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yeah, it's pretty blatant in this one too.

agreed, at least we got Daybreakers this year though.

It is a design flaw, just as solo difficulty in CO ranges from faceplant every minute to faceplant once a week if you take Regeneration rank 3 and stack recovery.

Not really, Raid design is going to remain similar to Wrath except the same item level drops for both 10 man and 25 mans and there will be more raids but smaller in size. They are going to continue the wrath tradition of the occasional bonus boss that is exclusive to heroic mode encounters though, like Algalon but only requiring the last boss to be defeated in heroic mode and not most of the raid.

well I've always enjoyed the mako resist shield thematically on my ice/cold, but GW is better for debuffing, BS is better for locking down because of the -jump, and Scir is best for energy resist stacking. Though honestly with both unlocked, I would still go for Power Mastery on both my ice/cold corr and my cold/ice def.

What you're refering to is the "dungeon finder" feature they added in last December. It currently only works for 5 man instances and you check mark the roles you can/wish to perform when you queue up. It checks across your entire battlegroup and forms a team. 10/25 man raids still have to be formed up manually via the trade channel, but raids are no longer brutally difficult (yet still not mind-numbingly easy) as there were in BC and Vanilla. Exceptions being the last boss fights of raid being very difficult like Lich King, Yogg Saron, Algalon, and Halion.

Wrath still had a problem with raids being too lengthy per lockout, making it only possible to get halfway into Ulduar or ICC in PuG before people have to leave. Cata promises to fix this with more raids but smaller in length.

actually that perspective is a year and half outdated. Wrath had an extremely flexible raid design to make them more widely available to all groups. Only factors people consider for normal mode raid encounters are role composition (such as 2 tanks, 2-3 heals, 5-6 dps for a 10 man run) and if everyone is decently geared enough and keeping a decent balance between melee/physical dps and ranged/magical dps. I regularly PuG a 10 man ICC at least to 6/12 bosses each week without a sweat, something that was almost impossible to do in BC with Kara and Zul'Aman.

except he doesn't. He completely nailed the selfish egotistical and oblivious personality of Scott Pilgrim, traits that aren't typical of his typecasting in previous films. Especially considering he does martial arts in this film...

Actually it's pretty jarring to go from Praetoria to any part of Primal Earth.

It failure at the box office stems from two general reasons, bad timing and niche audience. It was promoted insanely the past month and half.

It was a bad idea to release it this late into the summer when people are being more picky with their spending because of back to school costs. It as this thread should tell, was a bad idea to release it the same weekend as the Expendables which had enough A-list stars to get non-action fans to go see.

It's a movie based off a comic book which is about video game concepts crossing over into real life. Most gamers don't read comic books there is already a disconnect there, but that is already in addition to it already being a niche with mainstream audiences by being a non-marvel non-DC comic book movie staring a not so action-like Michael Cera. A lot of people that would have enjoyed this movie have written it off as another typecast Michael Cera romantic comedy when it's not. So yeah, niche in a niche didn't help, but as I said before, there is plenty of room for them to get back their losses.

I'm not even going to give NCSoft execs enough credit to have come to that conclusion, that's how low of my opinion of them after seeing what they've done to their past properties.


Similarly here. Though I would also like to know roughly when, since I have a feeling we'll still be waiting around for it 6 months later.

pretty sure CoV was a $50 game at release, since it's pretty rare for PC games to have $60 price tag unless they know it will sell like Starcraft 2. It should be noted that CoV had a lot of temporary staff brought in such as the lead designer Zeb Cook. The impression I'm getting is no one extra was brought in to help with GR in any capacity. As I mentioned in response to scarlet's post, the less amount of content reeks of executives pushing release dates and skimping on the funding of projects.

You would have to be living under a rock as a geek to not heard of Scott Pilgrim in the last 5 years. Buzz about it has been all over the internet and comic scene for years and it was promoted heavily this summer in the gaming scene as well with the DLC game.


On-topic: as dismal as the tickets sales are, universal will probably make up for it in game and dvd/bd sales. Keep in mind that the game was cheaply produced and has sold a lot of copies with promise of more DLC priced updates for fans. Also this is without a doubt a cult classic that is going to make money for years to come even if it continues to bomb in box office sales.

When I first mentioned it, I used the keyword designed refering to the actual design process. It was wholly irrelevant on whether it was standalone at all, it was still designed as an MMO expansion and not as a sequel. The basic gameplay is 100% identical in both CoH and CoV because it's the same game, just different flavors of content. That was the point I was getting at when I made the comparison between GR and CoV as retail expansions.

No, I'm correcting those that keep misconstruing my posts as such. I never said it was a sequel or a separate game. Standalone expansion yes. Not a standalone game.

You sir how no idea how different a Korean MMO like Lineage II is compared to WoW and EVE. Let's put it this way, there are no quests or integrated story, just fields and dungeons of constantly respawning foes and no opting out of open world PVP (meaning lvl 70+ players typically hang out around low level areas killing lowibes in a single blow and taking their gear, so you can never progress in the game). Oh and prepare for lagfest whenever you enter a city and see tons of people sitting down with dialog boxes above their heads. They setup shop and went AFK for 24 hours and there is thousands of them all in one area usually...Pretty much they modeled after EQ but to be even more grindy, where as WoW aimed to be less grindy than EQ.

WoW only suffers from a rather EQ-lite 1-60 grind, which is more representative of pre-2004 MMOs. They eased it some in BC with the new race zones, but they really eased it up in Wrath with numerous changes like mounts at lvl 20 and some other features. Cataclysm's main feature is completely redoing all the 1-60 questing zones to be less EQ-grindy with more XP bonus and getting certain key abilities sooner for classes. That said, I can't recommend newcomers to WoW until after Cataclysm unless you have set of friends who will play with you regularly.

EVE is more similar to a Korean MMO, but no where nearly as bad since most of the problems arise more from other players than the game just hating you.