Discussion:Interview with Dr. Aeon and new Guest Author Info on Gamepro.com!
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Posted on: 2010-01-25 16:04 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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That's the kind of information they hide in books.
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Oh no wonder we don't know who they are. None of them appear on Television. |
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That's the kind of information they hide in books. |
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THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
Nice.
3 new Guest Authors and hopefully 3 great stories. Considering what these people have written before, I think I will enjoy these ones.
Ps. Austin Grossman wrote a book that introduced the Malign Hypercognition Disorder ("evil genius" syndrome) that I as Supervillain do not suffer from, honest I don't.
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Oh no wonder we don't know who they are. None of them appear on Television.
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At first I thought that photo was actually a slight GR slip...
Then I looked closer...I mean....wierd stuff man.
However...look at the grass! That's better quality than the flat green patches we get in game atm...any liklihood of ACTUAL grass coming back for GR? Now *that* would be an announcement.
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I couldnt agree more. Seriously though they should at least tell us if they are going to overhaul the AE in terms of rewards to risk. As it stands currently it just isnt worth the time doing unless you build an arc to intentionally abuse the system to get tickets.
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Originally Posted by MrHassenpheffer
so now they too can experience the frustration of reduced rewards with increased difficulty on custom critters...
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I checked to see if we weren't missing something and there was a newer article somewhere that actually had an interview, but no, this is the most recent link. I wonder if they'll post something new in the next day or two.
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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To be a bit more precise though, he worked as a writer for Looking Glass Studios (the good one), which means he's also credited for having a hand in Deus Ex amongst others. If that makes some people still go "huh?" Then they should feel bad.|
Originally Posted by TroyHickman
Austin is a game designer who has worked on a bunch of stuff, and also wrote the supervillain novel Soon I Will Be Invincible.
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Anyways it's cool to hear that you guys are roping in more outside writers to give MA a try. I just hope that they can adjust to the medium well, as there are plenty of critics who will tear their arcs apart otherwise, though I'm just kidding of course.
...Half-kidding anyway.
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Still strongly dislike Mercedes Lackey's work. Still strongly love Troy Hickman's work. Still no idea who Austin Grossman is.
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It's still not a secret. From wikipedia:|
Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Still strongly dislike Mercedes Lackey's work. Still strongly love Troy Hickman's work. Still no idea who Austin Grossman is.
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Austin Grossman is a writer and game designer who has contributed to the New York Times and a number of video games. He is the author of the novel Soon I Will Be Invincible, which was published by Pantheon Books in 2007.
Games
* Ultima Underworld II: Labyrinth of Worlds (1993)
* System Shock (1994)
* Flight Unlimited (1995)
* Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (1996)
* Jurassic Park: Trespasser (1998)
* Deus Ex (2000)
* Clive Barker's Undying (2001)
* Battle Realms (2001)
* Thief: Deadly Shadows (2004)
* Tomb Raider: Legend (2006)
* Frontlines: Fuel of War (2008)
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Austin is a game designer who has worked on a bunch of stuff, and also wrote the supervillain novel Soon I Will Be Invincible.
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Now I can't wait to play his arc!
And I'll just chime in with a few others, really that article stinks, no information, not even written well. Its just a fairly poor teaser.
Link me when its the actual interview. k thx
Awesome! Still no articles at the link you provided, and a reference to even more articles than the articles that didn't show up yesterday! Hoorah!
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Following up yesterdays article at GamePro.com, todays feature includes interviews with all 3 of our newest Guest Authors; Mercedes Lackey, Troy Hickman, and Austin Grossman. Learn more about these talented individuals, their experiences in Mission Architect, how they got involved with CoH and more at GamePro.com!
Nice article! I'm looking forward to trying these arcs and I hope this positive PR gets more subscribers.
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Are we still gonna get an interview with Dr. Aeon? I'd like to read that!
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Originally Posted by theOcho
Following up yesterdays article at GamePro.com, todays feature includes interviews with all 3 of our newest Guest Authors; Mercedes Lackey, Troy Hickman, and Austin Grossman. Learn more about these talented individuals, their experiences in Mission Architect, how they got involved with CoH and more at GamePro.com!
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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU
Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.
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Much better, thank you.
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One thing that yesterday's events taught me, is that you can't base an arc on what the writer has written before...|
Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Mercedes Lackey? Oh HELL No. You won't see ME touch that arc.
Troy Hickman? Oh HELL Yes. No Pants Required. Austin Grossman? No idea who that is. |
You should try the Lackey arc. There's not the first white clad sorcerer or telepathic horse to be found in that arc. In fact, she brings on the snark in a biig way..!
In fact played her arc yesterday afternoon, and Hickman's last night (and thank you, Dr. Aeon for taking us through that romp!-I would have been the yellow and pink eyesore
). Gonna do Grossman's later, probably, when I am more awake.
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I did a check on Grossman, he wrote System Shock the PC game which gave us one of the best computer game villains of all time in the AI Shodan. (Its also the game Bioshock is based on)
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Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Mercedes Lackey? Oh HELL No. You won't see ME touch that arc.
Troy Hickman? Oh HELL Yes. No Pants Required. Austin Grossman? No idea who that is. |
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I wasn't impressed with the Hickman one last night, especially with all the Extreme mobs and crap-XP in the final mission thanks to that all-minion group, then an all boss escort for the AV so even less reward for the effort. Also too much telling instead of showing, where were all those hostages in the first mission supposed to be again?
Hopefully the Austin one will show some decent gameplay.
I'd be interested in reading their interviews but their web site is a mess. The pages appear for a second, then I get a blank page (this happened to me when I tried to read it from work and here at home too). I don't know what they're doing... I use Google Chrome to surf, so maybe it works in other browsers, but I guess I won't be reading anything on that web site.
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In a world of vanishing standards where a cast member of The Hills can have a bestseller I almost hesitate to ask, but what is it about Mercedes Lackey's books that you don't like exactly? I only ask because I think she's one of the most talented authors of fantasy ever and I'm always taken aback when somebody attacks the work of an author who has done stuff that is so much more amazing and beautiful than anything I could ever produce in a million years. I know taste in literature is supposed to be subjective but I have trouble accepting that there are people who really think that Tolkien is a bore or that Stephen King has never written a good book.
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Originally Posted by Kheldarn
Still strongly dislike Mercedes Lackey's work. Still strongly love Troy Hickman's work. Still no idea who Austin Grossman is.
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*puts on monocle* o_q
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