Which Do You Play? Which Is Better?

also, if you have charactors in either game... post screenshots of them!

I personally play City of Heroes/Villians.. I havn't played WoW, but I heard the charactor creator is far superior in CoH. Here's a description of my charactor and some pics.

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Malik- Vampire Charactor

SC3 - I actually first made this charactor in Soul Calibur 3.
He basically just had a white face, long balck hair and black armor.

MK:A - After a few months, I got Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. This editor had many more creature style parts than Soul Calibur did, so I decided to make an "older version" of Malik. It was set 3000 years after Soul Calibur 3. After winning the Soul Calibur, he carried it for centuries, until eventually it broke from being so old. Malik set out to restore the blade. Once complete, it no longer resembled the Soul Calibur (because I had to use a different sword in Mortal Kombat).. he called this new sword "The Necroblade"

After a while.. I finally got City Of Heroes.. I know it's an old game, but I was never into it.. stumbled onto a free trial, and got hooked. I decided that I could probably carry Malik over to this game also, and expand his story a bit more.

CoH - Some time after Mortal Kombat, Malik was captured. Because of his Vampiric Regeneration properties (basing him off of the Legacy of Kain Vampires), many experimental surgical proceidures were performed on him, of the likes that would kill a normal human (much like Wolverine in the X-Men movies) The surgeries left his face horribly scarred. The experiments did, however, alter his powers to some extent. He now possessed the ability to walk in the sun, swim in the water, manipulate ice and to shape shift. Though his dark gifts we augmented for the better in the end, Malik still swore vengence on those behind the horrible injustice that was forced upon him.

** the design for Malik's Humanoid Form was mainly inspired by Vincent Valentine From FFVII and Raziel from the Legacy of Kain series. **

Here are some pictures

Humanoid Form:
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/malik11.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/newmalik1.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/newmalik2.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/newmalik3.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/newmalik4.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/newmalik5.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/newmalik7.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/coolmalik.jpg

Wolf Form:
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/malikwolf10.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/malikwolf12.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/malikwolf13.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/malikwolf14.jpg

Bat Form:
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/batmalik8.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/batmalik9.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/batmalik11.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/batmalik12.jpg
http://laboratory.sorrowind.net/batmalik13.jpg

I thoroughly enjoyed CoH when I played it. I loved the character creator, the different powers, and the sheer area available to explore. They really captured the feel of the city, which was great, and I especially loved the area where there was a huge city blasted to hell.

I played WoW for a little while, a couple hours at most. I have watched people play it as well. I just didn't enjoy it, not even a little bit. It seemed slow, tedious, and bland.

I haven't played either but if I were to start it would absolutely be CoH and never WoW.

I quit WoW

fury fury fury fury fury fury fury fury fury fury

I'm like Brian. I played CoH for a few months when it first came out and loved it but then just got tired of paying for it. It was one of the last video games I played daily.

I tried the free trial for WoW and it's cool, but it gets really boring trying to grind up to be useful for anything.

I play WoW, and it's one of those games that is a ton of fun if you play with someone you know personally (not just another player).

Never played CoH though, want to, but haven't yet.

My main character that I started about a month ago.
Server: Magtheridon
Name: Sergeus
Class: Rogue
Level: 30
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I haven't played either, but without the "MMOs are for losers" bit. 'Cause I play FFXI.

i have plated WoW, i would suggest you get CoH, although to be completely honest, MMO games are horrible.

so your poll needs more options.

CoH is more fun than WoW in the short-term, but it gets repetitive too quickly. WoW is fun for longer, if you can get into it to begin with.

Servers are down tuesday mornings, so I can't take a screen of my character, but I've had an on again off again relationship with WoW (Not due to WoW, due to work, etc).

The bad things about MMOs in general unite them. They're repetitive, often boring, lots of monotonous gathering or killing. Large sections of the people that play them are often obnoxious nerds, or generally horrible people. You'll experience unhelpful people, angry gankers or people that'll steal your crap, at a much higher rate than the general populace.

From this perspective, you have to look at the positive qualities of both games. First off, WoW appeals to a much wider audience. There's more normal people that play WoW, it's easy to find casual players to run a dungeon with once a week, or super hardcore players that will have the newest content done as soon as it's released. You still get the ganking, and such, but you also get a lot more people that will help you for no reason. The little things make WoW alot of fun, the devs put a TON of detail into the game. You'll find characters out in the middle of no where that give you a small piece of story information, or little in-jokes (Like the white owl named "O'Really", the shop named "A tailor to cities"). It makes leveling a more fun experience. However, leveling is kind of a pain, it takes a good chunk of time to get from 1-70. And it's really what you make of it. It's easy to get lost in the story and merely do the quests and dungeons to find out as much about Azeroth as you can. Once you hit 70, there's tons to do, tons to find out. Although if you don't get in a raiding guild your options may become kind of limited.

CoH's character editor is divine, to say it simply. The amount of customization of your character is obscene. This is the game's best feature, by far. Because you can design your character to the must minute detail, you feel you're part of your character, as opposed to WoW, where you feel little attachment to your characther, but a large attachment to the world. That's where CoH always felt strange to me, and why I really never got into it. It's hard to feel like a "superhero" when everyone else, is, too. Thus, an attachment to your character is severed, leaving you with only the lame world. The community is smaller, and you're playing with more Hardcore players, which are often less welcoming than casual players, as well as less helpful.

CoH just never gave me that connection that WoW gave me, because the story in WoW is so amazingly engrossing if you let it be, while CoH's is, to say it simply, lame.

I don't have time for games. Especially if I'm paying monthly for them.

I'm with Brian and Schming.

I found CoH/V to be really fun while I still played it but eventually got a bit boring. Wow on the other hand, I just found it really bland and boring from the go.

Company of Heroes beats WoW any day of the week.




(Yes, I know you meant City of Heroes, but whatever.)

If by CoH you mean Company of Heroes, ****ing YES.

If by CoH you mean City of Heroes...no.

I did play WoW for about 2 months, and then real life didn't give me 9 hours a day to level my Tauren Hunter and his pet. It was fun, but I see now that past level 20 is a *****.

Edit: Danget, beaten by 2 minutes. And by the guy I play CoH with, no less!

I found CoV boring fast, and CoH boring fast (Not company of heroes)

WoW is way overrated...

WoW is a damn good game, but only if you play with someone or a group of someone's that you know personally. The only reason I haven't gotten back into it is because the friend that I played with doesn't have the time and I'd just get bored.


From what I hear of CoH / CoV it's the most repetitive thing since Runescape. No thanks.

Fishstoix
61 Female Gnome Warlock (Affliction)




Aliasneo
70 Female Night Elf Priest (Holy/Disc)
This is my raiding character




Fishstickz
43 Female Draenei Shaman (Elemental)
This is my new favorite character, I've been playing it nonstop

I'm with fishstickz on the WoW front, I've been playing it on and off now for just about a year and the game is only ever worthwhile if you are playing with "friends". I even have some of my real life friends online now and we are leveling characters together when we can, that for me is where the vast majority of the fun lies.

The only problem with these games is that there are always hardcore people who play them and have nothing else to do, you really don't want to become one of them. Try to find yourself a guild with a few of them in who can act as the backbone of a decent raiding team, that way you will still have something to do when you hit the level cap, but not have to constantly play to keep up with other people.

Saying that I also have two lvl 70 characters now, one which is my main raiding character and another which was just an alt I was messing around with.

Heres a pic of my main, Draconas, level 70 feral druid tank/dps in Karazhan, really need an updated pic as I have another bit of T4 now also. I'm kinda lucky because I've somehow managed to get myself a place in any raid I like as i'm pretty well geared so that when I come online I can pretty much do whatever I wish.

I like how the Nazi mowing people down with a machine gun is name 'fluffyhugglebunny'.

This is my gnome warlock, Imnotahobbit, hes about lvl 34 now.



This is my side character Drockoull, hes about 23 ~ ish.



i have only been playing this particular game for about a month now. i had been playing guild wars before that, and after trying some other mmos, i can tell you anything is better then THAT.

This poll needs a "I played WoW for three months, and want my money back" option.

I've grown to hate WoW after playing it for nearly 2 years. I haven't played CoH so I can't comment on that. So far the only online RPG I play now of days is Guild Wars because I don't have to pay a dime to play it whenever I want.

WoW still remains the best mmorpg.
CoH is more fun in the short term, but it doesn't have the lasting power.

Have played both, both suck, MMORPGs are for losers and you are a loser for considering playing one.

Poll is missing this option. FYI.

I like you, Jon, but you can't get much closer to irony. You're like 23, you live with your parents and you post those interactive video game threads on SA. One of them was an anime game.

And your user name is Null Pointer.

Just sayin'.

I seem to remember you talking in the IRC about how you played on a new WoW server that wasn't very populated. And bragging about it to me because I played on Mal`Ganis.

Jon'C, there is an option like that...

Actually one of my parents is dead, so you're only half accurate.

Um, sorry I guess. :saddowns:

Wow Emon, you've engaged Jon'C on two fronts.

I think you're confusing WoW's siren song for actual fun. It isn't bad at first but that's only because you're slowly introduced to the grindfest. You start out with "Collect 15 plainstrider beaks" and you end up with "Collect 200 elder demon fangs which have a 1/400 drop rate." Even after you finish all of the quests and grind your way up to 60/70, you spend the rest of your time grinding for equipment in whatever the flavor of the month instance is.

Probably the worst part, though? Nothing ever changes. Players have absolutely zero effect on the game world. Death has no consequences apart from mild irritation and a short pause in gameplay. It's like Everquest with cheat codes which basically means it's a 3D chat room full of 14 year olds. So excuse me if I don't enjoy defecating inside socks enough to enjoy this miserable excuse for a MMORPG.

Your information about my WoW playing habits are from 18 months ago too, so they're just a tad out of date.


Also, I have no actual objections to CoH. I was trying to be a funny man.

funny men are... hmm.. funny!

I played WoW for a bit at a friend's house. It was terribly boring and repetative.

COH is fun in small soages.

Seeing all the different characters people make is REALLY neat. But the repetative gameplay and the LACK of the ability to customize powers drags it down.

But at the same time, I like that it isn't really complex. It's easy to get into a gameand start pounding the **** out of everything and be a huge bad ***. However being a huge bad *** is only good for about an hour or so worth of fun at a time.

I like CoH better. The environments are more contemporary and urban. The powers allow you to do more fun things (like jumping over entire sections of the city, flying, or running really really quickly) and there is a lot more character customization in CoH. That's not just limited to appearance, either, but includes your powers.

In WoW I feel like there's 10,000 guys running around out there just like me, but in CoH that effect is highly mitigated.

Stop making elves.

Elves are my least-favorite race. I prefer Tauren and Orcs.

I wanted to play the druid class, that left me with either looking like a cow or an elf...no offense but I'm not playing a cow....

The males are bulls, not cows! I used to have a tauren druid before I left wow. I got him to level 53. He would have been by 4th level 60 (and first horde to hit 60) if I kept playing but I stopped because I got so horribly bored with the game.