This is my comic book blog.īesides reading comics, my interests include horror fiction, heavy metal, playing the City of Heroes computer game, being a colossal pessimist, and trying in vain to find time to write. That’s a big thing!Īnd because I wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t showing off some of my new characters - and trust me, I could very easily make this a full-time City of Heroes characters blog - here are a small number of my favorites: In other words, it’s a ranged combat specialist that doesn’t die as often as Blasters usually do. They’ve even got a whole new archetype - the Sentinel, which has some of the Blaster’s offensive power and some of the Scrapper’s defenses.

During the early fall, all the trees in Atlas Park started changing to autumn colors, and during the Christmas event, all of Atlas Park was covered in snow and ice. It’s especially exciting that the people behind this new server have put a number of new powersets and missions onto the live servers so everyone can play, as well as adding a few new graphical elements. But it’s been fantastic to get to play this wonderful game again. Some of them are re-creations of characters I played in the old CoH, some of them are brand new. I still haven’t advanced very far - I’m a dedicated alt-oholic, making up new characters every time I come up with a half-decent character concept. And so lots of people, including me, showed back up to the game and started playing new superheroes in Paragon City and supervillains in the Rogue Isles. No cease-and-desist notices, at least not yet. When word got out, everyone panicked, expecting NCSoft to hit the game with a lawsuit - but NCSoft has weirdly turned cool about the whole thing.

Some guys had cobbled together their own secret game server with all the old code, all working perfectly, and they’d been playing with a few friends for years. But the years passed, and all of us superhero fans had to move on.Īnd then, all of a sudden, about a year back, City of Heroes returned. I mourned the end of that game plenty, and I figured there would never be any computer game that’d catch my attention the way CoH did. Y’all remember City of Heroes, right? My great video game obsession, the best dang superhero MMO ever, shut down too early back in 2012. Of all the weird things that’ve happened in the last four years, few have been more unexpected and more welcome than the return of City of Heroes.

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