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I love the new Martial Arts!

Cynical_Gamer

By Cynical_Gamer,
Posted on: 2009-10-09 15:27 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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In this case, for instance, most of us aren't looking for all the animations to have a specific martial art's flair, but rather for the animations to have a martial arts flair in general.
True, but look at both precedent and request - the biggest reason people asked for alternate martial arts animations was because they wanted to make a brawler-style fighter, yet lacked the set to do that with. Super Strength was too much "Hulk smash!" (and not available to Scrappers) and Martial Arts too much "Hay-yah!" fancy overdone Hong Kong style dancing martial arts. The alternate Martial Arts animations allow just that - the creation of more of a brawler-style fighter. Which ended up fitting one of my concepts perfectly.

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True, but look at both precedent and request - the biggest reason people asked for alternate martial arts animations was because they wanted to make a brawler-style fighter, yet lacked the set to do that with. Super Strength was too much "Hulk smash!" (and not available to Scrappers) and Martial Arts too much "Hay-yah!" fancy overdone Hong Kong style dancing martial arts. The alternate Martial Arts animations allow just that - the creation of more of a brawler-style fighter. Which ended up fitting one of my concepts perfectly.
I hope this doesn't mean they are going to forswear a street fighter set, because I'd love to make a Scrapper(/Tank/Brute) who is a ghetto god back alley brawler.

On a related note, I changed Quickthorn's spines from the fugly originals to the supercool metal spikes, and now he looks just as I had imagined during his creation five years ago. The original spines were so repulsive to me that I didn't play him for the first couple years after his creation. Now he just looks awesome.

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I loev it too. Im especially glad the awful Can-Can kick is now replaceable.

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I hope this doesn't mean they are going to forswear a street fighter set, because I'd love to make a Scrapper(/Tank/Brute) who is a ghetto god back alley brawler.

On a related note, I changed Quickthorn's spines from the fugly originals to the supercool metal spikes, and now he looks just as I had imagined during his creation five years ago. The original spines were so repulsive to me that I didn't play him for the first couple years after his creation. Now he just looks awesome.
Honestly, I tried changing my one Spines Scrapper's Thorns from what they were originally, and I couldn't bring myself to do it. The original Spines fit his concept too well, as well as fitting his appearance.

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Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

 

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I always hated how spines looked. I loved thorns -- I made a plant dom just because thorns looked so cool. Now that I can give that look to a scrapper, I'm actually playing one.

MA on the other hand never bugged me, and I wasn't desperately looking forward to alternative animations... but I like them ok anyway. More choices is good. It seems to me that they replaced the most acrobatic and outlandish (and most fun) MA attacks with punches that were relatively simple.

Anyway I have far too many MA scrappers already, so being able to differentiate them a bit more is cool.


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