Comments on: Champions Online – I Feel Heroic Just Patching It

By: aion kinah

aion kinah — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:06:06 +0000

Actually, I can’t say anything about CO coz’ I haven’t experienced playing this game. What I am looking forward now is the Aion release. Actually, almost all the reviews about aion says that it has a great gameplay and I think it is going to get more attention than CO now. Added to it, aion was also voted as the best online game at Gamescom.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:15:12 +0000

Yeah, it will be very interesting to see how CO stands up against Aion. I have a suspicion that Aion will out hype it and do better. It’s also got the advantage of being released after CO.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:14:03 +0000

Well, a lot of the games you mentioned have very strong IP licenses behind them that define the look and feel of the game. Champions Online and CoH are just ‘generic’ superhero games and are thus bound to look very similar because they don’t have anything easily identifiable for the player to latch onto.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:11:36 +0000

Very true. I’ve just messed around the character creator and played the tutorial so I can’t comment much about it. I just mean that I wasn’t expecting something disastrous after reading a lot of negativity about it and was actually surprised by the initial first impression.

By: Gordon

Gordon — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 23:10:25 +0000

LOL, I’m not sure how to take that Um, thanks!

By: Marchosias

Marchosias — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:47:43 +0000

I think Brendon really hit it on the head. It’s too close to the CoH experience for me to take it really seriously. Sure there are some cool things they’ve tweaked, but it’s SO similar.

One could argue that all fantasy MMO’s are also “the same” but WoW, AoC, and WAR all have a very different look and feel that makes them seem like they’re very different, when in reality they’re pretty similar when you get right down to the nuts and bolts. But CO doesn’t really feel like a different game to me from CoH.

So one might say that it’s because both games came from the same studio, but Mythic’s DAoC and WAR actually feel like different games to me, so that’s also a red herring. I dunno, I don’t *hate* or even dislike CO, but since CoH never really held my interest, and since CO seems like CoH with frosting – I doubt it will hold my interest either. I guess I was just hoping for something *different*

By: Champions: Yeah, People Actually LIKE The Game. Go Figure. « Bio Break

Champions: Yeah, People Actually LIKE The Game. Go Figure. « Bio Break — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:30:59 +0000

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By: Keen

Keen — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:27:13 +0000

Making characters is fun. It’s the part of the game after you log in that needs work.

Seriously though, glad you enjoy it. It’s going to need a lot of support from those who do end up enjoying it and subscribing in order to stay afloat this year against the onslaught of Blizzard’s announcements, SWTOR’s hype, Aion’s steady polished release, Guild Wars 2’s marketing blitz, FFXIV’s following, and the other non-MMO games with MMO qualities that will pull people in every which way.

Let us know what you think after you beat the crisis areas.

By: Hudson

Hudson — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:13:16 +0000

You haven’t really PLAYED it yet.

By: Longasc

Longasc — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:48:06 +0000

Off all the weirdo champions, I like yours the most… he is so manly!