For those who miss City of Heroes...

[seawasp]

... the Kickstarter for its "spiritual successor", City of Titans, has already hit its basic goal and is heading for its stretch goals. Sounds like fun? Go support it!

Comments

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

Oh cool. I was just thinking that I was missing playing it.

[jcfiala.livejournal.com]

It's a neat idea... but they're just getting the money to pay for the tools. I don't think they're going to manage to create an MMO entirely on volunteer money.

On the other hand, I'd like them to succeed.

[ninjarat.livejournal.com]

I suspect that once they have tools they can produce something that will attract venture capital. It's rather different from what "Project Phoenix" is doing:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1300298569/project-phoenix-japans-indie-rpg-feat-aaa-talent

Reading the two makes for some interesting comparisons. Both go on about how cool their games are going to be. A big difference, however, is that the JRPG kickstarter tells us about the world, about the music, and, most importantly, about the gameplay. The MMO kickstarter tells us a bit about the world and... that's it. There's nothing at all about the gameplay other than references to this super-flexible "socket system".

Now, here's a problem: Cryptic tried something very similar to this in City of Heroes prior to release. It didn't work. Given the opportunity, some players will exclusively load up on just offense or just defense which makes for characters that end up being non-viable. Then these players will bitch and moan about how badly broken the game is. Cryptic's solution was the archetype system cribbed almost verbatim from Champions vernacular. The result was a system that guided players into at least trying to make reasonably balanced characters the same way that a real live GM would in a real live RPG. That MWM is planning to repeat this mistake does not bode well for the game.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

I still miss playing this game

[melchar.livejournal.com]

CoH was such a good game that I will support City of Titans and hope it succeeds. Gosh I miss CoH.