possible good news?

[Keyne]

Read it, lol'd

Thing to keep in mind though, is that Scarlet Blade is the localized name of Queen's Blade, even though it has little to nothing to do with the anime/image series aside from the massive amounts of T&A (So far; no clue where the story goes...). So you read too deeply into it, but it was still amusing.

[Joshex]

So when Aeria games releases "Heroine of City" I know who to blame.  :P

Actually, I would have a hard time deciding to pull out the torches and pitchforks or pulling out big $ to support a company that just thumbed its nose at NCSoft.

true in a way, but to me that depends on the 'why' of NCSoft's CoH Shutdown.

Read it, lol'd

Thing to keep in mind though, is that Scarlet Blade is the localized name of Queen's Blade, even though it has little to nothing to do with the anime/image series aside from the massive amounts of T&A (So far; no clue where the story goes...). So you read too deeply into it, but it was still amusing.

hehe, I like to read deeply into thngs, and yeah I became aware it was part of queens blade only recently (I have never watched that anime or seen much of it's content other than a few pictures and I think one poorly made 3D animation.)

time to go post another article in titan general/unrelated as I have just read very deeply into somethign I feel I need to write a long article on.

[Mistress Urd]

Its nothing new, games like Variable Geo are pretty old.

(I'll leave comments about Dead or Alive in the Crey's Folly dumpster)

[antarcticaa]

Last Chaos seems to have some promise for me.  Not too demanding on the old computer, interesting clases to play and I'm not confined to wearing skimpy anime costumed if I don't want to wear em.  As a female player I want equal opportunity rights to ogle the males in the party.

Any old CoH groups playing in this one yet?

[Joshex]

Last Chaos seems to have some promise for me.  Not too demanding on the old computer, interesting clases to play and I'm not confined to wearing skimpy anime costumed if I don't want to wear em.  As a female player I want equal opportunity rights to ogle the males in the party.

Any old CoH groups playing in this one yet?

several, Supes is a former CoH player and he's a Game Master at aeria, he plays last chaos and alot of other people I talked to over there say they used to play CoH but like to play Last Chaos now.

and actually, the korean version of Scarlet blade had a male character as an option. they removed it for the USA version.

[Joshex]

bumping this oldish thread.

right so, Scarlet blade has gone live or at least into open beta from closed beta. I started playing it more indepthly.

guess what, they have a costume designing option, so long as you have the costume peice you want a specific part to look like you can make it look like that. and of coarse there are other options as well.

Recently they had a promo going for it asking players to fill out a survey about the game and it's context (mission text) and of coarse asking players weather there should be unique story lines for each side (royal guards and free knights).

I suggested them to take a hint from CoH and do a heroes and villains concept, I also suggested exemplaring and a missions system. and poked at them to elaborate on thier costume designer especially on the note of body shape and details.

Word is they plan to introduce the choice of a male character as time runs on, the original korean version had a male character, but that would have meant translating the mission texts 2 times based on gender, aeria decided that seeing as most players feel more comfortable making female characters they would start with only female characters. to save work load.

lastly I hinted at a flight power being a good optional choice, and wished I had suggested ninjarun/jump and powerpools.. but alas I didn't think of it at the time.

PVP, ok so I tried thier PVP, they have events rather than zones, the events are set to minimize cheating and make cheating not really matter too much. so far I'm at LV 19, with only basic given items, I can actually take part in PVP without much hassle.

now granted if they allow too much enhancement to carry over into PVP there will eventually be the same problems as in every other MMO with people loosing interest after only trying it a few times cause they are already severely outgunned by the pros.

it's not exactly CoH, but if they take my input I hope they get it relatively close.

though I still miss the enhancement system in CoH, it was straightforwards and easy and had no chance of failure, but then again thats how aeria makes it's money.

[JaguarX]

bumping this oldish thread.

right so, Scarlet blade has gone live or at least into open beta from closed beta. I started playing it more indepthly.

guess what, they have a costume designing option, so long as you have the costume peice you want a specific part to look like you can make it look like that. and of coarse there are other options as well.

Recently they had a promo going for it asking players to fill out a survey about the game and it's context (mission text) and of coarse asking players weather there should be unique story lines for each side (royal guards and free knights).

I suggested them to take a hint from CoH and do a heroes and villains concept, I also suggested exemplaring and a missions system. and poked at them to elaborate on thier costume designer especially on the note of body shape and details.

Word is they plan to introduce the choice of a male character as time runs on, the original korean version had a male character, but that would have meant translating the mission texts 2 times based on gender, aeria decided that seeing as most players feel more comfortable making female characters they would start with only female characters. to save work load.

lastly I hinted at a flight power being a good optional choice, and wished I had suggested ninjarun/jump and powerpools.. but alas I didn't think of it at the time.

PVP, ok so I tried thier PVP, they have events rather than zones, the events are set to minimize cheating and make cheating not really matter too much. so far I'm at LV 19, with only basic given items, I can actually take part in PVP without much hassle.

now granted if they allow too much enhancement to carry over into PVP there will eventually be the same problems as in every other MMO with people loosing interest after only trying it a few times cause they are already severely outgunned by the pros.

it's not exactly CoH, but if they take my input I hope they get it relatively close.

though I still miss the enhancement system in CoH, it was straightforwards and easy and had no chance of failure, but then again thats how aeria makes it's money.

I haven't been in scarlet blade in a hot minute. Might start it up again to see the changes and progress. Almost forgot it was on my computer.

[Joshex]

I haven't been in scarlet blade in a hot minute. Might start it up again to see the changes and progress. Almost forgot it was on my computer.

awesome, I think us CoH players should start a guild or group or what ever they call it, I saw 1 guild called atlas and I joined but was kicked after going offline for the night...

to me SB is only a placeholder, if CoH returns I will gladly jump back in.

laugh as you may I'm on venus server as a royal guard with the name 95TibblyBits. (a whipper) seems appropriate as I was gonna make a CoH whip melee demo before it went down..

[Mister Bison]

I loled at that video (As it's a video of SB, not safe for work unless you have lightning fast alt-tab)

[Joshex]

meh, it's playable.

most of aeria's games have the "walk to mission" buttons you can do it manually but I really want to super jump or fly.

you know what I found out yesterday? the skills don't auto upgrade lv, I was a LV20 with LV1 skills... why? cause in all the tutorial junk it never told me how to use the skills window. it showed me the skills window but not how to use it.

the skills window has about as much figuring as power choosing and slotting but contains no enhancement capabilities.

[Taceus Jiwede]

I loled at that video (As it's a video of SB, not safe for work unless you have lightning fast alt-tab)

Heh that made me laugh as well.  Thanks for the link

[LydiaFrost]

The Video was very biased and it didnt hit my Humor.

If you dont read the quests, dont want to know about the background, then every current mmo is a Chain of Get Quest -> Kill X Times n -> resolve Quest , repeat.

There are (few) good point to Scarlet Blade, for example the solo mode for Dungeons.

Im no SB Fanboy, I didnt play more than lvl 22 before uninstalling, but that video is far from objective.

Lydia Frost MM

[Joshex]

The Video was very biased and it didnt hit my Humor.

If you dont read the quests, dont want to know about the background, then every current mmo is a Chain of Get Quest -> Kill X Times n -> resolve Quest , repeat.

There are (few) good point to Scarlet Blade, for example the solo mode for Dungeons.

Im no SB Fanboy, I didnt play more than lvl 22 before uninstalling, but that video is far from objective.

Lydia Frost MM

I agree, it may not be city of heroes but it is a decent game, I too was surpprised I could solo a dungeon, most guildy games make you be lv 30 to tak on the lv 10 dungeon etc.


the game is only about boobs if you make it so, infact alot of people will despise you in game if you openly talk sexually about your character.

they plan to add male arkana at a later time, but it would mean two different mission texts for each mission, also you must remember it is being translated from korean, to get it out quiker they decided to only translate the female text, because more players of all genders can feel comfortable playing a female character.

[TimtheEnchanter]

If you dont read the quests, dont want to know about the background, then every current mmo is a Chain of Get Quest -> Kill X Times n -> resolve Quest , repeat.

I've never been able to grasp why MMO's haven't been able to reach a point where everything stops feeling like a mundane sequence of linear objectives.

"Click X # of these."
"Kill X # of those."

[Joshex]

I've never been able to grasp why MMO's haven't been able to reach a point where everything stops feeling like a mundane sequence of linear objectives.

"Click X # of these."
"Kill X # of those."

cause they aren't CoH, they are built to be simple and make money. not to entertain. CoH sold entertainment, the others just sell marketing strategies

[Kistulot]

To be fair, a lot of CoH's content can still be summed up in many of those same ways.

Click the glowies. Kill alls. Hunts. Fedexs.

There was enough there that made CoH special beyond that, but we can't say that there wasnt plenty of content that is entirely not dissimilar to those things. Numina's hunt is a pretty big kill x of this thing. The Lambda trial has a big section devoted to clicking the things.

On its own that isnt bad. It's the lack of additional substance that's the problem. And frankly at least we knock out 10 devouring earth, we didnt have to do it until we got tree bark.

[MakoMako]

the game is only about boobs if you make it so, infact alot of people will despise you in game if you openly talk sexually about your character.

Seriously? The way the game is marketed and advertised and they get pissy if someone plays the game for what it's obviously intended for?

That would be like getting angry at someone in City of Heroes for roleplaying a super hero...

[houtex]

Well, yeah.  Of course I'd be angry.  When I'm playin' Redside, quit with youre goody twoshoes act already!  We're goin' MAIMING... and stuff.

[healix]

Awwww, Houtie...

https://i.imgur.com/84aiH1N.gif

[Joshex]

I fully agree of coarse, but it's true, many people play it as if it's just an MMO, no emphasis on boobs or butts and if you talk about it in the main chat channels people will make snotty remarks about your maturity.

yes though again I fully agree it is counter productive but, if you read the korean developers notes on the ingame nudity "it is against thier moral code to include such nudity, but for the sake of marketing they will allow boobs", however on the same note they will say "we will not show any nudity on the sentinel because of our morals due to her flat chested form and bottom side nudity will never be made on any characters cause that also is against korean moral code."

so really the fact the game was made in korea is it's own worst enemy