PDBA: Generations

[Draxas]

Overreacting much? It was just a joke.

Seriously, if you want your characters involved, get them involved. I was already in the midst of writing that post when you put up your last remark, so I had a little fun at your (and everyone else's) expense.

Lighten up, man. If we're not having fun, what's the point?

[Razor]

OOC: Exactly, there is no point...and though I figured I made it QUITE APPARENT in my last post that my character SHOULD have been involved soon, it was completely ignored...seriously...this ISN'T fun for me...am I the ONLY person now whose character isn't ungodly powerful?

[DaHaK]

actually, no. look at dahak, his only saving grace is the chaos cannon, and its a weak one at that.

[Notesurfer]

OOC: Razor, Notek'll be gone soon . . . he's deaded. Then I'll have Oasis in here, at which point only Stryker will be the mildly overpowered character (which can be easily remedied by a few well-placed alliances). I was gonna' have Razor aid Notek but I was afraid of how you'd respond to that. I figured that Razor would probably come down after Notek are teh keelt by Stryker and make big asplody on Stryker. Then I'll get Notek outta there and bring in Oasis for the remainder of the PDBAG. Only one plot twist I shall keep secret.

[Draxas]

*sigh*

Incase you haven't noticed, Stryker is a PLOT DEVICE.

Notesurfer is not the only one playing these games here, people.

[DaHaK]

I wouldn't count on that one, Draxas, you dont know what Note's got planned for his character...

As for the rest of generations, Notek's gunna be gone in a little bit anyway, [/color]

[Razor]

OOC: No. I wouldn't have cared...and I don't care enough to do jack now. Too pissed off. Have fun...I'm sorry but this whole thing has just turned too stupid for my liking. Guess my tastes have become more refined.

[Draxas]

Sorry, then. Glad you stopped in, wish you could stay, because it makes the thread better if it's NOT just the two of us trading posts. But I can't force you.

If you decide to come back, you know the door is always open...

[Snake]

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[Razor]

OOC: What's killing me here, is that you've taken a great concept and completely RUINED it by turning it into overdramatic DBZ-fanboy CRAP. This is supposed to be the PDBA.

Perfect Dark: Hardly PD anymore...seriously...how many characters have links or even weaponry from PD?

Battle: More talking and slaughtering than real battling going on. Seriously...my character's first real fight, she gets slaughtered like she's NOTHING by an uber-powergame machine. How much fun is THAT?

Arena: A centralized arena FOR COMBAT. Not for hunting, not for assassinating, not for testing, not for searching for the answers to those mysterious questions. FOR COMBAT.

Look...this concept was supposed to bring back old-style fighting and whatnot. If you want to do this plothole-filled BULL, do it in Evolution. If you didn't like the character you made, no reason to kill them off and screw up what you'd planned with other people. I thought that doing this and making new characters would bring back the old ruthless competition that'd died since everyone became buddies in my CISOD. Instead, everyone's spending the whole time dwelling on the past! I'm tempted to take this topic, delete it, and start it over RIGHT...because THIS...is NOT a PDBA arena.

[Draxas]

Touche, sir, touche.

Your points about this getting DBZish are valid, there does seem to be a lot more talking than fighting going on here. However, nobody ever said anything about starting a Generations Evolution thread, the plot has to come from somewhere, right?

Only Notesurfer is dropping his characters like flies. When I said Stryker was a plot device, I meant it; he's not going to die.

You ask about weaponry from PD? It's been 25 years! Better stuff has come and gone, why would people still use the antiques?

Uber-powerful, perhaps. Defeatable, definitely. You just need to WRITE it. Need I mention that Note sort of backed me into a corner with that scenario?

If you want to start over RIGHT, as you put it, this is not the best way to do it. The best way would probably just be a forced restart in the current time period; everyone makes alternate characters, with (and this is important) NO CONNECTIONS TO THEIR OLD ONES to bog the topic down with Evolutionness, and we just start the hell over, making and breaking alliances as we go and writing the Evolution for the new characters as it comes. And most importantly, basking in the carnage that a dozen strangers in a battle arena should be generating.

Not that I think Generations is a bad idea by any means. Maybe we are going about it wrong... But I think the stuff you're upset about stems from the fact that, despite the new faces, everyone here is just a footnote in an already established character's story, and a continuation of that story. Just as the later arenas couldn't step out of the CISOD's shadow, neither can these new characters step out of the shadows of the giants that came before.

Before you say anything, I realize that you are trying to keep Nikara's attachment to Razor as minimal as possible. But it's not just the connection to him; there's Notesurfer, Athena, Solorn, etc. already hanging out in the arena, and the connections are as natural as they come. To truly have a new generation, and get some of the old fire back, I think we'd need to build it from the ground up.

Please don't abandon this topic just yet. As upset as you might be, I hope you realize that this is very much a work in progress. Either way, I don't think I'm being too forward by saying that we should put the arena on hold for now, and work on refining this until we're happy with it.

Feel free to disagree by continuing to make IC posts.

[Razor]

OOC: Alright...first off...yeah. I suppose that's a problem. I said people could make connections to previous characters...but I didn't expect the connections to be so GLARINGLY obvious that they dominated the arena. Yeah, Nikara's Razor's daughter. This might make her more likely to befriend some and be an enemy to others. She doesn't talk about it though...it doesn't matter. The problem is, both you AND Notesurfer had your characters blatantly connected with the old ones...SEARCHING for them. I think the connection idea is fine...I think it'd be cool if Notesurfer and Razor and Draxas could pop in, kick a bit of ass, and fade into the shadows, you know? The problem is, the current characters got so OBSESSED with it that it got stupid.

Notesurfer: Even if we don't restart...I'm hoping you'll come to your senses and take back your latest stuff. Seriously, you're better than that.

Draxas: Still doesn't solved the problem that my character was shoved aside and ignored so you could finish this little thing here. You die, instantly respawn and go back...I say I'll BE there soon...sorta expecting, you know, to show up in someone else's post? Nope...ignored. I didn't butt in because I didn't feel like pissing anyone off...and the result of my kindness? I get treated like nothing and -I- end up getting pissed off. By the way, I've got an AWESOME way for Nikara to take down Stryker...but I didn't get the chance, because I was dead before I could post again. What ever happened to those old epic five-post gunfights? Also...Nikara uses 'antiques' because it was what was available to her. Hell, we could assume that the world was at PEACE for these 25 years...if there's peace, why advance firearms?

Dahak: Seriously...the bold white and green text is rather annoying, and hard to read. PLEASE...for US...USE NORMAL TEXT.

Everyone: The characters are FINE...feel free to make a Generations Evolution if you want to delve deep into their personal storylines...but save the Arena for beating the living spleens outta eachother.

Final note: THE GOGGLES! THEY DO NOTHING!!!

[Notesurfer]

OOC: Gee Draxas, thanks for sticking up for me. I'm glad to see that everything that goes wrong is still my fault.

Razor, I'm truly sorry that these arenas have changed from what they used to be, but it's been . . . almost two years. There's only so many ways I can kill/be killed before it begins to get boring, requiring me to think up new ways to kill/be killed. Besides, this whole Generations thing was never meant to be the same as the old-style arenas. I had intended to remove Notek from the picture, bring in Oasis, and start some somewhat normal battling again. The first ten or so posts were meant simply to show a bit of what's happened since the olden times.

And yes, I freely admit that the post directly after Athena's death was gmoding. It was supposed to be. I needed a reason to get rid of Notek so I could bring in my main Gen character and that was the best one.

[Razor]

1: You could've just...you know...BROUGHT HIM IN. We talked about Athena and Nikara on AIM, remember? Suppose not, you don't act like it.

2: The point of having new characters with new tactics and weapons is to have new ways of killing and being killed.

3: I'm not so angry about the godmoding as I am about the ignorance and cheesiness.

4: I'M THE ONE WHO CAME UP WITH THE GENERATIONS CONCEPT!!! Who are YOU to say that it wasn't meant to be the same as an old-style arena?

[Notesurfer]

OOC: Razor's right \-:

That's pretty much all I have to say for the moment, I'll have a post up sometime between today and tomorrow that should set things straight (at least for myself)