One of the things I feel is missing from this game is the sense that my heroes could exist together. Obviously not in gameplay, as those aren't the mechanics or intention of this game, but in spirit. Something of a trophy room would go a long way in a game like this.
Switching through to view all of my heroes one by one feels incredibly disjointed.
What would create a greater sense of achievement for collecting heroes and costumes, and would create greater immersion in the world of the game would be to create an area where our heroes are gathered together, in the costumes we choose for them.
It wouldn't have to be anything as complicated as the Headquarters from SHSO.
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But something between that and the team select mode from Marvel Ultimate Alliance would be fantastic.
That's something MUA did simply and well. That game had so many limitations on it, but it still gave us something to toy around with, and a reason to mix and match costumes in relation to others.
So we could toy around and look at the heroes/costumes we unlocked to view them as The Ultimates
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Or The West Coast Avengers
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Or the 80s X-Men
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Or fun first appearance looks
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Or toss together alternate reality versions, EXiles style
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I know something like this would make me feel like things like costume variety and getting characters even if I don't want to play as them right away actually count in a visible way. As is, the system isn't super collector friendly. There's a diminishing joy out of costumes that just sit in a stash tab. And with costumes being on the steep side in price (great as many of them are) I don't feel like there's much OOMF to buying them, unless I'm dead certain I want it specifically to be my default.
Even something as simple as a choice of background, and the ability to drag and drop your heroes into the "group photo" and easily swap their costumes would do wonders to making this game and its characters feel like there's a world around them, and as if my heroes go on, when I'm not specifically playing them. Makes the universe feel significantly more lived-in.
Throw in our Team-Up heroes and pets, and you've got a full-on sensation of a trophy room & dressing room.
If you had to come up with a cutsey theme, it could be The Collector's Gallery, or something along those lines.
@cmaprice said:
It'd be cool to offer different themes.
Bases with different themes, like Avengers Mansion and the X-Mansion where your characters can hang out/run around together and allowing for "team portraits", Weapon X Facility (or Inhumans Royal Throne room, with Terrigen mists) which can bring up alternate UI options for costume and power upgrades, Janet's studio for trying on costumes before and after purchases/ seeing certain costumes/teams together, the Collector's Gallery that could show each of your characters with all of his/her achievements and so forth with alternate UI for purchasing new heroes via Gs or splinters.
The options would be awesome and expansive. It would add a whole lot of charm and more cohesiveness to our rosters!
