Those going or are in CO

One other thing CO has going for it that I've grown fond of: Thirty years worth of lore at your fingertips. Between that and knowing Thundrax is in-game, as an older roleplayer it kinda blew my mind. There's a lot there that Cryptic has only scratched the surface of. I'm really curious to see where they can go with this once Neverwinter is on its merry way.

Its not that CO will never get the Foundry, its just that it would have some difficulties and isnt right now in the plans, im pretty sure however, that some time after Neverwinter is released CO will get the Foundry, after all, STO is just testing it for the Neverwinter Team, and the full foundry will release with Neverwinter, not STO

I've been playing CO for about....a month now. I've payed for a three month sub, because at the advertised price...and locking that in for as long as I care to keep renewing...it's a deal. What subbing opened up was pretty good, I'll say that but....

1) The art style sucks bawls. Not the graphics, no. It's shiny, yes. Colorful, yes. Some costume pieces actually look better there than in CoX....but dear God. It's as if the game is pitched at four year olds. Absolutely no realism at all.....and if I were to pick an art style....I'd say it reminds me of anime pitched at kids. Big eyes, small mouth. Oh...and there's only ONE face, either male or female. Several beastlike faces, true.....but in the end....they're all the same. One human female, one human male, one wolf female, one wolf male, etc., etc., etc.
2) From what I've read on the forums....it's buggy as hell. Simple things too...things that you'd think a three year old game would have fixed by now, regardless of staffing problems. I've come across two bugged missions so far....and the missions are the equivalent of task forces here.
3) Keeping in mind that Cryptic developed both games...I'm STILL shocked at the amount of stuff they outright copied from this game. Bonus points taken away for that. There's a Chris Jenkins billboard in CoX that got ported to CO and had just the name changed. Things like that make me relegate Champions Online to the redheaded stepchild of City of Heroes.

Overall...people I've talked to in CO that defend the game say, "Well, CoX had more devs, so it had better stuff."

I disagree. City of Heroes had more developers because it was the better game. Champions Online has virtually no development because it's a crude copy of this game.....but it's the only VIABLE superhero game(to me) currently on the market. Which is a sad thing.

I have been playing it for a month now and I have enjoyed it quite well. Graphics wise, taking the black lining away actually did improve it more than I thought. However, I was raised on the Atari/Turbo graphics 16/Sega Genesis so graphics, as long as it runs smoothly, are that important to me.

As for the bugs, they do get annoying but they are mainly in the APs so if you avoid them, you won't notice them (AP=TF btw).

It is a fun game to play and will please all of your alts desires. There are things that can be improved but all games have them.

I don't think the art is bad as such, I think it's mostly a matter of taste. The faces don't bother me unless they're badly out of proportion, and I like the costumes.

And really, CO does some things CoH didn't do, in good ways.

I used to play CO a while back (542 days according to their login screen), and will probably play there again if this game finally cannot get a wakey. But the glass is not empty until it's empty.

CO graphics engine is slightly better, but they haven't done nearly as well as they could to take advantage of that. Still lots of the same little bugs, as someone has said. It bothers me too, that they just ripped off so much of CoX, but I guess it's hard leaving behind your work & having to re-invent so much.

Couple of things I like there are some of their travel powers, like swinging, and freeform power selection. However, these can never make up for leaving behind the absolute best teaming/sidekicking system ever, global communications, the AE, morality system, invention system, base-building, constant update issues, the incredible dev team and actual super-community. Gads, this sucks to even think about.