Possible clue to next boosterpack?
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Posted on: 2011-06-06 20:36 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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80's MTV: when it was still/only about music....
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Originally Posted by EmperorSteele
80's fashion: unique, but awful.
80's music: mix between horrid and brilliant. 80's cartoons: nothing but half-hour toy commercials, but they were awesome. 80's TV: Oooh, FOUR networks now! I... cable? Wussat? 80's comics: adolescent with spurts of growing up. 80's movies: regarded as classics today, even the bad ones. 80's social/political climate: Communism is EVIL! Drugs are EVIL! Strangers are EVIL! 80's technology: I can fit an entire 20-page report on this 5-inch floppy! ...why are you snickering? 80's video games: Plunk quarters into an arcade game or play insanely hard 8-bit games at home. Many are considered classics today. Overall, i'd give an 80's booster pack a 50/50 chance of being epic vs Fail. |
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You hear "echoey," I hear "understandable." There's so many bands these days where the music is so incredibly loud you can't even hear the singer or understand them. You also mentioned "overly loud drums" and "drowned out melody," but in neither of those songs' melodies are drowned out, and one of them (the Psychadelic Furs song) doesn't even have drums. There's a difference between YMMV and outright lying.
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Originally Posted by Seldom
*shrugs* or just disagree. I find the percussion of the songs you linked to overdone, something I find problematic with music of that time in general. And the mad world link has the echoey singing I'd mentioned.
I simply thought both links had elements of what I took issue with, so I thought the inclusion of them might be ironic. Obviously I misread. I understand the criticisms I brought up are 'problematic' only in my own view, please do not take this personally. |
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Yeah, MTV when it first started was nothing but music videos - nonstop. Pretty nice. Not worth watching anymore.
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Originally Posted by Texarkana
80's MTV: when it was still/only about music....
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Ahhhh . . . when MTV actually meant Music TeleVision.
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I included them there simply because I've heard on several occasions people misremember them as a very early 90s thing as opposed to '87. Same with Jane's Addiction. Anyways, results will vary depending upon the cultural memory of your local.|
Originally Posted by Ironik
I'm not sure one could categorize NWA as a forgotten corner of the 80s.
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Also forgot the Pixies in that list...
You also highlight a number of key trends of the transition from the 70's to the 80's. Can't believe I forgot the Talking Heads. I think time creates a strange schizophrenia, with decadal dismorphia on one hand and blind nostalgia on the other. When one starts to comb through the details, not just an episode of "MTV's I love the xx's", it's hard not to notice that every decade and every year has all sorts of treasures in amongst the garbage.
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Wait, GG was born in 89? I thought she was like 42 or something. >.>
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Originally Posted by Texarkana
Writes the woman alive for only 5 months of the 80s. Cripes, I feel old now.....
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You also left out David Bowie. Big music star in the 70s, and even HUGER star in the 80s.
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Originally Posted by SilverAgeFan
I included them there simply because I've heard on several occasions people misremember them as a very early 90s thing as opposed to '87. Same with Jane's Addiction. Anyways, results will vary depending upon the cultural memory of your local.
Also forgot the Pixies in that list... You also highlight a number of key trends of the transition from the 70's to the 80's. Can't believe I forgot the Talking Heads. I think time creates a strange schizophrenia, with decadal dismorphia on one hand and blind nostalgia on the other. When one starts to comb through the details, not just an episode of "MTV's I love the xx's", it's hard not to notice that every decade and every year has all sorts of treasures in amongst the garbage. |
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Originally Posted by Scythus
You also left out David Bowie. Big music star in the 70s, and even HUGER star in the 80s.
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kinda on purpose.
I have a bias towards the Ziggy Stardust days.
Dancing in the streets and Labyrinth? Not so much. At least beyond their camp value.
<.<
Actually just a quick question.
When was Liefield active?
Because while Beastyle was in Pocket D on Virtue I made the joke about "wanting lots of pouches and ridiculously big guns".
Sure we all laughed at the time but...oh dear...I may have done something horrible...truly horrible...did what I said cause some horrible nightmarish seed of an idea to grow within the mind of Beastyle?
If it's a Liefield inspired pack...you are within all reason to blame me and beat me with sticks of varying degrees of size.
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Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU
Actually just a quick question.
When was Liefield active? Because while Beastyle was in Pocket D on Virtue I made the joke about "wanting lots of pouches and ridiculously big guns". Sure we all laughed at the time but...oh dear...I may have done something horrible...truly horrible...did what I said cause some horrible nightmarish seed of an idea to grow within the mind of Beastyle? If it's a Liefield inspired pack...you are within all reason to blame me and beat me with sticks of varying degrees of size. |
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Well, this game will be in Dire Straights if we don't get an 80's pack now.
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
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. - Z |
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Fixed that for ya.|
Originally Posted by Nylonus
Well, this game will be in Dire Straits if we don't get an 80's pack now.
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Knopfler wasn't big on spelling.
If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.
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But I *want* huge shoulder pads, and lots of pouches (specifically, leg pouches).|
Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU
Actually just a quick question.
When was Liefield active? Because while Beastyle was in Pocket D on Virtue I made the joke about "wanting lots of pouches and ridiculously big guns". Sure we all laughed at the time but...oh dear...I may have done something horrible...truly horrible...did what I said cause some horrible nightmarish seed of an idea to grow within the mind of Beastyle? If it's a Liefield inspired pack...you are within all reason to blame me and beat me with sticks of varying degrees of size. |
I think where Leifield went wrong is that practically *EVERY* character he designed had the same hair, or the same one-shoulder pad or the same I've-got-too-many-pouches...and that's disregarding some of the disproportions his drawings sport...or the various misspelled names (because poor literacy is keWL).
Funny, because, while I read some Leifield when I actually learned to read (so mid-90s), I actually liked Leifield. It wasn't until I actually watched Linkara's reviews that I actually looked back and laughed at how close I resemble 90s kid.
DUUUUUUUDE!!
*I never said dude back then, tho
*PS: I won't blame you, specifically, Mechano, but I'll beat you with sticks either way ^^
See my only exposure to Leifield/Liefield has been through the internet, I'm not a big comic book reader and what I was reading when I was small was the homegrown British goodness of 2000AD so the only exposure I had to the American comic book industy were the animated series.
Now I was fortunate enough to grow up during the time when animated series based on comic books was GOOD (that isn't to say they aren't now, I mean the Justice League/Justice League Unlimited and even more recently Avengers: Earth's mightiest heroes are both series I've grown to enjoy but had long since gone past the age they were aimed at) and kept me interested.
It wasn't until I was much older that I learnt of Liefield, which means my views are negatively coloured because practically EVERYTHING I hear about his artwork (but apparently not the man himself, who is, for all intense purposes quite nice to chat to so I've heard) is that, compared to a lot of other comicbook artists or even people on Deviant Art, it's bloody terrible.
I'm Dr Mechano and this has been your tangent for today.
I thank you.
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Actually...I didn't know who Liefield was when I was reading his stuff. I was just a kid reading cool looking stuff 
But I blame my older cousin for actually liking him. He was way old enough to know better >_>
Meh, anything could catch my interest back then. Cruddy video games my friends had, my brother's older comics, my cousins newer comics, a plastic bag tied to a string on a windy day...Heh, I played in the woods alot 
So that says something about my liking Leifield back then.
Nice lists, SilverAgeFan, hehe.
Since this damn conversation is still going on (no, Paragon Studios, we don't really want any such booster)...
I have to add that Pink Floyd kicked out some great stuff in the 80s as well. With Roger Waters still. And then even Momentary Lapse Of Reason without him has some merit, even with a Waters lover like myself! 
It's funny... A while ago, I was talking with a few other musical artists and the conversation covered the idea that, during the 80s, while there was some really cool stuff, it wasn't entirely impressive... But, two decades of music later, and the 80s look pretty damn desirable in comparison.
Oh, hey... May as well add the Sugar Cubes with Bjork to the list, hehe!
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Maybe you should look up "dire straits" sometime. Knopfler's smarter than you think.
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Originally Posted by Texas Justice
Fixed that for ya.
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Annnyhow.
The 80's .I'm callin' it. High collars. Bring it.
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A bunch of Villains -Black Citadel , Pinnache.
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Do you mean popped collars?
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Originally Posted by KemLi
Annnyhow.
The 80's .I'm callin' it. High collars. Bring it. |
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/groan
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Originally Posted by Nylonus
Well, this game will be in Dire Straights if we don't get an 80's pack now.
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I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.
Thank you Devs & Community people for a great game.
So sad to be ending ):
Rob Liefield is more associated with 90's Dark Age heroes, isn't he?
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Originally Posted by Nylonus
Well, this game will be in Dire Straights if we don't get an 80's pack now.
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If we get that pack, and if it has a Rock Band primary for Masterminds, you are now obligated to make a glam metal Mastermind ...
*dons sunglasses*
... With /Poison.
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If redside gets a "Rock Band" primary, blue side needs "Guitar"....
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Originally Posted by LittleDavid
Rob Liefield is more associated with 90's Dark Age heroes, isn't he?
Dude. If we get that pack, and if it has a Rock Band primary for Masterminds, you are now obligated to make a glam metal Mastermind ... *dons sunglasses* ... With /Poison. |
@Texarkana
@Thexder
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Nah... just massive power customization for sonic that includes "weapon" customization and an audio suite of different sound effects to choose from, from acoustic to funk to metal power chords.|
Originally Posted by Texarkana
If redside gets a "Rock Band" primary, blue side needs "Guitar"....
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Edit: Of course then the forums will be filled with "Oh noes! City of Wyld Stallions!!!1!"
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