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How was I unaware one could do that?? Do the police drones neutralize them, or will they survive to unleash chaos? And lastly...does Castle still stand and preen or does he actually fight? 😉

More likely level 30.

Who currently controls the rights to these? I've not collected in many years, so I see I need to brush up.

Me three. I've been a very disappointed gamer before when I learn games I'm just begging to play are only 1st person perspective. I struggle through the occasional Halo night with friends because I really want to be around them, but I'm usually the first to quit due to pseudo motion sickness. Do any of the VR systems have complete wrap-around peripheral? I might give that a go, though I'll likely still have some issues.

Sounds like an ad for Warburg. To be fair, they never "always fight" me. They fight me, they die. They might come back as one of the Vahz, or a desiccated corpse for the Banished Pantheon, but then they fight me. So, two times tops, not "always".

The Vambrace duo were from an earlier iteration of the Phalanx, yes? Like 1950s to 1970s? Who's up for a little more time traveling? Actually, were we to ever do that, I'd be interested to see story arcs related to the family of Stateman: his wife (Recluse's sister) and his daughter (Ms Liberty's mom)

I thought that name sounded familiar. Was to have been rolled out with the Asian supergroup. Something in the back of my mind says that Rose Star was in beta, but was pulled for some reason. Spark Blade as well. I do seem to recall that they did launch the full team in the Asian server rollout, though with the failure of that project, they ported Foreshadow and Mirror Spirit to the western game and didn't follow through with the others. Rose Star is briefly in the trailer for the Asian server which came out in January 2006. Watch for her at 01:35. Spark Blade, of course, is very prominent in the trailer. trailer:

What superhero comics, that are not properties of Marvel or DC should be ported over to the big screen, even if they are somewhat obscure? I note that last bit because several of the Marvel properties were not household names until the MCU treatment. I'll kick off with some Valiant Comics characters. XO: Man-O-War (think Ironman with a living armor), Magnus: Robot Fighter (think COH tank with the ability to destroy robots with his bare hands), and Turok: the Dinosaur Hunter. Of these, I think only Turok was given treatment elsewhere in a video game. I also think Turok might be the strongest choice if only one movie was to be made, as it would appeal to the Jurassic Park fans. Magnus' story is set in a distant future where mankind has given over all mundane tasks to robots, which have gradually grown stronger while humans, lacking challenge, have grown weaker. It has elements that remind me of the Will Smith/Alan Tudyk film "I, Robot", as well as those that remind me of a dark-natured "Wall-E". XO: Man-O-War would, I guess, appeal to folks who like Iron Man or Master Chief of Halo. I'd also love to see someone make an MCU styled crossover series of the old pulp-fiction heroes: Doc Savage, The Shadow, Green Hornet & Kato, maybe even The Phantom and Mandrake the Magician. A Doc Savage/Shadow crossover was done in the comics years back, and it was quite entertaining to see their two polar-opposite natures clash: Doc with his high standards and "rehabilitate them" outlook on dealing with criminals, contrasted with the Shadow's whatever-it-takes and "put 'em down" attitude.

I'd love to know if you somehow found a way to remove the dark background elements from dark/dark. I experimented with doing a dark/dark with a different color scheme (electric blue, if I recall correctly), but kept getting an unchanging, underlying black/dark scarlet coloration destroying my effort with my two color choices.

Has the swing dance competition happened yet? 'Cause it's clear these two might be the contenders to watch for.

We're about 5-6 months down the road from the original announcement. What's the latest on this?

SPOILER ALERT Stay clear if you wish to know nothing about MCU casting for upcoming works, nor how the Phase 4 projects might interact. I suspect that is because the MCU movie team more or less abandoned the TV teams. Although there were crossovers with some of the movie characters showing up on TV, the movie team has pointedly left out the TV characters. I personally didn't follow the Luke Cage series, so I don't know how it ended, but he might have been a big help at the Battle of Waukanda or the Endgame Battle, I'd think. Those who track such things point to Kevin Feige, whom they say apparently made a unilateral, unpublished decision to cut ties with the TV units. Agents of SHIELD writers didn't even get notice of a HUGE event in the MCU that affected everyone. As a result, their show ended up playing like a close alternate universe/timeline to the movies, rather than a partner to them. Disney Plus projects are under Feige, and are getting the love the abandoned shows didn't.

Not sure I could make such a call. Hmmm....probably my ill/storm controller, which I've often referred to as my "Swiss Army Knife": a power for most any situation, and enough variety to keep things interesting. But I'm also very fond of my energy blapper, as well as my dark/dark corrupter.

The "I can do this all day" moment.

Has there been any mod issued to restore that "fury" sound? I don't recall it myself, but fulcrum shift should be an important tactic, so it should have an important sound. My buddy and I used to refer to it as the "I WIN" button, but I think they gutted the full strength of the power since we played in the original game.

That is the first time I've ever seen the digital aura seem to fit a character, and honestly, I never thought it would. Well done! In fact, if I were honest, I was afraid we'd all gotten into a repetitive rut on costume designs, and then you guys go and post two of the finest pages this thread has had (113 & 114 on my computer). I'm deeply relieved and seriously impressed! 👍👍 Two thumbs way up to everyone who contributed.

I'd have loved this. That said, it would be a shame if the game was fully set on just Jules Vern's visions. We're talking "Lost World genre" here, and Verne was just a piece of it. H. Rider Haggard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and others, even Rudyard Kipling, all contributed rich material to the concept. I've long wished there was an MMO that took an Edgar Rice Burroughs approach and allowed exploration of an alternate world Africa, with fabulous Solomonic treasures and lost Roman cities to be found, all while surviving death traps, fighting monstrous beasts and creatures lost to time, and deposing villainous explorers and petty tribal dictators. It could be such fun!

Highly recommend hanging in there. Three will start to evolve the story, and then the jigsaw gets the corners and framework done in four. Hear, hear. I've been disappointed in that. At least have a tag scene to make it worthwhile. Oh, you've started a gem! Some have felt the first 16 episodes were rough (I disagree), but hang in there, it is laying valuable foundation for the rest of the series. Eventually you'll be seeing call-backs to season 1 and going "Oh! So that's why that happened!" Many feel "Turn, Turn, Turn", season 1, episode 17 is where AoS really hit it's stride, but you'll need the preceding episodes to build context. "T, T, T" ran concurrent with the movie "Captain America: The Winter Soldier". MCU has conditioned us to watch credits hunting for tag scenes. Unfortunately, their Disney Plus branch doesn't appear to have gotten the memo.

Well, if this defines "sub-optimal" then I'd vote for the slow animation of Eagle Claw. Combined with my scarf costume element, the ballet between whirling kick and twirling cloth is elegant art in motion. If I've managed to time the shot as the coup de grâce, dropping the enemy, it is a very satisfying finish.

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I've enjoyed every episode, though sometimes the sitcom comedy felt forced to the point of awkward, but that really might be a deliberate writer's choice to emphasize the oddity that is WandaVision. I do think there's something the production could have handled better: the knowledge level of the casual MCU viewer. One of my coworkers is a casual, and he was (and supposedly his friends were) ready to quit WandaVision after episode two. Everything about it baffled him, which came from only a passing knowledge of Wanda and Vision in the comics. A couple of us had to sit him down and explained the comic book details of Wanda and Vision before he began to realize that we were seeing the episodes from an entirely different vantage point, I know in a different video under "Legends" Disney rehashed most of Wanda's movie screen time, but I'm not certain casuals would have realized it's significance. They've likely forgotten the first appearance in a tag scene where Wanda both created constructs seemingly out of thin air, then squashed them to pancakes all while displaying the face of a bored child. It showed both her creative and destructive potential in one small shot. Somehow adding that up front to WandaVision might have clued the casual viewers in that something more sinister lay underneath. Sinister...now there's a name with potential to really ruin Wanda's life.

(spoilers ahead) The MCU is back and with its strangest entry to date: WandaVision. Thoughts, discussions, and especially speculations? How did you like the show as it has progressed, especially now that the all-important fourth episode has been released? Please remember the forum rules for spoiler-y talk.

Interesting roster decision. Do you recall why that set was picked instead of, say, one each of tank, defender, scrapper, blaster, and controller? Was it the removal of archetypes that could team heal that mattered?

Ah, I've not heard this title in decades. Our student teacher read The Black Cauldron to us in our 6th grade year a couple of years before the Disney adaptation came out. Haven't seen that in decades either. Fun action/drama category. Got it. I'd have to put some thought into that one. I've so many I enjoy. The Rocketeer would definitely be high on the list. I modeled my Ace Barnstormer slightly on that character.