I liked City of Heroes before the woke police of that day overran it. Had a Jamaican Mind Controller it a tie died peace symbol outfit I named Reefer Madness and they outright deleted that character. Made a grappler inspired by the Most Extreme Elimination guy Green T Bagger, poof. Finally settled in on a force field defender and they redid all the nazi bad guys to not offend (redacted) and turned it into a grind fest. That was the last MMO I ever played, really.
Is DC Online really better than CoH was?
I had a couple of characters getting nuked. We made an all black super group called The Soul Patrol. I was the Harlem Hammer, buddies were Ebony Beat, Original Recipe, and King Krunk. We mainly run around the atlas City and just harass people with our battle cries. I think that's why most of our characters would get deleted.
We had a few other goofy concepts that we would maybe play for 10 or 15 levels so then go make something else for fun.
I do remember when they replace the fifth column with a new name I forget what it is. I want to say it's something like the covenant.
DCUO was a really fantastic game for the time, but it's different than City of heroes. There's some aspects of it that are better but there are other things a city of heroes that I really enjoy.
In DCUO story missions for whatever faction you were playing as well as your patron were all very well voice acted, like Mark Hamill for the joker, and I want to say the guy who did Batman in the animated series.
A lot of the times if you were doing a dungeon there would be cut scenes where a villain or hero as the boss would yell some stuff and maybe another character would come in. The raids were the same. I think you're patron quest gave you a big series of missions that would culminate and getting some reward at the end. I think for the good guys your patrons were Superman, Batman, and Wonder woman. Villains were the joker, lex luthor, and cersei.
You'd end up going on different missions for your patrons related art nemesis and there was some goofy comic book story playing out. It was a lot of fun especially trying out the different ones and going through the different stories. I only played one or two of the expansions and they typically had a big story involved. I think the last one I did was with the Green lantern stuff.
The combat's really good though but I don't know if it's still holds up today, but again at the time it was a pseudo real-time combat, and the engine was surprisingly fluid. Everything just felt really good, very kinetic. I don't know much about DC comics other than just a top-level deal, but I recognize most of the characters throughout the game and it truly is just good old-fashioned comic book BS.
I mean if you could get two or three people to play it with you there's a lot of fun to be had. I know my computer at the time didn't run it on full settings but the graphics were pretty good and I bet nowadays on a current gen PC it'll play and look fantastic. Don't know if they're still doing updates but the last time I just scoped it out on their website there was a massive amount of content and they used to do all kinds of different seasonal events or holiday deals. I think if you just subscribe for $10 a month you get access to everything, but it is free to play, just don't know what the restrictions are. Believe you can buy particular modules but it's like why when you can just pay the subscription fee and have everything for a month or two.