Original City of Heroes Vid

[RougeGunner]

it's really interesting to see all the ideas that certain ideas were in there from the beginning, such as bases and PVP. It's also ridiculous to see the fifth column and freakshow fighting people with swords. Thank god they changed that. though I do wish they kept Atlas' globe as a wire frame, but if they did, the mayor wouldn't have his office space, would he?

[jaksargent]

COH FOREVER!! :D

[kmunster001]

the fame idea sounds interesting...i wonder what made them kill it?

[aztekarrow]

A lot of people left when the changed the whole pvp system in I13.

[JLB182007]

wonder why they got rid of that lock on system...

[UncensoredRhett]

I want to know waht the 7 original origin types were.

now we have tech, science, magic, natural and mutant.

[xhris24]

@UncensoredRhett

Mutant

Altered Human

Magical Powers

Cyberware

Superior Human

Gadgeteer

Mystic Artifacts

[xhris24]

@UncensoredRhett

Mutant

Altered Human

Magical Powers

Cyberware

Superior Human

Gadgeteer

Mystic Artifacts

[LtZerge]

The more I look at alpha vids the more I think "Champions online".

Hopefully the devs there have some experience and make it work well, not the broken crap from CoH alpha. We'll see when it comes out, it does look at least promising so far.

One thing our alpha did have, though, more animations. Especially in the character screen, it was appealing. Our new one is super efficient, but not as colorful :(

[XxToixexX]

I played this game 4 over 4 years and its a gud old little game :) try it if u r in to online games x there is a gud little chat and a fun :)

[chiggz]

So true, playing since beta and still love it!!! Also for anyone who used to play it, they should maybe think about rechecking it out as ITs had a TON of addons via the expansions. New zones, contacts, powers, ect. ect. and now theres a NEW EXPANSION coming out called Going Rogue. It'll be out in next year, maybe b4. It will Introduce a new world, Praetoria and will allow Heroes/Villains to switch sides and pick new alliances!!!! OH YEAH BABY!!!!11!

[6661313]

ok wierd all my replies are showing up top not as a reply o.O lol

anyway not sure where you found this vid but awesoem to see it thanks for putting it up i like the idea of the targeting and the stances looks interesting and sounds a lot like what they have in mind for champions will be interesting to see if they actually get implemented in that one

[iviemann]

I love alot of the game but, the GRIND is sooo bad! All the Nerfing of the Dev's keeps the game out of wack and the issues come out why to slow! Also, most of the gamers thought that, with Cryptic out the game would get better, it hasn't! Same old game with the level cap the same!

[egmccann]

Oh, be serious. The game has gotten better, a level cap increase wouldn't do anything, and grind? You're kidding, right?

Yes, THIS PAST YEAR has had slower issues, but they've had some pretty big foundational changes to build on.

[iviemann]

You can think what ever you want, but after almost five years and no level increase, it's becoming a joke! (If you haven't heard yet) Also, what happened to all the "real" fun in the game...lost with Cryptic I tell you!

[dirtyddogg]

Yeah, because there's sooooooooooooooo much more grind in CoH than, say, WoW.

Also, level cap raising is a fool's game.

[iviemann]

Thats all you have to reply is with...WoW? I forgot to tell you, they have "MILLIONS" of players also! Level cap increasing is called Development, kind of like content or growth...OK! Really, come with something better then that!!!!

[dirtyddogg]

Sure. Adding content at the current level cap and not causing an entire tier of equipment it took you 3 months of farming rep in a PvP battleground to get utterly obsolete.

[lloydlloyd3]

screw you city of heroes is a good game wow is for retards hey i bet u play wow

[6661313]

chances are the lv cap will always stay the same since they would need to come up with a lot more powers or drasticly change the system and thats the misstake many games have made by changing too much and losing fans (starwars galaxies was an awesome game till sony fucked it up by trying to be WoW) for the'grind' i highly recomend having a lot of alts (i have over 70 chars ) the lv process is slower but you can always alt out to something different,the issues are frequent to other mmo's and FREE

[greenhatsandpepsi]

wat where the 7 origins?

[robinkom]

This video is full of all kinds of "No." It's shocking how much had to change before Beta.

I've been on City of Heroes for 39 months and still love it. Champions Online may be the only game able to pull me away.

[scottishhaig]

Wow - based on the narrator's comments the game has changed drastically from back in the day.

[egmccann]

Yes, it has, because the old (this is back pre-beta) design was badly broken.

[evilresidence4]

ah, back in 04, thats when the game was awesome.

[egmccann]

This is pre-beta, when the game was *broken.*

[Rebel411]

They are making "This Game" the original City of Heroes. Not NC Soft, but actually the way they designed it. It's called "Champions Online"

[GreenMonkey202]

champions online has nothing to do with coh the only thing that links them together is that ncsoft is also making champions

[egmccann]

NCSoft is not making Champions. Cryptic Studios is.

[AuburnAttack21]

interesting, the graphics were the same...

but the power tray doesn't look hat developed.

[korn567097]

Are they grey....not crey?

[UltimateSheik]

No, it is Crey Industries....

[sirsammy33]

Champions Online going kill coh i hope :D

[Solimn]

BAH! CoH will last forever! Ever since Cryptic got bought out the content has been nonstop. If you haven't looked at the upcoming Issue 12 take a look at coh. com. it's pretty nice.

[NalusVee]

If Coh was not successful, your game killer might not have been.

[dirtyddogg]

No, because Jack Emmet still has that severe case of "Vision". CoH/CoV has improved vastly with the current dev team (of 15 for one years time!!)

[Exclius]

@sirsammy33

Pfft. Champions is only decent in theory. In practice, it honestly wasn't that fun.

[Polyface2]

@sirsammy33 Champions is dead , Coh still alive mouhahahaha

[Polyface2]

@sirsammy33 , Champions is dead , Coh still alive ;) mouhahaha

[Malacandra4]

This is most likely how the new Champions Online game by Cryptic will play.

[Stiffle93]

they screwed up CoH so much...this would have been awesome.

[Alimistar]

This prototype had way too many problems, no powersets meaning you could either too easily gimp yourself by taking no attacks or you could basically make a tankmage. What it is now, isn't half bad.

[Stiffle93]

yea, that is true, but i wish you weren't restricted by class. Maybe if you could pick two different powersets regardless of class, with each powerset carrying a certain set of attributes, i would like it a little bit more.

[Woodchuck3d]

You DO get to pick two power sets per class: primary and secondary power sets.. and you get a third mini set when you reach a certain level. Have you even played the game?

[Erichristian]

Yes, I have. I still subscribe..and i've been playing for 16 months. I'm just saying that I wish that you could pick any two powersets, not just the ones that correspond to your AT.

[6661313]

ya 2 power sets but the coments note that he has multiple attack abilitys you can be a fire/ice blaster but you cant have fire and ice both in the primary (in which fire sword and ice sword both areprimary attacks)

[KTironkiller]

or at least one powersest regardless of class

[zxzxicky]

stiffle ur a dumbass u have no idea how fucking amazing the final game is

[Krownig]

heh heh the guy talking sounds like comic book man.

[kmunster001]

this looks so much cooler than what it is now. i especially liked the aim with the curser idea, i think it adds a new dimension to the game

[DesertxSnow]

I agree, I think it's a nice idea.

[Solimn]

I'm just glad that the game mechanics have been settled. Now we can get to some serious content.

[TheHamidon]

I liked the game soo much better before they nerfed it to all hell, but its good now too :D

[mase2285]

PAN THE CAMERA BACK! lol god i hate that, i always pan the camera back like 3 or 4 times, my girlfriend plays like how he is in this video and it drives me nuts, im always like "move the camera back"

[SamIAm92]

hmmm on hit kills...thatd get kind of boring, glad they changed it

[6661313]

you can still 1 hit kill stuff now even in the vid he says it tends to be 2-3 shots per kill but it was a demo chance are they where effectively grey mobs to him

[Luckymatt102]

Man....Super Speed was awesome then...now it's just a lag machien with the big Yellow Lights

I also liked the Hospital..it was much more interesting...now it's just

Die, GO to Hospital, Go to Elevator, go to door

Then it was

Die, go to Hospital, Walk down stairs, Open Door, Open Door

that was cool

[rysha101]

omg tis is so gey coh is soo diffrent now i dunt rember any of that i rember fighting a villian for 5 hours till he died

[joesilzecca]

i play that game all the time i have a werewolf villain brute name blacktooth

[ares44444]

oh wow, so is this what the game looked like when it first came out?

[spidermanwebslinge]

I used ot paly this game. My name was American Bolt, does anybody here remember me?

[ushunter40]

I knew a guy called American Bolt. Was in my sg. Did you play on JUSTICE server? Were you in a SG called The Defenders of the Constitution? I still play.

[thegaymerofgaymers]

they need to bring back the 5th coloumn in place of the council. was a lame change to the game. the ouros tf just doesnt cut it. BRING THEM BACK!

[quintonimore]

even the feel of the game is amazing

[quintonimore]

this game was so much better back then more realistic too. i wish they kept it that way

[Degalon]

...the camera angle looked better back then, like how the camera tilts when you turn.

[missmaggy2u]

omg this guy is such a moron, he all serious! ahaha! what a friggin dork!!!

[scpk2000]

The Asian robes you speak of are martial arts robes, I'm referring to monk/medieval robes, that would be worn by mages or wizards.

[LionsClaw]

how do you fly and jump without having the wind streaks from ur hands and feet?

[Pinoywarrior21]

I love city of heroes but i bought the game in late 2007 so it has alot of updates and powers when i bought the game XD

[Lovick001]

same

[ownig3pk3r]

yea lol late 2007 here

[matrox999]

i bought today the fourth day into 2008 lol

[scpk2000]

He mentioned medieval magician, but sadly there are still no mage costumes aside from a suit of armor, no robes, or staffs. Many people have requested these items but for some reason the devs don't put them in the game.

[elitedragoon2115]

i believe you can get the asian robes from cov

[mastaj14]

damn they changed the game alot since then......i woulda liked the fame thing with billboards and statues lol

[pazaropoulos]

hey guys this game is FANTASTIC does there exist any free server or i have to pay? if yes plz write the site plz

[invertin]

This is City Of Heroes, but this is an old version, it's changed a heck of alot since then. You have to pay.

[iviemann]

Yeah, its 14.95 a month or there are other options. For someone new it might be really cool!

[BunnyChi]

wow, i'm glad they didn't leave the whole attacking certain parts of the body thing in. Can you imagine how hard and rediculously complicated that would've been in large swarms of FreakShows?

[digitalbeachbum]

There are a ton of items which he is talking about which they should have kept in the game. I ended up quitting because the game got really boring.

[FireWyrm555]

wow I never realized how much they changed the game since it was first started some of that looked really cool like the costume pieces and the ability to change your costume whenever you like and the fame option I always wanted a nice big statue of my character.

[Nimoshi]

I would have liked to be able to attack wherever I chose, but I guess they removed these things because of development difficulties. Maybe they will add them someday.

[nothingisfarfromgod]

if this game is online how come i don't see any other heroes?

[bigdude1o1]

because this was like 6 years ago, they delayed it for 2 years after this, but now there is a lot of people.

[iviemann]

"Alot of people?" Who are you talking about, the almost 200k people...on a good day? LOL please, this games lost it mojo along time ago man!

[egmccann]

Um, MMOs are typically "successful" at under 100k, COH has been above that its entire life. World of yawncraft is *far* from the usual.

[nothingisfarfromgod]

i'm thinking about buyin this game how much duz it cost per month? is it very good?

[ciarajca25]

$15 a month, its nice, but the lack of items kinda pisses me off

[Woodchuck3d]

Lack of items? You can build a supergroup base FILLED with purchased and earned items including trophies, banners and vehicles... there are probably over 500 earnable badges by now plus earnable and craftable weapons, costume parts, and temp powers... and non combat pets... what kind of items are you looking for?

[iviemann]

Theres over 600 now and Wood, the way it used to be would be really great!

[Lunny06]

Yah like he said there will be statues of you and stuff... if it was in that then why not in the new one, that would be great.

[nitrousoxide52]

I like how he said the game was about effecting the world.

Funny because it isn't anything like that anymore. We have no effect on the world what so ever. No fame.

I have a feeling we just watched the trailer for "Marvel Universe Online".

[ZeroPoint88]

i would have to say that you just hit that nail on the head, if MUO ever gets finished of course, they're in development hell from what I hear.

[Gamzn]

i wish they didnt change it, and sorta do thank them for changing it. i just think they should of kept the interface like that, but poot the Sprites and graphix of the released version. insted..you know wha i mean?

[Spratlin344]

wow it was really different then

[Terdmissle9]

they have to do something, you have to WAIT for a recharge, JUST TO ATTACK WITH A SWORD, come on, i like this better, just click on them, and you attack, you have to wait for a recharge just to swing a sword :(

[jman19mwi]

they change the game alot lol this is not in the game

[sillimies2]

Man, this game sounded a lot more interesting back then, I can imagine the frustration on having to throw a ready game just because you could gimp or overpower yourself easily.

[zindayn]

wow coh changed sooooo much sience beta it's not even close to that anymore

[KingMole]

This isn't the beta, this is more of a pre-alpha. I was in the first phase of closed beta for CoH, it played roughly the same as it does now (with of course, less classes, some changes in endurance/power damage, less costume additions, no costume slots, no CoV, and everything else that has come out since it got released).

[Lunny06]

Do you see how to click a power it activates then you can continuously click the target to use it, now that pwns i hate having to wait for it to recharge.. :(

[Lunny06]

The game got worse over time. O.o wtf u could hit with ur sword over and over

now u gotto wait for it to charge, it lo9oked so fun :(

[leereever]

Yeah I was wanting a game where success was based on how rapidly I could click. That's why my MMO of choice are those flash ads where I click rapidly to box George Bush.

Seriously, the game has only gotten better with each development. People who complain there are no longer "I WIN" powers or other exploits should just go play a single player game and enter the cheat codes.

[iviemann]

leereever, people that complain see or know how it was and now it's a joke! Simple as that, I watched a game go from fun to BORING in 3 years and at 14.95 month, thats pretty infuriating.

[Neji106]

i wish it was like that

[kozgear]

hmm no loading when going through a door...

[kozgear]

Fame! I'm gonna live forever!!

[BadFish11892]

wait were u moving to avoid attacks, man things have changed

[Xzero45]

Man, watch the lip sink.

[DjTrizz]

I want different fire sword animations now D:

on the description, people could easily gimps themselves, or easily overpower themselves

[mjt10692]

i wish fly was that fast now, and super speed looked like that,and that fame thing was in effect.

[mount420]

wow ss and jumping looks alot cooler. and id like to be on a weaties box :)

[SamIAm92]

I wish it were this easy now...

[joshieboy15]

Fly was fast back then :O

[TheAfroThunder]

wow that is so different from now

[EddieOi]

wow....thats so ghetto lol, awesome man been wanting to see what it looked like way back when

[jergsden]

It's great seeing the original version of the game. Harsher death penalty, but from what I hear you had to try to die back then (Tanks especially) or it just wouldn't happen. Part of me likes the order of the restricted powersets of the current system, and a part of me would LOVE to mix powers like that.

[Solimn]

Actually this was Pre-Beta So just about everything you see here wasn't in the game.

[TrixiHill]

wow! Happy I came in after i5

[iviemann]

You should be, this game used to rock when it was at issue 2 and 3, then someone hit the retard button! What it needs now is the FUN button.

[TrixiHill]

iviemann, i commented "wow! Happy I came in after i5" a YEAR AGO. first question...how is it that i should be happy that i joined after i5 when you say it lost it's fun after i3? second... what are you replying to in your other comments?? the reply function here seems to be broken... third! why are you looking at this stuff if you clearly don't enjoy the game anymore?

*returns to mish*... i still love it!

[egmccann]

You're kidding, right? "Stand here while the tank herds, and one of the blasters nukes the floor" is not "fun." They made some much needed adjustments, and the game has only gotten better since then.

[bigdude1o1]

Your point? It beats WoW... Every other person is either a 12 year old boy that can't spell worth shit, or some guy that 'Pwns' and runs around calling people 'newbs' CoH will last... untill Champions... mabey..

[lloydlloyd3]

actually a lot of people r still playing city of heroes or saying they will stick with city of heroes

[espeon1]

LOl he used the flame sword like a actual sword.