As such, we are not trying to completely replicate COH. Keep in mind that this is a spiritual successor. Secondly, we have The Phoenix Project which is pretty similar in scope and focus. Heroes & Villains is to be set in Titan City, and by the looks of the current lore pages, will be filled with (soon to be) original heroes and villains. Heroes & Villains appears to be running off of the appropriately named Hero Engine, and work is already well under way. Plan Z is just a collection of very passionate and very talented fans of comic books and games, so the line between developers and players is going to be very blurred, especially with the amount of consultation and feedback we’re going to be engaging in with other comic and gaming fans during the design process. We’re aiming to create a genuinely community-focused and driven game, with an unprecedented level of communication between its developers and players.
Heroes & Villains, as described on the Titan Network: The current project names are Heroes & Villains and the Phoenix Project. No, not content with the demise of their favorite MMO, certain members of the community have begun work on not just one, but two spiritual sequels to Paragon Studios’ work.
I know what you’re thinking: “Omali, are you seriously going to tell me that the City of Heroes community is joining together to build a community-driven MMO with an unprecedented level of communication between players and developers?” Absolutely, in fact your assessment is so accurate that I can only assume you already knew about it. With Blackjack, and hookers.” As it turns out, someone’s already beaten me to the punch, minus the blackjack and hookers of course. Normally this is where I’d post a picture of Bender with the caption “Fine, I’ll just make my own City of Heroes.