I hadn’t recalled if there was a DC Universe Online thread, and if there was I couldn’t find it in a search. However, I’ve been playing DCUO, and it’s pretty damn cool.
I could go on endlesly about the idiotic choices, the sometimes great and sometimes awful interface, the overpopulation which shouldn’t have surprised anybody, and the fact that power choices are often confusing and have unpredictable results.
However, I love it. It might not be a great game, but it’s good fun and has a good deal to do all-in-all. You do level up faster than expected, and content is definitely not up to WoW scale. But it’s well-written, well-acted, has a clever script, and generally gives me a smile every time I fire it up. Of course, I might not be able to log in later on in the night.
Combat is fast and actiony, you feel like a super hero. That’s really the best thing about it, power sets are really limited and odd, costume design pales in comparison to the other two games in the genre, character power is tied to achievement hunting. It looks great though and i like flying and punching shit.
[Note for anyone else reading this: the costume options are limtied and… oddly incomplete, and the costume interface during character creation isn’t the best. However, you do get access to many more as you play. I didn’t understand this at first, and it doesn’t entirely make sense, given that your character literally pulls a costume from thin air in the intro.]
I down loaded the game after it went FTP and couldn’t get it to run. It wouldn’t even get to the SoE screen. Every solution I found didn’t work and involved leaving my computer without defenses.