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The person who makes a superhero RPG sandbox that has the coolness of CoH would be the person who made the last game I would ever play. -
Quote:I totally forgot about that! Yeah, the game has the single worst game mechanic ever created: open world quests. Stand in line to kill something and instant re-spawns and health re-fills. I wouldn't be surprised that adding those to CoH is what kept people away.Originally Posted by Zortel
[*]You died! That enemy you were defeated by magically respawns to full health. Even though you got them down to a sliver of health last time. -
Quote:I hate blocking because it rarely seems to work properly even in single-player games. In MMOs with a bit of lag and a soupcon of latency, they kill. So for me, CO's blocking actually *increased* my level of difficulty.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
From a gameplay perspective, its a matter of personal preference as to whether you like the idea of blocking or not. But from a design perspective, I think it was one of the best design decisions they made. For one thing, it turned mez from a rather binary un-gameplay mechanic here into a meta-game effect there. And it softened the difficulty level of critters substantially, giving the developers more freedom in that area.
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My SG on Pinnacle is named "Big Damn Heroes."
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Awesome.
For those of you too young to know what Remus is riffing off of, here it is: NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW! 88 Lines about 44 Women. NSFW NSFW NSFW NSFW! -
Quote:lolOriginally Posted by Jack_NoMind
I just met you,
and this is crazy
but here's my global
save the city maybe?
dingdingding
We have a winner!
What does Jack win, Ed?
Mr. NoMind wins THIS VIDEO! -
Quote:I re-upped SPECIFICALLY for the pepperoni-and-banana-peppers pizza with extra cheese (Blaster enhancements), so this leaves me particularly hungry. And out a fair bit of money, too. It won't break me, but it's still my money.Originally Posted by nytflyr
you forgot that we also had all the food for a big party prepped and ready to be delivered, but they ambushed the truck and put a bullet through the driver's head.
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I used to work as an editor at Lexis-Nexis. There are two things that determine your case: who the judge is and how much money you have. It is my considered opinion that a lawsuit of any kind is a non-starter.
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Quote:Well, we won't be playing this any more. Let's do it. Your husband can do at least 5 voices.Originally Posted by Dark_Respite
More a matter of needing a budget. Voice actors (at least the ones I know and would want to work with) do not work for free, nor do most composers. Plus with enough funding, I could afford to take the year or so off work to focus solely on making this.
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Here was my general outline of the CoH movie I was goofing around with just for fun:
Newbie hero comes to town. (In my outline, he's literally called Noob.) He's a magic-user and gets in on the Omega Team thing when the Rikti attack. I had a lot of overly-cutesy dialogue that needed to be fixed, but the structure was Superhero Movie 101 -- new hero comes to town, acts as the stand-in for the audience, learns the ropes, finds a motivation truer than the one he showed up with, many heroes get killed during Rikti invasion, Noob decides to make the ultimate sacrifice because he's one of the few who can do it, remaining heroes clean up and honor the fallen and missing.
Throughout there are hints of what's to come, such as a Vanessa De Vore having a mask collection, a few people ending up missing, Dr. Vahzilok working so hard to save dying heroes that he has an emotional breakdown... all to set up the sequel that features the Carnies, Dr. Vahzilok doing his undead shtick and a full-on zombie invasion, culminating in Hero 1's return.
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Quote:I originally had "smothered us with a pillow" as the second half, but I felt you can't really top Sunset Boulevard when it comes to dead narrators.Originally Posted by Arcanaville
NCSoft is the person who, when we were about to default on our mortgage, swooped in, bought us a new house, got us a big screen TV, asked us to invite all our friends over, then locked us in and set it on fire.
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Quote:This is an excellent summation.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
CO is less complicated than it was at launch, but it's still needlessly complex.
I'm a character builder -- most of the joy of these games, to me, comes in designing a unique character and seeing it develop to its ultimate potential. I've made two characters that I deleted at level 6, and two more that I've continued with (a level 10 Mind and a level 8 Glacier). I've also been researching the freeform method, thinking that I might buy one of those slots. As far as I can tell so far, the CO character system is loaded with cruft and unnecessary complications while the game itself is childishly arcade-like.
You pick one to three Super Stats (SS), but you have to keep some of your other stats up, because they affect your combat and recovery. Some of the powers you choose are linked to stats so those stats must be kept high. You select powers, preferably aligned with your SS. Then you select training, specialization, and equipment; all of which just adds to your stats, and you're almost always going to want it to add to your SS.
After doing all of that, you mash one button until you get enough energy to mash your spike damage power. Repeat. Sometimes, you must block.
Champions Online has a character system that is much more complex than CoX, for gameplay that is barely one step above Donkey Kong.
The complexity of that character building appeals to me, but I want choices that matter and I need gameplay to require some strategy. In a multi-player game I want team play to require some tactical choices. I raged about the incarnate system in CoX because it removed team tactics and character roles; CO doesn't have them at all, from level 1 up.
Lord, do I ever hate blocking.
Sadly, there's no toggle power in CO for "turn off the fugly."Quote:The artistic design is another discussion. Let's just say that ADHD poodles should not be given access to 3D design tools. I could overlook the look, however, if the game underneath appealed to me. -
I wanna be in it. I do.
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I found TOR to be a bore.
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Anyone who already has one suddenly has a very valuable collector's item.
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Please kill WoW.
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Creativity: 10/10
Cleverness: 9/10
Humor: 9/10
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Quote:Screw that.Originally Posted by NightshadeLegree
I'm not quite ready to burn NCSoft in effigy (or GW2, by association.)
Jed, pass me that flamethrower. -
You break it, you brought. You resurrect it, you fought it.
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Pants.
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Save the cannoli. Leave the gun.
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NCSoft is the lovely person we married who then cheated on us and finally left us, taking all our stuff with them. Good then does not equal good now, if you know what I mean.
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Quote:Dude, they lost their jobs. Have patience. Lots of us just spent a ton of money on subs; it's up to NCSoft to make the refunds.Originally Posted by Teeko
Some of my friends subs end this weekend. What happens then? Have they turned off the autobilling yet? Has anyone had their subs run out since the announcement?
If so did you become free and lose all your perks?
I cant believe its going to be a week and we haven't heard anything from Andy Belford and/or NCSoft.