Whew, gotta stay more in-touch with this thread. Mainly I'd like to say that the whole villain thing really doesn't appeal because its just never as worked on as much as the superhero side. Besides Champions is developed be Cryptic, the same people who made City of Heroes and I'm pretty sure everybody knows the first expansion to City of Heroes. Yes, City of Villains, so believe me it won't be long before Champions has Villains especially in all the money they will be rollin in. I can't tell you how many people I met that have preordered it.
As for you always helping the heroes in CO, I don't know about that, one of the things they said they were working on was a constantly changing world. As in supervillains spring up for players to defeat and the supervillains don't just magically "live forever" so more players can have a go at him. I think one of the things CO will have is the ability to really choose where you go in the game. Although I do like the idea of having a case that is summed up with many missions inside it, and I hope you won't have to continously report back to the person who gave the case to you.
DCU is going to be the same way
As for the costume thing with Johns I'd say that who cares? The games supposed to be about YOUR designs, not some other famous guy. I think that CO will have an advantage in costumes as it pretty much already has a large costume creator filled with parts available from COH, so I think they'll probably add on to that, giving them an amazingly large assortment of different possiblities of costumes. Having famous people behind your costume design is a pretty stupid point, one of the main fun parts about this game is making your own design out of tons of little parts.
No Geoff Johns is a writer.Pretty much the guy who revamped DC. Made Flash awesome and is currently working on Green Lantern and wowing people with Blackest Night. He is writing the missions and storyline along with Marv Wolfman who is the legendary writer behind Teen Titans and the one responsible for making Robin become Nightwing...Now as for the costumes you will be able to create your costume as you want.All interviews mention it will be as robust as COH's character creator. All the art for this game will be based on Jim Lee art....so its not Jim Lee making your character..its you making your character drawn by Jim Lee
Also I wouldn't agree about all superheroes being scrappers and tankers. What about Xavier and Magneto, can anyone say controller? Then theres Spider-Man, Green Lantern, GALACTUS, and all of those, can anyone say blaster? There are many superhero's that aren't just scrappers and tankers, although I do think the idea of having a healer is pretty stupid, usually healing is just a side power like for example Wolverine and Deadpool.
Who said that???? Superheroes dont fit into the tanker, scrapper, blaster mode and DCU isnt doing that either
And roach you didn't get my point, initially DC was supposed to be every player is one of the DC greats which would have been awesome and yes it would have worked because they also said they would have a crap load of servers. I mean yes of course you couldn't get Superman easily, really no one should be able to get Superman that easily. But if DC was going to go with custom characters I would go with Champions because they have more experience in custom characters and seen to focus on it where DC is focusing on how much the DC greats will be in the game. The point is, yes I want custom characters FROM CHAMPIONS, if DC is going to have custom characters instead of being the DC greats then I will goto Champions because honestly Champions is focusing more on the development of you, an all new superhero and not past ones.
