The state of Champions

It's been almost a month since I bought Champions, and I'd like to talk a little bit about it and why I will not be continuing my subscription.

First off - Cryptic did an excellent job on this one. I said it all before but it really does feel like a superhero MMO. As fun as you would expect it to be and it offers what it should be offering.

The problem with it though, is that Champions really does not deliver what I usually would expect from its genre. Usually with MMOs, you get very diverse, addicting and large worlds where there is plenty to do and plenty to see. Champions doesn't do this, it feels more like a very casual online game with the MMO label slapped on it.

My other problem with it also relates to the above, in that the subscription fee is still the normal $15 a month, which is pretty lame. Champions just doesn't offer enough to get 15 bucks a month from me, not happening. 10 or even 5 would be reasonable.

What Champions is though, is a great casual superhero MMO. There is nothing wrong with the game itself - infact I greatly enjoyed my free month and will probably come back at some point - but Cryptic needs to consider that this is a PC MMO. I can see the Xbox 360 version being huge, but right now the PC version just isn't worth it with bigger and better things coming and already out.

 -Rav4ge

Work, Work, Work

Everyone needs this addon. It is probably one of the coolest I have come across. Forget fancy UI mods, who needs those when you have a Peon saying "Work Complete!" after every quest you finish?

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So yeah, I resubbed to WoW

Literally a month ago I bashed the shit out of WoW, telling my friends that it sucks, it's boring, the PvP sucks, ect. But, WoW being the crack demon that it is got my subscription money once more for this month. My friend John started playing again, so that was even more tempting.

I will admit it, I have barely played WoW. I own none of the expansions and have never gotten a single character to 60. This is probably why I didn't enjoy the game, seeing how WoW is all end-game content now. It can be hard finding people your level to help with a certain quest or instance. But the good news is that Blizzard knows this and have made the road to 60 easier than ever.

Anyway, this is my mage Zubbyy on Earthen Ring. He's my highest level at 31, and I really am enjoying him. Mages get some really kick ass abilities, my favorite being Conjure food and Water cause it's so handy.

So expect more WoW talk, because it's coming.

- Rav4ge

MMOs are a sometimes food

Well, not food. You know what I mean.

I have a strange relationship with MMOs. I do play them often, but most of the time when I have time for gaming, I tend to go for a simple, less diverse game such as an FPS like Team Fortress 2 or the like, something where I can just jump online and blow people into chunks of flying meat with a rocket launcher (once again, TF2 is a great example). I do enjoy MMOs, but I like to think of them as a "sometimes food," as Cookie Monster might say. When I feel like playing them, it's usually towards the end of the day when things start to slow down... when I start to get the urge to grind. Or when I've spent too much time gibbing people with mah lazerz. Sometimes I really get into an MMO, and as a result my time spent on FPS will drop.

I know most people who play MMOs jump at any opportunity to play them, but that's not me. I have two types of games I enjoy, and they both balance each other out. There's no way I could just play MMOs, my brain would likely explode. But such is the case for FPS games too. I am almost always subscribed to an MMO (usually just one at a time) and when I get the urge for something new, I get the newest, dammit. Well... aside from Aion that is.

-Rav4ge

Touch my body...

Just freaking watch this.




This guy is like the Korean version of William Hung.