I think CoH is better then WoW many reasons what do u guys think and tell y plz

I'm going to be brief here. I like them both. Just like sometimes I have a craving for an apple and other times I have a craving for an orange.

I would have to pick CoX, in my eyes it is just a better game.

They are both good games in their own right. that said I still prefer CoH/CoV.

I just dont know y ppl transfer to WoW saying its better the CoH its an action pack game and WoW takes to long i many diff ways

They are different games. Each one with its strengths and weaknesses. The problem is, most people dont have time to play both

Torrential

This is like comparing apples and oranges.  It's pretty hard to pit them against one another, they both have their own unique niche in the gaming industry.

But what game would u guys rather play

Originally posted by kingdarnaye

But what game would u guys rather play

I vote for City of Heroes/Villains  :)

Originally posted by kingdarnaye

But what game would u guys rather play

Since you asked in the CoH forum, I'll lay odds most of the response will be CoH...if you ask in the WoW forum, then you'll get WoW

What would you rather eat...an apple or an orange? how's sushi sound?

I would pick CoX any day. In fact, I would rather sell my computer than ever play WoW, again. It's just become far too filled with people I'd rather keep away from, but that are more than able to begin to stalk me and try to steal my kills, or to beg for me to group with them, et cetera. In CoX, I've hardly ever had a random group invite, and, most importantly, there is no Goldshire.

Originally posted by kingdarnaye

But what game would u guys rather play

Star Wars Galaxies circa Jan/Feb 2005 with 1) buffs to secondary stats dropped about 50%; 2) better healing for the Mind pool (less-filling Mind-heal drinks, all-pools healing stims, an equilibrium stim, etc.); 3) landing fees for player ships (to maintain the travel money-sink) and no hyperdrive on the free trainer ships; 4) no economy-and-balance-busting Anti-Decay Kits!

I probably never would have tried any other game if SOE/LA hadn't totally f**ked SWG that year. WOW never lasted longer than a 2-week trial on my system, but I've played CoH since Dec 2005.

Originally posted by kingdarnaye

I think CoH is better then WoW many reasons what do u guys think and tell y plz

Both are good.

No point in trying to compare them.

Good Hunting

These games are both from around the same year, so they are a valid comparison.  Which is better, is a tough question however.  I think the general consensus is correct that it is like comparing apples to oranges, since WOW is so much larger than COH and they have a fantasy vs superhero theme.

I think WOW has more emersion and its a fact that wow has more end-game content and will forever since blizzard will invest millions into wow to protect it's crown as the most successful videogame ever made.

I think COH has more fun right out of the package... I mean who cares about a mount that's 40% faster than walking when you can fly and super speed around right?  Plus you get it at 14 no matter what, when I have seen people willing to do sexual favors for mounts in wow....  I guess you have to go big or go home for that game hu?

I played coh for a very very very long time, but I just quit because the updates were not enough to add some "new" to the game to rekindle the fervor I had when the game was in beta.  It is now an old game with old graphics and a played out story line.  Wow on the otherhand adds more content every day.  If you go on a long weekend trip to disney world, you'll come home and be out of the loop on the new wow content.  In that respect, I think wow takes the upper hand over COH/COV.  Hate to say it because I personally do not care for wow, but I'm trying to be unbiased.

I play both just depending on my mood of the day. I like being a defender(healer) in CoX because you can still get up in the fray and fight while you heal your team. Where as in WoW I kind of stand back and just heal depending on the instance although a shadow word pain happens most of the time :)

I guess it just depends on if I want to wear spandex and fight weirdos or put on a wizard hat and robe and fight dragons.

I won't say game 1 is better then game 2.  But, here are the reasons why I personnally play/think to play CoH/V and I wouldn't consider playing WoW:

1- Endgame is optional, totally.  You can raid, PvP, TF/SF or just buy it from the Black Market and you can earn everything.

2- I kill 20 minions instead of 1 in the same time lenght.

3- I am stronger as a level 50 vs level 50 mobs then I was as a level 1 vs level 1 mobs in CoX.  In WoW, a level 1 is stronger vs level 1 mobs then any level 70 fighting level 70 stuff.  In CoX you progress in everyway, in WoW, although it is not that bad, you regress.  In CoX, at level 1 I can take on 3 level 1 minions and that is stretching it...at level 50 I can take on a score of minions level 52, 2 lieutnants, 1 boss and 1 elite boss all at the same time.

4- Travel powers.

5- Fond memories and happiness even if I stop to play the game.  Everytime I think of the game, a smile appears on my face...not the case with most other MMOs out there, where there is usually some bitterness in a way or another.

6- Customisation in powers is amazing...finding someone EXACTLY like you on major assets is a feat...most players won't have the same primary and secondary as you have...and those who have the same are still going to take differents power and secondary set...

7- Sidekick/Lackey/Examplar/Malefactor...I can play with ANY of my friends with ANY toon I want.  This is priceless.

Originally posted by kingdarnaye

I think CoH is better then WoW many reasons what do u guys think and tell y plz

I've not played very much WoW but I played long enough to be frustrated by:

• Lack of travel powers: it's just not very much fun running (feels like crawling) through an map to get to a mission, again and again.  CoX travel powers are practical  and fantastic fun - they're almost a sub game in themselves, kind of like a driving game.
• Camping: waiting for mobs to spawn is ridiculous.  I'm not paying money to sit in front of a screen doing sod all.  I've got a TV for that!
• Spawning: the way mobs spawn in front of your very eyes destroys the atmosphere.  I've been playing CoX since it's UK release and I've never seen a mob spawn ever, it just doesn't happen whilst you're looking.
• Cloning: characters very often look the same as each other.
• Loot/trading: pain in the arse in every respect, I've nothing good to say about it.
• Trade skills: technically these are optional and I would have ignored them except that they actually give you something to do whilst running/crawling across the terrain on the way to a mission.  See gripes about lack of travel power and trading.
• In game maps: very deficient, they don't show NPC's or anything useful.   I believe you can download some plug ins which are better than what come with the game.  In CoX you don't need to, the in game maps are excellent.
• Teaming: I never really got the hang of teaming in WoW.  I had a load of high lvl RL friends teaming me most of the time but when they weren't online I floundered.  I think this problem is related to the lack of travel powers.  I'm used to building a team on CoX and having them assemble in a matter of a couple of minutes, regardless of where they start from because it's so easy to travel around Paragon City.  In WoW you pretty much team with the guy standing next you you or waste 20 minutes walking to where your new teammate is.  Repeat for every teammate to build a good sized team - bah, life's too short.
• Repairing: it's just a tax.  Why don't they simply reduce the loot value and say you equipments 100% repaired all the time.  Again a travel time related problem, if I could get to the repairers quickly I wouldn't have minded so much.

On the plus side it has a greater variety of missions, a great end game experience and it's not such a resource hog so it might suit more if you've a old PC.  Also, it's huge!  More players means more money, which means more content.

CoX's biggest drawback is lack of mission variety but they have been working on adding new tilesets (RWz/radio) and objectives (prevent 30 Fir-Bolg Escaping).  I suspect they keep getting distracted by requests for new zones, AT's and powersets, so hopefully I12 will include a load more missions types since I11 includes new powersets and a coupe of zones (RWZ/Faultine) were (very succesfully) revamped earlier.

Which ever you end up playing, enjoy yourself.

Regards

Ross

Keep in mind this is only my personal experience with wow and cox.

One day someone told me wow is a shallow game because it seems all good and fun at first but once you play it for a while you realize its the same quests over and over and it lacks any real depth. When they said that it really hit me I thought you know he is right.

One thing I did not like is you earn mostly the same skills over and over except talents now in most games ive played you usually get more depth then that. While in cox you can customize your looks and your powers pretty much any order and any slotting you wish.

The pvp in it was horrible and one thing I never understood is blizzard had all this time to make changes to characters and espically all this time to test there updates/expansions yet they always make drastic changes unlike cox, sure cox nerfs things but not half as bad as wow. Maybe they dont know how to test it enough or its some kind of scam to keep people playing.

Wow is much more time consuming it takes me what 2 hours to feel some kind of accomplishment while in cox it takes usually no more then 15 min to finish a mission, but wow does offer more depth in exploring and pve in general.

Cox missions can be reptitive but I always have way more fun doing those then I did with quests in wow, although I did find some things more challenging then wow.

You know everquest 1 had quests but it was mostly a grindnig game I had 10 times more fun in that game then wow, if was my first mmorpg but it had the most depth in pve, skills, and exploration ive ever seen yet in a mmorpg. but of course it was to time consuming so in the end I had to throw it away before it took up my life.

One last note the community rocks in cox compared to wow and people take cox way less seriously, wow can easily turn people into addicts I have very rarely seen this in cox except for the virtue server.

 You can have more fun in a less amount of time in COH - COV.  More importantly, its usually more consistant fun.  Both games (and  all games) have a big repetition factor that gives diminished returns, and you can reach the threshold guicker in COH onyl because youre not spending an entire night in one instance for months on end. 

I must confesss i like WOW pvp better because your enemy isnt constantly zipping around with super speed or endlessly leaping in circles around sky scrapers or hiding near police bots.

PVE in COH is so much fun and dynamic for many of the power sets and im always curious to try out new ones.  I only love 2 WOW classes.  In COH i love most of the power combos.

Of course its a matter of taste, like all things, but WOW will usually leave you unfulfilled and feeling like youve wasted your time.

I prefer WoW..
CoH is.. I dunno... MORE monotome than WoW

And that's Bad.