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Unlike CoX, we will not have a dedicated blue side / red side. We will all exist in the same city and they have said we will have a three-axis alignment system to determine whether we are heroes or villains or something in between.
However, we don't know much, yet, about how the missions will change based on our alignment or what it will mean for PvP if you're into that.
"I don't think you understand the gravity of your situation."
That sounds good as a concept, hopefully we will hear more about it at a later date.
No telling exactly how all this will actually play out. While it's cool that under certain circumstances heroes and villains will be able to work together as they did at times in comics and in CoH, I do hope that the classic comic book "line" between hero and villain doesn't get so blurred that it becomes inconsequential to gameplay.
The hero/villain dichotomy is a fundamental aspect of the genre--though so is occasionally blurring it. Just not so often that it becomes effectively meaningless.
FIGHT EVIL! (or go cause trouble so the Heroes have something to do.)
The thing is you can't exactly call someone a villain necessarily but they may not be a hero, for example you have merc's etc now these guys act on different things be it money or favour etc, but does that make them villains, for example if theres a war going on technically they are fighting for a valid side, doesn't stop them after their contract aiding the side of "good".
I have never believed good and evil exist but rather we perceive different things as good and evil, based on what society decides.
On the level of manifest reality, that is a valid argument.
BUT, we're not talking about reality or philosophy, we're talking about the conventions of an established fictional genre, and comic books do have heroes and villains.
Yes, occasionally sympathetic villains, anti-heros, vigilantes, heroes who fall, yes, but the fundamental underlying matrix that this all plays off of is the fictional dichotomy of Heroes and Villains.
FIGHT EVIL! (or go cause trouble so the Heroes have something to do.)
You can read more about our alignment system in our Kickstarter update [url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/missingworldsmedia/the-phoenix-project-city-of-titans/posts/629385]Beyond Good and Evil[/url].
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Thank you that was an interesting read and perspective, it will be interesting to see how it works in practice.
If you want to explore farther into the discussion of alignment, what it means and how does it compare to heroes and villains, perhaps you may want to participate in this thread:
http://cityoftitans.com/forum/alignment-game
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