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Five Year Screenshot Celebration

ddgryphon

By ddgryphon,
Posted on: 2006-09-25 22:25 in Multi-Media Fan Creations

 

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Five years ago today, Cryptic announced City Of Heroes. Here's a little 'screenshot spectacular' to celebrate:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Cryptic Studios Announces Massively Multiplayer
Online Role-Playing Game, "City of Heroes"

Comic-Book Style Adventure Filled with Superheroes and
Fearsome Villains to Release in Summer of 2002

San Jose, CA - September 26, 2001 - Cryptic Studios proudly announces "City of Heroes," a massively multiplayer online world home to an entire universe of super-powered, comic book style adventure. When the game releases next summer, thousands of players can take on the roles of superheroes, fight villains, and help create the story in a stunning, 3D graphical world, courtesy of the San Jose-based developer.

Super Powered Action and Adventure

City of Heroes is the first superhero themed online RPG and will offer a host of exciting and compelling gameplay features. Players create their own heroes, choosing from hundreds of different powers, skills, abilities, and items and design their own unique costumes. Then they can band together with other players to fight evil, build their own secret headquarters and strive to become the premiere hero group in the city.

Gamers will confront super villains, aliens, madmen, monsters, criminals, and other fearsome foes. They can take on personalized missions and rid the city of dozens of different evil organizations and hundreds of individual enemies. With success players acquire power, wealth, and fame and come to bask in the spotlight and rake in the rewards as their powers and fame grow with each successful mission and every defeated foe.

City of Heroes takes place amongst the skyscrapers, slums, sewers and streets of Paragon City, a sprawling online metropolis that offers unlimited adventure and countless surprises. Players become an integral part of many and varied different ongoing story arcs as the villain groups menace Paragon City and react to player victories and defeats.

"With City of Heroes we're bringing a new and exciting genre to online gaming: the world of superheroes," says lead designer Richard Dakan. "We've designed this game to not only capture the excitement of comic book heroes but to offer a unique gaming experience. With this game you can literally 'become your own hero.' Players can not only design their very own superheroes from the ground up, but they can have a direct impact on what happens to the city they live in."

Cryptic Studios plans to release City of Heroes in the summer of 2002. For a gameplay movie, screenshots, and additional game information check out the City of Heroes Web site at www.CityofHeroes.com.


And a big congrats to those who had the smarts, the guts, and the know-how to get this thing out the door and keep it fun for years on end!


So how about all you other players? Got some "I'm so glad I bought this game" screenshots?

 

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Pretty much every one of them.

Really -- this is the game I waited for my whole life and didn't even know it was coming.

 

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Really -- this is the game I waited for my whole life and didn't even know it was coming.

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definitely. perfect way of putting it. This is the ONLY game in my entire life that i've consistently played for 2 full years -- and i don't think i'm stopping any time soon.

 

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About a year and a half ago, an on-line friend I had from playing another game suggested this game to me and offered a 14 day free trial. I accepted the trial and began to play around. I made a few different characters to play around with, not really having a clue as to what I was doing, but I did have fun. One character that stands out was an Energy Melee / Fire Armor tank I made named Bull Head (had the larger of the horns at the time on, looked rather silly actually heh) and played to level 6 I think. Then messed around with some other character and finally made a Stone Armor / Stone Melee tank which I really enjoyed.

Once the trial was over, I decided to buy the game (1st pay to play game I've played) and eventually ended up re-rolling my tank for a costume I liked more. My tank and the scrapper I ended up making a little later can be found here. I've had a lot of fun with these characters but haven't gotten to 50 yet.
This is one reason I love the game. After completing a mission in Synape's TF, we were welcomed by this lovely fellow.
Here are a few other shots of Stone Clad Giant, my tank, in various missions bashing away with his Stone Mallets.

 

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Pretty much every one of them.

Really -- this is the game I waited for my whole life and didn't even know it was coming.

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Thats a perfect way to describe my feeling 'bout this game.

*EDIT* Thanks for posting this Zloth.

 

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I remember us taking those powers no one has today just to see what they did, like group fly. I caught a snapshot of our SG doing the "The SG that flies together, stays together." group fly thing

Group Fly

Which was a cool novelty thing for a while.

 

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You know, looking at InfiniteWisdom's pics, SuckerPunch's pic, and my pics.... Did Dr Vhaz change a bit over the years? Seems like his zombie-body got bigger in relation to his own body. Or maybe it's just the light in the new room? (That room is just MADE for group posing!)

I think the Gust power in the Storm set is what really hooked me bad. I made Windy, a Grav/Storm, mostly just to see how that class worked. I figured I should see how the things work so I could understand the game better. (And because I wanted to see how pretty I could make a character in this game. ) It's fun shooting enemies up into the air with Lift but Gust.... wow! Whole groups of enemies would FLY back 20 yards!! I think *maybe* I got to do some stuff like that in 3D in Sacrifice but certainly not right off the bat! I was having a ball pushing Hellions into oncoming traffic. If they had offered a $200 lifetime subscription after that play session, I would have bought it (and I would have saved money)!

 

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Y'know... with all of my various guest appearances in Z's pics, I'm famous! Or at least some of my heroes are... whee!

 

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Actually, that reminds me of another heroic momement. We got a partial group wipe, including my character. Sparky's fire tank and a fire blaster got away. A minute later I see both of them flying full speed down the hall, flame powers blazing, and they pile right into the villains - burning them to cinders in seconds. Fooom, whoosh, booom!!