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I feel like one Superhero verse that was extremely well developed was City of Heroes.

Yeah, it was built to be a video game setting, but you had all the genre conventions, so that all the genre conventional threats were covered.

Circle of Thorns was the magic conspiracy. Crey Industries was the evil science corporation. Nemesis was the “plans within plans super planner” type. Malta Operatives brought in the evil superhero registration act types while not invalidating the friendly “on the side of justice” feel you had. Knives of Artemis were basically cat burglar mercenaries aesthetic, even though they were actually assassins. And there were plenty of superpowered street gangs ranging from Skyway City to Atlas Park.

And, of course, there was Praetoria, your “the main hero group is evil in this parallel dimension” group, which was pretty cool to face off against.

ty-inks

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deeum

Playing City of Heroes aggaaainnn. My Brute, Retro Wave

rabbiteclair

have fun waiting in your 3000 person ffxiv login queue suckers, I'm finally getting Stone Melee scrappers after wanting them for literally a decade

digital-magus

CITY OF HEROES! CITY OF HEROES REFERENCE IN WAR FOR THE OVERWORLD!

In level 8 of the main campaign, a special necromancy-themed level here you go around a crypt and raise skeletal ghouls… and one of the high priestesses defending the crypt just said, with full on subtitles and everything “Go. Hunt. Kill Skulls.”

rabbiteclair

Going back to City of Heroes after spending a lot of time with FFXIV makes me really wish that more MMOs were designed with the same philosophy that it was/is. Like I know why basically none of them are. You absolutely cannot have tightly balanced fights where +/-10% DPS might be a huge make-or-break difference in a game where every single player can easily carry in 40 stackable minute-long +25% damage consumables. You can't enforce a strict tank/DPS divide in a game where any given character can potentially attain a permanent ~95% chance to avoid damage from most attacks.

But what you can do is bumrush the players with about 200 adds during a big team boss fight, or make them fight a ridiculous pile of bosses all at once. And I find that spontaneous 'look, you figure it out, pretty much all of you are OP' chaos a hell of a lot more interesting than fights where you need a chart to tell you where to stand during the clockwise stage of the boss's third phase.

mrnelson007

One thing I unironically love about City of Heroes is the shitty early 3D procedural generation it uses where nothing makes sense. Just, here’s a door I went in, there’s an office desk immediately next to the janitor’s closet and that’s it. Love it.

And also this one vending machine. The janitor gets his own office and private vending machine, you love to see it.

Or here’s a gigantic room with a staircase and… two restrooms. I mean good on them for having sanitation needs covered but somewhat inconvenient.

Or you come down these stairs to a room with 6 cubicles and no other way in or out. Pretty sure that’s not ADA compliant.

Somehow it just feels way more funny to me when it’s real-world locations instead of like wizard towers having non-Euclidean architecture. Whatever, wizards are crazy, he probably just teleports. Imagine trying to find your desk in this office.

squishyproductions

City of Heroes

City of Heroes is free.

It’s not the only reason you should play it. It’s a great game that came out in the sweet spot when games had modern mechanics but hadn’t slipped into loot boxes and gambling.

But City of Heroes is free. The game proper got shut down years ago and it’s been not only revived but revolutionized by fan run servers which you do not have to pay to play on. No subscriptions. No ads. No loot boxes. You can donate on their webpage to help cover server costs. But that’s it. Play it now. Forever. Have access to everything in the game. Never pay a dime.

In gaming’s modern hellscape that’s pretty huge. But, on top of that, City of Heroes is also a great game with a very powerful character creator tool set that let’s you create any manner of character. The people running the server have also updated it with new classes, new power sets, new character creation options, new missions, new enemy types.

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/23100-how2-basic-installation-guide-windows/

If you’re looking for a new game to play or perhaps you’re looking for a distraction for your kids that wont result in a 10,000 charge showing up on your bank statement because they got fucking played the new Diablo and got your credit card number when you weren’t looking.

rin-hanarin

Clingy and possessive? Damn bro, get well soon.

dragonprincessmew

Pokemon headcanon that once Absol are studied and people realize they prevent disasters instead of causing them, particularly dangerous workplaces get themselves a workplace Absol and it also decreases accidents.

Construction sites and fishing ships and factories will have one that pretty much just lazes about until it just gets up howling one day and knocks a dude down. They almost never figure out what would have happened but they're always like "yes absol thank you absol I am so grateful to be on the floor right now. Can I offer you a treat in this trying time"

transgenderrari-moved

guerrillatech

runcibility

It's that or "Just rely on your wealthy relatives! Everyone has those, right?"

crtter

turing-tested

killjoynest

pirating stuff is always good dont listen to anyone who says not to. use those adfree spotify/youtube apps search up those comics google drives open everything on readcomics emulate every nntendo game ever etc etc life is short and piracy is funny and money isnt real

hopefulmillennial

called-kept

#faith has just dragged her hands across her face and gotten up off the bathroom floor#charity has just taken deep breaths after sending something serious but necessary#hope has had her face on the steering wheel of her parked car for the past ten minutes#and finally stands up to go in even though it's hard

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thatskepticalbitchcara

no more marvel. no more booktok books with the same cover. no more poetry collections that are written solely for the quotes to circulate online. no more songs written with the intention of going viral. please i’m begging.

thatskepticalbitchcara

additionally.. no more influencers. no more tiktok. no more hustle/grind culture. no more cover letters. everyone be quiet. go sit on a porch and smell the fresh air.

blackfemmejeanvaljean

brawltogethernow

I use too many devices to keep track of all the panels I’ve saved of “Peter flirting with men or otherwise indicating he’d be dtf”, so fuck it, I’m going to stick them all on this post as I rediscover them.

brawltogethernow