Possible clue to next boosterpack?
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Posted on: 2011-06-06 20:36 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
So Flock of Seagulls-style hair and fingerless lace gloves?
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I thought Z was a AR/devices blaster? 
(At least, that's what his character and all the NPC's he showed up as were during the invasion.)
Ok, wiseguys. My vid card crapped out and i have an old one substituting until the new one gets here, so i turn down the gfx to keep it running and loading quicker. :P
That being said, I lived through the 80's, and have no desire for an 80's booster.(I've bought all the others)
Awful, awful decade
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80's wasn't that roughly the silver-age of comics? Maybe we're getting some silver-age pieces.
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The 80s were great. I'd take 'em again. |
Originally Posted by Zyphoid
I remember the 80's there was very little good about it, and NOTHING worth making into a booster pack.
Forgotten how bad the 80's were? Watch Hot Tub Time Machine. |
Though... booster pack? Real "glam" hair - for males? Keytar powerset? "Greed is Good" market/INF bonus? Single glove costume piece and "moonwalk" temp travel power? "MTV" temp power that plays actual music?
*shudders*
If the next booster features the tragic fashion/hair of the 1980's....Let's just say it won't be just the first booster add on I skip, I will see if I can reconfigure the game so that the substitute items are displayed in their place, sparing me having to look at them. 
What...I just really like the 80's.
Now excuse me, I need to go and peg-roll my acid wash jeans while wearing my Hypercolor shirt and listening to my brand new Sony Walkman Cassette player.
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/notes I'll take 80s "tragic" fashion over 00's "can't keep my pants up" looks any day.
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Originally Posted by Seldom
If the next booster features the tragic fashion/hair of the 1980's
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Silver age is mostly 60's 70's. Reasonable arguments could say it starts sometime in the 50's. But either way, the silver age occurred when superheroes re-emerged as a focal genre for comics after crime, war, horror, western and romance comics had grown to dominate the medium in post war America. There was also a very distinct limited color palette throughout the silver age and offset plates were printed at a lower LPI resolution to limit spoilage. These factors could be credited as much as the era's fashion and mainstream culture for the distinct bold style of silver age hero and villain costumes.|
Originally Posted by Unknown_User
80's wasn't that roughly the silver-age of comics? Maybe we're getting some silver-age pieces.
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This changed in the 80's as color separation technologies advanced, making photo separation increasingly affordable for the medium which was eventually replaced by photo-digital and 100% digital separation during the 90's. At the time, the 1980's was considered to harbor the second golden age of comics when these more detailed graphic styles, broader color palettes (heavy with subtle earth tones) became coupled with grittier revisionings of classic silver and golden age characters. The second golden age is more commonly referred to now as the diamond age and if I'm not mistaken also includes most of the 1990's.
The history is obviously more complex than this when one includes the rolling influence of underground comics that always seems to lag the mainstream comics by at least a decade. i.e. themes in underground comics in the 1960's not making their way into mainstream books till the 1970's. But that's a horse of a different color.
Short of it: silver age is definitely 1960's & 1970's.
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The "Silver Age of Comic Books" was roughly from the mid-50s to the early 70s, or if you prefer from Showcase #4 to the death of Gwen Stacy (I'm a nerd, so sue me...)|
Originally Posted by Unknown_User
80's wasn't that roughly the silver-age of comics? Maybe we're getting some silver-age pieces.
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EDIT: Got scooped, appropriately, by SilverAgeFan
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Originally Posted by Archiviste
The "Silver Age of Comic Books" was roughly from the mid-50s to the early 70s, or if you prefer from Showcase #4 to the death of Gwen Stacy (I'm a nerd, so sue me...)
EDIT: Got scooped, appropriately, by SilverAgeFan |
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Fixed that for you.
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Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Very little of the clothes and music from the 80s is awesome
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
English does not borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and rifles through their pockets for loose grammar.
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My favorite part would be the Jem and the Holigrams, Over one shoulder, super long, knee length sweater...with a big belt!!!! (If in the baggy shirts section I could even have a bra strap showing!!!)
Complete it with big hair and giant leg warmers and well...HAPPY! Day!
It would be truely outragious!
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Originally Posted by Nyx
My favorite part would be the Jem and the Holigrams, Over one shoulder, super long, knee length sweater...with a big belt!!!! (If in the baggy shirts section I could even have a bra strap showing!!!)
Complete it with big hair and giant leg warmers and well...HAPPY! Day! It would be truely outragious! |
truely truely outragious?
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I threw up a little in my mouth.
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Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
truely truely outragious?
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Originally Posted by Hyperstrike
English does not borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, hits them over the head, and rifles through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Mmmmhmmmm...|
Originally Posted by CactusBrawler
truely truely outragious?
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Although such remarks are apparently enough to make some people...charf!
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Originally Posted by Jawbreaker
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I used to fiddle with my back feet music for a black onyx. My entire room absorbed every echo. The music was . . . thud like. The music was . . . thud like. I usually played such things as rough-neck and thug. Opaque melodies that would bug most people. Music from the other side of the fence.
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Originally Posted by MaHaBone23
A Rob Liefeld booster pack... Wouldn't that just add another 100% on to all the body sliders so you could make that barrel chested, tiny-headed, too many gun-toting, skinny-waisted, bowling ball-smuggling, ballerina-footed monstrosity you've always dreamed of?
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Originally Posted by Leo_G
Although we have the feet down.
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Originally Posted by MaHaBone23
I'd almost rather see a 1950's retro B-movie booster pack, with classic "discombobulator" blasters, old Flash Gordon style jet packs, astronaut "bubble helmets", lots of kooky alien skins and heads, Jacob's ladder antennae, Tesla coils, Cadillac fins, beehive hairdos, antigravity belts, etc etc etc...
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Funny thing is, here in NYC, the 1980's as inspiration for new fashion has pretty much already come and gone. Did so midway through last decade.
And now you have people like, IIRC, Keshia Knight Pulliam singing the praises of the transitional years of the early 1990s. In my 'hood, starting to see afro-punk give way to "daisy age" revival. And that's just a hop-skip-and-jump away from Deee Lite... (which in itself was all a twist on stuff from a particular part of the 1960's)
Is that a screen shot from Space Quest?
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Looks like he enlarged the picture too much..but what do I know, I have not played with Photo manipulation since I started playing this game..but when I did, and I enlarged a pic too much, I seem to remember that I would get results that looked like this.|
Originally Posted by LISAR
I didn't think there was a PS1 version of this game.
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Lisa...the 80s huh???
So don't wait for heroes, do it yourself
You've got the power
winners are losers
who got up and gave it just one more try
***Dennis DeYoung
The menus and text and all clear, though.
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Lisa sits up straight in her chair and stares at screen...Glam hair for males...I could do things with that...let it be..please |
Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
The 80s were great. I'd take 'em again.
Though... booster pack? Real "glam" hair - for males? Keytar powerset? "Greed is Good" market/INF bonus? Single glove costume piece and "moonwalk" temp travel power? "MTV" temp power that plays actual music? |
Lisa.
So don't wait for heroes, do it yourself
You've got the power
winners are losers
who got up and gave it just one more try
***Dennis DeYoung
Wow, it's the SSI "Gold Box" version of CoH.
Unless he was being a little more cryptic & they're upping the Max level to 80 from 50?
Personally I'd love an 80's themed booster pack just as long as I could equip my toons in Tacchini bottoms or Farah Trousers, Puma G Vilas or Adidas Samba, Lyle & Scott or Diamond Pringle Jumpers & Fila Rollnecks! Throw in a couple of Rave dance emotes like making shapes or dancing with invisible maracas & I'd be in heaven .... oh & add a Voodoo Ray to the boombox too whilst you're at it!