CoH Video Archive

[Blondeshell]

As I've been going through and updating the various disc release contents for Paragon Wiki, I got inspired to see how many of the official videos that were produced for City of Heroes I could collect. So, after spending the last three days researching a good YouTube video grabbing program, searching through cityofheroes.com on the Web Archive, and getting redirected to at least ten different video game review sites (both live and archived), I now have 13.6GB worth of over 100 different videos of the highest quality versions I could find. I then researched and documented when each one was originally released/published to determine as accurate of an historical timeline as I could.

I've created a YouTube channel called CoHVideoArchive where I'll be uploading them over the next several days (weeks?). My goal is to have it be a single source that people will know they can use to find a particular video. NOTE: This collection does not include any of the Ustreams, coffee talks, or other similar informal videos. It is just for promotional videos about the game products.  Hope y'all enjoy it.

Trivia: Did you know that there was a TV commercial produced for City of Heroes? Yup. It'll be on the channel!

[Samuraiko]

I actually have all of them downloaded from the COH FTP site from before it went down. If you find that you need one of better quality, let me know.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

[Blondeshell]

Do you have the E3 demo that Jack made? I don't think the one that's on YouTube already is the same, and that's the only one I couldn't get through the Web Archive.

[Samuraiko]

Nope that's the same one I have.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

[Blondeshell]

Okay, that gets rid of one question mark for me. Thanks!

[downix]

I've long lost the early promotional video which had the original names for various groups.

[Samuraiko]

I've long lost the early promotional video which had the original names for various groups.

That one is on the channel. It's the first E2 trailer.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

[Blondeshell]

Well, that certainly took less time than I expected. (I suppose it helps that I could let videos upload while I went to bed. :) ) A total of 117 videos are now live on the channel. Granted, many of the more recent ones are duplicates of the NCsoftNorCal channel, but this way they're still around in case that channel eventually goes away.

[Risha]

Thank you.

[Samuraiko]

Went ahead and pimped your new channel via my Twitter account - that should help spread the word! :)

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

[Ashen Fury]

this is incredibly cool. thank you.