IndyClix GameTrade Article

[Answerman]

TheLion:
"Until you inderstand the fundamental difference there is no debate.

Even if they bring out campaigns it still will be a strategy game."

Sorry I'm such an idiot and can't reach your supreme levels of intellectual understandings.
I suppose I have to content myself with my own ignorant misunderstandings...
thanks you for helping me to understand what a fool I am...
hey do you have your own church?
I'll gladly donate!
I'm a convert thelion you've shown me the way...

:cool:

[TheLion]

Sure, since you admit you are an idiot I don't mind taking your money.

Just send it all to me, saves time that way.

[StormKnight]

Whether or not HeroClix "accurately" simulates comic book battles is incredibly subjective. If your game experience has been with things like Risk and Monopoly, then by comparison HC is a truly awesome simulation of comic book combat.
If you have played more hardcore gamer games...well, then it starts to fall short. Part of the problem is that it wasn't designed explicitly as a superhero game. The mechanics are a fantasy wargame (For those who don't know, its almost exactly the same as Mage Knight) with a few tweaks to make it more super-heroy. That's not going to give as accurate a game as if they had set out to make a whole new system just to simulate comic books.
However, as far as I know its one of only two superhero wargames around, and its a very playable game. So while it may not be the best simulation of comic book games, its still pretty durned fun.
I think its an incredible stretch of the definition to call it an RPF at all...of course, I also think that any video game and most computer RPGs really stretch the definition as well. But the key element of an RPG is Role Playing...ie, putting yourself into the place of another person and acting and speaking as they would. I don't think that's an element of HeroClix as defined by the game, so by definition its not an RPG.



And I still want somebody to answer my Witchblade question! :laugh:

[mark6574]

Originally posted by StormKnight
And I still want somebody to answer my Witchblade question! :laugh:
I don't feel like going back through all 17 pages... what was your question again?

[StormKnight]

I don't feel like going back through all 17 pages... what was your question again?

Lazy bum :p

They mention the Witchblade unique "in full Witchblade armor". Now I don't know much about Witchblade, but the figure they showed for her in the starter add couldn't be counted as wearing "full" anything, or "armor" for that matter. So I am trying to find out if they are just maligning the english language, or there actually is some "full" armor that she sometimes has that will be a different unique, and the picture they showed will be the R/E/V model.

[mark6574]

Originally posted by StormKnight
Lazy bum :p

They mention the Witchblade unique "in full Witchblade armor". Now I don't know much about Witchblade, but the figure they showed for her in the starter add couldn't be counted as wearing "full" anything, or "armor" for that matter. So I am trying to find out if they are just maligning the english language, or there actually is some "full" armor that she sometimes has that will be a different unique, and the picture they showed will be the R/E/V model.
That would be considered her full armor. The metal wrapped around her is actually like a living magical power. It can form things as she goes. She has formed shields, helmets, different weapons, and she has had full armor on before. I think they just refer to it as the full armor because she doesn't have any civilian clothes with just a sword on her arm or something. I used to read it when it first came out.