Промоакции для игроков не только в шутерах — воспользуйся промокодом Vavada от наших партнеров и получи бонусы, которые подарят азарт и атмосферу, сравнимую с игровыми победами.
.It’s official: Virtual gore, decapitation, dismemberment, and over-the-top type fatalities are fine in the USA.
Virtual nipples are bad.
Thanks to Broken Toys for the heads up.
UPDATE: Funcom made a mistake. Nipples are included in the USA version. Full blood! Full fatalities! Breasts with nipples! Crom be praised! Not full nudity! Oh well.
– Ethic
Why would you live in Paragon City? Walking to the green line involves passing three cyborg hoodlums, a group of vampires and werewolves, and sometimes alien invaders. Your best case scenario is to carpool with the corrupt corporation that sometimes abducts citizens for experiments.
Parents seem to have adapted; I see many people named “shakedown victim.” In the “A Path into Darkness” story arc, one hostage leaves you a note:
Grabbed by jack-booted thugs. Luckily, ready for that. Paragon City and all. Check with your friend, sent message regarding where to find me.
Of course, that immortal citizen is frequently taken hostage, so he should be planning ahead.
: Zubon
Ok, apparently a Fist of the North Star “MMORPG” is about to go into beta. I say “MMORPG” in quotes because it really isn’t anymore a MMO than say, Quake or Unreal Tournament. Sure, gazillions of people can play, but not at the same time in the same universe. I’m beginning to wonder if the game industry even knows what a MMORPG is supposed to be anymore. I have already decided that the mass media has no clue (hell, those guys have even lost sight of what “news” is supposed to be).
For you younger folks, Fist of the North Star is old school manga/anime. You can see some graphics over here and a little more information here.
What is next? Ikea MMO? Ferris Bueller the MMORPG? or maybe “Speed Racer Online” and “One Tree Hill, the super fabulous MMORPG” (totally “next-generation” of course).
Yeah, I died a little inside when I saw this stuff. It seems like the industry is really trying to grasp at straws for “new” content by dregging up old properties. Even the few companies trying to do something original simply end up with chocobo racing omgmmorpgwtf!
I want something really original for a change.
Pulling is inherently a weird notion. You have to wonder about the guy next to the one who was pulled. “Did Bill just get shot in the shoulder? Meh, I guess he can handle it.” These aren’t villains, they are horror film extras, wandering into the woods one at a time, where an insane gang of SCA-wannabes lurks.
That is far from a new insight, but other oddities struck me. City of Heroes enemies have relatively small aggro and pursuit ranges. I regularly run past enemies with no stealth on, since they will shoot maybe once or twice before wandering back to their spots. We call it “Tanker stealth.” “Intruders! We’re under attack! Ah, eff it, he’s way over there. Not my job.” This is why the archvillains lose: their henchmen are lazy and stupid.
I was playing my Sonic Defender tonight. Staying out of that aggro range, I flew merrily above my enemies’ heads to get to their drug stashes and boss. Sonic Defenders have huge, spherical force shields. “Guido, did you see a giant orange bubble zip by us? No? Maybe it’s just me.”
: Zubon
Did you know that Douglas Shuler plays City of Heroes? Being nerds, you might know him best as an artist from Magic: the Gathering. Serra Angel was one of his. He recently posted a link to a poster he made. He made 3D models of all 41 members of his supergroup, and posed them on the Atlas Park steps. Remind me to recruit a professional artist to our supergroup. The best we have is someone who teaches pottery.
: Zubon
The latest in our continuing series on “Hey, isn’t great how fast technology is advancing?”: “10 Incredible Old Computer Ads.” I apologize for that site’s being somewhat ad-laden.
I clearly remember a friend’s joy at finding an old modem advertising BLAZING 9600 speed. Or recall that scene in Hackers, where they are having quasi-sexual fantasies about a 22800?
: Zubon
This day was just like most any other. I went swimming in a swamp, had to prove myself worthy of wearing a silly hat, and met with a peep of chickens.
Tobold has his own mini city. It’s like Sim City, “Only there is no gameplay. The only thing you can do is to post links to your city…” Great, so we can send him thousands of useless little people by clicking on the link once a day and getting all our friends to do the same. By the look of it, we can flood him with criminals if no one clicks the link to add security. You know, if you are into that.
: Zubon
