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Title: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: AfghanAnt on March 10, 2009, 04:27:54 PM
As question as the title.
Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: GhostMachine on March 10, 2009, 04:35:35 PM
Definitely worth the price.

Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: Funeral-Pyre on March 10, 2009, 06:05:19 PM
Two enthusiastic thumbs up for CoX!   :thumbup:
Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: Midnight on March 10, 2009, 06:26:53 PM
Free 14-Day Trial (http://www.cityofheroes.com/trial/index.html)
Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: AfghanAnt on March 11, 2009, 12:40:29 AM
Quote from: Midnight on March 10, 2009, 06:26:53 PM
Free 14-Day Trial (http://www.cityofheroes.com/trial/index.html)

thanks.
Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: BlueBard on March 11, 2009, 07:22:10 PM
I think, based on what I know and what I've read, that the two games accomodate different playing styles.  I think that DCUO is mainly aimed at console gamers based on my impressions of what the gameplay looks like.  DCUO will have more of a destructible and interactive environment than City currently has.

City Of... is more of a PC gamer experience.  The controls are mouse and keyboard oriented and the game itself can appeal to a more casual or social gamer.  Difficulty level is mostly up to the player.  But the game is best for cooperative team play in the sense that you level up fastest when you're on a full team with the difficulty level jacked all the way up for the mission.

No reason you can't play both.  Well, except maybe for the whole money thing....
Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: electro on March 11, 2009, 10:09:47 PM
Best game ever made hands down (in my personal yet accurate opinion) - It is impossible to make a character that you don't love :blink:
Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: DrMike2000 on March 12, 2009, 12:04:30 AM
I read somewhere that DCU is going to be fairly heavily PvP oriented.

If anything is worth waiting for as a replacement for CoH it would be Champions Online. I wouldn't wait - CoH is very well polished now and Champs may well be a bit rough around the edges when it comes out.

And as Midnight pointed out, your first hit is free...
Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: Tortuga on March 14, 2009, 07:11:15 PM
Are there trials available to former members considering renewal?  The Mission Architect has my gears-a-turnin'!
Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: Midnight on March 14, 2009, 08:49:21 PM
Quote from: Tortuga on March 14, 2009, 07:11:15 PM
Are there trials available to former members considering renewal?  The Mission Architect has my gears-a-turnin'!

Old accounts are reactivated for the weekend after a new issue goes live I think? You can have as many trials as you want iirc. I had... three at once going one time? I think?
Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: Tortuga on March 14, 2009, 09:40:10 PM
But those trials are a blank slate.  I was hoping to check out the MA in Testing beforehand to see it in action.
Title: Re: Is this game worth the price or should I wait for DCU Online?
Post by: Figure Fan on March 15, 2009, 02:51:59 AM
Quote from: Tortuga on March 14, 2009, 09:40:10 PM
But those trials are a blank slate.  I was hoping to check out the MA in Testing beforehand to see it in action.

See, I'm also wondering where those trials are that let you temporarily reactivate your current account. I've used them before. I'm sure of it.