rian_frostdrake

I don't know how to link video, but you know the black and white one of the guy in a tuxedo clapping, just envision that here.

when it comes to abrahamic sect jokes marcian, im always glad to see you enter a thread, and sadducee you go.

the first part made me think he was either an abrahamic diety or popeye

ok, im praetoria, COMMON GROUNDS is not available at better booksellers and comics retailers, do not buy your copy today!

interesting thoght you may have uncovered here. you know what you know, but just watch the trailer..does it appear that it will be like that? Now, I am simply tossing this out there, but perhaps one reason people who know scott p's twist see it as a multi layered comedy, romance action film, but those who dont see the ad and just see a kind of silly action film. Now having delved into spoilers myself, i know that post twist, the movie is entirely up my psychological alley, though i was sold on it even when i thought it was a silly video game fight fantasy, but perhaps absent of knowledge of the deeper and more interesting characterizations that cast a lot of characters in a light that is a but more unflattering than one may assume for the protagonist and his love interest, people are not being fully informed of the depth and really think it may just be a nerd kung fu movie. I certainly am not claiming any special knowledge on the topic, but it does certainly seem to be a plausible possibility, that its marketing has failed to capture the actual reason that fans are so adamant about it.

I'm probably seeing it this friday, i suspect i will like it, so o'malley can at least count on my ticket.

EDIT: nevermind, all the local theaters dropped it.

i was trying to remember the name of that one. yes, i loved it, my secondary main, seraph blue, is kind of influenced by how they did angels as symbiotic celestial beings. yes, it sucked that they went down and that dan guy apparently is not speaking with them anymore(at least thats how i interpreted it, might be misreading it). But yeah, they shut down right in the middle of wrapping up their big arc, gyahh.

ok here is the issue, you are assuming there is a standrdized mount of content for an issue, there isnt. cov introduced(at launch) a 1-40 game at a 50 dollar pricepoint. 41-50 was added l6 months later. gr introduced a 1-20 game with 4 fairly distinct tracks of content, as well as a tips system that made a very large number of standalone missions and it reintroduced the cop for people who had no interest in pvp. it alos, like cov, will add in a subsequent issue the new incarnate syste, which will give alternate progression. going by the comparison to cov, they have 6 months to get that out, based on what we saw on test server a bit ago, they seem a bit further along.

no complaints with that, I think having the "buy it now" popped right in the game may help impulse buys. someone will complain, someone would complain no matter what, but it really is an issue that i think a lot of us take for granted, and the less convoluted the method of access, the better for players and more money of paragon/ncsoft.

not a bad fit, the seers kind of kept me thinking of minority report(the movie at least) but aeon flux works. and yeah, it fits a theme, but the next added zone..i wouldn't mind some magic focus, outside of the midnight society, there really hasn't been much push for magic in coh, and even cimoria is more natural(the Romans and monsters) and tech(the 5th) so maybe some magic now? I wouldn't mind if the writers took another swing at recluse and crew, they really come across as dysfunctional and borderline pathetic, particularly in contrast with cole's Machiavellian handling of public perception, recluse definitely needs a re-threatening. maybe it could involve the mu/ornabega fight and we could get our magic content out of that?

well, it is differnet, as sam eloquently put, there is a comforting feeling to being the hero or the bad guy, but if you want some nastiness, tips are just a menu tab away usually. but i think it complimented the game well. I am glad they are building upon praetoria in future issues, because it really does speak to a different era of comics than co-primal does. Plus, as a guy with a lot of magic characters, praetoria was STRANGE in its sterile lack of magic. i nearly hugged a cot. i mean really, i have made a few praetorians, but i also made 2 new primals, one hero and one widow who is going to switch once she hits 20, because i have had a really good story for that for a while now. and there are a few other people in the lowbie zones, but praetoria really is a interesting side game within coh, and one that brings a need feel to the game. I still want some primal areas given a face lift though, low hero content and the shard both could be made a great deal better with the lessons that have been learned over the years. for me the tips are the underappreciated(by some, others really liek them as much as i do) addition to the primal game, rian did some heroic stuff in coh, but stuff i have done in tip missions were greater than any of the go to see a villain and keep punching him till justice happens. and many vills have noted that villain morality missions are just plain foul...in an intended way.

that really makes it better?

dude, hit up the wiki, phipps is a polarizing figure. to some he is the reaction of the devs to the criticism that cov was not villainous enough, to others he is considered a prank by the devs for going so overboard on making a horrid, evil, depraved scumbag of a man that he is self-referentially funny. my vills will not do his missions, but at least read up on them, they are twisted. im not going to spoil how completely depraved one of his missions is, but the one where you are poisoning poor children's food was memorably evil, particularly his reaction. as my in-game characters go, my heroes want to brutally beat him and my vills would likely kill him, even my steadfastly non-killing dom violet tendencies.

here is his page. http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Westin_Phipps read up and enjoy.

you know, i was debating making a thread aboutt his observation, but im glad someone else said it too. It struck me that praetoria really is moving to the 90's comic conventions of being darker, more ambiguous and having a lot more explicit death. remember our constant discussions about how we "Defeat" enemies..gr often erases that ambiguity, we kill..a lot. in the first mission its implied that we kill either the cops or the res guy.