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Once you understand better how Nico works, she's insanely powerful at both buffing you and debuffing your opponent and she has a number of really good "hit like a loving truck" cards to slot in. I spend most of the game with the gal pals group of Hunter, Magik, and Nico.
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The DLC characters have all been pretty great so far. Eddie Brock has some surprisingly deep character development, and Peter tries really hard to be his friend and help him out. Eddie can’t help but fall for conspiracy theories.
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Apr 5, 2023 17:28
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RevKrule posted:I spend most of the game with the gal pals group of Hunter, Magik, and Nico.  Gal Pals for life.
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Apr 5, 2023 18:06
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Sentinel Red posted:
Me* and the girls bout to hit the club (*may not actually be me)
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Apr 5, 2023 18:27
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Maybe I just haven’t unlocked her full potential or figured out the best strategy with her but Magik’s low damage output keeps me from using her often. Portals are cool but her attack card that just lets you move the enemy is just as useful to set up knockback attacks from the other heroes and do more damage at that.
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Apr 5, 2023 19:44
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Illyana goes from "Eh, I guess if I can pull some cool portal tricks" mid to "HOLY poo poo" once you unlock her AOE teleport damage... thingie. Without she has a downgrade in usefulness comparable to Robbie minus his "Drive a car through basically everyone on the map that falls in a straight line" move. Which her teleporter move is great for setting up!
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Apr 5, 2023 22:36
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If you can roll enough Free and Redraw bonuses, her "+damage when kicked through portal" thing can stack to some crazy levels. Also Nico is a beast. It's hard not to bring her every time. Dark Hunter + Nico + Magik murder squad.
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Apr 5, 2023 23:30
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Peter and Robbie are getting their arses kicked in Fortnite or something, ask Nico and Magik for help. Nico refuses but Illyana offers some magic words for them: "Git gud." It really is the little moments.
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Apr 5, 2023 23:40
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Magik can be powerful, but she's more about controlling the battlefield. Nico though is like a walking nuke.
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Apr 5, 2023 23:41
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Open Marriage Night posted:The DLC characters have all been pretty great so far. Eddie Brock has some surprisingly deep character development, and Peter tries really hard to be his friend and help him out. Eddie can’t help but fall for conspiracy theories. It still cracks me up that because Venom is an oversized model, they can't use it in the Cool Walk when you're heading out for a mission. It's like two superheroes joined by generic NPC man in jeans and a tshirt.
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Apr 6, 2023 02:59
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That’s why I like teaming with Venom and Hulk.
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Apr 6, 2023 04:47
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Really surprised more people aren't using Rogers. He's my BFF. Super useful shield regen every turn, taunt everything, shield throw is classic. He is the man. Also Morbius is loving great, and pairing him with Blade is extra fun!
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Apr 7, 2023 04:23
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Apr 7, 2023 04:26
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He does nothing but morb
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Apr 7, 2023 04:39
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I for some reason STILL haven't played Midnight Suns despite having the disc and everything. It's turned into one of the games I bought but haven't played due to class. But the conversations here are giving more hype for it than the trailers ever did.
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Apr 7, 2023 05:49
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Grem posted:Really surprised more people aren't using Rogers. He's my BFF. Super useful shield regen every turn, taunt everything, shield throw is classic. He is the man. I used Steve a lot. I feel like out of everyone his kit best represents his character. He's a really good tank who can do decent damage. I'm pretty sure one of the phases of the final mission forces character selection based on bond levels. If I'm right, my highest were Magik, Tony, and the two Caps. My least used were the DLC characters and Hulk, shockingly :v
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Apr 7, 2023 09:08
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Got the one round win and no damage taken trophies thanks to Logan and Illyana being AWESOME as gently caress. My man just sliced the everliving poo poo outta all of these motherfuckers while we dumped the rest through a nice trip throuh Limbo. I am having an obscene amount of fun with this game. Am a little disappointed that Illyana’s challenge outfit isn’t Full Darkchylde goat legs, horns and a tail but the leggo card will have to do. lmao at the Cyclops Was Right outfit, love it.
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Apr 7, 2023 13:24
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Sentinel Red posted:Got the one round win and no damage taken trophies thanks to Logan and Illyana being AWESOME as gently caress. My man just sliced the everliving poo poo outta all of these motherfuckers while we dumped the rest through a nice trip throuh Limbo. I am having an obscene amount of fun with this game. Other favorites were the Magneto was Right and Dazzler Tour shirt.
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Apr 7, 2023 14:44
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I am consistently impressed at the voice acting in this game. Everyone gives a really solid effort, even if the dialogue is very comic-book-y for good reason. Some of Deadpool's dialogue actually made me laugh out loud, which surprised me. The only weak bit of voice acting I've noticed so far is when female Hunter scores a KO she says something like "go back to your master" and the way she says "master" it has like a bit of a faux accent that she doesn't otherwise normally have and it's a bit off-putting. I gave Iron Man a laboratory mod that upped his chance for cards to be critical and he's even more of a KO machine than ever. By the way, for anyone who is just getting into the game or took way longer to realize this than it should have, any attack cards in your hand that have the "attack" card symbol (crossed swords) that's on fire, that card is critical and will do more damage than the bog standard version.
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Apr 7, 2023 15:54
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Hunter’s VA reminds me of Mark Meer’s flatter take on Shep in the first Mass Effect, feels like she’s playing it pretty neutral for the most part. I guess considering she’s a sheltered middle ages girl resurrected in the present day to all sorts of crazy poo poo it kinda works but it’d have been nice if the VA had moments to let loose because she was great playing unhinged as Trilla in Fallen Order. I have a new favourite spell to use on all those big, beefy bastards who like to put shields up every other minute.
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Apr 7, 2023 16:57
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I played it as male Hunter and his voice acting ain't great either. In general, I found the VA pretty mediocre in the game.
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Apr 7, 2023 17:08
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Male Hunter is Matt Mercer, so it's not like the talent isn't there, the neutral tone is definitely a directing choice.
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Gaz-L posted:Male Hunter is Matt Mercer, so it's not like the talent isn't there, the neutral tone is definitely a directing choice. It's not even that it's flat, it's that everything seems unnatural. "WHO IS A GOOD GIRL? IT IS MY CHARLIE GIRL!" just sounds like someone phoning it in, not a deliberate directorial choice.
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Endless Mike posted:It's not even that it's flat, it's that everything seems unnatural. "WHO IS A GOOD GIRL? IT IS MY CHARLIE GIRL!" just sounds like someone phoning it in, not a deliberate directorial choice. In almost every case it's direction. Between what they ask for in the overall performance, the performer's range as seen in literally anything else, giving/not giving notes after takes, and which takes they choose to use? If you get a bad performance out of the most prolific and successful voice actors in the biz, it's 100% on direction
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Endless Mike posted:It's not even that it's flat, it's that everything seems unnatural. "WHO IS A GOOD GIRL? IT IS MY CHARLIE GIRL!" just sounds like someone phoning it in, not a deliberate directorial choice. what no? that's great, i love that line
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FemHunter at least injects a tone into it that sounds like she's talking to a dog while ruffling their fur.
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I liked most of the performances. Michael Jai White as Blade was great. Also loved Laura Bailey as Magik. "Have you seen Charlie? I need hellhound snuggles."
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The voice talent in this game is stacked. I don't get how anyone can complain about it.
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Lucifunk posted:I'm on my 3rd playthrough of Midnight Suns now that the DLC is dropping. I love this game, warts and all, and I will forever wish now that they had made an X-Men game in this style. School or Krakoa, the game already feels a little like classic 80s Claremont X-Men. They 100% originally pitched it as an X-Men game and Disney said "No, it has to include all our recognizable IP." Just like Disney killed Marvel Heroes for the unforgivable crime of... doing a promo based on Fox's Fantasic Four.
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Random rear end in a top hat posted:They 100% originally pitched it as an X-Men game and Disney said "No, it has to include all our recognizable IP." Just like Disney killed Marvel Heroes for the unforgivable crime of... doing a promo based on Fox's Fantasic Four. ...No? No they didn't? We know exactly how they pitched the game because Jake Solomon has talked about it extensively. It was always a Midnight Sons game. Also Disney killed Marvel Heroes because it turned out Gazillion's CEO at the time was a wife-beating rapist among other issues they had with him and the company. What the gently caress are you talking about? e: Hell the game closed down two years after that movie came out
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Fantastic Four and X-Men haven't been an issue for a few years now since Disney bought Fox.
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If I was gonna speculate on the base concept for Midnight Suns I almost wonder if it was originally pitched as the Midnight Sons and their spooky friends but then Marvel was like "So... you're gonna put the Avengers and Wolverine in this, right?" It's a shame that there probably won't be a sequel, because there's a pretty appealing logical progression of where it would go
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They probably knew they needed to cast a wide net if they had access to Marvel’s entire catalogue. Some of the best stuff is Spidey wanting to be in the spooky club, and Captains Marvel and America being in a book club with Blade and Wolverine. Iron Man and Doctor Strange arguing is kind of par for the course, but always works well. The Midnight Suns butting heads with the Avengers was pretty well done, and I think gave them a sense of legitimacy that they proved themselves standing next to the established franchise.
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Soonmot posted:what no? that's great, i love that line It is the single greatest thing in the entire game
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Woah, Magik just merked the poo poo out of Sabretooth, lol get hosed Vic. I just finished Book Club and am upset that i) I’m nearing the end; and ii) Hunter didn’t get to suggest a book. I could read Illyana’s shitposting on hero Twitter forever. It’s good that there’s pet the dog and cat prompts but there also needs to be a pet Peter option too, bless him.
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"Do you consider yourself a goth?" "Like people who enjoy horror novels and films, and the sad, whiny music you and Magik listen to?" God, I love the Hunter-Nico-Illyana scenes.
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I like that after the party scene you can choose not to make Magik go back and just vibe with her in her room listening to metal records.
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Gaz-L posted:I like that after the party scene you can choose not to make Magik go back and just vibe with her in her room listening to metal records. The objectively correct choice.
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Can't imagine anyone choosing otherwise.
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