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Edgar Allen Ho posted:why isn't this a thing though? A videogame takes effort. Now, there have been good videogames attached to franchises (Arkham games, DC injustice) but it takes a lot of money and monumental effort. Making a fighting game that is also good is a huge task on top of that. It's a big enough niche that has a lot of loud people making GBS threads on all efforts and writing huge reddit posts about why the game is poo poo, etc etc. On top of all this, Nick still holds the IP and making a game that's not rated E or T is probably against their guidelines - and a fighting game is probably not going to rate that. There was actually a Korra game made by Platinum of Bayonetta fame, but it was mediocre and was silently removed from steam and other online markets by Activision 3 years later (license ran out probably). https://thumbs.gfycat.com/MaleInfamousAnhinga-mobile.mp4 tl;dr: nick sucks and won't make a game over T rating
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I don't see why an Avatar fighting game has to be above T. Hell, FighterZ is T rated.
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Aug 19, 2020 17:37
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Ozai wasn't personally responsible for genociding the Air Nomads, but he was trying to literally burn down the entire Earth Nation. I wonder if the signs of that are still around in Korra's time.Musluk posted:There was actually a Korra game made by Platinum of Bayonetta fame, but it was mediocre and was silently removed from steam and other online markets by Activision 3 years later (license ran out probably). Weird that they would take that down but also do a rerelease of that one Spongebob game. There was one Avatar game that I really liked that had the whole plot of a non-bender trying to use robots to overthrow Benders' control over the world. It also came up with the idea that the air nomads had little villages of air-aligned nonbenders living around their temples.
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Aug 19, 2020 18:12
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SlothfulCobra posted:Ozai wasn't personally responsible for genociding the Air Nomads, but he was trying to literally burn down the entire Earth Nation. I wonder if the signs of that are still around in Korra's time. IIRC, some theories go that it explains a fair few things in Korra how the Earth Kingdom outside of Ba Sing Se has stagnated/regressed to Wild West levels and has sufficient amounts of disgruntled peasants for not-Mao to get a foothold. Though in the original show, it seems like the 'burn literally the entire country to the ground' plan never actually got past some seemingly uninhabited forest and Utah-esque rock spires.
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Aug 19, 2020 18:25
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC, some theories go that it explains a fair few things in Korra how the Earth Kingdom outside of Ba Sing Se has stagnated/regressed to Wild West levels and has sufficient amounts of disgruntled peasants for not-Mao to get a foothold. Though in the original show, it seems like the 'burn literally the entire country to the ground' plan never actually got past some seemingly uninhabited forest and Utah-esque rock spires. Ghost Leviathan posted:Remember it was Ozai's grandfather that did the genocide, at the point of the series the damage is long done. (then again, there's the slow genocide of the Southern Tribe Waterbenders and their whole style that went with it, arguably as bad) I accidentally put my response inside my quote last night oops. And his attempted burninatin' gets the same pass as Sokka's sword only ever cutting the tips off of spears. We know what they are both meant to be doing. (Sokka grows up to be a mohel)
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Aug 19, 2020 18:56
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The secret about that Korra game, is that it's a lot more fun on the replay with all the bending styles unlocked.
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Aug 19, 2020 19:23
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Plenty of fighting games are rated E or T. Super Smash Bros is the big one that comes to mind. Not every fighting game needs to have blood or Fatalities
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Aug 20, 2020 19:43
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The not-official RPG, Legend of the Elements, is pretty good. Definitely on the higher end of AW-likes. Did a short campaign of it earlier in the summer and it was smooth as butter.
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Aug 20, 2020 19:52
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like that's more of a S&P thing. Can't have the main characters just kill the bad guys on a kids' show in 2008. Tell that to Sparky-Boom-Boom-Man
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Asgerd posted:Tell that to Sparky-Boom-Boom-Man Batman already showed us that S&P has loopholes you can drive a truck through.
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Aug 21, 2020 06:26
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Asgerd posted:Tell that to Sparky-Boom-Boom-Man More like P'li. 
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Aug 21, 2020 08:19
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Did team avatar kill combustion man? It was very unclear.
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Aug 21, 2020 14:29
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He blew himself up by trying to combustionbend while his chi was blocked. He died but no-one consciously made the decision to kill him
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Aug 21, 2020 14:38
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The guy they put the helmet on in korra was absolutely killed though
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Aug 21, 2020 14:44
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I was making an Ember Island Players reference. Also, do you mean combustion lady who Su wrapped her armor around? Funny part about that is they never say she died.
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I got your joke, friend. Ember Island was as good as the finale was bad. If it weren't for Tales of Ba Sing Se being a special untouchable thing, it might even be the best episode of the show.
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It's such a weird thing how Mako ended up doing the VA for his own eulogy.Ghost Leviathan posted:Batman already showed us that S&P has loopholes you can drive a truck through. It really depends on the network. If they have a show's back, the show can push a lot more boundaries, but if they don't, they'll just be another hurdle. Nickelodeon isn't really known for having shows' backs. Irony Be My Shield posted:The guy they put the helmet on in korra was absolutely killed though This literally didn't air on TV.
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Aug 21, 2020 17:24
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SlothfulCobra posted:This literally didn't air on TV. Oh yeah, the latter episodes of season 3 were online only, at least for the US. Completely forgot about that whole thing.
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Aug 22, 2020 18:17
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grassy gnoll posted:I figured Sokka was too weird/hung up on the moon to ever settle down, but was entirely content to be the Fun Uncle. Nah, Sokka was over the moon in every sense of the term once he got the chance to get Suki in his tent.
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Aug 22, 2020 18:19
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Just finished my Korra binge, they never outright say the Earth Queen is killed either. She is just shown passing out after the air is pulled out of her lungs and her head is surrounded by a bubble of vacuum. She was 'brought down' and her reign was 'cut short'
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Aug 23, 2020 01:03
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I finally got around to starting my Avatar rewatch, and it's interesting how there's a running theme of Zuko being fantastically skilled at fighting without bending. Like right at the start, he aces Sokka without a single cinder, and then later he defeats Zhao with physically breakdancing and tripping him up instead of firebending, and fights his way through a fortress with nothing but his swords. Also there's a whole thing where the show is technically visually drab, because it reserves most color for element-coding, with lots of neutral or earthy tones in between to keep focus on the elemental coding, so there's relatively little range of hues ant tints in general. It makes up for that by being metaphorically colorful in every other way, lots of visual details in the linework, motion, complex music and sound design filled with instruments, from exotic drums to the mouth harp. And since they've got such a small range of color, that leaves plenty of room for color-shifting the whole scene to show mood, weather, and lighting.
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Aug 23, 2020 04:09
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Sokka's Master has a brief but very telling bit where he says one of his best students was Zuko, and presumably he got the full curriculum and not the accelerated course that Sokka got. Also a bit of a theme that Zuko's Firebending style is fairly basic, but his fundamentals are rock solid- even if he has to relearn from Firebending kindergarten after finally joining the Gaang.
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Aug 23, 2020 05:20
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You'll also notice that when he first fights Azula, she in turn trounces him without firebending. She tries to shoot lightning that Iroh redirects but only after he's already down.
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SolarFire2 posted:Nah, Sokka was over the moon in every sense of the term once he got the chance to get Suki in his tent. That was one of the all-time great S&P subversions and I'm still a little surprised they got away with it even after all this time.
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Super Waffle posted:Just finished my Korra binge, they never outright say the Earth Queen is killed either. She is just shown passing out after the air is pulled out of her lungs and her head is surrounded by a bubble of vacuum. She was 'brought down' and her reign was 'cut short' I think that was actually explained as the team following S&P guidelines to the letter. The Earth Queen is murdered on-screen (well, almost, they cut away like a second before she's certifiably dead) but per S&P rules, they can't say she was killed, so they have to use "taken out" or whatever rather than killed or assassinated. It's hilariously stupid and specific that showing a murder is A-OK for a TV-Y7 rated cartoon, but also calling it a murder isn't.
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I never realized how Katara really wasn't much good for any fights until she put her all into fighting Pakku. Makes it seem much more reasonable that Sokka got much less important later on. Katara pulls a lot more weight after she masters bending. The Ocean spirit made manifest is one of my favorite designs of the series, just an angry god of the deep that all who rely on him immediately bow down to. It's like one of those biblical plagues. The series is filled with amazing fights. The Earth Kingdom army trying to force Aang into the avatar state is such an amazing thing with dodging around and through those giant coins.
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Aug 26, 2020 01:42
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Katara eventually gets the best fight in the series, when they take down Azula. Sokka, meanwhile, drops his cool sword and nearly falls to his death a couple of times. It's a bit of a rough comparison.
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Yea, but Sokka is the plan guy. And the joke guy. You need those guys.
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Honestly, by the end of the series, Sokka isn't really about direct combat, even though he had his own episode about training to be better. He became the plan guy to be better at fighting, and that's what stuck, just like how Katara started fighting to be better at bending.
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Sokka also did more material damage to Ozai's forces than any other character who wasn't already in the White Lotus with his airship slice stunt, so that's nothing to sniff at.
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Aug 26, 2020 06:22
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RIP space sword and boomerang But yeah, Sokka's big strength throughout the series was always his brains, using quick thinking, a knack for engineering and improvisation. He's basically Batman. (In particular, Batman as the Justice League's brains and black ops guy)
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Aug 26, 2020 06:36
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Ghost Leviathan posted:RIP space sword and boomerang Also in particular, Adam West's Batman
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Aug 26, 2020 06:58
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And he didn't need bending to improve his physique - pure Water Tribe.
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Give Sokka a decade or two a sidekick and he'd be unstoppable.
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Rewatch chat: I think season two episode nine might be my favourite. It gives us a ton of bending lore for the first time, that would go on to spawn a thousand dumb online personality quizzes, it has lots of extremely good Zuko and Iroh moments (both "aww" and "HONOURRRRR" varieties), and Sokka does what he does best the whole episode while stuck in a hole playing with a cat.
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Season 2 episode 2 gives the origin of earthbending in between Dee Bradley Baker singing a bunch of fun goofy songs instead of making animal noises, and it's fantastic.
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Aug 29, 2020 00:31
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grassy gnoll posted:And he didn't need bending to improve his physique - pure Water Tribe. 
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SlothfulCobra posted:Season 2 episode 2 gives the origin of earthbending in between Dee Bradley Baker singing a bunch of fun goofy songs instead of making animal noises, and it's fantastic. SEEEECRET TUUUUUUNELLLLL
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Watched through for the first time last month, and while people like to pick on The Great Divide or The Fortune-Teller or The Headband as the worst episodes, my vote there is actually for The Northern Air Temple, because its message about how "actually desecration of genocided indigenous people's sacred sites is okay because  " is loving abhorrent, holy poo poo.
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TIL Aubrey Plaza doesn't even remember being on Legend of Korra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7HtWi8JZ2Q&t=82s
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