City of Heroes

My heart missed two or three heartbeats a few hours ago. In a commercial for a video game named Master X Master, I recognized... the Statesman from City of Heroes!! Statesman was a Superman stand-in (one who would have stolen Magneto's helmet) in the massively multiplayer City of Heroes video game, whose kast server shut down on 2012, November the 30th! Plus de détails ici :   http://normantrayeng.canalblog.com/archives/2013/12/06/28600285.html A real geek trauma. So, yes, technically speaking, it's not that bad. ... [Lire la suite]

Apparently there is still a way to access the Character Creator of City of Heroes, but unfortunately it seems I don’t have the required updates… On the other hand there’s on the web a… Korean version of the Character Creator, which features the very first costume elements of the game! Since Sister Love was mainly built with basic elements, I could recreate her… It wasn’t easy, all texts were in Korean, and I couldn’t see my cursor. You certainly had to be motivated! But here she is in all her glory, saved for posterity! Well, almost,... [Lire la suite]

Sister Love was born in 2004 in City of Heroes. It was in that year that my friend Erwan, who had introduced me to the MMORPG (Massively multiplayer online role-playing game), the first I played being Dark Age of Camelot, showed me the latest game of this kind recently released in the US, City of Heroes. That was pure magic. The characters were lively, halfway between drawings and photo-real, the fight were perfectly staged and spectacular, and the poses completely « comic-booky ». The creation system was just... [Lire la suite]