COH and CO…

I’ve played City of Heroes before when it began and kind of gave up after a year. The reason? It was getting monotonous. The common recurring theme is :
1. Get quest
2. Find quest location
3. Beat up everything in your path to fulfill the quest.
4. Go back to quest giver and get rewarded.
5. That’s it, you can group up if you want by waiting in front of the building since most of them occur in their own scenario. There can be multiple scenarios in one location.

See how dull that was? Where’s the honor? Where’s the angst? Oh its in front of City Hall where there’s a costume contest being held. Sheesh.

City of Villians was just the same too. They did add group hideouts which don’t really have much of a function except a quick dimensional entrance and exit to places you need to go. No secret identities, no new gear or anything. Well there was a super hero disco lounge…

Champions Online looks very clean and the graphics are much better. Costuming is mostly half the game even in COH\V. Let’s hope there’s something more in Champions Online besides beating up bad guys.