A1 said:
Ah.
That old and long-running Anti-Johns vs. Pro-Johns debate. I've never really understood why some people dislike him so much. Personally I like his work on numerous titles and IPs and so do a lot of other people. He didn't become the Chief Creative Officer at DC Comics for nothing.
It doesn't have anything to do with "anti or pro johns" as much as "johns can't write/hasn't written every character well". He became CCO because his comics sold well, that's not an argument for or against quality. Dan Brown's been selling more than Ishiguro Kazuo. Doesn't make his books better, it makes them more popular. It's like Loeb. His Hulk comics outsells Sweet-tooth and The Unwritten by 10 to 1. They are still terrible comics.
SmileyBat said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLPzuAa1N_E
This vid shows a villain playing beside the Sinestro Corps against the GL Corps with the key objective of defeating John Stewart. Dialog is crisp and character-relevant without putting you straight "cutscene mode" and the power rings are functioning like comic pages come to life. Isn't as high-speed flying as a normal lantern conflict, but remember this mission is open to acrobats and runners too.
That example is one of many gems that are available on the web. If you're really worried that icon-character interaction is little more than a skin covering then you're obviously not looking very hard.
I don't know how similar those power rings are to their comic book counterparts. The "hammer creation" gets recycled about a hundred times in there, but that's a different matter. Participation in the involved creative director's more recent best-selling arc, is a gem? Or is it highly obvious and to be expected?
Anyways. My point was never that we would not see things from the DC comics in the DC unviverse online game, which we obviously would.... It was the there would be no true interaction, solely due to the fact that it is an mmo. You will be offered a virtually identical line of storytelling after making a few faction choices. This isn't something new, it's exactly the same that every other MMO set in a pre-existing universe is already doing. It's not the presence of source material -as they will undoubtedly have more than enough of that- rather it's the quality of writing and storytelling that we will be met with. It's also about how it won't really feel like interacting when after being dumped a few lines from Superman, I'll respond with "accept" or "decline". They will be steadfast NPCs and every hero/villain will naturally trudge along down a preset storyline.
Sure it will be Mark Hamilton playing the Joker's quest-description. It won't feel like interacting with the joker however, as it's not as though the NPC will really have many of the Joker's traits. What do you think the odds are of the Joker flipping out and massacring a hundred players? Why, zero of course. Everybody gets equal treatment. Who would want that in the DC universe? Who would realistically get that in the DC verse? No one. 'tis the limitations of the genre.
