Comments on: Tights Deadline: Champions Beta Impressions

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By: ZADEN

ZADEN — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:08:53 +0000

If COX had this kind of “customization” then it would be bigger hit than it already is right now.

By: Muirchu

Muirchu — Thu, 14 May 2009 13:32:30 +0000

It’s amazing how a people get one sided in their reactions. I’ve been a table topper for 30 years as well as a MMO player for the last 9 years. Similarities are always there, despite the game. Especially, when looking at similar genre. My take is that this guy wrote both games and from what I’ve heard the mechanics are quite different even if the visual might not be. The mechanics make the game different. Seriously, how many times have you been in a book store and seen the same type of artwork on different books.

By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:17:02 +0000

Ok honestly that jack guy seems like a dick because he does not reveal much all he says is the same stuff and I just notice this but after playing COX for over a year now if you havent noticed the sounds in the game sound the same in COX. Well anyway all I have to say is jack is a dick and they better release a open beta.

By: Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe — Wed, 13 May 2009 01:03:48 +0000

Honestly, this doesn’t look like a CoX clone to me. I’ve been following this game’s development for a while, and though the initial reaction will invariably be “oh god, an MMO” and “more superhero types”, I think this review kind of drew on that pessimism and in doing so created a wrong idea. From what I’ve seen, perhaps illegitimately, the character customization process alone will make you shit bricks of gold and force you to submit said gold bricks to the god of time spent. Yeah, it’s a supers game, before a niche market and now having competition that is greater than nil and without five years beneath its belt, but Champions is a game apart. Yeah, there will always be the similarities, but when somebody MUST have a cape and the ability to fly, you can only arrange the cape in so many ways.

By: Torgen

Torgen — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:28:03 +0000

@palaceman,

I think he was just miffed in CoH because most of the players could play the game better than he could, which started him on his big “Vision” thing on how the game would and would NOT be played!

I grouped with him in beta, and the rest of the players and I kind of looked at each other uncomfortably (as much as one can with a cartoon avatar) when we realized he really had no idea how to play.

By: palaceman

palaceman — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:26:10 +0000

Torgen,

You may be pleasantly surprised by CCO Jack Emmert’s new disposition. Recently in a dev diary he admitted some regrets including a little bit of pomposity with COH’s launch. We won’t know until Champions launches; but he has acknowledged, some of the same things that bother you, as regrets of his.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Tue, 12 May 2009 11:20:02 +0000

Tunnelling looks ridiculous fun. It is entirely mandatory to say, every time you pop up, “I knew I shoulda toined left at Albakoikee”

My concerns for this are simply that the combat doesn’t feel tactile enough after the good, solid CoX biffery we so enjoyed, and that it manages to break out of the repetitive funk that still drags down CoX. The insistence of instancing almost every mission meant that you got very tired of seeing identical offices over and over again.

By: -Spooky-

-Spooky- — Tue, 12 May 2009 07:08:01 +0000

Same style like CoX (Heroes / Villains), fast gameplay and a pen n paper system. I bet Cryptic did a good job :)

By: Bad Magic

Bad Magic — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:32:49 +0000

I am still quite excited about the release of this game, I would love to see more footage or even give the Beta a go. Some of the concerns brought up are reasonable, but I’d say Champions Online has more appeal for me than any other MMO on the market. CoH did get repetitive and the efforts to flesh it out were retrospective and not too strong but CO is a brand new project and I think the superhero theme has more potential for fun than a generic fantasy world. Time will tell, until then I’ll reserve judgement but remain optimistic since I do like what I’ve seen – but let us see some more!

By: Lobo

Lobo — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:03:25 +0000

-Quick FYI, the term “Perq” (short for perquisite) is used in the Champions/HERO system pen-and-paper roleplaying system; thus its use here.

Lobo

By: TheDeadlyShoe

TheDeadlyShoe — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:09:29 +0000

Looks pretty good to me.

Never understood the anti-Emmert brigade.