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General => Reviews => Topic started by: Jester on March 01, 2006, 05:05:41 AM
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http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/26/1643212 (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/26/1643212)
NOOOOOOOO!!!!! :'(
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Um.... There's nothing at the end of that link but a blank page saying that nothing is there.
Gabriel
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SOE, the hudsucker proxy of all MMORPG's just picked up Jim Lee
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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*shrugs* I'm not big on DC. I wonder how similiar it'll be to City of Heroes/City of Villains?
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*shrug* mostly identical i'd imagine.
but perhaps they'll actually be able to climb?
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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That'd be nice. Most RPG's are too 2 dimensional. The graphics might be 3D, but you're still stuck on the ground (Morrowind did have jumping, but you still couldn't climb)
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well, city of heros had super-jump, super-speed, flying, and teleportation.
*shrug*
they couldn't get the bugs worked out of 'climbing' though, so they took it out.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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One of the reasons I prefer table-top games.
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Amen to that, sister.
Gabriel
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yup. you, me, and every other geek on the planet agrees.
untill you can take the sheet-metal from the top of a storage shed and build a hang-glider to get off the building in a MMORPG... they'll have nothing on table top.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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What about using a body as a club? (You'd almost have to be a troll for that one, though)
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Cannon Companion gives the damage code as: (BOD+2)M Stun, minimum STR = BOD (that is, attackers STR must be >= BOD of 'club').
Why? ;)
EDIT: Ofcourse, both 'club' and target take that damage, and must seak seperately.
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My boyfriend (Playing a tank character) did it with a (then dead) Highlander-type Immortal in a GURPS game.
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yup. all thoes things are tough to work into a digital realm of strict rules.
-RuskiFace the Pirate
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Yeah, this is going to be weird, but it's not all that unexpected. I mean, Marvel sued Cryptic (makers of City of Heroes) because it was apparently 'too close' to what they wanted to do with Marvel Online. Marvel Online is mostly dead by this point, but DC had a similar incarnation that has made it to this point of the drawing board.
Ever since stories of EverCrack addicts ruining thier lives and credit to play the game nonstop, everyone has been trying to get into the MMORPGs, because, honestly, that's where the money is. You make people buy your game ($50-$70 bucks) and then charge them monthly to play it. You make money hand over fist, and as long as they already have established characters, they'll continue to play.
I don't see how DC would be much different than City of Heroes, other than the fact that you could use DC locations (Gotham, Metropolis, Coast City... and any number of cool other locations- Oa and Apokalips, for example.) Of course fanbase will demand that Superman and Batman will show up (but you probably won't see Aquaman until the exansions), but it does have the potential to be a good game.
Of course, it'll draw comparisons to City of Heroes, and it should, because City of Heroes is a generic version of the DC universe. (Marvel only got mad because they gave characters Wolverine claws- there wasn't really much else there that was derivative of thier properties... no Things or Reeve Richards or Daredevils.)
I think the way that I would be excited to see Marvel Online go would be to see it based in the Age of Apocalypse, where everything was upside down. That would be cool.
Just like I was excited about early rumors of D&D online, I think that I'll want to see this in action before I make a decision.
-kv
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*shrug* I dunno... i did the superhero thing... if it's not cooler than city of heros... I bet it flops.
-Ruski
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It could be cooler. I'm going to try it anyway, but I do have my fears about it.
I had my fears about D&D online, and I love that game.
-kv
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well, by far the most awsome part of CoH was their costume design system. DC's gotta beat that awsome beast if they even hope to have a chance to compeate.
-RF
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but here's my gripe about the whole thing, if you want any company to totally frag up your MMO idea it's SOE. Just look at Star Wars Galaxies, worst MMO ever >:(
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what about everquest 2? that one sucked pretty bad too..
-Ruski
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never tried that one
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it had a nice path up till about level 8. then there was NO path.
walk here and kill thease things.
then go over here.
then go to the city.
then gain citisinship
then become an assasin.
then... well... then you have a world to explore. P.S., everything can kill you.
-Ruski
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hehe, sounds dumb