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ETB posted:She's also the Avatar. Does that give her +10 Poison Resist? Or maybe she was subconsciously bending the metal away from her nervous system?
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Oct 21, 2014 19:22
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The korra game is fun, if you like platinum games anyway.
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Oct 21, 2014 19:26
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Rawrbomb posted:The korra game is fun, if you like platinum games anyway. I like how you don't have all of your bending abilities until the game is basically over.
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Oct 21, 2014 19:31
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Deakul posted:I like how you don't have all of your bending abilities until the game is basically over. Every Platinum fan knows the first playthrough is just practice. 
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Oct 21, 2014 19:52
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MrAristocrates posted:Except like, all of them. The Bayonetta titles are pretty much the only Platinum games that have gotten consistently good reviews. Wonderful 101, Revengeance, and Vanquish all got decidedly mixed receptions from review outlets.
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Oct 21, 2014 20:02
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Spergatory posted:The Bayonetta titles are pretty much the only Platinum games that have gotten consistently good reviews. Wonderful 101, Revengeance, and Vanquish all got decidedly mixed receptions from review outlets. What's "mixed?" I'm looking at these scores and they're overwhelmingly positive for each. gently caress it, whatever.
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Oct 21, 2014 20:10
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GigaPeon posted:What's a lethal dose of mercury? That was a lot of mercury. She should be a vegetable. She and every other character has taken a lethal dose of blunt force trauma in approximately every fight in the entire series. Everyone in Avatar should be a vegetable.
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Oct 21, 2014 20:12
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Re: the game. I'm dumb and basically handicapping myself by using those two talismans that double SP/XP but halve life and attack power. In effect risking getting owned by every goddamn triad group because I hit like a feather and die like grass. Reinforce to me why this is dumb.
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Oct 21, 2014 20:16
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hiddenriverninja posted:Re: the game. Don't get hit and learn to combo and your ridiculous handicap will become incredibly rewarding. so platinum.txt, really.
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Oct 21, 2014 20:17
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I don't know if this was ever addressed in the show, but is Prince Wu an Earth bender? Was the Queen an Earth bender? Or are they just a royal lineage of non-benders that happen to rule the Earth Kingdom (or did)? Considering the snooty royalty character type they created for both the Queen and Wu, it would almost seem weird to see him actually bend something.
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Oct 21, 2014 20:18
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DutchDupe posted:I don't know if this was ever addressed in the show, but is Prince Wu an Earth bender? Was the Queen an Earth bender? Or are they just a royal lineage of non-benders that happen to rule the Earth Kingdom (or did)? Considering the snooty royalty character type they created for both the Queen and Wu, it would almost seem weird to see him actually bend something. The original king was not a bender, or if he was he was never shown bending. I suspect the Royals are not benders.
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It's a good game, even without the "for a quickly made, low budget, licensed game." There's not much to explore in its systems, but it's nowhere near as shallow as Mad World was, and there's solid groundwork here for a bigger sequel. I'm sure people who just want to play through once and be done will be disappointed, and deaths not effecting your medals is odd, but I'd think you'd have to be insane to think it wasn't a solid title. The bad reviews, like Vanquish and W101, really read like they need to get good. The naga sections are iffy at best, but if you get hit outside of that it's your own stupid fault. See gamespot: quote:You might be in the midst of a combo and miss the chance to perform a finishing move because the button prompt appears so briefly and inconsistently. You might block in a timely fashion, yet still get flung into the energy barrier that surrounds the combat arena by a particularly powerful bender--and then get stuck in the barrier and pummeled to death. You might accidentally initiate a quick-time based melee sequence, but fail because your fingers were finishing up the desired combo and the QTE prompt didn't allow time to adjust. You can cancel out of any move into a finisher, you are fully loving invincible when you do a parry counter, and you have a solid second before the QTEs start. Pomp fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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MrAristocrates posted:What's "mixed?" I'm looking at these scores and they're overwhelmingly positive for each. Clearly you aren't familiar with the concept of the Four Point Scale.
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GigaPeon posted:Does that give her +10 Poison Resist? Or maybe she was subconsciously bending the metal away from her nervous system?  logical explanation yeah. 
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The metal in Korra is totally a metaphor for her own fear. This is called a narrative device. It's much more illustrative to an audience if what's holding a character back is expressed in a literal internal poison, instead of merely an abstract, purely mental hang up. The big challenge of season 4 is Korra must conquer her fear and grow as a person and that other people can't fight your battles for you. If the thing holding her back is fixable via an external medical procedure performed by someone else, it really flies in the face of that. Itd be dreadfully dull. The show has set up that Korra's issue is not just physical, but mental, but entirely internal that she must fix herself. It's called a metaphor.
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Yeah, Korra will not be able to remove the metal until she is in a proper mental state to benefit from it. It's just a very blunt bit of symbolism.
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blurry! posted:The metal in Korra is totally a metaphor for her own fear. This is called a narrative device. It's much more illustrative to an audience if what's holding a character back is expressed in a literal internal poison, instead of merely an abstract, purely mental hang up. The big challenge of season 4 is Korra must conquer her fear and grow as a person and that other people can't fight your battles for you. If the thing holding her back is fixable via an external medical procedure performed by someone else, it really flies in the face of that. Itd be dreadfully dull. The show has set up that Korra's issue is not just physical, but mental, but entirely internal that she must fix herself. It's called a metaphor. Baron Bifford fucked around with this message at 21:01 on Oct 21, 2014 |
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Baron Bifford posted:Yeah, I think I understand the intent of the writers, but it's very clumsily done. The show as a whole has handled its themes very clumsily. This children's cartoon about a teenage girl who can control the four elements by punching the air really hard isn't scientifically accurate in its portrayal of the debilitating disease of chronic 
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This show wants to be more than your average dumb cartoon. By "clumsy", I don't mean lack of scientific accuracy (I know little of mercury poisoning anyway). I mean that it's a poorly-designed metaphor for the theme of overcoming one's fears and doubts.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:03
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Baron Bifford posted:This show wants to be more than your average dumb cartoon. Sickness as metaphor for personal growth is extremely common writing and the fact that it isn't medically accurate is completely and utterly unimportant. Doubly so when you're talking about unnamed fantasy metal which may or may not have identical properties. Like, seriously, this is not just 'dumb cartoon.' It is writing both high and low across all forms of media. Realism is rarely the end goal of fiction.
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I know that, but I still think it was poorly executed. When Toph gives her dumb diagnosis, I was thinking just give Korra a loving sedative and yank out the metal poison yourself.
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Baron Bifford posted:I know that, but I still think it was poorly executed. When Toph gives her dumb diagnosis, I was thinking just give Korra a loving sedative and yank out the metal poison yourself. Let me just pull a fresh tranquilizer out of my WELL STOCKED SWAMP PANTRY.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:08
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Is the world map from Avatar inspired from any real world source? Because I saw this at a high end furniture boutique yesterday and burst out laughing.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:11
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Baron Bifford posted:I know that, but I still think it was poorly executed. When Toph gives her dumb diagnosis, I was thinking just give Korra a loving sedative and yank out the metal poison yourself. Yeah, I'm sure Toph keeps powerful sedatives in her swamp hole.
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ImpAtom posted:Yeah, I'm sure Toph keeps powerful sedatives in her swamp hole. MrAristocrates, I hope you are considering this as a thread title.
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Point taken. She is absolutely terrible.Toshimo posted:MrAristocrates, I hope you are considering this as a thread title.
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Zypher posted:Is the world map from Avatar inspired from any real world source? Because I saw this at a high end furniture boutique yesterday and burst out laughing. How much was it?
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Toshimo posted:MrAristocrates, I hope you are considering this as a thread title. Jesus loving christ I hate you all so much. Honestly, I'll consider it.
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Baron Bifford posted:Point taken. She is absolutely terrible. I feel like you are a very opinionated individual and there is little point to arguing against your incredibly subjective points. I found the episode very enjoyable and look forward to watching Korra work to overcome her present problems. On second thought you just called Toph terrible.
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Rosalind posted:How much was it? $5800
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Toshimo posted:Let me just pull a fresh tranquilizer out of my WELL STOCKED SWAMP PANTRY. It's called brick to head. Or just waiting until she falls asleep.
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Oct 21, 2014 21:20
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Mymla posted:It's called brick to head. There's a reddit for that.
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Mymla posted:It's called brick to head. The last thing I think Korra needs is more head trauma. I think this whole argument is equivalent to the Lord of the Rings "why didn't the eagles just fly Frodo to Mordor?" argument. It's because it's the hero's journey and that means the hero has to solve their own problems and overcome obstacles. If the mentor figure just keeps stepping in and solving them, then there's no tension.
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Rosalind posted:"why didn't the eagles just fly Frodo to Mordor?" The whole goddamn point of the quest was to be inconspicuous arrrhghgghghgh okay I'm fine
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Zypher posted:Is the world map from Avatar inspired from any real world source? Because I saw this at a high end furniture boutique yesterday and burst out laughing. This can't be a coincidence. Zypher posted:$5800 For a cartoon poster, basically. A fancy one.
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Zypher posted:$5800 Don't you mean $58008?
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Rewatching the trailer. There's probably not much basis for this but I'm speculating anyway; I think the Spirit Vines are going to be used to create bender-mechs. Think about it; we already had mechatanks with the equalists, so this new round of giant robots has to offer something they didn't. There are a lot of shots of those new mechs shooting either fire or lightning, and I don't think there are to many firebenders in Kuvira's army. It could just be a powerful flamethrower, but it would be much cooler if it were somehow related to bending. One of the last things that makes the Avatar special is the power to bend multiple elements. If they can create bending machines, that could drive her identity crisis even further. What would she have left besides the Avatar State?
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Considering what you say, what makes the Avatar special in the first place? She can bend all four elements, so she's... four benders in one, I suppose. That's hardly an army.
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