Are you playing DCUO?Follow

I'm playing on the PS3. It's pretty fun, and seems to have solid support, so far.

Just received my copy today... can't wait to get home and install it. I have a few friends that are playing already and they really enjoy it so far.

I liked Champions Online for some variety for a couple months. Spent way to much time costume designing and trying new builds but I did manage one character to near cap.

Very tempted to try DCUO but I'm going to wait a bit until my next round of WoW burnout kicks in harder. :)

I feel ya. I think the reason why WoW and LoTRO didn't stick with me can be summed up with the phrase "A decade of Everquest".

Champions Online is going Free to Play on the 25th. You're limited to select archetypes and it's the usual "Hey, we have a cash store" type thing (CO was big on the cash store even prior to F2P) but it's no risk to try it out. I personally hated the art style with a passion and didn't care for the tone of the game but I can't really rip on the game play.

City of Heroes and DCUO are like comparing apples and rolling pins. DCUO is more like an arcade style game and made for game controller play. The UI is clunky and feels like junk compared to most MMOs. The chat interface is a joke. But it's much more action based than your average MMORPG. There's a whole lotta mouse/controller button clicking that goes into combat. I didn't care for it but that's mainly because I wanted an MMORPG not an MMO-Arcade Game and not really a failing with DCUO. Character customization is a pale shadow of that in COH or CO. Graphics themselves looked nice though. I'll let other people talk up its praises or criticisms though since it just wasn't my thing and that alone doesn't make it a bad game.

City of Heroes has the advantage of seven years worth of content although some of the older content is less of a selling point (kind of like saying "EQ has a quest where you can hand in orc belts!"). The new stuff is pretty good though and the newbie experience has been revamped by starting players in a new region with updated graphics, missions, etc. It's the most traditional MMORPG of the three (not that CO is far off) in so far as gameplay and mechanics. It's more of a "the adventure is the journey" theme so there hasn't been much of an "end game" although the last couple additions have been changing that. I'm happy to answer any questions but I'm won't spend a lot of time now talking it up. There's a free trial if you want (although the trial restrictions suck, blame the RMT'ers). I've learned that MMORPG enjoyment is so subjective that it's hard to ever just say "This is a great game, you should play it" since my reasons might be far different from yours.

Loots good if it's good for something - or if it looks cool.

In my limited experience, DCUO treats loot like WoW in spandex. "You just got a +5 Cape of Agility!" "You got some +2 Boots of Accuracy!". You can choose whether to display it as part of your costume or leave it "invisible".

CoH goes a different way and you enhance your powers directly. Like adding range and damage enhancements to your fire blast. There's some unlockable costume bits but costumes aren't gear, just cosmetics. The enhancements themselves are either bought or loot drops though so there is a loot system (for good or ill) but it's handled differently.

Edited, Jan 20th 2011 10:14am by Jophiel

Speaking of the clunky UI...

It's not as bad as he makes it sound ... If you're playing on PS3!

It's pretty obvious that the game was designed for console. It could use a lot of improvement but the game is a lot better with a controller.

The gameplay is more fun than FFXIV, but the UI is almost as bad.

I've solo'd to 12 thus far.

I've been playing since it first released. I haven't hit 30 yet because I keep making new characters to try out different things with them. I like how it doesn't force me into a grind and I can log off any time I want without feeling the itch for just "one more quest."

Yes

Like grass stains on a kid's new dress pants.

It's one of their "selling points" that you're constantly interacting with DC signature characters. In fact, I've heard a deal of praise from DC fans at how they keep interacting with even minor characters and feel like they're really in the DC world. I was never into DC that much so the more minor characters I interacted with in the beta probably went right over my head.

Edited, Jan 25th 2011 10:17am by Jophiel

While it was highly delusional on my part to even entertain the idea it would be otherwise, I still feel pretty upset over it. In the sense that its a silly reason not to play a game.

Really, I just can't stand Superman or his power set in general.