I understand the feeling. I made Sihouette in Champions today to see what it would look like, and I had mixed reactions. ("God, this costume creator is so LIMITED!" being just one of my reactions. 
Another being, "What? No stiletto-heeled boots?")
That said, you can get a major movement power like superspeed or flight pretty much right out of character creation. Between the online store and what you start with, it's possible to build similar builds to CoH characters. And you can turn off the annoying comic line-art outlining around everything in the menu, so it plays more like a game instead of a comic book.
It's got a bit of WoW feel to it, with the side-loading mission screen, and the xp and money rewards tacked on below them. Also, the fact that you don't get XP for taking out villains means you cant engage in random goon hunts for xp. But they drop money, which feels vaguely disturbing in a superhero game. ("Let me get this straight... It's not cool to give us XP for stopping that mugger, but it's okay to riff through his pockets looking for loose change?")
The power trays look less useful, as there doesn't seem to be a lot of customization. Any given character set has predetermined powers, which you pull from a list and slot into your trays as you want. But I'm just starting. It might have more variation than I thought. And I think I saw an option somewhere for customizing your personal powerset so you can pull from every power in the game. Not sure if that's a paid-only ability or if it's one you can get from the store. The ability to create totally customized heroes would be a major step forward, if so.
So... It's got detractors. It's not the same game. It isn't CoH. But it's not a bad substitute if CoH does permanently go away.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
Another being, "What? No stiletto-heeled boots?")That said, you can get a major movement power like superspeed or flight pretty much right out of character creation. Between the online store and what you start with, it's possible to build similar builds to CoH characters. And you can turn off the annoying comic line-art outlining around everything in the menu, so it plays more like a game instead of a comic book.
It's got a bit of WoW feel to it, with the side-loading mission screen, and the xp and money rewards tacked on below them. Also, the fact that you don't get XP for taking out villains means you cant engage in random goon hunts for xp. But they drop money, which feels vaguely disturbing in a superhero game. ("Let me get this straight... It's not cool to give us XP for stopping that mugger, but it's okay to riff through his pockets looking for loose change?")
The power trays look less useful, as there doesn't seem to be a lot of customization. Any given character set has predetermined powers, which you pull from a list and slot into your trays as you want. But I'm just starting. It might have more variation than I thought. And I think I saw an option somewhere for customizing your personal powerset so you can pull from every power in the game. Not sure if that's a paid-only ability or if it's one you can get from the store. The ability to create totally customized heroes would be a major step forward, if so.
So... It's got detractors. It's not the same game. It isn't CoH. But it's not a bad substitute if CoH does permanently go away.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.