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Post by Username17 » Thu May 15, 2008 9:18 am

CoH isn't super-balanced, but the setup makes me honestly not even care. Dominators, for example, are just as likely to beat most opponents as Brutes are, but they take ta very much longer time doing it, making them "inferior" as far as advancement per hour, which is the primary reward system of that type of game.
But yeah, City of Heroes is fun. It doesn't take itself overly seriously and its setup actually works much better than does WoW or EQ. It should just go even farther in the direction of ditching MMO concepts than it has. But it's still far and away the best one on the market.
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Post by Orion » Thu May 15, 2008 10:18 am

Yeah, I noticed some archetypes level much slower, at least when soloing. That doesn't bother me really, I just think of it as difficulty levels -- and picked a strong soloer for my first toon.
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Post by Crissa » Thu May 15, 2008 2:48 pm

I found CoH really boring.
It just seemed to my like someone's set of private servers on SecondLife with less chance I could customize my avatar and less chat.
But yes, they have many innovations that get you into the game quickly, even if their actual content is very boring and repetitive.
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Post by Leress » Sat May 17, 2008 8:44 am

> Boolean wrote:

> > PhoneLobster wrote:.
> > Its like the one damn feature of city of heroes that anyone ever thought was cool, the costume creator...

> Is this game commonly reviled? I picked it up a few days ago and am loving it, far far better than my brief encounter with WoW.

To my knowledge CoH is generally accepted as good, while CoV is more on the lame side.
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Post by Orion » Sat May 17, 2008 9:35 am

I love me the Mastermind, though.
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Post by Crissa » Sun May 18, 2008 12:30 am

If City of is commonly reviled, it's news to everyone, since they're doing pretty good for a subs game.
MMOG Active Subscriptions: 70,000 - 700,000
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Post by JonSetanta » Mon May 19, 2008 7:41 am

Oh. Shit. DOFUS, the European (95% non-English?) Flash game.
My little pixie-thing mage character with the bat wings died to a level 1 bird in turn-based grid combat, after running around for an hour in a town full of Czech, French, and Spanish speakers.
I deleted the game promptly after that.
BUT the artwork was fantastic, and there was no lag whatsoever. It does have that going for it.
EDIT: Yet as a disclaimer, that was 3 years ago, so it may have improved by now. Odd, with such exponential fan growth at least something must have improved.
Here's to hoping for realtime combat.
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