#city of heroes

[mutio-von-mutio]

#city of villains #city of heroes #succulent elf meat

[kasunshine]

#Mmorpgs #city of heroes #ffxiv #world of warcraft #guild wars 2 #eso #I personally use a mix #My first mmo i really got into was city of heroes so toon was ised a lot more

[anghraine]

I struggled enough with the "best video game" meme I just reblogged that I decided to make a poll of all my personal favorites!

#anghraine babbles #anghraine's gaming #poll nonsense #alpha centauri #baldur's gate 3 #secret of mana #guild wars #might and magic #heroes of might and magic #mass effect #guild wars 2 #fallen order #divinity: original sin 2 #city of heroes #neverwinter nights #i know most of you all have different favorites that aren't on here but ... let's go anyway :D

[rabbiteclair]

[10:10 PM] RabbitEclair: [playing city of heroes while high] …………………………………………………………………………. WAIT A SECOND THEY'RE THE ROGUE ISLANDS BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THE EVIL VERSION OF RHODE ISLAND [10:10 PM] RabbitEclair: i'm so fucking mad [10:14 PM] plaidmage: holy shit [10:14 PM] plaidmage: fuucking [10:14 PM] plaidmage: god damn it!!

local idiots discover basic pun in a game they have both played for two decades

#city of heroes

[cellarspider]

Thanks to my rambling this weekend, I am overflowing with love for an MMO that hasn’t been in development since 2012, because goddamn the worldbuilding for the setting of City of Heroes and City of Villains was just superb.

Do you want an MMO that begins as a pastiche of superhero comics that lovingly, cheekily engages with its source material, building up a cohesive world where the fantastical stuff feels unexpectedly real and grounded in the society, more so than most of the comics it's inspired by? Do you want that, and then to watch it slowly, gently tip its backstory into existential, cosmic horror via genre critique?

I'm in no way kidding! More below the cut.

Well, part one of more, because there's a lot to unpack here.

A lot of new superhero continuities these days treats its central premise as an anomaly. For the most popular example, the MCU treats public knowledge of superheroes as something that started with Captain America in WWII. Before his exploits, the fantastical aspects of the setting were forgotten about and hidden from the world. The DCEU begins similarly with Wonder Woman in WWI, a member of a mythic society forgotten by time.

At first, Earth in City of Heroes seemed to go with a very similar premise, though it predates any of those movies: Superpowers were unknown to the general public until the early 1930s, when some people suddenly began gaining incredible new abilities, and mythical critters not seen since ancient times made themselves known.

But that’s just the basic sales pitch. As you dug into the setting and City of Villains expanded the lore, perspective shifted into something entertainingly stranger.

Everyone knew about Nemesis, the clockwork robot-making mastermind who'd terrorized Paragon City from the early 1930s, just when superheroes were first appearing on the scene. Turns out he was an immortal Prussian nobleman born who first went on an automaton-backed crime spree in 1820s, seemingly died when the British Navy bombarded his headquarters in Malta, then reappeared in the 1860s to supply the Confederate Army with mechanical cavalry until General Sherman shelled his mountaintop base on his march to North Carolina. Nobody was ever able to replicate what the did, and with his (apparent) death, he was no longer relevant after 1865. As of the 1930s, anyone who wasn’t a history buff had forgotten about him.

And sure, everyone knew there was an underground city of evil wizards, dead for long eons until they rose again to take human sacrifices from the surface world of Rhode Island (I’m still not over that). But actually, they were active in London during the Victorian mysticism craze, then moved their operations back to their homeland of subeterranean Rhode Island with the outbreak of World War I. They made the news across the continent. They got outlawed in multiple countries. They were a big deal, until the war took the attention off of them.

Hell, one of the people who fought all these weirdos was a random teenager who'd just... always been able to teleport and turn invisible, even prior to the '30s. He wasn't even a main character or anything! His parents knew, and tried to convince him to go get training. Teleportation training. Like y'do, with your socially awkward, teleporting kid.

This setting never actually had a mundane world that was unaware of the fantastical. The fantastical was normal. The arrival of superpowers in 1930 wasn’t a hard fork between history as we know it and theirs, or a reveal of some secret world that rational minds had long denied. It was just a dramatic escalation of what had already been happening, that everyone knew about. Armies of the 1800s had to develop anti-robot tactics. Alastair Crowley publicly dissed an actual wizard cult because they were dangerous competition. Parents worried over the mental health of their superpowered teens. That was normal.

The sheer numbers of fantastical events that started happening after 1930 were not normal. Or at least, not at first. People slowly adjusted over decades, as more and more young people grew up in a world that had always been that way.  

What nobody realized at that point was how the new normal bordered on a state of cosmic horror.

And that’s where the setting really starts interrogating its inspirations.

#city of heroes #city of villains #my love for this setting is unbounded #and it honestly deserves more attention and analysis for how it engaged with the genre #it ranged from joyously fluffy nonsense to deeply disquieting introspection and all they way back around to hootingly funny bullshit #I definitely have more rambles coming on this because I CANNOT BE STOPPED

[emeraude-coh]

Penny Planet, a transfem Peacebringer, and one of the many heroes that keep watch over Paragon City.

#hello i'm making gifs now!! #this was really fun to try out #i tried to use the sand tights to make it seem like her body was a swirl of stars #do you think it worked? #city of heroes #city of heroes rebirth #coh #virtual photography #peacebringer #kheldian

[piranya]

the bestworst thing ive ever made. ask me about messer

#messer #love supply #who is messer #mitch grassi #city of heroes #machinima #messerweb #WhoIsMesser #glitch #flashing lights tw #pentatonix #superfruit

[ainyan]

NCSOFT and the City of Heroes fan-server Homecoming have come to an official licensing agreement that allows Homecoming to operate legally and indefinitely. This license also allows Homecoming to continue to develop new content for City of Heroes.

Homecoming is and will continue to be free-to-play and rely on donations to defray the costs of hosting and development.

So if you have missed City of Heroes but been leery of playing on an unofficial server, congratulations! You can now play without any fear of legal repercussions!

Hopefully, this will set a precedent for other companies to license their defunct online games to private fan development and allow fans of games like Wildstar or Warhammer Online to once more enjoy these worlds and stories.

#city of heroes #coh #coh: homecoming #ncsoft

[carl-tabora]

A villain turned hero. City of Heroes commission

#commission #digital art #city of heroes #oc

[hermitollien]

Commission for @cheldog

Thank you again for your support! :>

#artists on tumblr #digital art #digital painting #character art #art commissions #city of heroes #coh #art #vampire

[judolord]

my City of Heroes villain MÖRSER

#city of heroes

[elzee3]

More dicking about with Spider Leviathan, lives on an archipelago called the Rogue Isles bit northwest of Bermuda. Family was from the Azores originally.

Never bitten by a spider for all this, considered one of the more successful projects under Lord Recluse's direction. Spider people are fairly common where she lives. More spider-y and far, far more feral.

#spidersona #my art #city of heroes #miguel o'hara #i loved the arachnoids in city of heroes so much

[zversnow]

Commissions are open! For more info, other socials and full versions of my pictures go here! Support me on >> Patreon << for early access to my art, exclusive discounts and dibs on my YCH poses.

#conan exiles #oc #commission #city of heroes #dungeons and dragons #dnd

[rabbiteclair]

looking for the patch notes for the new Homecoming release, and

Fixed a client crash in Ultra Mode when the costume window was opened on a character with all 10 costume slots unlocked while standing close enough to a building with window reflections, while a player or NPC with a reflective costume part was close enough and a water surface was rendering water reflections.

my condolences go out to whatever poor soul had to figure out how to reproduce this crash

#city of heroes

[snepril]

One of the first video games I ever played was City of Heroes, a superhero MMORPG. It was a big part of my childhood, and I was pretty upset when it shut down in 2012. So were the developers, it turns out - so much so that someone leaked the source code! It went public a few years ago, and nowadays there are a bunch of fan-run servers out there.

Thing is, NCSoft (the publisher) never actually acknowledged the leaks, so all those servers were operating in a legal gray area - until today! City of Heroes: Homecoming, the largest fan server by far, just announced an official licensing agreement with NCSoft, which is really dang cool. I never imagined I'd get to play CoH again, and even when it came back I assumed it'd get squashed by legal stuff sooner or later. The fact that CoH is now officially back is mind-blowing!

#Still pissed at NCSoft though #Corporate law is bullshit but I'm glad my favorite game is safe #city of heroes #City of villains #city of heroes homecoming

[heyheyzeyzey]

Finished commission of a friend’s Chiss-inspired City of Heroes character

#myart #Chiss #City of Heroes #CoH #Original character #commission