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More random video game blathering. Today's subject, DCUO
14 years ago
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Got DCUO a while ago, and restarted my account recently to retry it. I was quickly reminded that...I, well, didn't like it much. And yet, I wish I *COULD* like it.
DCUO's problems can, in my mind, mostly be attributed to it being an MMO. If Sony/DC had taken the concept, and made it a true single-player game (with online co-op/versus, perhaps), it could have been a truly great game, rather than the mediocre-at-best MMO. My usual gripe about MMOs applies, of course; you never really feel like an actual hero or villain, you just feel like one of thousands of pawns. They could have polished the graphics a bit more, too, and maybe made the fighting system a bit less dull.
But it IS fun flying/running around the huge cities of Gotham and Metropolis, and the character creation, as well as the variety of combat styles, is nice (Although the body-types could use a bit more variety...again, something perhaps fixable in a single-player game). And the fact that many of the characters use their DCAU voice actors is just awesome.
It isn't a terrible game, but of all the MMOs I've tried, this one is the most disappointing, if only because of the potential that was wasted when it was made an MMO instead of single-player.
DCUO's problems can, in my mind, mostly be attributed to it being an MMO. If Sony/DC had taken the concept, and made it a true single-player game (with online co-op/versus, perhaps), it could have been a truly great game, rather than the mediocre-at-best MMO. My usual gripe about MMOs applies, of course; you never really feel like an actual hero or villain, you just feel like one of thousands of pawns. They could have polished the graphics a bit more, too, and maybe made the fighting system a bit less dull.
But it IS fun flying/running around the huge cities of Gotham and Metropolis, and the character creation, as well as the variety of combat styles, is nice (Although the body-types could use a bit more variety...again, something perhaps fixable in a single-player game). And the fact that many of the characters use their DCAU voice actors is just awesome.
It isn't a terrible game, but of all the MMOs I've tried, this one is the most disappointing, if only because of the potential that was wasted when it was made an MMO instead of single-player.
