Dr. Gathman goes where the funding is
Sunday, April 16th, 2006So this weekend I activated the 14-day trial pass my friend Travis found for City of Villains. I should never have even LOOKED at it. God.
At first, I thought that, while interesting, the game just didn’t appeal as much as City of Heroes. However, as I ran around the Rogue Islands with my Dominator and then my Mastermind, it grew on me. For one thing, I appreciate that the character classes are not just EEE-VIL versions of the City of Heroes classes–they seem to be actually different, although the Dominator is a bit blaster-like. At least mine is. This may be more a reflection of me.
Anyway:
Name: Dr. Gathman
Concept: Some day I will be Dr. Gathman. I’ve been confused with my father on these grounds, actually. Anyway, it seemed like a fun name for a mad scientist. I took the official villain organization contact instead of the mercenary because I figured Dr. Gathman goes where the funding is. As soon as I can find a tailor, I am changing the ampules on her belt to a contrasting color–they should have been poison green.
Class: Mastermind
Level: 8
Server: Protector
Name: Briony Bedlam (pinched from my SecondLife account–makes a better supervillain)
Concept: Evil plant seductress! Shut up, it is NOT derivative. Anyway, briony is a woody wine. So it seemed appropriate. You can’t really tell, but her tights are fishnet.
Class: Dominator
Level: 5
Server: Protector
They’re both on Protector because that’s where Travis, king of the random server choice, put his Corrupter, BoyAndHisMachineGun. (Travis enjoys saying “Gee willikers!”)
I actually kind of like the missions for CoV better than the ones in CoH–it’s more fun to ARM bombs, dammit. And this morning I pulled a bank job (see screengrabs below). I do wish there were some way to create a character without having to run it through the damn tutorial, though. Why on earth isn’t there? Maybe I’m just missing it.
It seems like I’ve seen more male toons running around on CoV than CoH. Probably the demographics of newer games run a little younger in general, and younger guys are less likely to gender-swap (Yee 2003). And of course, that’s just my impression.
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