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10/29/09
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If you reported those people like you should have, then I am sure they would have been forced to change their name or banned.
I think it was probably worse at launch with the wow tourists. I haven't seen any offensive names in a while. #championsonline
10/29/09
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A program filter at this point is more of an annoyance than effective at enforcing rules to prevent offensive names.
Such obscene names like these deserve to be handled by an GM and not a program to enforce. #championsonline
10/28/09
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The big thing I want to do during the event is unlock the new powerset which isn't that hard to do. #championsonline
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10/27/09
Two things can have zombie attacks and be different, you know.
Heck, your City of Heroes wasn't the first to do a Zombie apocalypse either. Doesn't mean it's the same zombie apocalypse as the one in night of the living dead either.
Plus, blood moon doesn't only have zombies. The hunters vs werewolves thing is pretty fun too.
My point, yes, city of heroes did a zombie apocalypse last year, but it's not city of heroes' zombie apocalypse, it's their own.
10/25/09
While CoH/CoV didn't have as much content at launch, the content it did have was easily repeatable, and the differences in each character were significant. This made each time playing through the game a very unique experience. Compound that with a good team dynamic, and CoH/CoV was quite good.
Because of Champs power system, each character you create does not have that unique feeling that CoH did. Each character feels pretty much the same, and they all share very similar playstyles. With the extremely limited content, this pretty much makes the replability of the game around zilch.
Oh yeah, and teaming still blows ass.
Try it out, but just realize that its quite possible to experience every bit of content of Champs during this *one* weekend. #championsonline
10/25/09
While CoH/CoV didn't have as much content at launch, the content it did have was easily repeatable, and the differences in each character were significant. This made each time playing through the game a very unique experience. Compound that with a good team dynamic, and CoH/CoV was quite good.
Because of Champs power system, each character you create does not have that unique feeling that CoH did. Each character feels pretty much the same, and they all share very similar playstyles. With the extremely limited content, this pretty much makes the replability of the game around zilch.
Oh yeah, and teaming still blows ass.
Try it out, but just realize that its quite possible to experience every bit of content of Champs during this *one* weekend. #championsonline
10/26/09
10/25/09
I don't understand what makes the game so much more graphically demanding then CoH. The graphics don't look that much better, and I can run CoH at max. #championsonline
10/25/09
10/25/09
The biggest problem for me right now, is that sure, you can level to 40 quickly but if you want to level another he/she has to do the exact same content. They're adding more missions but so far you have to do every mission you can find just to get to 40 so it diminishes the replay value. Hopefully Bloodmoon and other content patches will help with that.
10/25/09
I also tried out CoH/CoV a couple years ago and it wasn't for me.
In Champions Online with every level you are expanding your character abilities or stats. Usually it is with a new power or talent points that you can use to power up your existing powers.
There is no issues with the terrain, you can't get hit through walls. If your fighting indoors and retreat back into a hallway the mobs will have to chase you down. There isn't many bugged missions either. I can only think of 3 I have run into since launch.
For a game that launched a month ago the amount of content is pretty good. There were some low spots but they have added in more quests and made changes that pretty much fixed it. #championsonline
10/25/09
Forming groups is also about worthless / impossible unless you join one of the few active supergroups which even then you have to be extremely careful to stay on the questline. If some one is ahead / behind you in the questline (and most quests are long lines that you can't deviate from) then you will not be able to share the quest or get a reward for it.
The gameplay is really fun however and if you don't mind playing alone then I suggest getting it. The costume creator and amount of powers alone was worth it for me. I have a lifetime membership since I enjoyed beta so much (which the current gameplay is actually nothing at all like) my self but am leery of leading people into the game right now until they polish it a little more. Might be best so save your money and rent Ultimate Alliance 2 if you can :P #championsonline
10/25/09
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Also don't be surprised that your beta character is long dead and that your characters name has been taken by now. #championsonline
10/25/09
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It did. They tried to rebalance the game in its entirety on day one without testing. Then they tried to rebalance the economy in its entirety.
Seriously, it is that bad. #championsonline
10/25/09
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I could see "broke" getting better in the future, but "cheap"? How do you plan on becoming less "cheap"?
Are you expecting a visit from three ghosts?
10/25/09
10/20/09
Can't wait to see when NCSoft will put the usual micro-transaction bullshit they usually do in their game. #aion
10/20/09
Of course it kind of does games like this a disservice to say that they're totally the same, but generally a good 90% of the conventions will be the same game to game, and WoW was anything but the first... #aion
10/20/09
They will, eventually, spruce up the thing with events, but the once epic quest you started undertaking of slaying Pigma, the pig of the 9th hells will suddenly become mundane, because each week, you bring his head to the town as a trophy of a success and for some inexplicable reason, you know the next week the monster will be back with different treasure, but with the same strategy. #aion
10/20/09
I've heard people say Aion's totally different, but from the outside, it looks like the next iteration, with free flight.
Eve Online was kind of different, but not my idea of a good time... I had plenty of cash to buy any ship upgrades I wanted, but had to wait weeks no matter what I did to train up skills to use the equipment. Can't train an alt character at the same time either. Then there's the gameplay, which for me was mostly watching my ship fly from point to point on autopilot, and sometimes mining asteroids for hours... the endgame appears impossible to reach though, as you can always get bigger and bigger, and if you do reach the top, you're one of enough people to count on one hand, and will probably lose it again in a huge battle. #aion
10/20/09
Going back to AION, I will consider it like all other MMO, a grind fest, that will end up at the maximum level with e-penis jousting of "I got a super duper rare blade" and the other one will answer with "I got a virtual rating that proves I'm so good at killing other virtual players".
In effect, people with nothing trying to prove they got something worth of showing. #aion
10/20/09
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But for someone who doesn't play a genre, it will tend to blur together. I like sim racers and wouldn't expect most people to tell one from the next. Some people can't even distinguish falling block puzzles because they just think "Tetris." #aion
10/21/09