Your NM assessment matches mine closely. As someone who picked up the original Claremont/Sienkiewicz run as it was released, I was excited about the movie it when it was first announced, but that dwindled over time due to all the delays, recut rumors, etc. Even with very lowered expectations, I was still pretty disappointed with this. So many weird decisions and lackluster writing. Now lowering my Stand 2020 series expectations a few notches.
I didn’t mind New Mutants, from memory, it’s been like 10 months or so since I saw it. It wasn’t great, and maybe I enjoyed it for the potential of what it could have been, plus I always enjoy seeing Alice Braga pop up in something, same Anya Taylor-Joy. It wasn’t great, and you’re probably right, not even really good, but I don’t remember hating it. But Rahne being into a lesbian bothered me. The lesbian story element isn’t the issue, it’s just a character you know and love gets changed, seemingly arbitrarily, and it sticks in the throat a bit. I don’t want to sound like a CG dude, ‘cause f**k those guys, but it just seems like they don’t get the character when they make a change like that. But then again, who cares? It’s not like this film is going to be anything but a footnote in x-men/marvel movies.
Some perspective: The Atari Video Computer System (VCS, later renamed to its model number, the 2600) came out in time for Christmas, 1977, at a cost of $199.99. A quick peek at the BLS's inflation calculator puts that at $559 for 2020. So not that bad: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=199.99&year1=198109&year2=202010
I don't have a good answer for your free-for-all question, because when I was comic-reading-age, my heroes were Alfred E. Newman, the Nebbish, and Sylvester, and none of those would make a good video game.
So disappointed to hear how they have muddled the New Mutants... it has the same touchstone for me. I collected the earliest runs and even stuck it out to the X-Force era... I always imagined that they could eventually do it justice as something to carry on the X-men just like the comics or their version of young avengers/justice which makes even more sense as they were doing it with a school WAY before potter.... makes me sad... and not even want to watch...
I would absolutely LOVE a Tick game!!! I'd cry I'd be so happy and I would do whatever to save up to buy any system I had to in order to play it.
Your NM assessment matches mine closely. As someone who picked up the original Claremont/Sienkiewicz run as it was released, I was excited about the movie it when it was first announced, but that dwindled over time due to all the delays, recut rumors, etc. Even with very lowered expectations, I was still pretty disappointed with this. So many weird decisions and lackluster writing. Now lowering my Stand 2020 series expectations a few notches.
Video game adaptation of a comic? Saga. And, yes, make it a co-op game.
I didn’t mind New Mutants, from memory, it’s been like 10 months or so since I saw it. It wasn’t great, and maybe I enjoyed it for the potential of what it could have been, plus I always enjoy seeing Alice Braga pop up in something, same Anya Taylor-Joy. It wasn’t great, and you’re probably right, not even really good, but I don’t remember hating it. But Rahne being into a lesbian bothered me. The lesbian story element isn’t the issue, it’s just a character you know and love gets changed, seemingly arbitrarily, and it sticks in the throat a bit. I don’t want to sound like a CG dude, ‘cause f**k those guys, but it just seems like they don’t get the character when they make a change like that. But then again, who cares? It’s not like this film is going to be anything but a footnote in x-men/marvel movies.
Some perspective: The Atari Video Computer System (VCS, later renamed to its model number, the 2600) came out in time for Christmas, 1977, at a cost of $199.99. A quick peek at the BLS's inflation calculator puts that at $559 for 2020. So not that bad: https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=199.99&year1=198109&year2=202010
I don't have a good answer for your free-for-all question, because when I was comic-reading-age, my heroes were Alfred E. Newman, the Nebbish, and Sylvester, and none of those would make a good video game.
Though there was an AMAZING Spy vs. Spy game for the 8-bit Atari Computers (and I think the C-64 and Apple ][ as well) circa 1984: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_vs._Spy_(1984_video_game)
I would absolutely flip for a great new SPY VS SPY game. Great call!
So disappointed to hear how they have muddled the New Mutants... it has the same touchstone for me. I collected the earliest runs and even stuck it out to the X-Force era... I always imagined that they could eventually do it justice as something to carry on the X-men just like the comics or their version of young avengers/justice which makes even more sense as they were doing it with a school WAY before potter.... makes me sad... and not even want to watch...