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Some Weird Movie Trailers for Wednesday
It’s Wednesday. Life is OK. Let’s start today with some pretty far out movie trailers. And by ‘far out’ I mean just plain weird. And by ‘weird’ I mean they’re pretty typical for the sort of movies we get these days.
First up is a full trailer for the Minecraft movie, in which they actually use the meme phrase ‘children yearn for the mines,’ to which I applaud them.
Man, I just don’t know. I enjoyed Minecraft when I played for that one brief period, building all sorts of neato stuff in my private little world. I still like Jack Black. And, honestly, this trailer sold me on the idea of having people from the real world go into Minecraft and use the world just like the game. They can place blocks, use the forge, chop down trees by punching them; it’s just Minecraft with real people! That’s kinda neat.
Minecraft comes to theaters on April 4 next year.
Next up is the live action trailer for How to Train Your Dragon, proving that Disney isn’t the only one who can make live action version of classic animated films.
This looks so bad. This looks so unnecessary. Toothless looks exactly the same. Did the lesson Dreamworks learn from the Disney live action movies is to not deviate at all and just make the exact same movie but in live action? I hated when Disney did that with Lion King. This one does not look appealing at all. But it’s happening, so I’m sharing the trailer.
How to Train Your Dragon comes to theaters on June 13 next year.
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One Last Look at New Arcane!
Arcane is coming back for it’s second and final season next month, and the world is excited. The first season was ground-breaking television and all levels of awesome. So one imagines a second season — with the promise of a solid wrap up — could be even better! How will that be possible? We’ll find out!
Anyway, here’s a new season 2 trailer! No major twists or spoilers, other than general trailer stuff.
Looks awesome! Looks like Arcane! Looks like we’re all going to have a good time in November.
God, I hope so…
Arcane returns to Netflix on Nov. 9, with three episodes per week again, I think.
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6 Things I Want to See in a Star Wars: Outlaws Sequel
We’re probably not going to get a Star Wars: Outlaws sequel. The game has reportedly underperformed, and Ubisoft is having all sorts of problems. The whole AAA gaming industry is having all sorts of problems, but I’m not here to talk about that. I finally got around to beating Outlaws this past weekend, so I’m here to just ramble about my thoughts on the game, while daydreaming about what a sequel might hold.
Video Game Rating: 7/10 – Good
I liked Star Wars: Outlaws, for the most part. The game delivered pretty much what I expected it to deliver, and it delivered it well enough for my liking. Granted, I’m not hard to impress. It’s not Grand Theft Auto: Star Wars, but then it never promised to be. It’s a solid 7/10 game set in the Star Wars universe, providing a different style of game from the Star Wars Jedi series. I bought the game for full price on launch day because I really needed a new and fun game at the time. But I would definitely recommend waiting for Star Wars: Outlaws to be heavily discounted on Black Friday before you buy and try it out.
Join me after the jump for my thoughts on the game and what I’d like to see in a sequel.
Read the rest of this entryJedi Power Battles is Coming Back
Holy guacamole, people! This news arrived yesterday and I’m quite giddy. They’re going to remaster Jedi Power Battles, arguably the greatest Star Wars video game of all time. At least that was the case when my brother and I couch co-oped the heck out of this game on our original Playstation back in the day. This game was a hoot, and the remaster should be a blast!
Not only is the game getting a remaster, but it’s correctly some ancient wrongs. Way back in the day, you could unlock Darth Maul as a playable character…but in the original Playstation version, he only had a single-bladed lightsaber. A travesty, I tell you. That will be fixed in this new version.
And for me, personally, I’m excited about playing as Ki-Adi-Mundi. For some random reason, I really glommed onto that big-headed Jedi Master in Phantom Menace, and was hugely disappointed that they didn’t pick him as a playable character in the Playstation version.
I have since learned — yesterday, in fact — that Ki-Adi-Mundi was playable in the Dreamcast version of the game. Man, young me really missed out. But he’ll be back in the remaster version!
They’re also adding a bunch of other unlockable characters, but the only ones they show in the trailer are existing game enemies turned playable. And that’s a shame. They can’t create some new sprites to give us a whole bunch of new Jedi to play as? No Yoda? No Saesee Tiin? No Oppo Rancisis?
I suppose we’ll find out everything when Jedi Power Battles comes back into our lives in January!
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Our First Look at The Last of Us Season 2
The Last of Us was a huge hit as a TV show, and I agree it was pretty awesome — even if I felt that the emotional impact was lessened by having already played the game and seen the story. But that’s just on me. It was an awesome show! And season 2 is coming next year.
Unlike all those chuds on the internet, I loved the second game and can’t wait to see it play out on the show. It was an awesome game with an awesome story and awesome characters, and we get to see some of them teased in this new trailer. It all looks great to me! I heard somewhere that the second game is being split into two seasons, which makes sense if they want to draw out the success of the show. And that’s fine by me. I like having good shows and good video games.
The Last of Us returns to HBO sometime next year.
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