Champions Online? Ugh. The most clueless marketroid should be able to come up with a better name than that, and anything that includes Online in the title out to be taken out back and shot.

Emmert... Emmert... where have I heard that -- aahh, damn.

Emphasis on non-combat skills, more customizable characters, a whole world instead of a city... sounds good, but see point 2 re: deliverability.

Oh, wonderful. The 360? Why don't we let a pack of rabid chinchillas rampage through our living rooms while we're at it, hmm?

Equipment decay. Goddamn holy FUCK, can't we learn our lesson from (for example) Star Wars Galaxies, people?

Design-your-own Arch-Nemesis? HELL YEAH. If there's one thing I had to pick to include in City of Heroes from this game, it'd be that.

Final thoughts? I *might* check out a demo, but I didn't like the underlying system anyway (HERO System) and I'm guessing it's got a 50/50 chance of being stillborn anyway.

And my understanding is (correct me, someone, if I'm wrong) that it's made by the same company -- Cryptic -- but not all of the original people, quite a few of whom chose to stay with City of Heroes/Villains under NCSoft. The ones who stayed with Cryptic and are presumably working on CO, such as Jack Emmert, aren't exactly thought fondly of by the fan community, mostly for what they did to CoX (which is being fixed now, looks like).

I don't wade through all the glurge out there, but I've skimmed quite a bit and that's the overall impression I'm getting.

--sofaspud
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