KnightWing

Dude, I did the exact same thing, no joke.

It makes me wonder if his "whitebread good guy" cover was purposely fake/boring, like a Clark Kent persona.

I don't think I necessarily agree with most of those games' issues being serious enough to put them on that list, but several of them (MCC, CoD, Assassin's Creed Unity and Rogue) are almost unforgivable. I was playing AC: Rogue yesterday. It froze my PS3 twice in a half hour, and along my playthrough I found so many glitches it was insane. Peoples' faces turning purple, ships drifting on the ocean and clipping through one another, animation problems keeping you from doing things you were obviously meant to do.

Yeah, but you're wrong a lot. Funny thing: as I posted that, I leaned over to a buddy of mine and said, "watch, any minute now a guy named Dan is going to reply and tell me I'm always wrong."

...I really like Cisco...

Correction, then: solving some problems with violence.

Yup. And since Flashpoint is the event that caused the New 52, it kind of makes sense that if we're revisiting the pre-N52 era that Flashpoint would somehow be involved again.

The idea of an Alfred that encourages Bruce to solve his problems with violence is kinda cool. It solves that problem of "why would Alfred let Bruce be Batman?"

If they Infinite Crisis it and do a soft reboot where old elements of the DCU can come back, I'm down for it.

Once again, I think that's because Laurel has been written to have all the spark and fun of a brick wall. Hopefully things will get better as she goes through her evolution this season.

The two big differences between the engines for AC1-Revelations and AC3-4 are the shading (you can see mottled-looking shadows on everything, though I don't know how it will show up on PC because of settings) and the controls, which are generally less mechanical-feeling and a lot more organic. I didn't really care a whole lot about AC4's story (though the modern-day stuff was pretty cool); the gameplay was what I really liked. Just running around and being an assassin pirate was lots of fun.

I think the biggest problem with Laurel is that she's not given anything important to do. It was only highlighted when Sara showed up and Laurel went abruptly downhill (and downhill from boring is basically just frustratingly useless). But I'm optimistic about Laurel finally getting her Wildcat training and becoming a proper vigilante. Katie Cassidy is a good actress; she made a demon likable in Supernatural. If she's actually allowed to kick ass and have fun at some point, things should turn around for her.

I think the difference is that I liked Ten as soon as he started quoting The Lion King, but I didn't really start liking Twelve until he read the monsters the riot act in Flatline. And even after that, he didn't have much going on to make us care about him until, really, the end of the finale.

They switched over to a new game engine with AC3, and didn't really get it to work properly before it was released. By the time AC4 came out they figured everything out and made it amazing. In my mind AC4 is far and away the best game in the series, way better than even 2 or Brotherhood. It's so much more open and the controls are so much better.

It's like, on one hand, I'm upset that they're not just leaving it at Toy Story 3. But on the other hand, it's not like they've ever made a bad Toy Story movie, so... I guess I'll just choose to be happy about it? I have enjoyed all the little Toy Story shorts and specials they've done over the last few years.

Is it though? It seems to me to be the most generic title they could have come up with. "An Ancient Evil [Rises/Awakens/whatever]" has been used in TONS of recent sci-fi and fantasy over the last few years. It was the tagline for Halo 4. At the very least, "The Force Awakens" implies the return of the central concept of Star Wars, which literally signals "Star Wars is back." It makes sense. It never even occurred to me how weird a title The Empire Strikes Back was until someone pointed it out to me. I guess when you're a kid you don't really think about it. The nice thing about most of the Star Wars titles (aside from TPM and ANH) is that they're active; they describe something happening, which fits Star Wars' emphasis on story-through-action really well. "Awakens" is a little soft, but it still works.

There's apparently no "Episode VII" in the title. Interesting. Also, in this first promo image, the emphasis is on STAR WARS, not the new title or the episode number, as has been the case for every movie since Empire Strikes Back. In any case, I think the title maybe lacks a little impact, but it's roughly on the same level as A New Hope, so whatever. I like it on the whole. It's certainly better than the main rumored title, "An Ancient Evil."

I rolled my eyes.

Japan doesn't have a live-action TV/film industry the way that a lot of other countries do, so often times their genre stuff ends up being "weird" to try to make up the difference in production value from western movies and TV. But anime is frequently of a higher standard. Attack on Titan is pretty amazing, actually, and unique to the point where people have started describing other things as "Attack on Titan-like." But this Marvel thing is most definitely going to be like some of the other AoT spin-offs that are just fun alternate universe stories. No ramifications for the AoT or Marvel universes.

What I think is interesting about the event is that it seems to suggest that the entire history of the DCU still exists in some form post-New 52, potentially on alternate earths. Which is contrary to how things were explained in Flashpoint, but whatever. Maybe they'll actually start doing some books in the pre-New 52verse again?

I'd say the best part of Spider-Men was Ultimate Aunt May and MJ getting to meet an adult version of Peter after having to deal with him dying in the Ultimateverse. It was a nice epilogue of sorts for those characters, as they were given a bit of closure.

Kevin Feige answered that this week at the Marvel event. Basically the movie version of Civil War will be less focused on superheroes and their identities, and more on people who have power in general (so basically the Avengers). Tony wants to keep dangerous individuals under control; Cap disagrees. So it's the same story, basically, just framed differently.