Shamus Plays: Champions Online, Part 6 | |
Shamus Plays: Champions Online, Part 6 After a spot of sight-seeing, Star on Chest gets back to the business of beating the stuffing out of zombies. | |
Oh man, I had forgotten about the Velociraptors. I am glad the escapist is putting this series up because it has been long enough now since I first read it and played the game that I had forgotten most of the atrocities, allowing this series to amuse me just as much as the first time. | |
Hated the game, love your take on it. So many stupid parts of the designe getting nailed. | |
Feeling the call after reading this, I installed Champions again just to see if I was being unfair. Nope. I really wasn't. The canon is laughable and all the jokes aren't. SO dissapointing after the seminal City of Heroes. Ah well, let's see how DCUO does. | |
Wow, need to take note of those recipes when I go to visit my brother in Canada... One plate o' poutine please! | |
The Wikipedia bit is my favorite, I love it! | |
Ahhh, these jokes are just as good as I remember. Pretty much this whole section of the game would be improved by turning off the computer and flipping through back issues of Alpha Flight. | |
Yeah, but the idea of a novice villain realizing supervillainy is more than a good costume and an evil laugh would come perilously close to such airy concepts as deconstruction. And if there's one thing the faceplam-worthy writing has revealed, it's that the authors wouldn't recognize deconstruction if Rorschach and Hit Girl kicked down their doors and roughed them up. | |
So Canada is full of Velociraptors eh? Who'd a thought. | |
This is a totally accurate portrayal of this game. I played for slightly less than a month, mostly because I enjoyed City of Heroes. I played the exact missions Shamus is complaining about. They really are that stupid and repetitive. If you like the idea of playing a superhero online with other interesting people do NOT buy this game, if you feel like playing a super-powered errand boy who is constantly told to do that same 3 things over and over along with a population of anti-social loners who rarely ever want to talk by all means. Buy this game. | |
Bomb...laden...zambonis. THOSE INGENIUS BASTARDS! | |
Canada's motto gave me a really good laugh. | |