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City of Heroes

Started playing the CoH 14 day trial. It's fun, but I probably won't subscribe.

Pros: I like the community, it seems like mostly normal people and very few kids. Character creation is amazing. The graphics are nice. Combat is admittedly a lot of fun with a few teammates, but soloing gets boring quickly. It is nice you can actually finish a quest in an hour or two and solo effectively, unlike some other MMOs where you can barely get anything done in a single logon, let alone solo. "Sidekicking" (which allows higher and lower level players to play together) is also a really good idea. Combat is actually the best I've ver seen in an MMO.

Cons: Where's the sound? Apparently they forgot it. Virtually no music and minimal sound effects.

The game's biggest problem and a fatal flaw in an MMO is that it lacks depth. No items, no loot, the worst story I've ever seen (even for an MMORPG), and it's very repetitive. Every quest so far seems to be "go to the warehouse and kill everything". NPC's just give out quests or thank you from saving them. It's not even like they have backstories or even any dialogue beyond "you are a hero", "kill X in warehouse" or "go find X"

Overrall, a decent and extremely amusing game in short intervals, especially for casual MMO gamers or people who aren't really into RPG's but want to play an MMO, but I couldn't see playing it for more than a month. Maybe not the deepest MMO out there, but pretty good.