April Fools' 09: City of Heroes goes old school

by Shawn Schuster Apr 1st 2009 at 7:00PM

Filed under: Super-hero, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Culture, Humor

Have you ever felt that the character customization options in City of Heroes are just too much? Sometimes they can just be too overwhelming, right? I mean, who wants to sit there and make a character that looks different from everyone else? Seriously, that's such a burden. So NCsoft has solved this problem with their newly announced City of Heroes: Golden Age. We think the premise behind CoH:GA is summed-up best by Lead Artist Ken Morse, "I think City of Heroes: Golden Age brings with it a level of detail that simply can not be accomplished with even the latest advancements in graphics technology."

Of course this is just an April Fools' prank, but it's one of the best! The tricksters at NCsoft NorCal have done a fine job tickling our nostalgia bone while bringing a smile to our faces. Check out the complete "news announcement" on their main site, and be sure to read through the text-based interface screenshots to bring back some memories. Give yourself ten points if you laughed at the Hayes-compatible modem reference, too.

Tags: april-fools-09, city-of-heroes, city-of-villains, coh, cox, ncnorcal, ncsoft-norcal

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Henry said on 7:24PM 4-01-2009

I would actually play this if it was free. I've always been surprised that City of Heroes has no metagame aspect. Imagine this: you hop on AOL to check your e-mail and the day's news, and suddenly, you receive an urgent IM telling you Paragon City is under attack. You quickly log in - as if to literally don costume and cape - rush over to the site of the Rikti attack, clean house, exchange pleasantries with fellow players, and log out again. With this MUD, it might affect the game's world; if more people participate in the MUD, there'll be less or weaker mobs in CoH, etc.

Yahree said on 12:07PM 4-02-2009

Where's the ansi color? honestly... Their parser sucks. I swear the whole thing just looks like another vanilla copy of dikuMud. Just with more bugs and less features.

Maybe I'll try it though, just for novelty. I'm getting a 2400 baud modem soon. I can't wait, it's going to be soooo fast. Gonna get 8 megs of ram too... and a 486 dx2.