D_R's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"

This video made me cry. Seriously.

Your videos were something I've always looked forward too, as they added so much to the game experience. Thank you.

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Acroyear
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So very very beautiful, and I'm so very very verklempt. Thank you for this as well.

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So how hard am I gonna cry when I get home and watch this? On a scale of one to ten, one being "They Canceled the Last Twilight Movie" and ten being "The Day We Found Out the Game was Being Closed Down"?

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August 31, 2012. A Day that will Live in Infamy. Or Information. Possibly Influence. Well, Inf, anyway. Thank you, Paragon Studios, for what you did, and the enjoyment and camaraderie you brought.
This is houtex, aka Mike, signing off the forums. G'night all. - 10/26/2012
Well... perhaps I was premature about that whole 'signing off' thing... - 11-9-2012

Beautiful, Michelle. Thank you.

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Excellent video - as usual ... and truly touching.

Thanks.

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Proud member of FOXBASE ALPHA and coalition associates.

Hero 50's - 25

Villain 50's - 1

Beautiful and poignant. To echo what I said in the video comments,

Did what we did in Paragon City matter? Of course it did. Even if it all ends up being video, memory, and fiction, we'll all always have these times, these days, these people we became. If we are the sum of our experiences, then everything we did is within us.

We will remember these legendary days, these times that, even with the game gone, they can never take away from us. This world changed me, and I think changed most of us, for the better. Years from now, we can all say "I was there, I made that journey. We shook the pillars of creation and let imagination be the conduit of the true power that created all the others. Our spirit. Our will. Our Heart."

This was the story of Paragon.

And you, Michelle, have been our chronicler, the one who captured what we did, what we saw, put it together, put it to music, and showed the wider world just what we can dare to dream, with the tools we had. When memory falters, when we need to describe this experience we've shared,we'll be able to go to your videos and go "Watch this. I was there. This is how it feels to be a hero."

Thankyou. A thousand times thankyou. Your passion and dedication have left more of a lasting legacy for this game, it's developers, and the people in it than it's publishers ever have.

/Salute.

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Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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Amazing video. I'm glad I was able to be in it. It really hits it home that everything we've done over the past eight and a half years is going to come crashing down into oblivion.

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Doom.

Yep.

This is really doom.

Loved the various ending bits. Great stuff as always.

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. . .


. . . there are just no words . . .


. . . thank you seems so miniscule, but its all I have, so . . .


Thank you.

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Amazing work as usual. The disconnect countdown at the end really got me.

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I'm not crying. Of course not.

I don't know what you are talking about.

Seriously.

Not crying.

I just hope no one sees me like this.

Because, you know...

I'm not crying at all.

...

I love you all so much.

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@Rien

I am Lord Omi. Now and forever. They can take our City, but they can't take me.

That ending really hit hard. I started thinking about what it will be like when it actually happens, and then everything disappears. And then I started tearing up again.

It's a great video, D_R

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I remember while I was storyboarding this, the ending was pretty much shot-for-shot what you see here. But I kept thinking that something was missing. That 'something' was the disconnect countdown.

Another little bit of trivia - as Jo/Anomaly winds her way through Paragon, the time codes advance one hour per zone. Beginning at six in the morning in Founders, and ending at six in the evening in Peregrine Island as the sun starts to set.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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That was... elegiac.

Thank you.
x1000

But did you really have to use Sleeping in the Light for the music. That put me over the edge because then I had the double-whammy of remembering the very end of my favourite TV show ever.

*sniffle*

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My 50s:
Prime Minister MA/SR Scrap - Protector
Captain Hit-Guy DM/Reg Scrap - Freedom
Prime-Minister ILL/TA Troller - Freedom
Ultimate Minister Inv/SS Tanker - Freedom

Thank you for making this and all the other CoH videos you've made over the years. They've all been excellent.

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Over 8 years of playing with more than 130 characters across 14 servers. Nineteen 50s with plenty more working their way up!

Find me in-game as @Super MC

/applause.

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I can't watch it yet (no real audio at work, and these videos tend to demand audio for the full experience) but I assume it's awesome in advance and preemptively lavish praise upon it.

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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart's the memory
And there you'll always be
-- The Fox and the Hound

Thanks for the great Video D_R.

It was very painful to watch the video because I just ended up crying at the first few scenes. I don't have the words to describe the feeling I get from watching the video. I just felt incredibly sad.

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I will miss you City of Heroes..

My brain kept wanting to read the title as "One More Day". I think it, and I, are in denial over it being "One Last Day".

But there is no denying the tears, choked-up throat, and sniffles. I... I don't think I'll be able to watch that a second time until tomorrow at the earliest. It just is too heart-wrenching.

And I thank you for that, Samuraiko.

Thank you for sharing such deeply personal emotion that we can relate to and not feel so alone.

Thank you once again for sharing your amazing talents.

Thank you for being you.

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