CO felt like when I first started playing, "I got to feel like a super hero!" cause it was easy to smash everything into oblivion no problem. The trouble was, besides the incoming nerfs, the only real reason I found I was powerful were the enemy mobs were woefully underpowered. So the game was effectively super easy mode. When the player character is winning inspite the enemies themselves being very powerful that creates a feeling of triumph and success; they had tools which could ruin me and I beat them anyways. But when the player is indestructable and the mobs aren't a threat, then it feels like I'm just a bully.
CO is a game made to make you feel ultra powerful, but it never removes the crutch.
Edit: Nore do the badguys get anything to make things dangerous for the player. Just things to delay the inevitable.
Dang, LA.. I thought I was Good at the game but you are downright UBER.
It took me a long time to get anywhere near what you are talking about and lots of people playing the game right now are far from it.
I've had some tense moments in Grabs with my mainiest mains even recently. I still faceplant! Not recently, but I still do and the danger of it looms often enough to keep me hopping, which, adds to the fun for me even though the loss would be little more than a little pride. In my defense.. I'm not playing safe builds, normally - I went more balls to the wall. I'm normally playing Ranged Offense passives.. dps focus.. agro grabbers.. that aren't tanks but often end up tanking. I'm only saying this to get a *little* slack, plx : ) That I still get tense moments..
I still don't like the art style
This right here would be about enough to kill it, for me. I mean, you have to like how things look! How You look! To me, it looks like I'm in a comic book and that my toon/I fit(s) right in.
I like the game because it lets me do things I could only dream of when I first Read comic books, and, I can do them pleasurably well.
At this point, for sure, I would not say CO is a game I would play 'seriously' or try to progress in, but, damn, it's fun! Zone's given me some welcome laughs, too. And I'm glad I have something else to play : ) Can never have too much fun in the cupboard.
I'm having fun but I couldn't go back to CO as a main game at this point. Because, reasons. But. As someone who used to really love to play CO and hasn't played hardly at all in the past 150 days and has had no expectations at all besides 'how fast can I get in a team' - I could really re-appreciate the things I originally liked about the game. Enough to come here and express my joy : )