Year 7 needs a video... but what?

I made one for Year 5, I made one for Year 6. Now we're up to the 7th anniversary of COH... and I'm at a loss. I contacted our esteemed overlord War Witch to ask her if there was something in particular she'd like to see as the theme, and her preferences were:

First: people coming together as a united front, supporting each other, and taking on much larger foes...

Second: the "lighter side of CITY OF HEROES"... in other words, humour.

But I'm STILL at a loss!

I could probably do CoVideoHell as the Year 7 video, for sheer humour and snark, but I don't know... (although a lot of folks who follow me on Twitter said they'd like to see humour for Year 7 as well.)

The playerbase was a great help for Year 5's vid because so many folks contributed to my 'Backstory' thread. So I'm turning to you guys again.

Following either of WW's suggestions, what would you like to see in a 7th Anniversary Video for COH?

(And yes, I'm sure that Black Pebble and the Creative Services team are going to do their own vid, too, and with their recent raising of the bar, I doubt I'll match it... but it's tradition.)

Michelle
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EDIT: A lot of folks are sending me ideas via PM. Feel free to share them here on the thread! Others might like what you have to say, or have ways to expand your thoughts...

Put together a St. Martial promotional video. Of course, you've got to have Slot Machine showing off 777

what about some kind of rundown of everything that has been added over the last seven years..

Well, Year 6 sort of already includes that - it takes you through all the issues in the game, and you can see what's been added as you go (apart from the anachronistic segments showing stuff out of order, but no one's perfect)...

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Hmm, if Year 7 is meant to be celebrating people coming together and stuff....maybe a focus on the various enemy groups that have got a thorough dugging up over the years by teams of Heroes and then Villains?

So, you could have;

Saving the Streets - Hero Section
Hellions
Skulls
Trolls
Outcasts
Vahzilok

Making a Mark - Villain segment
Snakes
Lowbie Longbow
Infected
Mooks

And then have sections for mid and end game, along with Praetoria maybe? And combined threas like the IDF and Rikti.
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Maybe "out takes" from previous videos?

For example: on the STF there is a lighting technician that crosses in front of the camera setting Lord Recluse off (a Christian Bale spoof). The heroes rally to the aid of the technician.


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Well, seven is supposed to be a lucky number isn't it?

How about a humor video centered around a lot of in-game luck?

Video starts with character finding a Luck inspiration only this one glows and seems much more powerful. The character pops it and things start happening... all the best aspects of the game start going right for the character all of a sudden..

* gets all the Luck of the Gambler drops, in order, from each member of the spawn he's facing...

* finds a temp item (gun most likely) that turns out to be a one-shot Hamidon killer

* happens to walk in just as a team has finished destroying the entire group of Lord Recluse's posse in Recluse's Victory but as the last of the actual defeating team teleports out up walks Statesman who gives the lucky character all the accolades and credit for the win..

And so on... of course at the end we can go sappy and sentimental and show him standing in Atlas Park... another hero walks up to him and greets him... then another... a slow draw back shot shows the entire area filled with heroes... all talking... emoting and basically interacting with one another... the final fade to black and we see the message... "Yeah... come to think of it... we're ALL pretty darned lucky... aren't we?... Thanks to the Devs for 7 wonderful years..."

Or something like that.

How about a weird inside out take on the movie Seven? Instead of the seven deadly sins, perhaps celebrate the seven virtues of CoX?

I think you should embrace the number 7 for this project.

Either do a CoH version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

I'd do it in grey-scale and focus on the "shades of grey" that have been the centre piece of year 7 content (with Praetoria and the "only responds to power" Well of Furies.)

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If you didn't have a theme in mind already, I think asking WW for one has only muddied the waters

Since Paragon Studios is running with the whole "Protect Your Primal Butt (I mean homeworld, of course heh heh)" maybe you could explore it too? Or just go for the comedy. It would work as well

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Anything humorous MUST include Kill Skuls.

Something like the Magnificent 7, a mock-up SG of seven people's characters showing them heroism in certain situations like the Tin Mage and Apex TFs or fighting against signature villains since the focus is on making us more powerful than the FP. Or vice-versa for a villain team.

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