Charactor creator is awesome and game play is pretty cool to me. If you enjoyed City of Heroes or City of Villains at all you will like this game I would think. Here's a quick write up I emailed to a friend about how I came up with one of my latest designs, its really cool what you can do with this game.
So first I wanted a certain power set, I decided it was down to darkness, electricity or fire. I had a decent concept for darkness guy, but I took a closer look at the powers and honestly there aren't whole lot in there, so you would definitely have to mix and match more. I liked fire and elec, but elec just had more initial stuff that I was like oh, I want that. So that's how I settled in on elec.
Then I started playing with options. Great thing about the creator is you can just mess around until you hit that "piece" and you're like ok, I like that, I want to design something with that. For Buzz it started out with the fly wings (looked cool and were custom to game stop customers). I found I was having trouble matching a head to it. Didn't want the bug head (only one and eh), non of the animal heads were very good, and I was having trouble making a human head feel right. Then as I was looking at hats I just happened to chance on the skeleton head. I was like hmm, that looks really nice with the hat and actually looks ok with the bug wings (since bugs are kind of boney anyway).
After that I checked hands real fast, found they had a skeleton hand too! I liked that a lot and thought it looked pretty cool. Also at some point had settled in on that trench coat. It looks pretty fitting with the hat and wings and I liked how the skelly hands came out of it. Basically after that matched some nice pants and filled in the details. The feet are actually cyborg feet completely colored white, they didn't have a foot skeleton option unfortunately. Still I liked the feet enough and I think pretty much no one can tell they aren't actual bone feet unless they are looking super closely.
Anyway so I started digging the design of the guy a lot, then I thought damn, how am I gonna make this guy fit with the powers I want to use? I kind of immediately thought of the movie the fly, how he meshed with an insect, except in this case the guy meshes with the insect and one of those electric fly traps, that's how he gets his powers (also how he turns into a skelly I guess lol). Its pretty creative and yeah a little stretch, but I'm liking it.
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It sounds pretty fun - i was tempted to buy it today but i have vowed to give lotr at least 3 months before i look elsewhere.
Still i would like to have a go at the character creator - heard nothing but good things about it
The creator is awesome, I've made several really great looking conepts so far. That and the powers looking cool in game is probably the best part of the game so far. Its simple yet complicated at the same time to choose the stats and powers that fit but I kind of like it that way.
Also lol at the spam link, first time I've seen that on my blog.
Also for Tdub, you might very well want to wait, they are still balancing powers and changing stuff up, that causes a lot of people to be mad and hate things. Me I just adapt and am not too worried, but I'm sure it would frustrate a lot of other people.
I have seen quite a few people getting worked up about the balancing and patching, guess like every MMO it needs some work.
So I am trying to decide to play Champions, take a look at Fallen Earth or spend some time with my single player/Multi player games like Blood Bowl/Empire Total War/Xcom and Left4Dead.
I know I haven't posted here in a while but I'm still enjoying the game, char customization is awesome, have to roll with the many power changes though. Should level out eventually though.
Yeah i find it difficult to keep posting - no idea how some bloggers do daily updates like at BioBreak!
Champions seems to have got some negative publicity in recent weeks, not impressed that they are charging for respecs. Then again the core of the game looks appealing, would be good to dip into it and try out!
Well I'm still playing and enjoying it for now, maybe I'll make a post soon regarding how its going. Life gets so busy sometimes, I only have a little bit of time to play the game itself so I usually don't want to spend it writing right now. But maybe I will get back to it.
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