World of Warcraft

[[AK]Nuts]

I did see the WOW music video set to 'Can't touch this'. Preety funny

[[AK]Jackle]

Been playing a good bit of it and have been fairly impressed. It improves on a lot of the things that I have had beefs with on past MMORPGs. First of all, downtime is nearly nonexistant for me, which was up til 14. I can't see there being much more though since you can use food/drink to revive your hp/mana quickly, and it isnt hard to get either. There is plenty of variety here too. Loads of interesting tradeskills, a plethora of quests, and a nice assortment of beasties and locations makes for plenty of things to do. I was hoping to get some PvP time in, but never had the chance. However, I have heard that they still have some balance issues to deal with there. I will most likely be picking this one up though.

[Slaughter]

Make it free like GuildWars and I'd be in.

[Widowmaker]

Let me wear tights and leap tall building in a single bound and I'll be there

No WoW for me. I'm still addicted to City of Heros.

No downtime in CoH either, even at level 31 I never have more than 45 seconds of downtime. And that is as a soloing Tanker, and I don't need a healer either. It's good to be super

[[AK]Jackle]

CoH was good, but not great. I played the game for a good two months before finding myself in a grind fest that didn't seem to be going anywhere. There was absolutely nothing to do but kill stuff. You got levels, then got some cool new abilities that made it easier to kill more stuff. Then, to add on to the already monotonous gameplay, rather than adding interesting new gangs to take on, they simply recreated the same gangs with different skins and gave them a different name. I halfway expected the dungeons to change as well. Except for maybe 2 or 3 differences, I was still fighting either in the city, in a sewer, in a factory, or some sort of lab. Granted, I was only 28 when I left, but I could find no reason to go on. The only way I was advancing my character was by leveling. Since all of the ehancements in the game can be bought, there isnt really any novelty to your character either. As a casual gamer, I could see how it might be better, but as a bored college student with nothing to do over the summer, I found it far too repetitive. WoW at least gives you tradeskills and equipment to go farming for.

[[AK]Bribo]

before finding myself in a grind fest that didn't seem to be going anywhere. There was absolutely nothing to do but kill stuff.

Isn't this what most of the MMORPG really boil down to anyway?

[Widowmaker]

I was just going to say that, Bribo

I realy see nothing different about CoH than most any other MMORPG I've played. Tradeskills are just another grind to me. And trying to attain loot was the WORST kind of unfun grindfest to me. The difference is I like superhero's and am realy sick of the fantasy games, I think I am done with them entirely. So I choose to stick with the one I find fun.

And to me it realy does not feel like a grind because, and this is key, I choose not to see it that way. I do not play the game to reach the highest level as fast as possible as many do. I play a game to have fun. Since I can only play a game for maybe 2 or 3 hours in a sitting a few times a week CoH fills that niche perfectly BECAUSE all the enhancements can be bought (this is not entirely true, there are combination enhancements you can only get through certain trials) and the fact that it is relatively simple.

And how, exactly, is fighting "the same gangs" (which is far from the truth) different than... lesse.. EQ where I fough goblins, kobalds, orcs and frogloks at level 1 and at level 50 I fought... goblins, kobalds, orcs and froglocks. Oh, the higher level ones were a foot or two taller and a slightly different shade of green. The only difference realy was EQ had "epic" encounters that for me were useless because I never got to do them. I never went on a dragon raid. I went to the plain of hate once, never went to fear. I rarely had the 8 hours in a sitting to do those "epic" sit on your ass fests and when I did I found them the single most boring thing in my experience in the game.

CoH is adding new indoor spaces soon, they have already added outdoor instanced zone missions for higher levels. I'll take the similar indoor missions any day over going into a dungeon and sitting in one spot killing the exact same MOB over and over every 19 minutes. Or the old kill one thing and sit on my ass for 10+ min before being able to take on the next thing.

I also almost exclusively solo so CoH fits me there.

I hate trade skills with a passion. Trade skills are truely what I consider a grind as it is entirely un fun to me in every way. I hear WoW has lots of trade skills and that is actualy a strike against it to me. SWG emphasis on trade skills is what eventualy killed the game for me.

I will be happy if I never have to "farm" for equipment again. Ever.

WoW is not my game, CoH is. And I still fail to see how it is any more monotonus or a grindfest than any other MMORPG. Its just a monotony and grind that I kind of enjoy unlike the other offerings out there.