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Its still going; its called the "Vs" system from Upper Deck. They have both Marvel and DC lines (and I believe they're adding Hellboy early next year).

Sorry, both Doc Savage and Superman have "Fortress of Solitude"s built out of Ice in the artic...first thing I thought of... :">

A real "Fortress of Solitude"?

Watched The Call of Cthulhu a independent adaption of the H.P. Lovecraft story; one of its main conceits is to try and present it as a movie of the time (so its a silent film made in a "German Expressionist" mode). It looks good and has a couple of effective bits, but there are some things that happen in it - possibly due to budget - that hamper its ability to build the kind of malicious dread that exists in most Lovecraft stories. Still its an interesting attempt to do a different kind of Lovecraft adaption and I admire the creative forces behind the film for that.

The Watchtower in the Justice League cartoon was a satalite (not unlike the one the JLA used in the 1970s in the comic book). The Watchtower in the 90s comic (begining I believe with Grant Morrion's JLA) was a moonbase. It however was recently destroyed and I'm under the impression it won't be back...

I dunno, I never got used to it. And ultimately the VMU(?) mini-games weren't all that interesting either, making it seem to be a waste of space. But maybe I just didn't get the right games; I got the Dreamcast out of my love of Sega games, but it never was as good a console for me as the Saturn was.

Yeah Barcelona was fun...I played that several times through. But once you get past Barcelona - to me at least - it was like the game wasn't finished (or balanced either, but then I might just suck at action games like this too). Loved Barcelona, but to me the game needed some more time in development (I seem to remember that it was dumped without it being finished because Interplay needed the game out and wasn't going to give in on the release date anymore, so that kinda makes sense).

I quite liked the dialogue in Jade Empire; while it is a fairly straightforward game, I did think they did a good job of differentiating the characters and giving them different dialogues and stories to tell. Oddly enough, Henpecked Ho was probably my least liked character (even though he has some amusing stories) of those who join your party.

^Yeah the wire coming out the bottom of the DC controler bugged me too. I didn't hate the thing, but sometimes it was awkward to use.

Saw Hollywoodland. By splitting the story between George Reeves and the fictional detective they don't really do justice to either story. They also really gloss over the real Reeves, IMO, and don't do a good job of portraying all of the potential angles (they skip over one of the most popular theories, that it was an accidental shooting caused by a drunken Reeves playing with his gun) plus they hammer the (untrue) angle that he was typecast, out of work and despondant. Overall a dissapointment.

I never got a chance to play Powerstone 2, but I loved Powerstone.

While I love my Dreamcast and it has some pretty sweet games on it, I actually liked the Saturn as a system better. But the Dreamcast was pretty cool. Pity it failed big-time.

I got FO:BoS for cheap some time ago; I wanted to see whether it lived up to the (negative) hype or not. And I do like "Gauntlet" style games having liked the last Guantlet series (prior to Seven Sorrows) and Hunter: The Reckoning and so forth. But to be completely honest FO:BoS didn't work for me; it felt like it was slapped together - either the production didn't have the time they needed or the project was hopelessly compromised from the begining but I found it very difficult to play through; I stuck it out just to say I'd done it and promptly sold the game back to the store.

^There was no 60s Wolvie...

I can't say I'm surprised; while I liked parts of 3e I'd slowly stopped getting the products as I got to a point where I'd grown to feel that they were really obviously milking the product and I also began to feel that 4e was definately a great likelyhood of coming to fruition. I'm spending my RPG $$ elsewhere these days, either tracking down 2e stuff I want, or looking to other RPG systems entirely.

Howdy and stuff. I'm trying to post here more often myself.

Hey gfted1, so this is where you got to eh? Good to see you too. Lets see I saw the direct to DVD movie Seven Mummies a couple of weeks back. It sucks, but its the best kung-fu Jesuit priest mummies film you'll probably ever see.

IIRC, they originally planed on Gambit being revealed as the third brother...but yeah I think the idea of a third brother conceptually has been kicking around since the early 90s.

I thought they were all dead. The Jeep and the bike both crash in the beginning. Their spirits all get cought in this "special Hell" and there ya go. ? I liked the movie but I was confused as well. Basically its one of those "open to interpretation" endings, but I think the idea that they're all dead is one of the most common ideas. I'm not 100% certain its the absolute right one but it certainly covers what the movie presents pretty well and is kind of a nice down beat ending. The original games carry an idea IIRC that reality has "three levels": the human level, the abyss and a bridge world. If you take that idea then the end is simply that the girl pulled them into the bridge world where the heroine ends up allowing the abyss world to claim the cult who burned Alyessa, but left the heroine and the good portion of the Alyessa that had been incarnated as a new being in the bridge world (thus setting up a sequel where they have to be rescued?).

Yeah...I like the characters but to be honest for the most part I've not like what they've done by and large for years. In fact I spent probably about 15 years not following any of the X-books, excepting some odd ball titles like Peter David's X-Factor or Milligan/Alred's X-Static X-Static led me to notice Weir/Defilippis on New Mutants/New X-Men: Academy X titles which I liked until they left (so I dropped the title). And I like Joss Whedon and John Cassaday on Astonishing X-Men since he pretty much can do what he wants with the title. I did try Milligan's run on "Adjectiveless" X-Men. It was okay, but not Milligan's best work. They've changed up the creative teams on the main titles and none of them looked interesting to me...so I'm back down to the new X-Factor and Astonishing. And I'll probably drop Astonishing once the Whedon/Cassaday stories are over.

The Ultimate titles all have "Ultimate" in their title. So Ultimate X-Men would be the Ultimate version... SPOILERS FOR VULCAN:

Wow...that particular hoary question keeps cropping up? I used to see it all the time on USENET and if you ever suggest that a US Superhero can beat any DBZ character it was always flametime for the DBZ fans. There are actually several characters who could - reasonably - beat the DBZ crew from Marvel/DC. Scarlet Witch changing reality would work. The Spectre killing them all would work. Heck, Kid Eternity summoning all of the DBZ characters who'd died (which is, like, all of them) back to fight themselves could work (of course some would argue that's stretching the Kid's ability somewhat, but still... ). Wolverine and Rip Hunter/Kang/Chronos/(insert your favorite time traveler owned by DC or Marvel) teaming up would work as suggested too... There are probably a long line of scenarios one could create that would see the DBZ crew defeated...just don't tell their fans that...

It'll definately be interesting. SEGA kind of floundered (IMO) after they left the console market and hasn't totally righted itself with its first party games (or at least *I* have been dissapointed with how they've handled the SHINING franchise). But it seems like they've really been trying to refocus things since the SAMMY merger, so this could be very promising news.

I dunno...I don't think it was really a filler episode; certainly it didn't push the overarching story to a turning point, but I think its drawn out several things that will play out interestingly later. I guess more of a "set up" episode to me than "filler".

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