Still missing it!

[Daramon]

I have been a member on COHTitan for a while and always read but never have posted.

In honor/rememberence I have to say as a family we truly miss you COH/COV.

In 2005, my wife and myself started playing COH.  We had alot of fun finding something that we could do together.  Over the years we met and had real friendships with many other players.  We spent the last 2 weeks keeping our toons on as much as we could standing on the Paragon City Hall steps in Atlas park.  No game has peaked my wifes interest in playing since.

Thanks to everyone and everything you post, as it keeps some of the best memories alive.

[Pyromantic]

I know this is a sentiment echoed throughout the forum here. 

I miss the game a great deal, and while I manage to fill the gap somewhat with other games, there is nothing that captured my attention the way that City did.  There was truly something special about it that no other game captures.

[doc7924]

I was just going to post something similar. It's been over 2 years and I still think about this game at least once a day.

Used to be I would hang out in the game for hours at a time - even if I wasn't doing any missions or anything. Just being logged in, reading the chats, maybe chiming in now and again, maybe help a lowbie if I had a support character, or just travel around the zones for the fun of it.

Just being in the city was good enough for me most of the time.

I log into Champions or DCU sometimes but its not the same - I have no interest in just hanging around or traveling the zones unless I am on a mission or a team.

Sometimes I just close my eyes, and in my head. log in and daydream I am in there.

[Power Gamer]

We hope for the day that our city will return.  :'(

[Lycantropus]

The biggest fear I had was that the little SG I was a part of would fall apart. I feel so fortunate that we didn't. However, we all vowed and worked hard (even through some really crappy games some of us wanted to try) to stay together during our weeknights.

Yes, some have left for other things, as life happens, but at large we stuck through it and have found other worlds to visit. That's one of the things our City has given all of us, that still come here, and those that stuck together past the Going Dark. The times we spent, memories we have, and bonds that have managed to remain can be beyond price.

Granted, we still find things in those other places that just don't match up to what we had, and say "there's no place like home" but make due, because it's what we do. Heh, I wear my CoH T-Shirts when I go to con's and feel the warmth and strength of our community when someone recognizes them, and am happy that I let someone else out there know I hadn't forgotten either.

It sounds trite, typing it, but the experience for me is anything but. I can only presume it was as meaningful for them, taking the effort to be there as well. It was a good feeling.

And like everyone here... I lurk and check with hope from time to time. It says something very special about our City that so many of us still post, check in, and continue to love the City we were all once a part of, and still are, if only in our hearts.

I don't post a lot either, but thank you for your post Daramon. As others have said, it matches the sentiment of everyone who has persevered here, continuing to hold on to hope.  :)

Lyc~

[Alanj95]

I've played City of Heroes off and on since an issue or two before City of Villains came out.
I am Nineteen years of age at present, which means that I've been playing since I was quite young.
I do hope that City of Heroes returns soon.

[GenericHero05]

I have been a member on COHTitan for a while and always read but never have posted.

In honor/rememberence I have to say as a family we truly miss you COH/COV.

In 2005, my wife and myself started playing COH.  We had alot of fun finding something that we could do together.  Over the years we met and had real friendships with many other players.  We spent the last 2 weeks keeping our toons on as much as we could standing on the Paragon City Hall steps in Atlas park.  No game has peaked my wifes interest in playing since.

Thanks to everyone and everything you post, as it keeps some of the best memories alive.

Back in the Summer of 2004 I purchased CoH at the local GameStop. I had never ventured into MMO land but all my co-workers were playing. I was hooked from the start. Actually, the only reason I initially played was that there was this really hot girl at work who was playing and I figured that by playing the game and teaming up with her we would sort of be hanging out together after work (even if it was only on the computer). It worked. We've been married since 2006.

By shutdown, our two children had heroes in the game.

We all terribly miss CoH.

[Abraxus]

I started playing about 2 weeks after it came on-line.  I had never played an MMO before, and all of my friends (who had talked me into this) had just come from years of playing EverQuest together for years before, so they understood the basic mechanics.  I remember feeling pretty overwhelmed just keeping up with the group, let along contributing anything useful. 

Over the next couple of years, I was still going strong, but a lot of the group I started with stopped playing, or moved on to other things.  I just kept going, because I LOVED IT!  By this point, my younger son (who was about 5 at the time) was so captivated by what he saw me doing on-screen, he wanted to play.  I let him sign into my account, and create a character on a different server.  He was hooked!  It was not long before he wanted his own account (which he paid for with chores.....most of the time), and he played that game right to the very end.  I played almost to the end myself.  When I heard that it was closing down, I admit I lost some interest, and let myself get talked into moving over to SWTOR.  Also, I just could not bear the thought of watching the servers go down for the last time.  I have some very cool memories from that game, some great in-game experiences, and a wonderful shared experience with my son.

We are both watching the "Taskforce Hail Mary" thread for news of the games return every day, because we will both be there when our long lost friend returns.

[Dev7on]

I've been feeling the same way. Today I was really in the mood to play City of Heroes, but, unfortunately, I can't play it.  :gonk: It's heartbreaking for me not playing City of Heroes. All I can do is re-look at my awesome memories I had playing City of Heroes. I miss the game too.  :gonk:

[Angel Phoenix77]

I've been feeling the same way. Today I was really in the mood to play City of Heroes, but, unfortunately, I can't play it.  :gonk: It's heartbreaking for me not playing City of Heroes. All I can do is re-look at my awesome memories I had playing City of Heroes. I miss the game too.  :gonk:

I know how you feel, I have an intense urge to play City of. But for now I am unable to :( Watching play throughs is not helping :(.

[HeatSpike1]

I know how you feel, I have an intense urge to play City of. But for now I am unable to :( Watching play throughs is not helping :(.

one day...  8)

[Mr. Health]

Yeh, watching CoH on youtube just makes the hurt worse. Sometimes you just get in the mood where you think 'Urgh, anything that isn't CoH bores me' and i'll find myself mindlessly playing other MMO's without a care as to what i'm doing. But then i remember good ol' Dumbledore - "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." So i forget about the CoH revival efforts for a while and when i do remember i think "Oh boy there must be a big update by now." ...It's a vicious cycle, but i live in hope of it being broken.

[Ice Trix]

I miss it a lot too. So does my daughter.
Demos and Icon can be bittersweet at times, but still worth it.

[doc7924]

I miss it a lot too. So does my daughter.
Demos and Icon can be bittersweet at times, but still worth it.

I like to use Icon sometimes. I can appreciate a lot more now the design of the zones and have discovered a lot of clever billboards and other little touches that I never noticed in the 8 years I played the game.

Its weird with the maps being so empty and lifeless, but its better then not having it at all.

[Paragon Avenger]

Yeh, watching CoH on youtube just makes the hurt worse. Sometimes you just get in the mood where you think 'Urgh, anything that isn't CoH bores me' and i'll find myself mindlessly playing other MMO's without a care as to what i'm doing. But then i remember good ol' Dumbledore - "It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live." So i forget about the CoH revival efforts for a while and when i do remember i think "Oh boy there must be a big update by now." ...It's a vicious cycle, but i live in hope of it being broken.

Never take advice from fictional characters, but Dumbledore is right.

[artbunker]

Man the power of this game was amazing. I don't know of many games where folks made such great friendships and bonds on. I hope the game comes back soon . I know a lot of friendships will be reborn from it.

[Abraxus]

Man the power of this game was amazing. I don't know of many games where folks made such great friendships and bonds on. I hope the game comes back soon . I know a lot of friendships will be reborn from it.

And a lot of new ones formed as well!  A whole new generation of players will come to the game, all but assuring that CoH will live on in some form for a long time.  All of that great stuff is just waiting for it to come back, and I am keeping hope alive that it will.

[Paragon Avenger]

The lack of forced grind
The ease of play
The depth of enhancements, TO, DO, SO, IO, IO Sets.
The focus on team chat.
The focus on team play, without being forced into it.
The way the game made you feel like the hero, or like you just got away with something.
      --When I earned my first cape
      --The story arc of your VEAT writing your own name on the list of the chosen ones, classic.
In CO, I have a level 17 character, and NPC's keep running up to me to thank me for what I did in the tutorial.  I'm like, "Thanks, but what about what I've done since?"
CoH seemed to thank you for stuff after it happened and then move on.
And The story behind the game.
The Trolls use superadine to turn into Supra Trolls.
Crey made Superadine.
The Freakshow were the muscle behind Crey, (for things they didn't want to get their hands dirty with.)
The Outcasts and the Trolls were at war.
The Council was being taken over by The 5th Column.
Arachnos ran the rogue Isles and wanted a piece of Paragon City.
And it all was a Nemisis plot.
And on and on.

(Hey Mister, give us our ball back.)

[HeatherNN878]

I started playing CoH when I was 12 years old, I'm now 20 and I still think about it very often. Today I found myself really missing all of the friendships I made throughout the years and went in search of anything related to CoH and I found this! It's amazing to think how many others think the same way I do. I just wish there was a way to reconnect with all of the friends we made in the game. Hopefully one day it will come back!

[Paragon Avenger]

I started playing CoH when I was 12 years old.

Ummm, I'm telling. The rules said that you had to be 16 or over to play.  You'll going to jail.  ;D
Ok, just kidding.  Most of the time most people behaved themselves and even a 10 year old could play.