rian_frostdrake

eh, id be unsurprised if most games were slow about now, the economy REALLY stinks right now. I wouldnt be surprised if most recreational spending was down. (by the way, how do they do those 14 month deals? technically the revenue only goes in once, or do they spread it out over the months that it covers? i have been on those since the first one was introduced, and wont pay again till may of 2011.)

ok castle, keep in mind, you asked for it well, any of the elemental sets could use some kicking options, and i'd also love to see different weapons being selectable, like an ice axe and fire hammer(not specifically an animation, i know, but if the switch between a single handed slash and a two handed mallet animation can be done without screwing with the time, faster pussycat then.

for aid self, the tricorder is cool for tech/science and maybe even natural, but could we get some spell-like option too? maybe a scroll with those floaty symbols from the ban-pan, or if you really want on my good side, a glowing sutra card(from various anime).

jump kick, as it stands, is ok for spider man type characters, but could we get a different option as well?i am thinking two options to avoid stepping on MA's toes. a pro wrestling-style missle drop kick.(jump, turn sideways, shove both feet out at once) which would be nice on super strengthers, or if you go to david's animation thread, i linked to a capoeria jumping kick that would look cool and not be too similar to storm kick. alternately we could use the muay thai jumping knee strike that i also linked...or you can see in alpha protocol or with sagat in the street fighter series...or any muai thai fighter in a fighting game, they all have it.

ok, next, boxing i wouldnt mind change from just a body-blow to a right cross in correct stance(hands up, feet about a shoulder width apart). Kick, since its more of a brawling move and not a full on martial arts technique, maybe a stomach level knee strike? you could shift the stance to still make the length look right, but it would give it more of a dirty brawler move look.

not sure if this is effects or animations, could we get "jokerish" animations for traps? it seems like it would be a very cool set for an insane clown or heroic trickster, but with some more clownish looks for the traps. (flying pies for seekers, a squirt flower for acid mortar, a duck with a propeller for the shield generator)

ANYTHING more interesting for dark melee, maybe some powers that envelope the players hands and make black claws. you would have to make sure the "mitts" covered all sizes of hands, but shadow maul with massive black claws..that would give the set needed personality.

aaand..hey, could we get that loping run that ember demons have on pc's for super speed? the monster players would thank you.

is there any way we could see a fencing styled animations for broadsword? standing straight up, right side foreward, measured cuts and thrusts...im torn because some of the swords may look odd being held this way, but it woudl look great for others (and you could bring over the rapier from dual blades too)

A final stylistic question i have, could we have more follow through on the attacks from war mace? some of the swings kind of make the mace look light...and id love to see swings(if we could do them without screwing time)where the character follows through and turns their whole body into the blow, kind of like the troll in fellowship of the ring. like i said, the recovery time for the animation might kill this..but it would give wm some personality, and convey that you are swinging a big honkin' piece of metal/bone/bit of rularru, and that when it connects, your medical rates are about to go up.


and of course, all the martial arts animations i asked for in dave's animation thread..tremendously cheesy videos of each technique were supplied.

oh, and to support jk and probably others, could we get emanation points for ranged attacks? I'd love to have rian actually "breath" his ancilliary ranged attack, and wands, rayguns and perhaps different hand/fist/head emination points would kick butt for concepts. yes, i am ripping off you know who palagerism is a long-standing tradition in mmos. oh and could i get the glyph of warding animation selectable on more things. i love that emination like a first cousin.

oh, and that energy hex pattern that the praetorian cops use for their debuffs, that looks amazing...any chance we could get it as an alternate animation for energy aura? i would reroll about 3 high level robotic characters and even take ea if that was a selectable option for it.(i chose ea because the shield is energy...and lets face it, ea could use a special benefit, no?) a different version being a selectable option for force-fields would rock too.

one mroe crazy idea. i know that kinetic melee is just newly out, but given it's kung-fu like appearance, could we get techniques from mantis style kung fu? most of kin is palm heel strikes, mantis is more about holding your hands like a preying mantis' blades.

one last idea, selectable animations for controller/dom powers, most controls are just done by hand waving or raising two fists up in front of you, maybe have a technological(maybe calling up a floating hud keyboard or holographic control widget like the ppd radio animation) and magical animation(similar to demon summonings really cool sigil animations) if you also made a japanese sigil and ku-ji hand symbols while summoning, id send you a pizza.

EDIT: you checked this thread too, right? http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...ight=animation

well, there is one of those adjsutable 40lb exercise vests at a local sports store, that would be good for endurance training. i could train like goku .

cracked is worse for me than tvtropes, just saying.

insofar as he is tolerated by the gotham cops, batman is a deputized agent of law enforcement. he has no more right to try and sentence a criminal than any cop does. if the joker takes a shot at him, he has the right to respond in self defense, and given his capacity for self defense, he would likely be held at a much higher standard for when he could use lethal force. but the responsibility for housing the joker lies at the feet of the people. If they cant get the job done, they could renegotiate their deal with batman as a public executioner, I suspect he and many heroes would walk away, i think we discussed this a while ago on the hero boards, and i suggested my main character, Rian Frostdrake would walk away from that arrangement as well. Leave that business to Rorschach or magog (for the kingdom come reference)

And besides, the only real reason the joker gets out so often is because of the narrative crush the authors and fans have on him. The same reason batman can pull off supposedly natural feats that are simply comical when looked at from a realistic perspective by just his "training and planning" is the same narrative leeway we give the joker in his incredible escapes, could a real functioning city exist with that porous of a penal system, no way, but we accept it because the two just play so darn well off of each other, being almost the same person with a few minor differences.

coh2 will take place in Liechtenstein.

eh sometimes you have to take a break. besides, when she comes back, they will have worked through some of the bugs that inevitably will be in gr's launch(and are in every software release, without exception) so she gets a cleaner version

eh 58 is a good run, best of luck to ya, maybe see you back sometime. a good break is sometimes needed, and hopefully some recent rules wont last too long.

the cable company dropped g4 in my area a while ago, but i recall that after initially dismissing olivia as a model/actress just brought in to give frustrated nerds eye candy, she actually was very funny and likable. So I dont recall enough about allison to have an opinion, but olivia was(when i still could watch) a lot better than i thought. Now kevin still is a walking patch of chlamydia.

well, the msr's are still pretty populated, join your server channel and find out when they are. I have noticed players being a bit more organized, but I kind of prefer it to the randomness of trying to luck into a mothership raid and finding out you only had 2 teams.

Now, can you point to any posts in this thread where people are denying that population is down? now your comments about them being "significantly" down or a fraction are a bit loaded, it is suggested by people looking at he last quarterly report that they are between 70-100 k. still lower than in the past, but compared to 08, not drastic. I have to confess as someone who played redside a lot in 08, I dont quite remember things ever being as busy as you are describing, the pattern seemed to filter in that redside population of a given server was at 50% or so of the heroside population. one thing you may not have noticed is that the super sidekicking system made finding a team significantly easier. teams can compose easier and dont have to wait around as long to set up a sk-exemp situation that doesn stick them with a useless teammate nor a exp crusher, so the only thing i can think that would have caused the difference is that now those guys who were waiting for a team now got in a team possibly with higher players because the faster arrest speed of higher level characters would lead to much faster leveling. but get on yoru global channel, that seems to be helpful for any server.

shaggy?

eh, even without discussing the subject matter, it has been done before. a lot, like about a quarter of the horror movies on syfy.

its like i can speak again.

that would explain the orange mask.

i only have 4 50's, so i'm not there yet.