Comments on: DC Universe, Champions: NYCC (Much) Cop?

By: Redford

Redford — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:30:35 +0000

You said the magic word.

“Phantasy Star Online”.

Stop making me excited about a Sony product, dammit.

By: Ian

Ian — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:45:26 +0000

Not enough super-people fire stuff from their elbows.

By: Rei Onryou

Rei Onryou — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:58:12 +0000

It’s hard to determine which game would be better based on the floor show. Some devs go all out, others just show a small bit, but it may not be conclusive of the final product. I really want to find out which one has a better Character Customizer (let’s be honest, your experience will be determined by how much your hero feels like YOUR hero) as well as general long-term gameplay. Whichever gets the best PCG/RPS review will probably be my choice of game (or whichever one everyone else decides to play).

By: Chaz

Chaz — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:22:55 +0000

Whilst I’m not really interested in either, I expect them both to do fairly well as they both have console exclusivity. DC being a SOE product is exclusive to the PS3 as well as the PC, and likewise with Champions on the 360. So even if one does better than the other on the PC, the console sales should help even things up a bit.

By: Lobotomist

Lobotomist — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:21:58 +0000

DC sounds like well thought out console beat them up with great story and characters.

Champions sounds like generic world/game

Remember that we are not talking about single player game here, we are talking MMO

Tight story + scripted events are not good for MMO , it should be generic and let players create stories for them selves.

This is why Champions will have longevity and DC will be flavor of the month (like AOC for example)

By: Chaz

Chaz — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:18:05 +0000

Never really got into the whole super heroes thing as a kid, probably because it is more of an American comics thing than what I grew up with here in the UK. Dan Dare and Judge Dredd were my heroes. Give me an MMO based around some 2000AD characters any day of the week. How about a Strontium Dog MMO where you can create your own mutant?

By: Foca Mais

Foca Mais — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:21:36 +0000

Beams are made of light. If light can enter your eye why can´t they make their way out ?
Bolts can run throught anything that conducts electricity. The trick is to know how to conciously conduct electricity to the palm of your hand and shoot it without dying of shock.

By: Marcin

Marcin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:38:59 +0000

Hands. Blaster bolts from hands. Sense? No. Looks awesome? Yes.

When I was at E3 several years back, Tabula Rasa had a GREAT running demo, and see how that turned out. I’ll just have to wait and see both of these for myself.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:18:50 +0000

Who says you need orifices to shoot things from?

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:31:20 +0000

It looks fucking awesome.

By: cliffski

cliffski — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:14:10 +0000

How come superheores always shoot beams out of their eyes? It makes no sense. your eyes are not an orifice. You would assume that lightning bolts would blast out of your mouth or ass, if anywhere.
Just saying.

By: fodigg

fodigg — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:09:33 +0000

Hmm. They had xbox pads for CoH at Gencon. It was actually what I enjoyed about it.