Stolen Pixels #134: The Devil in the Details

[Shamus Young]

Stolen Pixels #134: The Devil in the Details

Sometimes you're better off not knowing.

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[TheFacelessOne]

Hah! Great one. I would've said that to the green dude, too!

 

[Capo Taco]

how is the combat fun?

 

[Hoppetussa]

Awesome as always. Will the next comic also be about Champions Online?

 

[Shamus Young]

how is the combat fun?

The combat is very action-oriented. You have to block and you tend to move around a lot. This is in contrast to some of the more number-crunchy MMO's, where you stand still and usually watch your button bar to manage cooldowns. In CO, you're always watching the action.

It's still an MMO, though. Don't go in expecting Street Fighter or anything.

 

[Shamus Young]

Awesome as always. Will the next comic also be about Champions Online?

Nope. I think we need to move on, or at least take a break from Champs.

 

[Chipperz]

Awesome as always. Will the next comic also be about Champions Online?

Nope. I think we need to move on, or at least take a break from Champs.

Aw shame! I'm enjoying these

Also, this quest is nowhere near as ridiculous as the one after next on that. You know the one, where you have to get the Gadroon (frog-alien) courier, who is dressed as a pizza delivery boy...

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

That's kinda like me in WoW, except that the quests actually make some degree of sense. Somebody will comment about how he's doing a quest, killing some dudes for reasons he isn't entirely sure if but hey it's free experience. Then I tune-in, having actually read the text for that mission. The usual response is along the lines of "Oh, alright."

 

[Distorted Stu]

Haha is the thing about the frogs real?

 

[The Great JT]

The quest text: Bane of every MMO quester's existance.

If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone ask "Where is Mankrik's wife" in World of Warcraft, I'd be a very rich person. Because it, much like it was shown here, is right in the quest text.

 

[AvsJoe]

Alas, I always read the mission text. In full. Rereading it if there's something that I don't understand.

What can I say, my imagination isn't the greatest; plus I like putting my trust in the scriptwriter's storytelling ability.

 

[oppp7]

Well, at least it's not a clickfest MMO like some I could mention... (Guild Wars, 2Moons, WoW, etc)

 

[McMarbles]

Okay, I think I'm officially tired of CO comics.

 

[PieMaker]

please tell me that isnt a real quest.................

That isn't a real quest.



Who am i kidding?

 

[ssgt splatter]

Ok, this one made me laugh. Nice one.

 

[Kollega]

In it's desire to be like comic books,Champions Online does not go overboard. It gleefuly jumps overboard with 1-ton anchor in it's hands.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

City of... never had such silly quests, especially not Pop the Infected like Balloons, Ice Slide to Victory, Rescue Dr. Frank.N.Furter, Rescue Penelope from her Hooded Lawyer and his Wacky Henchmen...

 

[Shamus Young]

In it's desire to be like comic books,Champions Online does not go overboard. It gleefuly jumps overboard with 1-ton anchor in it's hands.

Caution: This thread has been trope'd!

 

[Shamus Young]

City of... never had such silly quests, especially not Pop the Infected like Balloons, Ice Slide to Victory, Rescue Dr. Frank.N.Furter, Rescue Penelope from her Hooded Lawyer and his Wacky Henchmen...

1) I don't remember those, but then I only played for a few months, and didn't read the mission text often. (Because they were so generic.)
2) They sound like they are stupid / silly on purpose, as opposed to silly because the writer is off his meds.
3) I don't think those quests are representative of CoX as a whole.
4) I was never a great fan of the writing in CoX. In its defense, it was dull / jokey, not schizophrenic, stupid, lazy, and nonsensical. Whether or not this is an improvement is a matter of taste, I suppose.