Nalrok_AthZim

Don't. Even. Get. Me. Started.

It hurts to read.

Which, in my eyes, accomplished nothing.

Man, I felt the ball drop from here when that happened.

Which is freaking hilarious considering we've already saved her from it in Praetoria.

And the story just ends. Sure, we saved the world, but it's a pyrrhic victory when pretty much everyone walked away broken or dead, and Vanessa's constant deadpan melancholy doesn't help.[/quote]

Don't forget Noble Savage and his "I can't decide if I'm General Patton or King Kong" mindset.

Sam, do yourself a favor and don't hold your breath. Once you've run Night Ward I fully expect you to be on the forums asking a rather annoyed "You mind telling me what the PANCAKE that was?"

No, it's really not. SSA1 was a Greater Good fiasco just like the rest of the co-op content in the game; they just decided to spring it on us 5 episodes in rather than right at the start. The last contact is Infernia, in the RWZ for god's sake. The SSA does not villain-oriented content make. If you're not VIP you have to pay for it anyway. I will repeat myself: Dean MacArthur, Leonard Silman and Vincent Ross all have arcs that put the villain in charge. A few grand examples of arcs that make you into a bumbling idiot villain minion are Hardcase (where a crotchety old demon hunter tells you to save St. Martial), Peter Themari (where a crotchety old sadist tells you to bring him a guinea pig), Westin Phipps (where a crotchety old wolf-in-sheeps-clothing tells you to gas orphans), and the list really does go on and on (Crash Cage, Diviner Maros, Psymon Omega, Vernon Von Grun, Marshal Brass, Willy Wheeler, Hard Luck, Timothy Raymond, Doctor Creed, Mr. Bocor, shall I continue?) and it's painful that 3 arcs out of over one hundred are the only three that really capture what it means to be a villain.

You know, Sam, I was really enjoying that arc until I came across this:



I've long since submitted it to Fire Man; not sure if it's been changed, but the moment I came across that, suddenly Ruben was speaking in a Jamaican accent and my immersion shattered like a wine glass next to Sarah Brightman.

Go ahead. Try and read that in a voice other than that of Sebastian the Crab.

Let me guess; you run through all six arcs and at the end you get "Muahahaha you did all that for your own gain!"

By the way, if you're referring to the option on how to handle Tielekku in the final mission, I don't consider that a 'villainous content' inclusion since heroes get the same choice.

I probably should, then; I played through Heather's whole arc and it was identical to the hero arcs for me. I stopped reading because I assumed that villains had received another co-op carbon copy again.

It's unfortunate that yet another person is in the "forget the minority" boat. We're still playing. There are some of us who are primarily redsiders. The answer to the question of "more content for villains" should NOT be "marginalize that segment of the playerbase."

You have to understand that what you posted is the blanket "write your own arcs if you hate the writing so much" argument so many people fire at me when I talk about the current writing neglecting villains. If I seemed like I was being acerbic in my reply, it's because I was. If you're comfortable with writing your own AE stuff for your own progress, more power to you.

While this is mostly, true, Heather Townshend's arc for villains has a very frustrating start:

Initial contact: $Villain? What are you doing here?

Responses:
-I'll be playing the role of hero today.
-Relax, I'm here to help and be good.

I immediately stopped reading after that.

Yeah, because reduced rewards for well-written content is a trade-off I want to make.

Oh wait.

It's schwarbage.

Tarot Cards aura.

... wait a second.

i·ro·ny/ˈīrənē/
Noun:
The expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect.

That's no moon.


Dude. Go home and go to bed.

.... send me your paypal information so I can buy you a beer.

You mean one like this?

I will stop complaining about the writing when:

-Prometheus isn't such a [insert allusion to vulgar body part here]
-The plot holes with Praetoria are filled in
-Villains are not written as on-demand-heroes AND that fact is no longer made fun of by the writing team*

*-Seriously, that crap is old.

Yeah; I'd love to see an option to have the Steam Jump animation for Super Jump, rather than the current "I'm propelled by my own flatulence" squat it has now.

For all the craziness dug usually posts, this has to be the most golden thing he's typed ever.

Nothing at all to say about my Windows partition CoH running 30+ to 40+ degrees cooler with higher graphics settings than my Mac partition? Fascinating.

And for the record, I've taken immeasurable amounts of **** from PC users who insist with their every outward breath that Macs are an inferior system with inferior hardware, inferior software and inferior support. If you want to peg me for Mr. Pity-Seeking Mac User, please take a number and have a seat in the lobby; I'll call you when it's your turn. I've worked for Apple. I've developed apps. My father is one of Apple's "inner circle" and I've read the books on damn near every machine they have on the market right now save for the units released in the past 2 months.

I know my rig inside and out in every way, and I know that it's the fault of Transgaming that my MBP runs so hot. CINEBENCH doesn't even hit 150 degrees on my GPU running at full bore. Folding@Home tops out at 165 degrees. CoH's mac client will hit upwards of 200 even with this beast running under it.

Considering that all Super Reflexes characters reach their power peak at 45% defense in-game, that argument falls flat since no further amount of defense is any stronger.

Yeah, to you.