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Message: [QUOTE="Ian Naxieas, post: 88382, member: 4966"] Thank you for the excellent write-up, pops! I didn't actually remember Small Brawl having such interactive levels, I really need to give that game some more love, I haven't played it for, uh, decades and it's the underdog of the Twisted Metal games. Never seen all the endings so that's a good reason to return to it. As for the flying vehicles in 2012 (Sweet Tooth's secondary special and Talon), I thought they were neat initially, but overall were not a good idea. Most of my thoughts come from playing online. Sweet Tooth is absolute hell to deal with in his bot form. All his stats are increased so he becomes a lot harder to kill and with killstreak rewards he can basically fly indefinitely and have infinite mega guns. It was a total blight on the game. Most people were just opportunists who'd fly around a group and pick people off with the mega guns, but one EMP shot is enough to drop one. However, in the hands of a really good player, fuck that guy. The biggest difference between the two is that a good player knows when to activate it's shields to nullify EMP shots and just damage in general. I don't remember exactly what they did, but they did nerf it a bit in a patch. It helped, but pros could still wreck with it. As for Talon, he was a little more balanced but still really powerful. Another case of being a monster in the right hands. Talon was pretty easy to take out with most players, he has the third lowest HP and the longest recovery from an EMP blast in the game so throwing one of those and hammering him as he falls to the ground is usually enough to take him out. But good players, like with Sweet Tooth, know when to time shields and that makes him more dangerous than Sweet Tooth, since they'll block your slow moving EMP easily or just avoid it entirely. When you get the hang of his special weapons, people need to watch the fuck out. They actually doubled the damage with his minigun from the demo and I don't know why. The minigun would max out at 150 damage in the demo. That's nuts! A direct hit from Reaper's flaming chainsaw does that much and Talon's special is just point and shoot instead of needing skill in aiming. In the full game it maxes at 300 damage. Nobody can survive that except for Juggernaut. You'll almost assuredly never get every shot to connect, but if you even get half of them on target that's still a Reaper flaming saw worth of damage. The magnet special isn't as scary, more annoying than anything. It's really fun to use in team games though, picking up teammates and basically making them a turret while you fly around is great. The worst is when a player knows where all the pickups are on the map and just camps health and the sniper rifle weapon. Talon is one of, if not the, slowest vehicles to use the sniper rifle and it's easy to avoid, but if you're not paying attention you can be instakilled or at least heavily damaged. Finally, why the fuck is Warthog so insane to unlock? All gold medals on twisted? Fuck me. I did it, but I didn't have a good time. x) Talon is really good for getting gold medals too, especially on Juggernaut levels. It sounds suicidal and it kinda is, but flying in front of Juggernaut and unloading your minigun into his front grill will do some serious damage. It's also good for chewing through the cars that Juggernaut spawns. I've actually had the urge to make a new save file to do everything in 2012 again, but then I remember how you have to unlock Warthog and it's like, fuck that. ANYWAY, wow that's a lot of rambling haha. Hope you don't mind, I could blab about the Twisted Metal games forever. ::biggrin [/QUOTE]

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