[PS4] DC Universe Online

[riley420]

Winner winner chicken dinner.

I was thinking of getting this, and then I read that ^^^.

I will pass until reviews are up and maintenance is done.

 

[Maynard]

i was looking for a review and cant find one. i am reading wiki now and this game sounds pretty cool (despite not being able to play it)

i never heard a thing of this game until today. an MMORPG sounds like it could be cool

 

[j.hen]

i was looking for a review and cant find one. i am reading wiki now and this game sounds pretty cool (despite not being able to play it)

i never heard a thing of this game until today. an MMORPG sounds like it could be cool

Famous last words.

 

[Maynard]

i never played one before. does PS3 charge money to play this online.

 

[jms493]

Its not really an MMORPG. It is more of a MMO Action Game.

I am in and have been playing for a few hours now. Created a Villian character whos mentor is the joker "The Reaper".

The only MMO I have ever played was WoW and that was like 1 month. I liked it but wasnt big fan of keyboard and playing on my laptop.

This game is very much the get a mission go do that....level up type of MMO. It has been very smooth so far and pretty easy to get into. The control scheme makes sense for the controller. Remember is it a pay as you go game. The first month is free and then it is 14.99 a month.....very steep IMO.

I will see if I will want to continue playing after a month otherwise I will sell it on ebay. I can see the fees going down if activity is low. I cant see people paying that fee.......this isnt WoW. Should be a 4.99 fee....I would have no problem paying that for a few months.

 

[Maynard]

well that just killed it for me. no way i am buying the game then paying to play it. i remember buying everquest as a gift on the old xbox and the person having to pay to play it...fuck all that

although this game sounds like a ton of fun.

are you doing these missions against other online players or hows that work? its an online game so i figures its alot of interaction and beating up on random online players

???

keep posting thoughts cause i may go home and waste some money since the 1st month is free.
I would play as a villain too. is there a way for us to hook up in the game since we would both be villains?

 

[riley420]

Fifteen bucks....makes me think of 3 words.

Fuck. That. Shit.

No way. If I'm forking over $60 for a game, there is NO WAY that I am going to pay for that game, in full, 4 times a year. Unreal.

Too bad, really. This sounded pretty good. It's unfortunate that the user base will be gone after 2 months.

 

[~Chance~]

This shit sucks ass.

 

[JeremyHight]

I told you guys the game was rough. The beta was the only thing worth the price (free) and even it had major gameplay flaws that you could tell the game would be a flop. The combat is a joke (right click and left click instead of set skills) and god forbid if you want to heal someone. That is a pain staking process since you cannot actually target a teammate.

If it had stuck to the set MMORPG setup, the game could have been acceptable. Instead it is a joke.

 

[killgod]

You guys totally clueless on what the first M in MMO means?

MASSIVELY.


Not that I would know, :shifty:, but WoW takes up like 30+GB of HDD space. :shifty:. There's no small way to put together just the textures for an entire massive world and it's items, let alone everything else. It's not that someone dropped the ball, it's simply not feasible to do it any other way.

Point is, if it's a shock to you that you'd have to d/l a asston of content to play an MMO, then you clearly don't know what you're getting into.

Although it's nice to see this genre reach consoles, there's good potential for what could be.

Lastly, those saying "I'd never pay monthly fees" to play a game, better quit their Call of Duty habits now, and likely EA Sports habits in the future. I don't think we're far off from additional monthly fees to play these kinds of titles.

 

[Maynard]

lol...done and done on the COD and EA Sports thing

wasnt MAG a MMO game? i wonder how much drive space DC takes

 

[killgod]

lol...done and done on the COD and EA Sports thing

wasnt MAG a MMO game? i wonder how much drive space DC takes

MAG was just a very large FPS, so really all the data is going to be on having a few large maps but that's nothing in comparison because a MMO world is going to have not only a much larger world, but varied environments, etc, which requires more textures and such.

I'm not sure of the scale of DC's world, but if it's something that takes a few hours to traverse from one side to the other, that's fucking massive compared to any game world you're used to on a console.

 

[jms493]

yeah the install is 16GB....i filled up my 60GB hard drive and and to remove some shit for the first time ever.

you go through missions and as you play you see other players doing the same shit as you and everyone kind of helping each other out. But fuck i am stuck now....catwoman is on the other side of the fence and I cant get to her...

i cant see the 15 fee holding up at all....crazy. As soon as I have to pay i will probably stop and wait for a deal to come out...maybe 6 months for $30 or something.

Decent game so far.....the respawning of cops is kind of crazy.

 

[killgod]

i cant see the 15 fee holding up at all....crazy. As soon as I have to pay i will probably stop and wait for a deal to come out...maybe 6 months for $30 or something.

the 50 Million MMORPG players worldwide disagree.

If the game isn't very good, it'll flop no doubt, but there's a market out there willing to pay 15 a month for these games.

Although it's become popular to go "Free to Play" where they strip the game down to it's basics sorta and you are thrown microtransactions along the way instead.

Want a mount? Pay 5 bucks.

Want to quest in this region? Pay 5 bucks.

etc.

But with all the hate on the console crowd for microtransactions (see Twigg's post history), I'm not sure if F2P would ever work.

 

[jms493]

yeah well WoW is a great game and thats why people pay. This game is not on WoW's level at all.....therefore why would I pay the same fee for an inferior games? Just to play as super heroes?? Champions Online I believe is free now...it should be cheaper as they are trying to get people into this.....I dont know the finances behind this so I am really just talking out my ass but I dont see it suceeding....which sux b/c the game is decent to good.

Just shoveled the jeep out.....going to play some more.

 

[Bmore]

I was actually looking forward to this game. But alas I can say it is shit... Can no one make a superhero MMO correctly or must I do it myself Minecraft style!

 

[killgod]

yeah well WoW is a great game and thats why people pay. This game is not on WoW's level at all.....therefore why would I pay the same fee for an inferior games? Just to play as super heroes?? Champions Online I believe is free now...it should be cheaper as they are trying to get people into this.....I dont know the finances behind this so I am really just talking out my ass but I dont see it suceeding....which sux b/c the game is decent to good.

Just shoveled the jeep out.....going to play some more.

I didn't mean just WoW, that's only a chunk of that market. There's the Final Fantasy 13 or whatever, there's a couple superhero ones, there's a buttload of fantasy themed jap MMO's that aren't even over here, Star Wars Old Republic.

All depends on the MMO'ers interest I think. If you love superheroes, you'll forgive the shortcomings of a game to play as one in a persistent virtual world. Lots of people do it, cause there's lots of MMO's that aren't as good but are still played....i mean take your pick...

http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/show/all/sCol/rankHype/sOrder/desc

 

[padman59]

You guys totally clueless on what the first M in MMO means?

MASSIVELY.


Not that I would know, :shifty:, but WoW takes up like 30+GB of HDD space. :shifty:. There's no small way to put together just the textures for an entire massive world and it's items, let alone everything else. It's not that someone dropped the ball, it's simply not feasible to do it any other way.

Point is, if it's a shock to you that you'd have to d/l a asston of content to play an MMO, then you clearly don't know what you're getting into.

Although it's nice to see this genre reach consoles, there's good potential for what could be.

Lastly, those saying "I'd never pay monthly fees" to play a game, better quit their Call of Duty habits now, and likely EA Sports habits in the future. I don't think we're far off from additional monthly fees to play these kinds of titles.

I don't play MMOs, but a blu ray disc can hold at least 20 GB. I would have thought that most of that content would be held on the disc for the PS3 version, and you wouldn't have to wait 7 hours to download addition data and install the game. That's about the amount of time it took me to download and install the beta. It just seems like an absurd amount of time to me.

 

[killgod]

I don't play MMOs, but a blu ray disc can hold at least 20 GB. I would have thought that most of that content would be held on the disc for the PS3 version, and you wouldn't have to wait 7 hours to download addition data and install the game. That's about the amount of time it took me to download and install the beta. It just seems like an absurd amount of time to me.

Couple things to consider.

That disc likely has "play content" which is content that needs to be accessible on disc while playing. Then here's "install content" which is likely what you had to download. So you probably have a disc full of data you need while playing, but that's not what's needed for the game itself to run.

If you had ALL the content required to play the game, this opens the door for sharing the game. 10 people buy one copy, all get subs and off you go. This is preventative of that.

7 hours to download could be a number of factors. Yeah that's a real long time, but how much of that time has to do with your own network connection? Or it being their servers overloaded with people trying to access that content all at once?



I get it, it sucks, but there's lots of factors as to why things are the way they are and some are likely only temporary.

I've played PC games alot longer than Console games, large HDD installs are the norm where on consoles it's absurd that you can't put your disc in and kill something 5 seconds later. I'm used to and understand it I guess.

 

[Maynard]

i am not seeing a reason for this to be an MMO game. i assumed the point to MMO was to play the game with other players. or have your guild go up against other guilds. or do player v player.

it sounds like this just has people online while you are doing the missions....and maybe they can assist you. Where is the player interaction?