So the MMO DC Universe Online (based on DC super hero comic books) was just released yesterday, and is one of the only high budget MMORPG's that has actually made a good attempt at utilizing an action based/twitch combat system as oppose to auto attack and all that nonsense. For this reason I decided to give it a shot, and so far, I have actually been having a pretty awesome time (somewhat to my surprise). The combat is significantly more enjoyable than most other MMO's I've played, and the actual gameplay/world is FILLED with significantly more interesting quests, events, and other happenings. I played for a good few hours today, and have yet to have a single moment of what I would consider to be grinding or mindless questing. Every situation is filled with unique objectives, interesting scenarios, encounters with famous DC comic book hero's or villains that often team up with you, and tons more. Pretty much every NPC you talk to has voice acting as oppose to just text for you to read, and for the most part the voice acting is all done really well. The game also has pretty sweet hero vs villain PVP, especially if you pick to play on a PVP server (which are pretty hardcore).
Ontop of all that, the game has great physics, allowing you to smash, pick up/throw, and interact with all sorts of objects in the environment, which the game actually makes good use of on a number of occasions. Boss fights are also pretty awesome so far. My characters mentor is Batman, so at the end of the first mission chain I decided to embark on I had to fight the villain "Scarecrow." The fight was super epic. Due to the fact that prior to facing him you are continually getting exposed to his "fear gas," most of the battle he launches a number of different fear-gas hallucinations upon you. Some examples of these were summoning lightning strikes throughout the room that you have to dodge while fighting him, summoning a horde of alligator monsters that you have to kill a special way, turning into a swarm of bats, growing to be humongous, making you think that a bunch of ally super hero's are attacking you, etc. This was also all done with the assistance of Bat Girl, who you have to save from him.
The only thing I don't really like so far (from what I have seen, which admittedly isn't all that much) is that the game doesn't seem to have quite as as many options for powers and customization as some of the other hero based MMO's out there. Although, one thing that is good in terms of character customization is the game actually does use weapons and equipment, where most of the other super hero games don't.
So, aside from being a bit nerdy, it seems like a pretty good game so far. If anyone else out there happens to have the game (for PC), let me know and we can maybe play together sometime. I don't normally play a lot of pay to play MMO's, but I figure this one was at least worth a shot.
Can you buy it through steam and how much is it a month i might give it a try i remember looking at it. it look epic
I saw you playing that on steam yesterday when I first logged on...I than logged on like 10 hours later and saw you were still on. I basically just made the assumption you were addicted.
Quote from: Mr Pwnage on January 12, 2011, 03:48:27 PM
I saw you playing that on steam yesterday when I first logged on...I than logged on like 10 hours later and saw you were still on. I basically just made the assumption you were addicted.
Ha, I didn't play it THAT much. I mainly just played a few hours at first, then logged in again later that night for a little before I went to bed.
Edit: Oh, and Havok, yes it is on steam (that's how I got it). It costs 14.99 a month with the first month free.
I've played City of Heroes (and all expansions) and Champions Online. Because of those two facts I told myself I'd never play another hero type mmorpg unless it was free to play because I always get suckered into buying them and finding out how much of a piece of garbage they really are after I've already spent $60 on the game and $45 and then realize when I'm going to pay for my 5 month how crappy the game turns out to be towards the end and quit.
But by that time I've already spent $105 on something that I could have saved for something else I'd really like. Like maybe a Soda Maker or something else reusable for years like a DeLonghi Stainless Steel Dual Zone Digital Deep Fryer.
Quote from: Draxx on January 17, 2011, 10:43:31 PM
I've played City of Heroes (and all expansions) and Champions Online. Because of those two facts I told myself I'd never play another hero type mmorpg unless it was free to play because I always get suckered into buying them and finding out how much of a piece of garbage they really are after I've already spent $60 on the game and $45 and then realize when I'm going to pay for my 5 month how crappy the game turns out to be towards the end and quit.
But by that time I've already spent $105 on something that I could have saved for something else I'd really like. Like maybe a Soda Maker or something else reusable for years like a DeLonghi Stainless Steel Dual Zone Digital Deep Fryer.
I had tried both City of Heroes and Champions Online too. City of Heroes was fun to start, but got repetitive and boring pretty quickly. Champions was just straight up too linear for me to even get interested in. DC Universe so far is better than both of those (in my opinion) BY FAR. Definitely doesn't get very repetitive or stale, far superior gameplay, and I HEAR that there is good end game (although I couldn't currently tell you from experience yet).
But hey, those soda maker contraptions do look pretty awesome as well, So I can't blame you with that decision!
Hmmm, I want to try it, but i just got over my wow addiction -_-'. I might give it a shot in a couple of months hopefully it does well I'd love to see blizzards community grow smaller.
Is there any group based quests or boss's if so do characters have a role they play for example, DPS / Heals / Tank?
Also is there any player vs player battlegrounds and can you get a pvp rating/rank?
Quote from: Meiun on January 12, 2011, 04:19:07 AM
I played for a good few hours today, and have yet to have a single moment of what I would consider to be grinding or mindless questing.
Sometimes a game isnt good without grinding though, look at SO.
yeah its awesome so far ive made a villain who uses gadgets and dual pistols, hes level 6. I put him in a pvp world though so sometimes while im questing i get dominated by high level heros
Heroe's? pff who needs them, the screams of my victims is enough to fuel me. So im guessing you get to be based of a villan can you be the swamp spiderman dude? if so im so trying this game out.
naw venom and stuff isnt in this all you get is dumb dc villains
Quote from: Gin on January 18, 2011, 04:04:41 AM
Hmmm, I want to try it, but i just got over my wow addiction -_-'. I might give it a shot in a couple of months hopefully it does well I'd love to see blizzards community grow smaller.
Is there any group based quests or boss's if so do characters have a role they play for example, DPS / Heals / Tank?
Also is there any player vs player battlegrounds and can you get a pvp rating/rank?
Quote from: Meiun on January 12, 2011, 04:19:07 AM
I played for a good few hours today, and have yet to have a single moment of what I would consider to be grinding or mindless questing.
Sometimes a game isnt good without grinding though, look at SO.
Yes, yes, and yes. You can group for any missions, which oten helps a lot. As I said in my first post, the boss fights are extremely awesome, and way more eventful/unique than anything you'd find in WoW. As for the roles, they definitely have them. You can actually set a seperate set of hotkeys depending which role you are currently trying to fill in for (everybody can do the damage role, but what the other role you can play ends up being is based on what power sets you choose).
As for the PvP battlegrounds, they don't do that exactly the same way as WoW, but they do have a variety of different instanced PvP options. I havn't really tried them out yet though so I couldn't tell you much on the details. I already play on a PvP server though so I am constantly just fighting random villain players in the streets. I would have made a villain, but too many people already do that in my opinion, and I don't like going with the crowd all the time.
i thought everyone would want to be the good guy when i went villain, i guess i was wrong.
Quote from: TANK on January 18, 2011, 04:20:50 PM
i thought everyone would want to be the good guy when i went villain, i guess i was wrong.
Are you kidding? 9/10 kids these days would rather be the villan rest assured.
What server is everyone playing on?
My brother and I both have hero characters on the Death & Glory server (it's a PvP one). Dunno about everyone else though.
Quote from: Meiun on January 19, 2011, 12:04:46 AM
My brother and I both have hero characters on the Death & Glory server (it's a PvP one). Dunno about everyone else though.
I anxiously jumped the gun and think I picked a different one. No worries though, just broke out of Brainiac's ship and did one mission. I can easily switch over tomorrow.
I really want to try this, im just anoyed i cant be a apprentice of venom, im going on a holiday for 4 days starting tomorow when i get back ill probaly buy this game sounds awsome, do they sell it in gaming stores or can you only get it through steam? I dont mind either way but i would prefer to save a few GB's of download.
Yeh, wow boss fights are terrible these days theve made the game hard again and all i've been doing is carrying people who have no idea what to do, games just getting dull now.
All of my favorite villans/heroes are not from DC comics -_-'
I usally always roll a tank class in the games I play, I was wondering if the Defcon fares well at this role, this has to be the most appealing class of the heros, if not then the hexagon.
I really dislike the villan side, mainly because all the villans are gay (and venom isnt a DC villain).
and I agree with you not going with the crowd, during my time on wow I prefered playing on the least populated side on my server (being alliance) although it cost me alot of money to race change all my toons.
It looks nice, but high budget?
I really tried to understand why is this a "high-budget" game. Sure, the idea is awesome, and gameplay is good, but it doesn't utilize any technology that would make it a high-budget game. I checked the trailers and physics were fine but... With all those free physics libraries this isn't something new. It was well presented, but not good enough for my taste =P
Quote from: krele on January 19, 2011, 03:59:51 AM
It looks nice, but high budget?
I really tried to understand why is this a "high-budget" game. Sure, the idea is awesome, and gameplay is good, but it doesn't utilize any technology that would make it a high-budget game. I checked the trailers and physics were fine but... With all those free physics libraries this isn't something new. It was well presented, but not good enough for my taste =P
High budget may not have been the right word for what I was trying to get at, but it definitely is non-the-less for a variety of reasons. They spent over 5 years on the game from what I hear, it has unique (and many known) voice actors for nearly every NPC, tons of different little stories with cutscenes etc. Well thought out, elaborate and unique missions, amount countless other cool features. You kids and your assuming that the only thing that makes a game good or cost a lot are graphics or physics, sheesh.
Anyways, I more meant it was a big name game, as oppose to some random half-assed korean F2P game that few people ever hear of. A game that you can actually pick up a copy of on a store shelf and what not.
Quote from: Scotty on January 19, 2011, 01:20:42 AM
Quote from: Meiun on January 19, 2011, 12:04:46 AM
My brother and I both have hero characters on the Death & Glory server (it's a PvP one). Dunno about everyone else though.
I anxiously jumped the gun and think I picked a different one. No worries though, just broke out of Brainiac's ship and did one mission. I can easily switch over tomorrow.
Sounds cool, my main characters name is Meiun (surprise surprise). Shouldn't take you too long to get back to where you were, although that ship tutorial thing is a bit boring compared to the rest of the game in my opinion.
I anxiously jumped the gun and think I picked a different one. No worries though, just broke out of Brainiac's ship and did one mission. I can easily switch over tomorrow.
[/quote]Sounds cool, my main characters name is Meiun (surprise surprise). Shouldn't take you too long to get back to where you were, although that ship tutorial thing is a bit boring compared to the rest of the game in my opinion.
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I know what you mean, Gameplay > graphics anyday but somtimes you need a balance between both but this game definatley achives my standards for a good game, I am really excited to start playing this game, hopefully the population dosent die off too fast like some of my previous experinces with mmo release's.
Quote from: Gin on January 19, 2011, 08:59:11 AM
Quote from: Meiun on January 19, 2011, 04:08:40 AM
Quote from: krele on January 19, 2011, 03:59:51 AM
It looks nice, but high budget?
I really tried to understand why is this a "high-budget" game. Sure, the idea is awesome, and gameplay is good, but it doesn't utilize any technology that would make it a high-budget game. I checked the trailers and physics were fine but... With all those free physics libraries this isn't something new. It was well presented, but not good enough for my taste =P
High budget may not have been the right word for what I was trying to get at, but it definitely is non-the-less for a variety of reasons. They spent over 5 years on the game from what I hear, it has unique (and many known) voice actors for nearly every NPC, tons of different little stories with cutscenes etc. Well thought out, elaborate and unique missions, amount countless other cool features. You kids and your assuming that the only thing that makes a game good or cost a lot are graphics or physics, sheesh.
Anyways, I more meant it was a big name game, as oppose to some random half-assed korean F2P game that few people ever hear of. A game that you can actually pick up a copy of on a store shelf and what not.
Quote from: Scotty on January 19, 2011, 01:20:42 AM
Quote from: Meiun on January 19, 2011, 12:04:46 AM
My brother and I both have hero characters on the Death & Glory server (it's a PvP one). Dunno about everyone else though.
I anxiously jumped the gun and think I picked a different one. No worries though, just broke out of Brainiac's ship and did one mission. I can easily switch over tomorrow.
Sounds cool, my main characters name is Meiun (surprise surprise). Shouldn't take you too long to get back to where you were, although that ship tutorial thing is a bit boring compared to the rest of the game in my opinion.
I know what you mean, Gameplay > graphics anyday but somtimes you need a balance between both but this game definatley achives my standards for a good game, I am really excited to start playing this game, hopefully the population dosent die off too fast like some of my previous experinces with mmo release's.
The way I see it, when you buy the game, you get 30 days to play for free. Get all the play in that you want in that time, and then, if after 30 days, you see it bombing, just cancel.
I only played for about an hour last night before hitting the hay, and it seems interesting, but I don't have enough to really critique and review yet. I won't like that parts of it seem like a re-hash of COH/COV. That's not necessarily a bad thing though, considering that those were the only MMO's that truly grasped my attention. I see this doing better than Champions Online any day, which was a flop at the 30 day mark at most. I like being able to interact with all the in/famous characters of the DC comics, and there's enough cameo appearances from the smaller/less known superheroes that it should be able to grasp my attention for a while.
My biggest thing when it comes to long lasting computer games that I'll play, it's all about playing with friends. Sure, I can crank out an indie game for an hour or two every now and again when I'm bored, but being able to sit down and return to a game months after buying it is dependent upon playing with friends, i.e. MMO's. I think that is part of Minecraft's charm to me. I have accumulated no more than an hour of single-player play time (had no idea what a painting was until Notch updated it with such in multiplayer), all the time I've spent has been online with others. If friends continue to play DCUO, I'll continue to play it.
Quote from: Meiun on January 19, 2011, 04:08:40 AM
Quote from: krele on January 19, 2011, 03:59:51 AM
It looks nice, but high budget?
I really tried to understand why is this a "high-budget" game. Sure, the idea is awesome, and gameplay is good, but it doesn't utilize any technology that would make it a high-budget game. I checked the trailers and physics were fine but... With all those free physics libraries this isn't something new. It was well presented, but not good enough for my taste =P
High budget may not have been the right word for what I was trying to get at, but it definitely is non-the-less for a variety of reasons. They spent over 5 years on the game from what I hear, it has unique (and many known) voice actors for nearly every NPC, tons of different little stories with cutscenes etc. Well thought out, elaborate and unique missions, amount countless other cool features. You kids and your assuming that the only thing that makes a game good or cost a lot are graphics or physics, sheesh.
Anyways, I more meant it was a big name game, as oppose to some random half-assed korean F2P game that few people ever hear of. A game that you can actually pick up a copy of on a store shelf and what not.
Looking at the fact that 90% of the budget goes to graphics and physics, that is the right thing to assume. Never said the game was bad, nor that it doesn't cost a lot (huh). I'm just saying, it's hard to believe they had spent more money than other companies did on some rare f2p mmo's that don't suck (sorry, can't name one on-the-fly). High-Budget and Good game are two different adjectives. Minecraft?
Quote from: krele on January 19, 2011, 07:07:09 PM
High-Budget and Good game are two different adjectives. Minecraft?
All in due time my friend. ;D
Quote from: Meiun on January 19, 2011, 12:04:46 AM
My brother and I both have hero characters on the Death & Glory server (it's a PvP one). Dunno about everyone else though.
Grand, already a server queue on this server, started off at 71...
Quote from: krele on January 19, 2011, 07:07:09 PM
Quote from: Meiun on January 19, 2011, 04:08:40 AM
Quote from: krele on January 19, 2011, 03:59:51 AM
It looks nice, but high budget?
I really tried to understand why is this a "high-budget" game. Sure, the idea is awesome, and gameplay is good, but it doesn't utilize any technology that would make it a high-budget game. I checked the trailers and physics were fine but... With all those free physics libraries this isn't something new. It was well presented, but not good enough for my taste =P
High budget may not have been the right word for what I was trying to get at, but it definitely is non-the-less for a variety of reasons. They spent over 5 years on the game from what I hear, it has unique (and many known) voice actors for nearly every NPC, tons of different little stories with cutscenes etc. Well thought out, elaborate and unique missions, amount countless other cool features. You kids and your assuming that the only thing that makes a game good or cost a lot are graphics or physics, sheesh.
Anyways, I more meant it was a big name game, as oppose to some random half-assed korean F2P game that few people ever hear of. A game that you can actually pick up a copy of on a store shelf and what not.
Looking at the fact that 90% of the budget goes to graphics and physics, that is the right thing to assume. Never said the game was bad, nor that it doesn't cost a lot (huh). I'm just saying, it's hard to believe they had spent more money than other companies did on some rare f2p mmo's that don't suck (sorry, can't name one on-the-fly). High-Budget and Good game are two different adjectives. Minecraft?
Like I said... High-budget was not the right word. I meant big-name game, one that you could (for instance) find on store shelves. High budget and good game do not always go hand in hand, and nor do good graphics/good game or any of that.
I was merely trying to get at the point that I am surprised it took this long for an actual (somewhat) action based MMO to arise that was made by a big company like Blizard or SOE or whatever. Regardless, I am not even sure why we are still discussing this.
bought the game and am having a blast so far, although need to switch to death and glory server.
k switch to death and glory, and my character is rowen, sorcerer
A friend demoed it for like 5 minutes. The character creation and a couple minutes of play time. Looked really awesome. Unfortunately I'm in MMOA (MMO Anonymous) so I can't play these games anymore.
Quote from: Lingus on January 22, 2011, 09:24:00 PM
A friend demoed it for like 5 minutes. The character creation and a couple minutes of play time. Looked really awesome. Unfortunately I'm in MMOA (MMO Anonymous) so I can't play these games anymore.
Do what I do, develop a raging case of Attention Deficit Disorder, and you'll never become addicted to it!
Just made a account then, im going to play now just arived home from my holiday.
Im a Ice/Bow/Super Speed hero on death and glory named Silverflight
im adding you gin :P also i may make a char on the first server because the death and glory server gets full.
Quote from: Mr Pwnage on January 18, 2011, 10:21:11 PM
Quote from: TANK on January 18, 2011, 04:20:50 PM
i thought everyone would want to be the good guy when i went villain, i guess i was wrong.
Are you kidding? 9/10 kids these days would rather be the villan rest assured.
It's not just 'kids' really. It's just that being evil in games is more fun than being a good guy. Only taking Fallout 3 / New Vegas games for example, there's all these fleshy civilians around carrying loot (but to be fair, quite useless stuff), and the only reason you aren't killing them is because you wanna be 'nice' to the AI? Personally I just find being evil in games to be more fun and free and gives you more options, not just because I wanna be an asshole or something. Also this is coming from a guy who's name was made up when I was 10 and when I thought it was 'evil' or what have you. So you can put that into perspective. But hey- I've never played this game before so maybe being good or evil doesn't matter, it might all be linear in terms of quests and such.
But back on topic. I myself am a little bit strapped for cash, and I usually don't do the whole monthly payments thing anyways, because I can't help but feel that when the game gets out dated or whatever or if I just get tired of it, I'd look back and say "wow, did I really spend that much money on one game?". I understand that there's a life time payment...Of 200 dollars on the PC. But why would I spend 50 bucks for the game, then another 200 that could be used for a whole gaming console? I have heard excellent things about the game, and as much as I'd like to try it, I just can't afford it at the moment, haha.
Quote from: venuse on January 23, 2011, 10:08:49 AM
im adding you gin :P also i may make a char on the first server because the death and glory server gets full.
Im thinking about remaking my toon i find acrobatics better, I might go martial arts since range is quite differnt from i expected in this game, Im still trying to get the hang of it Im planning on a fire/ice toon again (because I'm a tank and always will be) Ill edit the post with my new name making somthing now i might research tanking also.
Finaly got around to remaking names Inoue. Acrobatic / Ice / Martial Arts (Batman mentor)
Quote from: Scotty on January 22, 2011, 09:25:41 PM
Quote from: Lingus on January 22, 2011, 09:24:00 PM
A friend demoed it for like 5 minutes. The character creation and a couple minutes of play time. Looked really awesome. Unfortunately I'm in MMOA (MMO Anonymous) so I can't play these games anymore.
Do what I do, develop a raging case of Attention Deficit Disorder, and you'll never become addicted to it!
Haha! Good advice, but then how do you deal with the ADD? I guess it's less of an issue than video game addiction?
In all seriousness though, I'm not really too interested in playing games much anymore. I much prefer many other things in life and playing games all day/night takes away time from those other things. So I'm happy... Plus I don't waste tons of money on monthly subs anymore.
Quote from: Lingus on January 24, 2011, 01:16:16 PM
Quote from: Scotty on January 22, 2011, 09:25:41 PM
Quote from: Lingus on January 22, 2011, 09:24:00 PM
A friend demoed it for like 5 minutes. The character creation and a couple minutes of play time. Looked really awesome. Unfortunately I'm in MMOA (MMO Anonymous) so I can't play these games anymore.
Do what I do, develop a raging case of Attention Deficit Disorder, and you'll never become addicted to it!
Haha! Good advice, but then how do you deal with the ADD? I guess it's less of an issue than video game addiction?
In all seriousness though, I'm not really too interested in playing games much anymore. I much prefer many other things in life and playing games all day/night takes away time from those other things. So I'm happy... Plus I don't waste tons of money on monthly subs anymore.
You are the subject of envy amongst many gamers, although I'm certain someone with your experiences is well aware of that.
Quote from: Scotty on January 24, 2011, 01:38:51 PM
Quote from: Lingus on January 24, 2011, 01:16:16 PM
Quote from: Scotty on January 22, 2011, 09:25:41 PM
Quote from: Lingus on January 22, 2011, 09:24:00 PM
A friend demoed it for like 5 minutes. The character creation and a couple minutes of play time. Looked really awesome. Unfortunately I'm in MMOA (MMO Anonymous) so I can't play these games anymore.
Do what I do, develop a raging case of Attention Deficit Disorder, and you'll never become addicted to it!
Haha! Good advice, but then how do you deal with the ADD? I guess it's less of an issue than video game addiction?
In all seriousness though, I'm not really too interested in playing games much anymore. I much prefer many other things in life and playing games all day/night takes away time from those other things. So I'm happy... Plus I don't waste tons of money on monthly subs anymore.
You are the subject of envy amongst many gamers, although I'm certain someone with your experiences is well aware of that.
Once your in the circle, you become the circle.
there is one thing that really bothers me about the community of this game. there is virtually no grouping. when i play an mmo i want to group some time but on this no one wants to group.
Quote from: venuse on January 25, 2011, 07:51:21 PM
there is one thing that really bothers me about the community of this game. there is virtually no grouping. when i play an mmo i want to group some time but on this no one wants to group.
Huh, really? I have actually grouped in this more than I ever did in many other MMO's, and I played a bunch of them. Just shout out when you have a particular mission your doing and I've almost always been able to find people to group with (unless it's a super easy one, where I don't even bother). Also, all the Alert missions (instanced) starting at level 10 you NEED a group, which it can automatically provide you with.
sorry but ive shouted out missions and never got anyresponse, im level 16 . frankly ive had 2 groups in dc universe, where as in Pandora saga ive had around 10 and my char is only level 14.
I havent needed to group for any of the quests, although i got invited to one for bane, I got locked out for the fight though and got 2 achivments for it XD. The hotkey Y then you can do the branic invasion thing which is actually quite fun and challenging, I think they want to make it so you dont have to group for quests if you dont want to but you can if you wish, either way im loving the game.
well found me a league and a few more groups and be adding people for friends. so its been alittle better. cant remember of league name :P
Quote from: venuse on January 28, 2011, 05:33:47 PM
well found me a league and a few more groups and be adding people for friends. so its been alittle better. cant remember of league name :P
Yeh same here, I'm in a league and there was another ice player who has helped me out alot, im finding questing even easier now, game is great fun.
decided to go back to playing champions online :P