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  1. JB0
    What the crap? I would LOVE to see the mechanism on that thing. But I grudgingly withdraw the complaint about revolvers. And go back to simply laughing at the reload animation on my shotgun, which reloads faster after melee kills. Looks like me character is havin' a flipping seizure as she crams the shells into the gun. I'm supposed to be playing sneaky? Wow, I got this totally wrong. I've just been running up and introducing faces to my dagger. I mean, I HAVE guns, but none of them really make that satisfying SHUNK that the knife does when it lands home. MMOFPRPSG
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    I'm the opposite. I could not stomach the first season. Unfortunately, there's a boring talky bit in the middle of their ultimate battle of ultimate destiny, but the books were like that too. And here we get to the problem with modern anime. No one does a proper adaptation any more(except Arpeggio). They take the print version, copy the script verbatim, and then cut parts out or pad with dead space until it runs in the time allotted. So both seasons have the same problem, effectively. They're just opposite extremes of that problem. Season 1 hacked and slashed and chopped and cut, season 2 puts in random shots of Sinon's leg-roots and The Lizard.
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    I was HOPING it was purely cosmetic. But that would be extremely dumb. Admittedly, less dumb than "Mercury became a garden world." More or less. The shooter parts are all fun, the MMORPG parts are all terrible. PERSONALLY, I would have discarded the level mechanic entirely and make the entire game function like it does once you hit level 20. XP gains you skill points and coins of light, but your gear is what makes you stronger and tougher. And if overall gear quality is represented by a single "level" ranking, then so be it. As-is, I feel cheated. The game I thought I was buying, the game I enjoyed for twenty levels, is not the game I have now unless I roll a new character. Eh, I'd do my darnedest to discourage people from sitting there blankly shooting at a cave for six hours at a time too. What they know now is you reduce the spawn rate a little at a time over several patches, without telling anyone. Don't tell them "This is dumb guys, go have fun in the Crucible or something. BTW, we've nerfed your cave." Just DO it. And do it subtle-like. Maybe keep the spawn rate the same, but make the drop quality reduce with each successive spawn in a given window of time. There's a lot of things they COULD do. They chose transparency and honesty, and I'd like to think that can be respected even if you disagree with their thoughts on gameplay. Disagree. They are the worst parts of any game, IMNSHO. I have no patience for farming and grinding whatsoever. An hour spent farming is an hour I could've spent doing something fun instead. But I will ACCIDENTALLY farm if the gameplay is enjoyable enough. Just run around picking fights and cappin' fools and suddenly I'm buried in items, currency, and XP I wasn't looking for. And other MMOs tweak those things all the time to encourage or discourage certain forms of play. They're just less up-front about it. And the upcoming 1.0.2 patch appears to make better gear easier to acquire, since legendary engrams are guaranteed to generate legendary loot, and are added to the reward pool for completing daily story and weekly strike missions. http://www.bungie.net/7_102-Patch-Preview/en/News/News?aid=12202 People are gonna be pissed about that "legendary engrams will be demoted to rare" note, but I'd wager nothing is actually CHANGING with them. They're just swapping the icon color to match the new classification scheme. You'll still hold an identical bell curve in your pockets. I think they underestimated how much trouble rounding good gear up was going to be and cause, honestly. I don't think they wanted people to feel like they had to grind for rep or farm for hours. But that's where the game is now, and they're trying to figure out how to make it a fast game again. Pretty sure the thought is that you can run more than one character, given how the vaults and glimmer are per-account and not per-character. I've rolled one of each race and class at this point, though I'm still playing my huntress mostly. I'd say give it to me, since I only have two grand, but... no trading. But really, I've run into a problem I never expected: I'm out of weapon parts. I have three decent guns with upgrades pending because I don't have the parts. Screw legendary drops. I need more crap guns I can tear down. Yeah, the Crucible is a mess. I can but hope they are taking a good hard look at how they do matchmaking. It'd be nice if owning gear unlocked that model and color combination for application to custom gear. I finally gave up and scrapped my noob gear because it was never going to see use again. The ability to apply shaders per-piece would be nice also. Or even just to apply them to everything except the class item. Just because I want my hunter to run around in bright purple like this is Saint's Row doesn't mean I want my hunter's CAPE to be that same bright purple. Gear customization is something I always want, but never get. On the upside, they got the mechanics right first try. The MMO parts can all be ironed out. And shooting stuff is fun enough that I drop in on patrol missions just to shoot grunts for a bit. Then raid the level 20 hive nest in Russia. Thrall are the funnest things to kill ever and if the legendary cave had been a hive nest, I might would've headed out there just to shoot thrall all day, with loot as a secondary bonus. Honestly, the news updates have made it clear that they know things don't work right and are trying to fix it.
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    I've actually got no communications whatsoever. Which kind of surprises me after "the Crucible fiasco" And it's totally easy to do level 20 purely in story missions. The problem comes when you have to grind items to level further. As far as the crucible goes, I'm not doing it again until I have access to rumble mode again. I don't care if I get my ass whooped, but I'm not dragging a team down with me in my undergeared incompetence. Speaking of grinding items... first purple gear acquired today. Bought it from my vanguard adviser in the war room. And it bumped me up two levels. That's pretty sweet. Although I'm once again reminded that Bungie's weapon designer doesn't actually know how a gun WORKS and is just sticking gun-looking parts onto a gun-looking frame. If the hammer hits the TOP of your revolver cylinder, the bullet shouldn't come out of the BOTTOM of the cylinder.
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    Do they have a vernier rocket pointing straight into the wing-mounted missiles there? This seems like a bad idea.
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    Why I hate online play in a nutshell. That Destiny has traditional shooter multiplayer matchmaking while implementing an RPG-esque gear+skill system that ensures different people have wildly different capabilities is not HELPING, but it's not the root problem.
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    Normal? I thought it was the best bat-guano crazy Getter Robo homage of all time. Make no mistake, I flippin' loved it, but... that was in large part because it WASN'T normal.
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    Sakurai is pretty consistently awesome. Iwaizumi gets caught up in the main guy's harem field and simply ceases to exist for large stretches of time. When he IS around, he's a fun dude, though.
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    I might've dropped it two episodes in if it hadn't been for Sakurai. She's a fun character, and a large part of why I plowed through the show as fast as I did. There's a lot of variablity across the run. Some episodes are MUCH better than others, but the second half is fairly decent. Episode 6 is peak stupidity, but it's also hilarious. 7-9 are a single story, and pretty much the high point of the series. Sadly, they close out with an epilogue episode of no value whatsoever. It's not dramatic, not funny, not anything. It just... is.
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    Bungie's got a strange mix of great and terrible design going on here, really. And you can tell where they were playing to their strengths, because basically anything involving shooting is gold, but all the MMORPG stuff is godawful terrible. Would've made better sense if there was no character level system at all, and gear was everything. But it would make the poor drop rate of quality gear more visible. I can only assume that they simply expected people would spend all their time in the Crucible. That'll generate reputation and marks fast and open up m4d 1337 g34r, I guess.
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    I should check on mine. No cracks last time I had them out, but it's been a while. And by check on them, of course, I mean marathon the series.
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    I THINK heroic only kicks in for the daily mission on the side of the map, but don't quote me on that.
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    Note they only tweaked the "heroic" versions of those mussions, not the regular ones.
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    It is pretty much exactly how I imagined their graduation ceremony would go.
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    The animation ranges from mediocre to awful. Which really makes you wonder why they bothered with all those ass shots. At least draw THOSE nicely. Do your T&A right or don't do it at all, geez. Also, if they'd called it a slice of life show, I would've never glanced at it. It's typically just a pretty way to say "show where nothing happens ever". Sometimes it gets used for "I have no idea how to describe this", but that's usually an identifiable circumstance. I watched it FOR the stupid commercial terrorist plot. But I didn't really mind the omission, since it was entertaining anyways, if not always sensical(I forgot they were "in training" and "high school students" unless the show reminded me, since they mostly treated them as fully-qualified employees... right on to being assigned as the sole bodyguards of a foreign dignitary). That said... I wonder if the animators are promoting the Sakurai relationship, or if the books are as concrete about how the harem plays out. Because, really, the anime has them all but married. I don't mind. The harem cliche can be funny, but it needs to have an endpoint. And if our hero is going for the harem ending, then own it and WRITE A HAREM ENDING. Not status quo infighting forever.
  16. JB0
    What are you two talking about? A cloak is the most important gear a hunter has!
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    For anyone that was wondering, I just want to note that Google lied. This may have been the content of the books(I make no promises, not having read them), but it darn sure isn't the content of the anime. The show is enjoyable, but smacks of being heavily abridged. Feels like important things were skipped over left and right. Standard lazy adaptation issues, really. It DOES do a good job striking a balance between "stupid people doing stupid things" and "something needs to actually HAPPEN this episode". Except episode 6. That's a giant conga line of ridiculous nonsense from start to finish. It is not exactly what I'd call must-watch programming, but... there's far worse ways to kill some time. That concludes this pocket review.
  18. JB0
    It was an awesome gimmick. This is not canon. Wheeljack being wise, I mean. The face is TOTALLY canon... now. ... Why did they give Wheeljack a face? ... Screw it. Personal canon says this release isn't Wheeljack, it's Alpha Trion in a Halloween costume.
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    Except that Darkwing Duck is better than either one of those.
  20. JB0
    Maybe it has the power to make a fsck happen, even in circumstances where it was otherwise impossible? If that's the case, it's soon to be the best-selling record of all time.
  21. JB0
    According to Google, it's apparently about a war with corporate terrorists over control of the trains. Which is absurd enough to make me want to watch the thing on it's own.
  22. JB0
    What if he's not actually Teddy Roosevelt, just the wax statue of him from Night at the Museum? Is he allowed to not act like Teddy then?
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    Nope.
  24. JB0
    As a fighter, I'd like Spacebrick a lot more if the Beta wasn't so awkwardly proportioned, with it's squared-off front and tiny vestigial wings. It's a stark contrast to the Alpha, which forms a relatively competent airplane. This post hopefully marks the first and last time "the Alpha is a competent airplane" will ever be said here on MacrossWorld.
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    And if they'd had the chance to do a proper opening(which was done to a degree in the PS1/Saturn video game), people could get the same "Oh, crap, that's the Daedalus" response that Hikaru and Misa get upon finding it's wreckage. It assumes you've already watched the TV series. And to be fair, that was a pretty safe assumption for it's release, but it's not a movie you can just sit down and take in as it is.
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