Tim Schafer (probably best known for his original Xbox masterpiece Psychonaughts) is a real visionary when it comes to creating groundbreaking and extremely entertaining videogames.
His new game Costume Quest has a genius premise. It's halloween, and peoples costumes turn them into all sorts of different beings. Actually, there's kind of a Buffy episode like this game. Kind of.
The premise for Costume Quest is a great way to get unicorns, robots, dinosaurs, skeletons...and so on, all into one game. And, presumably you can BE these things by dressing up as them. Which is awesome. Also, Halloween is probably my favorite holiday.
Hey. I'm on all these different blogs now. It's a good time.
I wanted to post this shit here because I don't know what Ron would think of it going up on RonaldMetellus. He probably wouldn't mind it at all, but I need to post something on AwesomeTown since I never do. Ever.
I woke up this morning with many many thoughts in my head for many reasons. I do not know the reason I had the thought that I should blog about some of my favorite Villain lines from things that I find badass. If you need more clarification about that, this post is a very short list of lines villians in TV or movies or videogames or whatever have said that are wicked badass.
Here are two lines I thought of this morning that are incredible and are badass:
#1: The Master from Buffy: "Tonight I shall walk, and the STARS THEMSELVES WILL HIDE!" Yeah! That's crazy, right? Who says that? The Master says that! He's a great character, actually. I think The Master is my second favoirte Villian on Buffy. The first is Nathan Fillion as "Caleb" who comes in near the end of the second season and gets the "Knave to chops" treatment. Well, it's more like the "balls to chops" treatment.
#2: Digitamamon from Digimon: Digital Monsters: "So Many Accidents Can Happen In The Kitchen...So Many..." Digitamamon is a badass. He's a walking, talking, semi-hatched egg. And, yes, Digimon is was much better than pokemon and always will be the champion of the Saturday Morning world. I'm on the Digi team, guys. In the English dub Digitaromon speaks with a terrible German accent that makes that line so much better. He's talking about how he might like kill one of the kids he has enslaved in his diner and make it look like a kitchen accident. That's precisely why Digimon was so much better than pokemon could ever be.
And, um, that's it for now. I may make this a sort of "posting theme" thing. If I think of a new line that I find badass, I will blog about it.
If you, dear reader, think of a badass line, comment on this here post, or tweet at me if you have the skills for that. I've said this a lot, but I'm Nicholasvogt on that there twitter.
Hey, world. I haven't blogged in 10,000 years it would seem.
But, all that's about to change.
Well, maybe. I just like the sound of the "But, all that's..." phrase. Don't you?
Where The Wild ThingsAre the motion picture is coming out soon and I'm mighty excited. I think we all loved the book when we were little and I hope everyone still loves it. Because, guys, The Wild Things are what's up.
So, If you don't know, Mr. Dave Eggers (of McSweeny's fame, Away We Go fame. +Other Fames) wrote the script for it. And Mr. Spike Jonze (Of Pharcyde videos fame, Being John Malkovich fame, Adaption fame + other fames) is directing the movie.
I have to say, Where The Wild Things Are looks like its going to be one of the coolest things. And, Jonze really seems to be making the film with a lot of respect. Giving it a sort of realness a lot of "kids'" movies don't have.
I mean, the Wild Things look real. They aren't the throwaway CGI crazo beasts that look like they were just projected into the movie but obviously aren't there. The Wild Things look and they move and they act like they're real, living things. And that's because they aren't CGI.
Unless it's done with incredible skill, I think CGI injected into live action looks like butt. There are countless examples of butt CGI-in-live action moments. Remember the season finale of Buffy season 3? With the big snake demon? Looks like ass, right?
Beyond the look of Wild Things, it also seems like Max won't just be the typical hero of a kids' movie. I think (at least I hope) Dave Eggers wrote more into Max's character than just the cuteness that main-character-kids are. I think Max will actually be a character and will be an active part of the story. Not just some cute little dude they stuck up there for us to stare at and go "awww..."
I am basing all of these thoughts on The trailers. But, aren't they well-put-together trailers, though? They're very nice.
The trailers make the movie look sort of insane and beautiful. Which, I guess, is what being a kid is. Or, really, what living is.
