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So apparently City of Heroes is 5 years old recently? So they sent me an e-mail informing me that, hey, free play for a week. Come see our new stuff. So, on a complete whim, I took the time to download the client and play a little more with Crossfox, my hero I haven’t played with in, gods, years.

It’s clear that they’ve added no less than like 4 million new features to the game. The moment I logged in, there were all kinds of pop-ups telling me I had access to things I had only heard about vaguely in press releases and whatnot. It was overwhelming. So I ignored basically all of them and just ran around and killed people.

It’s nice to know that my character, who is like… an Empathy/Psychic Blast Defender, is still completely useless in combat. Psychic Blast has a neat sniper power, but goodness, I can do NOTHING unless I’m in a group throwing down heals. I feel like such a complete pansy. Just like I remembered!
It’s also a bit unfortunate that some missions still don’t have very clear indicators of where to go. I have a mission that I probably didn’t finish back in the day for just this reason, which tells me I need to “Kill 7 Clockwork” in this area. But I wandered around aimlessly and didn’t see a single steampunk robot. It was pretty frustrating! So I did other missions. They did add indicators for stuff like stores and whatnot, though, making those easier to find. I remember having my mind blown originally when I was told there was stores. “What? I can BUY THINGS?”

City of Heroes is still a fairly solid MMO. You have so many movement options, it’s kind of empowering in that regard, and it’s the most customizable thing around. You can only do MORE of that now, with being able to have multiple costumes and, hell, the new mission architect that lets you make your own missions instead of playing the ones in game. I think it’s pretty damn impressive how they latched onto the fact that that is the key feature of their game and are really pushing the crap out of it. I think that’s really neat. I give the game my seal of approval.

Still, since WoW, I seriously can’t play MMOs. I’ve done about 3 missions, and I really doubt I will boot the game up again. WoW is a hard, apparently impossible, act to follow, and the fact that I get my level grind, lewt getting fix from KoL, Twilight Heroes, and the like doesn’t help either. Every time I try to play an MMO again, I realize I am never going back, even if I had a group of friends to party with. And you know? That’s probably alright. I’ll leave that to my brother. Yep.