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My 6 Most Anticipated Pop Cultures of 2024
Happy New Year, everybody! Happy 2024! This year is going to be a good year for me. I’m losing weight. I’ve got some self-published comic book stuff coming up. My New Year’s Resolution is to finally master this banana bread recipe I’ve been dying to make, but kept putting off. And we’ve got…an acceptable amount of cool movies, TV shows and games coming up. Let’s talk about them.
Looking ahead, there isn’t much to be excited about in pop culture, to be honest. Not like last year, when we had a ton of great video games on the horizon, and a lot of movie potential. This year doesn’t have a whole lot. But I took a look around and have made a list anyway! There are some things I’m excited about and looking forward to, with my hopes up. So why not share?
Join me after the jump for six bits of pop culture I’m looking forward to in the new year. And feel free to share your own hopes and dreams for the year ahead in the comments below!
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My 6 Favorite Things of 2023
Who could imagine that the end of another year has come. I turned 40 this year, and life is what it is. My job got a lot busier, my bank account got a lot smaller, and I’ve got a few different comic projects in the works! More on that later. For now, it’s time to celebrate my favorite pop culture media from the past year.
As always, I don’t listen to music, so I don’t have any favorite songs from the year. Mostly I’m here to talk about video games, movies, TV show and comics, my favorite hobbies! I’ve thrown in a couple of other entries to get up to six, because a man has a theme.
So join me after the jump for my favorite bits from pop culture in the past year. And feel free to share your own favorite things from the past year in the comments below!
Read the rest of this entrySkull and Bones is Really Coming, and is Maybe Good?
Once upon a time, the video game company Ubisoft accidentally created a series of side missions that ended up being as good as, if not better, than the game they were attached to. They took their Assassin’s Creed games and added naval warfare that was super, duper fun! They started it in Assassin’s Creed 3, and then perfected it and made it a bigger deal in the pirate-themed Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. I was there when those games came out and they were incredible experiences!
So, like intelligent people, they decided to take that already developed game mechanic and turn it into its own original game, Skull and Bones! But that was a decade ago, and the game notoriously faced insane delays.
Until…now? Behold, a full gameplay trailer for Skull and Bones!
I think that trailer looks great! The game is due to come out in mid-February, and there’s already a closed beta, with people posting their reactions online…and I’m hearing good things! They didn’t completely recreate Black Flag because, apparently, you can’t take your character and board the other ships like an assassin. But the naval combat is there, as is the ship customization, and those are good! So I’m honestly considering getting Skull and Bones, we’ll have to see. I’ll probably wait for full game reviews, and probably a sale, so…we’ll see? That trailer looks great, at least.
Skull and Bones is due to come out on Feb. 16!
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6 Things I Want to See in a Third Star Wars Jedi Game
I finally beat Star Wars Jedi: Survivor this past weekend, and the game was mostly a lightsaber parts collection game for me. I love building my own lightsaber, especially when I’m provided with a catalogue of existing parts that I can mix and match. My mental design game isn’t so great as to design one from scratch, but when I’ve got parts? You best believe I’m gonna make something fun and cherish it greatly!
Anyway, what were we talking about?
The Star Wars Jedi games are fun. You’re a largely generic Jedi named Cal Kestis as he carves his way through Stormtroopers and leftover battle droids, set about a decade before A New Hope. He’s got his own cast of characters, hanging out on their own planets, in largely self-contained adventures. They’re pretty fun, but in my opinion, nothing remarkable. They’re also popular enough to warrant a threequel, and based on what I just played, I have some story ideas and other things I’d like to see in a third installment of this series.
So join me after the jump for six things I want to see in our next Cal Kestis adventure. Expect SOME SPOILERS for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor as I cobble this list together. And feel free to share your own hopes and dreams in the comments below.
Read the rest of this entryI Made a Sweet Lightsaber in Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
I love Star Wars as much as the next person. I love lightsabers as much as the next person. So I’m more than happy to share this sweet lightsaber I built in the video game Star Wars Jedi: Survivor. The game came out earlier this year, and I only just now got around to playing (it was on sale!).
Check this baby out! I’ve been told it looks like a fancy fountain pen, and I’d have to agree.
For me, Jedi: Survivor was just a lightsaber parts collection game. I enjoy these games well enough, but I don’t really care about the characters, I don’t particularly like Cal Kestis and the story was only so-so. But in the first game, and more so in this sequel, there was a huge emphasis on collecting the parts and then crafting your own lightsaber. And I live for that stuff!
I still have fond memories of my family’s last trip to Disneyworld some 10-15 years ago, and walking into some random toy store and finding a build-your-own lightsaber kiddie table. I went straight to work and still have that baby on display in my apartment. And I long to make the pilgrimage to Galaxy’s Edge to participate in that more professional and more realistic build-your-own lightsaber attraction. I won’t be able to recreate this beauty, because it doesn’t have all of the pieces that the game has, but I’ll still have something.
For now, I’ll just be pleased with this beauty I built in Jedi: Survivor. It would probably have a purple blade in a perfect world.
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