Comments on: Daily Blogroll 12/29: Super Duper edition

By: Sente

Sente — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:57:45 +0000

I will pick up DCUO possibly, but only because it will be available for PS3 and try out an MMO-like title there. I have no interest whatsoever to play it on PC and I am not a DC fan either.

That Sisters of Mercy link helped fix something I remembered wrong – in my memory that was the video for Temple of Love, but apparently that memory was not correct. Good to have that straightened out ;)

By: Yarr

Yarr — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:40:44 +0000

Well, I tried DCUO playing with a controller on the PC and it doesn’t help one bit, the control system itself just plain sucks. It isn’t too bad with super-speed, although I ended up standing awkwardly on the side of walls a good deal of the time. Or phone booths.. or even small rocks. The animations for the Acrobatics movement are just terrible. But flight.. how could they mess that up? They did, it is just plain bad. Precise is a word that will never be used with DCUO character control. I spent about 30% of each battle either stuck in a corner or facing away from the target. I do give SOE credit for supporting my Logitech Rumblepad 2, although their default choices are a bit strange.

Shame, I really like the DC universe, was a big fan back in my comic collecting days. No way I’d pay $50 and a subscription for DCUO from what I’ve seen. Sell it like GW2, charge for the box – play for free – and fix the controls. The graphics are okay, if not great. While I did create some decent looking characters (which is saying something with DCUO’s very limited creation options), the actual combat was boring and simplistic. Everyone looked like clones, as far as body shape. I’m sure the game will sell well at first, then be quickly abandoned by the PC crowd (same as Rift: Planes of Generic Fantasy) and the PS3 people will only play until the next big console title comes out.

By: kaozz

kaozz — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:04:54 +0000

I’m now scared of you Tipa, your Sisters of Mercy have scarred me for life!

*Hugs* Thanks for the link ;)

By: Egat

Egat — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:43:20 +0000

I’ve been informed by the younger generation at the office that you can indeed rise to the level cap in WoW solely by mining or herb gathering. This just reinforces my opinion that pacifism is much too dull.

By: pkudude99

pkudude99 — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 16:52:46 +0000

I wrote about the Freebloods here. As an update to that post, I did actually end up buying the mount as well. I should probably go update the actual post about that. It's actually a weird implementation of an illusion and a mount combined. Since it's a mount, it turns off when you're indoors, but since it's an illusion you have to "hide it" rather then just tell mounts not to render when you're outdoors. You also lose its safefall ability when you're indoors as well. I was gonna complain that I don't lose that on my other toons that have safefall mounts, but now that I think about it those toons have the racial safefall, so maybe I just don't notice on them since the racial safefall takes precedence indoors.

By: Arkenor

Arkenor — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 15:03:23 +0000

I’d have liked nothing more than to report on how EQ2 Freebloods play, but we veterans won’t be getting our hands on one for a couple more months, and I’m not going to encourage SOEs antics by spending money on it!

By: Longasc

Longasc — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:28:44 +0000

It is a good thing to question contemporary quest design. Muckbeast already did so in 2009, take a look.

http://www.frogdice.com/muckbeast/game_design/quest-grinding-your-day-has-passed.html