Category Archives: Star Wars
It’s Star Wars: Zero Company Day! Among Other Major Things
Today should be a pretty fun day! After work, I’m going to go see Coyote vs. Acme in the theaters. That should be a hoot. And today/tonight, we’ll get our first major look at Grand Theft Auto 6! I don’t have an Netflix subscription, so I won’t be able to watch the show when it drops at 3 p.m. today — I’d be at work anyway. But I’ll be tuned it when it goes up on YouTube at 9 p.m.
In the meantime, today is also the release Star Wars: Zero Company, the new tactics-based Star Wars game. That should be fun too!
I love me some X-Com 2, so I can’t wait to play Zero Company. Everybody looks cool. It’s getting great reviews. I’ve got a 3-day weekend coming up. Things are lining up nicely for me. Here’s hoping for the best!
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My Thoughts on the D23 Trailers for Marvel and Star Wars
D23 was this past weekend, which is the Disney-specific convention where Disney shows off all their good stuff. We got official announcements of X-Men castings, all of which I approve. We got some theme park news. Some Incredibles 3 and Frozen 3 news. Various things. The biggest, best stuff was three new trailers for upcoming Star Wars and Marvel properties, which I’m here to share and discuss!
If you haven’t seen these yet, and come to my blog for cool trailers, then universe bless you, my friend.
First up, let’s go big with Avengers: Doomsday.
Looks good to me! Personally, I think RDJ sounds a little too subdued as Doctor Doom, but the lines are cool as heck. This trailer does a great job of building up Doom as imposing. I can get behind that. Love Pedro Pascal’s anger. I’m very much looking forward to Doomsday and can’t wait for it to arrive!
Avengers: Doomsday comes to theaters on Dec. 18.
Next up, sticking with Marvel, it’s our first look at VisionQuest.
Personally, it’s too cerebral for my tastes. But that’s just an initial reaction to the trailer. I have no doubt that Paul Bettany and James Spader will kill it! WandaVision was great, Agatha All Along was great, so I’ve no doubt that VisionQuest will also be pretty darn great. I believe in greatness. I trust in this creative team.
VisionQuest will come to Disney+ starting on Oct. 14.
Last but not least is our first look at the second season of Ahsoka!
Personally, I was underwhelmed with the first season of Ahsoka. I like the character. I like Rosario Dawson’s portrayal. But I didn’t like where the season ended up. So I’m a bit hesitant. But I think that trailer looks amazing! A TV show is going to have that level of space battle?! Hells yes! I’m also a big fan of Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati, so I hope their storyline really goes somewhere fun this season, even with the actor change. So this trailer did it’s job and got me excited for season two. I’m gonna keep my hopes up.
Ahsoka returns to Disney+ on Jan. 20, so it’s a ways off.
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Star Wars is Getting a Full Anime
I still need to go back and watch the third season of Star Wars: Visions. I’m sure it’s just as quality as the first two seasons. But regardless, one storyline from the first and third seasons is getting turned into a full series anime: Star Wars: The Ninth Jedi.
Looks like it could be fun! So many of those Visions shorts could be full series, in my opinion. But I’m sure they’ve cooked up something fun with The Ninth Jedi. I’m a little worried at how closely it just apes existing Star Wars iconography — like the Darth Vader, the planet killer weapon and the little droid sidekicks — but I’m sure they’ve got something clever up their sleaves. At least I hope they do!
Star Wars: The Ninth Jedi comes to Disney+ on Aug. 5!
Also, check out my rankings of the first season and second season of Star Wars: Visions. And remind me to go watch the third season one of these days…definitely in time for Ninth Jedi.
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Some Fancy New Video Games Are On The Way
This weekend was apparently some kind of fancy video game convention. I’m too lazy this Monday morning to look up the exact name, so forgive me, but I just wanted to share some trailers for the games I’m excited about. I’m not too lazy for that!
First up is State of Decay 3, which is my favorite zombie franchise! There are a bajillion zombie game franchises out there, but State of Decay is my favorite.
State of Decay is a GTA-esque open world sandbox game is that all about scrambling for resources and maintaining a community. Despite what the trailer shows you, action and gunfire aren’t a big part of the game. At least they weren’t big parts of the first two games. It’s about having a big, open world and an established camp, and then taking a vehicle and what few weapons you’ve found and heading out into the world to raid warehouses and broken down grocery stores to find the supplies you need to get your camp and people through another day.
It’s also one of those games where you control everybody in camp. You don’t just have one singular protagonist, you can switch between everybody! And then there’s perma-death! So it’s real nifty.
Glad to see it’s coming for Playstation, my current gaming device of choice. And it’s coming next year. Sounds good!
Next up, here’s a new look at the Fable reboot.
This one has been moved to next year to avoid GTA6, which is fine by me. Between Wolverine in September and GTA6 in November, I was planning to skip Fable at launch. Everything I’ve seen so far has me excited for a big, spacious, interactive open world — just gotta wait and confirm they’ve got all the kinks worked out.
Fable is coming in February.
There’s a new Gears of War, this one called E-Day for Emergence Day. Not sure why they’ve decided to go backwards in the timeline, but it’s not a big deal and I’m sure it doesn’t matter. I don’t need strict continuity in my GoW games.
Will probably play. The last time I had a core gaming group of friends was back in some of the early GoW games. We had a blast playing matches and getting through the story. Those were good times. So yeah, I’ll probably play this one, though probably not with my old crew. I think I’ve played every GoW so far.
Gears of War: E-Day comes out…oh! Oct 6! And not for Playstation, just for X-Box and PC. I’ll figure it out.
Lastly is Star Wars: Zero Company, which is Star Wars dipping its toes into X-Com.
The X-Com games were super fun! They’re tactile, squad-based game maps. I’m going to love adding Star Wars to that mix, with at least one Jedi on the playing field. That should be a hoot. I definitely recommend the X-Com games to anyone looking for a neat challenge. I’m sure they’re very on sale these days.
Very excited for Zero Company. And it comes out on Aug. 27! So perhaps I’ll play that in between Crimson Desert and Wolverine.
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I Still Think Darth Maul is Cool
There’s a new Darth Maul cartoon coming out in three weeks — Darth Maul: Shadow Lord. It’s set during the Empire, with Darth Maul fighting back because he’s angry. Maybe he’s a crime lord? I dunno. It’s Darth Maul fighting Stormtroopers to some extent. Long before he shows up in Rebels. Maybe before he shows up in Solo? Who can tell.
I think it looks cool and fun. Am I on the edge of my seat? Nah. That’s just not me anymore for anything (except maybe GTA 6). But I’ll gladly watch a new Darth Maul cartoon. I still think he’s cool. I’m still on board for new Star Wars content. And I’m definitely on board with Darth Maul taking a Jedi sidekick to cut down Stormtroopers and fight the Empire. Could be fun.
Darth Maul: Shadow Lord will have 10 episodes on Disney+, starting on April 6.
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