# Considering Marvel Heroes and/or Neverwinter

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/considering-marvel-heroes-and-or-neverwinter/667056>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [August 24, 2013, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/considering-marvel-heroes-and-or-neverwinter/667056 "2013-08-24T14:21:11Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/considering-marvel-heroes-and-or-neverwinter/667056/21 "2013-08-28T22:19:28Z")

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> [@Heller\_Highwater](#):
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> (As well as CoH, right? I never played that one, though.)

Yeah, they, or at least the guy in charge, originally created CoH, then moved on and created CO. CoH was still using an older version of the Cryptic Engine when it went down.

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**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2013, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/considering-marvel-heroes-and-or-neverwinter/667056/22 "2013-08-28T22:23:11Z")

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That’s pretty cool Mister Rik.

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**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/considering-marvel-heroes-and-or-neverwinter/667056/23 "2013-08-29T00:12:03Z")

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> [@Heller\_Highwater](#):
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> Sorry to the OP for continuing the hijack, though I suppose there is some relevance: I believe that Neverwinter is being produced by Cryptic, the same company that created Champions and Star Trek Online. (As well as CoH, right? I never played that one, though.)

I’m fine with the Hijack. If I could still play CoH I wouldn’t need to find a new game 🙂

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**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/considering-marvel-heroes-and-or-neverwinter/667056/24 "2013-08-29T02:24:05Z")

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> [@Grumman](#):
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> It could work, but it would have to be tightly controlled. For example, you could have a team of six guys called Multiple Man, all with identical bios and starting builds. Or a hero and a villain, identical except for the goatee.

I recall occasionally seeing people pull stuff like that off in CoH. They’d take advantage of the fact that the font for character names in CoH was identical for certain characters, like 1 and a lower case l IIRC. So you have multiple characters that have _technically_ different names, but no one playing the game can tell thanks to the font. I recall running across a small group of Thug Masterminds all named Evil Clone once.

And yes, I still miss CoH a lot.

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