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Nice! Also...Scrappers need Whip Melee!
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Quote:Very likely. But network TV as a rule, has far more limits on it to begin with.Originally Posted by Lothic
I still contend that the "revision" of the show that Fox dictated doomed the entire endeavor to failure. I'll meet you halfway by saying that Whedon was probably foolish/stubborn in thinking that he could shoehorn his idea into the restrictive sandbox Fox offered.
Basically I think the premise of Dollhouse could have only worked in a R-rated setting, or at least a setting that would have allowed it more "adult content" latitude. The Fox-ified show we got was indeed awkward and lackluster because of the repressed nature of it. -
Quote:Which is the case with any movie series...in the end, they can't all be 1st placeOriginally Posted by Lothic
Well I'd agree those two might have to fight for "which was the 3rd or 4th best Indiana Jones movie so far".
As for the Nuke the Fridge scene. Is it possible? Yes. The odds in your favor? Well, even if the fridge can survive the blast (which it could), the only real part one has to think on is, what are the odds Indy could survive being tossed that far and high into the air, come crashing down, and still be alive?
If you watched the other Indy movies, you know Indy survives terrible odds like that, ALL THE TIME!
It's his gimmick! In fact, I believe the Indiana Jones RPG was all about that. -
EM could use some help for sure! I don't know if it really needs the help people are clamoring for though.
It's always been more of a ST focused set, and saddly, they turned it into a (for most, not all) boring ST focused set.
WH could likely use a bit of OOooomph added to it. But, I know, when I chose EM, it was never because I thought "YEAH! Going to clear rooms with all this AOE!"
EM used to be an okay fun set. Barrage loved it's animation, even if it's a bit long for most people. Total Focus, it was a long animation, but it was only ONE long animation in the set.
ET made it two, and that just made it become boring. :/
My suggestions to improve EM...
Step 1) Improve Barrage's Damage. Give it a little more power in that 1 - 2 punch.
Step 2) Trim ET's animation time down to 1.67 seconds from 2.67.
Step 3) Make Stun a serious attack (ala Cobra Strike) or while possibly still skipped by many, a serious Mez. Mag 4 Stun, that can lock down a boss.
Step 3) Alternate Animations!
Barrage would need another 1 -2 combo style punch, as any other melee equivalent in terms of animation length is a kick (or knee), and while I would love to see the energy melee pom poms on the feet if the animation used a kick animation instead, I just don't see that happening. :/
Energy Punch can get Initial Strike animations, either by cutting .03 seconds off EP's animation or adding .03 seconds to IS's animation on the port (no, don't mess with StJ's animations itself)
Bone Smasher could use Super Strength's alternate animation for Haymaker.
ET with a new animation time of 1.67 seconds could have Cobra Strike's alternate animations, CAK's alternate animation, and if you wanted, Jacob's Ladder could be turned into an Energy Damage type of attack animation. -
What are you looking to do exactly?
Solo AVs/GMs? If a Corr can do it, a Defender can do it.
Scourge doesn't start untill the enemy is at the 50% life or less remaining mark. Untill that point, they're not that far off. -
Quote:Eh, I enjoy it more than ToD.Originally Posted by Lothic
I guess it's just a matter of defining the scale/scope of the case at hand. Yes $300+ million domestic gross for a movie is a lot of money regardless of context. But for an Indiana Jones movie it was still arguably the weakest and most overly hyped installment of the franchise.
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Quote:You could. But for every player who agrees with you, there's another player who enjoys the weekly coffee talk, knowing it may or may not lead to the info they want.Originally Posted by Lothic
These are all valid points. Again I'm just saying that seeing Devs on a chat screen is ultimately not why I'm playing this game or paying for it. I think it's cool they do these coffee talks, but I could probably live if they only did them half as often as they do now and save up some meaningful content to share with the community.
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Quote:Now see, they talk up the Tech Knight costume set, and it just may give you desire to shell out money to become Tier 9.Originally Posted by Thunder Knight
The problem with the coffee talks for me is that all the stuff I want to know about is also the stuff they're not allowed to talk about yet. The Tech Knight set is cool, sure, but I'm not even close to Tier 9 and won't be for several more years (assuming I don't lose my job or the game doesn't close in the meantime), so it's just them waving something I can't have in front of my face.
Meanwhile, I am interested in the little slip of a tongue from last week's show (Stone Armor changes) and information about the other Origin-based power pools (I really like the looks of the Tech-based pool, if the CoH Wikia is accurate), but they're apparently not allowed to (or just don't want to) talk about those.
So, yeah, I'll pass on this week's show. Maybe next week.
I know of at least one player who was nowhere near tier 9 and spent the money needed in a months time to become tier 9, just so they could access the tier 9 costume sets.
Will this work for everyone? No. Will it work on some? Yup! -
I still want to see the karate dance have a second version with just the elbows up, hips swaying, losing the kicks and punches.
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Quote:Originally Posted by Lothic
I sort of think Dollhouse might have been doomed to failure from the beginning not because Whedon willingly made it a "bad" show but because he was too restricted by the network he was on. I'm not sure he really had a choice between making his show on "family friendly" Fox or "adult content" HBO - sometimes you have to work with what you get stuck with.
As you might remember Dollhouse suffered from "creative differences" from Fox from the very beginning over the controversy about whether or not the whole premise was that of having "brainwashed hookers" play out clients' twisted fantasies. Obviously the show evolved beyond that initial concept, but Fox was too nervous to understand where it was going. It was basically clear that what Whedon wanted to do (a high concept adult oriented sci-fi show) was really never going to fly on Fox.
So yes I still think Dollhouse's failure was mostly Fox's fault, even if you account for the idea that Dollhouse probably never should have been attempted on Fox in the first place.
Still comes down to the writers not being able to adjust.
Whedon gave the premise. Fox gave the guidelines. Writers failed. -
Quote:Originally Posted by khorak_EU
Exactly what point do you think you're making here? People thinking you're harmless until you straight up murder people for stopping you doing illegal stuff doesn't make you 'misunderstood' or any definition of 'ok'. And the other police died when a raid on his warehouse went bad? Well someone call a lawyer, clearly he's been misrepresented! Killing the police in the course of their duties isn't that bad guys!
If he didn't know they were robots he still built them and directed them. He is culpable for what they do. Which was kill someone who tried to stop them, and kill more people who came to stop them.
And now you've gone to self contradicting crazytown. The Clockwork are intrinsically not sentient or individual to any degree, because they're psionic constructs of the Clockwork King. The very best you can hope for is to define him as having a truly epic case of split personalities....he's still culpable for himself.
Relatively. Non. Lethal.
Babbage? The Paladin? The comic with the entire army of colossal robots causing devastation? A single anecdote about some Clockwork failing to kill someone who could do nothing to actually harm or stop them, does not make for a convincing argument for their niceness. You've managed to pull them up to 'thugs shoving over the disabled' level.
It does when they're psionic ants, wasps, bears, or dogs that are created and controlled by a man.
Because crap writing. The Frostfire thing is all sorts of massive crap, though it is blatantly obvious that Frostfire is tied up heavily with Longbow as he moves on from the Hollows. They're responsible for his whole arc after that, they serve as his antagonists, his jailers, then they start using him themselves, then he somehow ends up a 'hero'.
A good writer would have a field day with that, since Longbow is itself a murderous vigilante organisation with a happy face, that interferes with, impedes, and ignores actual government authorities, often international, for their own purposes.
Longbow have flung Frostfire a bone he wanted to take, no-one is saying he might not wanted to redeem himself, but it's only a result of Longbow being a ruthless bunch of bastards who wanted to make use of him during his incarceration.
So, I take it you really have no interrest in comic books, yet play the comic book inspired game?
Magneto goes back and forth from being villain to hero. That's just one example, there are others.
The alignment system in CoH is just a game mechanic given a storyline to making it a bit more intriguing/fun/desirable to some people. While the majority will do what they do already...ignore everything (hell they ignore it's a superhero game...though ti be fair I think the devs have started ignoring that too).
Also, I wouldn't think MMOs really have the time to pull off a more credible redemption story. -
Looks good! I will have to be their opening day to watch it!
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Quote:But it did continue making money after it's debut. It also has generably favorable reviews.Originally Posted by Ironik
Nope.
One really good gauge of popularity is whether a movie has "legs", meaning: does it keep earning money after its debut? For Indy 4, the answer to that is a resounding "Not."
It made 100million it's opening weekend and then another 200+million in the US. If it didn't have legs, wouldn't it have bombed after the weekend debut? -
Quote:I don't know if "just a horrible show" that Dollhouse was, is the networks fault.Originally Posted by Lothic
For what it's worth I'm not sure everyone looks as Whedon as "some kind of failure" for what happened to Firefly and Dollhouse. I don't consider those cancellations as negatives that were his fault as much as mistakes the network perpetrated -against- him. The stigma, if any, is Fox's burden to carry here, not Whedon's.
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Quote:Some can be like me. Instead of seeing a premature cancellation stigma I see "3 out of 4 good shows!"Originally Posted by Starflier
My point was that despite two of his four shows being very successful, the failure of Firefly, and to a lesser extent Dollhouse, has stuck Whedon with this premature cancellation stigma that everyone seems to focus on.
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I can see why Catwoman is on the list. People went in wanting Catwoman, and it got...something else
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Quote:Buffy wasn't cancelled.Originally Posted by Starflier
Buffy and Angel combine for twelve seasons. Dollhouse and Firefly combine for (almost 3). Joss Whedon somehow ends up as 'the guy whose shows are always cancelled'.
Angel last I knew was admitted to be a mistake in being cancelled when it was.
Firefly who knows how it should of gone.
Dollhouse was suckie. Yes, everyone agrees it was just starting to get good before hand, but those were also the "we're being cancelled, so let's do this" episodes
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Quote:I enjoyed it. Did I think it was going to be some big action adventure movie? No.Originally Posted by ryu_planeswalker
I have only one major issue with that list.
Did anyone think that "The day after tomorrow" was going to be good? -
Quote:For a movie that made almost 800million, I really do think it was just a let down to a vocal internet fan base while the rest of the movie going fanbase enjoyed it.Originally Posted by Slaunyeh
I agree with this. While Indy4 might deserve a spot on the list, it should be nowhere near the number one spot.
(As an aside, it really should be Indy 5. Indy 4 is, and will always be, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis) -
Quote:Big team? I was thinking more along the lines of who they have.Originally Posted by Chad Gulzow-Man
You'd be surprised how much a QA team that size would cost. Especially since getting us to test it is free. It either comes out great or it comes out terrible, or maybe, it comes out OMGUBER!
Either way, it can be fixed as players play with it on live! -
Quote:Then we don't kill her.Originally Posted by DMystic
Actually a single hit breaks whatever spell/trance the Red Caps put on her, then she dives back underwater. We just snap her out of a spell.
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Quote:Because it was a made for TV movie that got a big screen release due to the actress's death.Originally Posted by Paladiamors
Why is Queen of the Damned not on that list? Absolutely TERRIBLE followup to Interview with a Vampire.
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Quote:Maybe if they ever thought of just going the route of "All internal testing just so we can SURPRISE you!"Originally Posted by Shadowblaze
Yeah, when I think of Scythe Melee, Soul Eater is the first thing I think of. Lots of spinning with stylish slashes in between the spins. And honestly, they could probably import at least some of the animations from Titan Weapons and possibly Staff Fighting to save on some animation time.
It is an exciting time. After Bio Armor and Psy Melee, I have no idea whats coming besides Radiation Armor. I hope Scythe Melee will be considered some time. -
The list looks more like a "Biggest geek let down"
Iron Man 2? Really?
Personally, I don't think IJ4 was as bad as many others think. And not deserving of #1 spot at all. -
The year I can manage to make it to PAX (and only for one day because the tickets sold quick), they're not going to be there?
