Slaunyeh

Negatives?? I'll get the meat hooks!

Uh, I mean: Good review! (at least the part I saw. 31 minutes??)

That's actually what I really like about TSW. For a story-driven game, the game doesn't go out of it's way to tell me why I'm doing something (beyond the most general of 'otherwise your boss might detonate the bomb in your spine' motivation). Baring an infamous Dragon faction intro sequence, it doesn't go out of your way to dictate your motives or reactions to anything. This, for me, works because while I'm "forced" to do missions for people, like CoH, I can decide, in the back of my mind, why I'm doing it or what I feel about doing it.

In contrast, a game like TOR, with its' fancy dialogue has to force these things. Even if it does give you three options to pick from, you are ultimately playing through a game playing some Bioware writer's character.

And while GW2 isn't particular story focused, it does go out of its' way to explain your motivation. And your motivation is, specifically, "I want to selflessly help others". Which grates on me endlessly.

While I love that TOR dared to tell a good story in an MMO, I think TSW found a better balance between "telling a good (and by definition rail-roaded) story" and "leaving your character's personality for the player to decide." Kinda like old-school CoH missions vs. the fancy new dialogue tree ones that I know you love.

They have received two letters, then. Yay!

I enjoyed CoH yesterday. I'm enjoying it today. And I would like to be able to enjoy it tomorrow.

There is nothing wrong with enjoying something for a non-infinite stretch of time. There's also nothing wrong with enjoying something for a finite stretch of time and feeling that the end of that time is coming too soon. I'm not done enjoying CoH, and I suspect others feel the same way.

To quote Kirsten Geary, your Illuminati handler in TSW: "It's do or get done. And we're not done."

So, you spend half an hour shooting mutated monsters in a subway, and 30 seconds shooting zombies on a forest road, and concluded that the game is about "shooting zombies in forests."

Ahem. Yeah. Okay.

Hating the combat I can at least understand, because that's a matter of taste. But I'm wondering (possibly because I wasn't paying attention) when were you trying it? Just wondering because I absolutely hated the combat when I was trying it in beta weekend 1, but when I managed to work up the will to try it again in beta weekend 4 I absolutely loved it.

I know you like to hate everything Sam, and that's fine. It's one of the things we like about you.

In the end, TSW isn't really about building your own character and your own stories, like most games that aren't CoH. So I wouldn't really expect you to like it. TSW is a heavily story driven game though, that manages to not rail-road you nearly as much as, say, TOR did. Or GW2 is doing.

Mainly by not voicing your character, which is really weird at first, but actually ends up solving most of the issues I have with the TOR (and to some extend GW2) stories.

It's become something of a regular joke among my GW2 guild mates to say something like "Geez, I hope GW2 is still open by the time I get home from work", or "Man, I hope ArenaNet makes it through the weekend".

It still stings a little bit every time.

I don't know, for an "MMO Revolution" it's not that revolutionary. I've seen vastly more original fantasy settings than GW. Of course, being original for the sake of being original isn't necessarily a good thing either.

But exploding on people for having a different opinion than yours is not good form. I tried to interject a little bit of humour in response to that. My mistake. Won't happen again (for all of 10 minutes. Promise).

Or, more likely, an attempt at interjecting a bit of humour into a fairly aggressive post, instead of pointing out that telling something their opinion is, and I quote, "completely wrong", ironically, would be completely wrong.

But hey, I don't get called cute every day. I'll take it.

So... it is City of Heroes??

All of it!

As we all know, sometimes you just fail a mission. Maybe it was timed, or they had to protect Lady Grey or something.

I like to think everyone in the GR credits are players.

My moon-based death ray is primed and ready to go. I just need coordinates. Which continent are we aiming at? (it's not really a surgical-strike type of weapon, but I'm sure the message will come across)

It's not the control schemes (I used the one resembling CoH, anyway) it's more like responsiveness and how your character reacts to input. As I said, it's hard to explain, something just feels 'off'.

I'm not suggesting it's not working correctly (I wouldn't know), just that something about it rubs me the wrong way. I wish I could be more specific. (this isn't a 'problem' unique to CO, either. Just one example of it.)

Nothing wrong with showing up as Illuminati!

I'll keep an eye out (tee-hee, I almost missed that pun).