These are the characters that I have created via the new DCUOnline MMO. I got the game last Thursday and played it heavily in the 5 days after I received it. I played it a bit yesterday (not as much as the other days) but not at all today.

I was busy today doing work and writing and thinking…I still have to figure out this YouTube API by end of week for something work related. I’m doing it in my own time, at night, cuz there simply aren’t enough hours in the day lately. Also, I may possibly be suffering from SAD: Seasonal affective disorder (also known as winter depression or winter blues). I just love that winter depression is called SAD. That’s like a librarian named Bookman or an Ice Cream Vendor named Cone (both of those were Seinfeld references).

Oops. Got distracted.

These are the characters I created.

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I must say that I am terribly uninspired, all my characters are copies/based off pre-existing characters.

ProtoManX, after Proto Man, the Mega Man character
White Queen, after the Marvel character (Emma Frost)
Invisible Woman, after the Marvel character (Sue Storm)
Miss Lane (Lois Lane)
Marvel Girl, after the Marvel character (Jean Grey). I originally wanted her to be Phoenix, which is why she has fire abilities but I couldn’t get an accurate enough costume.

I’ve got some other character who may be too…inappropriate to show :P Even more inappropriate than White Queen :P

ProtoManX is my current main, level 26. I don’t think/plan on leveling another character….I think I’ve experienced enough of the game.

More Screenshots

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Two-Face and ProtoManX. I once randomly saw Superman in Metropolis. He greeted me and before I could get a screenshot, took off into the sky. That @JerkSuperman

Riddler and his henchwomen.

Bizarro, walking around…sorry, this was the best shot I could get. If I got any closer, he would totally destroy me in 2 hits.

Crime Alley. Very awesome to stumble across this.

Fighting with Dr. Fate, Zatanna, and Raven

This is like the first Bleach intro. 4 characters, rotating around each other.

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I think they OD’d on the model repetition in some levels…but I forgive them. Because I do so enjoy being surrounded by 4 women. and 2 black guys. Moving right along…

Finally. The awesome stuff. Joker as a boss.

Very happy I screen-shotted this scene. It’s awesome cinematographicery!

I wish I got a better screencap of the fight. It looks like Batman’s showing his ass to Joker. NOT the shot I wanted at all.
Sorry Bats.

Me: “I’m sorry I cheated on all of you! You were never supposed to find out!”

…and then they beat the snot out of me.

Review

Seriously: I love this game. I love DC more than Marvel (and I originally got into comics as a Marvel fan, collecting from Age of Apocalypse to the Onslaught stuff to Operation: Zero Tolerance….when I realized how anti-climatic that was and stopped). Marvel’s got all these powers, guys with claws…it’s darker than DC…sometimes. BUT it’s

1. Complicated. Scott Summer. Jean Grey. Madelyne Pryor. Nathan Christopher Charles Askani’son Summers. Nate Grey. Rachel Summers. Emma Frost. Havok. Vulcan. omg the family trees are SO complicated. Like, not just complicated. Unreasonably complicated.

2. Death and Rebirth – too often. At least Barry (Allen) and Hal (Jordan) stayed dead for a good long while, probably only coming back because of Geoff Johns. But at least they were sorta brought back around Blackest Night, which explained the revolving door of death (sorta).

Oops. Side tracked again.

I LOVE playing with other DC heroes. Most people won’t know Cyborg, who Batwoman is, that Batgirl is Cassandra Cain costume, not Stephanie Brown. That the Calculator is the bad Oracle. Who Power Girl is. Who Raven, Doctor Fate, and Zatanna are. Most people don’t know them like I do.

But when I see them, play with them…it’s a dream come true. Seeing Starfire’s starbolts or Wonder Girl, people who don’t make it into the animated movies and cartoons. It’s epic. I love it.

Exploring Gotham and Metropolis. The cities are huge….I can’t wait until they add more.
Keystone City, Central City, Coast City (? – probably not)….uhhh…Themyscira.

While I don’t think I’m going to be raiding or experiences too much more content, it was definitely fun playing the game. I’d like to go through it again, doing different quests…maybe on the villain side…but I need a hero/villain and powers worthy of doing it again. Not sure if it’s worth the grind. I can’t forget that this is my dev year and it’s almost been a month and I haven’t done much. I need to re-focus.

Anyways… :)