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This game better of as a single player game?
Yamota
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I am a DC fan and would probably buy this game if it was a single player game (with multiplayer PvP matches as an option). But for an MMORPG with a monthly fee and a cash shop?
I really dont see how it belongs as an MMORPG. Does it have crafting? Housing? Territorial PvP? End game raids which you need a raid group to finish?
For the last one I dont know but I am pretty sure it has none of the former ones. So wouldn't this game be better of as a single player game?
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It does have very tough end game raids that requires a very strong group to complete, as well as a bunch of tougher group oriented PvE missions. PvP territorial combat is somewhat possible. First, you can pretty much count shared quest hubs as territorial combat on the PvP servers. When heroes and vilains are trying to do quests in the same area, you can't help but fight it out to complete your objectives.
On top of that you have the open world ring war missions, but it isn't so much territorial control really... just a fleeting PvP event that happens every hour or so.
There is no crafting. No housing.
There is nothing in the cash shop at this time, but it will not be filled with content or power sets, and if there are any items it will be cosmetic. Thats about it.
I actually think this is exactly what DCUO is, and they know it but want it to be something else.
I've been on all day today (lvl 6 started around 10 ish). I'm about to do the final scarecrow mission (I started a new toon on the server that DOESN'T have 200+ queue every night :-P). I've spent the ENTIRE day flying around gothem doing my collections. I've been all the way to Ace Chem and back down, over to the Brainiac held buildings and even across the big bridge to no where :-P
Fun times. Personally, this game is FAR more fun on the PvP with actual people involved. Every once in a while, some villain gets a bug up his butt to follow me to hunt me down. (keep in mind, I'm level 6 so I don't have any extra travels right now other than basic flight) OVER and OVER losing them amongst the buildings was the BEST part.
Course I got ganked a time or 2 by those silly lvl 30s but (shrug) nothing you can do about that on PvP
It does not really feel like an MMO, but the PvP helps.
I cant say i like the game all that much, but I'm having a bit of fun, so I'll play my free month
The most fun part of the game for me is actually running away from players i cant beat.
With acrobatics i seem to have a large disadvantage against flying people at a low level ( i didn't get movement skills yet ) and It can be really challenging to get away, but i almost always succeed!
I've had the occasional death but meh.. Wow I'm totally off topic.
I think it feels like a singleplayer game because of the combat, actually.. It feels like a Co Op game with a giant city lobby.
It's funny how people are just now starting to catch onto this.
It's basically a high resolution, continuous progression console game.
Kind of like how Halo and CoD are consoles with player made maps that are slighty different, except SoE is saying they are adding diverse content over time.
So, if you play a little over two months, you've played for about what you would have paid for a console game roughly.
At that point you have to ask yourself how much you like/love Batman and Superman to continue playing the same console game with new players. After all, DC universe has a TON of characters to throw inside a dungeon EACH month as a sub-boss or boss and write a story around it.
In a way, it's like getting a new Batman/Superman console game every month if they add the content properly. New month maybe Green Lantern. Month after that, it's Firestorm. Month after that, maybe its Lobo.
I like storylines so I really don't mind if they keep packing dungeons that way.
"TO MICHAEL!"
It's pretty painfully obvious almost nobody in this thread has played to cap. Yes, leveling is mostly a solo affair... it is in 99.9% of MMOs on the market today. This game is incredibly group intensive at end-game, and challenging to boot.