Just to be clear, there's other origins and story themes than magic, k?
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Aleusha,
Posted on: 2012-04-04 14:19 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Just pretend it's really advanced technology! Or, you know, SCIENCE!!!!!
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
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To be fair, after a full year of Praetoria, where magic apparently only exists in First Ward, they're making up for lost ground.
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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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In case you missed it, GR was kinda light on magic - along with the Atlas Park revamp |
Originally Posted by Haetron
Because seriously, so sick of magic after the past year.
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We had a solid year or so of Technology when GR launched. Magic's getting it's turn to hog the spotlight.
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Originally Posted by Haetron
Because seriously, so sick of magic after the past year.
Just saying. |
Mutant cloned dinosaurs with techno jetpacks. Come on.
In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo.
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Im just sick of logging into a game about Superheroes to find out that we have another issue coming up loaded with MAGICAL ZOMBIES.
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Originally Posted by Xzero45
We had a solid year or so of Technology when GR launched. Magic's getting it's turn to hog the spotlight.
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'Cause the undead aren't a legitimate threat to folks with super powers, and are never featured in comics?
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Originally Posted by Haetron
Im just sick of logging into a game about Superheroes to find out that we have another issue coming up loaded with MAGICAL ZOMBIES.
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The non-magical to magical balance post-GR has been:
Nova Praetoria First Ward
Imperial City Dark Astoria
Neutropolis Night Ward
Atlas Park
I left off the Mercy Island revamp, as it wasn't as big as the Atlas one - although shifting the focus from Snakes to Longbow seems to be some kind of move away from magic to tech.
Before Night Ward was added, Post GR tech zones were outnumbering magical zones 2-1
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Crap, i missed that announcement about i23.|
Originally Posted by Haetron
Im just sick of logging into a game about Superheroes to find out that we have another issue coming up loaded with MAGICAL ZOMBIES.
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What sort of magical zombies are they?
Dr. Todt's theme.
i make stuff...
I didn't think we had anything particularly magic heavy ... I can't even really remember a major release that focused really specifically on magic for a long time before Dark Astoria. Even Cimerora, which has a pretty sword & sorcery feel going on actually had limited focus on magic - a lot of what was going on there was Nictus-related, not magical. Yeah, we had to go through the Midnight Club to get there, but that wasn't really the whole spotlight.
My sense is that they have actually done a decent job of mixing magic and tech/sci stuff, like with the I11 invasion focusing on the Rikti and their high-tech, Nemesis and his retro-high-tech, and the Alpha Team's magic.
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Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Crap, i missed that announcement about i23.
What sort of magical zombies are they? |
Zombies aren't actually mentioned
@Golden Girl
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How are you sick of something that just happened?
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Originally Posted by Haetron
Im just sick of logging into a game about Superheroes to find out that we have another issue coming up loaded with MAGICAL ZOMBIES.
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Blue
American Steele: 50 BS/Inv
Nightfall: 50 DDD
Sable Slayer: 50 DM/Rgn
Fortune's Shadow: 50 Dark/Psi
WinterStrike: 47 Ice/Dev
Quantum Well: 43 Inv/EM
Twilit Destiny: 43 MA/DA
Red
Shadowslip: 50 DDC
Final Rest: 50 MA/Rgn
Abyssal Frost: 50 Ice/Dark
Golden Ember: 50 SM/FA
Looks interesting. I'm glad there's more magic being introduced to Praetoria.
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You say that like it's a bad thing.
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Originally Posted by Haetron
Im just sick of logging into a game about Superheroes to find out that we have another issue coming up loaded with MAGICAL ZOMBIES.
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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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The plot also culminated in a plan to use Statesman and Lord Recluse as batteries for giant robots. I call that another point for tech.|
Originally Posted by UberGuy
I didn't think we had anything particularly magic heavy ... I can't even really remember a major release that focused really specifically on magic for a long time before Dark Astoria. Even Cimerora, which has a pretty sword & sorcery feel going on actually had limited focus on magic - a lot of what was going on there was Nictus-related, not magical. Yeah, we had to go through the Midnight Club to get there, but that wasn't really the whole spotlight.
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Edit: and I kinda have to say that the OP is being ridiculous. The VAST and OVERWHELMING majority of the content in this game is tech/sci/mutant themed, especially end-game content. The only magicy stuff at endgame pre-Dark Astoria was the Circle of Thorns and kinda-sorta the Carnival of Shadows (and some of the villain Patrons, not that they count for anything).
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The Well of the Furies
First Ward
Dark Astoria
The SSAs
So...much...magic...
Superheroes are big in hollywood right now. Try focusing on that.
Inb4 "superheroes use magic too".
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Magical zombie ligers?
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
Crap, i missed that announcement about i23.
What sort of magical zombies are they? |
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Meh, it works when your character is magic themed.|
Originally Posted by Xanatos
The Well of the Furies
First Ward Dark Astoria The SSAs So...much...magic... Superheroes are big in hollywood right now. Try focusing on that. Inb4 "superheroes use magic too". |
I wouldn't mind some focus on mutants. But what unified mutant 'theme' would be entertaining in this game? The whole 'discrimination' angle does not work...
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Not magic.
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Originally Posted by Xanatos
The Well of the Furies
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The Well and SSAs are more about COSMIC POWERRRRRR, than anything. Taken to the extreme, yes, they can be considered magic - if you view anything beyond mortal capabilities magical.
Also, didn't First Ward have the psychic abomination Seers? Those remind me more of Akira than anything magical.
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Based on lore recently made available by Prometheus, if anything, wells are hyper evolved (read: mutant) meta-psychic super-versions of their original race.
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Originally Posted by Cognitive_Genome
The Well and SSAs are more about COSMIC POWERRRRRR, than anything. Taken to the extreme, yes, they can be considered magic - if you view anything beyond mortal capabilities magical.
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Magic Rocks! ! !
Because seriously, so sick of magic after the past year.
Just saying.