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MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh is in attendance at this year's E3 where she had the opportunity to be introduced for the first time to SOE's upcoming MMORPG based on the characters of DC comics, DC Universe Online.

Jim Lee, the Executive Creative Director of SoE's recently announced MMORPG DC Universe Online started his presentation at the historic Shrine Theater in Los Angeles by repeating the Jack Palance feat of doing one-handed push-ups on stage to the laughter and applause of a full house of media representatives and analysts.   The renowned comic book artist is no stranger to the world of MMORPGs.  He informed the packed Shrine Theater in Los Angeles today, July 15th, 2008 that he is an avid gamer and played EverQuest from the day it launched and made the level cap of 50 that summer.

By way of presenting his MMORPG gamer creds, Lee boasted, “I was the first.  Not the second, not the third, but the first Paladin on my server to get Fiery Avenger after a miserable 20 hour camp in the plane of Sky.”

Jim waxed eloquent over the beauty of the Gotham skyline and the ability to walk the same streets Batman walked.  To be a super hero standing besides the likes of Green Lantern or Wonder Woman, or a villain helping to orchestrate a mass breakout of the inmates of Arkham Asylum, “that would have made my twelve year old brain explode,” he said as he spoke nostalgically about his longtime love of games and comic books.

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Sounds promising.     I hope they can pull off everything they're promising here.   Also, the only website they have is a myspace one?

 SOE looks to future as they try to forget the past.  Its not going to be all that easy.

i was always more of a marvel guy, but if i can be a batman type, that would own. Not sure what else to think about this until we see more info and an actual website.

As a big superhero fan, I'm a little surprised at my utter lack of interest in this project.

Maybe it's the console aspect, or maybe it's the involvement of SOE.  Maybe because I prefer Marvel (though I certainly don't dislike DC).

Probably a combination of all the above.

Originally posted by Hexxeity

As a big superhero fan, I'm a little surprised at my utter lack of interest in this project.

Maybe it's the console aspect, or maybe it's the involvement of SOE.  Maybe because I prefer Marvel (though I certainly don't dislike DC).

Probably a combination of all the above.

I agree it's probably a combination of SOE's 'touch of death' involvement, console aspect, and also the fact that there's already a really decent Super Hero MMO out there already.

im just glad that SOE has their filthy paws all over DC and not Marvel.

If Smed has anything to say there it's going to be an item shop / instance galore job.

"Rent a Batman."

"Your very own Gotham."

"Be THE hero."

Lol.

Yeah I got mixed emotions here too. I love Jim Lee's art, and always have, but.... SOEvil? Should I jump on board right away or wait till the NGE comes out?

Deja vu.  Big IP, grand plans, not much talk, then big release, people jump in, get bored after a month, devs make changes that don't help, more people leave, then massive changes, almost everyone leaves, those who remain (as well as SOE) wonder why nobody likes their game, and it eventually becomes Station Pass fodder.  Been there, done that.  The fact that Chris Cao is heading this up, or even involved, means that the players' idea of fun is whatever the hell he TELLS you it is, and your own ideas suck.  And the fact that it's being written for the PS3 automatically assumes a depth of gameplay equivalent to a nosepicking competition.