Saturday, November 18, 2006

Spiderman #3

I must say... I don't know how they do it.. but Spiderman seems to be avoiding the jinx that many comic book movies usually fall too... they get too ambitious and spend all of their money on crazy effects and big name stars and lose sight of what the story is all about. Spiderman seems to be doing the opposite, it keeps the focus on the humans, which is what makes it a grand story.. while still capturing that blockbuster feel that movies need nowadays... Seen the new trailer yet??
Go here now, download the nice big video of it and watch it!! Or watch on YouTube below...

I was worried at first that they are throwing in too many villains, and thought that maybe they were forgetting about Harry Osbourne.. but I was wrong. I need to learn to have faith...I can kinda see where the story may go.. Sandman shows up, and turns out to be too much for Spidey, Hobgoblin shows up, too much for Spidey, so whats a superhero to do? Take the aid of an evil alien symbiote..thats what!

Here's hoping they don't ruin The Silver Surfer (in Fantastic Four 2), and lets hope the reincarnation of Batman holds true as well when The Dark Knight premeires...

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

EA Sports... giving game companies a bad name

Wow... I knew EA Sports was into some shady deals.. but then to completely deny it.. geez. First they buy out the monopoly of the NFL video game franchise... which would then require any would-be sports gamer to only buy EA's games if they wanted to play a football game with real teams... which in turn gives EA the "right" to make their football games as good or as crappy as they want because they know they are the only game in town... Now, with the release of their newest iteration of the same damn game they have been selling for years (ok..I stand corrected, this year's game has an '06 in the title, so its not technically the same) they completely abuse the XBox Marketplace by charging for shit that, in other (non XBox 360) versions of the game are free. So if you want the full game, you have to keep spending money to get all the stuff that the PS2 players already have... and got for free when they paid the $60 bucks for the game! Now I am not a sports gamer, and prolly never will be, but this kinda of crap still pisses me off. This company is taking a really great feature, the XBox marketplace, and abusing it... (and then their Vice President goes on a radio shows and denies it!!) there are some really great things being done in the Marketplace, and several companies are making some really cool stuff available.. but this bull that EA is pulling is ridiculous... I guess this is the inevitable outcome of videogaming becoming mainstream... the companies get too big and powerful, and get too full of themselves *cough*cough*SONY*cough*cough*... oh well...

The guys at Penny Arcade do a better job of explaining it...in both blog and comic format...