I don't like the Vanguard claws...

My understanding of how the lightsaber worked was that it was a laser that extended out to a certain distance, then bent back on itself and entered the hilt again, recharging thew powercell. The only time the lightsaber ever used energy was when it actually cut something. There are only 2 ways that I know of to bend light; a strong magnetic field, or a strong gravity field.
Of course, I've seen it theorized that the lightsabers were actually a plasma encased in a magnetic field.

Lightsabers are difficult to handle because they cut through (or burn) whatever they touch. Not so with normal metal (or stone, wood, plastic, or bone) weapons. It would be much easier to lop off an arm with a lightsaber accidentally, then with a regular sword.

That is, of course, my opinion.

Hehehe, I need to run a "Toon" or "Teenagers from Outer Space" PnP game for you sometime, where you can (for example) make your character immune to damage from any attack he's not aware of.

Toon was an awesome game. Partly because it was a RPG that my parents didn't associate with the fear mongering 700 club/Egbert incident so I got to play it.

Heh, that's my revised costume for an old-ish character of mine I didn't have a solid concept for. She was originally intended to use those Vanguard Claws when I rerolled her, which is about half the reason I was so excited about the Vanguard Pack. When I saw the claws in action, however, my enthusiasm died on the spot. I did eventually recover, and she now uses Dual Vanguard Blades, though it meant I had to sacrifice another character's dual blades design in order to do so.

See, I don't mind ridiculous so long as it's cool enough to make me not care. Take Dual Pistols, for instance - it is by FAR the game's most needlessly ridiculous set, and yet I really love how it looks and feels. Or, for an easier example, I have no problem sending a woman running around with a sword longer than she is tall.

However, the Vanguard Claws (and I assume the Rularuu Claws) just look BAD in actual practice. Not goofy, not weird, not ridiculous. Just bad. awkward. It's like if you took a double-bearded axe, grab it by the head with both hands and proceed to jab at enemies with the haft. It looks more than ridiculous. It looks plain bad.

I don't want to make a big fuss about the Vanguard Claws being two-dimensional. I'm sure that even if the game doesn't supply an explanation (and I'm fairly confident it doesn't) that a reasonable one exists. It just bugs me. Like I said before, it doesn't bug me enough to swear off the weapon just for that. After all, I used a Vanguard Bow for a very long time. But the two-dimensional "shape" makes me a bit "meh" on the weapon, so when I see it acting REALLY bad in actual animation, it's one more problem to poke me in the eyes every time I play a character.

A lot of what I say here on the forums comes off as nit-picky and needlessly pedantic, like I do nothing but look for things to bug me. However, the truth of the matter is that these things build up over time. The first time I saw the two-dimensional Vanguard weapons, I didn't really care all that much. But the longer I use them, the longer I see that two-dimensional blade, and each time I see it it bugs me more. This has been on my mind for three, maybe four years, and it took off-centre claws to finally push me into saying something about it. If I can't get over it after several years, I'm not getting over it. Ever.

I keep thinking we're about due for some new weapons, though, so I'm hopeful for the future... Whenever that comes around.

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.

Actually, Larry Niven beat them to it by at least 10 years. Just to nit-pick

It does.

The blades of all Vanguard weapons are only a single molecule wide, which makes them just about the sharpest you can get anything to be without damaging the laws of physics. And since they are made of energy, you don't have to worry about the thinness of them affecting the stability of the blade.

Remember the scene in Wolverine:Origins where Logan slices the cast iron sink in half by accident because his claws are so sharp? These blades are sharper than that.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

Where? What NPC can I speak with that will explain this? Which clue talks about them? That's what I mean when I say "the game doesn't give an explanation." I've done every arc to do with Vanguard and no-one so much as mentioned the fact that they have energy weapons. Is there a badge I missed somewhere that explains this?

I know people have explained it, that and their history. I know the developers have talked about it. I suspect it's said somewhere on the main site's history and fiction sections. But I didn't see anything about that in-game, and the first I heard about it was people bringing it up in this thread.

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.

I also remember the scene in X-men Origins: Wolverine where Logan was shot in the head with an adamantium bullet and it penetrated right through his adamantium covered skull. Where basic physics would have had caused the bullet to bounce off and go elsewhere. That was my biggest nitpick with that movie.

But, that wouldn't have explained Logan's memory loss.
Besides, it's cool knowing that Logan can recover from being shot in the head.

IIRC, he survived having his entire skeleton ripped out. As far as I can tell, Wolverine is truly immortal.

Didn't Magneto just pull out all the adamantium coating ON his skeleton?

I just use the "pronged Rubik's Cube" mace for that.

I don't really follow X-Men, but my understanding was that Magneto ripped out the skeleton, and Jean Gray held his body in shape until he regrew a new one. This is, however, second-hand knowledge.

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.

Actually, his original concept back in the early 70's (well before becoming a star in X-Men) was just that. Luckily, (as far as I know) no one was stupid enough to actually put it into a story and they made him a human mutant instead.

Also glad I stopped reading long before the writing became this lame.

I think someone was confused by the nightmare sequence he had in the followup issue of his own series, as in that nightmare he dreams himself as being without a skeleton.

Wolverine has had many iteration that weren't fully explained in the comics themselves. Originally, in the Hulk issue he appeared in, his claws were apart of his gloves.

Just realized what your character reminds me of: Tali from Mass Effect.

You're not the first one to say that, and you're not entirely unfounded

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.