Is it possible for you to make posts without snidely insulting the person you're talking to?
Nobody said anything about playing dress-up, nobody said anything about PLing anyone. I said I like a character that looks unique, not one that looks like every other character of the same class and species, and General Idiot said that he likes being able to team up with his friends rather than going "Okay, Bob, this is the game I like. I'd show you around, but I'm seventy levels higher than you are and we can't go to the same areas. Have fun by yourself! I'll be doing endgame suff."
If you love the game for your own reasons, that's wonderful. But don't mock what other people loved about CoH with your "that's so adorable" and "playing dress-up with dolls" snarks.
Tazz's heart is in the right place (thus reducing the need for very expensive surgery), but what you got is about as good as Tazz gets. Some people can't treat those with interests different from their own interests as anything but wrong and inferior. You can try getting into a whole bunch of pop psychology psychoanalysis about why they're like that, but at the end of the day they'll still be like that, so it's best to just let it go.
Personally some of my favorite parts of CoH were character costume and build design, and making both as awesome (in my personal opinion) as possible. i also loved the lore and setting, and thought a bunch of the storylines were extremely well written and executed, but at the end of the day it was the flexibility and variety of character design in every sense that kept me playing after i'd done the same story arc five times. Having tried several MMOs since CoH what i've missed the most is the absence of the DPS/Healz/Tank trinity in CoH and the emphasis on aggro control and buff/debuff over healing. i haven't had a chance to try Wildstar yet, but i might give it's science fantasy setting a try since it looks like it might offer a bit more variety than the trinity pigeonholing a lot of MMOs have been heading towards. (SWTOR being one of the worst offenders as far as forcing you into the trinity out of all the games i've tried at this point.) i did pick TSW during a sale, so i might try it soonish.
So far Wildstar and TPP appear to be some of the more promising MMOs compared to most of what's there as far as appealing to my interests. Wildstar's publisher does give me some qualms, but the game and studio look promising. TPP is where i currently put most of hopes for a successor to CoH, but that's a ways out at this point.
