Ice_Wall

I really like change ammo in dual pistols.

But my understanding of what being stated was not that you'd change your power, but add a secondary effect.

IE Snipe shot in Assault rifle, you could add a -def or -regen or dot, secondary affect to the power.

And if this was something you could do on a per power basis, that'd be awesome.

And it'd be something added to the power, and not a power of switching between ammo types.

But that's if I'm understanding the concept correctly...

I think your missing the point. The hands in the game now are just mittens, the fingers are stuck together and the only "fingers" are drawn on. That's all that exists in the game.

There are no articulated individual fingers in this game, they don't exist and it would take a lot of work because it would involve remodeling the player models.

And it doesn't work to just release it for new gloves, the new gloves would still have to fit on the model which would have to have articulated fingers. The gloves themselves don't have their own animations, they are costume pieces attached to the models and the models do the animations.

In short, for it to be done things would have to be remodeled and glove options would have to be retouched to fit things properly onto the newly articulated finger models. It'd be resource intensive, there is no way around that.

I don't disagree with most of your point but GMs don't decide much, I'm pretty sure they have a list of what is and isn't appropriate and they go by that list, and in the case of cross dressing, they'd go by what ever list of things their employer gives them.

Looks a lot like something out of Batman Returns.

I hated Matrix 2 & 3 and I can tell you why. It's the same reason I hated PotC 2 & 3. The studios were in such a tizzy to make their holy freaking trilogy, (because for what ever reason in the last decade movie studios are obsessed with the number 3 whether the series is good for more than 2 or good enough for more is irrelevant they want 3.) that they took enough plot for 1 movie, and filled it up with action scenes that were too long and repetitive and served no point but to be "action scenes" and stretched a plot too thin over 2 movies to get people to pay them twice as much money for what was essentially one movie with a lot of filler.

Watch Matrix 1 and pay attention to the action scenes. Every fight scene Neo learns something new about who he is or his abilities in the matrix, or he accomplishes something new, IE defeating Smith or Rescuing Morpheus. Every action scene drove the story forward and did so without wasting a ton of screen time to do it.

Then in reloaded we get fight scenes with Oracle's body guard that lasts for 5 minutes so Neo can prove that he is "The One" even though he'd met the oracle before, she knew him and she knew he was the one, but hey lets have a fight scene that eats screen time and accomplishes nothing. Which was most of Reloaded. Matrix revolutions had more story, but a lot of it was ambiguous, not well laid out (IE Smith can get out of the matrix, neo has powers out side of the matrix?) and not ever explained, and it was still given too many long winded action scenes that just got boring. I couldn't help but feel they could have spent less time on pointlessly over drawn action scenes and more time explaining things and developing a coherent story.

All in all, Matrix 2 & 3 should have been Matrix 2, and I'm not even upset about the cost of the extra ticket as much as the wasted 2 hours of pointless fight scenes that drug down the potential of what could have been some great movies.


The hate stems from wasted potential, and not living up to the previously set standards. Hype was high for the Star Wars Prequels, granted. But the prequels were no where near as good as the originals and Lucas really could have done a lot better and it's hard not to find fault in something that wasted it's potential and came off feeling like a half ***** money grab.

Matrix 2 & 3 much the same way. No where near as good as the original and it was stretched out, thin plot, over drawn and it felt like a half ***** money grab.

For the record, I loved The Matrix, but the sequels weren't good. If they do two more I'd be curious to see what they do. I'll watch 4 but if it's stretched out with filler just for the sake of making number 5, I won't watch 5.

I still haven't watched PotC 3 since 2 was a waste, pointless over drawn action scenes and thin story for the sake of making 1 movie into 2 to make a "trilogy". Had the same symptoms as the matrix movies.

This get's me excited. I'd love to see the screen shots and I wonder if we could pick a different secondary effect for each power. Maybe if you earn the different effects you have them to assign to each power? That seems like something that would be very fun, very practical and would allow for a lot of room to do more min-maxing etc.



Or some of us are lazy and don't read every single post in a thread the first time through...

Honestly I've been wondering the same things. Especially about the power called "interface", I'm racking my brain trying to figure out what that might be!

I wrote Game Informer about this a few issues back. They wrote an article about CoH, a nice one but they gave Cryptic credit for AE. They printed a small correction then like an issue or two later made the same mistake thinking Cryptic did CoH still.

NC Soft, and Paragon Studios esp has taken this game to heights Cryptic never even bothered to consider dreaming of, I feel like they should get credit.

Cryptic can go lord over there other games that are not fairing nearly so well.

Okay, so this I didn't understand.

A critic's job is to criticize something, usually in the field they have some expertise in. As far as movie critics go, Ebert is as about as expert as anyone gets. He certainly understands movies and film on a deep level and is certainly the most accomplished movie critic perhaps of all time. I can say that even though I almost never agree with his takes on movies.

However I don't think it's a movie critics job to start lacing his reviews of movies with lectures on what's wrong with our society. It's not needed from a critic, write that in an essay not in your review.

I also don't think it's a critics job to start going all over the place offering his opinion on topics he isn't nearly as well versed in, especially when no one asked his opinion.

I don't think it's a critics job to start taking dumps on other forms of media he knows little about IE "Video games will never be art."

Okay, but his response wasn't about racism, it was about censorship, and that his wife is black makes it all the more assanine that he, an over privledged, well educated WHITE MALE, (Capitalized since way back when they were the only ones with right in this country.) should say something as insensitive as "I'd rather be called an (N-word) than a slave."

No one asked if he would rather be called one or another, and he would never be called either in this country. If he wants to comment about censorship sure, but this comment was just another symptom of Ebert deciding some where along the way that he was the authority on just about everything.

Ah! I was thinking Idris Elba right before I read this thread, get out of my future brain!


Seriously, who cares if he's in Thor, he can play in Black Panther too.

Hell Michael Bay used the same actor for two different military commanders in TF 1 and 2. Go for it Marvel, make Idris Elba your new main star, he and Samuel L. can duke it out.

L33rn to H8, N00b!


No seriously, this community is the bomb. From the forums, to in game to the meet n greets, I've never had this much fun with a bunch of dorks I barely know. It's finally nice to be in a place where I can be a dork and feel right at home as well.

What's the CCA doing about comics violating their arcane rules? Blackest Night was ALL about the walking dead and it didn't seem to stop DC in the slightest....

I'm in no way a Judge Dredd expert or even a fan really, never read the comics, I saw the movie but though it missed a lot of potential.

However it seems to me the Helmet issue isn't as much about the helmet as it is about what the helmet represents. Stallone wouldn't simply take his ego out of the equation and wear the helmet, he had no respect for the source material.

The director didn't have the spine to stand up to Stallone and do the movie his way with respect to the source material. The movie ended up sucking, and additionally not being very true to the source material at all. the Helmet is simply emblematic of that.

I think she'd be great for that role. May I ask where these reports are coming from ? I'd like to check those out myself..

This.

Also, rewards in this game are used to improve and build my character. The more merits I get the more cool recipes I can buy to make my character better.

Why complain about drop rates? Well if I have to play 500 hours of the game to get one enhancement to make my character better, my character will improve at a very slow rate and that is not FUN.

Part of the game is building the character, making it stronger etc, otherwise you'd get all your powers in the beginning and you wouldn't be able to enhance them. The enhancements and recipes are the rewards, which are used to further the game.

It's not a reward driven mentality, it's a reward driven game. You kill something, it gives you XP, you kill more somethings, you get more XP, you level and continue. Inspirations, XP, Influence, Enhancements, salvage, recipes, incarnate shards\components, badges. You get these as a part of playing the game, you can't really avoid them , the game is littered with rewards, and the rewards have a use and consequently a value to them to the people who find their use desirable.

I've thought of that, and perhaps they will use this trailer as a guideline or a proof of concept more than core story bible, but it's pretty hard to explain away the backstory they have with Reptile and Baraka in that trailer and make them outworlders.

Ohh that baby with skales and red eyes that killed people? Well we got our babies mixed up, turns out the guy with scales is really from another dimension, that baby died in the hospital, it was a baby fatality, a "babe-ality" if you will.. *cheesy smile to camera with a wink*

Ohh that Doctor that lost a patient, went crazy and attached metal blades to his arm? Turns out he was from another dimension too, he came through the portal in a white lab coat and accidentally killed some one , we assumed because of the coat he was a doctor, we realize now he has no formal education in the medical field. The first kill was still an accident, the other 90 were on purpose, and it turns out the blades weren't surgically attached, they were there the whole time and it turns out our x-ray specs from the back of the Archie comic book are not as good as we hoped.

Sorry, my attempt at humor on the boards.

Anywho I think it's an interesting spin but seems like they are distancing themselves from the interdimensional aspect of Mortal Kombat, and I've honestly always felt the MK storyline had real potential and it was a shame it's always been so under-developed.

At least the new MK game is promising fully animated scenes etc, so maybe we can get more of that story too..