Ah! The good old days.. *sniff*
By
4_Thirty_5,
Posted on: 2006-10-03 21:15 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Heh, older than you. I also remember things like Coleco Vision & Intellivision. Mighty Mouse cartoons...
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Oh yeah? Well, I had a Commodore Vic-20.. WITH cassette tape storage capacity! It was a big thrill to program the flying block!
(My father also ran the repair center for the Mattell Intellivision .. we had every add on you could find. I wish I had kept that stuff they would be such a collector's itema now.)
You don't hit smiling monsters - Sister Flame
I was thinking about this thread on the way into work for some reason and I thought of a memory that should not be forgotten and passed on to all newcomers.
It's not about a thing but a person.
For some people this is just a game and there is nothing wrong with that. But for many of us it's a community of friends. A community that began 4 years before the game hit the store shelves. The very first member of this community was Kiyotee.
Kiyotee was usually the first person to welcome a new member and always took time to answer questions.
Sadly, he passed away shortly after the game launched. Those of us that had been here really felt his loss and we asked the devs to honor him with a statue in the game. They went a step beyond.
Now, just like the old forums, the first hero you meet in Outbreak if you are a new player, is Kiyotee(Coyote).
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INow, just like the old forums, the first hero you meet in Outbreak if you are a new player, is Kiyotee(Coyote).
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One of the finest in-game tributes offered to the passing of a true friend. By that one act... a shining moment of time is frozen. When two seeming unreachable realities are united.
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INow, just like the old forums, the first hero you meet in Outbreak if you are a new player, is Kiyotee(Coyote).
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One of the finest in-game tributes offered to the passing of a true friend. On that one act... a shining moment of time is frozen. When two seeming unreachable realities are united.
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Yeah. Making Coyote teaching new heroes in Outbreak was one of the best things they've ever done to this game. I personally never met Kiyotee, but I've heard many, many stories. I wish I had gotten on the forums sooner, I might've had a chance to meet this wonderful man.
you are all n00bs
I remember back when we could post attachments on the boards, and posting demos of my fire tanker using burn to take down a dozen +2 level banished pantheon and saying maybe it was just a tad overpowered. They did get around to changing it eventually...
Back when Invincibility rooted you (it was Invincibility, right?) and my old "tele-tanker".
The super-seceret-tell-anyone-and-we'll-ban-you-for-life level bump process from beta that began with (paraphrasing) step one: "Take your newly-created character to Skyway City and let yourself be killed."
Folks on the (pre-beta) boards kicking up a fuss when I got "Birthplace of Tomorrow" because I had just lurked and never posted before that.
CoH Codex : Demo Models/FX/MOVs : Demo Info
Arc 111022: "Doctor Geist and the Scientific Method"
I remember that day when I worked a double at the plant, came home and did some work on my house that I am renovating.
Exausted and on the verge of passing out I logged into the forums to look at some builds in the AT forums and saw alot of crying on things 'used to be'. Bleary eyed and tounge-in-cheek I wrote a silly, sleep deprived story and posted it.
12k views and a few rednames later, I still don't remember writing any of the content of the OP...
Hahahaha
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Back when Invincibility rooted you (it was Invincibility, right?) and my old "tele-tanker".
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Unyielding. Remember? Used to be "Unyielding Stance". 
Bahahaha. I love this thread, Ty.
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I'd hit that.
And damn....I feel old. Shame on me for taking damn near six months to even ponder registering on the forums though.
Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!
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Unyielding. Remember? Used to be "Unyielding Stance".
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Doh! Well, it was a long long time ago, after all... 
CoH Codex : Demo Models/FX/MOVs : Demo Info
Arc 111022: "Doctor Geist and the Scientific Method"
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Unyielding. Remember? Used to be "Unyielding Stance".
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Well, it was a long time ago, after all...
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I hear ya, pardner. While we're reminiscing, this reminds me of another one ... I remember way back when I didn't know anything about how the game worked and ONLY took powers that sounded cool or in concept. A resistance click power that worked for a while, then wore off? That doesn't sound good! A status protection power that forces you to stand still? That's lame, I'm not taking that. And so forth. Good times ... 
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you are all n00bs
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Hush you. Don't make me pull out incriminating screenshots.
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INow, just like the old forums, the first hero you meet in Outbreak if you are a new player, is Kiyotee(Coyote).
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One of the finest in-game tributes offered to the passing of a true friend. On that one act... a shining moment of time is frozen. When two seeming unreachable realities are united.
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Yeah. Making Coyote teaching new heroes in Outbreak was one of the best things they've ever done to this game. I personally never met Kiyotee, but I've heard many, many stories. I wish I had gotten on the forums sooner, I might've had a chance to meet this wonderful man.
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/signed. All the more reason CuppaJo needs a statue.
Or even a sign! Why not make some of the Supermexicano locations into CuppaJo's Coffeehouse? Worked for Starbuck's, didn't it?
- Green Lantern
"Say, Jim...woo! That's a bad out-FIT!" - Superman: The Movie
Me 'n my posse: http://www.citygametracker.com/site/....php?user=5608
When I was a kid, if you said computer, all everyone thought of was a big room full of metal boxes with lots & lots of wires.
An arcade was skee ball and pinball machines.
A Beta machine, and a vcr what are those?
8 track tape machines are the wave of the future....
ColecoVision with an Atari adapter, Donkey Kong, Pong those were the days of WOW thats so Cool.
You went to drive-ins to see movies not watch them at home.
You actually went outside to play cause there was nothing else to do. A PUG was all of us kids sitting in a line playing telephone.
Having your own portable record player was high tech.
Watching ChiPs, Dukes of Hazard, Starsky & Hutch and they weren't repeats.
OH GOD! I AM OLD!
***shuffles off into a corner and mumble to herself***
Darn kids! I gotta gun! Get offa my lawn! And don't use my backyard as a shortcut! Mumble...grumble...
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Oh RLY?
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you are all n00bs
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Oh RLY?
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YA RLY!
--NT
They all laughed at me when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
But I showed them, and nobody's laughing at me now!
If I became a red name, I would be all "and what would you mere mortals like to entertain me with today, mu hu ha ha ha!" ~Arcanaville
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*Shudders* Oy how I loathe that word
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you are all n00bs
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Oh RLY?
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YA RLY!
--NT
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But I've been around longer than Xan, so he's a n00b to me.
Oh! I forgot Multiple Girl. How could I forget Multiple Girl. Does anyone know how many Multiple Girls there actually were?
I say a bunch of us get together and bring Multiple Girl back.
(Multiple Girl was a group of identical characters that all had the same name. They switched capital "I" and lowercase "L" around on each one but it looked the same because of the font used.)
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Why I used ta hear whispers of them 'vulnerable beefers, some say they usedta herd entire zones fulla men like cattle. CATTLE I SAY! I mighta even saw one of em once! She was all shiny and a glowin'. She told me to stay put behind this here plie o' boxes. In just a few minutes, I got me a might scared. I peeked around the corner and what did ol' Tyrantula see? Why she was bringin' a whole loada Freaky looking men a zappin-and-a-snappin mad as hornets right to old Ty! I got my spider rearend right on out of there!
There was whispers thay them there 'vulnerables were gods themselves! Blasphemy I say!
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She was all shiny and a glowin'
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OMG 
I think you are talking about me!
My character "Sun Fury" I used to do that back in the days you could herd the hellions and skulls in perez park.
she is white as the moon and glows a pale white/blue like a radioactive reactor rod.
I use to herd those hellions by the hundred.
ah those where the days.
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you are all n00bs
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Oh RLY?
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YA RLY!
--NT
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But I've been around longer than Xan, so he's a n00b to me.
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NO WAI!
I think this is the best thread ever. I don't think i've ever laughed so much. This is my first post by the way lol
I remember the introduction of the (buggy) Task Forces. How there were always large groups of people hanging around the Heroes, looking for TF. You could always get in one because there were plenty of people ready to go!
There was no exemplar system, and to satisfy the demands of the players, they instituted a flawed exemplar for us. However, if you or your exemplar dropped/lost connection for any reason, you were booted from the TF. Aggravating in the extreme, but we sucked it up because we asked the devs to give it to us before it was ready.
After a bit, because of the buggy nature and time needed to do them, it became nearly impossible to find anyone doing TFs when you log on.
Ah, but then came the mission bonus boost. People exploited the TF's first missions by doing them over and over just for the bonuses ('loopers' we called them). Annoyed the heck out of anyone actually wanting to do the TF.
Sadly, because of these exploiters, the TFs were altered to start with a long kill-all boring mission to replace easier first missions. And once more, TF's became hard to find; despite working great and giving the best exp in the game!
If would be so nice if TFs were as plentiful as PUGs again.
(and oh how I miss the clubby atmosphere of the Abandoned Sewer door! all of us standing around chatting, waiting for groups to go in and beat up some kraken, comparing strategies and run-times...we really need more things in game to bring together large numbers of people toward goals)
-Sandolphan
"When heroes fail, the Angels will save you."
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So I wonder if someone who was in CoH since before Beta, but he was 10 at the time is still allowed to do the "old man" spiels...
(No, I'm not talking about anyone in particular, just a general random thought)
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Well I do remeber Temp Invulnerabiity being a click power. And I remember think it was pretty much useless.
I remember getting into Perez Park my 4th or 5th day CoH beta, getting my Defeat 10 CoT mission completed. Then heading to the futherest, remoted mission door in Perez. My first cave map had the infamous 4 level cavern. I remeber being totally bewildered during the entire mission because it was an 8 man team.
I remeber leaving the mission and trying to leave the Perez Maze with my Skin intacts. I rememer actually making to the edge of the park with an enterance in sight. And I remember the heart-ache of being Recall Friend'ed by my mentor back into the middle of the Lake surrounded on all side by Hyda. And then dicovering the joy of the Hospital Express.
I remember getting Hover, and loving this game. And I remeber getting real extremely lucky in meeting up with the Altas Blimp. And then disoverying that one can actually land on said Blimp.
I remember Hover Patrolling over KR looking for those CoT green flickers of light at night. I also remeber the heart-ache of find another hero beating me to the spawn.
I have it etech into my memory when I finally got Fly. It was the embodiment of a kids dream of being a super hero. It still being a tear of joy to my eye when I think about it.
I remember my first time into Boom Town and marveling at it in person for the first time. I also remeber being in awe of a level 32 character that was just sitting around in Boomtown.
I remeber loving to play tourist in CoH beta. Just flying around visiting all of the zones that I could get into. I would spend hours just flying around and enjoying the zones. And I still so flying around playing tourists in zones today. I'm still see new things I havent seen before even after 2 1/2 years of play.
I remember seeing Talos Island and Founder Falls from the air, seeing off of the green circles of light, and thinking that the CoT are very brazen in those zones. (They actually were just DE Trees of Life back when they stuck around forever.) And I remember see DE Emanators for the first time. They conned are Lieutenants. All of the new players just standing around staring at them, not daring to get too close to aggro them.
My RL friend and SG mates filled me in on the CoH background. And I marvled at seeing Rikti in FF for the first time. They seems strange, mysteries and ominous specially with that strange gated walk of theirs.
And I remeber the Rikti Invasion to close out the CoH Beta. See a Ritki Mothership appear in the skys in the various zones. Spawns of Hydra appearing in Stell Canyon and all throughout Paragon City.
I remember gathering in Talos Islands preparing for and awaing "IT to begin. The players around the tram just talking and organizing things. I'm just sort of look around, spot something and trying to get everyones attention. "guys"...."Guys!"...."GUYS! HELLLO!!!!! SPACESHIP TO THE NORTH!!!!!!!!! INCOMING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Rikti everywhere. Heroes valently fighting against overwhelming odds. Man it felt like being in a one of the big comic publisher world ending epic event. I remeber getting mezz'ed and mezz'ed over and over by one Rikti LT. And I remember being determinded to dropped that one LT if it took me the rest of the night.
We finally cleared the hill to the Noth of the Tram in Talo. And the fleet moving heroes start faning out looking for more Rikti incusions. I remeber getting a bit to lot and getting smack hard by a Tsoo. And then getting a drive by heal by a friendly Defender. (Acutall it was move of a suicidal drop healing as the Defender was a Teleporter and I was 100 ft in the air).
I got lots more but I think I'll stop here....
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*Scratches head* Why my quote though? Were you actually 10 when CoH Beta came out?
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I was 11 when Beta started (either late 11 or early 12, anyway).