3. Gamers of reddit, what's a popular video game that you really just didn't like a...

Gamers of reddit, what's a popular video game that you really just didn't like and why?

To be fair, CoH was designed before WoW. WoW changed MMOs. Every MMO afterwards had to try to be the next WoW or beat it, so a fairly diverse genre started becoming slogs of clones in the 2000s.

In SO many ways, CoH was ahead of the pack because they didn't come in with preconceived notions about the genre and didn't try to change their game to be WoW.

There are so many examples of features that don't exist in any other game, or at least don't appear together. Varied group comps that go beyond Heals/Tanks/DPS. Unlimited replayability. The ability to vary mission difficulty or even create new missions. The ability to completely respec your character's powers any number of times for practically free. Extremely capable chat systems. Easy casual grouping. Unmatched customization not tied to gear. Speaking of gear, it had a system that was extremely accessible but also the most depth of any MMO I've ever seen. A high number of roleplaying options (emotes, backstory pages, etc.). Etc.

But what is most amazing is that CoH improved more than any game in history. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. It had 24 massive updates, each nearly the size of a normal MMO expansion. And they were all free.

CoH started without tailors, without respecs, without outdoor missions, without playable villains and scores of powersets, without the exemplar system (let higher level players team with low levels), without achievements, without raids, without ancillary powersets, without PvP, without body scaling in customization, without hostage escorts that actually helped, without inherent abilities that defined archetypes, without supergroup bases. Etc.

And that is just Issues 1-8. It made it to Issue 23.

Its no wonder you can't get into World of Warcraft after coming from City of Heroes. There's a massive gap between the two. It's like League of Legends versus NBA 2K9. Yeah both of the latter involve groups of 5 trying to beat each other, but the games differ on a fundamental level. I wouldn't even call CoH an MMO based on current expectations of the genre.

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