GreenFIame

Originally Posted by Emperor Marcus Cole

I trust you will all surrender immediately.

Sincerely,
Your one and only emperor.

Originally Posted by Ultimo_

Well, I've been away for a while, and I've been trying a number of other games. Today, I came back for a bit to see if I wanted to buy Gong Rogue, something I'd been looking forward to. It revealed something to me that I've said before many times.

This game is tedious. Compared to other games, it gets really tired, really fast. I word it that way deliberately, because I'm talking about endurance use.

Characters in this game go through endurance way, way too fast. It's especially bad for characters that rely on toggles, such as Defenders and Tankers, but as a general principle, endurance use is prohibitive. That means we spend a lot of time standing around, either waiting for our endurance to recover, or using one or two powers for fear of running out and detoggling (which usually means instant death, at least at higher levels).

As a rule, it's more fun to be using your powers and fighting the enemy than it is to be standing around, often as a punching bag for the NPCs because you lack the energy to fight back. In no other game is this problem so pronounced. Other games have power usage, but it's prohibitive here.

I've said it before, I'm saying it again. Endurance use needs to be recalibrated. It should still be part of the game, but it should not be so prominent. It's not in keeping with the source material (when was the last time you saw the Thing gasping for breath out of exhaustion), and it's just not fun.


(All comments reflect my opinion. You may disagree, and I welcome any thoughtful posts that do so, but try to avoid flaming. The point here is to see if there is a significant percentage of the population that feels as I do, and if so, to be able to show that to the devs for consideration.)

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

I never played Guild Wars

And I think we might get a Korean zone before we get a Japanese one

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Sure - a guy loses his girlfriend, he tries to enslave the world - it's a common problem

Originally Posted by Ironik

Lots of stuff by Hans Zimmer has what you're looking for, particularly tracks like "The Kraken" (which I adore beyond reason) from Pirates of the Caribbean and "German Battlefront" from Gladiator. A lot of his score from The Dark Knight takes a while to build, but I quite like "Aggressive Expansion" and "Like a Dog Chasing Cars."

Danny Elfman tends to over-rely on typical sounds, but I really like "Hellboy II Titles" from Hellboy II: The Golden Army. "Introduction" from that soundtrack is also good. He was totally channelling someone else when he wrote the score for Terminator: Salvation, it's really un-Elfman, especially "Final Confrontation," "The Harvester Returns" and "Hydrobot Attacks." "Slaying the Beast" from 9 is good, too.

John Williams has some classics that might work for you. "Raiders March" from Raiders of the Lost Ark is great. Although the fourth Indy film was no great shakes, Williams had a lot of terrific tracks from it, including the march, "A Whirl Through Academe," "The Adventures of Mutt," "Jungle Chase." And of course, "Duel of the Fates" is Williams' modern classic, from Phantom Menace.

Similarly, the soundtrack from Star Wars: The Clone Wars (which I think is the animated show) is really terrific. Almost every single track is a winner. It makes me want to run around the room and pretend I'm a Jedi.

Ramin Djawadi did some cool stuff in Iron Man, especially "Driving with the Top Down," "Mark I" and "Mark II" and "Merchant of Death." He also kicked out the jams for Clash of the Titans, particularly "Eyes Down," "Redemption Through Blood" and "Release the Kraken."

Craig Armstrong did some great work on The Incredible Hulk (the most recent one). Standout tracks: "That Is The Target," "Abomination Alley," "Blonsky Transforms" and "Hulk Smash."

Michael Giacchino is one of my favorite current composers of programme music, so almost anything he does is right up there. "Nero Fiddles, Narada Burns" and "Enterprising Young Men" from Star Trek are great. Almost anything from The Incredibles.

James Horner also tends to repeat himself but so what? "Surprise Attack" and "Battle in the Mutara Nebula" from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Naturally "Ripley's Rescue" from Aliens, and "Flying Circus" from The Rocketeer.

The Transformers soundtrack by Steve Jablonsky has a ton of great tracks, but especially "Optimus," "Scorponok" and "No Sacrifice, No Victory." (Odd how bad movies have some of the best soundtracks, isn't it?)

Don Davis' score for The Matrix has the very good "Morpheus is Fighting Neo," "Mr. Wizard, Get Me the Hell Out of Here" and the awesome "Freeze!"

Thomas Newman's score for Wall-E has great things in it: "Eve Retrieve," "The Spaceship," "Wall-E's Pod Adventure," "Tilt," "Desperate Eve' and "Hyperjump."

"Battle Without Honor or Humanity" by Hotoei Tomoyasu from Kill Bill Vol. 1 has become a modern classic.

"Scooter Chase" from Bolt by John Powell is super.

Mass Effect 2 has a good score: "The Attack," "Legion," "The Normandy Attacked," "Grunt," "The End Run" and "Suicide Mission."

Almost anything by the group Two Steps From Hell will suit you. They do a ton of trailer music and all of it is condensed awesome.

Originally Posted by Ironblade

If you're this worried about what random strangers on the internet think about you, you really need to work on your self-esteem.

To rip off and paraphrase George Carlin: The average person is often kind of a jerk. So half the population is even jerkier than that.

Originally Posted by Marcian Tobay

Forum Rep was intended to be a forum-wide game. I tend to take it seriously but I am, admittedly, an anomaly. If you find it affects you, I would keep it switched off. It's not intended to be taken sincerely either way.

As a tip, in serious discussions, you will get neg-repped for disagreeing with people. Don't post in serious debates unless you're willing to pay the rep.

Originally Posted by Maniac_Raid

Just curious, but if I want to unlock Ernesto Hess, and Katie Hannon, but have out leveled the contacts for them(Lars Hansen and Buck Salinger respectively), if I run their arcs through Ouro, will this unlock/introduce me to the two TF?

Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

So I was checking something in Paragon Wiki and I happened to see that BABs was born on May 8th, 1960.

He goes on to found the Regulators in 1972, at the ripe old age of 12.

Now, I know pre-teens can be smart and societally aware, but surely - even allowing for vagaries of comicbook time and other anomalies created by fiction, that's a tad young?

Is this actually correct or is there something missing?

Linky: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/In-game_timeline

Originally Posted by Golden Girl

Longbow are justice - but they do get a bit carried away from time to time

Originally Posted by Durakken

I've been thinking... if the Rogue isles are their own nation and all the villains come from there then doesn't that make Paragon City the villains for having PPD and Longbow (official representatives and soldiers of the US government) in Rogue Isles... And not only that but they are holding the Villains in a prison which they shouldn't be doing... They should be deporting them.

So they are taking war actions with soldiers and holding prisoners of war seemingly illegally...

Originally Posted by Biospark

From the time of launch it has been increasingly difficult to get names for your characters.
Although this has lead to some really creative names and character concepts, I have always wished that naming was more available.

What if multiple font styles could be incorporated into the names, so that first you would pick a font, then type out your name. Just adding a few Font-styles would allow more names to open up.

I understand that this would create the in-game phenomena of running into someone using the same name as your character, but this occurrence would probably be less frequent than you may suppose since most of us have tons of alts running around.

Anyone think this would be good ?

Originally Posted by theOcho

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