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Energized Ninja
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Any one else hear about the new Cryptic Studios gam Champions Online. It's a new super hero mmo. It sounds pretty interesting, you can completely customize your character including what your powers look like. You can get the full article on IGN.com.
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| 02/23/08 11:32 |
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Or even better, you can look at GameAmp's own info on the game here and here.
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| 02/23/08 11:58 |
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oh. now i feel dumb. :P sorry about this useless post.
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| 02/23/08 12:28 |
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RonJ73
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Not useless...now it gives people a link to the posts on the Dark Side.
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| 02/23/08 15:35 |
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The game sounds like an update on CoX. In the magazine article that I read, they described powers that are incredibly similar to the options near and dear to our hearts. They mentioned claws, bubble and force field powers, and "dark tendrils." The customization additions sound exactly like all of the things that CoX players have been asking for since we first entered Paragon. I'm pretty confident that I'll be buying this one.
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| 02/23/08 19:37 |
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From what I'm reading on various sites, including the Champions forums themselves, where I have signed up and done some posting, it sounds like ol' Jack is trying to squeeze everything CoX players have been wanting into this new game. While this is generally a good thing, I'm afraid what's going to end up happening is some of the less-than-content CoX players are going to start saying, "They have this, and we don't. Are you going to give it to us, or shall we leave?"
I don't want to see our already smallish community (Compared to other popular MMOs, that is) be diminished by the fact that there is a new shiney around, and NCSoft won't put in the effort to match up to the competition. Of course, it's way too soon to tell for sure what'll happen, and no one but the devs themselves knows how they are going to act and react to keep our community going, so here's hoping for the future....
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| 02/23/08 21:38 |
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RonJ73
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It's sad to think, but it's the circle of life as far as MMOs go. With the exception of WoW to this point, they all go through it. I don't want to see CoX go the way the of the Do Do Bird, but it's inevitable at some point. I just hope we have a good replacement when it does.
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| 02/24/08 08:16 |
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I have spent sometime talking to Grif and Rainah about this the other day. I looked at a few screenshots and read a few articles about Champions, and I agree with Mal and Warron. It sounds like they are going to put features into the game that they were working on for COX.
Like Ron said one day the end will come our beloved COX. I am a loyal player and I will not leave the COH/COV community until they close the servers. Only then will I look to playing something else.
Besides they are still a long ways off before they have anything to really show. Look at what COH looked like when it was in this stage. They made a changes before it released and I suspect this one will be the same way.
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| 02/24/08 10:20 |
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Even though Champions will take a lot of players away from COX, i doubt that COX will be shut down any time soon. I think even after Champions online comes out COX will have many more years with loyal gamers.
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| 02/24/08 14:42 |
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Oh, I didn't want to sound like a downer with that. I agree CoX will be around for a while, but it's inevitable that it will close eventually. Eventually could be in several years, but it'll happen sooner or later.
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| 02/24/08 16:15 |
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Here is my thinking, CoH/V is going to have to come up with a new ballgame. Its going to have to tread new ground much like GW is by going to GW2. So CoH is going to have to be CoH 2 or something to that effect.
I find it rather funny that Jack E. was going to place in all those things that CoH/V players have been desiring. I saw weapon/power customization, moon/underwater area, and a few other items that have been long mentioned/promised to CoH/V player base for many years. Its like he thinks that by the time there game gets to beta/live that CoH/V won't have any of those features. This game is still a ways off, I'm thinking 3 years. Look how long CoH was in development, I heard about the game initially in 2001 I believe and the game wasn't live till 2004.
I wouldn't worry too much about this game at the moment, its still has some time. And don't believe those screenshots to be real screenshots, they have to be artist renditions. I can't fathom how they would of been able to already develop everything to even get gameplay in such a short time after the announcement of the closing of Marvel OU. Plus the funniest thing, has anyone seen the picture of the villain raising some dark powers under a hero (I believe). That dark "tentacle" power looks very, very similar to Tenebrous Tentacles. Even the action of raising hands to conjure the power looks vaguely similar.
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| 02/24/08 17:09 |
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Energized Ninja
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Well, i'm pretty sure that they are moving very fast on Champions. Because if you watch the video it does have gameplay footage. And i'm pretty convinced that it is indeed real gameplay. If they are already showing gameplay this early in development, than this game could come out a lot earlier than expected. Or it could just be really bad since they are trying to rush it.
Also if Champions online flops, which i doubt it will (but it's always possible) then everyone will be back to CoX, so CoX could possibly have a much longer life than expected
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| 02/24/08 18:14 |
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