Finished the storyline part of Marvel Heroes, 12 hours, level 25 (soft cap lvl30, max lvl60). It’s an average to mediocre arpg that kept pulling me back in becuase of my fondness for Marvel. It does leverage the property quite well, the story is ok (nothing amazing, but then again what can you expect from Bendis when it comes to Marvel?), the locations are nicely varied, the enemies could perhaps do with a bit more variation but you get to duff up most of the standard bad guys so thats good. Similarly the bosses have a nice selection of the more popular villains. What dragged the game down for me was a) the relatively blatant cash grabs and b) its unpolished nature. Still I enjoyed most of the 12 hours I spent with it (it started a bit slow but certainly picked up). I’ll probably buy one of the 6 or 9 quid heroes and run through the story again. Not super interested in running the sparse endgame dailies at the moment (especially, and bizarrely, becuase the autogroup function doesnt work for them – which is fucking dumb). If you like Marvel and ARPG’s then I’d say give it a go (its free after all) (feel free to add me on Steam and we can “Team-Up”, SteamID is Aueberon). If you simply like ARPG’s then theres much better options out there, both F2P (Path of Exile), cheap (Torchlight 2) and not so cheap/great (Diablo III)
I’ll revisit/expand on this later when I’ve had some time to mull over it