and graphically inferior (to me, at any rate). I'm 110% the community is also not a patch on this one...

    I don't want to go!!
  18. They have nothing I want to buy. In effect, I guess, it's the same as a boycott. I'm also disgusted with what they've done to the Devs and, to a lesser extent (not our jobs and livelihoods after all, even if it has been very important to many of us) us the playerbase.

    So *shrug* yeah.
  19. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Solos View Post
    -but don't do the whole Gaben patron saint of gaming, EA literally hitler thing.
    Not to Godw- Ok, to hell with it, TOTALLY Godwinning the thread and I don't care;

    Wholesale destruction? Consuming other companies indiscriminatingly? Massive marketing spin? Unethical treatment of companies and consumers? Kills off and discards said companies when bled dry? Tells everyone who doesn't like it where to shove it?

    If that's NOT like a media-world Hitler, then I don't know what the hell is.
  20. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Black Pebble View Post

    And as for insults well....umm...your pigtail looks funny.
    ... Oh NO you DI'NT!
  21. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Jack_NoMind View Post
    Once you pick a goal to commit to -- like, "Save Paragon Studios" -- you've got to really commit. Don't be so picky about the details; we can worry about whether the devil we're selling our souls to was really a tanar'ri later on.
    EA picking it up would not be saving it. It would be killing it, bringing it back as a zombie slave to be flogged until it gave no more money, then thrown in a pit again. It would only be prolonging the agony.

    Westwood, Pandemic and Bullfrog are all testament to their studio murder.
  22. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Quinch View Post
    Not EA, please, anything but EA. If it has to die, let it die with some dignity.
    This. ALL of my this.

    EA and NC can both rot in the deepest, darkest, spike filled pit of Dante's Inferno...
  23. Quote:
    Originally Posted by Sassy View Post
    My daughter, now 16, is raving inarticulately in the kitchen .. "I GREW UP WITH THIS GAME! I'VE BEEN PLAYING THIS GAME SINCE I WAS 7!! WHAT IS THE DEAL?" ... she got to be in beta way back ... wait .. there's more .. "I LEARNED TO READ AND WRITE ON THIS GAME!" ... oh .. well THAT explains a lot!!
    Yup. It taught me to be a better writer, how to RP properly, about lots of things and gave me a great bunch of friends.

    'Just a game'....PFFFT! That's Bull Shite and I don't care who knows it...