Champions Online Free Trial Week Begins Today

I really liked Champions Online. It was a solid game, good customization and it offered a pretty large number of quests with some diversity. Combat was fun, and the public quests were entertaining enough. Global servers and instances were a HUGE plus - no creating a character on server X while your friends join Y and not being able to play. Great feature.

It's a great game, really fun to play... for about a month.

There were two major, MAJOR problems:
1) City of Heroes. This game plays and feels no different than City of Heroes. There is next to no difference what-so-ever except for some UI polish and graphics improvements.. Combat is the same. Character creation is the same. Even the music in game has a similar vibe. Hell, even a lot of the attack animations almost look exactly the same.
2) City of Heroes. All the flaws of City of Heroes were present in Champions Online. The game only offers combat. That's it. No crafting, no research... pretty much ONLY combat. Now, that's fine and all for a while, but once you get bored of your standard handful of attacks, and realize the next 20 levels of gameplay are going to be no different...

The combat for this game was a ton of fun, but after a while playing it just felt really pointless. There wasn't really a story holding any of the world together.

Bill Roper leaving Cryptic studios is NOT a bad thing. Anyone who's actually played the game sense launch, knows that all he's done is ruin the game more and more each time. With the new GM (Shannon) things have been changing FOR THE BETTER. Old ideals creates an old game. Ding-Dong the Ropers dead, was sang throughout the game of Champions Online the entire day that announcement was posted.

I wonder where Roper will end up next!

"fly-curious". Good one Alice.

I really, really wanted to love this game. Shame it turned out poorly. It also ran like complete shit.

I'm tempted to do the trial however, see how much (if any) they have improved it since retail.