Leo_G

I was quoting Venture. You can scare him by threatening the lore

Hmmm:

-They could retcon a lot of the Lore so that Paragon City is some sort of suburb of another big city...basically try and shoehorn Paragon into their DC universe. And hey, they already removed Statesman...now just copy/paste Superman in there...

-They could get rid of the Rogue Isles...Oh I'd HHAAAAAAATEEEE that...but if red-side (and gold-side) is viewed as dead weight because few players play it?...

-They could meld RI and PC so that they aren't separate games and induct world PvP into the City...oh so many of you would hate that...I wouldn't particularly mind but it's definitely not a good thing.

-Another round of nerfs because our heroes are just too damned good

I don't feel quite that way about the devs though. I don't look to them as simply developers but more like mentors and paragons who we should model ourselves (or other developers from other games should model themselves after). That they deserve just as good as they treat their playerbase and their game.

That said, I feel the devs of CoX deserve *better* than CoX. If they feel compelled to finish their work, that is hugely admirable. But I also don't feel they should or would be shackled to this game until then. They deserve, far more than we deserve to keep playing, to spread their wings if they so desire.

So this news that Sony is interested in the CoX IP is good news...probably not for me since while I love and play this game, I'm more here for the forums and chat...even if they don't keep Paragon Studios.

My true hope is, War Witch and the other big red-names find new, bigger and more innovative endeavors while some of the smaller red-names look into staying with CoX where they can break their gums on filling their former bosses' shoes while keeping CoX going with new compelling content.

I think the interesting thing though is, there will be change for our game if it continues. Some of it won't be good but we'll be better for it in the end.

Here's hoping

Hmm, well I'm not trying to convince anyone. I've been backing off of playing anything for a while now, especially since hearing about this news...but I have been looking into the realm of MMOs, at first to see just what state the industry is in to have lost such a gem as CoX. Then I started thinking "I actually *do* enjoy playing games, if only casually...I can't just play nothing..."

I'm actually seriously thinking of trying it because it does look fun. And it looks fun for a variety of reasons:

-I like beat-em-up action games at their core, all the way back to Nintendo and Sega. GW2 is pretty action beat-em up.

-You only have to buy the game. No subscription. I can play it somewhat like CoX in that I don't have to keep playing to get my money's worth.

-It's not grindy from what videos show. You're focused on skill points earned by doing quests and junk, not levels. The game auto-levels you depending what you're doing/what zone you're in. It's like CoX super-sidekicking but making it zone/event-wide.

-Rather free-form character spec. You can use whatever weapon floats your boat and spec to specialize in such but you can *use* whatever weapon your class can use whenever you like and switch on the fly.

-It's twitch based. I've always preferred games like Ninja Gaiden series, which this seems exactly like.

Of course, all those are my preferences. Some of those might be strikes for you...maybe even the fantasy setting which I've never minded at all. But just taking a look at the game from videos and it looks fun. Of course, this is coming from someone who hasn't played another MMO in years besides CoX.


I'm actually looking forward to a game that doesn't laugh at its PvP. As much as I love CoX, I hated the way people disregarded PvP. I used to PvP back before i13 I believe. I wasn't very good but the groups that I ran with didn't discourage me.

But I think the strength comes in for GW2 is that the PvP looks somewhat engaging if you're into that and you're probably going to find most will focus on PvPing...but you're not forced to *AND* the PvE looks damned engaging as well. From the vids I've seen, similar to how much of CoX content focused on instances, GW2 seems to be about the zone events. And unlike CoX zone events, there are multiple conditions for those events...if you fail one objective, the event doesn't fail or it doesn't wait for you to complete it. The event will branch into another event or objective.

Yes, the player review videos seem to show a lot of good things happening in this game. I'm sure there are negatives (which I'd also love to hear about) but it still looks fun even for just a Friday night that I've got nothing going on.

From what I've read of late posts, Zwill and BaBs posts simply say that they haven't heard anything that supports that rumor and that it was most likely just a rumor.

Cool, just thought I'd ask. I mean, all the times I stalked you, you never mentioned one way or the other

Was it animatronic? That's probably the last hurdle I had for my recreation for my main character I had mocked up for Halloween this year. I found instructions for cheap eye-lids for the mask and the next leap was other simple parts like a tail that could move.

But I don't know jilt about that sort of stuff without precise instructions

I know Japan has those animatronic cat ears though. Those are super keen, I'd bet.

And just FYI, I never met a furry IRL that I know of. I do all my dress up for Halloween which is my favorite holiday.

Confession: Donatello from Ninja Turtles made me feel that way when I was 8

I always thought you were too sexy for your shirt