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Tights Deadline: Champions Beta Impressions
Posted: May 11th, 2009, 16:00
by News Reader
Tights Deadline: Champions Beta Impressions
The weekend before last Cryptic opened the doors of their Champions Online beta to the gentlemen of the press, and let them have a crack. And lo! a crack was had. Well, John and I did, anyway, and then John gave up after the interface annoyed him. He intended to come back later in the [...]
Author: Kieron Gillen
Category: RockPaperShotgun champions online feature
Publish Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 13:16:20 +0000
The weekend before last Cryptic opened the doors of their
Champions Online beta to the gentlemen of the press, and let them have a crack. And lo! a crack was had. Well, John and I did, anyway, and then John gave up after the interface annoyed him. He intended to come back later in the week, not realising that it was only open for a few days. I, on the other hand, persisted manfully, and managed to play the tutorial section and get to level
five before I had to go and hammer together some shelves or something. This proves that time limited previews for journalists are a little rubbish for time-limited journalists. But I did bring back some opinions which I present herein...
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Posted: May 11th, 2009, 16:11
by Dr. kitteny berk
Sounds promising.
Posted: May 11th, 2009, 16:36
by MORDETH LESTOK
I read the comments below and almost everyone is skeptical. Reminds me of Everquest 2 which wasn't Everquest 2 at all....just a simplified, graphically updated version with the standard UI for all newer Fantasy games.
Champions (CoH2) is attempting to make it more complex which is a good thing but it doesn't sound like there's anything new and groundbreaking with this game.
/forgot to take happy pills today
Posted: May 11th, 2009, 16:43
by Joose
As I am on the beta, I cant possibly comment, as that would be a breach of the NDA.
However, if I were not under an NDA, I would be saying something along the lines of "no, its actually quite brilliant. All the best bits of CoH, with some extra good bits, and some spit and polish."
But I am under an NDA. So I'm not saying that.
Posted: May 11th, 2009, 17:20
by Roman Totale
Curses, if only you could give us a vague hint Joose!
Posted: May 11th, 2009, 18:01
by Baliame
Excellent.
By the way, I'm spartacus.
Posted: May 11th, 2009, 19:36
by HereComesPete
Looking at that picture, I wonder if I could produce a huge angry looking bloke in skin tight black and pink Lycra who fired magenta lightning at bad guys. He would be called Lord Faaabulous.
Posted: May 11th, 2009, 20:30
by Dog Pants
HereComesPete wrote:Looking at that picture, I wonder if I could produce a huge angry looking bloke in skin tight black and pink Lycra who fired magenta lightning from his crotch at bad guys. He would be called Lord Faaabulous.
Fix'd
Posted: May 11th, 2009, 21:32
by spoodie
Joose wrote:As I am on the beta, I cant possibly comment, as that would be a breach of the NDA.
However, if I were not under an NDA, I would be saying something along the lines of "no, its actually quite brilliant. All the best bits of CoH, with some extra good bits, and some spit and polish."
But I am under an NDA. So I'm not saying that.
I am also playing the beta and I also can't comment. However I am definitely going to get the game on release, as I may or may not have really enjoyed the last play test.
Posted: May 11th, 2009, 22:03
by Joose
spoodie wrote:
I am also playing the beta and I also can't comment. However I am definitely going to get the game on release, as I may or may not have really enjoyed the last play test.
