07-07-2025, 09:15 PM
the one "big" game i played for a couple of years that required long time span group comittment for what passed for dungeons was City of Heroes. It was all a connected path of quests and dungeon runs that you had to do to get to the big fight at the end.
they were INTENDED for 8 people to group up, bang out some of it, and come backto keep chipping away at it over multiple days. in REALITY, we would do signups for a day on the weekend and then run until we died or the boss did. The long one (at the time) was about 8-9 hours, assuming you had at least one guy with Superspeed and one guy with Flight (for the zone that didn't have solid ground) and both of those people took Teleport All. It was more like 12 hours if you had neither of those things and had to slog it the hard way.
i am still so, so proud for leading that run - I had a list on a clipboard of every shortcut it was possible to take to keep us organized. i cherished that badge! i am also so, so glad that modern MMOs do not do that anymore. it's impressive in hindsight and we still liked each other at the end, but man, who's got nine continuous hours anymore? I'm watching Lucid Dream in snapshort of an hour before bedtime!
they were INTENDED for 8 people to group up, bang out some of it, and come backto keep chipping away at it over multiple days. in REALITY, we would do signups for a day on the weekend and then run until we died or the boss did. The long one (at the time) was about 8-9 hours, assuming you had at least one guy with Superspeed and one guy with Flight (for the zone that didn't have solid ground) and both of those people took Teleport All. It was more like 12 hours if you had neither of those things and had to slog it the hard way.
i am still so, so proud for leading that run - I had a list on a clipboard of every shortcut it was possible to take to keep us organized. i cherished that badge! i am also so, so glad that modern MMOs do not do that anymore. it's impressive in hindsight and we still liked each other at the end, but man, who's got nine continuous hours anymore? I'm watching Lucid Dream in snapshort of an hour before bedtime!
