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Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker

It took a marksman with an arrow to nail him, not some numpty with a lump of gravel.

Originally Posted by GuyPerfect

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Originally Posted by Warkupo

I imagine it's for the same effect you get when you see the Comic Book titled 'BATMAN ISSUE WHATEVER; BATMAN DIES' and then you buy it cause' "holy @#$!, how did Batman die!?". You're spoiled a little, yeah, but you actually want to read the story more because it has a significant event taking place.

I imagine that's what their aim was. For anyone who hasn't been playing the arcs, they might pick up this one because something significant is going to happen. That's the suspense. The mystery is what happens in the details.

Originally Posted by Venture

It's only five pages for me, and I only just found the thread.

I don't understand why people are getting their panties in a wad over spoilers (again). Aside from the fact that you'd have to be an idiot to not realize the thread contained one, none of these characters were the slightest bit interesting when they were alive, so who really cares if they're going to die? There was no suspense in the arc either; you can make a case for any of the "surviving 8" to be the Designated Receiver so there's no point in getting invested in the story. It was practically a Random Events Plot anyway.

The only real question is whether or not he will stay dead. It would be nice to think that he will, but given how often the devs have expressed pride at embracing "comic book reality" and given the absurd tweests like (e.g.) Calvin Scott's imaginary marriage, I'm not optimistic about how this will play out.

Originally Posted by Zwillinger

There's still plenty more suspense to be had in the remaining arcs .

Originally Posted by Wing_Leader

I would also add:

• More big tech/robotic options. The number of strictly spandexy options already far outweigh everything else in CoH today, which feels okay to me when being compared to, say, barbarian fashions, but given how many heroes and villains in the comics sport at least some bit of bulky tech/robotic gear, I don't think it would hurt to expand on that stuff even more. More stuff like the Enforcer Heavy set, for instance (helmet options seem especially lacking).
  
• Jet/rocket packs as back options. I really like the Raptor Pack, but I'd like to see more of such things, turned into back costume options.
  
• Boots/shoes that go to (only) calf-height. As it stands now you either get shoes that cover the feet, leaving the rest of the lower leg exposed, or you get full-length boots that go all the way to the knee (and above). Even the two variants on socks are either ankle-high or knee-high. There's currently nothing in between.
  
• I will echo all the previous requests for masks and cowels that make the eye holes covered (and ideally colorable).

Originally Posted by Captain-Electric

"What kind of food do you want?"

"Some good food! Food that isn't terrible!"

"Okay, but what kind of food? What exactly do you want?"

"I already told you, good food!"

"Sigh. Fine. You're getting mashed potatoes. Hope you like them."



Something to keep in mind, "Better stuff pls" does not help the devs that much. Specific ideas do.

Originally Posted by Johnny_Butane

To create an analogy:

MLB Online. "The Worlds Most Popular Online Baseball Game".

It's not pigeonholing to want the rules of baseball accurate and the popular teams represented in your baseball MMO before the developers add a full hotdog stand business sim to the game.

Yes, hotdogs are sold at baseball games. No, baseball isn't about selling hotdogs.

And asking for several new brands of hotdogs to be added to the game on the 'MLB Online' forums should get you laughed out on your butt. The fact that it doesn't and that the title has been co-opted by business sim players and the developers have pushed aside the baseball fans in favor of them, speaks volumes to the failure of "MLB Online" as a baseball game.

Originally Posted by Captain-Electric

I understand you have an axe to grind with the genre, but the purpose of this thread isn't to ask comic book fans to defend their preferences. Of all the forums in the world where a comic book fan should feel comfortable about their tastes, this ought to be among the finest. Please don't back us into the corner.

You don't seem to be contributing anything constructive.

Originally Posted by Wing_Leader

Quite so. However, it is worth noting that WoW does not allow you to customize the look of your character to the point of making him look like Superman. If you could, and you did, you can very well imagine what the player population would think, say, and do about it.

I suppose we all have our own notions of what constitutes a given genre, but as far as I'm concerned "superheroes" is not a synonym for "anything you can think of," because while superhero comics have featured just about anything and everything you can think of, it is nevertheless dominated by one particular aesthetic motif. You know what it is, so I won't repeat it. Anyone can defy that motif, to the extent to which the game allows it, but when a lot of people do that, the game world starts to lose its strong genre identity.

All of this is a by-product of the flexibility inherent in the COH costume creator. It is both a boon and a curse. No other MMO genre has anything like it, and no other MMO genre suffers from such dilution of its core aesthetics as a result. Players of Aion can't make characters that look like Captain Jack Sparrow, no matter how much they may love the Disney movies, and by and large the Aion community is probably much appreciative of this fact. But I suppose that a dozen Captain Jack Sparrows could appear in Paragon City and nobody should find it the least bit odd since the superhero genre can, and is meant to, support any character ever thought of, and in any quantity, without so much as a questioning blink, right?

Originally Posted by BrandX

I think Wing and JB said it well enough. It's not that the genre can't support it, it's that it's being WAY to overdone.

You say "Oh well, this is my concept!" Then everyone looks around and goes, "Yup. Just like the millions of others who think they're awesome, not really typical superhero genre, concepts!"

Not saying I don't like a lot of those concepts. There are some really well done ones. But, I recall that time when all I saw when I looked around was vampire and werewolves, and that time it was all D&D style characters...you see those in mass quantities and as someone who came here for the superhero genre, you start to go "sigh"

But it's no different than my complaints about shield (which is yes an awesome and fun set)...it's a very little used superhero powerset. There were better and more common sets that could of been done.

If one thinks about it, Shield is so rare, why not give the webslinging power set a go, since it's just as common, if not maybe just a little more common.

Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven

Indeed. Besides, I certainly wouldn't wanna be the one to go up to War Witch and tell her she's doing it wrong.

Originally Posted by Coyote_Seven

They all forgot that the Circle of Thorns was a group that's been with this game since the beginning; a group of sorcerers and magic users dressed up like they were going to some D&D cosplay (or maybe a heavy metal concert...). By their own words, that group is incongruous with the entire notion of superheroes and therefore should have never been included!

Oh yeah, and all those demons you run into, especially villainside. And Dark Astoria. Seriously.

Originally Posted by BrandX

Obviously you need some reading comprehension classes. Not what he said. He said more along the lines, "Totally came to the wrong game, if you think that's lame."

That's exactly what CoH was created to be.