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Well I logged in last night, all the servers were yellow except Virtue and Freedom showing the three red dots. That was on a monday night so I'd say it's still busy.
I've seen a lot of younger players recently, meaning no vet reward badges or only very few. Last night I saw a question "what does LFT mean" and I always like seeing that question, means new blood in the ranks! -
Quote:Even if he did this on company time, I think you're being very presumptuous in assuming he was A.) Not doing his job, B.) Had other things to do.Originally Posted by Lothic
I can anticipate having new costumes to play with without Jay spending -that- much time doing his best to tease us for teasing's sake.
Taking breaks to interact with the playerbase is fine, but there's a fine line he tends to forget - I'm his customer.
I'm not paying my money to his company for him to waste -my- time wondering what he's babbling about. I couldn't care less.
All he has to do to make me happy is his actual job. Seems simple enough to me.
Jay has a great way of writing dramatically and cryptically and I very much doubt he could just write something like this without the uppity ups approving it and given his talent for writing this way, I wouldn't be one bit surprised to find out one of his bosses asked him to write this as a teaser to keep the community interested.
Also, sometimes there are down periods at any job, there are times when your projects are done or on hold waiting for approval or there just isn't anything currently ready to go. When I worked in an accounting firm I'd get 20 minute breaks all the time when I'd turn in my various projects and have to wait for people to get back to me with approvals or check ins before I could continue the project.
In short, yes you are a paying customer but your not Jay's boss or supervisor and sitting here saying he essentially needs to "get back to work" is a bit over the top. -
Quote:To be fair, a well built Brute can be nearly as indestructible as a well built Tank. In fact I would say given an identically powered and slotted Tank and Brute, you'd find only a small percentage of places in the game where the Tanks extra survivability would really matter or come into play.Originally Posted by Eiko-chan
Then you've been running with some pretty poor Tankers. I apologise for your experiences.
I've run masters runs without tanks, only brutes and they worked just fine. Having Brutes able to go both sides, makes tanks fairly obsolete, as there is not much that can really stop a well built Brute, especially on a team with buffs, and they do more damage to boot.
I'm not saying Tanks aren't more survivable, I'm saying there are few times in the game where that extra toughness makes a difference. -
I'm excited. I think Craig is my favorite Bond. To me he plays the sort of new take on the character perfectly.
Casino Royale was an excellent movie IMO, one of my favorite action films really. The Bond franchise had gotten sort of formulaic and stale so they came up with a more gritty, realistic take on the character and I liked seeing a younger, head strong bond with a lot to learn still in action.
I just hope they show Bond as a character growing more into the role of the Double 0 Agent, keeping the sort of more realistic, intense take but also moving him forward, otherwise they end up with no character growth and it'll get stale again.
Quantum of Solace wasn't as good, but I think a lot of that was due to the writers strike. Anyway I'm glad another is coming soon! -
I think the Batmobile from the 89 Batman and Batman returns will always be the definitive batmobile to me. Unique, stylish, sleak, unforgettable lines. It was just perfect in my opinion, it oozes "batman" to me.
The ones by Barbara Ling on the other hand, for Batman Forever and Batman and Robin movies, got those things are an eye sore, the Batmobile should be aerodynamic, sleek, a reasonable chance of being stealthy, neon lights all over it for pure decorations is not only not stealthy, it's just not Batman's style.
The animated series one was nice. And I like the 2004 one in the middle picture, it looks like a newer version of Burtons. Some of them are cool I just never realize how many versions there were or how often it changes.
Edit: Wanted to add. I like the tumbler but it always seemed to me more like the "Bat Tank" than the Batmobile. -
Honestly, the idea of the gladiator system is rather flawed in this context.
It's a fun idea, but it's mostly a mini game and one that has little to do with super heroes or PVP at all.
I've never seen a comic book where super heroes sit down and have enemies they've defeated over the years hash it out with their friends enemies that have been defeated over the years...
There is no direct player VS player contact and it's not like you can give your gladiators specific commands, tell them what powers or tactics to use, it's pretty much 3 stances and 4 commands like mastermind pets. And while for mastermind pets it works for clearing out rooms of minions. when you have a Marcone slugger and a Freak Tank Swiper, all you can do is pretty much say "go bash each other" and sit there and watch... It's not engaging in the slightest.
Really it's a fun way to farm badges but the concept just doesn't work. Why is my hero ever going to have his pet freak slugger fight an Anathema? It's like Dog fighting with NPCs, for super heroes.... It doesn't fit.
Though I will say, a big problem is the fact that there is no introduction, information or tutorial in the system, it took me a long time to figure out gladiator badges weren't just decoration and you could actually fight with the things. And it doesn't help that it's linked to the PvP feature and in this game PvP isn't very popular so no one is going to use it's ******* redheaded step child. -
Quote:Well, were they making fun of the Original show, or 70s fashion in general? The 70s had some pretty ridiculous fashions by todays standards, I think that's a stretch to think they were just insulting the original in that one.Originally Posted by Wayfarer
This would be the Starsky & Hutch movie that did stuff like showing Huggy Bear trying, and failing, to walk down the street wearing platform shoes with aquariums in them?
I'm not saying he's not around, just saying he's not as main stream any more, I never saw any of the Jesse Stone movies on TV, and I had no idea about Blue Bloods but if he's in it, I'll give it a look.Quote:Originally Posted by BafflingBeerMan
While Selleck isn't top tier, he is a pretty big star in the TV realm.
Those Jesse Stone TV movies do NOT go direct-to-DVD (at least, they air on TV first, generally) and are a big ratings event for the network that airs them (ABC? CBS? I forget). He also experienced something of a career resurgence after appearing on Friends for a while, back in the 90s.
Remember, you can be a big star and not appear in movies. Heck, there's a lot of big movie stars that prefer to work in TV.
I don't know, I think some of that is just issues trying to get a show that's developed over several seasons to work as a 2 hour movie.Quote:Originally Posted by Ironik
Selleck is right, for the most part. Even when they don't mock the original, they invariably get it wrong.
Also I think sometimes this a problem with viewing things with nostalgia. People tend to think of the things from the past as being so wonderful, when something new comes out, even if they get close to the spirit of the original, people think they "got it wrong", when really they got it right, the concept just doesn't work as well now for what ever reason as it used to. -
Quote:Well he has hang gliding capes and super grappling guns and who knows what ever other devices with the sole purpose of making sure he doesn't fall too fast and hit the ground too hard. I'm guess that he's not doing that for dramatics, but he has a genuine fear that falling off the highest roofs in Gotham would kill him. Otherwise why have all the "anti cratering" devices.Originally Posted by Dispari
Batman is a pretty badass normal. But if he fell off a buliding, he'd either do something fancy like glide down with a cape, or "take some falling damage" when he splatted on the pavement.
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Quote:QFT!Originally Posted by UberGuy
Being able to jump off of a one story building and probably being injured and sometimes even killed would be realism. What we have here with respect to taking falling damage is the barest nod towards realism's general direction.
I have more fliers than any other travel power, and I'm quite okay with this. In fact, if fliers hit a building at 60MPH I think they should get stunned and lose 80% of their health and then fall until they hit the ground (and take additional damage, up to and including death if the damage would be more than 20%). Or if the fall is long enough, until the stun wears off and they can turn fly back on.Quote:Originally Posted by Madam_Enigma
Then fliers should take damage when they fly into a building at 60 mph. ^^
But the crashing into the wall damage should be completely unresistable. If they survive the fall or turn fly back on, the game should spawn immediately 5 +4 Ranged Attack flying bosses and Lt.s Perma-aggrod to the player and ignoring stealth to finish off the last 20% of health.
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Quote:Yeah but you didn't super leap down to the ground. You super lept off a building and fell to the ground.Originally Posted by Finsplit
It's especially noticeable with the taller buildings in Praetoria. Last night, after talking with Praetor Sinclair, I superleaped down to the ground -- and found myself knocked down to 1 hp. Fortunately, there were no enemies near where I landed....
Super leaping doesn't hurt, landing after it does. (In some cases.) -
Quote:I would hope he would at least read the script before he dismissed it out of hand.Originally Posted by Wayfarer
There's been one in development. Tom Selleck has said that if they make one he won't do a cameo in it because remakes are almost never respectful of the original property and he's not interested in appearing in something that makes fun of the original show.
I know he does those straight to DVD Jesse Stone movies, but I was a bit dissapointed we never saw more of him after Magnum. He did Mr. Baseball, 3 men and a baby and after that... Just straight to video stuff.
Anyway, I heard there was one in development with Matt Mcougnahey as magnum but it got scrubbed. Which is fine I think he'd be horrible in that role.
Also I don't know about others, but I thought Starsky and Hutch was pretty respectful of the original show, maybe that cuz I didn't know the original show all that well but still, I don't think they all make fun of the originals. -
Quote:Some became romulans, and just because they were exploring doesn't mean they were spreading out. In the series Enterprise, T'pol goes home a few times and they are shown to be fairly reclusive in general in a lot of ways.Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Sorry but that assumption is just silly. Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. So there is no possible way that all the millions of Vulcans that had spread out across the Star Trek Universe managed to return home in just a few minutes to get killed.
And yes I said millions of Vulcans. Vulcans had been been exploring space and spreading across the galaxy for 1,500 years. It's ludicrous to assume that all but 10,000 died.
I think the major assumption here that is flawed is that because Vulcans are out there and exploring, they must be setting up colonies every where. Vulcans aren't like that, they don't want colonies everywhere, they just do there thing for knowledge and logic, they aren't empire building and never really were.. -
Quote:They are Norse gods not the same as vikings...Originally Posted by Hemily
Yeah, i know it's an Americanized version of him, the Techy look still strikes me as odd, they're supposed to be Vikings after all...
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I don't know crap about Thor, but I wanna see it.
But where the Heck is Kat Dennings in that preview? I wanna see her too...
Ohh and Anthony Hopkins for the win!
Also I really like Agent Coleson, I'm glad he's in this too. -
Quote:The whole Bourne series was fantastic, I think that Supremacy was the best though. Just a great flick through and through. And they were awesome because they could be fun action flicks that were still intelligent and inventive, good acting, intrigue, a few layers to them. Fantastic movies and Damon rocked that role.Originally Posted by Gorndt
Yeah no kidding. I just watched Bourne Identity (It's on Netflix streaming currently, if you haven't seen it or wanna watch it again!) and between the gunplay, fighting scenes and chase scene I'd say it's equal to Terminator 2 in my book, and probably one of the best action movies ever made. The only thing I disliked about it is that it had more of a thriller ending than an action movie one. But I guess that's cause it was teasing the sequel.
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Quote:That's something that I think is often rather distorted. William Marston was a psychologist who developed the systolic blood pressure test, which was used as a key component in the polygraph that was invented later.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Wonder Woman's inventor had a bondage kink. Is anyone surprised?
He studied a lot as a psychologist, things like lieing, dominance, submission, aggression, passivity etc. He actually felt from his tests with his invention that women were more honest and trustworthy than men, and he was also something of a feminist.
Anywho. I'm not saying he didn't have some kinks, I'm sure he did as I think most of us in one form or another do, but there's a lot made of his supposed "bondage fetish" in regards to wonder woman and I think much of it is distorted. I think he was just a guy really interested in the human psyche...Quote:In a 1943 issue of The American Scholar, Marston wrote:
“Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power. Not wanting to be girls, they don't want to be tender, submissive, peace-loving as good women are. Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman. -
Quote:Yeah, then why are Brad Pitt, Vin Diesel, Hugh Jackman, Daniel Craig so popular with the ladies?Originally Posted by Gorndt
rather than what women want their men to be - One simply has to look to any movie popular with women and see that George Clooney and Hugh Grant aren't muscle bound heroes -
Women like the muscle bound guys too, and they like them because of the muscles, that's not the only thing they want, but it's unfair to say all guys want is big boobs and a small waist.
But as I said before, it's a visual medium about super-humans, giving them an average body doesn't make sense on any number of levels, but as a visual artform comics thrive on making it's heroes and heroines look super.
That's not to say I strictly disagree with your point. I do believe that the comics are showing a male fantasy, but not because women don't like guys with muscles, they do. Comics are marketed to a largely male audience, and they play to their market well, but that doesn't mean they are sexist. -
Quote:Except that pretty much ALL comic book characters under go depowering/changes/trauma of one sort of another.Originally Posted by Prof_Backfire
Nor is subjecting female characters to constant depowering/changes/****/trauma to try to make them 'deep' or 'interesting', because it's almost always terribly written and good writers don't have to resort to that-
SuperMan got killed
Batman got killed.
Hell batman's whole life is one big Trauma.
Lots of male heroes, lose their powers, go through changes and trauma etc, it's part of the whole hero gig, bad guys are trying to hurt them and if they never get hurt it gets boring.
A lot is made of women in comics being depowered or hurt, but it happens to the males too.
For all the talk of "sexism" in comics, I have yet to really see an instance where women are treated differently than men in any sort of meaningful way. The Women are picted in unrealistic phyiscal proportions, so are the men. Women are depowered and hurt, so are the men. -
Quote:I don't think that would happen.Originally Posted by AmazingMOO
Please... please if we start adding in animal heads...
Please include a running posture that's a 4-foot digitigrade gallop. Allowing for further control over the torso and limb length would allow players to include characters that were animal/human hybrids or even just mostly animal heroes.
I would wet myself in joy.
Making new ways to change your body shape, new body sliders would have to be requiring a similar scale of work to making a new body type like Female huge all together.
All of the costume pieces across huge, male and female models would have to be edited to work with new extendo arms, legs and torso and having a new 4 foot run animation for players would be incredibly labor intensive, unless it was like walk where you couldn't do anything but run and jump, no powers from that mode etc, then it'd still probably be a lot of work and who knows how many clipping problems you'd run into with costume when characters are now sprinting on all 4s.
I simply can't see either of those happening. Certainly not new body sliders, the on all 4s run animation, maybe as a walk type thing, an alternate movement mode for movement only and no powers, but even that I think seems questionable as to how realistic a request that is. -
Quote:I'm curious about DCUO but any Super hero MMO would have to look to CoH as the shining example right now. CO isn't doing well at all. If you're going to try to make a super hero MMO, they need to look at CoH, see what it does right (which is a lot.) See what it does wrong, (Not much, though the things that are wrong in this game are pretty glaring) and work to improve on CoHs formula.Originally Posted by Lothic
This is a valid point. What MMOs could get away with 7 years ago is likely different than what they can get away with today. Then again my formative years for "video" gaming were set during the age of Atari 2600s, Apple IIs and Commodore 64s so frankly CoH even at the state it was in 7 years ago was quite impressive enough to me. These darn kids just think they're entitled to everything instantly anymore.
My main thought was that DCUO will be dinged by some people for having "lack of content" simply by being a brand new game. I think that's a generic criticism for almost any MMO (released at any point in history) just because no set of Devs can realistically launch a game with multiple years worth of content ready to go on Day One. *shrugs*
Everything I've seen/read of DCUO leads me to be unimpressed by it. The fact that it lacks CoH's 7 years worth of updates only further puts it at a disadvantage.
I mean this MMO is 7 years old and still generating new content that's as good or better than the content before it, most MMOs arent generating content at all going into it's 7th year (wow being an exception as well). So if DCUO isn't taking pages from CoH's book, who knows.
DC Does have a very established community of fans though, man of whom are gamers and they get to advertise for free in all their own comics, so there will be some interest there. However I think it could be good for CoH, people might get into DCUO because of the DC name, not having gotten into MMOs or a Super hero MMO, and then hear about CoH and come over and join us! -
Quote:QFT!Originally Posted by Durakken
PS. The whole "big bewbs" angle is BS... it is. Sorry, I don't know of very many guys that have rippling muscle, are rich, and are also handsome, and are smart... Hell I don't even know a lot of guys I would consider smart so the whole "it's what guys want to see" thing is just as applicable for "it's what girls want to see" as well with comics.
I think comics get a bad rap for this... "Ohh its objectification of woman" "ohh it's unreal standards for female beauty." "Ohh it's not a realistic depiction of women."
Granted, but look at superman or batman in some of those comics and tell me you know guys who look like that? Hell in some of those drawings, body builders don't even look like that.
It's a visual medium and it's about super-humans, characters that are supposed to be larger than life and it's not very exciting to look at flabby or normal looking guys or girls. If they are going to be eye catching and exciting, they have to be about the ideal of the human form and it's often exaggerated...
Lots of things in our popular culture are exaggerated, I for one don't know many guys who measure up to the men in those cheesy romantic comedies about that perfectly handsome, super smart, successful and wealthy guy or the romance novels women read, but I don't here a lot of people crying fowl over "unrealistic expectations or standards" there... -
Quote:Jay hinted at something like that with his cryptic posts, and I think it was Second Measure that said they'd soon be giving us a "pretty wild look".Originally Posted by MentalMaden
Carefully chosen words? Animal pack maybe?
[bolded for emphasis]
And there has been hints of a steam punk booster later in the year. I'm excited. -
Quote:Yeah, but they just met, she doesn't know him that well yet and that could be something that would be cool to see develop through out a season as he needs more and she sort of supplies him with new cutting edge toys.Originally Posted by Father Xmas
So he has a Darkman style lair of dumpster dived hardware. You would think Orwell could support him a bit more than a two way headset.
If they go that route, right now he's a gritty little start up but he can't stay that way forever if they want the show to progress.
My and the GF were talking about how he seems to get kicked around a lot for a "super hero" and he needs to get better at fighting if it's going to be fun to watch. I mean, It's one thing to be realistic, but if he's always getting his butt kicked by every little punk Chess throws at him.... -
Quote:Wrong.Originally Posted by NinjaPirate
Incorrect.
Used Games purchased at stores such as GameStop are legal due to the First Sale Doctrine. This doctrine allows you to transfer the physical media you purchased legally to another person, so long as you transfer ALL materials associated with that media and do not keep a copy for yourself.
Getting a torrented version of a video game is Copyright Violation, and illegal, because a COPY was made and distributed.
There is a key difference there.
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He wasn't referring to the legality of it. He was saying that game makers don't make a dime from used games sold at game stop, and there for, as far as the developing companies is concerned, there is no difference between you buying from game stop, and downloading a torrent.
The statement wasn't that there was no difference in the eyes of the law, just in the eyes of the company. And there isn't, If I buy Red Dead Redemption used from Gamestop, Rockstar doesn't see a cent. -
Quote:So lucas shouldn't re-release Star Wars on any new formatts? I mean there is no Star Wars on Blu ray, what about those who want to have a blu ray addition?Originally Posted by Dark One
Yes, it does.
There's only so much you can do with material that was recorded on actual film and is 30+ years old. Not to mention the plethora of iterations prior to Blu-Ray. Look, I like Star Wars as much as the next geek (have an original Millenium Falcon + an original AT-AT sitting in my geek den along with a AT-ST that I had as a kid), but there comes a point when it's time to say Enough is Enough.
And they can do plenty since they aren't working with the film anymore, they are working with digital copies of it, they can do a LOT to change it in a number of ways, look at the 2004 edition vs the original, tell me those don't look completely different...