Timewaster's Guide Archive

Misspelled "shearing", too, but I'm not sure this is final copy anyhow. We'll know when the book comes out, I guess.

From it's position (at the top of the spine/nape of the neck), I assumed it was just a standard Steel Inquisitor lynchpin spike. He has more than one, doesn't he? At least one in the heart and one in the spine, I thought.

Zane's control over his steelpushing may just be the result of his own skills as much as any ability conferred by the spikes.

I liked AC as a playground. The game just needed to provide more excuses for wandering around and playing in the sandbox. I mean, there's just acres of gorgeous modeling and these awesome little neighborhoods in every city, places where I just loved to stop and look around and go, "this is so cool"... but there's so very few reasons to be there.

And yeah, the mini-missions required to unlock each target got old super-fast. They could have couched 'em in different ways to at least break up the monotony, but no...

For sheer sandbox running about though, it's sweet. I just wish I wasn't required to make up my own missions (like soldier-baiting scenarios) in order to get more mileage out of it. And I'm sorry, but flag-chasing blows.

OH, and once you figure out the timing for counters with the assassin's blade, the combat is totally broken. I mean, you become a complete bad-ass (basically every fight is you getting surrounded, and every time someone tries to hit you it's dodge, counter, and instant-kill them with your little spring-loaded stiletto in some entertaining fashion, until you run out of bad guys or they all run away shrieking in fear. Oh, and anytime one of them runs or gets distracted, they're open for a jumping kill, which makes you look even more awesome), but it gets tiresome. I actually got bored with being a bad-ass. Now that ain't right.

You can even use it in boss fights... which admittedly, made for a super cathartic ending when the final boss ran through that whole LONG-ASS speech, finally went to fight me with his fancy sword work, and I stirred his brain with my needle through his chin.

But still, broken.

Well, since Brandon's recently signed up with Crafty Games to make a Mistborn RPG (see his recent blog entry for details), we ought to be able to expect a good bit of world-expanding resource information to hit next year sometime.

And honestly, if he hasn't signed the license to a developer yet, I expect that by this time next year his  increased name recognition and the tabletop game will make it a lot easier to do so. I just hope he gets the best people interested in it, and not some 3rd-rate platform factory.

Personally I'd like to see something in a free-roaming 3rd-person action/adventure game with some RPG elements. Something like Prince of Persia or Assassin's Creed with taller buildings (and more to do... god, that game needed more content). I think Ubisoft could make a killer Mistborn game.

Give me Luthadel and maybe a couple small surrounding territories to play in, set me up with the full Mistborn allomancy package, and let me loose. That's the game for me.

 

For instance, some of us suspect that kandra are related to hemalurgy because they're related to koloss, which have nails in their bodies. 

Wait... koloss have nails? I don't think that's right, is it? Steel Inquisitors have nails.

I've just been assuming that koloss and kandra are the results of biological experiments performed by the Lord Ruler in his early days. I don't see any hemalurgy references to either koloss or kandra offhand...

Heh. The thing about comics work is that it's a lot more work. It's like doing 6 or 7 drawings instead of just one, and maybe some of them are simpler drawings, but there's no less of them for all that. And then you do it 16-32 more times (150-200 if you're going for a graphic novel, which Tor almost certainly would).

I enjoy comics a LOT (loyal to my LCS, hit 'em every Wednesday like clockwork, buy way too much manga at the bookstore), and I've wanted to work on them for a long time, but they are a FULL-TIME gig... to do them well, and in a timely fashion, requires nothing less than a solid day of work for every page.

At first I was rather disappointed with what I saw in this thread, but, since inkthinker came along, that's no longer the case. Do you mind if I use one of your images as a wallpaper?

Sure, I don't mind, I generally size them so that they work for that. I suggest making your desktop's background color either black or white (whichever looks better to you) and setting the image to "Center", which is what I usually do.

I wouldn't say anyone else's work in this thread is disappointing... I do this for a living, 8 hours or more a day, every day of the year, so I have an unfair advantage in the realm of illustration. I love my work, but if anything I think the other artists in this thread love their work more... they're not doing it so much that it becomes old hat, and they show more dedication and guts when putting their work in front of the world at large than I do.

If you love something enough to draw it, especially when you're not a professional artist, then I want you to pick up the pen and give it your best shot more than ever.