rian_frostdrake

that sometimes works for comic books for various reasons, but not for video games. if they are meaningless opposition, then the game fails to be challenging, and thus, fun.

hey, we should have catchy scene change themes..wonder which subforum i should put a thread requesting that in..im thinking either forum games or development.

honestly, as a 69 er, i wouldnt care, vet rewards arent why im here, they are nice, sure, but i dont get too attached to them. but i dont think they are going to change the vet reward after it is out.

it isin't ironic. its CRAZY!!!

lets jsut say that there is some major hand waving going on in the game about death...hmm major handwave..that might be a good name for an alt with really incongruous powers and origin.

with the three of a kind inspire thing, rezzes arent as needed as before(nor were they ever absolutely NEEDED) but on bigger events, it is nie to be able to pop people back up..less pressure on a mm, as their focus really is about the added power of the pets. a defender might catch some complaints, but not many, the mindset really isnt particularly strong for ally rezzes being needed. though i have noticed when i whip out an ally rez, they are appreciated.

this would push to some extremely annoying camping that the developers have thus far seemed to be steering the content away from, i really cant get behind this at all and would likely get loudly cranky if it came to pass.

dang, nice, glad to hear that you are back, and glad that you made it after a circuitous journey.

you had me scared, thought this was a bug that crawled back from the graves.

and paid good money for it.

demon summoning is a harsh mistress, i dont even play masterminds usually and i love it.

hmm, given how many plates they have spinning at the moment, i'm surprised they have any spare workpower to get anything ready for the anniversary. (this message brought to you by the society for tortured metaphors)

i tend towards my own stuff. scrapping works that much better with symphonic metal music in the background. this has lead to some glowie issues, but its a reasonable tradeoff.

funny thing, in morrowind, first thing i did with bonemold armor was whip on an exquisite skirt on my male argonian, it just looked cool.

anyhow, my big changes for me would be(to no surprise for anyone)
Grappling, Grappling into throwing, and the ability to weaponize background items as well as jsut throw them. co gets close, but just lifting something and whomping people on the head isnt the same as weaponizing, think the cop car boxing gloves from the hulk. plus the interruptability made it unusable in mid-fight, which is how a lot of cool superhero fights work. also grappling could be used to emphasize the "linebacker" quality of tankers, make them able to hold and toss enemies out of harms way, it makes more sense than a robot breaking off a fight with a defender it is going to win because a massive brick of unhurtability insulted it's mother.

out of combat skills. Yes, im going to get shot by the mission designers, but having different skills that would affect the general flow of missions could be nice. it always struck me as funny that Rian, a silly trigun-ish priest is able to hack computers, disarm bombs and regularly disable doomsday devices...is there an advanced electronic course in his seminary? It might be a good way to make the character themes work out to have different actions affect the general flow of arcs. You wouldnt get the same missions each time, but your skills could generally decide which missions you got in the flow of the arc.

combos for all scrappers. this presumes that the at's will be the same or will exist at all(i'd be ok without them really), but one way to diversify melee types would be to make their combat have a unique way to deal damage, maybe even add new animations if they chain together longer combos, as a payoff for perhaps a lower dps chain. really id prefer for there to be no tanks or scrapps, id prefer for stances to allow more flexability, offensive stance would make a scrapp or blaster, defensive may make a defender/tanker. Ats' are really a relic of the past, co didnt do it that well, and we dont know how dcou is going to pull it off, but the future seems to be getting rid of classes, and i'm thrilled with that.It does feel more comicy to have more fluid roles for players.

vehicles. no, not as travel powers, for reasons already described, but as a kind of instanced side game, it could be really cool.

and pvp, i dont like it, and wont do it, but they pay the same as i do, and designing it from the ground up with the game will probably work a lot better than the way it was attached t coh. Id youa re going to commit resources, may as well do it correctly.

oh, and one cool thing that arcanaville mentioned a while ago, travel power based combat, flying punches, teleporting strikes, that sort of thing, find some way of using co's "lunge" powers to sit on top of attacks, and we could get a lot closer to some iconic superheroes, like speedsters and fyling combat specialists. add a risk to it, maybe you get hit harder because you are basically throwing yoruself at the enemys counter strike, but the more kinetic fighting style would be more heroic.