As some of you know, I work on an online roleplaying game called City of Heroes for NCsoft. As it happens (and it is, in fact, totally coincidental), one of our longtime Curmudgeon readers is a British fellow who now also works for NCsoft, in our newly-minted European offices.
After having exchanged e-mail messages with Stephen, I had the pleasant fortune to meet him last week as his team was visiting our North Am headquarters in Austin. Stephen appears to be enjoying the lunacy of our industry so far, but he has a problem: Believe it or not, he's having a hard time finding people to fill out his staff. You can get the details here at Stephen's blog. If you are currently in Europe (we're not going to relocate anyone, and time is of the essence), are a fluent English, French, or German speaker, and are interested after reading Stephen's info at his blog, please contact him (also via his blog). If you know of anyone who might be interested, please point them at that link. You can e-mail me privately or contact Stephen directly, but please don't post questions or comments about these positions to the comments of this post as I will delete them.
Okay, so now I have to make this post fit the Curmudgeons charter so my fellow C's don't smack me around. I'm curious: How many of you are playing or have played City of Heroes? How do you like it as a superhero game? As my fellow gamers reading this will attest, there haven't been very many decent superhero video games at all. How does CoH stack up as a superhero game? More importantly, one of our goals was to create a game that made the players really feel like they were playing in a comic book world -- did we succeed?
I'm not fishing for compliments here, give me your honest feedback (you won't hurt my feelings, believe me). (BTW, we're publishing a City of Heroes comic as well -- any of you guys reading it?)
Posted by Chris M. at October 5, 2004 4:06 PM