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DCUO Hype
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DCUO's hype is not in top 8, that's a shame.
I saw some reviews here comparing to other two super heroes games. I haven't really played them myself, but I believe DCUO has its own immersion.
Gameplay is quite fast paced which is a big ++
Graphics are awsome.
Stroy is pretty good. Voice overs just pulls you right in and makes you not want to stop playing. Highly immersive.
Overall, plays very well, has a lot of things to do, definitely worth a shot.
Guild Wars 2's 50 minutes game play video:
http://n4g.com/news/592585/guild-wars-2-50-minutes-of-pure-gameplay
Everything We Know about GW2:
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/287180/page/1
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don't expect a soe game to get much support on this forums good or bad.
after nge in swg this forum became sadly the whining point of ex players and some just blindly followed the trend.
What excatly did SOE did that was so bad?
Guild Wars 2's 50 minutes game play video:
http://n4g.com/news/592585/guild-wars-2-50-minutes-of-pure-gameplay
Everything We Know about GW2:
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/287180/page/1
lol...so the fact that SOE has provided very little information to date has nothing to do with it? For a game that was supposed to be released by now, SOE has done a very poor job of promoting the game. Until a few weeks ago, static screen shots were all that was available.
To the OP, you can't get much hype if you aren't providing much information to the masses to get excited about. SOE seems to think that since it is the DC universe, the IP will speak for itself and, as a result, hasn't invested into any notable PR. Perhaps when they are getting to close to actually launching, a PR campaign will launch, and you'll see a lot more interest.
I like where this is going.
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I guess its a matter of where you look and who their target audience is. Ive seen DCUO adverts in every DC comic ( comic nerd here). They might be shooting for the comic crowd instead of the ususal gamer crowd ( not that it doesnt cross over in some instances). I would agree though, there doesnt seem much on the gamer sites or mags.
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No matter how cynical you become, its never enough to keep up - Lily Tomlin
Heh ok I'll bite ripped a skill based sandbox apart from under the feet of its 450k players it had and turned it too a linear theme park poor wow clone and lost half its subs overnight.
http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/06/16/dredging-up-the-past-the-star-wars-galaxies-nge-re-examined/
Anywhoo back to DCUO have been playing and thoroughly enjoying the beta creation, combat, story, art style and graphics are all enjoyable however I have not ran out and pre-ordered just yet.
The MMO in this MMO is fundamentaly lacking hidden by the most convoluted mess of a communications system i have ever seen in an online game.
IF SOE between now and release fixes this to be a proper communications system and dispells of the stance well everyone will use in game VOIP anyway then i would happily buy and sub to DCUO till TOR comes along.
Without these fundamental changes then I would say to anyone just go out and buy Arkham Asylum for a great single player superhero game.
I think it is better that the game isn't overhyped. That way people will be surprised if it is pretty good instead of upset because they expected more.
A hyped game needs to prove something, if DCU is fun to play will players find out about it anyways and come.
That people know that the game exist and that stores takes them in (online and physical stores).
I agree there hasn't been much marketing for the game. However, there has been a crap lad of game play video's overt he last year and game inofrmation over the lat 3 months.
SOE have always been poor at marketing and grr this comes back to the NGE and what did SOE do point I have no doubt with some marketing SWG in its original form could have been a lot bigger so could EQ EQ2 etc etc
The only companies who market well are Blizzard and EA, Funcom don;t do a bad job with more limited means but Sony are just plain awful at it I do not remember ever seeing a SOE product advert at any site other than Fileplanet or a MMO specific gaming site.
DCUO is seriously reminding me of the days before Star Trek Online's release. Company with a rocky past, game based on an intellectual property with a multigenerational fanbase, a game with a fast, and possibly rushed development time.
The one thing I am not seeing this time around is the absurd hoopla we saw, even from MMORPG staff, surrounding STO. This lack or hype is a good thing. Maybe this time round people will make a game stand on its own merrits rather than make themselves delerious with excitement before they truly know what to expect.
Personally from what I've seen so far DCUO just looks like another rather generic holy trinity tank, dps, healer MMO with some flashy graphics. The way they have set up the character archtypes seems a very poor relfection of the rich source material the game is drawn from.
This of course doesn't keep DCUO from being a fun game but for me it gets a big black mark because I would be playing this game to experiance the world of DC Universe Super Heroes and not yet another A + B = C MMORPG.
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I've read comics for years myself and I'm not feeling this game at all. I started the beta this weekend and besides punching the crap out of bad guys there doesn't seem to be any thing else. How about quests where you search for clues, interigate suspects, unveil a bigger deeper plot? There's a lot more in comics these says then just punch out the bad guys which seems all this game is focusing on. Going to get boring quick. Perhaps the end game will be better.
Overhyping is one of the worst thing devs can do, the game could use more marketing though. I think it is going to be a great polished fun game to play to be honest.
The hype is where it should be in my opinion. The subgenre doesn't really appeal to the mainstream fantasy crowd, and the game isn't being marketed at the standard MMORPG crowd, but the action and comic crowd.
The game overall is the furthest away from the holy trinity in its main gameplay aspects as possible. The roles each character can play mean nothing if they don't have the slightest grasp on how to fight. Being a healer isn't just standing back, casting and watching progress bars in PvE, you have to dodge, gain and lose threat, and fight to stay alive and try and keep your team alive, which requires more of a cohesive team then it does a strong healer.
A tank will never be able to hold all the aggro in a tank spec currently. Even in the off chance they could, tanking isn't based on taking damage to keep aggro, its based on taking aggro and staying alive. There is no way a tank could stay alive in most boss battles even with 3 healers healing him if he doesn't know how to dodge, block, and attack.
SOE while having what some consider an inside track in the industry is not very good at marketing the games they make in my opinion. I come here and generally are aware of what SOE makes only because I read a great deal of articles on this site.
Going down a list of a few companies who seem to do a better job with marketing and putting out info you could think of Cryptic,Funcom,Blizzard,NCSoft,Mythic,SE,Turbine and that's a short list as I'm sure many other posters can add more.
What I have noticed about the press for this game that I would have been interested in as a comic book reader is that the majority of info about the game are screenshots. They don't seem to send out devs for interviews as often as other companies do and this is something that I noticed before the NGE debacle.
As those of us informed know there are some people who because of the NGE have sworn off all Sony products, not just SOE so it may have some effect but it is mostly on SOE.
but yeah, to call this game Fantastic is like calling Twilight the Godfather of vampire movies....
- dumbing down Everquest 1
- releasing an absolute unfinsihed bugdriven Everquest ultrasoft called 2
- poor almost none customer support at all
- adding cash shops to P2P games
- adding P4C (pay for content) to Everquest 2
- sabotage Vanguard
...
List could go on easily and yet DCUO doesn't look like a MMORPG its more an action game lobby played with others. Most veterans aren't stupid fool once ok, fool me twice maybe but god forbid not a third time.
This game isn't geared around MMORPG players its made for comic fans so why do you expect much "hype"?
We need a MMORPG Cataclysm asap, finish the dark age of MMORPGS now!
"Everything you're bitching about is wrong. People don't have the time to invest in corpse runs, impossible zones, or long winded quests. Sometimes, they just want to pop on and play."
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Over the last 3 years we have complained about the mega-hype machine. While there is something to be said regarding too little hype. I find it a refreshing change
Torrential: DAOC (Pendragon)
Awned: World of Warcraft (Lothar)
Torren: Warhammer Online (Praag)
The fact that this game was hardly hyped at all and its information was released in trickles kept me more interested than anything else has in years.
Considering all that we've had since CoH released in the way of superhero games was the travesty that is Champions Online the bar really isn't set that high. It could be an 'ok' game and still be better than the previous two, i only say this about CoH because its now dated and doesn't hold much fun.
From what i've played of DCUO so far it is more than an 'OK' game, it is a good game but unfortunately there is still a lot of work to do before release.
While DCUO might be a fine online action game and I probebly will try or even buy the game, but again not feeling MMORPG here., I am still waiting on a company to truly make a superhero MMORPG and not just a online action game. Is it really that much to ask for.
Superheroes have such great lore, so much depth, it aint all about fighting, there is just so much more a superhero MMORPG could do/deliver.
CoH/V, CO, DCUO are to me Online Action Games. Why do we keep seeing MMORPG suddenly just becoming fighting games, is it really what the majority wants from a MMORPG?, don't we already have plenty of gamegenre's that already focus purely on just fighting, shouldn't MMORPG's offer us more, allot more then just these action games we keep seeing?
Perhaps I am really a minority in wanting more from my MMORPG experiance than what is given these last few years.........
"DCUO is not MMORPG" I'm keep on hearing this again and again. I don't see how this is true. What makes a game MMORPG?
I thought MMO = > Multiplayer Massively Online. RPG => Story driven, character development, working with a team.
DCUO has both.
Guild Wars 2's 50 minutes game play video:
http://n4g.com/news/592585/guild-wars-2-50-minutes-of-pure-gameplay
Everything We Know about GW2:
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/287180/page/1
Seriously, what the hell game have many of you been playing? How is this not an mmo? It has two very large seemless world zones with open world quests and instance missions. What is an MMORPG if massive amounts of people can't fight in an area. It doesn't have elves? #$@# ELVES.
You can investigate clues in each area and do collections. There are plenty of acheivements that you can turn into skill points when you get enough.
Bored of that? You can do mini games such as races, queue up for Duos, Raids, and Alerts, or fight some of the open world bosses that walk around.
I mean this is all from level 20, which the game is currently capped at for beta. It sounds like none of you even tried to even LEARN how to play, or you just didn't play it at all. Game needs a lot of polish but a lot of these comments are idiotic.
Oh wah, its SOE, they ruined Star Wars with NGE, most of you didn't even know what that means. Seriously, get over it, games change all the time, its within their right to change a game. Move on if you don't like it. This reminds me of STO beta. How the hell does it remind you of STO? The core gameplay is not broken, they are smoothing out glitches each patch, there's a huge improvement over STO.
Hate to rant, but good grief it doesn't even seem like people are even playing the same game. Don't beta test if you just feel entitled to something and aren't willing to help out. It'll save you a lot of grief.
Next time try to actually read what I have written. As my feelings are personal and no where did I state that the game isn't a MMORPG, I am just not personaly feeling it. Hope you can understand that. Else I wouldn't have stated that is this what the majority wants from a MMORPG. So please next time try to actually read before replying
Meh, because there is only so much to get excited about. It's fairly fun at first, and the graphics are decent is you don't mind all of those jagged edges, and it will definately be worth the box price, but with the severe lack of content and half assed implimentation of what is there there are going to be a lot of one month and done players. As it stands now there is nothing worth a monthly fee in the game.
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