While I could still materially fly through the steel canyons, heavenly cityscapes and boldly virtuous populace of Paragon City, I had five active heroes; Remousamavi, of course, and also Electro-Firebond, Sivalarizhaxil, Megagus-X, and Paragon Defender; all of them either Blasters or Scrappers, and one Origin each. I liked to pretend we had our own little place in one of the buildings in Blyde Square, Steel Canyon. I still remember exactly which row of four windows it was.
I could not be online as all five of them at once, of course, so I had to pick one of them to "be" the five; Remousamavi, naturally. I was there in the final three hours, with an absolutely
gigantic crowd of people. There were so many that not everybody could fit on the top of the great globe in Atlas Park; a lot of people hovered above and around it instead. Somewhere in the last two hours, the War Witch herself - not a user-made copy, but the
actual, genuine, War-Witch, created and played by the CoX devs themselves, showed up and chatted with us. I was among the tens who were there in the center of that globe (And another many tens, as the mapserver had to make many duplications of AP as there were so damn many people), while Dimensional Radio broadcast a special farewell series.
Songs in this series included but were not limited to:
Here's To The Heroes - The Ten Tenors This also reminded me of the Vulcan Planetary Anthem "Live Long and Prosper".
At The End - Dave 202 & Phil Green Give this one a listen when you get the chance; the melody is out of this world.
The Hero - Mike Oldfield This one happened with less than half an hour left to go on the lives of the CoX servers. My first time hearing it, alongside everyone else around me listening to it, was among my favorite five minutes in the active life of the game.
Russia - Magna Canta See 'The Hero'.
The very last five minutes of City of Heroes was given, after a much teary farewell from DJ Static, the song "Nothing in this world is forever", whose chorus ran thus: "Nothing in this world is forever, but nothing you do is in vain".
My three favorites of the playlist were, in order from third to favorite, were Mike Oldfield's "The Hero", Magna Canta's "Russia", and one other:
City of Heroes, though it may no longer be materially playable, will be forever in the memories of those who were there to the very end, and many others who did not have the luxury of being there with everybody else in the final hours, but whose lives were equally shaped by a game one of a kind in this day and age. It will be for us what The Beatles were for another generation in another day and age; even though we cannot anymore play the game materially, it will continue to influences us as the one-of-a-kind Superhero MMO fighting for the greater good and virtuous. It therefore seems most appropriate that this game will forever be in our:
Electric Dreams - Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakey.LONG LIVE THE CITY OF HEROES!!
VIVE LA VILLE DES HEROS!!
LANG LEBE DER STADT VON HELD!!
