May I suggest your next destination....

I just read the news about CoH/CoV closing down and I'm quite surprised to be honest.It has always been my "go to" game when I have burned out quickly on the "new flav of the month" MMO.
I have played it since launch and it is the only MMO that has always drawn me back,it is in my opinion THE best "login and team" MMO out there,you could have a mental team of 8 ppl in a couple of minutes and you would be all laughing your ***** off and having fun.

Anyways back to the title,the last few weeks I have been playing "The Secret World" and I can honestly I have never experienced a game that can conjure up such atmosphere.
I have read that a lot of you cannot face playing Orcs n Knights type games when this closes.
The Secret World has a unique storyline,the gfx are killer and the cut scenes are amazing too (they make SWTOR look like Scooby Doo).
The skill sets are 9 weapons on a wheel containing 500+ skills,you can mix n match any of em as long as you earn the points to buy em.
I managed to try it out on a few beta tests and before launch I piled in for a lifetime sub because I truly believe it is a stand out compared to all the other games out there.
It has a horror/lovecraft/conspiracy background to it.
Some of the missions require you to do research via the ingame browser to find clues that enable you to complete them.
Other require you to sneak around and avoid cameras,etc.There is also a set xp lvling line with no increasing curve to make higher lvls take much longer.
A lot of the missions are repeatable and you ARE encouraged to explore because there are lots of lore references to find and loads of "kill X" badges to get too.
I believe there is currently a 3 day trial for the game available at the moment (dont quote me lol),I do hope that you will take the plunge and give it a go.
Many thanks for reading this and I hope to see you ingame

Ok, but only if they have an exact copy of the CoH costume creator.

Sadly, while I can appreciate the theme, mood and setting of Secret World, I HAAATE pretty much everything else about it. The graphics, the art design, character creation, the combat system and the fact that almost literally everyone I know has, at one point or another, suggested that I go play that.

Moreover, the Secret World simply lacks what I loved the most about City of Heroes, which is the ability to make a visually and practically non-human character and write my own absurd and exciting backstory. Having my origin me "swallowed magic bug" time and again is simply never going to work for me.

The funny thing is that I was working on what is probably one of my most bizarre characters when the announcement came down. Stardiver and her nemesis - Lighteater - are both ancient automatons from the beginning of time, made by one of reality's original creators as objective experiments to prove that "life" is not aberrant to reality, but is simply a very complex function of it. These two "robots" whose design more resembles animate statues, feed off the eldritch cosmic energy at the hearts of stars and black holes, respectively, and exists for reasons they can't fully comprehend. Neither of the two can talk, or has any desire to do so, and both of them are defined by their quest for purpose, Stardiver defined by becoming attached to the company of others and Lighteater defined by his disdain for the "lesser" beings of the universe.

Really, the only worthwhile substitute for City of Heroes there can be would have to be one where all of the above nonsense makes perfect sense. And the Perfect World's story is too strict, too specific and too preoccupied with wrapping "my" story into its own world.

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I checked out secret world, but I understand that it is basically a first person shooter as well as an mmorpg. If that is correct then this game would unfortunately not be for me.

For me, there is no substitution for this game. It's one of a kind. I don't want a replacement just because I need to be playing an online mmo.

I'll be hanging out in TF2 on various servers. I have no plans to pursue another MMO. This one wasn't perfect but it was my favorite by far.

I'm trying it out (well, in at least another hour when the slow-*** download finally finishes). I have the strong suspicious, that the points raised by Grim and Sam will leave me rather uninterested in it.

I remember back when I played Guild Wars (1) when it first came out... one thing I quickly realized I hated was how everyone that was the same class as me looked the same. Sure, sure, I could dye a few things... but that was it! City of Heroes' costume creator got so much right. I'd say APB's is superior in many ways (although a much more narrow focus) in a technical sense, but PWE did the classic MMO thing of locking 99% of the customization options behind unlocks (it's probably why I still play it some).

I would like to find a new game that's enjoyable as CoH was... but I don't have high hopes.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

I'm there now, been enjoying Secret World right up to Egypt - definetly enjoy the atmosphere and the puzzle solving aspects of the game (even if I use cheats from time to time)

Will probably be my home MMO for the foreseaable future - Never could get into Champions and DC Online was a pleasant diversion but I will really mis CoX and with it the ability to flesh out my toons in both costume and bio (something I really hate about TSW - no bio space - damnit my character has at least 1024 characters of story to tell)

And there is still Mass Effect 3, Skyrim and Minecraft to keep me busy as well.

Which reminds me, I need to take some full body mugshots of all my CoX characters and burn'em to a disc along with their bios and store them with my D&D characters just so I can dig'em out every once and awhile and read'em.

CO would be the only thing i would consider as a full coh replacement, but it still wouldnt be anywhere near the same

im prolly just not gonna play mmos for awhile and just play some of the 500ish games i have on steam i havent gotten to since i played coh...

I tried the Secret World during the free weekend. I like the world art and the stories.

But I just couldnt' make a pretty character. Perhaps that will improve with the character customization they were working on.

You know, Champions also has a huge creator for free players, its just that a LOT of the pieces are locked until level 10, something about streamlining

I don't know, I've messed around with Champions, but their character models just seem wrong to me, alot of the shoulder pieces seem overly large and clunky and they look like claymation or something out of The Incredibles. I might give it another look, but the costumes always looked more realistic here in my opinion and didn't seem like something out of a CGI movie.

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I might try Secret World for the free trial but I'm not sure it will run on my six-year old computer.

TSW, is buggy, very, very buggy, progress stoppingly buggy.


Gave up with it after a puzzle went from an enjoyable ten minutes, to forty minutes of frustration because it was bugged and randomly ignored the correct patterns.

Thanks for the suggestion, but no. I'm not really an MMO fan. I tried this game expecting not to last the free trial. But I stayed, because of friends and the community. That won't be at any other MMO.