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Convince me here.. Since I cant trial play it.
cichy1012
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Gimme me some motivation here. Never played anything much other than elves and ogre, sword and shield MMO's.
Is this game like COH I did beta that one and wasnt to happy with it.
Can you upgrade armour and such?
Whats questing like?
Housing?
Banks?
Is this game gonna last? Im so beside myself with the MMO genere today Im hesitant as to what Im involving myself in.
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The game + sub would take a lot of the money i have available for me this month
so yeah, i would've liked a trial as well.
Right now the game looks pretty nice when i see others play it, but It's just not convinced me enough to buy it.
Just a warning. A lot of people come here trying to get "convinced" to buy a game. I wouldn't do it because I hear them coming for you now!
Meh, I'm not to worried.. No one convinced me to get rift yet, if they say somethings great, just look it up and see what its really like.
Cant do that without a reference though since i dont really know whats special about dcuo
I've looked up gameplay videos but they just get me a vague idea.
I don't want to convince you to buy something you may not like. Pretty much, if you've played an action game like Prototype, Infamous, Arkham Asylum or The Force Unleashed, that will get you in the ballpark of what the combat is like.
Questing is very basic from levels 1 - 21, just regular kill quests. At level 25 and on, you get some really tough ones, like the riddler quest which requires you to solve the riddles, and some interesting quests in between where you'll be transmorphed into other creatures etc. Which requires you to learn some new skills.
Armor makes a big deal in this game both visually and statistically. You will have stats for PvE and PvP, and gear will come easy from levels 1 - 30, but post 30 ( 30 is the max, so this is end game) you will be doing a lot of very tough missions and receiving gear cash which will be spent on the top tier gears. Some people say some missions aren't even able to be done without top tier gear... but a group of skilled players goes a long way.
There is no housing at this time, most heroes congregate in police stations or the watchtower, or night clubs and the hall of doom for villains.
There are banks and brokers, but not sure if they're even working, I haven't tried them tbh. Not really seeing a reason to as most of the special gear that drops won't allow you to trade, not sure if you could put it up for sale.
If you need convincing I'd say don't buy it but if you do like games that are high on action DCUO could be the game for you, though it isn't for me. I'm not too sure on "upgrading" armor as in getting one piece and constantly building on it I don't think so as you adventure though you do get more powerful armor pieces, and you have the option to display whatever items you want visually. Banks they do have housing they don't have.
Again the game is pretty high on combat so it's not the type of game I think justifies paying a monthly fee for but if you are an fps type of gamer this may be to your liking.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
i have been playing fantasy mmo's forever and am loving this game, it is different but it's the most fun i have had in a mmo for a long long time
the banks do work and there is also a shared bank ( same server, same account kinda deal )
brokers don;t work yet, not sure what they are, I am assuming it's an AH of sorts
"All expectation leads to suffering" Buhhda
I will not try to convince you to play this game, I'd rather try to convince you not to but it is up to you mate.
It's much more an action game than CoH, definitely plays better on a controller than a keyboard/mouse. Best thing I could equate it to would be a Devil May Cry or God of War style combat inside an MMO world.
Biggest difference I think stems from char.creation and the Style unlocks. CoH/CO gives you 90%+ of the items/options to choose off the bat.
DCUO limits them a bit, but the gear you collect progressively unlocks the individual pieces of the Styles you couldn't take at creation, or the ones you didn't pick at creation.
There is gear to unlock, there is raid-gear to collect armor sets of. There are a ton of Feats to complete to collect all the various armor style pieces to unlock them to your character. If you want to wear the Bat-Symbol or Supermans crest, you've got to unlock/earn those pieces in-game.
On the flipside, you don't unlock extra costume slots like CoH/CO. You just have a style picker. So for free, at any time, you can flip through all the styles you've unlocked for every slot of gear, and change it up.
Yes, they shallowed creation a bit compared to CoH/CO, but their item-game and better costume change system more than compensates for it.
Questing is very focused into a short arcs. You'll do a couple surface missions, go in a solo-dungeon to kill a boss. Beat the boss, get an animated-comic cutscene wrapping the story up.
Every so many levels, you gain access to an Alert-dungeon, 4-man encounters starting at level 8. Various solo-side missions to do at the faction bases.
Arena-PvP where you take your character in, with subsequent unlockable gear rewards/achievements. Legends-PvP where you get to use iconic characters and a pre-set skill build, also with their own rewards to also unlock new chars.
Raids/Duos at 30, but haven't gotten 30 yet so can't speak to their real content.
There are banks, ample storage. Also a 4-slot shared bank to move things around inside your account. AH isn't in yet, but is in dev for one of the first content updates. No housing, not sure if its planned as future content or anything.
Either way, you'll have to motivate yourself if you actually care.
IMHO, DCUO is a lot more fun than CoH/CO because of the action-game combat instead of traditional-mmo style.
Plus, its the only Superheroes-That-The-General-Public-Actually-Knows-The-Names-Of-MMO on the market. People recognize the main DC icons. I can't remember any NPC's name from CoH/CO. No meaning, history or impact.
And, it's a lot of the classic DC animated voice cast. Kevin Conroy's Batman giving me missions is 100%-fanboy awesome for me.
Lets Push Things Forward
I knew I would live to design games at age 7, issue 5 of Nintendo Power.
Support games with subs when you believe in their potential, even in spite of their flaws.
If you ask to be convinced, that means you probably gonna buy it anyway, am I right ?
My only grip with the game if that they didnt offer a free trial, and I had to buy it without even testing it that I usually dont. I've been also relunctant since the last MMO releases, so I'm definitely in the same category as you for that matter. Anyway this time I'm glad I did and I'm having a blast.
As some other posters said, this is a fast action game, not in the same category as CoH at all. I would add, you shouldnt look at it as a classic MMO with grinding, housing, banking... etc like the other titles in the genre. Think more of it as a very good and very fast paced super hero multiplayer game that will offer you some MMO perks also. Time will tell if it deserves a sub or not, but the first month is free anyway
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Well, i let myself go and bought the game - And i dont know what to think about it..
All the options for powers kind of seem lost of me, their descriptions are sort of lacking.
While the combat is a breath of fresh air, the immersion was immidiately broken after i left the tuturial and had to kill 15 of ?
I'm going to continue playing the game this month and see if i can find a character i like.
So far however, this is the exact same crap as before, and I'm not impressed.
Also : Something tells me playing with a controller makes this game way better.
Dude it took you only 2 days to give up and buy the game, why even bother to ask? Yes, the game seems to be same old and not worth the monthly sub so you should have held onto your money like many others.
Thanks for another review then... I guess. Cheers
Wait. No matter if or if not DCU is your things, there are a plethora of things to iron out. Wait at least 2-3 months.
People don't ask questions to get answers - they ask questions to show how smart they are. - Dogbert
The game is fun*.
* Fun is subjective.
This. I graved in and bought it. The whole PC version is a shambles. A cheap Console Port, with no effort put into improving it for the PC.
- Video settings keep resetting to medium. There is no way in telling if you run high, med or low, as it all looks the same (so it probably runs on PS3 settings aka default).
- Vsync is on by default. Setting it off doesn't do anything. The whole thing if fixed at 30fps ! Suprise suprise, this ofcourse due to PS3 limitations! Confirmed, but no info if they ever gonna fix this for the PC version lol. Right.
Some people tried to hack some config file to get it to run at 60fps, but for most the game will start crashing due to runtime errors.
- High res textures are dissabled. No info why they did it or when it will come back (again most likely due to PS3 limitations)
- Half the combo animations do not work and never go off! Making it extremely frustrating experience as you just have no clue if a combo is working or not, other than to keep inspecting the combat log! Good luck with that, with the current horrible chat system.
- Chat system is one of the most horrible ones I have encountered to date in a MMO!
- UI is also a total joke. You constantly have to go through the Social TAB to interact with people, invite them to team, add as friend, etc... by wading through a whole list of people currently in the zone !
Then ofcourse there is the issue that this whole game just screams SOLO SOLO SOLO. (except Alerts and endgame stuff).
As everyone is just doing mission and missions instances solo to get the blue/pink rewards from the end boss for themselves! As when you team up you will have to roll for it and everyone else gets shoved off with a green version of the item! Nice going SOE!!
Seriously, if they not gonna address the above mentioned issues, this game isn't gonna last very long. Especially the chat and UI issues is driving lots of people nuts!
Not to mention the EU servers are constantly crashing and being rebooted the last couple of days. Next to the daily maintenances as well. All in the middle of EU primetime ofcourse.
Heya,
I bought this game on release, played it 60 hours in the first 3 days had an absolute blast. Haven't had this much fun since WoW BC release or Vanguard release. Combat and everything is great, pvp is much more involved and I actually love the Legends PVP arena (you can play as Bane, Joker, Harley Quinn, etc.). I did 1/2 of the endgame raids on day 3, leaving only 4 dungeons left. We had a really solid group and the game is definitely challenging. However, I really can't devote time to raiding anymore, but even for 50 bucks to treat this as a "single-player" game I'd definitely say it's worth it to just buy and play for the free month. A million times better than wasting money on something like Final Fantasy 13 which I played for 10 hours or so and gave up from boredom. It's been out just about a week now and I think I've roughly played around 100+ hours, maybe 115.
Why not wait a month or two? SoE has written off the PC market on this game, and the population will drop considerably when the first payment is due. Good money says you will be able to pick this game up in the bargin bin or online at a deeply discounted rate soon after.
That way you won't be out a lot of money for the trail... and eventual cancelation of your account. :P
I just wanted to add en element to this conversation. IF it is worth investing the money into, would you suggest the PS3 of PC version. Does it even really matter graphically or control wise?
Momo sucks, I have proof.
I disagree this game is tapping into a hitherto untapped market in terms of gameplay and if they do indeed keep the content up it will be likely healthy in terms of populations as long as they do not overdo the server roll out.
I think the main problem here which I too encountered is that it is a bit unwieldly initially getting your mind and fingers on the control systems but once you get a hang of it ,it will come naturally to you .I think this is the main complaint against the PC version.
Ask for a buddy key, and/or wait for the free trial.
Let the game speak for itself. You'll be glad you didn't pay for it.
would not sub this game for at least 1-2 months out to see what sort of "monthly content" they say, will be coming.
Not worth it
This game is similar to COH only in the sense that they are both Superhero/Villain based MMO's. Combat is more free form and action based and the graphics are a great deal better lol.
But DCUO breaks down like this.
Can you upgrade armor and such? Absolutely BUT you can pick which outward style you like and use that with the stats of what you have equipped. Every piece of equipment you pick up unlocks a style for your styles tab. So if you like the stats but prefer the look of another piece you can have your cake and eat it to.
Whats questing like? Well it's like this. For me there seems to be 2 types of questing in MMO's. Mission based quests and task type quests. Mission based quests tend to be chained together and are basically a mini story in an over arching story. Task quests are simply task an NPC has you do for some minor reward.
As an example FFXI was a more Miission based game (Not the grind part oO) instead of Task type quests there were story archs which were broken up into parts. You did the missions to get the CS's and such and all that progressed the story giving you more and more of it as well as various other rewards.
Task type questing is more Ala WoW. They do have some mission style quests but the focus of the game is on task type questing. Go here and kills some rats to get some +1 gloves of awsomeness. Go there and Clear out a dungeon and get the +1 Golden gloves of awsomeness.
DCUO also has what equates to Epic mobs, NM's or simply put Boss mobs. You and some friends can go out and take on the likes of Bizzaro and others after getting the mission from one of the wanted posters.
Another nice thing is most of your missions are going to be given to you through a communicator (Basically a little screen with which ever hero or villain on it telling you what they need you to do.) instead of having to hunt them down. As well as that there are some minor task type quests that you can pick up for the missions you are working on. They are pretty much always near where your mission sends you. There will be some paramedics for example near scarecrows little area that want you to help them out with the barrels of gas or something like that. Your there anyways for the mission against scarecrows minions.
Other than that there are also instances you can do of varying difficulties.
There is also the option of playing on a PvP server which is FFA PvP pretty much while allowing for arena type PvP or playing on a PvE server which allows arena type PvP
Housing? Currently none.
Banks? These are located at your factions HQ. Fortress of Doom for Villains, The Watchtower I think for Heroes.
MMO's for me have gotten fairly stale. Everythings the same either with a different skin or with a little different seasoning. DCUO is a breath of fresh air.
No idea if the game will last or not, no one knows. If you want something different from the standard turn based combat with auto attacks and such or just have interest in the Superhero scene it's worth checking out.
If you are more fond of games like WoW then Rift may be more to your liking.
It's not a mmorpg, for me is more an action multiplayer online game. Is not bad, but you should try it for your self. I was in the beta and I didnt like it.
It's the same price as any game, go out, buy it, like it or hate it at least you tried it. It is not our jobs to convince you of anything; only you can judge what is good in your eyes. Stop being like the 75% of America that waits for someone else to tell them their opinions.
Not worth it. It's fun to play, I'm 25 now and will be 30 soon (if SOE ever fixes the zoning bug ie people getting stuck while trying to zone to the Watchtower...)and prob never touch it again. I'm stuck in Gotham atm and have been for over 12 hours since I can't zone to the watchtower. /sigh
Good for a few months and a once through. I've solo'd all the quest chains. I've ran 2 alerts but those are frustrating because people don't understand how to play their rolls. Everyone just wants to DPS Smash and that doesn't work.
Overall if you look deep below the surface you can see they had some really great ideas but the implementation of those idea's are very poor. This game really should have been F2P with the option for SOE's ingame cash shop to nickel and dime people to death via cool weapons and masks and other mindless stuff.