{"id":2105,"date":"2012-09-01T23:32:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T06:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2105"},"modified":"2012-09-01T23:32:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T06:32:20","slug":"so-what-about-those-other-super-hero-mmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/09\/so-what-about-those-other-super-hero-mmos.html","title":{"rendered":"So, what about those other super-hero MMOs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Fleishersuperman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2108\" title=\"Fleisher Superman\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Fleishersuperman-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Fleishersuperman-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Fleishersuperman.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The super-hero genre is one that I enjoy a lot. It allows a lot of individual variation \u00a0in very dramatic fashion for the various toons. The thought did occur to me that, in moving from City of Heroes, I might think about shifting over to Champions Online or DC Universe Online again.<\/p>\n<p>Then I checked my old posts on the blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/03\/transitions.html\">Transitions (Mar 2010)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just came the the realization that I have next to zero interest in ever playing\u00a0<strong>Champions Online <\/strong>again. Which ticks me off to no end since (as I\u2019ve said a dozen times) there are so many things about the game I like. I just find the overall experience an awful, not-terribly-fun grind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2011\/02\/because-occasionally-i-feel-like-i-should-post-something-other-than-tweets.html\">Because occasionally I feel like I should post something other than tweets (Feb 2011)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Never signed up for DCUO after doing the beta stuff \u2014 bright and shiny but annoying non-instanced missions and overly combat-oriented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2011\/12\/mr-kiss-kiss-bang-bang.html\">Mr. Kiss-Kiss Bang-Bang (Dec 2011)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Champions Online: She was bright and shiny and promised so much but gave back so little. \u00a0We had some fun times, but ultimately she was never someone I could settle down with.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">DC Universe Online: \u00a0Another try at rekindling an old relationship, but it was just too much of the same old grind. \u00a0I keep thinking I might give her a call some day, have some coffee, no strings attached, but I can never quite work up the interest.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Margie had an extensive post on CO experience\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/02\/co-margie-on-champions-online.html\">here<\/a>. And I had one <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2010\/02\/co-ending-my-co-dependency.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; for anyone who&#8217;s been playing those, has any of that criticism actually changed? Are these actual games we should consider picking up again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The super-hero genre is one that I enjoy a lot. It allows a lot of individual variation \u00a0in very dramatic fashion for the various toons. The thought did occur to me that, in moving from City of Heroes, I might think about shifting over to Champions Online or DC Universe Online again. Then I checked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2012\/09\/so-what-about-those-other-super-hero-mmos.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;So, what about those other super-hero MMOs?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-champions-online","category-dc-universe-online","category-gameplay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2105\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}