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Aisynia,
Posted on: 2010-05-23 14:37 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Originally Posted by Decorum
You folks really need to stop saying "clone".
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Originally Posted by StormSurvivor
I would certainly be... unhappy. If it was very clearly a choice, I don't think I'd mind. I could manage my character feeling guilty. But I couldn't manage to play their double after they'd died.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
City of Heroes is a game about freedom of expression and variety of experiences far more so than it is about representing any one theme, topic or genre.
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In all seriousness I was a bit disappointed with the not being able to save my double. It seems like no one ever actuallydies in this game and then the one character I really like goes and actually dies.
It wouldn't have bothered me if the things I defeat by cleaving them in two with headsplitter were dying too, but nothing ever dies. Except my double 
, who was arguably the second best character in the whole game
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Hey, if it's a choice you're allowed to take or refuse, I see no reason for people to complain. Might actually be really cool to have in the game. Instead of an inescapable timer, let me get down to the clone and decide, Mass Effect style, if the alternate dies or if I die.
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It's the Kobayashi Maru. You'll have to reprogram the computer to win. 
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Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
Though, as a random thought, I had lately considered making a character who's big story would involve the Mirror arcs with the RPed reveal that HE'S the clone, the one who dies at the end is the original.
Or maybe the evil one is the original. |
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AzureSkyCiel doesn't get the concept: Though, as a random thought, I had lately considered making a character who's big story would involve the Mirror arcs with the RPed reveal that HE'S the clone, the one who dies at the end is the original. Or maybe the evil one is the original. |
I like seeing my doubles/clones die...there's only one of me! 
In the second villain arc I usually save my clone from the lab just so I can kill it in the final mission 
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Originally Posted by Silver Gale
For people who actually build up their own stories on top of what the game offers, this is already an option. Two identical characters enter the lab, the lab explodes, one of the characters survives and you go on playing the survivor - but that survivor can be either one.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Originally Posted by Dark Ether
It's the Kobayashi Maru. You'll have to reprogram the computer to win.
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Originally Posted by Silver Gale
For people who actually build up their own stories on top of what the game offers, this is already an option. Two identical characters enter the lab, the lab explodes, one of the characters survives and you go on playing the survivor - but that survivor can be either one.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
It can't hurt for the game to support it. It's one thing to go "Yeah, that's what THE GAME says happened, but it actually isn't." and quite another for this to be what the game says actually happened.
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Originally Posted by OV_ohms
I like seeing my doubles/clones die...there's only one of me!
In the second villain arc I usually save my clone from the lab just so I can kill it in the final mission |
It's impossible to save your clone - and that made me cry
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Melancton paints a picture: Not to mention the precedent in superhero comics that folks that were obviously blown to bits, crushed flatter than a pancake and/or given absolutely lethal doses of the evil serum/ray/gas and pronounced by the Coroner as Not Only Merely Dead, but Really Most Sincerely Dead and turned away by Miracle Max as hopeless cases... show up in a later issue having had an escape more amazing than Prince Herbert's, albeit with less singing, all better and no worse for the wear. |
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Don't get me wrong. I do have some quibbles with the writing and execution, but those are just my subjective preferences. Overall, loved the arc and the story and the dramatic intent. But this is a superhero comic game. Yeah, yeah, we got a badge saying that the double died. The next badge will be the "I Got Better" badge at the utterly implausible reunion. It is how things work in superhero comics. |
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Originally Posted by Silver Gale
For people who actually build up their own stories on top of what the game offers, this is already an option. Two identical characters enter the lab, the lab explodes, one of the characters survives and you go on playing the survivor - but that survivor can be either one.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
It can't hurt for the game to support it. It's one thing to go "Yeah, that's what THE GAME says happened, but it actually isn't." and quite another for this to be what the game says actually happened.
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Originally Posted by Melancton
Not to mention the precedent in superhero comics that folks that were obviously blown to bits, crushed flatter than a pancake and/or given absolutely lethal doses of the evil serum/ray/gas and pronounced by the Coroner as Not Only Merely Dead, but Really Most Sincerely Dead and turned away by Miracle Max as hopeless cases... show up in a later issue having had an escape more amazing than Prince Herbert's, albeit with less singing, all better and no worse for the wear.
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Originally Posted by Decorum
Nice imagery. Well done!
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Originally Posted by Melancton
Don't get me wrong. I do have some quibbles with the writing and execution, but those are just my subjective preferences. Overall, loved the arc and the story and the dramatic intent.
But this is a superhero comic game. Yeah, yeah, we got a badge saying that the double died. The next badge will be the "I Got Better" badge at the utterly implausible reunion. It is how things work in superhero comics. |
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Originally Posted by Decorum
I'm surprised it wasn't there already, as that's the riff Protean is playing in the very arc.
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I was tickled when Protean mentioned killing Dauntless... well not because he did kill Dauntless, but because the person who wrote the arc remembered the game lore.
And when I beat him, I gave him one for Dauntless too! 
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Originally Posted by Tormentoso
Would have been cool if you could save the double, and you commit the ultimate sacrifice. Your double's last words being "I will protect your world." And from that moment on you play your double. Same enhancement, level, everything. And besides you and the contact, people around you will never know.
No technical difference whatsoever, but chilling from a storyline perspective. |
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Originally Posted by Decorum
**froths at the mouth in nerdrage!!!!1!**
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Originally Posted by Dark Ether
It's the Kobayashi Maru. You'll have to reprogram the computer to win.
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Originally Posted by Fleeting Whisper
Psh, Kirk had to sneak in before the test in order to win. Yuki Nagato reprogrammed the game while it was ongoing
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| We ALL felt a bit sad at the end of that arc |
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Originally Posted by Venture
I thought it was a cheap attempt at an emotional reaction, the maudlin equivalent of throwing a cat at the screen in a bad horror movie.
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Originally Posted by Arcanaville
Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.
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Play "The Christmas We Get" or "Two Households Alike" and then tell me I'm heartless. 
