One thing I really miss, and didn't think I'd ever miss or never thought about it much, from City of Heroes were decent emotes and /em boombox. It seems silly, I guess. But I really find that, I've been playing some other games to pass the time, and any time I'd get frustrated (but not angry) at waiting for something or another, I really missed good, varied persistent emotes.I've found playing a game, while waiting for one team member or another to stop juggling their inventories or the stores or vault or.. whatever, I would default to Popdance or Boombox, rather than have my character stand there like the emotionally dead soul they are. And I really miss it being gone. Like 75% of the emotes in most other games don't do anything other than "Osborn dances with Bob!" in the chat window, or they last a second or so before you have to keep putting them back up.And for some strange reason, and it's probably just me, but I really... really... miss those.The amount of times I've idly typed in /em boombox in other games while waiting for somebody to stop juggling what pair of pants has better numbers is surprisingly a lot.
I miss helping lowbies gain a few quick levels by tanking through +4 x8 mobs on Decoy, my favourite scrapper, to the tune of old wrestling entrance themes.
For example the /em boombox had like what 10 different songs you could play on it?
I admit that I spent the bulk of my time in missions and very little on the more social aspects of the game, so I didn't really notice, but the /em list was a work in progress, right? I mean, it wasn't that diverse out of Beta, was it?
That's a fact. Champions is missing even the most basic of emotes, four years after launch.
I didnt even bother using any until later and seen a few videos of the new dancing ones near the end . In CO I dont think I used a single emote besides the Crank dat Superman one a couple of times. The rest of the emotes are "meh" to me in both games.
I didn't even go that far, I just chatted with a couple of girls for an hour, watched as they ran through the list of emotes and decided "Yup, I was right the first eleven times; I want nothing to do with this pancakey game."
It's an auto-text replacement for the expletive that is a synonym for defecate, as unicorn is a replacement for the fantasy creatures that live under bridges.
Oooooooh that explains it. Thanks.
That, in turn, was inspired by a post in the Rude Tells thread, I think. That or a thread about a particularly funny exchange with a GM, I forget.
I loved alakazamreact when it turned you into a pumpkin. That was great. I had no interest in turning into a lamp or table though, so when that change happened I stopped using the emote. You know what I miss? Being able to make any costume I wanted, and I could wear it anytime without it affecting my stats. The game I am in now, how you look = your stats and I HATE IT. Also, having to go to some NPC to "repair your armor" SUCKS. God what a waste of time.
Which is something I love in TSW, clothes are entirely cosmetic - you still need to repair your gear if you die though. (it's just invisible gear )
Yeah, it's possible that like 10% of my posts contain the word that "pancake" auto-replaces. What can I say; I'm a lifelong pacifist that finally has a reason to be royally pissed off.
Yeah, I forget the exact reason but it was definitely a mod replacing some pottymouth language. The one who started it was either Ocho, Freitag, or possibly Moderator Fabulous while he was there.And it doesn't even have to auto-replace with me, I just type out "pancake" now. Way more funny than really swearing.