Just for fun... Would you play an alternate CO* game?

Here Paragon has this cool IP, City of Heroes/Villains. It's a 3D environment which is fully explorable, with different places to visit, etc.

Would you play a different CO* game which presents aspects of the IP in a different format?

For example, would you play a CO* fighting game, like the Street Fighter series, only featuring CO* signature characters?

Or would you play a 2D platform game, like Dungeon Fighter Online, set in the CO* universe?

Or a RTS version of CO*, done in isometric view, like games like Command and Conquer or Starcraft? Or even like Diablo?

What would you pick? What might you like to see?

If the game was any good, possibly. I wouldn't simply play the game because it has 'City of..." written on it, the same way I won't buy jeans just because they say "Levi's" on them.

A CoH Beatemup could be pretty fun, in that retro sort of style. Like the old X-men arcade game. Play as States, Ms Liberty, Posi, BaBs, Manti, etc, working your way from the alleys to the high rises to the mothership.

That could be a cool game-within-the-game, like a cabinet game in pocket D you could play for AE tickets or badges. Relive the first Rikti War as a 16 bit brawler. Would add some fun depth and texture to the game.

If it was like Mortal Kombat, no. If it was a game similar to the old arcade version of Golden Axe or Ninja Turtles, Yes! Choose a toon and make your way across the screens while smashing clocks and council and such. Would be fun.

Kind of a tautological question given the criteria, it seems to me. The setting really has nothing to do with the fact as to whether I would play a game or not if it is a well made game of a type/genre that I enjoy. You've basically just asked if I would play a good game of any given type.

Maybe. I wouldn't buy a crappy game just because it said City of Heroes on it, but if it were a well done game that would be competitive with other games of whatever genre it falls into, I would give it a whirl.

Examples:

If it were a fighting game I would play it if it held it's own compared to Tekken or Street Fighter.

Real time strategy would have to be comparable to Command and Conquer or Starcraft, though I would expect it to play more like Final Fantasy Tactics.

And so on. If it at least compared well to good games in the genre I would give it a shot. And, if they did such a thing it would draw more people to the original game. Kind of like how the original WoW playerbase was mostly comprised of fans of Warcraft (the strategy game that a lot of WoW players probably don't even realize exists)

I love the lore and characters, so as long as the game was well done, of course I would!

I like CoX for what it is, and the only way I would feel compelled to play a different kind of game with CoX slapped on it is if were a well-done game in and of itself. I wouldn't be too excited about a crappy "City of Heroes Kart Racing" game.

I'd love to.

I'd love to play a game that mirrors the interface and interaction of City of Heroes, but allows you to play as Positron or Statesman, or some other signature characters.

Basically, playing CoH AS them.

Co* Party! Choose a character for the CO* universe and explore a board game-style world to collect the most XP!

No. Just kidding.

Co* Arcade or a co-op adventure game based on CO* might be fun.

I've mentioned in the past how I'd love to play a Capcom vs. Whatever style fighting game with Co* characters. I was actually thinking of MY characters obviously, but what the heck, throw in Statesman and Sister Psyche and Mako too and I'd invest even more tokens/quarters into that machine. Tag-team matches, no limits on sides (i.e. team up Statesman and Recluse once again if you want), and of course loud flashy over-the-top HYPER COMBO FINISH(!*n) attacks with ludicrous names announced by a hyperactive narrator.

I'd play an old-school beat-em-up game too. Heck, I love those no matter what character it is. Tyris Flare, Axel, Cody, whichever Turtle uses the bo, Bart Simpson. Actually I bet Sister Psyche would be an awesome character for that, with her Force Fields and TK to throw things around. Somebody make this.

I'd probably play anything with the City Of Heroes IP stamped on it. Whether or not I'd like it is another issue, but I would certainly be predisposed to liking it.

I'd love an RTS in the vein of Company of Heroes focused on the various armies of the CoH universe.

Controlling battalions of Vanguard units = win.

Wait, let me get this straight... you're telling me that other games exist outside of COX and I can play those too? I'm sorry, but I just don't believe you.

But seriously, I like this game just the way it is and have no need for any other format of it.

I suppose not...
Ever since I began playing an mmorpg... I generally play nothing else.

However, if it has the freedom to roam, wander and do whatever, the personal customization, an ongoing/perpetual chance for character development, the 24 hours per day chance to run into other players and encounter whatever spontaneous reaction occurs... Then, yeah, maybe


That being said... I like the way MrVacant said this better though, hehe