05-24-2005, 07:39 PM
Game: City of Heroes
Type: Urban Superhero Adventure
Plusses: Awesome genre, great setting, really fun powers! The best character-creation ever. No items (you got superpower enhancements instead) so you can design your own outfit. Create a superhero or mimic your favorite comic-book one. Use amazing powers with great special effects, learn to fly, teleport, summon forcefields, cause huge explosions, and oh yeah fight crime!
Minuses: Repetition and grinding! Nearly every mission was the same thing: Go to this instance and kill everything, or find X objects (by killing everything). And every instance seemed to used one of the same 5 instance templates. Task Forces were just a bunch of instances in a row. No items means no fun loot, and difficulty in getting upgrades. Very little to do other than grind or have dance parties. Both got old. No PvP (until City of Villians comes out).
Favorite Memory: In what other game can you create a level 1 character with an awesome superhero outfit, equipped with a machine gun or fireballs or a personal forcefield? However, this meant that there was less to achieve and look forward to down the line. I only got to level 14, and there was amazing stuff at level 40, but I just couldn't bear the grinding.
Type: Urban Superhero Adventure
Plusses: Awesome genre, great setting, really fun powers! The best character-creation ever. No items (you got superpower enhancements instead) so you can design your own outfit. Create a superhero or mimic your favorite comic-book one. Use amazing powers with great special effects, learn to fly, teleport, summon forcefields, cause huge explosions, and oh yeah fight crime!
Minuses: Repetition and grinding! Nearly every mission was the same thing: Go to this instance and kill everything, or find X objects (by killing everything). And every instance seemed to used one of the same 5 instance templates. Task Forces were just a bunch of instances in a row. No items means no fun loot, and difficulty in getting upgrades. Very little to do other than grind or have dance parties. Both got old. No PvP (until City of Villians comes out).
Favorite Memory: In what other game can you create a level 1 character with an awesome superhero outfit, equipped with a machine gun or fireballs or a personal forcefield? However, this meant that there was less to achieve and look forward to down the line. I only got to level 14, and there was amazing stuff at level 40, but I just couldn't bear the grinding.