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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #30 on: February 08, 2005, 03:06:50 PM »
Well, I can't disagree with any of those criticisms. CoH innovated in areas where MMORPGs desparately needed innovation, but they left some other aspects just as bad as they found them. WoW is superior simply because someone said "why should we punish people for playing our game? Let's make it easy to level, painless to die, and fun instead of just hard."
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #31 on: February 09, 2005, 07:35:20 PM »
Out of curiosity...is this game anything like freedom fighters? Which by the way wasn't the best of games but I laughed so hard at it I cried.
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #32 on: February 09, 2005, 07:40:02 PM »
You mean Freedom Force? That was an awesome game, and made me laugh quite a bit. City of Heroes is completely different, but the sequel to Freedom Force comes out this summer.
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #33 on: February 10, 2005, 12:48:33 AM »
Yes it does, I loved FF, I enjoyed just randomly destroying everything around me and not actualy playing the story mode.  I made an Ash (from evil dead, got the skin off a site) that was max on everything and it was great, one shot from his Boom Stick would knock people through two or 3 bulidings.
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #34 on: February 10, 2005, 11:56:37 AM »
Modding that game (or at least creating characters for it) was so dang easy, and there were tons of skins all over the web. I hope the new version still lets you do all that kind of stuff.
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #35 on: February 10, 2005, 02:08:08 PM »
That's one of the big things missing in CoH: an intereactive environment. It'd be cool to pick up a mailbox, lamp post, passing vehicle and use it to put the beat down on some thugs.
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #36 on: February 10, 2005, 02:16:55 PM »
No kidding. And despite the minor inconvenience, I'd absolutely love it if you could get run over by cars (and, by extension, knock bad guys in front of them).
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #37 on: February 10, 2005, 04:04:48 PM »
It would cool if you could hop on the cars and ride them aroud the city. This would also solve the problem of it taking forever to get anywhere unless you have certain supre-powers.
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #38 on: February 10, 2005, 04:50:36 PM »
Yeah, I tried to do that for about half an hour before I realized that they'd specifically coded against it. they should definitely let you do that.
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #39 on: February 10, 2005, 05:20:43 PM »
Stratics did a chat with the lead CoH developer; fairly boring, overall, but some interesting hints about City of Villains.

http://coh.stratics.com/content/dev/hoc/hoc020805.php
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #40 on: February 10, 2005, 06:13:51 PM »
One thing that CoH does so well is keep people informed on what going on, both their community reps and designers are frequently on their message boards.  Also their Community reps actual know what's going on, unlike Blizzard.
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #41 on: February 11, 2005, 11:03:15 AM »
CoH has spawned it's own "All Your Base Are Belong to Us" phenomenon (do-do-doo-doo-do).

Someone got a blind team invite and joined. The leader said "Kill Skuls" and just stood around while everyone on the team did his mission for him.
The person posted his story on the forums and it has become unstoppable! Even some of the devs are having fun posting about it.

Kill Skuls!
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #42 on: February 11, 2005, 12:02:32 PM »
I don't really get it, but it's cool that Ken Jennings is in one of the images.
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #43 on: February 11, 2005, 09:07:02 PM »
So, it turns out that I can be entered to win a slot in the CoV beta if I get a friend to play CoH. They gave me a code, and whoever I give it to gets 14 days free; if that person subsequently signs up for at least one month of play, I get entered in the drawing.

So: if you're thinking about playing anyway, let me know and I'll give you two free weeks of game time.
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Re: City of Heroes
« Reply #44 on: February 12, 2005, 09:50:55 AM »
Ditto that. If Fell's already given his away I can hook you up too.
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