The Rikti War Zone in City of Heroes kind of sucks. It has ambiguous routing to the point that I have spent a lot of time there but still really don’t get how it’s all supposed to link together, the Vanguard base is a pain to navigate, it’s got weird underpasses and overpasses, and it combines all of the worst aspects of zones that are a pain to navigate without flying with the worst aspects of zones that are a pain to navigate with flying. But it also has a lot of neat content and it feels organic in places, too, so I kind of love it? And I hate it.
We all talk a lot about zones we utterly hate or ones we really like, but I think there’s also some value in observing how there are some zones that are kind of awful but also kind of iconic and familiar even as we don’t really like them. It’s a weird sensation, but it happens. So what’s the zone you love to hate in an MMORPG? An awful, annoying place that also has charm and familiarity?
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