Category Archives: Video Games
Behold, Our First Full Look at Starfield
Starfield is coming! Let the hype construction begin. Bethesda, the makers of the Fallout and Elder Scrolls game, is looking to do the exact same thing with the sci-fi/space genre with Starfield. And at a big video game presentation yesterday, we got a big, chunky look at Starfield.
I love everything about this video. I love the Fallout games and I love Skyrim. So if they’re going to do the same exact thing, with a new genre, I am totally there. Granted, there have been similar games before, like Outer Worlds, which I very much enjoyed. But if Bethesda themselves give it a try, I think it’ll be even better.
Fallout meets No Man’s Sky? Yes, please!
I won’t be buying the latest X-Box, though, so I might need to upgrade my PC by the time Starfield comes out sometime next year.
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I’m Back! With Pokemon Scarlet and Violet!
Whew, what a week! For the first time in more than a decade of writing this blog, I actually took a whole week off, it seems. I had plans to maybe schedule some movie trailer posts, and I hoped to get home in time to do weekly comic reviews. But my trip to California was a bit too nuts and a bit too torturous to even try. So I just accepted that I wouldn’t and didn’t post. C’est la vie.
We’re going to make up for that with a bunch of posts this week! Including this awesome new trailer for Pokemon Scarlet and Violet that came out while I was away.
This game still looks great. Multiplayer? That’s interesting. Some cute new Pokemon. I know I’m going to have fun with all the open world wandering. Will they fill that open world with interesting things to do? We’ll find out. And based on those legendaries, I think I’m definitely getting Pokemon Scarlet. The classic motorcycle dragon looks better than the sci-fi super bike dragon — at least in my opinion.
I still haven’t decided on a starter yet. I’d be willing to take any of them, but we’ll only know for sure when it comes to the final evolution. We’ll just have to keep waiting.
Pokemon Scarlet and Violet come out on Nov. 18.
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6 Video Games That Could Also Support Unfaithful, Live Action TV Adaptations
Video games are finally getting their due in the world of live action adaptations — but for some reason, the adaptation just isn’t done properly. People are really, really mad at the Halo show for the changes and choices they’ve made that differ from established lore. Even when the showrunners explain what they’re doing and why, fans are still angry.
And Halo isn’t alone. We had our first trailers last week for the upcoming Resident Evil adaptation on Netflix — which won’t have much to do with the pre-existing stories from the games. There will be some classic Resident Evil elements, like the zombies and Umbrella, but there will be all new characters, locations and storylines. So that got me thinking…what other video games could work for live action adaptations that don’t actually use the source material stories? What other live action game adaptations could veer wildly away from what fans actually want?
Join me after the jump for some franchises that would make for some pretty great live action adaptations, especially if the show doesn’t actually adapt the existing game story.
Read the rest of this entryThe Netflix Resident Evil Show At Least Has Zombies
I was a big Resident Evil fan back at the beginning, in my childhood Playstation 1 years. I enjoyed the games so much I sought out and read some tie-in novels, and some novel adaptations of the early games. I dunno. I was just that kind of kid.
I never got into the Resident Evil movies, though I’m pretty sure I’ve seen them all. And I skipped watching that Welcome to Raccoon City movie last year because I heard it was terrible. Suffice to say, I like the lore and characters of Resident Evil, but nobody is really adapting that just right.
And it looks like they’re going to miss the mark again with the upcoming Netflix TV show.
Those two trailers look fine, but it also looks like they’re just taking the zombies, some specific monsters and the Umbrella Corporation and tying them to a completely different story and group of characters. Is that what we want? Is that what any of us want?
Just give me a faithful Resident Evil 2 adaptation complete with Leon, Claire, Hunk and then a Resident Evil 3 with Jill Valentine subplot. Those two games took place at largely the same time, right?
Look at how much success Disney is having with Star Wars shows that give fans what they want!
Anyway, Resident Evil comes to Netflix on July 14. Some of us will watch it that weekend and then nobody will ever talk about it again, because that’s what has becoming of the binging model.
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6 Other Video Game LEGO Sets I Want to See
I had a bit of an adventure this past weekend trying to get my hands on the LEGO set of the Horizon: Forbidden West Tallneck. I had to go out of town to the nearest LEGO store, only to quickly learn that it was also a big day for new Star Wars LEGO and a huge line had formed even before the store opened! Suffice to say, I did not get my Tallneck…
…at the store. I just went home and immediately ordered it on Amazon for the exact same price, with free shipping. So I’ll be getting the LEGO Tallneck this week no problem! I think it’s great that LEGO is branching out into more video game sets. They’ve done some recently for Super Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog, and I own a couple of the Overwatch sets. This is hopefully the start of even more LEGO sets from video games!
Join me after the jump for more video game-themed LEGO sets I want to see in the future.
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