{"id":463,"date":"2008-02-22T16:36:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T22:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=463"},"modified":"2008-02-22T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T22:36:01","slug":"champions-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/champions-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Champions Online!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/defender.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>So, first they <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/games\/2007\/11\/ncsoft-buys-cit.html\">sold the City of Heroes\/Villains franchise to NCSoft<\/a>, and then they got the Marvel MMO <a href=\"http:\/\/multiplayerblog.mtv.com\/2008\/02\/11\/microsofts-shane-kim-on-fable-2-why-marvel-mmo-was-canceled-and-more\/\">pulled out from under their feet<\/a>. Now what&#8217;s a studio like Cryptic that only knows superheroes supposed to do? Why, that&#8217;s easy! Create a brand new superhero MMORPG based on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2008\/02\/14\/champions-online-the-latest-superhero-mmo-from-cryptic\/\">ancient pen and paper game license<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/nerdflood.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/steel_commando.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I joke about it, but I have to admit that <a href=\"http:\/\/champions-online.com\">Champions Online<\/a> looks seriously cool. A more &#8220;action-oriented&#8221; MMO where I don&#8217;t have to wait for a power to recharge before being able to launch it again. I assume this is intended to make the game much more console friendly. In any case, it looks beautiful. Here&#8217;s hoping it&#8217;s just as much fun to play as it sounds like it will be.<\/p>\n<p>Between this and the recently-announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilavatar.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=45134\">Tales of Vesperia<\/a>, I may have to find a way to pick up a 360 sometime in the next year or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, first they sold the City of Heroes\/Villains franchise to NCSoft, and then they got the Marvel MMO pulled out from under their feet. Now what&#8217;s a studio like Cryptic that only knows superheroes supposed to do? Why, that&#8217;s easy! Create a brand new superhero MMORPG based on an ancient pen and paper game license! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[554,276,277,278],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-champions-online","tag-city-of-heroes","tag-mmo","tag-mmorpg","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}