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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Nov 16, 2012 15:03:04 GMT -5
ehehehe... Well, I guess it is abit overboard to make something that powerful, but for my verse, the power creep is incredibly steep. Yeah, we have normal crooks and robbers, but then we also have high-tiered gods driven mad and wanting to recreate a new universe, entire civilizations wiped out by an 8-headed snake, and hell ravens that can rampage across entire galaxies within seconds if motivated to... I guess you can say my verse is more on the higher reaches of power than most...
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Post by The Great MM on Nov 16, 2012 15:06:20 GMT -5
ehehehe... Well, I guess it is abit overboard to make something that powerful, but for my verse, the power creep is incredibly steep. Yeah, we have normal crooks and robbers, but then we also have high-tiered gods driven mad and wanting to recreate a new universe, entire civilizations wiped out by an 8-headed snake, and hell ravens that can rampage across entire galaxies within seconds if motivated to... I guess you can say my verse is more on the higher reaches of power than most... And, IMO, the idea of anything being that powerful is retarded.
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Nov 16, 2012 15:46:21 GMT -5
Ridiculous power is pretty boring. I like to think of characters like that as guns, while lower monstes/characters are swords. The gun is stronger and more efficient, yeah, but swords are so much more fun.
I'd much rather watch a swordfight than a shoot out.
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Post by The Great MM on Nov 16, 2012 16:35:43 GMT -5
Ridiculous power is pretty boring. I like to think of characters like that as guns, while lower monstes/characters are swords. The gun is stronger and more efficient, yeah, but swords are so much more fun. I'd much rather watch a swordfight than a shoot out. WHAT ABOUT GUNSWORDS!? AND FLAMING CHAINSAWS!?
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Post by The Merry Lambfish on Nov 16, 2012 18:45:01 GMT -5
I believe that what separates a boring character from a fun one is not their power, but the obsticals they have to face compared to the power they have, and more importantly, their personality.
If you had a monster that could blow up planets by blinking, and had him fight an evil monster, he'd just blow up the monster and be faced with no challenge, thus making for a boring story. Same thing goes for those who pull random powers out of their ass to avoid dying or losing. If you make a powerful character, but give them a challenge that it very difficult even for them to complete, then its okay in my book.
Secondly, personality. You know why I hate Superman? Not just simply because he's OPed. Oh no. It's because he's pretty much a flawless goodie goodie with no questionable morals. That makes a character boring right there. Every GOOD character needs to have undesirable personality traits. In makes them more interesting, more believable, and they can even open up paths for side plots.
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Post by Tenshi the Sunkern on Nov 16, 2012 20:59:30 GMT -5
KK speaks the truth. It's HOW those characters are used that defines them. Obviously, no one enjoys a boring, invincible villan... make them interesting, give them weaknesses, give those characters a challenge. Make them more unique and fascinating than just dull overpowered bored stuff...
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Post by The Merry Lambfish on Jun 25, 2014 4:30:01 GMT -5
So… I had a horrifying and hilarious realization tonight. Having just finished Tarakona's drawing, I, out of curiosity, decided to see how fast, in kilometres-per-hour, that secondary jaws of his were. The UCA bio says Tarakona's jaw can extend at speeds of 0.25 milliseconds. Cause that's what the speed of a real life dragonfly larva's jaw is. See, I never exactly changed it to suit something kaiju sized vs insect sized. There-in lies the horror. Well, I did the math. 560 000 kilomters per fucking hour. But that's not the scary part. Not yet. Realizing how bloody fast that was, I decided to calculate how much energy it had. I had my speed. And I decided that the jaws would be about 10 000 tons, as an estimate, since they were so large compared to the Masked Serpent in the pic, a monster only 7500 tons. So, how much energy does Tarakona's secondary jaws strike with? The answer: 30.593 megatons of TNT. To compare, Castle Bravo, the largest nuke detonated by the US, was 15 megatons. THIS IS TWICE THAT FUCKING AMOUNT. THIS WHOLE FUCKING TIME TARAKONA HAS BEEN SMACKING PEOPLE IN THE FACE WITH BLOWS HALF AS STRONG AS THE TSAR BOMB!HOLY SHIT I NEED TO TONE THIS WAAAAAAAY DOWN!!!… The moral of the story… when converting insect feats to kaiju feats, be cautious.
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Post by OmegaBearBeast on Jun 25, 2014 11:07:03 GMT -5
Yeah, if Soundwave went with the same strength (proportionally) as a hercules beetle for Goliath...
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Post by Vatarian on Jun 25, 2014 20:23:57 GMT -5
Beezlebub, before his ass-kicking at the hands of Michael, definitely qualified as "stupidly" powerful. He still sort of is, considering how versatile he is.
Then of course, you've got Lucifer and Michael themselves, who wouldn't be fit for the UCA even as boss-characters.
And Gabriel, Raphael, and Azazel aren't far behind.
And you've got Godzilla. Because every universe needs a Godzilla. He's almost as durable as the Nucleaphage, a good deal faster, and regenerates frustratingly quickly. But he could totally be put in as a boss character, or even, if slightly powered down, a regular fighter.
Hmmmm. Vataris, but he's not really big enough to qualify as a kaiju....
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Post by Fainis the Sadistic Pansexual on Jun 26, 2014 0:06:44 GMT -5
Urpdate!
As of... uh, well, a while ago, but whatevs... I have Yabdrillsk, a twin-headed doom wyrm who stretches multiple tens of thousands of miles long and eat planets. He's literally the reincarnation of the void that came before the universe, so he's less like a character and more like a cosmic force of destruction on the scale of creation itself.
S'a fun guy.
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Post by Revenus on Jun 26, 2014 15:41:45 GMT -5
Darn, am I the only one who lacks an OP boss character?
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