Note from the Editor: These are some of the most heartfelt tributes I have ever seen to an MMO game. If you've ever played CoH, these are must watch videos.
"Yesterday City of Heroes fans uploaded two emotional tribute videos to the recently closed superhero MMORPG. Despite a petition that amassed thousands of signatures and pleas from thousands of players, City of Heroes closed its doors for good on November 30, 2012. It was a sad day for all MMO fans as City of Heroes gave birth to the now popular superhero genre, with many saying games such as DC Universe and Champions Online would not have existed without its success."
From Xfire: "It's been estimated that roughly half of the video games ever released on the market can no longer be downloaded or purchased. Whether this is exactly correct is not the point. Rather, we think that either way, the video game industry, as a whole, has done a terrible job at preserving video games and making older titles available to play for future generations."
You can play all of these games still lol. The headline is just misleading. Funny is that there is not one game in the list that you really can't play anymore due to it being online only games.
One you actually legit cannot play AT ALL is Noby Noby Boy. I miss turning my brain off and messing around in that game, was so psyched to re-download it when i rebought a ps3 slim, but you cant, even if it's in your downl library, along with a few other obscure PS3 games i had.
I would replace Transformers Devastation with War for Cybertron and Fall of Cybertron tho.
Transformers Devastation was good but not as good as Fall and War of Cybertron they should be on the list. SH 2 I can play any time I want since it came free in a $10 Xbox I bought used. The Simpsons Arcade I have on my PS3 surprised the Xmen Arcade game is not on this list or the Turtles arcade game either.
HPP: Continuing our rankings of superhero games of the past three decades, here are our rankings for the top superhero video games of the 2000s.
It might be a new decade, but I’m going to make the same old mistakes and try to predict what I think will happen in free-to-play gaming over the next calendar year. Joining me on this descent into madness will be Q and Mike, who’s choices on my predictions will be added after they’re made on the Free-to-Play Podcast...
Thank you for this article and those videos! Happily there are a large number of great videos on youtube etc. featuring the MMO I loved playing! Hoping CoH can return. /em holdtorch and thanks again! :D