Okay, what the heck is this all about? I mean, come on. The size of your hero can be cranked down to about three feet tall. It strikes me as not exactly being in the spirit of things that he attacks you with machine guns and grenade launchers as opposed to, you know, zombie stuff. Vahzilok, the guy responsible for all those annoying zombies you have to fight in the low levels of the game.
ABabbage is the sub-boss for one of the Task Forces, a lengthy series of interconnected story missions. Mecha-Marx and Super-Lenin lead Glorious People's Revolutionary Rave #673.Ī tragic-looking girl robot.
This is Founders' Falls, a truly gorgeous location full of canals and old-world architecture - which makes no sense as Paragon City is supposed to be in Rhode Island, but never mind - and resident NPC Numina.Įxpiration Date gazes into the setting sun and wishes he'd just thrown that milk away, dammit. Once Winter Storm reached Level 20, I got to feeling adventurous and rode the secondary monorail line around to see all of the high-level zones. Whether or not you disapproved of this depended on exactly how much of a humorless dork you were. Every training area and monorail stop in Paragon City immediately became an impromptu rave for the next few weeks.
The first free expansion to the game added boomboxes and dance emotes. "That's right! Fifteen years from now my ridiculous phone will be in a museum!" I tried not to spend much time there unless I had to. To be honest, Boomtown is actually kind of depressing. Off in front of her is the famous Magic Sewer Entrance. Red Nina ponders her beloved country, two hundred years later. I honestly don't remember this guy's name, but he's pretty cool-looking, don't you agree?īoomtown, another hazard zone and a grim place indeed. Urd's different outfit is her supergroup colors - you can join a supergroup with other players and get a special color scheme you can switch to at will.Ī typically colorful crowd around the trainer in Steel Canyon. It's one of the most dramatic areas in the game, for certain. It's easy to create ugly heroes, but you have to try really hard to achieve this level of hideousness.įaultline is a "hazard zone," areas of the city that have endured a disaster of some sort and have been largely abandoned to the criminal element. Seabrook poses with my friend's character Nanako Date, psychopathic magical girl. I'm kind of hoping the extreme darkness of this image is just due to my monitor's gamma being screwed up. They had their priorities straight.Ī nice closeup of Urd. Admit it, you laughed.ĬoH came with plenty of "flex" emotes out of the box. Winter Storm poses for the camera in front of Hero Corps HQ in Galaxy City. Yeah, in Paragon City they pretty much roll up the streets at 8:30 PM. Those damn kids today, you can almost sense him thinking. Well, it's hard for her to look any other way, realistically. Mega-Pope is all about the heavenly backlighting, yo. In other games they ban you for doing that in CoH it's encouraged. It's great for plinking away at helplessly ground-bound villains too. Hooray for slipping the surly bonds of earth and whatnot!įlight lets you go anywhere at will, except for the top couple stories of the largest skyscrapers. Urd got there first and I gave her Flight. Haas, that handsome devil, unenthusiastically ponders his new court-ordered career as a good guy.Īt level 14, you get access to "travel powers" - Flight, Super-Speed, Super Jumping, and Teleportation. I considered this to be an encouraging sign.ĭr. Claus underneath the statue of Atlas outside City Hall. My first day in City of Heroes I saw Santa and Mrs. No IFRAME support, eh? Click here to see the heroes. Alternatively, you can just click here to view it more easily. To scroll the IFRAME to the right and view all thirteen of them, click in the frame and hold down the left or right arrow key, or use the scrollbar at the bottom. Here's the characters I made with CoH's fantabulous character design tool. I won't waste your time with much basic discussion about the game this page's purpose is more to hold various screenshots and other neat stuff from my time in the game. I wasted a fair amount of time this spring playing City of Heroes, a massively-multiplayer online role playing game by NCSoft. (You were expecting something fancy?) City of Heroes