Too cool for schedule
17 10 2005I managed to get back to work with about all the grace you’d expect of someone who let their sleeping pattern revent to virtual studenthood during their time off. I think I had about 4 hours sleep last night. Somehow I made it through the day, though, and I’ve come out on the other side ready for a power-nap that should take me back into some semblance of normality in time for tomorrow, when we’re going to go see Never Mind the Buzzcocks get filmed. I ordered tickets off the BBC site a few months ago and was kind of surprised when they turned up the other week, because the memory of doing it was pretty hazy and I hadn’t really thought about it since I did it.
This, while great, is also kind of annoying, because I just today discovered that the Ultimate Spider-Man game is out on the PC (not just consoles as I thought) and that Al had downloaded, and that it was fucking excellent. I couldn’t have chosen a better time to get a new computer as wave upon wave of decent new game is released. Black and White 2, for instance, which is much better than the last, and Megaman Zero 4, which I’ve been waiting for since I completed Megaman Zero 3 like the week before we moved out of Oxford, and now find myself unable to devote enough time to. In this spider-man game, not only can you BE venom, but you can be venom and fight Wolverine. Fanboy nerdism levels rising. The only crime is that you’re allowed to fight Wolverine and win, frankly, but I’ll let it slide. THIS time.
So much geekery to cram in, so little time in which to cram it.
The game’s in Ultimate continuity, isn’t it? So you’re only fighting Ultimate Wolverine. And he’s considerably less hard than regular Wolverine anyway (they also keep forgetting to make him a shortarse - but then, so do most of the regular MU artists, Quitely and Cassaday being the only exceptions that spring to mind as having drawn him as noticeably short). So it’s not sa bad.
Yeah, I guess I can let it off for that then. I have a bigger problem with the game’s continuity, actually - you race against johnny storm at one point, and they taunt each other with things like “You’re slower than Speedball!” and I’m pretty sure Ultimate Speedball doesn’t Ultimate exist. They also say the same thing but with Moon Knight (who just turned up, so it could well be set after that) and Agatha Harkness (no idea in that regard) I’m kind of amused that they purposedully violate continuity just to entertain the people who are familiar with it.
Also, who was that guy who drew Wolverine for like three issues a short while before Millar’s run? He went on about how he was going to make Wolverine short and ugly, and he did, then the second or third issue came out and he suddenly looked like Hugh Jackman, then the guy quit because he wasn’t comfortable srawing what editorial had told him to. I’d research it more but I’m supposed to be working ;-) His voice in the game is actually mid-way between hugh jackman and the cartoon version, actually.