Techwright

The challenge in declaring an MMO the "worst ever" is that MMOs by nature, are not static. At some point in their existence, they might be an incredible MMO and then at another point, an absolutely horrid one. I was in the exceptionally long beta for Firefall, and around 2011 the game was showing serious promise to be the best MMO ever. Then a string of really bad decision making, including poor funding choices, a gutting sale of the company, and swaps of whole design teams, gradually robbed the game of its potential and turned it into an unplayable quagmire by 2014. There's still a residual of players who remember the 2011 era and long for the game to be resurrected to that standard. The same was true with Tabula Rasa: a very promising game at start, critically undercut by company politics in the background, resulting in half-baked released content, and a dramatic upheaval of pretty much every archetype's design, again turning it into something less than desired. Though I never played it, I hear Star Wars Galaxy was also deeply loved by players, and might have been in the running for "best MMO of all time" until one massive rollout broke it for all time instead.

This is why we need shotgun-axe in the P2W store.

I wonder if the Freedom Phalanx historical Vambrace could fit this. ⬆️ I've got two, though I freely admit it would take too much to create them: 1. Amphibious - here's where your Aquaman (natural), Swamp Thing (scientific), and Black Manta (technological) knockoffs get their start. The problem is, we've no underwater zones. Amphibious would have natural abilities in hypothetical aquatic zones that other archetypes would not, such as increased strength, durability, speed, greater control of movement, and long-term breathing underwater. On land, they could receive a bonus when fighting in water, such as the park lake in Perez Park, or when teamed with water, storm, or ice power users. 2. Elasticity - while initially I considered this as a power set, I realized it would probably be better implemented like a Kheldian or Arachnos character. Elasticity could have qualities such as ranged attacks from elastic arms, stretch-wrap melee holds, high resistance to projectile attacks (which might have a provision for creating brief team protection), rubber-faced mimic abilities acting like a stealth, and a reduced resistance to ice attacks. Elasticity could have it's own travel power abilities such as creating long legs for speed running, stretching to reach higher vertical surfaces, flying squirrel-like glider abilities, even using a self-slingshot technique that would act a bit like a superjump.

Season 2 Episode 4 This time, I'm filling this in as I watch, so some of the stuff I question may be explained later in the show.

So Nicholas Hoult has one funny zombie movie and one funny vampire movie. What's next? Mummy, werewolf, or lagoon creature?

1 Shark up for savage...

Frankly, whether multiverse or not, the MCU has suffered greatly from unsteady writing. The occasional lackluster movie or show is bound to happen, but I've seen multiple shows now that start off strong and lose their way in the middle. They may recover for a time, but the ending is mushy. They're having the same problem over at Lucasfilms, so maybe the problem starts higher than the individual franchises. They very much need to propel this chapter of the MCU forward to its conclusion. Admittedly they've had a troublesome time due to COVID years and now the writers' strike and Jonathan Majors' legal charges (and he's been rescheduled to Nov. 29). But the public has now long been aware of the re-acquisition of rights for the X-men and for the Fantastic Four, and dragging out B-listers (sorry, that was unkind) lesser-known Marvel characters, combined with the writing issues, is simply turning rabid fans into "meh" folk. If the rumors of using the multi-verse storyline to launch a crisis that will reboot everything into a new timeline are true, then this is where we need to go...soon. Oh, and I disagree with those stating that the original Avengers actors need to return for a full compliment of new movies. Some even claiming this to be leaked info. First, it would cheapen the end of at least 3 of the characters, and second, the actors are human, and aging. While Tony Stark might wear a power suit well into his 80s, Chris Evans and ScarJo can't project super strength, swift attacks, and resilience for another decade. Maybe a couple of multiverse cameos as alternates of their characters, but it will need to be new actors taking new interpretations of the roles.

I never played the game, though I viewed a few YouTube vids of it. I take it the little girl and the cop are new additions to the basic story?

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season 2, episode 3 Right off the bat, I'm wondering...

Ryan does make some very good points, including some I'd not considered. To address a few of them:

I know nothing of this "Foundation". Is it in any way related to the works of Isaac Asimov? I've seen Kurt in dramatic roles before, such as Whitey, the struggling kid of the poor town drunk in Disney's dramedy Follow Me Boys. I'm used to him playing both ends of the spectrum.

Hmm maybe a costume shop option called "holiday tree", which auto-switches to the corresponding tree during holiday events, but returns to the standard tree the rest of the time?

Is that yous, Dr. Seuss?

Rather than all year round in a specific zone(s), perhaps take a page from Christmas celebrations, you know, those "Christmas in July" bits that some folk do, and have a 2 or 3 day period six months out at the end of April where the Halloween stuff is turned on again?

A final preview window before final purchase would be good for lots of things, especially if we had the chance to move the character around more rather than just a mostly static stance. I know I've had to go back and rework costumes before because parts that looked well together in this stationary stance tended to clip badly when in full motion. Certainly the auras would be testable in such a window.

Those animal travel powers that exist, that are sold for INF at the P2W vendors, those were prestige items in the original game. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe those were created to generate a bit more real-world currency for the game owners of the original game. The same is true with the specialty flight powers at the P2W vendors, such as the disk and rocket boards. You'll notice one cannot combat with those, only fly around. We do have wings, big and small, in the costume shop that people have create bat costumes from, and those do work with combat flight powers. We just don't have a pure bat look like the wolf or big cat prestige travel power looks.

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I've actually never tapped into AppleTV to get a sense of it. I might actually try it out with this show, but your concerns @Ghost are noted.

It is, perhaps, a bit of a stretch to file this in this forum, but as Godzilla's often been called a hero, I'll make the pitch for it. New series Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Kurt Russell, Wyatt Russell (John Walker/USAgent in current MCU), Christopher Heyerdahl (a favorite of mine from several shows including Stargate: Atlantis and Sanctuary) and John Goodman footage at 1:31, so it looks like it is definitely tied to Kong: Skull Island.

Not all mer-people tales have beautiful creatures. Some can be monstrous. Maybe that's an angle to consider? I'll add another vote in for water blast/mental blaster. I used that with Aquaphobia, my own (heroic) monster.

Season 2, episode 2

Well, if that included missing Babylon 5, you might want to look into that one (and all its TV movies in their correct order with the episodes). The pilot movie was kind of a proof-of-concept and hadn't gotten the aliens' final look yet, and the first season some don't care much for (I liked it) but they're both solid groundwork for the amazing stuff to come. Some of the characters are practically Shakespearean in nature, especially seen in the relationship dynamic between Ambassador Londo Molari and Ambassador G'Kar, who have actors that pulled off a masterclass in acting.

Ah, more or less the same scenario. Watching Tom on PBS, and always having to check scheduling, 'cause PBS would move it around to all the unwanted hours of the night. I had a b&w TV in my bedroom and would turn it on to watch once I was sure my parents were asleep. I stayed with it right through Sylvester McCoy, though weirdly, they never finished his episodes, and instead went back and did a bit of the Jon Pertwee era. New Who though I knew in advance, and was on the edge of my seat premier night.