Gazillion's Marvel MMO - F2P, Play as existing Marvel characters only

[Threash]

Are you sure? their news says only the ultimate package.

[Ragnoros]

Are you sure? their news says only the ultimate package.

Part of one of their newsletters.

[Samprimary]

i played this for like ten minutes at pax east

i picked storm

i flew around, ignited whole sections of ground with massive lightning blasts, turned myself into the center of various tempests (lightning, wind, ice), hurled big-ass tornadoes, flew around whenever it suited me (or if i wanted to avoid melee mobs), basically violently melted the faces of gobs of evil minions, and could not help but think to myself "in this quite admittedly limited experience, I already feel pretty fuckawesome and now want this game to come out and be good so I can scratch the itch that D3 bitterly left unscratched"

[Hoax]

i played this for like ten minutes at pax east

i picked storm

i flew around, ignited whole sections of ground with massive lightning blasts, turned myself into the center of various tempests (lightning, wind, ice), hurled big-ass tornadoes, flew around whenever it suited me (or if i wanted to avoid melee mobs), basically violently melted the faces of gobs of evil minions, and could not help but think to myself "in this quite admittedly limited experience, I already feel pretty fuckawesome and now want this game to come out and be good so I can scratch the itch that D3 bitterly left unscratched"

I trust you Sam and I want you to know that this has gone back on the list of things that will take up my HD space at some point. I was really unimpressed with how the L1-6 gameplay looks and the whole super heros w/ Diablo loot that probably isn't well designed Diablo loot but that does sound kind of awesome.

[Falconeer]

I really want to try this. I mean, a Diablo game with 26 characters instead of the usual 5 or so? Damn, yes please. I am tempted to give them 20 dollars, but it bothers me that you only get ONE hero for that.

[Samprimary]

I guess the question is if there will be enough core content to make you runnin around being crazy superpowered fun enough to keep doing. Well, there's also the question of "will this work with friends" or "will these characters be even remotely balanced? Did I play storm just to have her come out bad broken and you have to stick with the 5-6 good characters?"

[Rendakor]

I've got a code for a beta weekend for this, April 13-14th. First person with at least a hundred posts to PM me can have it.

[Bzalthek]

How many people are going to play Squirrel Girl hoping to stuff nuts in their mouth?

[Lantyssa]

Yes but not for that reason.

[Fabricated]

People liked the couple of X-Men games that were top-down action games with some random-loot stuff (X-Men Legends I think?), so it's not exactly a new concept.

[Ginaz]

I found a beta key for this weekend that seems to work for multiple users.  Try it and see if it works for you.  No guarantees.

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[Ginaz]

So, I've been playing this a bit today.  I can't say to much since there is an NDA however there have been articles released where the press have been allowed to give their impressions of them game so far (PC Gamer magazine has it as its cover story this month) and so far its being called a super hero version of Diablo.  Can't say if thats true or not because  but that seems to be the overwhelming consensus.

[Raguel]

Downloading now, thanks

[Falconeer]

Trying to stay inside the NDA:

This seems cool and quite entertaining, but it feels pretty "simplified". I'd say the target audience are teens if not pre-teens. Mmhh yeah I guess, duh, it's Marvel...

[Ginaz]

Another beta key for this weekend's test.  Feel free to share as its supposed to work multiple times.
PLAYMH4-19

[Goreschach]

Another beta key for this weekend's test.  Feel free to share as its supposed to work multiple times.
PLAYMH4-19

Multiple times as in unlimited? Why even bother having keys?

[Ragnoros]

Another beta key for this weekend's test.  Feel free to share as its supposed to work multiple times.
PLAYMH4-19

Multiple times as in unlimited? Why even bother having keys?

No. Multiple times as in multiple times.

[Ginaz]

Another beta key for this weekend's test.  Feel free to share as its supposed to work multiple times.
PLAYMH4-19

Multiple times as in unlimited? Why even bother having keys?

This is what the email said "Note: THIS CODE CAN BE REDEEMED MULTIPLE TIMES - feel free to share it with your friends!"  It could be used 2 or 200 times.  Who knows?

[HaemishM]

I used it.

It's... not for me.

[Lantyssa]

You don't like any ARPGs, so not surprising.

[Ginaz]

More beta keys available for this weekend.

http://www.mmorpg.com/giveaways.cfm/offer/443/Marvel-Heroes-Beta-Key-Giveaway.html

[Venkman]

Well son of a gun. My MMORPG.com account still works.

[Ragnoros]

These beta weekends seem good for getting a lot of first impressions from people, but probably not so much in-depth feedback. As I personally did one and left some feedback, but can't be arsed to re-patch the client every week to play for 4 hours on some random day.

Edit: I'm still looking forward to giving this a go at release mind you. Just, Effort.

[Hayduke]

NDA is lifted.  Not a fan, I liked the X-men Legends games but this just seems kind of dull.

[Threash]

I think it's fine for what it is trying to be.  You are trading character complexity for lots of variety.  The game feels fun to play, can't comment on the loot since i never made it to the higher levels but i can see having some fun with this.

[Venkman]

For what I've played, there's very little that separates this from Diablo 3. Which isn't a bad thing per se, except I'm bored with Diablo 3.

[Falconeer]

The big one difference that is immediately obvious to me even at level 1 (or 5) is that beating the shit out of mobs isn't as satisfying here as it is in Diablo 3. Also, gear doesn't show on your character (for obvious reasons: costumes) and the icons for loot look horrible and confusing.

[Venkman]

The latter (gear) is a disappointment. But I did have quite a bit of fun running around and Storm'ing them all. Repeatedly. The ragdolls are slightly more interesting

[Evildrider]

Open Beta this weekend.  It's not too horrible so far.  I think it's appealing to my love of Marvel Ultimate Alliance more than anything else.  I do love swinging my hammer around as Thor though.

[Ginaz]

Another open beta this weekend and it looks like this will be available on Steam.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/226320/

[Sky]

I'm a big X-Men Legends/MUA fan. One big question - why doesn't it seem to support a gamepad? XML/MUA were awesome with gamepads.

This game without a gamepad is horrible. The boss fight against the Goblin was laughable as using the same device to shoot and move is fucking retarded, same as Diablo and all those kind of games.

[Zetleft]

Played around with it as Captain A.  Found a random drop that let me unlock Daredevil later on.  They all seem pretty cookie cutter on abilities and such.  I don't see myself playing it to much to be honest but we shall see.  Hell it's fee anyway. 

[Threash]

I'm a big X-Men Legends/MUA fan. One big question - why doesn't it seem to support a gamepad? XML/MUA were awesome with gamepads.

This game without a gamepad is horrible. The boss fight against the Goblin was laughable as using the same device to shoot and move is fucking retarded, same as Diablo and all those kind of games.

This games rely heavily on mouse clicking, they would have to fundamentally change the playstyle to make it work with a gamepad.

[Ginaz]

I'm a big X-Men Legends/MUA fan. One big question - why doesn't it seem to support a gamepad? XML/MUA were awesome with gamepads.

This game without a gamepad is horrible. The boss fight against the Goblin was laughable as using the same device to shoot and move is fucking retarded, same as Diablo and all those kind of games.

Can you play Diablo with a game pad?

[Sky]

Right. But this game could've gone XML/MUA, which was awesome.

They went Diablo.

That's fine, but I'm not interested. Enjoy.