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Cabezone
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Due in 2009, not actually based on the Champions system, but inspired by it.
It's going to have classes, but it's a point buy system.
Your class determines what powers cost you.
The combat is not traditional MMORPG combat but more of a action system, no cooldown timers.
Heroes only to start, villains in an expansion.
Create your own personal nemesis.
Due in 2009, not actually based on the Champions system, but inspired by it.
It's going to have classes, but it's a point buy system.
Your class determines what powers cost you.
The combat is not traditional MMORPG combat but more of a action system, no cooldown timers.
Heroes only to start, villains in an expansion.
Create your own personal nemesis.
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The Nemesis system is something they had talked about in CoH so at least we know the concept has been mulled over for a long time.
It really does look like a cell shaded, bloom heavy CoH.
Free form classes could be good stuff, sounds like the original CoH idea.
Sounds good. Not sure how the no recharge times is going to work.
Put me down as sceptically optimistic.
I'm a little sad there won't be villains at release. Villains are such an integral part of the story, and I'm surprised they aren't including them at launch.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
That shit was originally New York, Canadian "Windigo" wilderness, Inhumans moon base, Atlantis, maybe Mephisto's realm or the Negative Zone. Now it is generic to me.
Fine with me, although this will probably be the wierdest case of a sequel competing with the original ever.
Word to that. I really like the graphics, though. Let's hope the gameplay delivers a bit more than CoX did at launch.
I mean, the CoX engine already requires more than it should for lower-end graphics, and hardware support is pretty terrible.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Now that Microsoft's taken their ball/money and gone home, this isn't a Vista exclusive anymore.
I'm not surprised they're going with the "inspired by" bit. There are aspects of HERO that wouldn't translate well to an MMOG (the SPD mechanic in particular would need a lot of work). There are also some systemic issues that those of us familiar with the system have long said that they'd have to either "prebuild" our powers (as I'm reading it, that's what they're doing) or restrict tightly.
Naturally I have about a thousand questions they're not going to be able/willing to answer yet. How will NND's work? Which version of the CU are they going with? Are they going to keep the killing vs normal damage bit? Will there be an equivalent of Move By/Move Thru? Fifth-Edition Haymakers?
Just let me build Mind Mole or Bouncing Boy. That's all I ask
I was waiting for the Marvel MMO but this sounds even better. I guess I rejoin CoX while I wait.
Champions's Millennium City is actually Detroit, post-annihilation-by-orbiting-space-death-ray. Would that improve Detroit? I'm not sure.
I understand why they have to close off a lot of the freedom in the HERO pen-and-paper system, but it's still kind of a shame -- HERO is the most awesomely nerdy (as in "carefully engineered to provide a mechanic for damn near anything") RPG system ever created. Sure, it's got a lot of old and busted parts, but the core set of ideas is fundamentally sound, and really cool.
I think it's more like Harmonix creating Rock Band to compete with their old Guitar Hero than anything.
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (2017, colorized)
Don't get me wrong, I'm going to be buying this because of personal archnemeses and because I'm a whore for Superheroes, but it would be nice to play a new game, not just CoX re-skinned.
The Marvel MMO can canned for this, FYI.
Just to clarify the bolded part, Millennium City is the rebuilt, uber-modern Detroit. It's interesting to note that at least one other Superhero RPG (Brave New World) wiped out Detroit and rebuilt/renamed it; makes me wonder what Detroit ever did to superhero RPGamers
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So as I'm reading this, it's less RPG than it is a fighter with a multiplayer element & a persistent world. The graphical similarities are understandable since it is built on the same engine (the website says so).
Hopefully that comparison plays out the same way and this ends up as successful as Rock Band. I love the look of that features list, and the screenshots look quite pretty. Heres hoping this kicks ass.
Until we have more information this is all I really have to add to the subject.
I knew that I kinda just didn't finished my train of thought, this is what I get for posting from work while all busy and stuff.
This looks better than the Marvel MMO they were working on and will give Cryptic more freedom.
Wary optimism? Nah, unless the next few screenshots and gameplay videos look like ass, I'm sticking with just plain vanilla optimism.
So... we're looking at what? At least 15 months until this thing is out?
It's hard to tell from those cave shots how similar they are to the CoX ones, but then, how original is your average cave hideout going to be?
Not to say I won't buy it and probably be completely happy. Mix/matching powers and a graphics and engine update to CoX would be awesome. I'm just wondering if they're going to be able to pull it off; I have to think someone at NCSoft saw the screens and sent a memo to legal telling them to start sharpening the knives.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
Yep, because the pipes Cryptic should be using are the ones with green stripes and yellow stars painted all over them. Seriously dude, they're pipes, not snowflakes. They all look the same.
What would they sue Cryptic over? It's a completely different IP. Sure, it looks similar to CoX (are you really that surprised?) but I doubt the CEO of NCsoft is gonna look at those screenshots and and say:
"Oh..oh what the fuck? Mike, get over here. See those pipes? Do those look familiar? I know! That's what I said. Gah...damn it all to hell, we gave Emmert that nice Christmas bonus and now he steals our fucking pipes? Karren, get my lawyer on the phone."
This is sooo CoX 2.0
I can wait for this one.
Pluto was a planet and I'll never forget
They would have to make a much more interactive world to draw me in for long.
Still, I do like the cel-shaded thing. Jet Set Radio: Super? :P
I'm confused...are you...disappointed with this idea???
That is the ONE thing that REALLY bugged me about CoH....they had this AWESOME comic mythos and universe....but it didn't LOOK like a comic book....everytime I loaded it up I thought "Man, this would be SO much more superhero-y if only it were cel-shaded...
so I am extremely excited about this game and I think I might play it for a long long time.....(If it lives up to the hype..)
However, I think Cryptic are an awesome company, who created a massively original game in COH. I have high hopes that as time and development go on they will add a lot more individuality.
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IMO the CoH games came SOOOOO close to perfect, and this (hopefully) will come closer.
If this game does at the minimum everything it claims it will, and the graphics stay the same as in the screen shots....
I will never have a life again
And that cave picture definitely looks like one of the T-intersection cave blocks, just with a hole in the ceiling.