Tenzhi

Partially, it was also about being concerned when such a character 'gets his just desserts', and as it was the Doctor serving those up it was inherently about his actions as well. It asks the question 'why worry' and then goes in the wrong direction in trying to allay the concerns, because the concern isn't really hinged on how bad the bad guy is but rather how bad the good guy might be.

Except it isn't really about the greyness/blackness of the villain this time.

There's Telekinesis. And Power Armor has an array of energy melee attacks, though it lacks a melee energy builder.

Indeed. Support and Control could use some major improvement.

It's an important distinction of the Doctor's character between the Doctor that endeavors to preserve life so much that he spared the Daleks at their Genesis and the Doctor who's channeling Dark Yugi and calling down the Penalty Game. Especially as we near the Long Dark Valeyard Time of his Soul.

Well, he's possibly turning into a Dalek, after all...

Well, there's the Martial Arts/Fighting Claws set, but who's counting, eh?

Wow, that's more than the price of the core XBOX 360 console... which *comes* with a controller. Normally, only fancy joysticks and things like the original Steel Battalion mech control panel controller cost that much. Remind me to avoid any place called "Technomarket" should I go abroad.

Wrestlers are a strange breed

If it were a standalone game, you can bet there'd soon be mods to allow direct fiddling with slotting and such.

Only if we need someone to eat a Whopper that fell on the floor.

I was eventually amused by this. But I'm also glad that it took my brain a minute to get there.

Glad to hear it. A little clarification of character is good, now and then.

I got mine for $19.99 but I've seen them as high as $39.99 (USD, of course) - neither price point seems particularly high for a game controller. I preferred Saitek controllers for my PC, but they got absorbed by... MadCatz I think and no longer produce the gamepads I liked.

Of course, I'm the opposite of you when it comes to preferred game controls - I detest using a keyboard and mouse for most games, and have been setting up gamepads to work with games that don't inherently support them for years. I played CoH with a gamepad right from the start. Indeed, I've played numerous MMOGs and I think I managed to get every one of them to work with a gamepad. It just feels more natural to me, and I was using mouse and keyboard before I ever touched a gamepad.

The flipside of that is if the game is focused almost entirely on instances the overworld essentially becomes a cumbersome lobby that's just slowing down your movement from Stage to Stage.

If I could get over the apathy keeping me from logging in at all, I might delete most, if not all of my characters.

That would be akin to desecrating the corpse of the game right before it gets put in the ground.

While I'd say that Sam indisputably cares about the game, sometimes it feels like the community is just a source of offenses minor and major to his peculiar sensibilities. I keep expecting one of his replies to start out "I have everyone in this thread on ignore, but I wanted to respond to the topic..."

Mind you, I've always liked him "warts and all" as one might say, as he strongly reminds me of an old friend of mine. Maybe he doesn't view the community as so much crud to scrape off his boot, perhaps he doesn't even take umbrage as often or quickly as it's appeared to me. As the song says "you never know just how you look through other people's eyes"...

The lack of "fulsome" eyebrows in CoH has annoyed me for quite some time. Wizards, sages, and old kung fu masters need ridiculous eyebrows - it's a union rule.

If computer animation is a cartoon, City of Heroes is inherently a cartoon itself.

Do we? I usually skip the pointlessness of denial and bargaining, moving right on to acceptance; varying levels of anger and sadness (usually pretty subdued) persist.