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its not so much the charecters looking the same its the fact that they have ripped the names right off

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I was rather concerned about the lack of power variety my first few tries, but finding that post-creation once you get to a power house there’s more variety. It seems like the starting choices from each framework are roughly the same, but there’s other tier-0, tier-1 powers that vary from framework to framework.

I hear the pet classes are really screwy(unpredictably flaky AI), gadgeteers are nerfed, etcetera, but aside from that I guess it has all the bases that I’d expect covered as far as power variety goes.

The addition of statistics (Str, Int, etcetera) and many ways to specialize these stats (power-stat choices, talent choices, equipment) adds more variability between characters, and they’ve even got equipment you can loot or (more often) acquire from missions now, so you can chase greens and purps while you’re leveling up your champion. It’s a game that’s very simple on the surface, but (I think) has more potential depth. I’m not totally convinced it hangs together well enough, but at least they’re trying.

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And what’s with the female characters? I understand that the wasp waist thing is a comic book thing, I get that. But this is ridiculous, the tininess and the bizzare angle of the women’s waists and the colossal size of their chests and asses is up there with Liefeld trying to draw feet. It’s that ridiculous looking. Why, God? Why?

I’m going to fool with it some more later this weekend, but my first impression is not good.

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I’m really trying to enjoy the thing because I’ve already paid for it. If I’d waited 2 more days, Fileplanet would’ve extended the beta to ‘all users’ and I wouldn’t have had to sign up to anything or pay a dime. I’m feeling a bit frustrated about that.

I’ve started multiple characters but the gameplay isn’t much different no matter what I pick. The tutorial goes on way too long and is a bit like pulling teeth the second/third time. Meh. I’ll try a sorceror or something.

The character generator is pretty neat and allows for a lot of variety, though it lacks certain key things. For instance, all the clothing is form-fitting, I guess because if you had puffy pants and kneepads it’d clip through the pants and look bad. Bit unfortunate. There’s a lot of accessories to spice it up with, but I’m missing a lot of the options that CoH had.

Really I think it’s when I compare it to CoH/CoV that I get depressed about my purchase, because compared to that it’s limited in many ways. Taken on its own, it’s not so bad. I’ve certainly played better, but I have to play it anyway just to get my money’s worth. Direct2Drive made it very clear there is no refunds on this purchase.

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And far from the interface being designed for consoles, I couldn’t imagine controlling the game with a gamepad. I guess it must work somehow, but I can’t imagine it being anything other than awkward.

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anyone else ever notice Captain Planet and Nuclear Man from Superman IV are very similiar in their abilites/weakness department? They both get their power from the sun, fly, are super strong, and can shoot sun beams or whatever :P

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Have you people even tried rebinding things? Everything is absolutely infinity customizable. If it’s not already set that way, you can go in and bind “interact with whatever is under my cursor” to a double click (or a single click, a click and hold, a click and drag, you get the idea) Play around with the binds until you get something that works for you. It *is* possible.

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