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Angelxman81

By Angelxman81,
Posted on: 2012-03-07 11:06 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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If the new IP game is Call of Cthulhu or Paranoia, I'm there.
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If the new IP game is Call of Cthulhu or Paranoia, I'm there.

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I wouldn't be surprised if the new project is a spiritual successor to CoH -- a superhero game but one not set in the CoH universe so they are free to depict it however they like without having to carry over lore/baggage from CoH.

The old videos remind me how much I dislike the way interiors in the game now are almost entirely divorced from the area you enter them from. It makes the world seem fake.

 

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I really do miss that old login screen music. I preferred it to what we've gotten lately.

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I really do miss that old login screen music. I preferred it to what we've gotten lately.
I'd like an updated version of it somewhere in the game - it'd be good for looped music instead of the short bursts of music for different areas of a zone.

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Right... Seraphim, Twilight Men, Revelation, Killing Crew, and Fear Factor.

Gentlemen. Ladies. Our course is clear.

We need AE arcs! Arcs with your interpretations of these enemy groups!

I'll get to that myself... well, just as soon as I finish going through all the new I22 content. Then it's to AE!

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Here's an old gameplay demonstration from E3 2002.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3kW2Le9TJk
What I took from this video was that it was a miracle that the game came out at all. Seriously, two years before its eventual launch they were at E3 promising that it would be out the same year with adaptive storylines, robust PvP, and forty (did he really say forty??) city zones when they clearly hadn't even gotten the fundamental combat mechanics working yet. In hindsight we know it took them four issues to finish arena PvP and I guess eighteen issues before the tech existed for any story lines that could be in any way called adaptive. Now rather than adding more zones they're blowing them up to reduce clutter. Say what you want about the virtue of optimism but I'm glad they finally got their heads out of the clouds and started to focus on making a great, consistent game.

 

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I wouldn't be surprised if the new project is a spiritual successor to CoH -- a superhero game but one not set in the CoH universe so they are free to depict it however they like without having to carry over lore/baggage from CoH.
Well, two things about that.

First, anyone with business sense will tell you that launching a new IP is way more risky than making a sequel to something people already know about. People who never even played CoH would be more apt to try CoH 2 than CoH just by rationalizing "well, it must be good if it got a sequel" and "since it's the second one it must be way better". See: Left 4 Dead 2. Illogical or not, that's human psychology.

Second, the market for super hero MMOs is really limited. Right now there's three big ones going, a couple of smaller ones and another one that could be major on the way. Launching a new super hero MMO would only cannibalize CoH's existing player base, so it's very unlikely this new IP MMO that Paragon Studios is working on will be in the super hero genre.


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This is still my favorite CoH video.

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Second, the market for super hero MMOs is really limited. Right now there's three big ones going, a couple of smaller ones and another one that could be major on the way. Launching a new super hero MMO would only cannibalize CoH's existing player base, so it's very unlikely this new IP MMO that Paragon Studios is working on will be in the super hero genre.
I still think the market could bear a super hero MMO that 1) isn't CoH, and 2) is a good game. We're still waiting.

I'd even accept a super hero/fantasy hybrid, like Exalted.

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All hints to the new IP is a space something.

I'm hoping for Traveller.

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