Zanzibar Ham posted:

Emma Frost: "Try Jumping"

I'm surprised this game came out in 2011, it looks much older.

XMen Destiny posted:

this power lets you manipulate your mutant's body mass, usually in the form of a hard rock coating.

Golden Goat posted:

Oh man Destiny Control sounds cool I wonder what tha...


Why would they name it that?

Quiet Python posted:

I liked the way you could mix and match powers in this game, even though the combat was pretty blah. I played it on Normal, so that's probably why I found it that way.

Adrian needs a superhero code name. Shadow Matter plus Ice Skin...hmmm. How about Cold Shadow?

Crabtree posted:

Its only sad that this game fell so hard on its face that it landed Silicon Knights in a lawsuit that forced extra copies of this and Too Human to be destroyed because it wasted such a good idea for an Xmen game, create your own mutant and decide where you stand in the conflict, so badly. The execution of this should have been a no brainer but we already have issues of only one of the predetermined pasts being worth a drat.

I mean Xmen as a franchise is always kind of hosed because its assuming genetics/Nature would be kind in giving people powers all the time and not just giving them a mutations that literally kills them in some horrible comic book fashion 9 times out of 10 as well play off the idea that we as a species violently wipes out "less evolved" hominids when very recent studies suggest that we modern humans are very much genetically similar to Neanderthals to the point that we likely just mated until only Homo Sapiens with 99% Neanderthal DNA were left, but this should have been easy and perfect for an Xmen title. How can you gently caress something like this up?

GamesAreSupernice posted:

I think it's "Density Control", though I made the same mistake at first.

GamesAreSupernice posted:

I really don't understand what direction they were trying to take, here. If they wanted it to be an action-brawler, they could've just advertised it that way. But instead they advertised it as an Action-RPG where your choices have meaningful impact. Which it isn't.

Crabtree posted:

The first and most crucial part of that second part is making sure you have choices that matter at all to begin with. But many big RPGs have left "choice" to be a different colored yet similar ending so it isn't like SK was the only one who decided and advertised that RPGs are games where choices matter. They still damned themselves going down this road as lazily and apparently as illegally as they did, but there is much more this needed to be if it wanted to feel like an RPG and not a brawler foremost.

Crabtree posted:

I mean Xmen as a franchise is always kind of hosed because its assuming genetics/Nature would be kind in giving people powers all the time and not just giving them a mutations that literally kills them in some horrible comic book fashion 9 times out of 10

SonicRulez posted:

They do this pretty often. For every "Laser eyes" there are mutations that just made a guy's body completely jelly. You can see his bones and stuff. And some powers, like Kitty Pryde's, would flat out kill you if you couldn't control it. Imagine if Kitty phased in her sleep and just fell through to the Earth's core. That idea is also the concept behind the Morlocks. Unless you just mean flat out that the X-gene would kill them at birth or something. That would be stupid.

Kaboom Dragoon posted:

There was also a mini-series recently about a kid whose mutant power was to make himself explode. Once. And it would kill him if he did so. Granted, it was a comedy series, but it did feature a few characters with less than useful powers. Grant Morrison's run on the book did the same, featuring a guy with three faces named Ugly John, Glob Herman, the aforementioned skeleton blob guy, and a girl with half a dozen mouths on her necks who could project creepy whispering.

Crystalgate posted:

If you are able to make your own choices, a "call them out on their bullshit" dialog option would be nice. Granted, Adrian is spewing a lot on his own, but two people each being able to see trough the other person's bullshit while being blind to their own is hardly unheard of.

Anyway, having seen a bit of Aimi, her background story had no relevance at all as far as I saw. There is one big advantage to it though, her switching between helping the X-men and the brotherhood doesn't make her look inconsistent, it just looks like she goes with whatever she's feeling. I imagine the third character will have a similar deal.

Lotish posted:

"Purifiers were trying to get this. I got rid of them."

"I doubt that."

*boss fight*

"I brought you the package! I didn't let the purifiers get it!"

"Why didn't you say so?"

I've seen jokes that Gambit is brain damaged, but in this case I think it is literally true.

So far every mission of this game feels more like the start of a f2p Xmen MMO.

GamesAreSupernice posted:

I'm not even sure why Gambit attacked us.

Polaron posted:

I've been fascinated with this game for a while, as well as the fall of Silicon Knights (I loved Eternal Darkness). I know it's Kotaku (and they can be pretty hit and miss) but this article seems to provide a pretty good answer for what happened with this game and Too Human: http://kotaku.com/5955223/what-went-wrong-with-silicon-knights-x-men-destiny

SonicRulez posted:

They do this pretty often. For every "Laser eyes" there are mutations that just made a guy's body completely jelly. You can see his bones and stuff. And some powers, like Kitty Pryde's, would flat out kill you if you couldn't control it. Imagine if Kitty phased in her sleep and just fell through to the Earth's core. That idea is also the concept behind the Morlocks. Unless you just mean flat out that the X-gene would kill them at birth or something. That would be stupid.

GamesAreSupernice posted:

Lotish posted:

One of my favorite mutants for that sort of thing was Chamber. Powerful psychic energies in his chest cavity that just exploded outward and blew off his lower jaw. He's sustained by this maelstrom in his chest because he basically doesn't have organs, and it makes getting a date a real bitch.

Also, Rockslide is a hoot.

Dinictus posted:

That's... pretty drat depressing and I should maybe start reading New X-Men.

I find that they do try to make the most out of their shoddy dev cycle with a story that tries to be engaging, but they're kinda being transparent now about this game having one track to follow, without so much as divisive sidetracks as more little sidequests that just give points to either Paragon X-Men or Renegade the Brotherhood. The camera at least doesn't seem to give much problems for now.

Tiggum posted:

What is the protagonist's power anyway? How are the upgrades justified in the story?

Crystalgate posted:

The protagonist also has some degree of super strength and enhanced mobility (although I'd argue that you'd get that automatically if you grow stronger without increasing your body mass) and may pick something else up on the way. He or she is also quickly becoming on par with the X-men, who have both far more training and experience, so either the protagonist has considerable stronger mutant powers or it's a being the main character thing.

Anyway, the X-men and the Brotherhood seem to compete over who's the most obnoxious. The Brotherhood is in a good lead, but Colossus is trying hard to even the score.