Puck’s Blog

I’m pretty excited about the upcoming City of Heroes MMORPG (that’s Massively Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Game). I’ve always been a fan of the superhero genre, both as a reader of comics and later as a player of pen-and-paper RPGs including Villains & Vigilantes, Marvel Superheroes, DC Heroes, Champions and lately Mutants and Masterminds. The openness of the genre to do pretty much any store combined with the focus on “the hero’s tale” has always been a big draw for me.

I have been playing Star Wars Galaxies, which was great fun simply because of the GOONs I was playing with, but now that I’ve done pretty much everything in the game paying money every month just to be able to chat in a pretty environment is bothering me. The game has amazing potential, but at every turn the developers seem to make the wrong choice, or only go halfway, or worse, show that they simply don’t understand what balance or good gameplay really is.

And then along comes a few people mentioning the CoH beta and how they’re in and it’s fun. And my interest is piqued.

And now I’m excitedly trying to think of what hero I’d make. Comedic Canadian were-tree “Douglas Fir”? 40-ton mallet wielding Sledgehammer? Or go for my namesake Puck and make an agile prankster.

So many possibilities…