There are a few other players to be found here and there, though most simply stand still, typing into public chat, enjoying being back together far more than playing a game which only allows you, in its current form, to go through the most rudimentary motions of an MMO. This experience would be entirely pointless if it wasn't so damned good to simply be there, in this place, seeing that some part of my past still lives despite its untimely death. Those places were my home, and it's frustrating that they're inaccessible for now. Most distressingly, I cannot access transport powers, so dear Ento's super-jump is denied to me, and as such I cannot reach the rooftops and spires and giant fibreglass donuts of the city's skyline. I cannot fight anyone, I cannot talk to NPCs, I cannot even move between zones without entering a command line. And, well, I must have gotten something in my eye.Ĭity of Heroes is not truly reborn, but a living memorial to it has come online. I took him for a walk through his old stomping grounds, posed him between the feet of colossal statues, gazed at the energy fields which separated the zones of Paragon City, took screenshot after screenshot of his tiny, ridiculous form. I hated that I had so few screenshots of my pint-size, obsidian-skinned, robotic-armed, bootie-clad hero, and that the option to simply stop in and see him again was lost to me forever when NCsoft closed its servers, arguably prematurely. (And for me personally, going back when I haven't really moved forwards in the years since would feel like an admission of defeat.)īut I didn't want the Enotmologist to die. You lived City of Heroes or you didn't you had to be obsessed with progression and willing/able to clear all your decks to play it endlessly, or you'd get nothing out of it. It would mean grind I no longer have patience for and it would mean empty nostalgia, and even if I were able to convince John, Jim and Kieron to join me in a brief return to a time when we felt like the very centre of the gaming universe, it wouldn't work. I never really wanted to play City of Heroes again. There’ll be no Jean Gray resurrection for him." Does he still exist on some dusty server, or have the bytes that made him been wiped forever? It doesn’t matter. "The City of Heroes has been closed down forever, and so The Entomologist is dead. Three years ago, I wrote an epitaph for NCSoft's axed superhero MMO City of Heroes, and for my beloved character within it.
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