Time to Reminisce - A look back at City of Heroes
By
Aggelakis,
Posted on: 2011-09-07 08:26 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Shot of one of the old equipment stores, here.
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Awesome post. Looking through the oldest site it has, all the links work. The Heroes desktop and 5th column desktop files....now saved. lol
And we had villian groups called Fear Factor and Killing Crew in the works back then? lol wonder who they became? Skuls? Hellions?
Didn't the Killing Crew become Malta?
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Killing Crew I THINK became Freakshow and Fear Factor become the Carnival of Shadows...though I'm certainly not 100% on that.
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Killing Crew I THINK became Freakshow and Fear Factor become the Carnival of Shadows...though I'm certainly not 100% on that.
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The "never made it" villain group that always interested me were the Seraphim. Offhand, none of the factions that made it into the game seem to fit the mould of that name.
I also find the original approach to origins (e.g., some got fewer powers and more slots than other origins) interesting, though I was never clear at the time on why that'd be so, thematically speaking.
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Since the City of Heroes we've all "grown up with" has evolved, with help of Archive.org, it's time to take a look back and reminisce about the good ole days.
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"We want City of Heroes to be a game of stories where the players determine the result"
"In time villains can create their own organizations and erect secret bases. They'll always need to be on guard against the continual vigilance of player heroes. Consensual Player Versus Player combat will be introduced, as will team vs. team play."
"Villains set out to steal the holidays!: Thursday, December 15, 2005 Silver Mantis helps Black Scorpion set Operation Scrooge in motion to steal the holidays."
"Marvel Lawsuit Information: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 Marvel Entertainment, Inc., NCsoft Corporation, NC Interactive, Inc., Cryptic Studios, Inc. Settle All Litigation"
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Wow, CoV website V.2 was awesome! They should totally do that again for something.
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I thought Killing Crew became the Sky Raiders and Fear Factor became Malta?
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Originally Posted by Dr_MechanoEU
Killing Crew I THINK became Freakshow and Fear Factor become the Carnival of Shadows...though I'm certainly not 100% on that.
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I remember this day. 
Wednesday, September 26th, 2001
City of Heroes is announced!
Cryptic Studios proudly announces City of Heroes, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game that's home to an entire universe of super powered, comic book style adventure. Here you and thousands of other players can create your own superheroes and discover all the dangers, wonders, and excitement that Paragon City has to offer.
The full press release follows:
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.
About Cryptic Studios
The Cryptic Studios staff combines proven talents from the computer and book publishing industries into a single team devoted to creating innovative, top notch games. Based in San Jose, California and fully funded by private investment, Cryptic Studios currently focuses all of its prodigious resources on the company's first product: City of Heroes. For more information about the team and its projects, check out www.crypticstudios.com.
Contacts: Jack Emmert, press@crypticstudios.com
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Awesome post. Looking through the oldest site it has, all the links work. The Heroes desktop and 5th column desktop files....now saved. lol
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Bit of discussion there - in the guide to the old COH E3 trailer (which, apparently, no longer exists at that location as a video.) Including the old groups.
Here's I link I've kept over the years from Forbes about us.
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Speaking of videos from the early days: E3 2002 demo video
- It's narrated by Jack Emmert. He refers to "Rick" controlling the character. I wonder if it was Rick Dakan, the original lead developer and author of the Blue King comics.
- Where's my statue? And my money?
- It's funny to see the character going down all of those stairs and two sets of doors just to leave the hospital.
- Check out that UI. I realize it was an alpha or pre-alpha build, but whew, I'm sure glad they overhauled it.
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Here's I link I've kept over the years from Forbes about us.
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"Nobody really cares about the name, they just want to put on a suit and fight evil," says Emmert, who worked his way through grad school writing role-playing games and taught classics at Ohio State.|
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lmao, classic.
pohsyb: so of all people you must be most excited about the veats
Arachnos Commander: actually, I am
pohsyb: I mean you kinda were one already anyways ^_^
Arachnos Commander:
Since the City of Heroes we've all "grown up with" has evolved, with help of Archive.org, it's time to take a look back and reminisce about the good ole days.
CoH.com - version 1
CoH.com - version 2
CityOfVillains.com - version1
CityOfVillains.com - version 2
CityOfVillains.com - version 3
(Note: If you get stuck on a loading page, click on "Impatient?" on the bottom, right hand of the page. Archive.org may capture a date, but it doesn't always pull the corect info for that date. So you may be seeing a capture of a May, 2005 site but has the information for a Dec. 2005 version.)
I dunno. It's fun for me to go back and view old articles, check out the old pre-beta forums (in a limited capacity), and reminisce about all the things that drew me to the game.
So how about you? Feel free to share anything about the good ole days. We're about to embark on a new journey so we should keep our own archive for the future generations of CoH players. With luck, many of the people we're met on our travels will be with us once again.
pohsyb: so of all people you must be most excited about the veats
Arachnos Commander: actually, I am
pohsyb: I mean you kinda were one already anyways ^_^
Arachnos Commander: