Where are you going?

WoW for me - it and CoH have always been my two main games. Both games suit me well and it was rare that I didn't have a subscription to them both.

Champions - I'm a lifetime there. Boy, was that a mistake. Now I have lots and lots of points, but I just can't seem to get into that game. Stll, I have a lot of analogs of my CoH toons, and ther's a certain nostalgia in that.

Secret World - love that game, but it's suited to me. Very evocative, solo-friendly, love the style of the game for me. But it's so oddball - not sure how long it will last.

GW2 - picked it up before the hammer fell on CoH. Oddly, haven't logged on since, but eh, it's on the computer. Guess I could say the same about GW1.

Looking at SW: TOR. played it on my old computer, and boy is it a talky game. A lot to be said about waving a lightsaber around, though. Hoping game play is better on the new computer.

Tried Rifts, and it's very nice, but it didn't hook me. Have a Star Trek account - I think I have a tribble. Don't think it's currently installed though.

After my post in Positron's thread, it occurs to me that I'll probably just go back to console gaming after all, with visits into Kingdom of Loathing (which is essentially a single-player game with a chat room and inter-player trading. There's no multi-player content at all). Other MMOs aren't going to fill the space that CoH occupied.

CO doesn't make me feel awesome. I died five times in the tutorial alone, and in the "real" game fighting more than two minions at a time is instant death. It talks a good game, but, in the end, you're not a superhero, just a punching bag in an ugly costume who can be taken out by a couple of goons.

Dofus doesn't make me feel awesome. I'm underleveled (not a single character at the level cap after more than seven years of playing), undergeared (I'm wearing other people's hand-me-downs), broke (things costs tens of millions of kamas, and I have about 100,000), and all the people I know on that game are so many levels higher that if I get to group at all, it's out of pity, not because I'm an important member of the team. And most bosses at my level range are nearly impossible to beat even for full teams of min-maxed level-capped characters with perfect gear, so what chance do I have alone?

You'll find me on Kingdom of Loathing.

On topic, I think I'll go MMO-less for a while. I might get into the new Tribes game, but I think the best thing I could do for a while is take a break from hard-core gaming and get some stuff done in Real Life.

I would much rather play CoH. But if I can't, I have some other things I've been wanting to do.

Technically I'd already gone (well I was paying subs here up until last month but hadn't logged in all summer).

I've tried AOC, LOTRO & Rift. Of the 3 LOTRO was the strongest of them but didn't hold my attention. Also tried STO and TOR over the summer. STO was interesting for a while, until I hit Captain levels and realised the content isn't really there. TORs lack of any real mechanical innovation compared to WoW put me off pretty quickly too. None of them have the community of CoH or the same team dynamic (mind you for me CoH always suffered when there wasn't teamage around).

Playing Guild Wars 2 now and for the moment it's diverting enough. We'll see if it can hold my attention or if something else comes along. Torchlight 2 is out in a bit, or failing that I may see if I can polish off a Skyrim mod.

The Secret World is truly fantastic but in no way a replacement for CoX. I'd recommend looking at it though.

XCom, Last of Us ... very very little MMO based right now. I have a lifetime sub for CO (2 actually) and I STILL subscribed to CoX and played here out of choice.

Already tried Warhammer online (which was actually fun)/Rift(s?)/DCUO/APB ... only thing that kept my attention other than CoX was L4D.

I'm going to probably stop gaming after this, CoH has been my one and only game for 8 years. Its like losing a best friend and a loved one. I have so many memories, made so many friends and now they're just memories. No more reliving Paragon. No more storming Grandville, no more anything. I will honestly be far too hurt to continue gaming.

I bought a lifetime sub to Champions Online in the last week of beta, so I still have that to fall back on. I've probably only played about a month total since then though... I also still have an active (free month) sub for TERA, but I haven't touched that in about a week.

Then there's always F2P STO, LotRO, or Mabinogi. But like CO, I haven't really played any of them in a loooong time and only for about a month each anyway.

I didn't enjoy my time with DCUO or FFXI, so I won't be going to those.

I would play SWTOR or TSW, but they carry the EA label and they're worse than NCsoft in my book.

So in conclusion, I don't have a clue. I may just go back to beta testing random games until I find something that sticks...

I'm a glutton for punishment, I guess. I gave it one more chance, and .. okay, the tutorial boss still killed me a half-dozen times (I created a new account instead of using a character slot on my wife's account, so I had to go through the Tutorial again), but I wasn't dying to random enemies as much. I'd just gotten Invulnerability when I signed out to give the wife her computer back.

It's still a solid Meh for me, but I guess that's an improvement. The system requirements probably make it not really an option more than anything else. If they had a Mac version....

(Also I really wrote that ranty post in the middle of the night here, when I'd been awakened from my sleep by troubled dreams, and was tired and grumpy. I do actually like Dofus, even though I get frustrated with it at times)

Was briefly considering going back to CO, and I started my "skeptical" thread over there. I'm completely underwhelmed by how that game has progressed in 3 years. As someone mentioned either on this forum or over at CO (I can't remember which, I've been playing forum tag all day), its like CO came out first and then they made COH later after they learned from their earlier mistakes. Its one of the most surreal things in MMOs.

But then I realized I already have a sub with The Secret World I haven't touched in a few weeks. I had to take a break from TSW because they are going through a drama bomb of their own, albeit not quite like this one. But the BS with COH has given me fresh perspective. TSW is a good game, and the disappointments they are experiencing now look minor by comparison. In time I think it will be a great game like COH is today. The game has a lot of great things going for it that they will build off of. I wish there was some way for ex-Paragon Studios employees to get involved with that franchise.

Tera online is solo friendly (probably to much) in that normal questing doesnt really require a team, and if you prefere to team, best to have a dedicated group that won't outlevel you (basically not run anything unless you're all together).

Gameplay is great imo. Art style/graphics great. Body type is the same for all races, but the face sliders/details is AWESOME!

Love the game myself. Hate how it has evryone running solo.

I have no real interest in other MMOs, so if city of heroes doesn't come back in some form I'm likely not coming back to this subset of the gaming industry. I will be taking my characters over to the RPProjects forums and beyond because I've invested too much time into them to just let them be taken away because of some glorified bean counters half a world away.

Well... this sucks.

Given my somewhat frantic work schedule - and a laptop barely clinging to life - I'm going to be going MMO-less for quite a while.

Secret World looks interesting - though in need of some serious work. Perhaps by the time I get a new machine they'll have overhauled combat and crafting.

ST:O Despite accidentally founding one of the early large fleets (The FireFlies: Dr.Amy Weaver, geddit?) and the repetitive combat and frequent bugs of the early days hacked me off badly.

DCUO: despite having a glorious voice cast (Hamill, Conroy, Gina Torres, Adam Baldwin, Dwight Schultz, James Marsters, Adam Baldwin, WHEEAAATOOONN!! and more) and actually pretty good scripting... bugs'n'grind, baby, bugs'n'grind, and a pretty rigid path towards levelling up. Plus very poor social tools.

Marvel Heroes: don't make me laugh. As I told Ryan Penagos himself over the Twitter... "MH may let me play any Marvel Hero. COH lets me be... me."

...and that's what I'm really going to miss. Letting my imagination rip.

So far, bugs and whatnot included, Skyrim looks like my new home for the foreseeable future, heh.

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

For a superhero fix, it has to be CO. DCUO is a piece of crap. It still has a lot of UI problems because it was designed FOR a console, and ported to PCs, and the bulk of their playerbase is on the console platform. They'll never change the thing to make the substantially smaller PC base happy.

COs constumes are big, bulky, and nowhere near as finely detailed as COH's were, but they're getting there. The creator is actually really good. I could do without the epic levels of comedy. But it's not a bad system. It's come a long way.

But, if I had to choose a game, it's the Secret World, hands down. There's no limit to what you can be, and it's in the modern world. Costume creator is lacking, but the missions are complex and require strategy and teamwork, and you have to use your brain. You can't just faceroll your way through swarms of minions.

So, in order of preference: Secret World, CO, and DCUO only under threat of torture.

Since the CoH pacifier was knocked from my mouth I've been frantically searching for one of the same size, color, and quality.

DCUO... no. CO I can't even spend 2 minutes in since I find it so kitten-murderingly ugly. The style just isn't my style I suppose. SWTOR feels small and boring, Secret World feel buggy and unsubstantial. Everything else is elves and dwarves which simply doesn't appeal to me. The only one that looks enticing at all is Guild Wars 2 but it's still elves and dwarves and the guilt of buying it would stab at my brain.

I have a hard time staying in CoH now knowing that it's ending, especially since I was so eagerly awaiting an i24 that will never happen.

I guess I'll go play Mass Effect again.