Not when you just make it a freakin' WoW clone. It has most of the same problems I mentioned in the post above this one. Just because it's more polished, just because I can manage to enjoy it.. doesn't mean it's good or original.
I love this game. That doesn't make it objectively good. I think the biggest hurdles for new players are: 1) You expect an action game (it's super heroes and it's specifically advertised as one on its own front page) and you end up with a ho-hum hotkey MMO (done too many times). 2) You maybe get over the fact it's a hotkey…
Your sig, wtf is wrong with you, why are you beating up Statesman? He died in story and had one of the best death scenes I've ever seen. Kind of lame to do that while saying "welcome refugees". If he's supposed to be helping Statesman, I think you need to work on it.
On its own (but especially compared to CoH), CO's storytelling on the whole is just bad. It's a whirlwind of puns, references, and unfunny parody that drown out any storytelling. Me and my friend, as we work our way through it, just go "Ugh" and facepalm several times an hour. If whoever wrote this game was interested in…
A lot of us actually hated it for being cartoony. CoH was a dark, gritty game. Never mind the dated graphics, its stories, its world and its characters were all very.. earthy. CO is overly campy, cartoony and lighthearted. I can deal with most of that, but what always made me leave CO was it's content. The writing in this…
Nah, doesn't really matter anymore, does it? Now it's down between CO and DCUO and we know which game wins there. Oh, wait, that's a bit of an odd statement, since I didn't list two games, but one game and one travesty, in that order. We all have our tastes and our opinions, I stated mine. It all comes down to personal…
Not really, a lot less options here, and CoH power customization make's CO's look like a joke, but whatever, CoH is on the deathbed and I'll playing anyways so I can have my hero fix. Guess it's all irrelevant now.
NC has ruthlessly culled no less than 7 games with almost no warning. This is what we call a pattern. I'm never playing another of their games again. Even aside from the fact i simply don't want to give them my money, what's to keep them from shutting down another good game that I enjoy without any real attempt to save it?…
There are a LOT of reasons this is unlikely and I'm getting tired of explaining it. Most important reason: CoH was not the only game being actively developed by Paragon. They had a second game in development there for over a year I believe. I sincerely doubt it was using the Cryptic engine, but the entire studio got…
They DEFINITELY didn't know, not the majority of them. City Of Heroes has a weekly TwitchTV livestream (that kept making it to TwitchTV's front page due to viewership numbers) where the devs get on for an hour and talk with the community and reveal new, upcoming things. The most recent one was just a couple days ago. The…
It wasn't even doing bad. There are a LOT of people playing that game, and a LOT of subscribers still. Almost every person I see is wearing something or using something that was bought on the Paragon Store. this is just typical NC. It's profitable, but not profitable enough, so instead of laying off some folks so they can…
I feel the same way. This is just a shock. Competition was a healthy thing for both games, and I enjoyed both games. CoH was bar none one of the single best games I have ever played, and I am dismayed at its closure. I .. simply fail to understand it being shut down. I was going to buy Guild Wars 2, but it seems NC waited…