Cryptic, Marvel, and the Art of Storytelling
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006In Zen of Design’s post about the Cryptic-Marvel team-up, Aaron and I had a nice debate on story in City of Heroes and whether Cryptic can do well with Marvel’s material. We’ve since moved the debate to our own blogs. Aaron has expressed some concern that Cryptic’s characters don’t have the depth, but read it for yourself. It’s good stuff- even if I disagree.
Aaron is right in one aspect. Although I believe Cryptic advanced the MMO storywriting skills by leaps and bounds, nobody’s going to mistake any MMO’s story for award-winning literature.
He just gives Marvel too much credit- and Cryptic too little.