Saturday, September 27, 2008

City of Heroes: The Unknown Genius

You know, the fourthcoming Mission Architect feature reminded me of just how adhead of the curve CoX is on a number of features in MMO design.

The costume creator is the most obvious thing. Brand new games like Age of Conan are still providing the kind of "customization" you could have found 7 years ago: that is to say, not much.

Sidekicking. Did you play too infrequently and now your friends are higher level than you? No problem in CoX! Just Sidekick and away you go. Other MMOs, for whatever reason, aren't using this sort of feature yet.

And now with I13, CoX is pushing the boundaries even further with player-made missions.

Every other MMO out there is so 10 years ago. CoX is the Mac of MMOs.

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