Originally posted by the_traveler I play a 31 controller on Virtue. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Pros Character Creation - Unbelievably cool character creation. I have and know people who have spent hours just making their character. You also get to create alternate costumes that you can switch to at your leisure. They come at lv 20,30 and 40. It's a lot of the fun rerolling characters for the customization/creation aspects available and I think thats part of the reason why many people play a lot of alts. The other reason is
Low Levels - The lower levels are a lot of fun. You get new powers and levels pretty quick.
Lack of Lag - This is a BIG one for me. I cant stand getting lag. I have top of the line system and a smoking speed cable modem, I should not get lag. I have quit some games with a lot of potential solely on lag issues. CoH has basically no lag. I have gotten some in a few zones sometimes around a lot of other characters but much better than most games.
Casual Gamer Friendly - I can log on for half an hour and feel like I accomplished something.
Travel - Once you get a travel power (at lv 14 you have options of getting different travel powers that let you fly/run fast/teleport/superjump), travelling across the maps goes pretty fast. No 20 minute journeys to get to your next location.
Death penalty - CoH gives you 'debt' when you die. No corpse runs, no loss of xp. It's sorta like a loss in that you have to get back your debt. Ie: I die, I get 5000 debt. Now whenever I get experience, half of it goes to the debt and half of it goes to my xp bar until I am out of debt. It just slows your progression for a little while. I find this system better than many out there.
No 'items' - You'll notice this is below on Cons as well. The only 'item' drops you get are enhancements. These are things you put into your powers to make them stronger (make a damage power do more damage, a control power hold for longer, a power more accurate, etc). No other items means no camping, no feeling like you're inferior because you can't Powergame and get the uber loot, etc.
Cons
Higher levels - Similar to pretty much all MMOs, the higher levels start to become a grind. XP slows down in the 30s, and gets really slow at higher 30s/40s. They are still tweaking xp rewards here and there so they might be realizing that people are getting a little frustrated at higher levels with xp gain. Especially because of the next point
Just fighting - That's pretty much the gist of CoH. There are stories, some are really cool. There are task force missions (a complete story arc you complete with a group with reward at the end) and that's pretty much it. What you have to keep in mind is this is NOT a standard MMO. It's more of an action game. That's what a lot of people like. The action/fighting is fun so you forget that you're gaining levels/grinding.
SuperGroup system - The SuperGroup system sucks. Supergroups are Guilds and there are basically zero options for what to do with them. You create a SuperGroup, you choose your colors, and that's about it. Other than that, its just a place to hang with friends.
No RP - Don't get this game if you want to Roleplay at all. It doesn't happen. Period. I think this just isn't a game that is easily RP'd.
No items - The con of no items is there is nothing to look forward to for drops besides stuff to make powers better. I like getting a cool sword drop or collecting misc drops to go sell and build my wealth. It adds a fun element to an MMO. It also gives that added level of customization of character (sort of, you know in some games, EVERYONE ends up wearing the same uber chest piece etc), but the customization in CoH comes from your costume.
That's my honest assessment of pros and cons. I'm sure someone will come tell me how stupid I am but...um...yea, whatever.
I'm sure I'll think of others, but that's all that's coming to mind right now.
Nice Review of the game. One thing I find I like so much about the game is thats its simple and the people there are fun to play with. Waiting for City of Villians........
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i play casually and have played most other mmropg's as an adult with a busy life and aschedule to keep i love this game easy toplay no crafting or extra stuff that takes days to do or massive lag. My wife who doesnt like games evm started playing this game and she likes it so if your easy goin and want a good freindly game toplay this is the one.
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