It’s been a while since I’ve talked about City of Heroes, though I talk to my friends IRL about it so much I hadn’t realized.
This game is great fun. Ok, it lacks items and crafting and player-housing (the latter is supposedly coming soon as team bases!) but getting rid of all that just makes it “leaner” in its fun aspects. There’s really no downtime, no having to search the world over for the crafter who can make you the 95%-armor-with-a-stun-layer or best-gun-you-can-get-made. You just log in, team up (if you want) and beat up bad guys.
You can do that by just running around and “hunting” the ever-present purse-snatchers, car-thieves, cultists, wind-up-robot, zombies or whatever you find, or by running missions. My preference is the latter because unlike SWG(Star Wars Galaxies) the stories behind the missions are incredibly well done. As you progress through them you learn more about the factions you’re fighting against, and maybe even become a little empathetic towards them. Some missions even lead you to fighting against the very founders of a faction!
And when you get tired of running missions and beating up bad guys, you can just create more characters! I’m not one for hours and hours of fighting, so I often take a break and play with the character creator. You can make up to eight characters on each server, so if you don’t mind where you’re playing, it’s hard to run out of character slots.
Here are the hero creations I’m most proud of/actually play. We’ll begin with my primary character, The Humanitarian:
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