James D.

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  1. Battle of the Flaming Skulls!!!

    Who would win--Ghost Rider or Scorpion from Mortal Kombat?

    Place: Fiery pit in Hell

    Conditions: No other beings in the dark pit can interfere. Other than that, no holds barred. (Come on, they're in Hell for chrissakes.) Ghost Rider has his motorcycle and his chains and Scorpion has his swords and his spear.

  2. Return to Castle Wolfenstein--I was in a clan. They've probably booted me out for not contacting them for months. But I love the game. Can't explain why I like it more than others, but I just do.

    Unreal Tournament--I've played this game for countless hours online at like 3:00am blowing people up with nuclear weapons. :evil:

  3. Title: Batman: The Long Halloween graphic novel

    Cover Dates: 1996-1997 (graphic novel, 1998)

    Issues: Batman: The Long Halloween 1-13

    Publisher: DC Comics

    Writers: Jeph Loeb

    Artist: Tim Sale

    Price: $19.95

    LongHalloween.jpg

    After reading this 380-page mammoth of a book in one day, I knew I had spent that 20 dollars well. Batman: The Long Halloween chronicles every single event leading up to the infamous trial where Harvey Dent was scarred by acid thrown on his face, which of course was the direct cause of him becoming Two-Face. It begins with Bruce Wayne and Harvey Dent having a drink in a dark office. They are good friends with each other and with Jim Gordon. Dent is still a normal man, and is a strict believer in the law. The underlying story in all of this is the "Holiday Killer" who murders someone on every major holiday of each month. Starting with Halloween and going through the calendar year. Every issue (13 total) chronicles one month in the story. All the usual suspects make appearances--Joker, Catwoman, Penguin, Scarecrow, Riddler, Poison Ivy, Mad Hatter. But the Holiday Killer seems to be focusing on killing members of the two major crime families in Gotham--the Romans and the Falcones. So, you have all of the rogues gallery, the crime families, and Harvey Dent, Commissioner Gordon and Batman in the middle of it all trying to find out who is murdering mob members every month.

    Anyone who is a fan of Batman NEEDS to read this. Two-Face's story was always mysterious because the DC writers never really delved deeply into the story until they wrote this. You get all the answers you ever wanted to know about Harvey Dent and then some. It's violent, dark, tragic and mystifiying--all the things that make Batman great. BUY THIS BOOK.

    Grade: 92/100

  4. Plus, Yoda, you must remember, he can only summon those CIA and FBI agents already in whatever city he's in.  It's like there's a giant force field around the city and no one can get in or out...it's...No Man's Land II. :evil:

    Fair enough, but every major US city has its own branch of the FBI who would be at Luthor's disposal.

    Exactly. He can take as many as he wants as long as they are already in the local branch.

  5. I'm not voting yet. I think it could go either way, personally.

    Plus, Yoda, you must remember, he can only summon those CIA and FBI agents already in whatever city he's in. It's like there's a giant force field around the city and no one can get in or out...it's...No Man's Land II. :evil:

    Also, Kingpin has his fair share of villains who will protect him, you know.

  6. Battle of the Bald!!!

    Place: A randomly chosen large metropolitan area other than Metropolis and New York. (Possibly Los Angeles or Chicago.)

    Conditions:

    --Either man may use as many goons and ANY other resources as he can contact/summon within the city. (This means if, for example, Fisk for some reason has Spider Slayer robots stationed in the city in which their syndicates are fighting, he can contact someone to send them out to annihilate Luthor's thugs.)

    --To contact henchmen and obtain armaments, they each have at their disposal ONE CELLULAR PHONE (same make/model) with a single fully charged battery that CANNOT be recharged once used up. This way, they must conserve their only means of communication wisely.

    --They can only obtain resources from the city in which they are battling--nowhere else. (You can't tell me these guy's syndicates are only limited to their respective mother cities.)

    --They are allowed to do anything they want (keeping within the aforementioned restrictions) to win this battle. They can blow up buildings, rip apart streets, you name it. There are no time restrictions. It's basically whoever's resources outlast the others or whoever forces the other to surrender due to a massive beatdown.

    Whose resources (and cunning use of said resources) outlast the other's?

  7. Batman

    He is the peak of human conditioning with no powers. He is the world's greatest fighter (save maybe Lady Shiva), he is the world's greatest detective and he has an arsenal of the most advanced weapons around. Cappy has a shield that's unbreakable. Fine, but Bats has a helluva lot more stuff than that.

  8. Head straight down as far as the British Platoon leader who will ask you for

    help, ignore him and head straight across the road and into the building, to

    your left are a few bits of ammo. Go upstairs and crawl up behind the enemy in

    the first room, kill him and stand up. Across from you in the big building are

    to snipers, they will cause chaos unless you kill them, so do that. Now move

    into the next room and kill this little prick.

    Don't go downstairs for awhile, you have a great sniping point from the two

    rooms. However when you've sniped maybe 3 or 4 Nazis, head across the road and

    Upstairs, you will hopefully find a medical kit and some ammo. When you've

    done that, head downstairs and go straight into the chaos, kill all the

    Germans on the street and move half way down it. Stop and aim straight ahead,

    slowly look up through the scope at the top of the roofs, you should be able

    to see one single sniper, kill him, he can be a real problem for the rest of

    the group. When that sniper is dead, the area is fully secure, so walk around

    and pick up the half dozen medical canteens until your health is fully

    restored.

    When you are happy with your health, move to the far end of the street and go

    up left around the pile of rubble, when you emerge the other side, keep close

    to the left wall and out of the tanks line of sight. Use your sniper rifle to

    kill as many enemys as you can. When you've killed 7 or 8 nazis, run straight

    through the chaos into a small intact building to the left of the tank. Inside

    kill the German and use your sniper rifle to kill all those left outside. When

    thats done, make a dash for the mounted machine gun. Use it to destroy the

    tank (Objective 1, aim for the top, it will disarm the turret quicker.)

    After you've combed the area for health and ammo, move down the road to the

    left of the tank, again going around a pile of rubble. When you come to the

    corner, just stop. Take a minute to reload all your weapons, then dash into

    the centre of the wrecked street and kill anything that moves and does'nt

    speak English. You should manage this area pretty well, so when your finished

    again search for ammo and health in the buildings.

    After a little while spent going around twists and turns, you will emerge in

    "hell," Firstly hide behind something to get ready, next make your way up the

    stairs to the top of a platform (where a house once stood.) From there kill

    every thing, use any weapon, just get that Pazerschreck squad killed

    (Objective 2,) because they are extremely dangerous. When you are happy that

    the area is cleared get as many Pazerschreck shells as you can.

    Head on through a hole in the wall to get into an alley, when you emerge on

    the main street of Arhnem, use your sniper rifle to get ride of as many nazis

    in the distance as possible; esspecially the ones who man the mounted machine

    gun.

    You will often run out of health, so make dashs into the different buildings

    to search for health. When most of the Germans have been killed, use your new

    Pazerschreck to destroy the tank (Objective 1,) it will take at least 6 well

    placed shoots.

    After the area in general has gained some sanity, head upstairs in the large

    building to the right. At the top you will finally meet Jigs (Objective 3.)

    I took that from a GameSkanker file. (Credit: Ciarán Gorman)

    Link

  9. We had this duel in Marvel VS. DC, but it never showed who won because I don't think there was a clear cut winner.

    Both are incredibly strong, have numerous powers at their disposal and want nothing but death.

    Conditions:

    --Thanos does NOT have the Infinity Gauntlet (because that would be stupidly unfair.)

    --They are not on Darkseid's planet or any area of space under his direct control.

    --Mistress Death is not around to influence (or distract) Thanos.

    --They are on a barren, long-dead planet with nothing but desolate wasteland.

    Who would win? The Lord of Apokolips or the Demi-God of Death?

    EDIT: Shit, I meant to make this a poll. Yoda, could you fix this?

  10. I think they could cut his skin, actually. I think if Darkseid can make him bleed, Wolverine's claws can. Adamantium is unbreakable. Superman isn't the strongest person in the universe, so I don't see the claws breaking simply by hitting Supes with them.

  11. I reluctantly have to give this one to the Man of Steel. Wolvie has the healing factor, yes, but it doesn't mean he can't get knocked unconscious by a punch to the head from Supes. I don't see Wolverine being able to overcome Superman, honestly, which sucks because Wolverine is my second favorite comic book character ever.

  12. I am almost done collecting all the 10 original graphic novels of the 75 comic books in this astoundingly great series. I just need Volumes V, VII and X. Preludes and Nocturnes alone should have a shrine of gold made for it, not to mention the other volumes. Actually, Neil Gaiman should have two for himself alone for creating this godly series. I wish it hadn't ended... :(

    So what's your favorite Sandman issue/novel/character, etc.?