Comments on: They Are The Champions: Character Customisation

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:42:21 +0000

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:33:20 +0000

Customisation ????

“Spell check” is a requirement for a journalist isn’t it?? At least when you use it more than a few times in an article.

come on Kieron,………make the “Zee” sound…….it’s customize not customise.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:23:15 +0000

I WANT to remake my City Of character, mostly because I feel I never gave him a fair whack of the whip, but what I actually end up with is anyone’s guess. In any editor I go in with a specific idea of what I want to achieve, find it can’t quite emulate it satisfactorally, and then end up making something better. Remember The Entombed? He came about purely at random, and was one of my favourite characters.

Besides, “cooler than Batman” is always a worthy goal. And The Crimea Comet WAS cooler than Batman. He had a sword!

By: Mr_Day

Mr_Day — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:23:03 +0000

@ Bobsy –

The CRIMEA COMET shall return!

I thought you wanted to be cooler than Batman?

It’s kind of silly that everyone wants to remake their old City Of characters. I will anyway, but hopefully the creator will nake me do something crazybatshitinsane.

Like try to make one of my Spore creations. That’d be weird.

By: KingMob

KingMob — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:21:43 +0000

Hero maker is a great idea. Excited about this title – hopefully the feeling of making characters will be like doing a point build in the original Champions – that feeling of boundless possibility…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:17:04 +0000

Which leads to the obvious question – what about the powers?

If it is anything at all like the tabletop version, you will be able to customise the shit out of them.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:20:49 +0000

Yes, hopefully the popularity of Spore’s creature creator will convince them to precede Champions with the hero maker. It’d make a good christmas present. Hint hint.

As to Mr Nob’s comment: bang on. I’ve never understood why anyone would want to BE Batman. Surely the impetous is to be COOLER even than Batman. An impossible task maybe? But well worth pursuing. The CRIMEA COMET shall return!

By: cullnean

cullnean — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:53:57 +0000

Gah my own comic book hero in the champions universe or my own comic book hero rubbing shoulders with the like of black adam or joining the green lantern corp if possible

my puny DC loving brain hurts!

By: El Stevo

El Stevo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:56:09 +0000

DSX:

What’s the MMORPG, if you don’t mind me asking?

By: Ian

Ian — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:08:41 +0000

I too want a stand alone character creator.

Maxis have a lot to answer for.

By: NoahApples

NoahApples — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:18:45 +0000

This is making me feel like I’m going to have to play this game. I am standing on the edge of a cliff, looking out at the vast sea of MMO time consumption that I have so far avoided, and I am scared.

By: DSX

DSX — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 03:43:30 +0000

Won’t extreme complexity raise the minimum spec?

My worry is that with such superb characterization you’re basically trading character poly’s for environmental ones. This is the case with a MMORPG I’m playing at the moment, it has the best char customization elements I’ve seen except for that APB demo, but the environment itself is often disappointing in order to be widely accessible for many PC specs.

Personally, I think a better game as a decent balance of both rather then a preponderance of one or the other.