What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?
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@Colette said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
attempted to create an approximately comics-accurate merge of DC & Marvel status quo.
In no meaningful way has that ever been true except for major tentpole characters, and even with them primarily just the FF and Superman. On UH, the New Mutants was an infamous clusterfuck because half of us were our comic ages, mid 20s, and half of us were teenagers - just like some of the core X-Men. When a friend wanted to play Oracle, she was approved and then unapproved because, quote, “Batman would put her in a robot body.” On HA, I needed to get Dr Doom’s permission to say he was the origin of Titania’s powers. At a point when Batman Beyond was running around in the present in comics, Terry was repeatedly ruled a banned character because somebody on staff decided it would cheapen and age Batman and got very angry about it.
Even when it wasn’t explicitly enforced, these games have always been predominantly Year One. It’s one of the reasons all of them are so generic. Two different games but there is no meaningful difference between the SuperHero MUSH of 1998 and SuperHero MUSH of 2026, just as there’s no meaningful difference between them and HMUX, UH, HA, and the other who-knows-how-many games that have used the exact same setup in the time I’ve been online.
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@Prototart
UH still has its website up, you could go take a look. You’ll see things like“The Avengers, first called together by Fury in 2021 to stop an attack by Loki, have become public icons, with t-shirts, toys, and all manner of merchandise for sale, though they still pale in comparison to the Fantastic Four in that regard.”
That’s for a game set in 2031 (though I remember it being 2027 when I was there, so I guess they’ve updated that). Iron Man and Batman started in 2015. X-Men and Fantastic Four in 2017. Peter Parker bitten by a radioactive spider in the same year.
HAM: Batman from 2005, X-Men 2011, etc. The Avengers were supposed to be the brand new team, having been established just 2 years prior to game day zero in 2018. Hell even the Titans were around for five years and disbanded for another three before the start of play.
SHM: JLA, this year. X-Men, not founded. Avengers, not founded. Titans, not founded. Etc.
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@Colette It sounds like UH is still up, and they would like to start over. I’m not sure if the reputation is too tarnished or not, but they had this post up on the site, which only has a few people on but there’s still people logging in according to mudstats.
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Message: 1/183 Posted Author
Recruiting Mar 26 2026 LevitzRecruiting.
I know it is a lot to ask considering our history.
I want to go all in on helping get us back to being active again.
As I approach retirement, I want to reach out on all the players who had fun here in the past, and get some scenes in!
I will be playing an EFC, and I will be active. Every day. Let’s get out there and recruit. Bring some people back. Get some scenes in.
I want to shout out those players who have been playing here. Thank you. Now let’s build on that.
We will also be recuiting staffers. Those who have the same goals we do. To have fun, no drama, RP, and enjoy the genre.
I will ask this. If you are still here and are interested in this mush, then bring your friends back! Quick approvals, OCs welcome (as long as they aren’t massive novel level apps! LOL), and everyone welcome! Everyone. Let us let the past be the past, and move on to the future without previous issues.
Lev
-------------------------------< End +bbread 1/183 >--------------------------------------------------------There was another one after that talked about it closing, then about the headwiz saying he got a lot of feedback not to close, so he wants to bring the place active again. He seems passionate, but I don’t think he’s gotten the support he needs, one way or the other.
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@Purplelamia said in What's up with the two Age of Heroes games?:
There was another one after that talked about it closing, then about the headwiz saying he got a lot of feedback not to close
I wonder if this would be more the case of people not wanting to lose the option to play there again, particularly given it doesn’t cost them anything to maintain, but don’t have the time or actual interest to play there. Like a kind of “you can’t close my favourite bar that I haven’t been to in years, what if I want that gallon of ‘Wicked Jizz’ cocktail for five bucks like I had when I was 21?”
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@Colette It’s the same people, doing a variation of the same theme. It is the post-Crisis version of LnL.
