Quote from: The Butcher;606048Maybe we could have a thread in whch everyone stats up their CoH/CoV characters for whatever supers RPG they prefer. Pics optional.

What do you think?

I played it for six years and had like 30 characters. Stat them all up? I don't have that kind of time.

I did, however, stat some of them up in various systems from Savage Worlds to MHR, so I could present a few, sure. Sounds like fun.

Eden Studios was working on a City of Heroes RPG. Too bad it died on the vine when Cryptic sold the whole enchilada to NCSoft.

I had over 40 characters....

Only two ever got to 50, though a couple were in their high 40's

I only played a year and had 20 characters.

Greatest game for alts ever made

Quote from: JeremyR;606902I only played a year and had 20 characters.

Greatest game for alts ever made

The character creator was like a mini-game unto itself.

COH was the first MMO I ever tried. My RL friends and I had a whole lotta fun in there for a few years. I never really stopped playing it, but after I hit 50 with a couple of toons my play dwindled off... people moved to playing WOW.
I did show up for the final countdown, stood in Atlas square under the globe like everyone else. It was sad. They just turned it off, boop.

COH had such a positive and casual atmosphere compared to WOW... none of the gear-addiction... way fewer assholes to contend with, other players seemed friendlier. It wasn't unusual to form up with a group of strangers and play for a few hours... which I've seldom seen happen in WOW beyond a single instance (and almost never since they started their random cross-server group nonsense).

I like MMOs for hanging out with friends and exploring... but we've all stopped playing WOW and right now no other MMO seems very inviting.

Quote from: JeremyR;606902I only played a year and had 20 characters.

Greatest game for alts ever made

Could have called the game City of Alts.

Some players literally had over 50 characters.

Quote from: Bill;608245Could have called the game City of Alts.

Some players literally had over 50 characters.

More's the pity. I only got to play one hero and one villain.

I'm a huge "altoholic" in WoW.

And damn, that avatar generator was awesome. I still want it.

I didn't have all that many, though my friend showed up as something different just about every time we played... the mentor/sidekick system was a boon for that sort of thing.
The costume design was a big part of the fun... not just what I could make but every time a group formed it was like a mini-fashion show to check out what people had done and the backgrounds they'd written up for their toons.
 
WOW won't even let you give your characters a last name...

Quote from: The Butcher;608272More's the pity. I only got to play one hero and one villain.

I'm a huge "altoholic" in WoW.

And damn, that avatar generator was awesome. I still want it.

The remarkable thing is that COH came out right before WOW, and very few, if any games to this day have better character generators.

APB might be the only one. And thats not a real mmorpg.


COH was king of character diversity:
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=city+heroes+last&view=detail&mid=7227DF0606557C7B2DF97227DF0606557C7B2DF9&first=0