I hated that I had so few screenshots of my pint-size, obsidian-skinned, robotic-armed, bootie-clad hero, and that the option to simply stop in and see him again was lost to me forever when NCsoft closed its servers, arguably prematurely. (And for me personally, going back when I haven't really moved forwards in the years since would feel like an admission of defeat.)īut I didn't want the Enotmologist to die. You lived City of Heroes or you didn't you had to be obsessed with progression and willing/able to clear all your decks to play it endlessly, or you'd get nothing out of it. It would mean grind I no longer have patience for and it would mean empty nostalgia, and even if I were able to convince John, Jim and Kieron to join me in a brief return to a time when we felt like the very centre of the gaming universe, it wouldn't work.

I never really wanted to play City of Heroes again. There’ll be no Jean Gray resurrection for him.' Does he still exist on some dusty server, or have the bytes that made him been wiped forever? It doesn’t matter. 'The City of Heroes has been closed down forever, and so The Entomologist is dead. Three years ago, I wrote an epitaph for NCSoft's axed superhero MMO City of Heroes, and for my beloved character within it.

Is there a way to play city of heroes