ChrisMoses

Thought this might be interesting for someone...

I've got an internet acquaintance who has some great talent, and I commissioned him to provide a lasting image of City of Heroes for me.



His name is Chance Langton.

This is my main hero, Molecule Misfit, facing off against my main villain, Project HERO.

This will be my memento from the game. I haven't bothered logging in over the past 3 months or so... Just hard to get into it. Maybe I'll get the time on the final day next week.

See ya in the funny papers, fellow Infinitians.

While working from home today, I tried out The Secret World. Well, saying I tried it may be a bit of a stretch. Before I logged in, the game recommended updating my video drivers, which I did. Then I got in fine, but there is like a 10 minute opening cinematic, during which I crashed twice.

I just tried a third time. This time, I made it halfway to the initial waypoint before the crash.

Don't know what the issue is - These are the most updated drivers that NVIDIA has to offer. I see there is a patch schedule for the game tomorrow; I'll see if that helps, otherwise, I guess that's all of the chance I'll be able to give the game.

Went ahead and bought it. Looked interesting enough, and it's getting great reviews. Also, I want to support the gamble that 2K took.

REMOVE MY RECOMMENDATION!

I hit a fatal bug within the first three hours of the game, and I can't proceed. So I can't recommend the PS3 copy, but apparently the issue exists in other formats of the game as well.

I'm so angry; I was really enjoying the game.

I tried to play the demo when I had a window of a few minutes yesterday, but after 10 minutes of the tutorial, I realized I wouldn't have enough time to get through the demo. So I shut it off and took an old man nap in my recliner.

Everything I've seen of the upcoming season looks great.

This show made my wife into a little baby. She's always that tough girl in haunted houses laughing at people jumping out and trying to scare her, but something about this series just hit a nerve and she has a zombie nightmare at least once a week during the Walking Dead season.

I say it's because she didn't see any zombie movies growing up, so she didn't build up a tolerance. She thinks it's because there isn't any real resolution to the series.

Either way, win-win. It makes for some funny moments!

So... MJ will be with Spider-Man, but Peter Parker isn't Spider-Man? That can't be right, can it?

This is also the first I'm hearing of another relaunch, this time at 700. What's the frikkin' point in all of this? Especially if they're not continuing the Amazing title? They'll revert it back when they're nearing issue #750 regardless. Ugggghhhh,

And... Someone other than Peter Parker in the suit? Really? Blasphemy. Didn't they get that fix with Miles Morales and Ultimate Spider-Man?

Is Scarlet Spider continuing past this? If not, I'd guess Kaine would be the new Spider-Man.

Who else got it? I got it on Tuesday, but have only had the time to play it for about 45 minutes. I've loved what I have seen; love the aesthetics and the setting, and the skills look to be really interesting. Blinking around is fun - Almost like the CoH teleport with a macro, except without the arm-waving pre-animation.

I almost bought XCOM, but I held off. I never played the original, nor have I ever really gotten into "this type" of strategy. I like turn-based, grid movement RPGs (Final Fantasy Tactics, Valkyria Chronicles, Vandal Hearts), but never really got all into the games with resource management duties.

Still. I downloaded the demo; now I just have to find the time to play it.

OK, and Avengers Academy may have just won me back over with a flag football issue.

ETA: And of course, I just read in the Letters Page that it only has one issue remaining. HA! Oh, comics. Don't ever change.

The Before Watchmen stories have been entertaining. I liked the characters from Watchmen, and it's just more. For the most part, it's really creative guys working on them, and I know they can't equal Alan Moore, but they're doing well enough.

Oh, also, Saga should be on my list. I just grabbed the listing of comics I've bought over the past month; it must be slightly behind. I'm sure there are a couple of others I missed in this same fashion.

But with Captain Marvel, I think they'll bring him back just as soon as it's convenient. His death is surprisingly tenuous considering it happened like 25 years ago.

I would guess that the Current Carol Danvers Captain Marvel book (which I thought was pretty bad after only two issues) will have a revival at least teased.

It's an impossible task, because I always wait for the perfect breaking point. Maybe you guys can help by telling me what is scheduled to end anyway, or what is dumb and I shouldn't be reading! Or, hey, maybe you'll learn something yourself. WARNING: Marvel heavy.

I currently read:

AVENGING SPIDER-MAN - Was really boring, but Minimum Carnage just started, so I'll be into it.
AvX VS - Series just ended.
BEFORE WATCHMEN MINUTEMEN - I'm in for all of these.
BEFORE WATCHMEN SILK SPECTRE
BEFORE WATCHMEN COMEDIAN
BEFORE WATCHMEN NITE OWL
BEFORE WATCHMEN OZYMANDIAS
FANTASTIC FOUR - I've loved what Jonathan Hickman has done with the Fantastic Four, but I know he's leaving soon. These are good candidates for culling when Hickman is gone.
FF
JOURNEY INTO MYSTERY - One of my favorite series, but I think it's about to end...
MORNING GLORIES - This book by Nick Spencer was one of my favorites through the first 10 or so, but since then, it's seemingly become more about being as mysterious as possible without ever really getting around to any plot development.
POWERS - This series just ended, but a followup series is coming, called Powers: Bureau IIRC. It was one of my favorite series, so I'll follow it in whatever form.
UNCANNY X-FORCE - I think this is a keeper. As much as I don't like Wolverine, the core team and everything associated with it has been really interesting. Especially the current story arc with Evan.
WINTER SOLDIER - I want to end this one, and told myself I would as soon as the current story arc was over, but it seems that It's spilled over into another arc. Brubaker just isn't doing much for me with this book.
WOLVERINE AND X-MEN - This is one of my favorites, again despite Wolverine. The students and X-Men as teachers are really great. Jason Aaron has probably made this my favorite Marvel book.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #693 – $3.99 - You'll never take my Spider-Man from me. Even if the last story arc with Alpha fell kind of flat.
AVENGERS ACADEMY - Like with Wolverine and the X-Men above, I really like the young superhero student angle. This series came out of Avengers: The Initiative, which was one of my favorite things to come out of Civil War. I really like some of the characters, but the recent Academy characters weren't so great. An arc just finished that really had a conclusive feel, so maybe the book is done with anyway; now feels like a good time for it to be, or for me to be done with it, at least.
DARK AVENGERS - This is really the Thunderbolts. I have no idea what has been going on lately - Did they change the title to trick LCS pull lists with the guideline "pull all "Avengers" titles? Anyway. I've been with the series since just before Warren Ellis made it a great book, but it's been running on steam pretty much since then. If it isn't ending, I'm just about done with it.
DEADPOOL - A keeper.
DEFENDERS - This series went from really great to plodding. I think it's this damn Concordance Engine stuff; I'm tired of it.
FIRST X-MEN - I've read the first two issues; I don't see any real reason I should stick with it.
HAWKEYE - Favorite new book.
GUARDING THE GLOBE - Just started. Interested to read more about some of the heroes seen in passing in Invincible, but I don't know if that's really enough.
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN - I've liked the book since Matt Fraction took over; I think it's about to end - Is that true?
MIGHTY THOR - Reading primarily out of duty thanks to the tie-in with Journey Into Mystery.
ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN
ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN
ULTIMATE COMICS ULTIMATES - I'd been reading these since their reboot, but the only one I'm even remotely interested in is Spider-Man. But now they're all tying into one another and uggggh.
VENOM - Enjoyed the first bit, but since the new writer (Cullen Bunn, maybe?) took over, it was a little lame. Still. In for Minimum Carnage.
X-FACTOR - One of my favorites.
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE - AWFUL BOOK. I think it's ending any minute now regardless.
AVENGERS VS X-MEN - Ended
CAPTAIN AMERICA - Used to be one of my favorites, but it's been pretty mediocre pretty much since the reboot. So like 18 issues by now.
MANHATTAN PROJECTS - I keep deciding to quit this series, then reading another issue. It's not my typical fare, but it is interesting...
NEW AVENGERS - Ending soon?
SCARLET SPIDER - Wait, is is Scarlet Spider interesting with Venom for Minimum Carnage, or Avenging Spider-Man? Now I'm confused.
UNCANNY X-MEN - Ending soon?
ATOMIC ROBO FLYING SHE DEVILS O/T PACIFIC - I'm a fan of Brian Clevinger's Atomic Robo, just not the format of many miniseries... es. Does the plural of miniseries exist? Miniseries'?
AVENGERS - Ending?
WALKING DEAD - I've grown a bit weary of the current "No One is Safe" story, but I'm in.
HIT-GIRL - Millar's Kick-*** universe sometimes makes my eyes roll, but I've liked this miniseries.
INVINCIBLE - I'm ready for Mark Grayson to do something again. I imagine that's what issue #100 will be for.
SECRET AVENGERS - Ending soon?
WOLVERINE - I started reading it again to see how/why Jeph Loeb brings back Sabretooth (after the fact he was seen again in Uncanny X-Force) and instantly regretted it.

I tried to head to Titan, but it hits my work filters, whereas these do not.

Gonna be a rough go at work when this place shutters.

Looked like about a 7 hour window there with no activity. They didn't recognize my forum login info either.

Was this some maintenance, or something more foreboding?

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