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i was wondering about that with you being a halo player and all. theres no way you couldnt have heard that term.
And I played WoW (shhh I know).
i was wondering about that with you being a halo player and all. theres no way you couldnt have heard that term.
I didn't understand why even without shields the aliens weren't able to take over the world. They had multiple mother ships with fleets of fighters. The battle over Area 51 was pretty much the last of the US' air force. So they would then have to take out another like... four ships that are over the US. And they can't kill the mother ship without hitting it as it fires its main weapon. So the aliens should just be like "let's turtle up and let our fighters handle this".You do know that Independence Day is supposed to be like a modern adaptation of The War of the Worlds? The virus that Jeff Goldblum develops is a hilariously dumb surrogate for the virus that kills the aliens in WotW.
But why did they win? Because good humans were on their side.And people called Avatar unoriginal!
I know what nerfed means I was making fun of the OP. Too subtle?
Worf went the other way, from ugly kitten to complete bad ass. Even became emperor for a brief moment before giving it away thus out promoting anyone in trek history.
X-Men the Animated Series.
First episode: one Sentinel nearly overpowers the entire team.
Mid-series episode: Jubilee can one-shot them, and Wolverine goes through them like Kado's wife goes through club dancers.
Voyager sucked but the Borg were ruined when they introduced the Queen.
His ideas, however, were still always rejected consistently throughout TNG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edflm7Hh3hs&feature=player_embedded
they didn't nerf the borg, they buffed Voyager...
I just can't put it into words. Star Trek's The Borg as originally presented:
The Borg Cube. It was an apocalyptic threat the likes of which the Star Trek universe had never seen. Their fearsome, monolithic vessel could travel across the galaxy devouring the life off all planets in its path. Its unstoppable drones would adapt to all attacks, and force you to endure a mutilating technorape of horrors as they stole from you your flesh and soul. One ship decimated the fleets of the Federation, made its greatest Captain betray his people, massacred tens of thousands and was only defeated in the final hour through the dumbest of dumb luck.
Star Trek: Voyager's take on the most powerful enemy of humanity:
For fucks sake.
Question:
Has enemy enemy been more nerfed than The Borg? Examples please.
any of these count:
1. Aliens from Independence Day
2. Aliens from War Of The Worlds
The Borg had the technology to travel the universe in a second because they could exceed warp 10. So why didnt they just do a suprise attack on earth and be done with it.
Fuck Voyager. That shit never happened.
i can't think of any examples though. Maybe the Empire's Storm Troopers. They wiped the galaxy clean of Jedi, and afterwards could no longer shoot straight at anything standing still.
Not a villain but Neo in the Matrix series.
At the end of the first movie he was a walking god. Nothing could touch him because he controlled the world at the lowest level. He stopped bullets, plucked them out of the air, and killed the most powerful of the agents by exploding him from within. Effortlessly. The world around him literally bent when he flexed.
The next movie he could spar very well and fly but all of those incredible powers were inexplicably gone.
And no, don't fucking say "it was explained in this Matrix Reloaded prequel comic" or some shit.
I'm in the camp that Neo was OVERpowered in the sequels and that removed any potential for drama.
They explain why he can't effortlessly kill agents anymore in the opening fight, though: "Upgrades."
But that just means it takes an extra 30 seconds to beat them by hand.
His ideas, however, were still always rejected consistently throughout TNG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edflm7Hh3hs&feature=player_embedded
Nah, this is definitely bullshit. The nerfed Neo good and proper. At the end of the Matrix he could 'reshape the Matrix as he saw fit'.
He understood that none of the blows were actually real. There was no reason whatsoever he would ever have to fight somebody again, because the punches and kicks are just code that he can see with no real force behind them.
No longer could he dive into people and literally rip their code apart.
They nerfed him for the sake of having sequels.
Can't think of one yet other than the Borg. Star Trek tends to do this with other things as well such as ships getting one shotted left and right in the later parts of the Dominion War but nothing to the level of the Voyagers Borg.
EDIT: To continue the Voyager parade, don't forget what they did with the Q.
I was like 13 or something when Matrix 2 came out, and even I was shocked by the bullshit nerfing that Neo got in those films. They have a single throwaway line on the topic right at the start during a fight vs some agents - Neo says "... upgrades".
Darth Maul.
Most menacing-looking Star Wars villain actually wasn't shit afterall.
Darth Maul.
Most menacing-looking Star Wars villain actually wasn't shit afterall.
I still don't get why he had to die in Episode 1. Why didn't they use him as the 'new Darth Vader' in the prequels. Everyone that came after him was shit anyway.Darth Maul.
Most menacing-looking Star Wars villain actually wasn't shit afterall.
I still don't get why he had to die in Episode 1. Why didn't they use him as the 'new Darth Vader' in the prequels. Everyone that came after him was shit anyway.
So, I guess you could argue that's technically a nerf, but the audio play makes a strong point of saying that the tiniest creatures on earth succeeded in stopping the invasion where Man, the mightiest creature on Earth, could not. Somehow the fact that the irony is pointed out defeats the idea of a nerf, at least as far as I'm concerned.
Star Trek: Voyager's take on the most powerful enemy of humanity:
Having species 8472 show up out of nowhere and dominate the Borg was fine. Powerful design, even. That opening shot where the two cubes get mauled and you don't see who did it was fucking fantastic.I actually loved species 8472. The Borg were virtually unstoppable and yet this race was even more powerful only because they were resistance to the technology.
Don't understand the people mentioning the Fett's. Boba Fett never showed anything of worth in the entire series. His crowning achievement was waiting in garbage.
The Green Lantern villain was pretty bad. He went from being powerful enough to kill several experienced Green Lanterns in a couple of minutes (Who ambushed him no less) and was one little planet away from destroying Green Lantern Planet to one newbie Green Lantern holding his own against him &flying too close to the sun and burning up.