Champions Online: just doesn't cut it.

The outline looks more like a stencil buffer technique.

I agree with the OP and many others on reasons CO doesn't cut it as a CoX replacement. I have some additional issues with the game that I haven't seen mentioned, no need to get into them, but overall it's just "meh".

It's on my system, I'll play it every now and then, but that's about it...

Said it before...will say it again.

Because of sharing the same parent company and same lead designer many of the things that were staple icons of this beloved game went over there and got slightly altered so as to not violate copyright laws. But....given the entirely cheesy nature of the game( CO )....it wasn't pulled off well, in my opinion.

Thus, Champions Online will be, forevermore....a cheap ripoff of this game. A redheaded stepchild. A temper tantrum thrown by a lead designer that failed to realize success in not one, but (at the time) TWO endeavors. Perhaps by now, that has changed. Temperance and wisdom might have been gained. For Neverwinter's sake...I certainly hope so. Currently the only thing I find that I dislike about the game is the fact that it's 4e lore based.

But, all this is personal opinion and you are free to disagree and have/form your own opinions. Have a good day!

I subscribed for a month and am playing CO. It's not CoH, but I'm not comparing it, two different games, two different types of styles. As a game, it will be my replacement, because it really isn't all that bad, it's just different. Have to keep an open mind about these things, that's the approach I am taking with the game.

It's the great thing about subjective opinions: They are subjective and personal opinions.
Some like it enough to play while some don't and in either case and in between that is just A-OK.

Yeah, I tried to give it a fair go - actually tried three or four times by now, but it never looks good. It ruins the look.

I play it, But basically only to hang out with the community.

I -really- appreciate the developers support for us, It's just...Weird.

Well guys It's Doesn't cut it, you are right, There a lot of our people playing it. It the only game right now with A good Costume Creator.

Where Someone can be a Furrie, Dragon, Demon or a Super Hero, Right now it's the only mno where we can call home.

I need to keep my toons alive, my Ideas Alive and Only Co can do it. Coh can never be replace by another Super Hero Online game, this is a fact.

A lot of us Also Rp, we enjoy this game because it helps with it, this Game Grows on you over time, to be frank, I don't think you guys gave Co a real try, stick with it for a while.

I Also think A lot of us are trying badly to find another replacement to feel the Void and This game seem to be helping a little.

I love all you Coh Players and I mean even the jerks that bad Mouth me in the Past.

I want to stick with Co, because of my Virtue Server Players and Coh Players are over there.

I Want to play another Super Heroes game with you guys again, because i am into Super Hero Stuff and I no some of you guys are also into it.

I am not good with Rp, I try it before, But I love Virtue. When I was on Justice Server, It was filled with too many Elites Jerks and then I try Freedom Server, too Many Farmers, Noobs and Pvper.

Only Virtue Server Welcome me with open Arms, who are Kind and Caring people, Who are Smart and also clever. You guys Accept everyone, even a Misfit Depressing guy like myself. So When I found out Virtue players are Heading over to Co, I went over at first to check it out and Virtue was waiting for me with Open Arms.

Bad Mouth Rpers and Virtue all you want, and Bad mouth Co as well, but note this, not everyone hate Co.

QR

For many of us, CO isn't going to work because we still love CoH and no other game is CoH - not will it ever be.

That's a bit "obvious statement is obvious" (obviously) but it's something I think we're forgetting a lot of the time. The reason CoH remained right up there with CO and DCUO in the field is because it did Superhero MMO very very well. And not much is going to come close to that.

I've had a couple of goes at CO. It's ok. It's pretty good, taken in isolation - it does some things better than CoH, IMO. Travel powers for example - but then the jet packs and rocket boards and beast travel powers really took care of that from CoH's POV. But in terms of game play and teaming it is [expletive deleted]

That's only my opinion and maybe I will revisit it some time in the future but for now I'm playing other games.

But if I have any advice it's simply this: Don't hate CO because it's not CoH. Hate it because it's not very good.

"You got to dig it to dig it, you dig?"
Thelonious Monk

I won't say "its not very good."

CO inherited much of what was planned for MUO.

In one interview, Jack was asked something to the effect of "how he plans to convince City of Heroes players to leave for the new game" and he said "I don't want you to. I want you to play both!"

That was before the split, but it seems clear that many of the early design choices were intended to differentiate CO FROM CoH so that people could play both and have a different experience in each. The artstyle and world was themed to be more golden age comic book. The play was decidedly more "console." It focused on fewer "team instance" areas, where CoH had them a-plenty.

In some ways, it "tried to be different" so hard that it took strategies that were inferior to its big sister just so it COULD BE different.