City of Heroes: Some of the best NPC dialogue ever

[cericonversion]

 Someone at the studio really, really earned their writing pay one day...

A series of really well-done missions in the upper teens starts off with the PCs helping out Faultline, a young man whose supervillain father was apparently responsible for demolishing an entire district of the city, rescue his impetuous would-be heroine girlfriend, Fusionette

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[halcyon_havoc]

Cute. How long have you played CoH? I was considering trying it out, but my husband tried it years ago and said that back then it was lacking in meat once you were past the awesome character creation. Has it fleshed out any since then?

[cericonversion]

I also tried it out four or five years ago and gave up after a few months. I'm coming up on three months now, and the game's vastly improved. There's more stuff to do all along the way, both more story arcs and options in nearly every zone for random missions - stuff on the police scanner you can help with for superheroes, and stories in the newspaper that suggest possible crimes and capers for supervillains. On the active servers (like Virtue, where I play) there's also vigorous traffic in pickup grouping for task forces, chains of individual missions that run anywhere from 30 minutes for a few hours.