City of HeroesFollow

Since City of Heroes is now in Beta and is expected to be released at the end of April 2003, I was wondering if there is any chance that Allakhazam might set up a Game Community for it?

I've heard good things about this game, we'll have to see..

After playing this all day long.. i must say one thing.. this game ownz.

started beta last night. this game is awesome. so many options for customizing your character, tons of options for powers and even more for customizing them. graphics are decent and the quests are fun.

i hope alla supports this game soon, as it is almost as fun as FFXI in my opinion...just more reason for me to keep my EQ toons retired.

It is a lot of fun. And having such lenient lvl restrictions for grouping is a really nice change after FFXI's heavy penalties. Want to play with a friend who just started after you've been playing awhile? np! Instead of babysitting him, make him your sidekick and play together!

I love the ability for such complete customization. Not only in appearance but in power sets and enhancements. Truly, no two players are exactly alike. Unlike most games, 'odd' group combinations can work very well. No more sitting around for hours waiting for "a cleric/whm" or "a tank".

Playing solo is an extremely viable way to lvl. Most mission are short and even if you only have 30 minutes to play, you can log off feeling as if you've accomplished something. You can tackle a mission alone np, if you bring along a friend, the game takes that into account and increases the number of bad guys to fight, making it harder.

Not sure how the high end game will play out and I hope they find a way to implement villians as a playable type. But it's a really nice concept and it's great to have a MMORPG that's not based in D&D.

And now there is going to be City of Villians!!! YAY!!!

Too bad, I think you would do a great job on City of Heroes. There is so much quest info and areas that your site would give players help and assistance on.

I dunno, I kind of agree with Alla. In EQ, you get a quest like:
"I could perhaps fashion a weapon, but I'll need some form of canine fang, something to tie it with and some strange green ore that I've heard about"

And then you have to find out somehow that the canine fang is "A dirty tooth" of a rare spawn in Chardok, the thing to tie it with is "waxed string" you get from a subquest in Plane of Fear and the green ore is a ground spawn off in some corner of Timerous Deep, under 40' of water.

In City of Heroes, you get told "You need to get the magic ring back from the Skulls in King's Row!" and then you get a big star showing you the way to their hide out, a red arrow telling you the distance and the crate holding the ring glows like it's radioactive.

Some stuff would be nice such as a bestiary and some power info, but all in all I don't think it could flesh a site like Alla's EQ or FFXI sites.

Also it would be cool to have the story arc flowcharted.

With the program they use for EQ Character updater it would be great if they used it to create log files for CoH.

So much they could do if they wanted to.

I've been enjoying it. I find it more "shallow" in scope than Everquest which is a good thing and a bad thing. It doesn't have the wide variety of weapons, armors, spells, etc that EQ has since there is no equipment -- you just have your superhero powers. On the other hand, the pace is a lot faster and it's just fun to have the different setting.

I wrote a sorta-write up on it in describing it to Psychojester in the EQ forum -- thread is titled "Jophiel, a little help?" or something like that. It's not really a review or anything, but it might give you an idea of what the game is all about.