Pretty much the exact same features they touted when CoH was in development. Let's hope they can pull it off this time around. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.
Ya, I agree with ya Alienovrlord, they made them to cutsy looking for my taste. I think they need to rethink there art direction a little. There going to have a comic book line out for sure with this release, and in order get great sales from it, there going have to hired some good artists to come up with some original characters and not just the common archetypes that we all have seen too many times.
I think they can use the established characters from the Champions game, elf8bliss, but like you said I think they need to take a hard look at their art direction. They want to avoid having it looking like City of Heroes 2.0.
And if they're using established Champions characters, they shouldn't atter them to the point where they are barely recognizable. Champions had a solid, classic (if generic) comic book feel to its art style, it would be nice if they tried to stay true to that.
Ugh, when was the Marvel MMO cancelled? Anyone have a link? That was the only MMORPG I have been waiting for, and havent played a MMO in half a year. Looks like the wait will be a while longer.
Ugghhh.... the cheesy graphics / screenshots are a HUGE turn-off for me.
I don't want to play a comic-book, I want to play a real-life MOVIE that's comic-book-like (a la Batman Begins, the upcoming Ironman movie, etc.) !!
I am a current CoH player. I've played for 15 months now. And while the promise of being able to customize your powers and the hint that you won't have to fit into certain classes like Tanker, Blaster, or Scrapper sound promising... I would have HOPED the graphics would have taken a leap in realism (since it's been several years since CoH started using its current graphics engine)!
How disappointing. But then, I realize this is simply an attempt to salvage all of the work that they've put in on the Marvel game they had been working on.
Not sure if I'm going to try this one... probably not. I'm getting quite bored now with CoH. (I think I may need to switch to a fantasy / D&D genre MMORPG.)
Without any form of PvP you might as well play NWN or DS. Games that are MMO are MMO for a reason; outside of standing around showing off your loot and trying to pick-up on a chick.
I was a play tester for The 3rd ED of the pnp Champions suppliment. I KNOW how easy it was to "min/max" a PC. I hope this is as customizable. I HOPE this ISN'T as min/max'able. I'm too old to deal with Munchkins and powergamers.
I recall some mention of you being able to choose any powers you wanted, but their cost would not necessarily be the same for all characters. Not sure whether that meant that costs varied based on "class" (hope not!), or whether they varied based on what other powers you had. The latter approach would be a good way to rein in the min-max'ers while maintaining flexibility.
HERO System will let you build practically anything you can think of, but the p'n'p game also has a GM (Game Master) involved in the process. He is free to look over your sheet, full of caution-flagged Powers and Advantages and Limitations, and tell you "Not in my game you don't!". An online game will unfortunately need some other mechanisms to fill that role.
Meh... might be worth a look if I don't feel I have to compete against other players for anything. Hopefully there will be no forced grouping and all content will be available to the solo player. And please dear Lord, let there NOT be any PvP. The IQ level of the player base drops by 100 in every game that has PvP in it.
sonicsix, please don't take this the wrong way, I mean this as a legitimate question. Why are you even visiting mmorpg.com at all? Haven't you just listed pretty much all the significant features of an MMO? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm genuinely curious.
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Pretty much the exact same features they touted when CoH was in development. Let's hope they can pull it off this time around. I'll definitely be keeping an eye on it.
I think they can use the established characters from the Champions game, elf8bliss, but like you said I think they need to take a hard look at their art direction. They want to avoid having it looking like City of Heroes 2.0.
And if they're using established Champions characters, they shouldn't atter them to the point where they are barely recognizable. Champions had a solid, classic (if generic) comic book feel to its art style, it would be nice if they tried to stay true to that.
Ugh, when was the Marvel MMO cancelled? Anyone have a link? That was the only MMORPG I have been waiting for, and havent played a MMO in half a year. Looks like the wait will be a while longer.
Ugghhh.... the cheesy graphics / screenshots are a HUGE turn-off for me.
I don't want to play a comic-book, I want to play a real-life MOVIE that's comic-book-like (a la Batman Begins, the upcoming Ironman movie, etc.) !!
I am a current CoH player. I've played for 15 months now. And while the promise of being able to customize your powers and the hint that you won't have to fit into certain classes like Tanker, Blaster, or Scrapper sound promising... I would have HOPED the graphics would have taken a leap in realism (since it's been several years since CoH started using its current graphics engine)!
How disappointing. But then, I realize this is simply an attempt to salvage all of the work that they've put in on the Marvel game they had been working on.
Not sure if I'm going to try this one... probably not. I'm getting quite bored now with CoH. (I think I may need to switch to a fantasy / D&D genre MMORPG.)
-= Dave =-
I will be watching this. Cryptic is a quality company. Hope they really come up with some outside the box concepts and features.
Without any form of PvP you might as well play NWN or DS. Games that are MMO are MMO for a reason; outside of standing around showing off your loot and trying to pick-up on a chick.
I have to agree I loved the pen and paper version of champions if its half as much fun as that it be a winner,
I was a play tester for The 3rd ED of the pnp Champions suppliment.
I KNOW how easy it was to "min/max" a PC.
I hope this is as customizable.
I HOPE this ISN'T as min/max'able.
I'm too old to deal with Munchkins and powergamers.
I like CoX, but am dissapointed in it's "universal" feel, and lack of customization.
But, most of my toons on there are "old" pnp Champions PC's
I hope to have the opportunity to recreate/ressurect them in a new enviroment.
Because Marvel pnp sucked
Here's hoping!
It looks awesome. I read all about it in my game informer magazene a few days ago.
HERO System will let you build practically anything you can think of, but the p'n'p game also has a GM (Game Master) involved in the process. He is free to look over your sheet, full of caution-flagged Powers and Advantages and Limitations, and tell you "Not in my game you don't!". An online game will unfortunately need some other mechanisms to fill that role.
sonicsix, please don't take this the wrong way, I mean this as a legitimate question. Why are you even visiting mmorpg.com at all? Haven't you just listed pretty much all the significant features of an MMO? I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm genuinely curious.