SSA 5 Discussion (And countdown till its live!)

I thoroughly enjoyed SSA#5.

My favorite part: RAIN!!!!!

I know this is the forums and haters gotta hate, but I thought that Part 5 was excellent. Some tough fights that really had good comic book feel to them, a couple of fights left me hanging by a tiny hp string, which is how I love to walk away from a victory. The story was solid Wade is doing his crazy villain thing well, Statesman doesn't break his character, and dies with a solid ending. I have been enjoying the entire arc and am now really looking forward to six and seven. I am not saying you haters are wrong, I am into this but that doesn't mean you have to be, but I am really, really enjoying the SSA.

Personal opinion: It was an empty death. Like Star Trek TNG Tasha Yar empty death. No honor, no big battle, no nothing. I was hoping for something more than just a smile and just death. I really felt let down and I really did not feel the emotional part that was suppose to be conveyed until I threw in my words as filler. Don't get me wrong it was a good build up but a let down ending that left a bad taste in my mouth.

SSA 5

Gets a 2 out of 5

Wait, they're still planning for The Coming Storm?

Harold Camping thinks we're weird for still thinking it's going to happen.

Well, played the hero side arc. Hated it.

First of all, my biggest complain in so many of these arcs is that we've gone from "You are the hero" to "You are a bystander". Nothing my player does even pretends to make any difference. This one took it to its nadir. You visit under a bar, find a clue that basically says "hey, search this other place" - then a big fight between named heroes and villains that served no purpose. The looking through what appears to be Praetorian sewers but really under the Rogue Isles. Meaningless fights including some named villains helped by named heroes, three clues about what Wade is doing. Then the last one - you fight through some normal foes, see the cutscene where everything happens and you can do nothing to affect it, then some fights that change nothing, all the bad guys get away. Not even any minor plots spoiled, not even a hair of less-than-total victory in the arc. Bad guys win. Period. Completely.

And even if it hadn't been an arc with my character made completely impotent and sidelined - Statesman deserved better. Look at the big stories of heroes dying. They die making a difference. Sacrificing themselves for the greater good. They make a choice that what they accomplish by dying is more important than continuing to live. Breakneck, in the comic and in the Ouroboros arc, shows us how a hero dies. Statesman falls into a trap that Fusionette would have foreseen and is murdered to steal his power. These feels less like the end of Primal Earths' greatest hero and more like a middle finger to Jack Emmett.

Well I enjoyed this arc. Especially that last map (I WANTS!). I was a bit let down that it wasn't an epic fight and then States lost though, Beyond that very cool.

I don't have an aversion to not being able to affect the story as it is being mostly played out by the game and it's like watching a comic with come interaction as well. I notice they try and mention your characters name in the text though so not bad at all.

Would be cool if somehow our characters could be in the cut scenes interacting (IE TA tries to intervene but is held back by some barrier, punching at the barrier while Wade does his thing).

Overall though? Loved it. Now how do I get my hands on that last map?

I'll take a PM Golden Girl. I don't mind reading the last page of a book.

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I found it pretty funny, overall. Especially the cutscene. I was kind of expecting something... not so funny. It's supposed to be super-serious and everything and all the NPCs look BORED and they're just standing there, looking around...

















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