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I get that at work too.
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Originally Posted by Mr_Grey
Indeed... There was nobody more disappointing to me than Black Scorpion. It's like being ordered around by a stereotypical football jock.
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Global name: @k26dp
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The entire reason I worship the guy is specifically because he ISN"T dead. He is very much alive.
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Originally Posted by ebon3
I'd just like to add, people still worship a guy thats been dead for about 2000 years.
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Precisely. If you don't know it's there, you may well miss there's anything to be know.|
Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
The who in the what now?
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However, to explain, EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER who is given a name in Gaussian's arc is from Oban: Star Racers. In fact, if you do a comparison to the character roster in Oban's Wiki page, you'll find it's around a 60% match to the character roster in Gaussian's Arc.
Some characters are taken as direct name and personality borrows, such as Colonel Toros, the Krog representative on Alwas and primary bad guy who appears in the Protect Lady Grey mission or Captain Flint, the Alwas home champion who appears as the captor of Sah'Teece, the "Rikti sports hero before he became a diplomat. Some kind of racing, I guess."
Other characters are plays on Oban characters, such as the aforementioned Sah'Teece the Rikti sportsman who is a reference to Satis, the Earth Team host on Alwas and secretly the mysterious pod racer who called himself "Super Racer." Then there are Captain Nin and Captain Skung who show up in the Save Lady Grey mission, one as an ambush when fighting the other, who are a play on Ning and Skun, the alien racer women on Oban who race as a tag team as... Sisters, I think. They're weird aliens hinted to be something like vampires. Lemme' tell ya, as soon as I saw Captain Nin, I KNEW I was waiting for an ambush, and I was right.
It's all over the place, and most characters correspond to their personalities from Oban. For instance, the Longbow Super Strength Warden Lt. Rush corresponds to Rush, the titanic superstrong alien who piloted the biggest racer of them all by quite a margin. His going "AHAHAHA! Let's fight then!" is a direct crib from Oban, where he has the habit of doing that sort of belly laugh and and be prone to contests of strength. Or like the Rogue Vanguard Engineers Kan and Stoji, aka Earth Team engineers Stan and Koju, with one being a cowardly brainy little guy and the other being a gruff and rough grease monkey.
Having seen the show, it was less a question of what story I was reading and more what cameos I would see next. I'm surprised we didn't see General Cross (I don't think), but supreme bad guy and omnipotent magical being Canaletto does make an appearance as Renegade Leader Gen. K. Alito of Vanguard acting as, surprise surprise, supreme bad guy of the Rogue Vanguard operation.
Yeah, it's kind of like that.
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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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And then there's the villain arc that cribs from GUNNM, and the Penny Yin arc that cribs from Wacky Racers IIRC. It just makes me giggle, really.
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Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
Precisely. If you don't know it's there, you may well miss there's anything to be know.
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That sounds pretty cool to me. Someone made some heavy references in a CoX story - stop the presses! This happens all the time and it's fun for the people who get it, and obviously it doesn't matter to those who don't. I don't see a reason to be upset.
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Originally Posted by Draugadan
The entire reason I worship the guy is specifically because he ISN"T dead. He is very much alive.
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Be well, people of CoH.
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Thank you. You were much politer than I was going to be.
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Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba
*chortle*
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Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
So I betray him, beat him up...a few more levels go by and I get even more powerful, I call him again...
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And here is where the entire concept of CoV fails. How long are we as villains supposed to be lackies to the lackies of Lord Recluse? I hope upon hope that GR remedies that.
"Samual_Tow - Be disappointed all you want, people. You just don't appreciate the miracles that are taking place here."
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Originally Posted by Anti_Proton
And here is where the entire concept of CoV fails. How long are we as villains supposed to be lackies to the lackies of Lord Recluse? I hope upon hope that GR remedies that.
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... I'm just going to assume from here on out that you are quite simply the greatest troll who has ever lived. It's more pleasant than the alternative.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Well, it'll let you escape to the blue side, where contacts are your friends, and signature heroes respect you and ask for your help
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On topic: I'm glad people like Ghost Widow. I'm glad whenever people find something to like in this game.
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Yes, but they're such bland friends. Redside contacts may disrespect me, but at least they express that disrespect with style and individuality.|
Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Well, it'll let you escape to the blue side, where contacts are your friends, and signature heroes respect you and ask for your help
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And the Freedom Phalanx only ask for our help so that they don't have to slog through the endless identical defeat alls of their TFs
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Actually I found the response pretty amusing and on point, since, I would assume by now everyone knows that GR is only levels 1-20. Some how I don't think it'll solve the "villains being treated like lackey issue", since there really isn't any new content in the Rogue Isles.|
Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
... I'm just going to assume from here on out that you are quite simply the greatest troll who has ever lived. It's more pleasant than the alternative.
On topic: I'm glad people like Ghost Widow. I'm glad whenever people find something to like in this game. |
Just saying.
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It was a joke. Lighten the hell up.
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Originally Posted by SpittingTrashcan
... I'm just going to assume from here on out that you are quite simply the greatest troll who has ever lived. It's more pleasant than the alternative.
On topic: I'm glad people like Ghost Widow. I'm glad whenever people find something to like in this game. |
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No...no it wasn't. I think you'll find that GG is very consistent.
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Originally Posted by TrueMetal
It was a joke. Lighten the hell up.
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I agree that Going Rogue's new content will probably not address the 20-50 villain experience. I disagree that GG does not wish us to believe that she genuinely believes that switching to heroside is a perfectly acceptable solution to the issues with villain content. I am choosing to believe that she is presenting a deliberately aggravating persona in order to get a rise out of people, because I actually find the idea that she is a remarkably subtle and consistent prankster assuming a persona preferable to the alternative, which is that she really is who she presents herself to be.|
Originally Posted by Aura_Familia
Actually I found the response pretty amusing and on point, since, I would assume by now everyone knows that GR is only levels 1-20. Some how I don't think it'll solve the "villains being treated like lackey issue", since there really isn't any new content in the Rogue Isles.
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But now I'm far off topic. Ghost Widow surely does have a snappy costume. Especially that unique animated hair.
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I know how she is. I know all of her jokes have a good chunk of seriousness into them. The fact remains that people take all she does way to serious. (as long as you don't go into morality debate with her |
Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
No...no it wasn't. I think you'll find that GG is very consistent.
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).Anyway calling her a troll is just wrong. It implicates a malice that's just not in her posts.
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I like subtle trolls.
My personal favorite Ghost Widow moment is in the mission where you defend Grandville from a beach assault by the Nemesis Army. She is standing on a cliff overlooking the beach, casually holding a Nemesis soldier in midair with her Soul Storm while her Night Widows pick his brain.
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I actually liked working with Black Scorpion even if he was an idiot simply because I always read his dialogue in the same rasping voice as Barbaras has from the Bungie game Oni. It improved the overall experience severalfold.
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I think she's definitely a troll, but I also believe she doesn't realize it or know any better.
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Originally Posted by TrueMetal
I know how she is. I know all of her jokes have a good chunk of seriousness into them. The fact remains that people take all she does way to serious. (as long as you don't go into morality debate with her
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Originally Posted by eltonio
This is over the top mental slavery.
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Originally Posted by ebon3
I'd just like to add, people still worship a guy thats been dead for about 2000 years.
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Elvis hasn't been dead for 2000 years.
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Originally Posted by Draugadan
The entire reason I worship the guy is specifically because he ISN"T dead. He is very much alive.
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Smurch also has this weird definition: I think she's definitely a troll, but I also believe she doesn't realize it or know any better. |
Dec out.
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This.
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Originally Posted by Decorum
Trolling is about intent. You can't be an accidental troll.
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@True Metal
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When I look out into your eyes out there, |
Gaming_Glen needs music: Elvis still lives? |
When I look out into your faces,
You know what I see?
I see a little bit of Elvis
In each and every one of you out there.
Lemme tell ya...
Weeeeeeeeeellllllll...
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere, man!
He's in everything.
He's in everybody...
Elvis is in your jeans.
He's in your cheesburgers
Elvis is in Nutty Buddies!
Elvis is in your mom!
He's in everybody.
He's in the young, the old,
the fat, the skinny,
the white, the black
the brown and the blue
people got Elvis in 'em too
Elvis is in everybody out there.
Everybody's got Elvis in them!
Everybody except one person that is...
Yeah, one person!
The evil opposite of Elvis.
The Anti-Elvis
Anti-Elvis got no Elvis in 'em,
lemme tell ya.
Michael J. Fox has no Elvis in him.
And Elvis is in Joan Rivers
but he's trying to get out, man!
He's trying to get out!
Listen up Joanie Baby!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Man, there's a lot of unexplained phenomenon
out there in the world.
Lot of things people say
What the heck's going on?
Let me tell ya!
Who built the pyramids?
ELVIS!
Who built Stonehenge?
ELVIS!
Yeah, man you see guys
walking down the street
pushing shopping carts
and you think they're talking to allah,
they're talking to themself.
Man, no they're talking to ELVIS!
ELVIS! ELVIS!
You know whats going on in that Bermuda Triangle?
Down in the Bermuda Traingle
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis needs boats.
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis Elvis Elvis
Elvis needs boats.
Aahh! The Sailing Elvis!
Captain Elvis!
Commodore Elvis it is.
Yeah man, you know people from outer space,
people from outer space they come up to me.
They don't look like like Doctor Spock.
They don't look like Klingons,
all that Star Trek jive.
They look like Elvis.
ELVIS!
Everybody in outer space looks like Elvis.
Cause Elvis is a perfect being.
We are all moving in perfect peace and harmony towards Elvisness
Soon all will become Elvis.
Everything everywhere will be Elvis.
Why do you think they call it evolution anyway?
It's really Elvislution!
Elvislution!
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
That's right ladies and gentlemen,
The time has come!
Time has come to talk
To that little bit of Elvis inside of you.
Talk to it!
Call it up!
Say "Elvis, heal me!"
"Save me, Elvis!"
"Make me be born again
in the perfect Elvis light"
That's right!
You've got that Elvis inside of ya
and he's talkin to ya
He says he wants you to sing!
Everybody's got to sing like the king!
Like the king
Get that leg going now
Get your lip too.
Not no fool Billy Idol lip either
Everybody!
Yeah, we're rockin now!
Elvis is with us.
He's with us and he's speaking to us.
He says "Peoples!"
"Peoples!"
"Everybody!"
"Everybody got to sing!"
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis is everywhere
Elvis is everything
Elvis is everybody
Elvis is still the king
Man o man
What I want you to see
Is that the big E's
Inside of you and me
Elvis! - Mojo Nixon
Dec out.
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Elvis still lives?
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I now have a burning desire to create a Rikti named L'viss...
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/36641/My-Little-Exalt
I realise it's comic book tradition to not know what the hell is going on unless you're reading twenty spinoffs and ten tie-ins, and there's a reason Linkara uses his Continuity Alarm, but one would actually think those would be BAD things in need of fixing, not good things in need of perpetuation. I bought City of Heroes for the game, not the written novels, so I would appreciate it if game-important information were put in the actual game. Is that too much to ask for?
To be honest, the real reason signature characters get so little characterisation is because they're almost entirely used as TF contacts, and TF contacts don't get much characterisation, anyway. I don't see why Positron, for instance, can't give out slightly less epic (read: forced teaming) missions in addition to his TF. Might be nice to get to know the guy first, especially since doing a TF and following a story seem mutually exclusive in this game.
This is one thing that has always bothered me about MMOs. Asheron's Call 2 was a fun MMO (played it when it first launched till it went bye-bye); however, that game, just like this one doesn't have a whole lot of the story lore IN the game. They have websites, comics, books, etc...but not actually in the game itself. I always found that kind of silly....if you want to read about a character that you are getting missions from, go online and....wait what?
I'm not saying it shouldn't be online but just needs to be in the game as well.
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