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Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Rosencrantz and Guildnestein are Undead

Re: Champions Online - Cue Dead Parrot Sketch! Agreed entirely Logan. (And I didn't realise that you had been playing CO. Had I known... who am I kidding? I'd have still dumped the game) When I dumped CO back in December, it was with a bucket load of dissapointment that bordered on anger. I felt that the game had a lot of potential, but Cryptic had handled it so incredibly poorly. I've done a more lengthy rant (http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/78138-What-do-you-really-think-of-Champions-Online/page2) which I won't repeat, but I'm glad to see that I wasn't the only one feeling that way. For a while, I was helping to run a community fan wiki. Within a month I was the sole moderator, as the others had stopped playing. As near as I can tell, its entirely leaderless now. And nobody's even bothering to take my place. Simply put, Cryptic failed to deliver in every way, shape or form. Certainly I couldn't justify contionuing to pay my monthly subscription. And I defintely was not going to pay more money for content that should have been included in the game to begin with. (Incidentally, Logan, if I can ask, what chracter were you playing?)

Re: Thoughts about Vibora bay If CO wasn't so painfully light on content allready, then I'd be somewhat miffed at the idea of paying for more content; Vibora Bay strikes me as the sort of content that other MMOs (Using WoW as an example) would drop as a free content patch. The problem is that CO is so painfully light on content as it is that asking players to pay for more seems to be a little unfair at the best of times. Asking players to pay for what should have been provided out of the box seems to be a rather cynical move.

Re: What do you really think of Champions Online? In intentional difficulty? Challenging enough. In actual difficulty? Well, being pure Melee made the game incredibly frustrating at the best of times; being constnatly knocked back or out of range, or having enemies avoid my charged attacks by simply moving back half an inch. Oh, and the five-man lairs were horribly broken and painfully unfun. Chracter generation was awesome. The variety of evertything else was incredibly lacking. You've slugged one VIPER goon, you've slugged them all. The missions got very repeditive very quickly, the constant copypaste environments gave a great feeling of "been there, slugged that". And when you knew there was another terribad pop culture joke looming like a giant predatory bird (See what I did there?), there was little incentive to care. The good: Character creation The combat system (when it works right) General gameplay The graphics The bad: The lack of content Repetition The dumb pop cultre refs Repetition Having nothing to do at max level but roll another alt Repetition Lemuria Repetition Lemuria Repitition Oh yeah, Lemuria. Lots. Plenty of freezing, grpahical lag, glitching, stuttering framerates, terrible lag in 5-man lairs, Lemuria's generall rubberbanding, superlag and, well being Lemuria and disconnections. And constnat streams thereof. Some days it was easier to say hwne the game was working right. Lots. Look at what I covered above Hell no I cancelled my subscription. The rest of the SG I was in cancelled their subscriptions as well. With all that being said, yes, I enjoyed elements of the game and certainly I had a lot more fun with it then I ever did with City of Heroes. I enjhoyed playing a Superhero game, and certainly felt more like a superhero then I ever did in CoH. That being said, with all the problems I was having, I found that I couldn't justify keeping the game; the minimal fun that I was having after a few months was being steamrolled by all the problems.

Re: Your "2010" Pet Gaming Projects I'm looking to get off my 10-year GMing Hiatus and run a Mechwarrior/A Time Of War game. Sometime, Maybe.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From the Star Hero game: The Cast: Lynn Street James: Motor mechanic from a Max Max esque world. Can drive anything, can fix anything (given enough duct tape) Played by me Dewey: Cyborg Librarian, vhelmently opposed to Artificial Intelligence. Played by Fein Hasp Zoloft: Cyborg Zombie Special Forces Officer. He was dead, but got over it thanks to Mad Science. Played By Dr Sinn Starstalker: Precognatice Pterodactyl Forensic Pathologist Sniper. Need I say more? Played by Boutros. An attempt to infiltrate an enemy headquarters has gone awry Starstalker is captured. This is a turn around, as the players have become infamous for kidnapping NPCs from wherever they go. Lynn: We'll have to Kidnap Starstalker Hasp: Will this count as our kidnapping for this planet? We've met the enemy commander - and they're a very pregant woman Lynn: We can't kidnap her. I'd feel bad Lynn, Dewey and Hasp are disguised as soldiers, with Lynn beign the highest ranked of them. However, this won't stop people from asking questions... NPC Guard: What are you doing here? Lynn: We're with technical services. We need to do vital system upgrades on this shuttle. Hasp: We need to install anti-Pterodactyl avionics. NPC Guard: I don't recognise you, captain... Lynn: That's captain BOOT TO THE HEAD! Lynn is famous for lying her way through everything. So when the players are ambushed by the guards and surrounded Lynn: (holds up a PDA) I've rigged bombs all over the base. Let me go or else I'll set them off GM: Make an acting check (rolls a 15) Pregant Commander Lady: She's bluffing Lynn: Ah crap! BOOT TO THE HEAD The GM is describing our adversaries GM: Hasp, you can see a Pterodactyl priest in long, flowing robes. He's invisible to everyone else Hasp: Invisible Pterodactyl Ninjas!

Re: The Cast Of Red Dragon Inn Playing RDI with you was a round of truly epic fun. Especially when it degenerated into silly voices.

Re: Jack Kirby Does Shakespeare Shakespear + Kirby = Epicness

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Ben 10: Aliens 3, Manchester 0 Ben 10: Alien Ressurection Clan of the Ghost Bear (for the Battletech players in the audience) Ice Pirates of the Carrebean Batman Beyond Thunderdome

Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover!

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Re: Time Travel in Sci Fi and Games....The Good, The Bad, and the Oh so Ugly... The Thursday Next series has well-applied time travel, played mainly for comedy. There's an active plot to change hisitry and there's the ChronoGuard who try to stop the foresaid. Then there's people getting Eradicated (ie, removed from hsitory) which has lead to Eradication support groups full of people who have no idea while they're there. And there's also the growing awareness that Time Travel is only possible becuse a Time Traveller provided the technology - and invented the Banana

Re: Post-Apocalypse campaign with Pulp Hero feel Good Example? Best example. Cool 50's cars and Dinosaurs. Can't be better then that.

Re: Has anyone here ported a Spycraft organization to HERO? I should try porting my Spycraft character over. That'd be a bucket of laughs and terribad psych limitations.

Re: Moving Violation Skadi would do a crude investigation of the car to see if there was anyting unusual about it. Unfortnately, her specialty is in biology and chemistry; if that turns up nopthing, she'd likely wait for another one to show up. When it does, she'll attempt to catch it (STR 60. She can catch a car) and see what happens. Knight Watch would thorughly scan it for his wife (and systems expert, and builder of his battlesuit) to analyse, looking for any signs of remote control or AI systems or implanted comuters or the like. From there, he'd use what she found to track down the source of this unmanned car. Of course, if its not scientific in nature, he's lost.

Re: Hero System Good Idea/Bad Idea... Good idea: Robot Hero Bad idea: Robot Jox Hero (and heaven help you if you get that...)

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Transformers: Revenge of the Sith (Sad part is, the Toyline allready exists...)

Re: Best, Worst and Strangest Police Cars In any discussion of cars, the longer it goes on, the odds of Top Gear being mentioned approach One. Not that's a bad thing.

Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Well, I'm Squeeee-ing

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Are you kidding? That would be totally freaking awesome!

Re: What's in YOUR future history? The setting I'm working on follows the following stages: Armageddon - Your basic third world war, occuring in the mind 21st Century, setting the stage for the events to come Rebuilding and Reunification - The emerging powers in the aftrermath of WWIII eventually unify the planet through military force and diplomacy under the Terran Alliance Early Space Colonisation - The discovery of FTL drive leads to colonisation of other worlds to releave the burnden on the depleted Earth Revolution and Reformation - The colonies rebel, leading to the collapse of the Terran Alliance. A military coup leads to the rise of the Terran Empire, and a war of reclamation The Golden Age - The Terran Empire grows across space, colonising worlds and ushering in a golden age for all mankind Decline and Fall of the Empire - Internal pressures build as worlds once again push for independance as the Empire's economy collapses. Eventailly the empire collapses inward to a small sphere of core worlds around Earth, and cuts off all contact with the outside. The Dark Age - Those worlds outside the empire are left alone and isolated, resulting in a dark age across space. Many worlds collapse during htis time The rise of the Micro-Empires - Isolated worlds make contact with each other, forming their own interstellar states Consolidation and Alliance - The micro-empires begin to consolidate into larger states, making contact with each other. Eventually, several mega-states emerge.

Re: Eurostar Chaos! As an act of symbolic terror, Eurostar sabotage the rail system that shared their name. "Your trains are weak, your systems faliable!" Fiacho announced in a recorded statment. "But we are strong and unfailing in our resolve. We are the true Eurostar; unlike your trainsm, we will not be stopped!"

Re: Champions Universe--Megavillain teamup idea... Bah. I'll see your team and completely flatten it with mine! 1- Holwer 2- Pulsar 3- Ogre 4- Green Dragon 5- Armordillo 6- Bulldozer 7- Ankylosaur 8- Ape-Plus 9- Tungerrak 10- Tachyon 11- Thespian (For Bob Greenwade) 12- Power Crusher 13- Foxbat; the mastermind behind it all.

Re: Hero System Good Idea/Bad Idea... Except that's what he looks like when he's locked up in Stronghold as well...

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Wild Wild West Side Story