Oh look at that, it’s been roughly over a year since we had a peek in on Heroes and Villains, so here we are once more with a look at the developing City of Heroes successor’s weekly update posts which consist of… promises. Lots and lots of promises.
Posts from February to current involve a number of thoughts on how the developing title will approach narrative matters differently than other MMOs including making player choices “meaningful and permanent” and avoiding pointless side quests. There are also a number of posts about tackling the problem of power standardization, and several more posts about using powers outside of combat.
“The only way to do this properly is to break away from the making the game revolve around almost constant combat, which is the focus of all traditional MMOs – as well as single player RPGs. No matter what the genre of a multiplayer or single player RPG is – whether they’re fantasy, or sci-fi, or steampunk, or cyberpunk, or comic book, or anything else – they always revolve around combat as the core gameplay system.”
Heroes and Villains has been in development since roughly 2012 and 2013 without resorting to a Kickstarter. By comparison, other successor titles like City of Titans, Valiance Online, and Ship of Heroes are all much further along.
