Hello, my name is Eliot, and back when City of Heroes launched the character I made at launch 20 years ago could not kill a Level 11 Bone Daddy in a very basic mission. My character was badly made, I did not know what I was doing, and I must have died like a dozen times trying to kill a level 11 boss that is supposed to be your tutorial for “sometimes things are hard.” I have become better in the years since – I know what I am doing now – but again, this is a real story that very definitely happened. I tell myself no flattering lies.
I think that we all have times when we find ourselves dying over and over in an MMO to something that we know should not be hard. Heck, sometimes that’s part of why we keep dying to it. This shouldn’t be hard. You know it shouldn’t be hard. Why am I dying over and over? So what challenge in an MMORPG resulted in your most shameful string of deaths? Numerous respawns and/or corpse runs for something that really should not have been that challenging?
Every morning, the Massively Overpowered writers team up with mascot Mo to ask MMORPG players pointed questions about the massively multiplayer online roleplaying genre. Grab a mug of your preferred beverage and take a stab at answering the question posed in today’s Daily Grind!
