RaiderRich2001

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EDIT: I look forward to his [censored] posts when the same similar basic mmo problems crop up in CO in a year or so.



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I hope not. I actually want to try that.

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tuesday, June 37th, FTW baby!!!!!

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Calendar Fail.

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Numina's a toughy...

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Mad World, by Gary Jules. At least, I think it fits for a living ghost.

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Hmm, maybe, depends on the pacing.

I was thinking Real Life's "Send Me An Angel" or some remix thereof for a more action-based video. The music has that kind of ghostly quality to it, but it's a little faster.

P.S. This is a great thread, Michelle, I love going through my MP3s.

Numina's a toughy...

OK, so what's Citadel's "style" then?

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For Citadel, Everybody Need a Robot. No love for the non-biological members of the Phalanx...

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Are you serious?

Daft Punk would work better for a video

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You -do- realize that 'Street' in the 80s meant something FAR different than 'Street' today, right?

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As a matter of fact, I do.

But we're talking about a 2009 audience

EDIT: On second thought: "The Message" might work better.

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By the way if you ever decide to make a Back Alley Brawler video may I suggest Flo Rida - Right Round

(close your eyes and ignore the video)

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Eh, the original is better, and I think more appropriate to Back Alley Brawler since he started in the 80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCiVXigrjjQ

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Not really... the hip hop beat works better since he's more of a street-level hero.

The moral compass is a feature of the Fable games and a number of the BioWare games dating back to KOTOR (and maybe even before that).

By the way if you ever decide to make a Back Alley Brawler video may I suggest Flo Rida - Right Round

(close your eyes and ignore the video)

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Sister Psyche

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This.

I can totally picture a Sister Psyche TV series with opening credits to this and titles saying "Annie Wersching as Sister Psyche"

Very nice

Cool!

Epic Fail.

Very hot Epic Fail, but still Epic Fail.

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Now Paragon Studios is about at the same staff strength as when CoV was released. And guess what, there's work on a new CoV-sized release with game engine changes.

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If you don't think it's fair of me to say there's not going to be extensive changes because they've not been talked about, you can't assume there will be for the same reason.

But we can infer some things.

Infer from what they've released to so far and from the survey this expansion pack is based on. And there NOTHING in that to suggest the expansion is going to be that big.

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I think for right now it might be wise to turn the burner down a notch or two, Johnny. Let's see what the Devs are planning.

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For two and a half years I've seen what these devs can do.
And I know the results of what they spent the last year and a half doing after they were bought by NCSoft and staffed up.


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Do me a favor, Johnny. Don't sign up for CO, Star Trek Online, or Star Wars: The Old Republic. I want to be able to try those games without listening to you whining.

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Anyone who thinks that CO and DCUO will not have a significant effect on the # of subscribers to this game does not understand economics. Im not trying to get into a COHvsCOvsDCUO and which one is going to be better(because no one knows definitively). Just pointing out that people will leave this game and after COH being around for 5 years chances are it will be in greater numbers than new subscribers are coming in. Its all about the product life cycle.

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Then why hasn't WAR been a WoW killer?

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Maybe when those things started to pile up they should have DONE an engine overhaul A YEAR AND A HALF AGO

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If they have made the changes, Johnny, you'd still be upset and threatening to leave over something

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No, I'm showing examples of conventions one would reasonably expect a game to be faithtful to in that respective genre.

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You listed soccer. Soccer is based on a set code of real-life rules. You listed racing games which are based on real-world vehicles and physics. None of these apply to superhero comics, which are works of fiction and based strictly on the imagination o the writer and reader.

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Even in the most arcade-like, unrealistic racer, people would expect A Porsche to be faster and more agile than a Pontiac.

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"Faster" is based on real measurements. "Super" is a matter of opinion.

And besides, a car from an existing brand will always be faster than a car that doesn't exist, so that's not even a real argument.

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"You say, there's no "real super heroes" to compare to, but there are comic books, super hero movies and other super hero video games. There are established conventions and people's expectations come from them."

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And those conventions and expectations change from character to character, publisher to publisher, and even writer to writer doing the same character. Some Superheroes fly around, shoot heat rays out of their eyes, and are only vulnerable to Kryptonite (which others find boring because there's no real plot). Some superheroes only prowl the night armed with whatever training and gadgets they have acquired over their life. Some superheroes are born with genetically-hardcoded superpowers, but are kept down by society's prejudices.

It's different for different people. Comic book conventions are not like soccer rules or driving physics, both of which are relatively static.

Furthermore, even Superman was nerfed in 1986 by one of his lead writers.

Pics or it didn't happen

Johnny, throwing up apples and oranges comparisons is not going to help your case. You're throwing up examples of realism that a consumer of that genre would expect to be in those particular games. A consumer of a soccer MMO would expect that the goalkeeper and only the goalkeeper would be able to use their hands. A consumer of a racing MMO would expect cars to be able to live up to performance specs.

This is a superhero MMO, which is not based on reality. Something that may at times look like reality, yes, but not based on any type of reality you and I are familiar with. There is no baseline of expectation other than, say, costumes, nice effects, and maybe a sense of morality.

And if you think there's a reality that superhero comics are based in, you need psychological help.

So if we came through and open portal... is the cake a lie?

The_Player/Philotic Knight has officially killed all discussion on the Forums



(Seriously, dude, nice post)

I think I got there after BBT took the photos. But I was there!

Dude, there's an arrow in your fuel line...

Oh no, the AI's gone rogue! They're turning on humanity DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOM!