Finally other MMOs that might interest me.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

I ws looking over the E3 news and two MMOs were either confirmed or revealed.

First one I had heard rumors of and its awesomely true - Bioware is doing a KOTOR MMORPG. So this time, we might actually have a good Star Wars MMO out there. I loved to KOTOR games and this could be a great MMO if they handle it properly.

If they stay true to how the Jedi and Sith operate, that would be quite interesting. Still, I just want to be a Han Solo type. Force-shmorce. I just want to blast things and rob freighters in my spiffy space ship.

The other MMO is DC Universe Online. Its just all kinds of geeky goodness. It should be interesting to see how they differentiate this from City of Heros. Sounds like you can create a hero or villian, explore Gotham, Metropolis and other locales in the DC Universe. If I could become a Green Lantern, that would be cool.

Only point of concern is that is PS3 only. SE learned from this error, I hope they will too. That and the Joker model is hideous, they need to fix him.

[Mog]

Re: Finally other MMOs that might interest me.

I ws looking over the E3 news and two MMOs were either confirmed or revealed.

First one I had heard rumors of and its awesomely true - Bioware is doing a KOTOR MMORPG. So this time, we might actually have a good Star Wars MMO out there. I loved to KOTOR games and this could be a great MMO if they handle it properly.

If they stay true to how the Jedi and Sith operate, that would be quite interesting. Still, I just want to be a Han Solo type. Force-shmorce. I just want to blast things and rob freighters in my spiffy space ship.

The other MMO is DC Universe Online. Its just all kinds of geeky goodness. It should be interesting to see how they differentiate this from City of Heros. Sounds like you can create a hero or villian, explore Gotham, Metropolis and other locales in the DC Universe. If I could become a Green Lantern, that would be cool.

Only point of concern is that is PS3 only. SE learned from this error, I hope they will too. That and the Joker model is hideous, they need to fix him.

I used to play Star Wars Galaxies back before they made everything easy. I've always loved the smuggler type in games. That's why I leveled pistoleer and master pilot (and got a Millenium Falcon ship too) Buuuut then they changed the entire game and made it extemely easy to become jedi, which evidently caused me to quit.

I hope they don't mess this one up as well...

[Pai Pai Master]

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SOE will never create an MMO that is visually appealing to me. Their art team is horrendous. I'm curious as to what platform(s) the KOTOR MMO will arrive on.

[Satori]

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My love of Dc and Marvel comics were what bought me to MMORPG's I first played City of heroes and have never been so disappointed in all my life.
I bought FFXI on May 6th 2006 and here I am still.
I tried CoH a few weeks back when I was waiting to get paid to buy replacemnt FFXI discs I lost moving home.
I ran back to FFXI as fast as I could.

I hope the DC game is good and stomps CoH, even playing villains for no extra cost couldnt keep me.

[neighbortaru]

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DCU online's art team is headed by Jim Lee and his staff at wildstorm so I don't think you'll need to worry about the design.

Check this out: E308: First footage of DC Universe Online - Massively

As for how it'll distinguish itself from CoH, I think one of the key things that appeal to me is that you don't need to level up to get new powers (not very super hero like), you have "all" your powers at start and as you level up, you learn to do different things with your powers. That's so intuitive I love it. I mean how pain in the ass was it in CoH to wait until lvl 14 before you could fly or run at superspeed.

Anyway, i'm definately going to give DCUO a go (and Champions Online too) so I hope to see some of you guys there.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Did they say when DCU was slated for? I missed that info, I do know that KOTOR online is a ways off..

[Rostum]

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Ones that interest me at Aion and possibly Warhammer. Warhammer looks kind of similar to WoW, art style is probably a bit better, but classes seem a hell of a lot more interesting.

Other than that there's really nothing much. KOTOR MMORPG would be awesome but will have to see how it turns out.

It'd be REALLY nice for SE to release info on their next MMO other than it's in development. I have a feeling I'd love it, but we'll see. If their customer service is still shit then I dunno what I'd do.

[Lmnop]

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Ok, so having your powers right off the bat and learning what to do with them -- that's exactly CoH.

So you have to wait to get the travel powers. For game balance sake, I guess they wanted it that way. But playing a game where your only ability is "I can run reeeeaaaaal fast!" would get uninteresting fast. Plus, it's hard to group when travel powers are all you offer. The way they did the game makes party roles worthwhile and well adhered to. In the scheme of things, I like how they did it.

My thoughts after watching the DC MMO trailer:

They mentioned PS3 as well as PC. Bbq, you made it sound like it was PS3 only but I assume you mean the fact that the PS2 is now outdated but FFXI has to continue holding itself back for it?

Each specific superhero/villain looks like a playable character? Like instead of having Paladin and Black Mage, we'll have people shouting "Level 14 Superman lfg!"

Batman will be gimp. Like Dark Knight was for 3 years.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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They mentioned PS3 as well as PC. Bbq, you made it sound like it was PS3 only but I assume you mean the fact that the PS2 is now outdated but FFXI has to continue holding itself back for it?

I meant nothing of the sort. I meant that making any MMO type of title console-exclusive is foolish. I thought I had mad that perfectly clear. In fact, I did.

Each specific superhero/villain looks like a playable character? Like instead of having Paladin and Black Mage, we'll have people shouting "Level 14 Superman lfg!"

If you've seen the screens, you create your own hero with thier own look. Batman, The Joker, Bane, Superman and all the other DC characters will be NPCs.

Also, about this:

So you have to wait to get the travel powers. For game balance sake, I guess they wanted it that way. But playing a game where your only ability is "I can run reeeeaaaaal fast!" would get uninteresting fast. Plus, it's hard to group when travel powers are all you offer. The way they did the game makes party roles worthwhile and well adhered to. In the scheme

The Flash's powers did a lot more than just make him run fast. For one, he could use his speed force powers to (1) Make others travel faster (2) accelerate the healing process in allies (3) make objects super-conductive (4) vibrate through solid objects (5) create shockwaves, vortexes and tornadoes (6) Aborb the momentum of objects such as missles, cars or bullets.

There are plenty of potential applications in terms of gameplay for speed powers. You're thinking too much about traditional fantasy MMORPGs and not enough about comic books. I'd actually expect this game to be less about grouping for EXP and more about questing for EXP and duoing. For a big Crisis-type of event, sure, I'd expect some alliance and group play. People could make thier own superhero teams, sure, but I don't think its going to fit the normal roles of tank/healer/support/melee.

[Lmnop]

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Way to sound offended by every word in my post.

Only point of concern is that is PS3 only. SE learned from this error, I hope they will too. That and the Joker model is hideous, they need to fix him.

It's not. It's on PC, too.

As for the rest of your stuff... 'k. But I'm just saying that when CoH was being developed (over 4 years ago, mind you. More hardware limitations), they wanted to do all that stuff but kept running into design blocks.

But it's true they probably weren't "out of the box" enough.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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Well, ya kinda went out there and put words in my mouth. Not one of my favorite kids of responses Also, we got the correction the first time, the news source I read about DCU Online from only mentioned a PS3 version.

[Nandito]

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I smell a nerf for the Flash.

He's too broken. :<

[Pai Pai Master]

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DCU online's art team is headed by Jim Lee and his staff at wildstorm so I don't think you'll need to worry about the design.

I'm still worried.

[Yellow Mage]

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To be fair, it's the Joker, not freaking Prince Charming.

He could use a little more clown and a little less game-show host/infomercial guy, though. The latter is supposed to be the realm of the Riddler.

[Feba]

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I meant that making any MMO type of title console-exclusive is foolish.

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