The Oh, Oh, The Oh, Oh, My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you'll sing to watch out for

Fireballs. It is a Games Club podcast. And this week we're talking about City of

Heroes, which is a massively multiplayer online RPG, developed developed by cryptic studios and published by

NC soft for the PC in 2004.

Yeah and this unusual episode is executive produced by Stephen.

Thank you Stephen.

It's very special.

It's our first MMO.

They said it couldn't be done.

And it couldn't.

Yeah, you can decide how right that is.

These, we've been resistant to doing this kind of thing because it is a lifestyle,

it requires a time commitment, and level of investment that we don't have generally we cannot afford while we do

the show weekly but the and they're moving targets yeah so this is something

where your experience with

City of Heroes playing it as it was in development will be different than ours.

Things changed over time, you have a different relationship with it. That's okay.

We decided one, we like starting the format, two, there's some value

in the experience of what, talking about the experience of what somebody would have if they were trying this for 20 hours.

Yes.

You know, the first 20 hours of this still is extant, even if the real appeal of the game

or if things that are interesting about it happened later only happen when you have like a

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