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Site Navigation Main    News    Forums Games    Games Database    Top 100    Release List    Support Files Features    Reviews    Previews    Interviews    Editorials    Diaries    Misc Download    Gallery    Music    Screenshots    Videos Miscellaneous    Staff Members    Privacy Statement   City of Heroes: Design Journal #5 @ RPGvault (PC: MMORPG) | Posted by Ariel @ Thursday - August 22, 2002 - 09:59 - Top | Game Info | Rate this game | Homepage | Screenshots In the fifth episode of the City of Heroes Design Journals at RPG Vault, Lead Designer Rick Dakan explains what realism means in Cryptic Studios' superhero-themed online world. Here's a snip: There aren't a lot of jokes in City of Heroes. We've tried to stay away from kitschy names and goofy origins. Although we've certainly got our share of bright colors and spandex tight costumes, our city generally has a realistic, even "dark" look to it. Our imaginary city can be a forbidding, nasty place - at least in some neighborhoods. Which is not to say there's not the occasional funny aside, pun or inside joke; nor does it say that our game world is necessarily "realistic" in any strict construction of the term's meaning. What it does mean is that we take our setting, and our game, very seriously. We strive instead for something I refer to as "Hyper-Realism", or realism within its own context.

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