Comments on: On Patrol: New DC Universe Trailers

By: Rolex Daytona

Rolex Daytona — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:57:04 +0000

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By: DrSmith

DrSmith — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:50:19 +0000

*Cough….MxO’s Game engine…Great Idea but underused it seems
*finally sees what SOE paid wb/monolith for.
*will skip and stay at CoX until SOE gets it right.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:08:42 +0000

Question is, how does it pitch up against Champions?

My problem with DCU is with its pandering to the players who just want to “be” Superman. The mimickery idea is a bit of a step back. What I loved about CoX was the challenge in making your hero/villain BETTER than the same old tosh DC and Marvel have been regurgetating for decades.

Cooler than Batman? I’m in.

But DCU puts you firmly in the shadow of the established characters, who are never going to be made anything other than infallible.

(except Aquaman of course)

By: Redswirl

Redswirl — Thu, 14 May 2009 06:49:18 +0000

Looks like a console game.I’ll pass.

By: mister slim

mister slim — Thu, 14 May 2009 00:51:07 +0000

The one problem with the more power/more instability structure would be integrating it into the game. It probably wouldn’t be too popular if the more you leveled the more erratic your abilities got.

By: Rath

Rath — Wed, 13 May 2009 22:49:33 +0000

I hope they make a demo available that showcases the character creation, as the selling point for me will pretty much be how close I can get a character to resemble Nightwing without it being outright plagiarism.

By: Wisq

Wisq — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:56:08 +0000

I suppose it was inevitable that superhero MUSHes would eventually find their counterpart in MMOs, much as MUDs have, and that problems inherent with the superhero genre would be brought along with it. Still, it’s somehow funny to see them dealing with the same problem said MUSHes had — namely, not everyone can be the Superman, the Batman, etc. Although at least they’ve solved that by saying nobody can be them, rather than first-come first-served.

(And yes, I know it’s not the first superhero MMO, but far as I’ve heard, it’s the first one that actually has copyright licensing for a bunch of iconic characters.)

By: CaptainHairy

CaptainHairy — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:53:00 +0000

If they want to do a superhero MMO right, then mooks need to be mooks. I’d probably actually be vaguely interested in an MMO where you took people out like you would in something like Dynasty Warriors, where you can send a whole crowd flying with a couple of wide sweeps and make everyone fall over with a single button press. Super heroes should be super.

By: Tei

Tei — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:26:06 +0000

This game can have some fun, I suppose. But It looks like a 25 cents arcade saloon machine. Something like …hum… Gameplay this simple could be boring, too. You burn all your adrenaline in 5 min, and after that, is a chore to continue playing.
But lets wait and see. Tryiing new things is always a good thing, I suppose.

By: TheFatDungeonMaster

TheFatDungeonMaster — Wed, 13 May 2009 19:18:55 +0000

I’ll probably try it. But for some reason fights look a bit bland… I want to be able to run forward and slam my palms together like Superman and FOOOOM!! sonic waves and everybody is knocked back. I saw some knock back action in one of the movies. But I also saw Superdude drop a big bulky console thing on the head of a trooper who “just” collapsed.

By: Little Green Man

Little Green Man — Wed, 13 May 2009 17:01:47 +0000

I love my PC Console! Woo! Let’s all play rubbish dumbed-down-for-console “action” games where all you seem to do is walk back and forth, hover in mid air and point dangerously at someone. Feel the suspense as numbers appear above your head!

By: Wulf

Wulf — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:16:25 +0000

My faith in PC/PS3 hybrid MMORPGs was bolstered by Free Realms, if this is as compelling as Free Realms, they’ve got a customer here. The thing is, unlike the BuxBox, the PS3 isn’t so much the bad guy, and the more time goes on the more it’s trying to be like a PC and less like a console. It feels far more like a PC out of the box than any other console I’ve used, and yeah, I speak from experience. I never took to Microsoft’s toaster, but I do like my PS3. That I could install Linux on it out of the box helped.

And mentioning Free Realms might be strange, but it really is very good, I’d even so far as to say it’s one of the more engrossing MMORPG experiences I’ve encountered since UO beta. In the UO beta, there was lots of social questing and gathering, miners would gather in a cave, natter, and mine for the stuff they wanted to make. Free Realms captures that perfectly, and that makes me happy.

Finally, Brophy, you’re wrong. It sounds like your DC experience comes from cartoons, without ever having laid a hand on the comic books. As a reader of said comic books, I can tell you that the people you’ve mentioned aren’t right in the head. And Superman especially is a very troubled little man.

In the comics, he’s often portrayed as a right-wing psychopath who’s only kept in line by the other heroes. If not for Green Arrow, I think he would’ve gone over the edge years ago. Again, this is something that’s only been hinted at in the cartoons.

Superman is as much of a shades-of-grey, evil-with-a-cause bastard as Victor von Doom or Magnus Lennisher, he’s just better at hiding it when they are, but when he shows his true colours… yeah. Superman definitely needs counselling.