Speculation: Paragon (Formerly City of Heroes 2)

I don't feel like this comment is constructive. Mods?

I think that is the perfect name for the game right there. Just sort of brings all the ideas together.

In a word, no. In five: No, no, no, no, no. By the way Golden Girl, I rolled a character on Defiant. Where are my cookies you promised!!?

The entire thread isn't very constructive. Use the older thread that you already started?

Canning that chunk of employees last year was as clear a sign as you'd need...get on board CoH2 is a concrete certainty.......

..to never happen.

Mods? Can you take care of these clowns?

Please stay on topic or take your harassment elsewhere.

You're acting kinda weird now

I just refuse to be harassed GG. I don't know how you stand it.

I don't believe Golden Girl's cookies are an appropriate topic for a serious thread like this, although I'm sure Ullikummis will be around shortly to correct me there.


Names are no laughing matter. We need the name of this new project to convey what Paragon Studios hopes to achieve with the new game. However, City of Even More Heroes might be just a little too nakedly obvious. And no, its definitely still not appropriate to talk about Golden Girl's cookies.

We need to convey that this new game is in every way better than the competition, and so overwhelmingly awesome that people should fight for the opportunity to hand Paragon Studios their money while staring at the game tied to an intravenous drip twenty four hours a day. But I think City of Summer Glau would run into trademark issues.

We want to be more specific, and trumpet our commitment to the rich history and majesty of the comic book genre. We want players to know that playing this game will make you feel like you're not just a part of a comic book story, but part of the very fabric of comic books itself. Which would make Stan Lee Presents: City of Heroes: Excelsior! perfect, if we can get Stan Lee and if he's still alive when we launch. Actually, the latter is negotiable.

Honestly, though, I don't think Paragon has the same grand vision that I do. I think that when they decided "City of Heroes 2" was not quite right for their new super secret project, a call went out to the best creative minds in the studio, and after very careful deliberation they decided to rename the project: City of Heroes, Also. Because it sounds sort of like a sequel, and sort of like an expansion, and doesn't have any numbers in it. And as we all know, if its supposed to be called City of Heroes 2 the marketing posters will probably read City of Heroes 20.

You know the only reason we have things like Issue 19.5 is because they sometimes forget how many numbers there are between 18 and 20 (hint: its one). Don't you guys wonder why NCSoft bought out Cryptic at Issue 10? I think its safe to tell you guys this little bit of backstory now. Its because NCSoft asked Cryptic "so, what's next for Issue 11" and the devs said "Eleven? What's an eleven?" And NCSoft said "how about we just buy the game and take over?" And Cryptic said "how much for the rights to the entire game?" and NCSoft said "eleventy thousand dollars."

I hate that joke.

It requires dumbness.

My CAT has a freaking snapaway collar for when it gets snagged on bushes.

Robot, I do think you're overreacting a little. Speculating that CoH 2 never happens is speculation, just not happy kind. However, considering there's 3 MMOs for supertypes and 1 more coming (not being exact), I believe there's money enough for CoH 2 to happen. Especially capitalizing on all the work already done in this game--plus, the guaranteed fanbase. Ideally, they should wait til after people get tired of the other stuff...

Anyway, Paragon sounds right, it builds on the CoH mythology without the clunkiness of being listed a sequel. Regarding Nemesis, I WISH this game would steal that idea. I never played Champions Online long enough to get a nemesis, and I really loved the idea. My current computer can't even run the game, unfortunately.

The real question is--when will there be a World of Crafting???

They said that about Smallville and in the finally he had the suit and cape in the end, but everyone knew they would.

If you really want the Mods' attention, start another City of Heroes 2 thread.

Actually, I wouldn't mind playing a game with "World" in its name and was worth playing.
As long as players don't confuse it for that other -garbage- game.

And this may or not be a case of you're sarcasm detectors malfunctioning.

Originally Posted by VoodooGirl [*]Watching out for the Spinning Disco Portal of D00M!*

This. I don't think people automatically move onto CoH 2. Maybe a large part of the game's population does, but even if 25% stay, that's a pretty decent amount of players from your own base that aren't going to your new game. I would rather see CoH built upon and improved versus just starting something new. Anybody who says they need to start over to do "x" just needs to be reminded how closed issue somethings like power customization was and yet we have it.

Can we talk about other parts of Golden Girl?