Tenzhi

If you just reset your *Cryptic* password and you're trying to login to the game, perhaps make sure you have Cryptic rather than PWE selected at login?

Ah. Gist. There you are.

I'm old and I need lumbar support, dagnabbit!

Either I'm missing the gist of the statement, or it's an oddly roundabout insult with little impetus behind it.

If disliking fragility and being frustrated by constant mezzing is bad taste, then I am pure bitterness.

I can see that. I tend to automatically disassociate it from most other MMOGs based on genre. CoH has always fallen short of the basic power levels I expect from a superhero game. I felt the same way about ChO at launch, and about DCUO during beta - my recent experience with ChO has changed my opinion of it in that regard, but I've not gone back to DCUO to see if it's changed at all.

It seems to me more like it was made by someone who thought comic books were fun rather than to make fun of them. Even where it is making fun of comics (Foxbat), it's doing so in a similar fashion as when comics make fun of themselves (Ambush Bug, for example).

For me, the core reasons I continued to play this game were:

1. Superheroes
2. Character creation
3. Tolerable gameplay

There were not a lot of options for number 1, and when a couple came along they didn't do 2 & 3 as well as this game (which is pretty sad, given that I found the gameplay here to be merely "tolerable"). One of those has improved to the point where if it had been like it is now when it launched it would've been a tough decision for me to stick with this game, despite a few ongoing frustrations.

They could absolutely do better. If nothing else, the various energy forms could add their particular type of energy damage to a character's attacks. There is always room for improvement. But when it comes to video games where I make characters, I always find myself bending to the limitations of the game - making do with what I'm given.

Brimstone, Eruption, Earth Splitter and Fury of the Dragon. I was thinking of Burning Chi Fist and Dragon Uppercut as well, but I misremembered the additional damage type.

And Pyre is essentially a better version of Combustion from Tanker's Fire Melee.

Edit: Earth Splitter is a sneaky ranged attack in a melee set.

Indeed it was the Trial of a Time Lord. That incarnation of the Doctor was 10.5 or 11.5 I think - it was the excised evil portion of one of the future incarnations of the Doctor and was called the Valeyard. I may have referenced it earlier in the thread. The Master was hiding away in the Matrix and showed up to help (and double-cross, of course) the Doctor.

While I'm not a fan of DCUO as a whole, of the three superhero MMOGs I'd have to say it presents the two best-looking city environments. And the sense of scale therein made CoH feel small to me by comparison.

Six of one and a half-dozen of the other, mostly. But even for the niggling fanatic there are some actual melee attacks that do fire damage.

I'm no longer surprised when good games do poorly or when bad games do well, much less when games that are expected to sell well on brand alone do well regardless of whether they're good or bad.

I was just doing it in Champions the other day. It was a ridiculously frenetic dogpile, and I was largely ignoring them to bust open cages, then I'd turn around and go 'oh, are you guys still here?', let loose with a couple of breath weapons and get back to busting cages. There may have been more than 16 a couple of times.

I wouldn't say the armors are ludicrously armored at all. It's been my experience that tanker sets achieve (sometimes barely) acceptable armor-ness once pushed into the SO levels with enough slots to go around. And the rest of them are rather fragile.

In ChO it was far worse at launch, but after playing for quite awhile recently I have to say that I find the defensive abilities to be better over there now. Lightning Reflexes still seems to be the weakest to me, but it provides a far more noticeable boost in survivability than it used to and it looks to me like it can directly benefit a great deal from specializations and gear. I just wish there were more defensive passives.

Some people go a whole lifetime without developing any character at all.

PC games are a drop in Gamestop's pond anyway. They'll make it back easily with Random Popular Console Game as they sell copies of the game, buy them back for a pittance, and then sell them again for $5 off retail.

Much of the organization seems to be happening through other avenues already.

It's more like: Iran is a terrible place to visit, so I ain't going whether there's good people there or not.

And thus someone who was raised with 'Hooked on Phonics' might hear a word they didn't know how to spell spoken that way and get the wrong idea how to spell it... is what I was getting at. I wasn't impugning the actors for getting it wrong.

Indeed. Wasn't that revealed in the 'Genesis of the Daleks' episode I referenced earlier? It's been awhile since I saw it... I wonder if it's on Netflix streaming...

Seems potentially like a 'Hooked on Phonics' failure. Some of the accents on the show make it sound like there could be an 'r' in there.

At the end of the day, that's all it really is here. Ultimately, damage is damage. Giving it a type is just fluff.

Based on when I played ChO for its first few months I would have replaced the "=" with a ">", and taken out a few of the latter between ChO and DCUO. But after going back to ChO and playing a great deal this last weekend, I'd just take out a few of the symbols between ChO and DCUO. And if ChO's costume creator was a bit better I might even place it above CoH.