I've been playing the game for a few months now and I really enjoy it.
The developers are fantastic. The official forums at http://boards.coh.com/ are a great source of information for gamers at any level, and for once the developers actually listen to what we suggest! It really is a beautiful thing.
City of Heroes recently released Issue #3, which is a free expansion pack to the original game. That's right, you get free updates to the game. So far, they have released a new update once every 4 months, and with each update we've seen huge improvements.
With the release of World of Warcraft, the number of players in City of Heroes has dropped..but when I look at the genre of game.. I'd rather be a super hero than an Orc.
While I was in University we would play with the Lego Mindstorms kits while we weren't coding our projects. The most amazing thing in my opinion about Mindstorms was their programming IDE. It was completely object oriented.. all of the code looked like lego! IMO a great concept for teaching the ideas of IF/Else, while loops, and basic programming logic.
You do have a good point 91degrees, but you are forgetting what one of the major purposes of 3DMark03 is... to determine how these cards will function in upcoming games. i.e. Half-Life 2. Their benchmarking suite pushes DX9 capabilities and at this time, there are not games out there that are taking full advantage of DX9.
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Man I loved that game.. getting your colony up and running then plotting with your BBS to take down your rivals bbs.. awesome.
I've been playing the game for a few months now and I really enjoy it. The developers are fantastic. The official forums at http://boards.coh.com/ are a great source of information for gamers at any level, and for once the developers actually listen to what we suggest! It really is a beautiful thing. City of Heroes recently released Issue #3, which is a free expansion pack to the original game. That's right, you get free updates to the game. So far, they have released a new update once every 4 months, and with each update we've seen huge improvements. With the release of World of Warcraft, the number of players in City of Heroes has dropped..but when I look at the genre of game.. I'd rather be a super hero than an Orc.
While I was in University we would play with the Lego Mindstorms kits while we weren't coding our projects. The most amazing thing in my opinion about Mindstorms was their programming IDE. It was completely object oriented.. all of the code looked like lego! IMO a great concept for teaching the ideas of IF/Else, while loops, and basic programming logic.
You do have a good point 91degrees, but you are forgetting what one of the major purposes of 3DMark03 is... to determine how these cards will function in upcoming games. i.e. Half-Life 2. Their benchmarking suite pushes DX9 capabilities and at this time, there are not games out there that are taking full advantage of DX9.