03-02-2004, 08:53 PM
WarLocke,Mar 1 2004, 10:29 PM Wrote:And even if it does, I wouldn't be the person to admin it. As much as I'd like to offer, I know myself well enough to nip that idea in the bud before it ends up giving you (and me) a migraine. :(Same. I am a total flake. It pains me to admit this, but I have flaked out on about 90% of the pro-bono projects I have agreed to be involved in, and lost some friendships because of it.
Also, I have my doubts about whether CoH will hold my interest. The subject matter has potential, but in looking at the implementation, it looks like AC2 with "haymaker" instead of "backstab", and "energy blast" instead of "fireball". I swear, if this game winds up with me endlessly alternating between two or 3 hotkeys in some standard boring pattern (rage, haymaker, taunt, haymaker, taunt, haymaker, rage, taunt, haymaker, etc), it is going to get every bit as old as the other MMORPGs I've played.
To put it simply, variety is the spice of life. I want lots of options, even if they only differ in animation, as the appeal (for me) of playing a superhero is the wild, destructive battles they tend to get in. I am already extremely disappointed that I won't be able to pick up and hurl cars because of some conflicts between immersion and server resources. I don't care if the car blows up when I throw it, and its bits vanish after 2 seconds, I just want to have fun doing what I imagine superheroes doing. If the car reappears in the same spot one minute later, it won't bother me one bit.
Along these same lines, there are unnecessary restrictions in character creation from what I have seen. I like the archetype idea, I am all for balance, but why is it that while both Scrappers (high melee offense, medium defense) and Tankers (high defense, medium melee offense) can choose Invulnerability and Power Punch, only Tankers can take Super Strength, and only Scrappers can take Regeneration? Obviously, if all power sets in a given class (defense, melee) for a particular archetype are balanced with each other (which they darn well better be), then Tankers and Scrappers might as well have the ability to choose from all the melee and defense sets. If there are balance reasons that Tankers can't have Regeneration, and Scrappers can't have Super Strength, then both Invulnerability and Power Punch must be inferior power sets, since they are allowed to cross over.
Anyway, I pre-ordered, because I am sure it will be fun for at least a month or two, and I would prefer to not have to be named MrSuperGuyMan687. Getting the game as soon as possible will give me the highest chance of being able to have a decent name. It's all in the name, you know.