Where to now?
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Bloodspeaker,
Posted on: 2012-09-02 19:30 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
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Originally Posted by Tanglefoe
4. Last and probably least, I have a Diablo 3 account. Like I've read before in this thread, I really wanted to like this game, but I honestly don't. I played Diablo 2 at launch and stuck with it for about 3 years, but D3 was the biggest let down I have ever experienced. Every bad thing you read about it, yeah it's true.
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I hated Diablo 3 but I recently got into Torchlight 2. It's not a perfect game but it gave me the fix I expected from D3 and didn't get. The aesthetic is "sillier" (one of my recent characters wields a handheld cannon) but it grew on me. The musical score by Diablo composer Matt Uelman (sp?) helps a lot. I was really worried abou the cartoony graphics but in actual gameplay, the ambience is a bit more sinister than I expected, mainly due to the music.
There are just so many things in TL2 that Diablo could have done but didn't. Like actual specs. An equipment drop table that works. But even little things, like the fact that your pet, who I was inclined to ignore at first, is capable of going to town for you to sell gear and pick up supplies like potions, so you can keep adventuring with your friends. I taught my little puppy some spells and now he summons undead archers and casts the occasional fireball, in between moments when I feed him magical fish to turn him into a spider or a fake chest with teeth.
There is also fishing. I didn't like fishing very much, but I LOLed when I realized I could buy dynamite to throw in the fishing holes, which makes all the fish come exploding out at once.
Okay I'm gushing a little. I'm not sure if it's because the game is that great or D3 was that bad. But for the $60 D3 costs you could buy 4 licences of Torchlight 2 with their "family pack" deal. Or a single copy for $20. Well worth it IMO.
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Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
I hated Diablo 3
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Yeah ... that about sums it up.
It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...
Looks like Tera has a small but slowly growing population getting into the game, which would put its overall population somewhere near par with that of CoH these days (now living on only 3 servers). A big difference is that for Battleground PvP and Instanced Dungeons, it looks like there's no barriers against cross-server play, meaning that in some limited senses Tera's server populations have better community interactions cross-server than we do in CoH (short of a server transfer token over here).
Mind you, the chart in the link is basically recording game unit sales, not concurrent player logins or anything like that, so the relationship is going to be a bit ... indirect ... to actual gameplay experience of the player population (just like it would be for CoH extrapolating from the same kind of dataset).
It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...
I'm not sure where to go honestly I been playing Megaten: Imagine, Perfect World, Rusty hearts, and a few other free to plays that I always had and oddly enough were playing with before Bio Armor dropped. To keep me from getting bored of coh, but we all know how things turned out and how they look now.None of those games to me were good enough to be a game to migrate to mainly do to the need to grind or an unfair and high price cash shop. Recently I've been playing Everquest 2 and subbed for a month ( the free to play option isn't worth it ) and I enjoy it, but it isn't the same. I really don't want to go back to medievil and the need for gear and repairing gear, But there isn't much that i can find and I tried Champions Online, but couldn't fix my toons graphics and his blurry look was annoying if I could fix that I'd give it another shot and try out the Warshade like class and I hear they might have a nice rp community. DCUO I played at launch and was enjoying it, but COH called me back. I might try Anarchy Online I always wanted to way back and I heard it has an rp community and being free isn't limiting yourself too much. Any suggestions would be nice I'm kinda open to anything i can run which quite honestly isn't much until i get another graphics card.
Well I've been checking out Wizard 101, it's no COH but it can be fun.
and DDO [Dungeons & Dragons Online] it too is no COH but there are multiple classes and multiple races that you can play and you can somewhat control the look of your character. I can't say the community is anywhere near that of COH but it may change who knows I've only been playing on and off for a few weeks.
My brother has joined some of his COH friends on WOW, I was not wow'ed by WOW to be honest so I am not likely to go back there.
Anybody thinking of The Secret World but holding off... there's a 3 day trial on now and half-price purchase on the game this weekend. Good time to try it out.
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Originally Posted by MikeRobe
Anybody thinking of The Secret World but holding off... there's a 3 day trial on now and half-price purchase on the game this weekend. Good time to try it out.
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As mentioned earlier in the thread, I got a lifetime sub late in the last beta. It's certainly not CoH... and I suspect nothing ever will be, for me... but I do love the game.
Where to find me after the end:
The Secret World - Arcadia - Shinzo
Rift - Faeblight - Bloodspeaker
LotRO - Gladden - Aranelion
STO - Holodeck - @Captain_Thiraas
Obviously, I don't care about NCSoft's forum rules, now.
I just figured out what I will be playing in the near future. I had no idea this was even in the works, but...
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/09/...ain-of-command
A free demo is out on Steam now, and the game is coming out Oct 9.
I am a huge XCOM fan, and the original was one of the best games ever made, imo. And the new "remake" seems extremely good, judging from the demo and youtube gameplay videos. It's a hard game, but it's a great mix of strategy and RPG. Apparently it also has PvP, but I haven't seen any videos of that yet.
Basically it's a turn-based action/strategy game, created by the makers of Civilization. Should be good.
I think I've settled on Otherland.
It's Sci-fi rather than fantasy and I can get my head around the backstory by reading a book. The forums seem friendly, and it all feels very "niche" - which was why I started with CoH back in 2004.
The Cyberpunk era is a close second to Superheroes too.
-H
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I like SWtOR. I want to love it, but I can only really like it. The two things that get me are:|
Originally Posted by Supermax
Anybody playing this or have played it before? Could it ever be a replacement for CoH?
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1) Too traditional. It really plays like every other MMO ever made. Honestly, I'm a bit tired of the WoW-esque mechanics. When you start up a brand new game for the first time, and instinctively know how everything works, down to the formula that calculates your derived stats... that's just boring, IMHO.
2) Too story driven. I like story. I really, really like story. I play games almost exclusively for the story. And yet... SWtOR is "too story driven". How does that even make sense? It does, because there's one thing that's more important than story, to me, in an MMO: The ability to create your own character. That's where the long-term appeal of an MMO comes in, for me. Most MMOs fail in this regard in some way or another. SWtOR is so story-driven that it soon becomes obvious that you're not playing your character. You are playing the character belonging to a writer at Bioware. That might not have gotten to me in KotOR, but it certainly get to me in SWtOR.
It's not a bad game, in itself. It's actually a very good WoW-like game. It may even be better than WoW. But, in the end, I just don't really want to play WoW. Whether it has lightsabers or not.
Thought for the day:
"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."
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Hi all.
I have three (48 hour) serial codes for The War Z which "goes Alpha" today.
It's a FPS vs Zombies and other players which might turn lots of people off but... well... it's got Zombies...
Digging around on their forums seems to unearth some PvE friendly people but there are the usual clumps of loons. As there is private server rental on the horizon, I'm sure there will be people looking for more mature players to provide a more realistic environment.
Anyways... If you want a 48 hour "go" of it - drop me a PM. The first three get them.
-H
I reactivated my STO account the same day the announcement came out. I'm going to renew my SWtOR before it goes F2P in a few weeks but that will be the last money I ever spend on a MMO. COH has been my home away from home for almost 7 years now. Still trying to get my MA/SR scrapper Evasive Luck to 50.
I think I'm done with MMOs for the time being. There are two aspects that are missing from every other game I've tried...
1.) Travel Powers! So tired of slowly jogging... So tired of being completely stopped by a chest high fence that I could climb over in real life....
2.) Casual teaming! I have yet to find another game that is as easy to find or create a team as CoH. Even DCUO and Champions seem to be single player games until you are high enough level to join the big alerts and other task force equivalents.
I've tried to play CO a number of times... and every time I can't stomach the aesthetics... even with the "comic lines" turned off. The graphics look WORSE than COH imo... and I can't make a character I find appealing to look at. My male characters all have this squarish blocky looking face with very little in the way of customization options. Sure the costumes have quite a few options that coh didnt have but they just don't look good to me. To my eyes the graphics engine for CO seems older and less robust that COH's. Maybe I'm just weird I dunno.
Three times I installed and tried to play. Three times I walked about 10 feet, shot off a few powers, was so disgusted at the look and feel of the game that I uninstalled it.
It's just not for me. If I don't like the way my character looks then I won't enjoy playing the game. COH was the only game that really let you make a comic book looking guy. Not a neanderthal but an honest to goodness heroic looking male, model physique with adjustable parameters. I guess I am just superficial but I like my character being hot.
Jem - Ill/Rad Controller Lv 50+3 Nic - Mind/Psi Dominator Lv 50+3 Lady Liberation - Invuln/SS Tanker Lv 50+1 Invicitx - Demon/Pain Mastermind Lv 50+1 Celeste - Emp/Arch Defender Lv 50+1 Nightsilver - DB/WP Scrapper Lv 34 Dusk Howl - StJ/Regen Brute Lv 32 Kyriani - Time/Energy Defender Lv 41Psifire - FF/Psi Defender Lv 50
Star Lighter - LB/LA Peacebringer Lv 30
There can be only one.
Please buff Ice Control.
IF they're able to scrape me out of the CoH server cabinet(s), I'll be over in CO.
It's not CoH. And the art style still induces nausea and headaches.
But I've had an LTS there for quite a while now that I haven't used since Open Beta really.
It's kinda hard to argue with "free".
Clicking on the linked image above will take you off the City of Heroes site. However, the guides will be linked back here.
P2P doesn't bother me; I'll happily pay $15 a month for a decent MMO. I just don't see any out there.
I don't wanna help Champions, which is part of the Axis of Evil which shut down CoH, but turn off character outlines (a Champions-specific cartoony thing), and any haze effects, often called bloom, or fog-with-distance. That's the first eye irritant to go every game I start up.
3D card people added it in hardware, so for some godawful reason all game makers feel they have to use it.
"Hey! You knocked generic cola all over your precious D20 books!"
ED: Now I know how Nancy Kerrigan felt: "Why...?!? Why...?!?"
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I tried The Secret World and was subscribed to it for a month, but I un-subbed last week.|
Originally Posted by MikeRobe
Anybody thinking of The Secret World but holding off... there's a 3 day trial on now and half-price purchase on the game this weekend. Good time to try it out.
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For me, there was too much in there that was just incongruous even within the context of the game world I don't mean all the evil monsters wandering around but rahter stuff like when you shoot a mob with your Assault Rifle, that heals you.
In the framework of the world they created, I am fine with a lot of weird creatures invading... but from when some bee randomly flies into your mouth, to the AR example above, to a bunch of other stuff, there was just too much additional suspension of belief required. If you can just shrug and say 'meh, that's just how it works', then maybe you'll like the game better than I did. There were a lot of familiar names posting in their forums...
As another possibility, there's a D&D style MMO based on Neverwinter from the Forgotten Realms getting ready to hit beta soon. Hopefully that will end up being something fun to play. Otherwise I might just go back to running Wizardry in a dosbox (yes, that's really what I did last night ).
Although it seems counter-intuitive to us, as players, this is apparently "normal business practice" in the gaming industry ... that once a game launches, layoffs will occur ... pretty much regardless of how well the game does in the marketplace.