Vyver
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So what you're saying is, we needed more TV commercials with Chuck Norris and Mr. T.
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Quote:Probably because you know what you're doing now. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a pet class on a scale like Mastermind wasn't the most mainstream thing back when it was released. You couldn't exactly pull up any examples to see how it should work.Originally Posted by Black Pebble
From what I've heard, the Mastermind code was a classic example of that. I'm pretty sure if we were to do it again, none of the original code would be kept.
I can easily forgive some missteps when blazing trails are involved. I mean, you don't know what's on those trails, there could be roots or something.
....I've tripped over a lot of roots in my day. -
Honestly, while it's true that CoV split the playerbase it was a necessary evil to make them at least feel like villains. I don't think the tech was far enough back then for side switching so unfortunately it was.."the only way".
I mean, if you've ever played DCUO you'll know how having heroes and villains running around is somehow worse than dividing your playerbase in half. -
Quote:I really tried to reply to that.Originally Posted by Electric-Knight
Vyver, can you, or can you not, express, with complete non-objectivity, the emotional and psychological reasons why someone, in a position such as they may have been, might possibly attempt to create such a scenario, negative or not (such as they absolutely did - if you're saying that they did not, even though they did, you're lying - so, don't even try to say that they didn't)? If you don't answer me with complete agreement to my points it will show just how phony and/or stupid you truly are.
Okay, this is actually fun.
I really did.
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Quote:But "They don't" was a completely reasonable answer to his loaded questions. He wasn't asking why Titan does certain things. He was asking why they endorse certain things.Originally Posted by SteelRat
To be fair, I think Codewalker was the only one that actually answered him. Everyone else attempted to deflect the questions with "humourous" or belittling replies, or with (like, I think you did) "They don't".
And, well, they don't. Like Electric Knight said above, Titan is a large group of people with a bunch of different views. They don't endorse anything.
Codewalker just managed to stretch "They don't" into a full sentence. -
Quote:Why?Originally Posted by Angry_Citizen
You can sacrifice the goat, but I'm pretty keen on those virgins.
Virgins dont know nothin. Give me some experienced chicks. -
That was a peaceful hour.
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Quote:It's Victorian Steampunk except when it's convenient for it not to be.Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon
This is supposed to be vaguely Victorian era, right? Or did you slip into an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel when you weren't looking?
Take for instance the Drow...errrr.."Draugh". Lore-wise, they have absolutely nothing in common save for grey skin and pointy ears. But they still dress like Drow because damn we need someone in a chainmail bikini for the art book. -
Quote:I'd just like a female character without the *** WINDOWOriginally Posted by JayboH
So basically you would like to have a copy of male armor with two bumps in the front to be happy, or else you would roll a male character.
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Quote:I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic.Originally Posted by Angry_Citizen
Clearly not:
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My biggest regret
as a villain RPer is I never really forged/found a player hero/nemesis.
Like, I faced groups of heroes, but I could never look to one specific character and go
Yeah, I hate that muppetfucker.
probably because in the 30+ rpers I knew, I was the only earth character.
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Right now I'm at a mixture of Depression and Acceptance. Leaning more towards the latter. I don't want to log on because it makes me sad, but I'm ready to move on, even if I haven't found a new home yet.
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Quote:could you elaborate? 99% of my toons were blasters and I don't remember the changes ever getting close to affecting my "concepts"Originally Posted by Another_Fan
The devs have to show how brilliant they are and DESTROY EVERYONE'S concept for their blaster.
Hats off. -
It gets better
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Quote:speaking of costume bundles, that reminds meOriginally Posted by Xzero45
CoH was pretty awful when it came to the female model, yo. The lowest you could slide the chest slider for females is a C cup, and you have the ability to make them absolutely enormous. The waist is, by default, unnaturally tiny, and only near the largest setting does it look pretty normal. The female walk animation makes your character look like they're walking down a runway at all times, and the run animation isn't much better. And lets not forget that entire stretch of time where, in every new costume pack we got on the market, the men would get coats, vests, etc. while the women's only option were revealing corsets and collars.
This game was made by horndog men and it shows.
we had just gotten them over that too.
or at least working on it
so
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Quote:Originally Posted by Ogi
Is that supposed to be Missing-Anatomy Lass? Picasso Gal? The original Escher Girl?
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Quote:Yeah, but she had a choice to make a sexy costume. Just like she had the choice to dress her character up in a Hilary Clinton pantsuit, or a full on suit of armor.Originally Posted by JayboH
Different strokes. Anytime my wife made toons in CoH she tended to make them fairly sexy.
In City of Steam (and all the other lazy fantasy mmos)
if you're a man, you get a suit of armor
if you're a woman, you get the slutty halloween costume version of a suit of armor
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Quote:I dont think anything from Star Wars is the best comparison thoughOriginally Posted by BrandX
Exactly. It wasn't like I didn't get my own fair share of tells asking "Want to ERP" or even more blantant "Want to cyber." You know...in the T rated game
Truthfully though, in my experience this is just popular in MMOs period :/ I was in TOR (I can make a Chiss Force User now...^_^ So, you know, it's worth playing for me now) and just standing around in the Catina in a popular enough area I sighed to myself.
Not that I'm not used to it, but I just wasnt expecting it. I guess I should have. Slave Leia after all.
I mean out of 6 movies there were 2 women in the galaxy not counting dancing slaves -
Gameplays pretty good
the steampunk parts really shine and are probably the best part of it, but whenever the steampunk gets a little thin and the tolkien fantasy shows through it kinda loses something.
the shop system is bollocks though, with 99% of its random inventory being lvl 30+ gear. it wouldnt be so bad if every shop wasn't the same, meaning that until you hit ~30 the only time you'll be visiting shops is to sell stuff off (or buy mods)
also, mods showing up on weapons? nice. I hope they implement that with armor too.
I think my biggest disappoint is that it falls under the same tired fantasy mmo cliche of
armor that looks like 3 inch think knight armor with a face grill on males
turns into a metal bikini on females.
or a tank top at best.
Even my level 20 armored up tank shows her stomach. -
I'll never forget how funny Penny's 'giant awkward Crash Bandicoot crystal spikes jutting from her wrists' looked.
I'm disappointed that I didn't get to see AP filled to the brim with them for a month. -
Quote:With a name like City of STEAM, are you really blaming people for misinterpreting it? It's not City of "Industrial Age Fantasy"Originally Posted by Baler
It's not a steampunk setting though, it's an Industrial Age Fantasy with the emphasis on fantasy races and classes using Industrial tech. If you can't see the you're not looking or just being obtuse.
*pushes up my glasses by the taped up bridge*
I still find it funny that nobody in support of this game can't take simplest criticism without turning hostile. -
Quote:Oh hey look, Orcs, half orcs, and another elf race.Originally Posted by afocks
You have won todays' prize for observing 2 of the 9 races
http://www.cityofsteam.com/game-play/races
It's still WoW with some gears glued on in strategic places.
Which...is par for the course for steampunk these days...so...they got it right I guess? -
The perfect ending would have been the beginning of CoH2.
Quote:qftOriginally Posted by Xieveral
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I was on board till I saw generic fantasy elves and lime green goblins....
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Quote:If you watched more than a minute of the video linked in the OP you would know that it's exactly what you're asking. Real time, mouse controlled camera, left click to swing sword, right click to block (or whatever you have in your hands like staves or spells) You can still sneak etc etc etc.Originally Posted by shadow35
Yeah, I have to admit that the minute I heard it was going to be another tab-targeting, turn-based, attack-tray theme park, it fell right off my radar. It sounds like another cheesy cash-in copy of the WoW formula.
In this day and age, why can't it have the same real-time engine as the single player games do and keep the world intact as well? They run (albeit a little slowly) on ye olden days of yore's PS3 and Xbox 360 that are stuck in the Direct X 7 dark ages here. You can't tell me most PC gamers don't have at least those specs if not a lot better than 7-8 year old hardware!
And Tera manages the same real-time, FPS-type engine as Elder Scrolls (and Reckoning for that matter) have, with minimal instancing (they do offer mirrors of zones, but they appear to have high population caps).
C'mon, Zenimax, you could have done better.
So you can still be a rogue that sneaks around and heals people, or a mage the wields a giant hammer and wears heavy armor or what have you