Comments on: Heroes and Villains

By: Torgen

Torgen — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:26:39 +0000

This article popped up in the “Revisit an Old Story” box, so I thought I’d mention that CoX has just announced open beta for Mission Architect, the first player-made content for a mainstream MMO.

Make your own mission arcs, and even custom enemies, and publish them in-game for others to play and rate. The more people that play your missions, the more “tickets” you earn to buy in-game stuff for your characters. You also earn tickets for playing user-created content (instead of the “drops” you get for playing the official content.)

By: Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:50:43 +0000

My first hero was Caine Longshot (inspired by Caine “the” Longshot from Trigun; this was when names had to be shorter). He was a technology Assault Rifle/Devices Blaster. He basically looked like a steampunk Cowboy.
My villain was Longshot, an evil version of my hero. He was a Robotics/Traps Mastermind, which was interesting, because it felt like I was still playing my blaster vicariously through my robot drones.
My roommate is big into writing, and he once wrote an epic fanfic of our characters and our friends characters with our hero’s duking it out with our villains.
CoX really let you feel you were making your story, not just being told it. I’m really looking forward to CoX 2 (i.e. Champions).

By: Arathain

Arathain — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:18:35 +0000

It’s a great time for character customisation in the game at the moment. They recently introduced weapon customisation for characters using drawn weapons like swords and guns, leading, in my case, to the birth of Shovelman, an ordinary workman who got thoroughly sick of the Clockwork stealing all his supplies and grabbed his trusty spade and went to fight crime (Tanker, Willpower/Axe). The next expansion g ives each Archetype a primary and a secondary they previously didn’t have access to (Axe and Mace brutes! Psi blasters!).

My show and tell would include:

Dr Ohm, a man whose out of control bioelectric field generates enormous heat from the natural resistance of his body. Will he master his powers before he burns up? Or will his pain fueled madness kill us all? (Brute, Electric Melee/Fire Armour).

Ant Farm, a giant humanoid ant. Nuclear experiments on Pacific islands caused a certain species of ants to mutate, greatly expanding their collective intelligence and symbiosis with local plant species. Ant Farm has been created by them and sent to destabilise humanity so the ants can take over (Dominator, Plant/Thorns, with gorgeous insect wings).

Sorry to go on. Like the RPS crew, I’m very proud of these (and quite a few other) characters. The game really goes out of its way to make your character feel special, with customisation, with really powerful feeling abilities, and that awesome thing where random folk on the street talk about your amazing deeds.

By: Andrew Doull

Andrew Doull — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:25:14 +0000

I’ll publically shame myself to say that I won a free trial from Eurogamer and never unwrapped the box… will do so now.

And I spent year doing Marvel RPG play by email.

>hangs head<

I’m surprised that CoH/CoV don’t invest more in user generated content.

By: AbyssUK

AbyssUK — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:50:41 +0000

They should try and revive it some what CoH/CoV and add in a higher user base by making it free to play surely by now. It would also serve as a great advert for champions.. its a perfect game to have modern day adverts etc in the game on billboards etc

By: cullnean

cullnean — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 07:44:20 +0000

recently got a work colleage to start playing, as i have re-started my sub hopefully get a few more into it

By: Glazius

Glazius — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:43:41 +0000

CoH is still going on. Drop me a line at glazius.falconar@gmail.com and I’ll hook you up with a free trial. They’ve been going on a skeleton crew since basically the launch of City of Villains but since the sale to NCSoft (who always had a hand in the game – Cryptic is focusing on salvaging Marvel Universe into Champions now) there’ve been new offices, new staff, and new money, and things are looking brighter.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:37:17 +0000

And me!

By: Alec Meer

Alec Meer — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:32:56 +0000

I don’t imagine I’ve fooled anyone into thinking it’s legitimate journalism, Leeks. It’s just turning the camera onto fellow geeks.

By: Svenska

Svenska — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:27:57 +0000

Is CoH still going on? I always wanted to play it, but never actually did. This article kinda makes me want to start…

By: Leeks!

Leeks! — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:02:15 +0000

Wow, I wish I could pass off interviews with my friends as legitimate journalism.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:53:09 +0000

I made it to 50 in CoH, I had showcase pages for all my heroes and villains, I spent a lot of time just superjumping around. In fact, any game with superjump in it has become an automatic buy for me since Paragon City.

By contrast, my WoW druid has been stuck at 63 for a month (I’ve been playing since launch, off and on – mostly off) and has a little avatar pic to his name. However, there are still new things to see and do in Azeroth; in Paragon, not so much :/

Looking forward to Champions quite a bit.