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  • ariesmajorariesmajor Posts: 394 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    jonsills wrote: »
    Actually, that's kind of the background for my toon Backfire - he joined VIPER for the medical coverage, and too late found out that VIPER's medical plan included being used as an involuntary test subject at the Serpent's command. That's where he got his flame powers from - the same ones he used to bust out of containment with, before switching sides.

    See thats the problem with heroes, always going through this long arduous process of being discovered before saying, oh no, I found the light, time to be a good guy. And they always get their super powers from being in the right place at the wrong time. Getting bit by spiders, experiments, ray gun power infusion, gamma experiments gone wrong. Its all bs.

    The true heroes are the villains, they make their path with a goal in mind, from day one. They build their powers from scratch, they choose to be bitten by the radio active spider.

    While the heroes run around like headless fuddy duddys tripping over themselves in an attempt to "do the right thing".

    But will a hero ever expose their own corrupt government? Will a hero ever expose the mayor and his scandalous love affairs behind his wife's back? Will a hero ever throw money in the streets to the poor and unfortunate unsuspecting citizens, usurping the monetary power bankers that control the world? Will a hero ever throw their own police forces in prison for corruption wrongful arrest and harassment of their citizens?
    Will a hero ever attempt to take over the world creating their own utopia?

    The gangs of millinium city have seen the light, and know the truth about defender and his rich power broker families and friends causing poverty and corruption all throughout millinium city. They don't care about the poor, they don't care about rebuilding the streets, or fixing the cities roads.

    Defender doesn't care about poor people.

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    But the purple gang does, the maniacs care, psi mon cares, viper cares. Join today and get a real job, with real pay, and real benefits. Your educational background doesn't matter, we can make you a genius.

    So come to the side that cares.

    Be a villian.
  • akselmoiakselmoi Posts: 17 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Well, in gameplay sense you can't. (Like everyone said)

    But I'm roleplaying a character that isn't really a hero nor a villain. Just someone who does his own things and sometimes helps other people in the process.

    He isn't evil, but sometimes he can't be bothered to help. We all have those days, right?

    I don't know why I'm even replying as everyone has pointed it out already but asdhasdh and banana.
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  • kojirohellfirekojirohellfire Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    It didn't help that it utterly failed at giving a comic book super-villain experience. It was more or less just CoH reskinned and some names changed with different powers.

    Heroes are generally reactive, and you can lead them along a storyline. Villains are generally more active, creating plots, leaving clues, creating trickery...almost impossible to create a general storyline to follow with that. CoV had you being a bunch of different people's flunkies for 90% of your arcs. It just didn't work like that.

    I have to say that I was really enjoying the newer villain arcs. For once it felt like the contacts were working for you rather than the other way around. Sure, there were a few original CoV arcs like that (Diviner Maros, for instance) but you are correct that there wasn't enough of them.
    ariesmajor wrote: »
    But will a hero ever expose their own corrupt government? Will a hero ever expose the mayor and his scandalous love affairs behind his wife's back? Will a hero ever throw money in the streets to the poor and unfortunate unsuspecting citizens, usurping the monetary power bankers that control the world? Will a hero ever throw their own police forces in prison for corruption wrongful arrest and harassment of their citizens?

    I have a few heroes currently in CO that would: Lady Tsukira, Dreadstorm, and Crimson Hellfire. Lady Tsukira's a ninja that utilizes her skills to uncover and expose any criminal act, even if it leads back to the government; Dreadstorm is a vigilante that doesn't believe in the system and will beat up street thug and cop alike if he finds reason to; and Crimson Hellfire is dedicated to helping anyone in need in any way that he can as he grew up in an impoverished neighborhood that was overrun with gangs and crooked cops.

    There'll be others as I unlock more slots and port more characters from CoH, but suffice to say, I at least make sure some of my heroes realize that the government is far from being pure as crystal white snow.
  • mrf0rz1mrf0rz1 Posts: 556 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Well... Can always be a villain. I mean, got a fair share of soul eating vampiric ninja demon gods running around the streets.

  • caycepollardcaycepollard Posts: 102 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    So go make them in GTA or Saint's Row or something. Champions isn't about robbing banks and murdering innocent people. It's about being a superhero.

    Also maybe take a spelling class.

    I wish we had a way to report posters/mark posts as abusive. This dude here deserves a mod-smack, just out of principle. :rolleyes:
  • zahinderzahinder Posts: 2,382 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    Ah, but the new forums are so much better than the old ones that used to have much more functionality.

    Because now PW doesn't even have to pretend to listen.


    As per villains, I will say that DCUO has some amazingly _REALLY TERRIFYING_ villain plots, unlike most of the CoV stuff.

    Like, in one plot, you run around stealing the souls of citizens to be consumed in rituals to bring demons to the world. That's... a bit more than Luthor's 40 cakes...
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    Beggar's Hollow: NW-DR6YG4J2L : Someone, or something, has stolen away many of the Fenwicks' children! Can you find out what happened to them?

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  • meedacthunistmeedacthunist Posts: 2,961 Arc User1
    edited September 2013
    ariesmajor wrote: »
    Will a hero ever attempt to take over the world creating their own utopia?
    :>

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    He's such an altruist!
    /trollface
  • decorumfriendsdecorumfriends Posts: 2,802 Arc User
    edited September 2013
    kojirohellfire says there was some:

    I have to say that I was really enjoying the newer villain arcs. For once it felt like the contacts were working for you rather than the other way around. Sure, there were a few original CoV arcs like that (Diviner Maros, for instance) but you are correct that there wasn't enough of them.

    I can agree with that. I also liked the Praetorian "evil evil" arcs. They felt really evil, if not exactly super-villainy per se.
    'Dec out

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  • needlessreaper88needlessreaper88 Posts: 37
    edited October 2013
    Oh good! I'm not the only one who thinks the lockboxes have lost their original touch. I mean, look at the earliest lock boxes: Mountain Lock Box, Takofane Lock box, Cursed Lock Box. I started playing CO when they first introduced the Mountain lockbox. Been playing ever since. But now lock boxes are just foolish. And the new costume sets aren't rolling in every other week like they used to.

    But what I was originally saying, they could gain from making an option to be a Villain. I understand why it's basically seen as a hero game. But Champion could also be used to describe a villain just as easily as it is for hero.
  • needlessreaper88needlessreaper88 Posts: 37
    edited October 2013
    Now...I can't stop laughing when I saw another Otaku!
  • flyingfinnflyingfinn Posts: 8,408 Arc User
    edited October 2013
    Those were themed Grab Bags, they switched to event Lock Boxes.
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  • needlessreaper88needlessreaper88 Posts: 37
    edited October 2013
    flyingfinn wrote: »
    Those were themed Grab Bags, they switched to event Lock Boxes.
    Tomato, potato.
    SAME THING!
    FOR NARNIA!
    .....It's still locked. -.-"
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