Fortified Avengers

I’m enjoying the new Avengers game. While I was waiting for it to download, I saw that Fortnite was having a crossover with Marvel and decided to try it for the first time. It looks great! I like that kind of art style. I played around in it for 2 or 3 minutes as Thor before I confirmed that it’s just not my kind of game.

But the actual Avengers game! Kamala’s story is done with impeccable cuteness. I’ve gotten past the part where she and the Avengers look like characters from an early Tony Hawk game because of their shaggy hair and lack of costumes. Now it’s real stuff.

And I enjoyed how MODOK didn’t really mind being turned into a giant grotesque head. His problem was with the fact that the source of that transformation was superhero blood. He just hates those superheroes, you guys!

Bonus Question!

First floating head?

Zordon.

Back in the Paragon City Groove

Despite the fact I hadn’t really spent much time in it since the mid aughts, I never lost my appreciation for the setting of City of Heroes. It captured my heart to an extent most fresh superhero worlds don’t quite reach. I knew there was a novel that took place in its early years, but I was unable to find it in any digital format, which is how I read since I don’t like carrying books around. But I did find an old paperback copy and bought it just in case. That was years ago. 

When quarantine began, I pulled it out since more time at home meant more time to read in a place where the book was anyway. Then I got to the end and discovered there was another book, which I ordered immediately. Of course, in the current situation, it took months to arrive, which actually worked to my taste in the end since the story took place in an era long after that of the first book. 

Anyway, it’s been fun to revisit the world of the first big online game I ever played.

Bonus Question!

Best city for heroes?

If Marvel’s taught me anything, it’s the magnetic pull of New York for anyone with a superpower.

Sith Stuff

I remember when The Old Republic came out over the holiday season of 2011. It focused on an era of Star Wars I loved, but I wasn’t feeling an especial call to actually play it. Its gameplay basically just seemed like a rougher version of World of Warcraft, which I was already playing. But in the week after Christmas, I was convinced to give it a try, and in that first period after its release, the wave of excitement around it just added to the wondrous experiences offered by the diverse facets of its story. That excitement fell off after a while, and I did too. I’ve occasionally poked my head in, but I didn’t really think I would again.

But it’s been on my mind recently. The time of year and the recency of “Rise of Skywalker” probably played some role. Again, I wasn’t planning to actually play it, but I decided to download it just in case. And then I hit the play button on that same day. Again, it was the week after Christmas, and I was drawn in far enough to give it a chance. I’m really not going to treat it like Warcraft or anything, but the story’s intrigued me enough to basically let it play out like a single player narrative game with the bonus of having other people around in the world. It’ll be a spurt, and then I’ll drop it again, but right now, it’s a prime source for a legendary era of Star Wars wherein all that wild Jedi and Sith nonsense I love so deeply flourished across a galaxy that often looked even more fantastical than what the epoch of the films would show.

Bonus Question!

What’s your Sith name?

Darth Yowl.