More City of X...

[jcfiala]

So, I've enjoyed World of Warcraft for a long time, and I still like it... but the more I play City of Heroes (and now City of Villians), the more sheer fun I find in it.

There's the fun of playing with other folks without having to worry about disparate levels. There's the fun of playing with folks period, as instanced missions vary their difficulty on how powerful your group is.

There's the fun of making new characters. Coming up with possible names (Unfortunately, a lot of obvious names are taken. Just *try* to name an ice-based hero!), coming up with possible looks, body shape, costumes. The sheer number of hats!

And then there's exploring... I created a new villianess this weekend to play with a friend of mine, and found that the City of Villians start zone is a lot of fun - destroyed buildings, snake-people trying to take over, crooked cops... It's a bit more fun than starting a new hero, I think.

I'm going to keep my WoW account for a while, I'm sure, and still play it from time to time. But City of X is really proving itself to have some serious legs.

Comments

[wtimmins.livejournal.com]

There is some serious gonzo fun to be had in CoX. I'm constantly coming back to it after flings with other games...

I have a new graphics card, so games will actually run well. ;)

[wtimmins.livejournal.com]

Now out of work, more enthuse...
One of the things I positively adore about CoX is that you can play for 30 mins at a time, if you want/need to. That puts it about 5 levels above every other MMO in existence, as far as I'm concerned.

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's another good one. Also: Don't have to worry about travelling to your missions, so much. You can go the slow route and fight your way in, but very soon you're able to use travel powers to bypass that sort of grind if you want to.

[pretentiousfool.livejournal.com]

I find that foreign languages are a decent source of names that remain relatively untapped.

Such as Froid, my cold-based villain. :-)

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I ended up with Doc Kulde.

[zeeth_kyrah]

Just *try* to name an ice-based hero!

The Frigid (probably a villain)
Meat Locker (could go either way)
Der Kaltenmariner (I probably mangled that German, but I think it sounds cool.)

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

On my server:

Frigid: Already in use.
Meat Locker: Already in Use
Kaltenmariner: Not in use, but that just goes along with the other comment of using foreign names for heroes. For instance, my cold based hero eventually got called 'Doc Kulde' - icelandic, I think.

[wtimmins.livejournal.com]

I had an ice themed hero for a while named 'Frorling,' who was a small ice elf, essentially.

But yes -- gotta start ranging far and wide to get a good name.

I'm still miffed Pyroclastic Flo was taken.