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Title: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: psduckie on May 07, 2017, 04:45:43 PM
You know you've played too much CoH when you have a hard time not calling a villain's influence (in another game or even in a book) "infamy."

You know you've played too much CoH when you think of characters in other games as hero, villain, vigilante, or rogue.

(Just posting this for fun!  I'm looking forward to seeing what other people say "you know you've played too much CoH when..."  And yes, I did do both of the things I posted.)
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Nyghtshade on May 09, 2017, 02:07:16 AM
I knew I'd been playing COH too much early on, when I realized that when I'd take the dog out, I'd unthinking assume the hands-on-hips hero stance!   :D
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: psduckie on May 09, 2017, 02:18:23 AM
You know you've played too much CoH when you design a boss for an RP and think "Is this an Archvillain or just an Elite Boss?"
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Tahquitz on May 09, 2017, 06:29:42 AM
When you call yourself an exemplar by accident at work during the training of new employees.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: eabrace on May 09, 2017, 08:08:37 AM
Quote from: Tahquitz on May 09, 2017, 06:29:42 AM
When you call yourself an exemplar by accident at work during the training of new employees.
I'm actually amazed that I haven't done that yet.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: crashpositron on May 09, 2017, 10:52:24 PM
. . . . when you roll your scroll wheel and move the mouse when looking at a still picture to see it from another angle . . I do this all the time
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: psduckie on May 10, 2017, 04:15:24 AM
You know you've played too much CoH when you think of your characters from other games as one of the CoH archetypes.  I actually do that.

My character in WoW would be a Demon/Dark Mastermind.  As for the FF14 characters I RP...



You know you've played too much CoH when you look at a map in another game (in my case LOTRO) and are reminded of the Circle of Thorns (or any other enemy group, but for me it was the Circle).
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: cmgangrel on May 10, 2017, 01:51:15 PM
Quote from: crashpositron on May 09, 2017, 10:52:24 PM
. . . . when you roll your scroll wheel and move the mouse when looking at a still picture to see it from another angle . . I do this all the time

I do this quite a bit whenever i watch stuff on twitch, and they just have the game and no overlay.

I actually caught myself doing it with my FFXIV wallpaper.....
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Dev7on on May 11, 2017, 04:15:30 AM
You know I've played too much CoH when you hear sound FX by watching TV shows and movies that came from the game you be like "That's the Force Field sound FX or that's the Fiery Aura sound FX!"  ;D
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: eabrace on May 12, 2017, 04:05:27 AM
The ring tone on my phone is still Minebeep_loop.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Tubbius on May 12, 2017, 06:31:51 AM
I discuss comic book characters in terms of City archetypes. . . with a friend who never even played City.  :(
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: psduckie on May 12, 2017, 04:37:41 PM
I know I've played too much CoH.  I'm installing Mids to make CoH builds based on my FF14 characters.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Paragon Avenger on May 18, 2017, 04:11:53 AM
You know that you've played City of Heroes too much when you have your name legally changed to ...

The Paragon Avenger!!!

Spoiler for Hidden:
(ok, that would never happen)
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Vee on May 18, 2017, 05:00:06 AM
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on May 18, 2017, 04:11:53 AM
You know that you've played City of Heroes too much when you have your name legally changed to ...

The Paragon Avenger!!!

Spoiler for Hidden:
(ok, that would never happen)

Because the character creator wouldn't let you use 'The' as part of your name?
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: LateNights on May 18, 2017, 07:27:31 AM
Yeah you could, it was an option, like wearing a badge...
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Vee on May 18, 2017, 08:06:15 AM
You could have it as a title, not part of your name. I had to rename a toon Th' Klapp because the NPC's refused to say it in a properly amusing to my juvenile self way.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Paragon Avenger on May 21, 2017, 04:57:40 PM
Quote from: Paragon Avenger on May 18, 2017, 04:11:53 AM
You know that you've played City of Heroes too much when you have your name legally changed to ...

The Paragon Avenger!!!

Spoiler for Hidden:
(ok, that would never happen)

Quote from: Vee on May 18, 2017, 05:00:06 AM

Because the character creator wouldn't let you use 'The' as part of your name?

Not my character's name.  My name in RL.  Yeah, that would definately mean I did something too much.

Editor's Note: Nested quote -- fixed. :)  -- Tahquitz
Thanx, Tahquitz you saved the day.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Vee on May 21, 2017, 07:06:49 PM
I expected your RL name change to reflect game parameters though. So disillusioned now. Next you'll be telling us you don't have your name rigged with wire and fishing line so it floats over your head.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: psduckie on May 21, 2017, 07:12:08 PM
You know you've played too much CoH when you think of making Praetorian versions of your characters from other games.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Paragon Avenger on May 21, 2017, 09:47:17 PM
Quote from: Vee on May 21, 2017, 07:06:49 PM
I expected your RL name change to reflect game parameters though. So disillusioned now. Next you'll be telling us you don't have your name rigged with wire and fishing line so it floats over your head.

Throw in the health bars and that would save so much time at the doctor's office.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: crashpositron on May 22, 2017, 06:16:21 PM
That would speed up your pharmacy, too - 'You have about 75% of your Health left - swallow a couple of Greens or find someone spamming a Heal aura'
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Paragon Avenger on May 24, 2017, 03:27:55 AM
Quote from: crashpositron on May 22, 2017, 06:16:21 PM
That would speed up your pharmacy, too - 'You have about 75% of your Health left - swallow a couple of Greens or find someone spamming a Heal aura'

Yeah, but we would have to get counterfiet greens from Canada here in the States, because the price of the real deal is too high.  In Canada and the U.K. you will have to wait enqueued for several weeks.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Paragon Avenger on May 29, 2017, 10:13:24 PM
You know that you've played City of Heroes too much when, ...

Every morning I check outside the front door to make sure that there aren't any Clockwork or Trolls or Outcasts hanging around.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Jhessail on June 02, 2017, 08:51:17 AM
You know that you've played City of Heroes too much when, ...


It's ALL a Nemesis plot!
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Kelltick on June 02, 2017, 04:05:37 PM
Quote from: Jhessail on June 02, 2017, 08:51:17 AM
You know that you've played City of Heroes too much when, ...


It's ALL a Nemesis plot!

Wait...it isn't?!?
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: themichigami on July 30, 2017, 06:20:06 AM
when you almost get kicked from a minecraft server for having a small memorial to CoH in your backyard that reads "Never forget Virtue Server, City of Heroes" because the babymod had never played, and one of the senior mods had to give him a headpat and a "go sit in the corner, it's not advertising another minecraft server, dummy" talk, and then we commiserated about the game for a while.

possible bonus "too much" points for buying embroidered patches of archetype and origin symbols off Etsy.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Floride on August 01, 2017, 08:28:03 AM
You know you've played too much CoH when... you're playing some other video game and you immediately assume the item you just earned is rare because the name of it is in purple.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Super Firebug on August 02, 2017, 04:48:51 AM
Quote from: Dev7on on May 11, 2017, 04:15:30 AM
You know I've played too much CoH when you hear sound FX by watching TV shows and movies that came from the game you be like "That's the Force Field sound FX or that's the Fiery Aura sound FX!"  ;D

Something like that actually happened to me! I was watching a movie (of course, I can't remember which one it was), and, during a scene in which some police cars were gathered at an incident, I heard, on the police radio, the familiar CoH police-drone radio call, in the very same dispatcher voice: "7835, code 6, 105 North Avenue 52".
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Hagis on August 12, 2017, 03:49:33 PM
When your children can hum the bars of the atlas park opening music.... and they were born post shutdown.
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: Borealys on August 19, 2017, 12:14:55 PM
You know you've played too much CoH when, to this day, you STILL do "The Washer" dance from the Actions menu... to almost every song you hear on the radio past and present :)
Title: Re: You know you've played too much CoH when...
Post by: ryuplaneswalker on August 27, 2017, 10:54:55 PM
During Double XP weekend, just after Purple Invention IOs came out I spent the entire weekend doing Katie Hannon TFs..

after about 20 hours of doing them I zoned out..and apparently did most of it through muscle memory cause I didn't remember doing the missions between the start and the last 10 boss rush.