bbf2 wrote: I don't know if anyone pays attention to the flavor text or the story, but has anyone noticed that there are like three or four different nodes in various PVEs where you fight Magneto but the "plot" specifies that it's someone else impersonating him? (A Skrull or Mystique or a demon or something) I just thought it was funny. I understand using the skrull/imposter stuff as a storyline justification for mixing up who you fight against sometimes, but you'd think they would use that to justify why you're fighting heroes, why is it always Magneto? Especially since he's already a villain. I guess everybody wants to be him.
CNash wrote: Ares actually has dialogue...
CNash wrote: As an aside, I've been mentally tabulating the variances in the MPQ storyline from the Dark Reign comics it's based on. One of the major deviations is that Magneto was apparently a member of Osborn's cabal at one point, which never happened in the comics. But then that goes with the game's use of Juggernaut, Yelena and Ragnarok as stand-in Dark Avengers - in the comics, they weren't part of the team (Juggernaut barely features in Dark Reign, Yelena leads the Thunderbolts, and Ragnarok's insane and kept locked in the basement of Camp Hammond).
CNash wrote: Everyone's characterisations are wildly off, too - as if the story was written by someone who'd never read Dark Reign. Daken's actually an erudite manipulator (albeit with a hot temper), not a grunting brute; Venom doesn't call people "meat" and talks like a normal person; Ares actually has dialogue...
bbf2 wrote: CNash wrote: Ares actually has dialogue... Hey, he now has dialogue in MPQ too! In "Deadpool vs. MPQ," Ares corrects Deadpool and says "I'm Greek." I'm pretty sure that's his only line of dialogue.
mpqr7 wrote: Mystique poses as Iron Man, not Magneto.
Quebbster wrote: CNash wrote: As an aside, I've been mentally tabulating the variances in the MPQ storyline from the Dark Reign comics it's based on. One of the major deviations is that Magneto was apparently a member of Osborn's cabal at one point, which never happened in the comics. But then that goes with the game's use of Juggernaut, Yelena and Ragnarok as stand-in Dark Avengers - in the comics, they weren't part of the team (Juggernaut barely features in Dark Reign, Yelena leads the Thunderbolts, and Ragnarok's insane and kept locked in the basement of Camp Hammond). It wasn't Yelena, really - it was Natasha Romanoff posing as Yelena Belova. That's definitely not the case in the game though since you can play Yelena and Natasha on the same team. CNash wrote: Everyone's characterisations are wildly off, too - as if the story was written by someone who'd never read Dark Reign. Daken's actually an erudite manipulator (albeit with a hot temper), not a grunting brute; Venom doesn't call people "meat" and talks like a normal person; Ares actually has dialogue... Like it or not, Marvel supposedly OKed the dialogue. Though maybe the vetting was done by someone who also hadn't read Dark Reign...
Chrono_Tata wrote: I think the reason Ares has no dialogue is that they never got around to releasing the Dark Reign storyline where he's supposed to be introduced. In the comics, he was in the Dark Avengers from the beginning, but I guess in MPQ it's supposed to be different.