Metaplanar Babel

People are strange, sometimes. I’ve been languishing for a few months now with no real desire to game at all. I still have Suiko V and Metal Gear Solid 3 that I haven’t played, but I just can’t seem to find that “want-to-play” vibe. Then, the other day, Fileplanet opened up a 17 day free trial of City of Villains for members, and all of a sudden, I find myself actually kinda excited about a game. An old game, no less. Granted, it’s been a year and a half or more since I last played City of Heroes, and the game has changed a lot, and being evil is often far more fun than being good, but still..

It must be the costume creator. I am so addicted to that thing. I could sit and play with it all day. But what’s more exciting is that I’m actually enjoying the game itself pretty well too. Of course, I feel impending alt-itis creeping up on me, but I’m hoping I can somehow avoid it this time (fat chance).

*entering CoH lingo mode* It’s kind of funny. Back in CoH, I used to say that if they’d just make Energy Melee a scrapper powerset, I’d be so happy. And now, in CoV, EM is a brute primary powerset. Plus the brute archtype seems to be a combination of scrapper and tanker, which is almost exactly what I wanted. That’s why I’m so excited, I guess. I said I wasn’t going to play anything but a brute. Naturally, that’s why I made a corrupter (kind of like an inverse defender: offensive power primary, defensive/buffing power secondary). And why I’m kinda liking the idea of the dominator (a controller with more umph and less friendliness). *le sigh*

Anyway.. I guess we’ll see if the game lingers, or if this is just a brief infatuation. Either way, it’s kinda nice to be even a little interested in a game for a little while.