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  1. Well said. Have the developers of CoT spoken recently about their capacity and their realistic goals? Is there a publisher? I honestly don't know much about it; all I know is that I would personally love to see a successor to CoX made by at least some of the original devs, and that I'm not alone in that view. People love the comic book hero genre, but I think this thread is right about there not being enough of a market or enough money/drive for CoT to see a full release.
  2. Millions of people are playing WoW classic. People still play Runescape. We're playing City of Heroes for heaven's sakes. "Looking ancient" is a matter of opinion and far from something that will keep a game from succeeding, especially an MMO.
  3. On the same vein as City of Heroes "coming back", I have been invested in WoW classic. The nostalgia factor is huge, along with the amount of time it takes to get a character to max level, and you can do it solo. Just like in CoX, leveling a character feels like it has so much meaning since you're bringing the character up to do end-game with people. (Ideally friends). As a lover of PvP in MMOs, Dead by Daylight has had me sold for a couple of years now. Immediately qeue for 5 player PvP bouts. One murderer (with plenty of licensed characters: Michael Meyers, Freddy Krueger, Amanda (the pig mask) from SAW, Leatherface (Bubba) from Texas Chainsaw, The Demogorgon from Stranger Things, and most recently Pyramid Head from Silent Hill) versus 4 survivors. Pure, raw, player versus player with an added element of teamwork/betrayal when you play the survivor side. More additions to this vein of online PvP are the shooter examples that I am currently enjoying: both Hunt Showdown and Valorant scratch my online FPS itches. If you're looking for single player games, it's almost overwhelming right now the amount of titles that are both cheap and impressive. I would recommend Disco Elysium to anyone that enjoys CoX, reading, and is looking for a good single player timesink. Literally a playable post-apocolyptic novel. Fantastic and refreshing in execution. Currently playing Last of us 2 with the lady, super satisfying to play with extremely fluid and cinematic gameplay. Recently beat Batman: Arkham Asylum remastered. Great morsel of a game, a contained display of Batman lore that is super satisfying to explore. Always an easy recommendation, anything from the Assassin's Creed series. The Ezio collection has classic gameplay and plenty of it. Syndicate has a bewildering example of London to explore, and the latest few additions (Origins / Odyssey) have much more RPG elements (gear, numbers, skill trees) if that is more your style. The biggest response to "what am I playing?" that I have is that I am playing what my friends are playing. Video games are an easy way to remain social, especially during a pandemic and the mounting reality of friends moving away from eachother. Free games on Ps4 really help with this function, and PC has always been good about this, especially with stuff like Homecoming being free. I'll end my post with this: have any of you been able to sell homecoming to friends that have never played CoX before??? I have at least 3 or 4 friends where this is the case: I know they would like the game, especially the fact that it is free and runs on both Mac and Windows and the character creator is literally unmatched. But, alas, I have not been able to sell any of them yet. Razorback_Yeah
  4. Hard to think of the first games that I thought were art or "deeply impactful and emotionally resonant", but I can give plenty of modern examples. Visually satisfying, cinematic, and movie-level action: -Alan Wake -Bioshock -Shadows of the Colossus -The Last Guardian -Batman Arkham -Spiderman -Grand Theft Auto -Red Dead -Half Life -Portal -Prince of Persia -Oddworld -Splinter Cell -LIMBO and INSIDE Video game novels: -Fallout -Telltale -Elder Scrolls -Divinity -Dungeon Siege -Pillars of Eternity -Disco Elysium Horror (including PvP): -Dead by Daylight -Dead Space -Hunt Showdown -Left 4 Dead Whenever someone speaks against video games, especially when they try to say that games are not an art medium, I immediately dismiss them as a TV/Netflix-addicted drone. If you really must engage with them, bring up the fact that every single art and literature mediums had/have opposition; sculpture, books, comic books, movies, television.....
  5. Played the online at launch, I remember the constant disconnects and lack of content. Loved it for a while, but once my friends moved on, so did I. I guess in the aspect of it dieing, that's the one way I can call it an MMO. Otherwise, I can't call it as such. A "level 1" player and a "level 369" player are pretty evenly matched, even if the 369 is using all of the crazy perks and weapons at their disposal. The main reason I find it difficult to call it an MMO is that you do not play on established servers. You que up and often find yourself in empty servers, outside of packs of hyena griefers. The lack of PvP and PvE seperation, along with small qued "lobbies" is why I think an online shooter rpg fits it better. I definitely miss playing it with friends like an MMO.
  6. Looks like the servers are back up ? Can anyone else confirm ?
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