Really Bad AE Arc Ideas
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Posted on: 2012-05-07 16:17 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Revenge of the 90's Gritty and Stupid Heroes
1. Manticore decides to not allow anyone else to protect Statesman's daughter at a meeting of villains. She is killed of course.
2. They then decide to only have Ms. Liberty protect a hero doing a mental probe on a mind controlling villain. The hero is possessed of course.
3. Then kill off the possessed hero
4. Then kill off statesman
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Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
Revenge of the 90's Gritty and Stupid Heroes
1. Manticore decides to not allow anyone else to protect Statesman's daughter at a meeting of villains. She is killed of course. 2. They then decide to only have Ms. Liberty protect a hero doing a mental probe on a mind controlling villain. The hero is possessed of course. 3. Then kill off the possessed hero 4. Then kill off statesman |
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This one's actually funny.
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Originally Posted by Saint Valencrime
1) The Bob Dylan Task Force
Kings Row Freakshow Stealing all the bank dough Crimes grow Bombs blow Rescue trapped hero Don't need to be the Statesman to know this is a no-no |
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Something about that just seems so... horrible. A combination of horrible fan shipping with an amalgam of random future ideas and top it off with an 80's generic abstract thing to save.
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Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell
The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to save the President?
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That's just silly. You'd rescue a woman when the thermostat was too low. The guy would have to be rescued when it was too high. Or maybe that's just my own experience
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Originally Posted by Party_Kake
I made one once where you rescue a guy from the office building where he's working where they have the thermostat too low.
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The worst AE idea I ever heard was "Help Mynx and Swan Take Ms. Liberty to the Planned Parenthood Clinic." Of course it would use the creepy hospital map from Maria's mission with Mother Mayhem. Once a friend of mine mentioned the idea, I debated building it, but A) I didn't want to waste a slot on a gag AE mission, and B) the joke wasn't worth getting banned over.
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Originally Posted by Saint Valencrime
1) The Bob Dylan Task Force
Kings Row Freakshow Stealing all the bank dough Crimes grow Bombs blow Rescue trapped hero Don't need to be the Statesman to know this is a no-no |
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I actually considered making this. Complete with a Barrack Obama expy for the President. And a flipside where "The president has been rescued by dudes! Are you a bad enough ninja to kidnap the president?"
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Originally Posted by Doctor Roswell
The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to save the President?
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Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
I actually considered making this. Complete with a Barrack Obama expy for the President. And a flipside where "The president has been rescued by dudes! Are you a bad enough ninja to kidnap the president?"
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Och rosor i ett sprucket krus
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That explains so much...
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Originally Posted by dugfromthearth
Revenge of the 90's Gritty and Stupid Heroes
1. Manticore decides to not allow anyone else to protect Statesman's daughter at a meeting of villains. She is killed of course. 2. They then decide to only have Ms. Liberty protect a hero doing a mental probe on a mind controlling villain. The hero is possessed of course. 3. Then kill off the possessed hero 4. Then kill off statesman |
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Well, given the topic title, I think it fits either way. It's a really BAD arc idea!|
Originally Posted by Rufus T Fyrfly
That's one the best video game plots of all time. Forget the Metal Gear series, I wanna be one of the Bad Dudes!
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Originally Posted by AzureSkyCiel
I actually considered making this. Complete with a Barrack Obama expy for the President. And a flipside where "The president has been rescued by dudes! Are you a bad enough ninja to kidnap the president?"
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I ended up going with a "President Ronnie" character like in the arcade version of the game.
I love the idea of a villainous (ninja-ous?) companion arc....
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Not an arc, but a single mission. One of my friends actually made this one, not long after AE went live, based on an old joke by another friend about how most of the game's original missions were written:
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Originally Posted by Mr_Morbid
That's just silly. You'd rescue a woman when the thermostat was too low. The guy would have to be rescued when it was too high. Or maybe that's just my own experience
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To be fair, I do have little to no heat tolerance (I start getting uncomfortable in the low to mid-70's, so she may be on to something)...
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I couldn't agree more.
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Originally Posted by Cende
This one's actually funny.
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I saved the really bad stuff for my own personal AE arc. Its a sewer romp called The Wild Wild Waste. It has the Sewer Soldier Formula. There is Archon Pennywise. Villains use drug labs to make Seweradine. There is even a recurring villain named Recurring Villain. Every really bad idea rolled into one fun filled AE arc for me.
Really bad arc idea:
Mission 1: A mad scientist named "Clayton" sends you into a bad monster movie to fight an alien that looks like a gorilla wearing a space helmet.
Mission 2: He then sends you into an old Japanese movie to fight off chicken-like aliens and their giant monster while being aided by a guy named The Artist From Space.
Mission 3: He sends you into yet another movie, where you have to defeat a criminal mastermind with a mind-control mask (while also rescuing an Aztec priest and breaking the mind control on his cougar-themed protoge).
Mission 4: You get fed up with the crappy movies and go to take on Clayton himself, but he's guarded by minions and lieutenants from the movies, and he's slapped on a suit of power armor.
1) The Bob Dylan Task Force
Kings Row
Freakshow
Stealing all the bank dough
Crimes grow
Bombs blow
Rescue trapped hero
Don't need to be the Statesman to know this is a no-no
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7) Win the tri-county pie eating competition. Your toughest competition will be the chubby kid that everyone picks on.