Oct 28th, 2005

[Jawbreaker]

I called out of work that day.

 

[Apparition]

Best day in the game's history.  Meant the only times I would see Paragon City from that day forward was to rob it!  Mwahahahahaha!

[Frostbiter]

Ah yes, the launch of City of Brutes. I remember making my first villain a Ninja/Traps Mastermind. I was...less than impressed and rerolled a few days later to Robots/Forcefield.

[ImpousVileTerror]

Prior to launch day, I was in the CoV Beta's first wave of invites.  I waited until the end of the day, and then installed it on every computer in the Q/A lab at my studio of the time.  Got some eye-rolls from my peers, but I don't know if any of the managers even noticed.

I had the Login screen up on every computer as people were leaving for the day, with the Fort Blood theme blasting from all of them!

https://archive.paragonwiki.com/w/images//d/dc/PortOakes_FortBlood.ogg

 

Ah . . . to be young, dumb, and that hyped.  Now I'm just dumb.

 

Edited July 9, 2020 by ImpousVileTerror
Changed link.

[Greycat]

Here we go.

End of COV Beta - beating down on Agent Abbot...  Psyche and other heroes/devs coming to fight... and manticore about to have a bad day.  Think I still have a photo for the receipt for the collectors box somewhere, too. (I don't recall why we needed that.)

[JnEricsonx]

Ah....good times.  I remember someone having to explain to me how much defense FF did actually give you, and so forth.  Man, once you could view combat attributes, and enhancement numbers more directly...world changed.