I almost never post, heck this thread alone is what made me finally set up my forum account. With that said I took a look at your review, and I have to admit, the first half of it wasn't bad at all, heck I'd say really good, but the the second half kind of goes down hill, and this is mainly cause, like a few posters have said, it fell kind of dated. I really suck at making post on forums which is why for the most part I never do, so I will try to make this as good as I can as well as keeping personal feeling about the game and the review out cause I feel they don't help and only start flame wars.
Like I said the review wasn't bad, not the first half anyway. You said at the start of your review that it had been a good 2 years or so when you last play, looking at the review as a whole really did feel like it was done the last two years you played. You points on the contact (or quest givers if you like) sending you all over the place in a way holds true today, but mostly on the Hero side. It something people still talk about today in truth, I think I might have seen a post about it a good 2 or 3 days ago. To my point, you don't really get this much in CoV and GR. With that said, almost ever review I ever seen on CoX, no one ever points out the fact that after a good 2 or 3 missions, the contact give you their number, so it really cuts down on the running back in forth a lot.
With my first point said, I have to say there was a big lack of CoV and GR in the review, I mean it's one thing if you don't like it, that is cool, but you can't really do much a full review on the game leaving out stuff like this. It would be like doing a review on WoW and leaving out TBC and WoTLK, yeah it would be a review oh WoW but with only doing the main game that goes from level 1-60 it would be a outdated review, which is what this feels like. While one could say that CoV and GR are more of the same, it's where the Dev really show you what new things they really have come up with over the years, showing you just how much the game has changed.
The part where you started talking about powers and enhancements got me too. Mainly cause while you did touch on IOs or crafted enhancements, that was about all you did, just touch on them. This is another things that I see a lot when someone reviews this game. True normal enhancements get weaker over time, one point people go for all the time, but isn't this something truth almost ever other MMO? In WoW as you level weapons and armor do get weaker over time, heck as you said in your review about how 3 missions later you have weak enhancements, same can be said in WoW, after a good 3 or 5 level which can be done in a good 2 or 3 dungeon run I might add, your gear becomes very weak. This seems like something that is in ever MMO, but seems to be not such a big deal when WoW comes into play.
Now this next part seems to be the very big one that always comes up when people review this game, End Game! Well this one is kind of a hard one, mainly cause we do have an end game in this game, and we kind of don't....for now with I19 and the talk of I20 on the way, this might be what a lot of players may or may not be looking for. I do like the fact you pointed out that we have TF in this game, something I hardly see many reviews do with it comes to CoH, but even then you left out things like the raids we have, there is the new TF which is a 24 man one ( am I getting that right?) CoP. With that said like any other game that has "End Game" stuff, we do seems to almost get a new TF/SF with every new big up date. I would be lying if I said that a lot of our older TF are mainly "tank and spank" well I guess in this game "buff and steamroll", but a lot of the newer stuff isn't so much, heck I have seen a lot of things that you would see in a few other games raid bosses in this game and the other way around, so there is some good stuff out there, just depends on what you feel is good.
I guess it's time to end this with the last thing I'd like to bring up. It seems every time a review is trying to throw City of Heroes into the "Classic MMO" setting, when in truth it's really not, I mean sure, there is a lot of thing you will see in this game, that you will see in any other MMO. but I would like to think that is just more of the basics of MMOs. This game kind of does a lot of things in it's own way far from the classic style, and I bet if you asked that there is a lot of the players here like about that. it's not WoW, or Guild Wars, or even EQ, but at the end of the day it's own thing!
Like I said it wasn't so must a bad review as much as it felt very out dated, had this been made a good 2 or 3 year ago I think you would kind a lot more people agreeing with you and the points you made. Sorry if this was a crazy long wall of text post and a to of misspelled words, I normally never post on forums but this thread got to me. Truth be told I'd love to see you do a full review on the game, but with that said, if at the end of the day you don't really care much for the game, while it might be a lot on the way the game is, it might also be that this just isn't you kind of MMO, which there are many out there and all with their own thing
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