Crash To Desktop – 8/18/2009

Posted by Nelson Williams | August 19, 2009

Welcome to Crash To Desktop, the daily series where I explore my feminine side. Thank you for visiting. While you’re here, best sign up to our Twitter feed. Otherwise, something unfortunate might happen.

In my days, I’ve played an awful lot of games, and built a dozen times as many characters. Character creation is a vital part of gaming, especially in this era of MMORPGs and 100-hour storyfests like those that keep Square-Enix and Bethesda in business.

What many games still don’t realize is that character creation can and should be a game in itself.

Some games caught on to this early. The NES game 1943, a standard shooter, opened up with a grid where you could allocate points between firepower, protection, speed, special weapon time, and such. Primitive, but effective, as the choices you made on that grid would …

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Champions Online — Rate My Champion

Posted by Nelson Williams | July 21, 2009

City of Heroes is known for its costume contests in Atlas park, but Champions Online did them one step better and put it up on their website. The icon to get in involves a catgirl. The winner, as of this moment, is a devil chick with hotpants and a V-strap top.

All is right in the world.

Rate ‘em up here.

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Champions Online Character Creation and Interview

Posted by Nelson Williams | July 11, 2009

Champions Online is a new MMORPG in the works concerning the doings of superheroes in a comic book universe. Based on the pen and paper roleplaying game, also called Champions, the online iteration is built around comic book flavour and unholy rivers of character customization. If that sounds something like City of Heroes, you’d be right. In fact, Champions Online siphoned off some of the defining talent from the old CoH game, including Jack Emmert. You might know him as the hero Statesman.

Oh, did I mention there’s a video?

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