Wikipedia, for the most straightforward nutshell description I can give you.
Anyway, CoH (and City of Villains [And Going Rogue, which is inbetween]) is a comic-style superhero DIY game that is full of amazing people and will soon be free to play (which is kind of sad, because now there will be idiots everywhere).
You can pick out of several classes (called Archetypes) that determine what kind of powers you can give your characters. Once you reach level 50 (highest level in the game), you gain a new canon archetype: a Kheldian alien, or an Arachnos minion.
The game has gone downhill though, since the invention of Architect Entertainment, or create-your-own missions/maps, which people have used to farm generously.
There's a lot of new stuff too (such as Incarnates) that I have no idea what they mean, because I'm old and stubborn.
So far I have bought all but the Magic pack and Ninja pack for both my accounts, and it seems like they are pretty cool, so I might get them someday.
My own city of heroes character creation video.
So yeah, post global names, heroes, main server, etc.
My main serv is Freedom, and my global names are @Sly and @2Sly
LIST OF GLOBAL NAMES SlyBash - @Sly, @2Sly
2worlds - @2worlds
System requirements:
Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP
Intel® Pentium® III 800 Mhz or AMD Athlon™ 800 Mhz
256 MB RAM
CD-ROM Drive
4 GB Available HDD Space
NVIDIA® GeForce 2 Series, ATI® Radeon® 7500 or Intel® i810G Series Video Card
16-bit Sound Card
56k modem
DirectX® 9.0c
Last edited by CrazyTaco; Aug 14, 2011 at 05:53 AM.