{"id":2805,"date":"2013-08-24T10:50:36","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T17:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2805"},"modified":"2013-08-24T10:50:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T17:50:36","slug":"marvel-heroes-the-cracked-summary-of-why-it-kind-of-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2013\/08\/marvel-heroes-the-cracked-summary-of-why-it-kind-of-sucks.html","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Heroes — the Cracked summary of why it kind of sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Well, this is kind of embarrassing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Margie and I actually beta’d this game. \u00a0I stopped caring fairly early on. Margie stuck with it until go-live, then let it drop. And, yeah, this article pretty much sums it up.<\/p>\n

The 6 Weirdest Choices Marvel Made In Their Online Game | Cracked.com<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s like being in a psychiatric facility where everyone claims to be The Hulk, but no one really has any powers. And the facility keeps badgering you for cash.<\/p>\n

[…] I picked the Hulk, because after seeing him go apeshit in\u00a0The Avengers<\/em>, I don’t understand why you would ever pick anyone\u00a0but\u00a0the Hulk. However, instead of fulfilling every superheroic daydream of my fat, lonely childhood, the game quickly devolves into a fantasy camp about being the worst Hulk that has ever existed in the history of the planet.<\/p>\n

[…] The whole point of meta-human characters like the Avengers is that they have abilities placing them at a considerable advantage over mortal evildoers. That’s why they became crime fighters in the first place. Otherwise they’d just sit at home like the rest of us. I’d understand if the dinosaurs gave him trouble, but the Hulk should be able to immediately rip pickpockets and hubcap thieves in half. He shouldn’t have to spend five hours honing his goon-shredding skills to gain that ability. If you get bombarded with gamma rays and can’t overpower a mugger on Fifth Avenue, you don’t have superpowers. You have radiation poisoning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, yeah, that could be kind of a problem in, let’s say, City of Heroes — but there the curve on abilities was relatively steady\u00a0and,<\/em> no matter your backstory for your CoX hero\/villain, you were still, by definition, only third level. And it’s one of my problems with LotRO, but that’s my personal kink about expectations vs. reality.<\/p>\n

But if you look like the Hulk (or the Thing, or Iron Man, or …), you should be as kick-ass as them. And you shouldn’t expect everyone else to look just like you.<\/p>\n

When you blow game design badly enough to attract\u00a0Cracked’<\/em>s attention … you should know you’ve done something wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Margie and I actually beta’d this game. \u00a0I stopped caring fairly early on. Margie stuck with it until go-live, then let it drop. And, yeah, this article pretty much sums it up. The 6 Weirdest Choices Marvel Made In Their Online Game | Cracked.com It\u2019s like being in a psychiatric facility where everyone claims to … Continue reading “Marvel Heroes — the Cracked summary of why it kind of sucks”<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mmo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805","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=2805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2806,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2805\/revisions\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}