City of Heroes

By Zubon Another solution is just to ignore it. City of Heroes have a few missions designed for a certain minimum, meaning they do not scale below that, but they otherwise scale up uniformly. Everyone, including fans like me, should recognize that City of Heroes has very little variation in its core...

By Zubon Zubon City of Heroes has had the superhero MMO market to itself for the past four years. (I don’t think Twilight Heroes counts, although Kingdom of Loathing compares favorably with Everquest in many ways.) Now the next couple of years are promising a sudden flurry, with DC, Marvel, and Cham...

By Zubon Testing of the City of Heroes Halloween event started last week. This year’s addition is Zombie Apocalypse, modeled after the Rikti invasions. I think we can all agree that Zombie Apocalypse is an awesome theme to run with.It will reappear for the occasional hour throughout the year, in cas...

By Zubon Is one better, or is it a matter of taste? I often enjoy a connection between form and function, such as making the meaner monsters bigger. You can even reverse the two standards: have item-based play that does not affect appearance (like Diablo II sockets or City of Heroes enhancements) or...

By Zubon I have yet to fiddle with The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ endgame PvE content. There seems to be a lot of it, and it is all group content. I hope the expansion does not consign it all to the dustbin, since I am not going to be able to get a raid together for something 10 levels below t...

By Zubon Zubon Issue 12 does what City of Heroes/Villains does well, and it does a lot of it. When I complain that there is not much there, it means that there is not much there for me, right now. If you are in the mood for the City of Heroes playstyle, this is possibly the [...]

By Zubon Zubon Something The Lord of the Rings Online™: Shadows of Angmar™ has that City of Heroes lacks is a sense of distance. There are a few huge zones in CoX, so you dread going all the way across Independence Port, Nerva, or a Shadow Shard zone, but for the most part movement is very fast. [...]

By Zubon Zubon Jeromai had a good comment that deserves a post in response. After listing all the stuff that City of Heroes has added in the past year, he asks: “Does ‘content’ just equal progress of story, or does it include all of the above?” I leaked terms. I started the post by discussing [...]

By Zubon In a way, this is a sequel. To a game they sold to what will be a competitor. I expect many similarities between the two games, and it feels odd to me. If it were an explicit sequel, no worries, lift as much as you like. Since NCSoft now has City of Heroes, it feels kind of like plagiarism to re-use chun...

By Zubon Hey, this is about my character, why is it in the second person? Because you need to try this playstyle. If you want to see why City of Heroes is a different game from other MMOs, nothing will show you better than Kinetics. If you decide it is not your style, you will still want someone else on your...

By Zubon Empathy displays the best and the worst of City of Heroes Defenders. In some ways, it stands as a monument to cowardice, the old tank/healer/damage trinity that we see in most games. The developers left that in City of Villains, and you can see the tentatives steps away in other forms of Defen...