JKCarrier

This happened to me as well.

Agreed, the arc doesn't really play fair when it comes to the badge criteria. The choices you need to make at the press conference are pretty counter-intuitive (logic would indicate that the best way to please West would be to play it straight, but the opposite is true). Tavish Bell's and Kelly Uqua's connection to Crey is fairly obvious (they're both literally parked in front of Crey facilities, and their story arcs involve Crey), but Number Six's is much less so (you'd have to have read, and remember, a minor detail in his bio). There's nothing wrong with making a badge difficult to get, but this seems obscure for the sake of being obscure.

This was my experience as well.

"Gee, the people who don't like hard games don't seem to know many hard games." You noticed that, huh? I also would not be able to name very many brands of coleslaw, professional soccer teams, or klezmer bands. I wonder why that is.

Somebody got a gun to your head? If you're this vehemently opposed to the core gameplay, it's probably time to look elsewhere. Things can always be adjusted, but hoping for a top-to-bottom rewrite of the code to be more like [insert name of cool modern game here] is unlikely, to put it mildly. Believe it or don't, some of us like the way this game plays. This is the only MMO I've spent any significant amount of time in, and that's precisely because it's so chill and casual. You couldn't pay me to play a "Souls-like" game. Who needs that level of aggravation in their leisure time? But if that's your jam, go for it. There's plenty of it out there without trying to force a round peg into a square hole. Imagine me going onto a Dark Souls forum and posting that it should be more like CoH. 😂

About the only ones that get used consistently are the ones that summon helpers (Wolf Whistle, et. al.). Those are always useful, if only to pull some aggro off me. The offensive powers can be useful at low levels, when you don't have a full attack chain yet; after that, they're kind of meh. The defensive ones likewise seem underwhelming. I'll be in a situation where I'm getting clobbered, and pop on Wedding Ring or Cryonic Armor or whatever, and they never make a noticeable difference. So I'm not consciously hanging on to them, but they tend to accumulate.

Praetoria was so poorly-received that the Devs ended up nuking the place. So I would maybe avoid any more multiverses.

1) Nope, it's a total pain. 2) I wish you could just do simple replacements, i.e. "Pick Power X instead of Power Y and leave everything else the same". That's 99% of my respecs -- a power doesn't do what I thought it did, or just ends up not working out, and I want to get rid of it. 3) Unlikely. If my current character gets fudged up so badly that I don't think they're viable (it would have to be pretty bad, since I'm not exactly a Mega-Optimized Power Gamer to start with), I'll probably just trash them and roll up something new.

Yeah, but if you're looking for glowies or hostages, it can take forever.

Interesting...I use this all the time and I've never had a problem. Is it taking you to some other mission on your list, or just to random locations? Do Team Teleporter and Long-Range Teleporter work correctly for you?

I don't mind the parody threads, as my inner 12-year-old finds them quite amusing. But I sure wouldn't mind being able to hide those AI "art" threads. So 👍 to OP's suggestion.

Is that a widespread sentiment? I think they both look better with the trunks.

From Superman #1, 1939: The Kents were both dead until the Byrne reboot in 1986.

As I see it, one problem with the MCU is that Infinity War/Endgame did almost too good a job tying everything up. All at once, Captain America, Iron Man, Black Widow, and Vision were gone (not to mention Loki and Thanos and, for different reasons, Black Panther). Hulk and Thor resolved their biggest personal conflicts. Most of the other characters achieved, if not a happy ending, at least a place of closure. It made for a powerful conclusion, but it left the franchise in a position where they essentially had to start over from scratch. Marvel's initial movie success was really "catching lightning in a bottle", and that's extremely hard to do twice (as DC found out when they tried to duplicate Marvel's success).

Sounds like you maybe haven't looked at those issues in a while. James was the leader until he died in Alpha Flight #12 (he was later retconned back to life, as is usually the case...).