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Well. Venom and Green Goblin are official.

 

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Now, we all know that UA1 had the "theme" teams, pick 4 characters from a particular group (FF, xmen, avengers), you get a special bonus, right? I'm sure UA2 will have the same AND with 3 Thunderbolts members announced so far, they're gonna HAFTA have AT LEAST one more so that they can have a special thunderbolts team.

 

Who do you think?

 

Bullseye?

 

Radioactive Man?

 

My money's on Penance. I thought he was a cool character, and he's a major part of the whole Civil War shenanigans.

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so you're the guy who liked pennance!

 

Bullseye'd be fun, but how would he not break the game? theyd have to make him crazy weak. I doubt theyd run with the new team, and Swordsman, Songbird etc arent high profile enough. I think you're on the money.

 

you know, i know these games have their fun dancing outside continuity, but a playable Goblin is gonna be weird. Anyway, keep the character reveals coming! id be surprised if Sentry and Ares didnt make a show, Cable better be playable, and Peter David really has me wishing Madrox would be too, somehow.

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Hey, I liked Penance too! And I think Jon might be on the money on that. Also, Sentry would be an AWESOME addition to the Ultimate Alliance group. It'd be cool to see all his alternate costumes.

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And a Void costume!!!!

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its so weird to see people excited about the Sentry, haha. and cmon, they gimped Hulk and The Surfer, you think they wouldnt for Reynolds?

 

Who else you wanna see, though? if Cable's playable, X-Man better be a costume. I hope Iron Fist gets some older iterations as costumes, like the gun one! Oh, Deadpool oughta get Taskmaster.

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by most accounts (waiting on gamefly here), i should take your prior advice and not try again at tired-ass engines.

 

im told there's fewer moves, buffs etc, you can only play half the cast at a given time, they took people out and since it wasnt raven (people who did X-Men Legends 1 & 2, MUA 1 etc) there's supposedly a lot less fan service, which for me was the name of the game. alternate costumes got cut, too many exclusive characters always pisses me off (DS got like 2 extra, juggernaut = prepay, WTF?)

 

buy it, you're gonna. and you're gonna trade it. if they do rentals near you, you could save enough to buy a boat or some shit, no lie.

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It plays like MUA with training wheels, and the emphasis on fusion is shit, but I'll play any game that lets me re-live the awesome pie that was Civil War. NZA should get a kick out of the fact that the training mission is

Fury's Secret War

, it's cool to see Stan the Man get his cameo too. DP's fourth wall-breaking, while in-character, is acceptable.

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NZA should get a kick out of the fact that the training mission is

Fury's Secret War

 

was wondering how they worked that in, that's cool. what're youre thoughts though? i recall you not being as tired of the engine.

 

mal - are the fusions as goofy as they sound, or do they kinda work?

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There's no need to use them, but they make some things easier. Mostly, it was just "rape bosses with the thing." and use fusions if I needed to deal extra damage faster.

 

However, there's a trophy for performing every available fusion, which is made more aggrivating by the load time when switching heroes and the sheer monotony of the task. The other trophies at least require skill, or good hunting skills or a good guide.... but this one is just... fuse down the alphatbet, move on, repeat.... so, so annoying. I spent two hours just now doing less than half of them. There's no in-game track of who has fused with who, so they all have to be done, from the top.

 

After that, it's a bunch of co-op trophies, find every boost, and then done.

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was wondering how they worked that in, that's cool. what're youre thoughts though? i recall you not being as tired of the engine.

 

mal - are the fusions as goofy as they sound, or do they kinda work?

 

A day or so later, I'm reminded of the days of beer goggles, and going to bed with beauties & waking up next to gargoyles. I was so goddamned excited about the Civil War style & story that I'd have played fucking Fable 1.2.7 to relive that magic. Sure I wasn't as tired of the engine, but subsequent playthroughs I'd previously attempted were lost on repetitive play. Now that i'm somewhere past halfway I guess, they've scrapped the Civil War motif for a generic 'unilateral threat we all need to fight', and my heart breaks. Mal- lemme know if they play back into CW with this, because I ridiculously enough, still haven't even unlocked Osbourne or the Gargan Venom(although I get a giddy thrill playing as Penance), and without the story, I've run out of reasons to keep playing.

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well, im a few days in and still digging the CW story bits - JZA's words (hell, even the achievement descriptions) imply we're inevitably heading towards an "evil so great it unites everyone into a giant high-five" that i fear and hope to be wrong about.

 

Still pissy to lose Moon Knight and a few others, Iron Fist is great though. Shame the variant costumes (often my favorite bit of fan service) dropped the ball so awfully here, Cap's is the only decent one, and that's saying something from it being recycled a few times now. i just dont see the excuse here, Deadool with black/red and shoulder pads? Why not just use the awful ending one from the :D movie i fyoure gonna do that? and every single one ive opened so far is that way; Luke Cage, Wolvy, Iron Fist (ugh), all bad, all clearly never worn in the books for a reason. i mean, props on making me appreciate logan's bananasuit, i guess?

 

i know its to soon for gamefaqs to have character guides & such, but i gotta be building some dudes like Daredevil wrong, or he's mad gimped. He's like the Blade of this game so far. im also like one piece away from unlocking Jean, Thor and Hulk and clearly missing those pieces in the last few levels :anger: i gotta remember to wander more before beating bosses.

 

Legendary/Anti-Reg so far, its not that tough at this point as long as you dont let bosses spam you. we'll see how it holds up.

 

Giant Man? more like GIANT BITCH, AMIRITE?! haw haw i had cap beat him down again 'cause its funny.

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aw man, what the fuck? why are Madrox, Cable, and all the interesting guys in my cutscenes but not playable?! fuck, there's She-Hulk. she might as well have a "BUY THE NINTENDO DS™ TO USE ME LIKE CAGE DID" shirt.

 

Really?

 

At this point of the game this comes as a surprise to you.

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oh christ, it all makes sense now. i kept thinking "where are these awful goddamn alternate costume designs coming from?" the core characters seem to be "inspired by" Secret War, which did have great art. but the entire FF hails from Greg "pornface" Land, and Larocca's name is way too much around here as well. Iceman's alternate came from X-Men: Ronin? whose call was that? the worst goddamn offender has to be Gambit's, please say someone else saw this. i had to check wiiki just to find out he was somehow Apocalypse's angel of death for like an issue (bar = lowered.)

 

its coming along, that's just been bothering me, though.

 

also, JZA? yeah, shark = jumped.

 

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oh christ, it all makes sense now. i kept thinking "where are these awful goddamn alternate costume designs coming from?" the core characters seem to be "inspired by" Secret War, which did have great art. but the entire FF hails from Greg "pornface" Land, and Larocca's name is way too much around here as well. Iceman's alternate came from X-Men: Ronin? whose call was that? the worst goddamn offender has to be Gambit's, please say someone else saw this. i had to check wiiki just to find out he was somehow Apocalypse's angel of death for like an issue (bar = lowered.)

 

its coming along, that's just been bothering me, though.

 

also, JZA? yeah, shark = jumped.

 

Who was a what now?

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i know. if they're gonna go for obscure marvel history, why go for shit only larocca remembers? might as well make a priest variant nightcrawler.

i mean, i was so fucking sure Speedball'd be the Penance variant, but no, its a nipple-pierced Bobby that looks frightening like Deadpool at the end of the Wolvy film.

 

ps GODDAMMIT GAME STOP GIVING ME SHIT ART AND INFORMATION I ALREADY KNEW OR DISCS OR WHATEVER AND GIVE UP THE LAST PIECES FOR THOR AND HULK UNLOCKABLES. fuck im already at

wakanda

itd be nice to get some time with them before the credits.

im looking all over, how am i missing these things? were they only in the earlier stages?!

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