VIDEO GAMES: Jim Lee Talks DC Universe Online Delay And Costumes!
Veteran comic book artist and Executive Creative Director Jim Lee talks about why the game was delayed, how that will affect it in the long run, discusses the costumes and promises that it'll last players 5 - 10 years....
On Why The Release Of The Game Was Pushed Back From This Year To 2011:
"It was pushed back to early February, I think. The main driving force was to make the game better. The more time you have with these games, the more polish you can put on them. It wasn’t putting in more additional content or anything major. It was more tweaking and polishing of what existed. You don’t want to ship something that’s really buggy, and I think the goal was, by giving ourselves several more months, we'd have the ability to do a final polish and do a longer beta and get more feedback from the players. We'll also see how the game performs with additional players running around."
On How The Delay Might End Up Affecting The Game In The Long Run:
"We definitely missed that great Christmas window, but a game like this is something that is going to last for many, many years. It’ll last 5-10 years, so I’d rather start strong and keep the players involved in the community and the game, and just keep adding content to it as we add expansions and downloadable content, and other parts of the DC Universe. You can go intergalactic with it, you can go into the future with Legion of Super Heroes... There are so many cool things you can do!"
On The Costumes And Characters Featured In The Game:
"In terms of working with the iconic characters, it wasn’t that difficult doing the costumes — we just had to decide which era of costume you went with. For the Teen Titans, do you do the costumes from the cartoon, which seemed like a good draw for the game, or do you do something that’s completely inspired by the comic book? In the end, we kind of did a fusion of the two so that people who had seen and grew up with the cartoon would recognize the characters, and people who had read the comic book would hopefully see that it was influenced by what was in the comics, too — but not necessarily a 100% translation."
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