Tyger42
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Quote:Frankly, you're blind if all you saw was shadows. True reflections in water and glass, reflective physics in the water surface, imperfections in the glass reflections, contoured reflexions on costume pieces and such, DETAILED shadows ( Which actually is quite a big deal ).... Lots more than just "adding shadows" ( which are already there )Originally Posted by Ryan11
I just saw the new expansion and ... welll not goood at all in my mind.. first off I have crappy computer so prob cant handle it and honistly from the screen shots it looks like all u guys did was add shadows.... so idc about that at all I can live without a shadow here and there.. So There has to be something els in this expansion. I already have a 50 so dont care about moving the epics to 20. So is all im getting out of this a few new missions and badge?................dislike*. lol someone please make my day better and tell me i missed something. -
Quote:Mu Gu Guy Pan?Originally Posted by Phantom Patriot
Mu Shooo
^5Quote:Originally Posted by Ocularis
without Gary GMu?
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Eh, to me, if playing the game isn't reward enough that you need a bribe to get to level 50, you probably aren't gonna be around long anyway...
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Quote:Oh, please. Pointless grinds didn't make anything "not dumb", so lessening them isn't "dumbing down" the game. All excessive grinds do is make the game tedious.Originally Posted by Eldorado
Ha! My words exactly from that other thread -- this is just more of the "dumbing down" of CoX for the squeaky wheels. "It's too HARD to get 10,000 Rikti Monkeys! It's not fair that some zones are too high for my toon! It's not fair that I have to unlock a zone/costume pieces/weapons!"
And I don't agree that they should have left the epics at 50 "for the sake of those who already had to get to 50". That's just selfish, elitist nonsense. -
Quote:And that's just it. A big part of the game is about going from "better than your average Joe" to "Superhero". Not everyone is an alien given super powers by the very sun and doesn't really have to work to know how to use his abilities best.Originally Posted by BBQ_Pork
Being better than three dumb, poorly armed gang members (Hellions) isn't terribly uber, like being better than three psychotic, cybernetic anarchy-machines (Freakshow), or three twisted horrors of nature gone berserk (Dev.Earth).
But still you're starting out as better than the average joe. The hero of your own story. And that's a good thing. -
Me, I'm for a bit of a balance. I don't want a game where I can just walk into any battle and know I'm (almost) certainly going to come out on top, but I also don't want a game where one slip will cost me the fight and I need to try over and over again before I finally win. I want a game where I will lose if I'm careless, but not one where I'll lose if I'm not perfect/lucky.
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Quote:Which game would that be?Originally Posted by Kelenar
Pretty much my stance right here. Heck, see my avatar for an example of the kind of graphics in games I've been playing obsessively lately.
Here's an example of the graphics from a game I still play off and on these days after being introduced to it 15 years ago:
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Quote:There's more to it than just a different animation. Making it work with all the body types, sizes, costume pieces, etc, etc without horrible clipping issues would be a huge undertaking. As has been shown in the past, just because it works on NPCs with limited numbers of scripted animations doesn't mean it'll work on PCs with a far wider range to be concerned with. The Bruiser summon is just a brief, scripted animation...Originally Posted by Echonis
No doubt there would be a lot of bikes riding around... at least for a while. But the bike speed doesn't need to be much faster than run speed. Just like prestige sprints (which I seldom see used) it's just a different animation for run. More of a roleplaying bit than a useful power. Kind of like doing the robot dance
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Quote:Well, good, because that's what I'm gonna tell you. No need to draw this into an argument. The details are nice, but not necessary.Originally Posted by MrPlayskool
If you're trying to tell me mitt hands and a frozen face are okay for games in 2009, then I really don't know what to say
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Quote:...which is very comic-bookish.Originally Posted by Hero2
... I sort of agree, but when I imagine 8 toons jumping around on the spot, I just think of Power Rangers.
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Quote:But it probably won't.Originally Posted by MageX
But Praetoria might be.
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Quote:Yeah, well, copycatters are inevitable no matter what the power set is. No reason to put down the power set because some people lack creativity and respect for other people's IP.Originally Posted by beyeajus74018
yep, here come 314 devil may cry/desperado/lara croft rip offs......lol
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Quote:I'm sure that Television, however, would gladly comply with that one.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
* Do not request that the Radio play 'Video killed the Radio Star'.
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Mr. Welch is an SOA?
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Quote:Well, the rest of it. Throw in gun-fu from any of the hundred other sources that have it...Originally Posted by Lord Mayhem
I want to read your edition of 1984 - I had to read mine twice (once for pleasure, a second time on my degree course) and I don't recall any dual pistol gun-play in it
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Quote:You know, I actually would. MUDs can be a lot more flexible than these new fangled MMOs.Originally Posted by Failsight
Seriously, if graphics didn't matter, why aren't we all playing the MUD version of CoX?
We all know how that'd play, since we were shown it.
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Quote:No, no. Go ahead and try to do things the game doesn't make easy concept-wise if you want. BUT, improvise. Adapt to the game, don't expect the game to adapt to you.Originally Posted by Thirty_Seven
Of course that is possible. However, I wish that people (not specifically the OP) would stop trying to do things that the game doesn't make easy, concept-wise, and then complain about it.
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Quote:Yeah, there are exceptions, but the game tends to follow the stereotypes more than the exceptions.Originally Posted by CommunistPenguin
just cause its not flashy doesn't mean your joe schmoe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punisher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Rider
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_(comics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond
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Well, it's not City of Average Joes. It's based on superhero comics, and superheroes tend to be flashy.
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Quote:That's the thing. They're not the same presiding dev team. They're a few members from the old presiding dev team and a whole slew of newer guys.Originally Posted by Frosticus
I wasn't literally saying PS was Cryptic at the time I was saying that based on past work of the presiding dev team certain expectations have been established.
I'm a forward thinking person, I'm expecting more than CoV delivered. They certianly have the staff. I'll probably end up disappointed, but I don't set my sights low.
Because CoV had to have enough content to be a game in itself. A standard expansion doesn't. And, really, I'd wager they will be charging less for it.Quote:I know this is cliche, but why? Are they charging less for this expansion? (dunno yet). -
Quote:If it ends, there's something beyond the end even if it's a void. The "universe" may not be infinite, but space is. Time is also infinite.Originally Posted by Darkest
The human mind has "inifinte" potential? Are you kidding me? Infinity is just a concept. We have to assume that it's just a concept. The universe? Yeah, bloody huge, but can you prove it's infinite? No.
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Quote:Poiont of order: PS was NOT Cryptic at the time. Yeah, some of the top devs were part of Cryptic, but PS is a division of NCSoft and never was part of Cryptic.Originally Posted by Frosticus
I can't help but compare it to CoV, which while a stand-alone expansion is all I have to gauge the quality and quantity of work that PS (cryptic at the time)
It is relevant that CoV -was- a stand-alone expansion, so it pretty much had to have more content...Quote:With the information so far I'd say it is about 30-40% of what CoV brought to the table. If you can take full advantage of the graphical updates then maybe 50%+. Great start no doubt. -
Quote:Not necessarily. Let's see you fire a sniper round out of a pistol.Originally Posted by Golden Girl
Well, AR is an obvious one for it - like a bullet is still a bullet, regardles of the gun size
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Quote:Several new zones, major graphics upgrade, new systems for side-switching, lots and lots of new lore, story arcs, and such, and you're complaining that there aren't enough new powersets........? Especially when one of the new powersets introduces a system to customize the damage type within the powerset, something which hasn't been seen before now and could possibly carry over to existing powersets in the future depending on how well it works.Originally Posted by DaemonicVisions
My only beef would be the powersets...
I understand this is an "expansion" but what will be the cost of this product?
If it's 20 bucks, sure I might actually buy it (since I bought a new PC and my video card could support the new graphics)
But anything more, neh, I'll wait til it does lower, cause I'd expect more powersets then just 2 (what happened to ball & chain? or growth? why not add those?) -
Quote:1984?Originally Posted by Lord Mayhem
Oh wait, a Dual Pistols powerset, a utopian city with underlying issues and a regime that polices the thoughts of its populace? I think it's clear which movie the Devs were inspired by when they came up with Going Rogue... Or any one of a thousand "Utopian society ruled by an evil dictator" scifi concepts out there?