Fearfulsymmetry

Anyone else as excited as I am for the new GTA hitting tomorrow?

I'm pretty much hearing nothing but good things about it.

T.

GTA V does look fantastic. One of those games where you just get so adsorbed in it and don't want to put it down, but I have way too much on my plate video game wise. I have this horrible habit of starting and not finishing games, as well as getting into a series only to put off playing the sequel for way too long. I still have to beat Silent Hill, and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward, games that I recently put off in favor of the amazing Pikmin 3. I bought Killer Is Dead, but am refusing to play it until I beat other games first. I also want to pick up Pokemon White, which I never got, in anticipation for X&Y, and the Wonderful 101 looks amazing. Hell, I haven't beat any of the old GTAs, and there are tons of sandbox games I haven't played yet as I got my PS3 a few years into it's lifespan.

I'm also a bit hesitant to pick up an AAA game that will probably have lots of DLC at launch, since a "complete edition" is inevitable. Metal Gear Rising, Killer Is Dead and The Wonderful 101 are all games I don't mind buying at launch, as those companies are a bit on the smaller side and don't tend to make as much money, same went for Pikmin 3 as I wanted show my support for that series, but I really doubt Rockstar or GTA is in that much need for my support.

Arguably, it's maybe a really big add on for the third. It uses the same map and all the same assets, specifically customization parts, but on the things it does use it also adds a lot of new ones to the list, but then the actual gameplay and everything is so very above and beyond and insane and fun it's miles better than the Third. It's like if Saint's Row 3 ate Crackdown and that really good Spider-Man 2 movie game and added elemental superpowers. I played for 5 and 1/2 hours last night, did maybe 5 missions to advance the main story (which was took maybe an hour or so) and didn't even realize much time had passed at all. I played it all co-op too with a friend of mine and man it's so much fun. Anyone who liked Saint's Row the Third NEEDS to buy 4. Everyone else who never played a Saint's Row game also needs to buy this. People who don't like Saint's Row? Man, are you people just wrong entirely

The only other game I'm buying between now and when the Xbox One comes out is Batman Arkham Origins, but I consider Saint's Row 4 the perfect send off to this console generation.

This is all assuming you don't mind being Overpowered sometimes and smashing the crap out of things with no real rhyme or reason. It's serious nonsense, but I love it.

I've heard a lot of people praise SR 2 over 3, how does 4 stand in relation to that?

In moments like these, I think there's a point where you need to step back and say, "We're arguing about toys" and take into consideration that the people involved almost all have icons of toys or comic characters, or toys of comic characters, or better yet, a tiny miniature toy version of themselves, and realize that this is all a little silly, and there's no need to be so upset.

It's the same jetpack we got with Hope Summers and we'll get next week with the Heavy SHIELD agent. But it's one of my favorite things.

Ah, I must confess that I'm quite behind on recent releases.

By the way Zack, I've spoken to you a few times at the past few NYCCs and can't shake the feeling I came across as a bit annoying. I grew up reading Toyfare, so seeing those muttonchops in person left a bit awestruck. My sincerest apologies if you have any bad memories involving an over excited teenager with a beard at the DST booth. Glad to see you got such a sweet gig after Toyfare!

There's a jetpack involved? This changes everything. I haven't read a current Marvel comic in ages, and yet I somehow need this in my life. The intital image does not adquetely show the jetpack off enough.

I read a pretty cool theory a while back. With Scott Lang involved, Pym is most likely going to be established as having invented all sorts of cool stuff, there has even been some speculation Pym's going to be older than most of the Avengers, and we'll see his Antman days in flashback. Anywho, someone suggested the idea that Stark finds the schematics for Ultron, made by Pym, and then builds it himself. That'd be a pretty interesting take on him. But who knows, maybe Shield makes him or something.

Either way, I hope J.A.R.V.I.S turns into The Vision. Paul Betttany has the build for it.

Anyone else here feel that Quicksilver appearing in both DOFP and Avengers 2 could be problematic?

Yes it's indeed Agito! I'm also familiar with Mandarake and glad to see you are as well. It's great for Figuarts, and has some amazing deals. I'd love to see one of those stores in person one day. The bike in question is the Guard Chaser. I've seen it show up before on Mandarake, and looking it up just now, I've found it on Amazon. I suppose it's not as rare as I thought. I think I'll hold off from getting it any time soon though, I just started collecting Minimates again, and maintaining that alongside Figuarts is a slippery slope. Nonetheless, this talk of Mandarake has reminded me of that awesome Mafex Spider-man figure I missed out on. He's going for ridiculous prices on the secondary market and it's a bit hard to not want to check Mandarake for him every second.

And yeah, I'm really glad Bluefin's making everything so much easier, and that non red rangers are starting to get more standard releases. I've yet to really divulge too much into watching and collecting Power Rangers/Super Sentai and it's good to know things will be a little easier if I decide to. It's interesting how much more accessible a lot of Japanese shows and toylines are becoming. I imagine the obscurity of a lot Japanese toylines is what draws some people to them. With that changing, I wonder if some collectors will lose interest.

I've been collecting S.H Figuarts on and off again since 2011. Sadly, I'm a bit out of the loop with the new releases, and when it comes to the shows, I'm nowhere as caught up as I'd like to be. I've taken something of a break ever since I finally got Momotaros DX, but there are still a few figures I'd like to track down, and I'd love to get Kamen Rider G3's bike, but I imagine it goes for very high prices as it was a web exclusive. Getting figures is a whole lot easier now that Blufin distributes via Amazon, luckily! I've also pre-oredered a few upcoming Monsterarts releases, and am thinking about getting into the Ultra Act line. There are way too many Tokusatsu shows and movies with awesome toylines.

I had to clear off my shelf recently due to my new cat, but I do have a picture of all my boxes lined up on top of my bookcase.

I don't think they are particularly valuable and I've only seen the clare and chris, are you saying there are more out there?

T.

The site has pictures of Jill and Leon.

After school today I headed over to Toy Tokyo's new location. They've moved recently, and have a lot more space, showing of lots of stuff I never saw that was presumably in storage. I was checking the rack with all the keychains, when I saw a strange package on the shelf. It showcased a Chris Redfield minifigure that seemed like a combination of a playmobil figure, a lego figure, a Kubrick and a Minimate. There was no price tag, and the package made it obvious it was preowned, so I presumed it was rare and expensive. The people that worked there had no idea what it was and said I could get it for $4.99! Score! Anyways, just looked it up, there made by Dragon models, and most of the Licenses aren't big in the USA besides Resident Evil. I'd like to get the other RE figures, but these are pretty old, and I only found Claire online. Anyone here know about these guys?

Here's the link

http://www.dragonmodelsltd.com/html/minis-2.html

And toy Tokyo's site

http://www.toytokyo.com/

We all know that the Iron man films, Hulk, Thor and Captain America are leading up to the Avengers film, yet I've never seen any speculation about the spidey reboot being involved. Spider-man isn't an avenger, but having a mention of him or vice versa would connect the MU even more. Especially with the reboot happening now. I feel there's a good chance of this happening, am I too optimistic?

Saw it friday, loved it. A great follow up to the first one. I also loved the scenery of the final battle. However I learned that I can not watch a film without hating most of the audience. In front of me: 2 girls, when I first get there they are talking about some boring crap, but about midway through the film they decide to eat some fancy cheese that smells horrible. They also start drinking wine. Why you would eat wine & cheese while watching iron man 2 baffles me to no end. After the credits they are confused by Thor's Hammer, until a nice young man tells them what it is, to which they respond with "Oh! Another villain!". I wanted to kill them after that. The people behind me: All of them knew each other and would constantly talk. It was incredibly annoying, this didn't interfere with the film that much, though.

Since we can vote twice, we should just vote for our favorite combo and see what happens.

For me it was

Suspended

Armored

Captain

WW2

I got away with voting for multiple ones, so I voted for the 4 I wanted

WAIT!

If my eyes do not deceive me, suspended cap has something around his neck! Quite possibly his mask hanging onto the costume!

So, it's pretty obvious a this point that we're getting suspended animation cap, so I'm torn between armored and WW2. Armored is a nice new figure, but WW2 chest piece is badass. Armored also reminds me a bit too much of Rob Liefield.

Why wasn't this an option to vote for?

There's nothing quit like Captain with Double D's

So, it's pretty obvious a this point that we're getting suspended animation cap, so I'm torn between armored and WW2. Armored is a nice new figure, but WW2 chest piece is badass. Armored also reminds me a bit too much of Rob Liefield.

Hey everybody, you may have seen me post a lot here a while ago and that kinda has to do with what I'm going to talk about. I've noticed when it comes to me and minimates I'll collect them, take a break and then let some new figure make me obsess over them again. It's a pretty strange cycle that I got from when I collected toys from many different series(marvel, dc etc), back when I was more of a kid. Lately I've been kind of telling myself that there's a few I should get, so it appears that 'mates are becoming more of a thing I regularly buy as opposed to some weird obsessive cycle(which is good IMHO). So do any of you guys have a strange collecting habit like I do?

Thanks all of those sites are really good resources :3

So lately I've been drawing spidey a lot and I'm curious if anyone knows a website or gallery that shows the differences in the way each artist draws him. I know that sounds kind of crazy but if any of you guys know anything similar to what I'm talking about please tell me. Thanks a lot.

How is it against dogs?

Should do fine against cats.

Just read this

http://www.n4g.com/wii/News-403018.aspx

I haven't played the past few weeks so I'm OK, just a heads up to all the Wii owners here.

Poor Fearful...

Asking a simple question and all he gets are people's jaded views on other systems.

Allow me to step in and do the same but straighten everything out.

360 OVERALL is a better console. In my opinion it trumps the other two quite easily.

That said if you are talking about not going online... Well, get a PS3.

The PS3 is a great console and has a lot to offer.

It's OK, if I asked the question elsewhere it would be chaos.

In all honesty I'm probably gonna get a PS3.

Thanks for the advice everybody!

I currently own a Wii and can't decide what other system to get.

I want the PS3 cause I'm used to the controller setup, and I really want Metal Gear Solid 4.

I want the 360 cause it's less expensive, and I really want Halo.

Most of the other games I want are on both systems. I don't go online often and since you have to pay for live, that's another reason for the PS3.

So what system do you guys think is better?

I listen to a lot of different stuff, but I'm just gonna name my favorite bands... Radiohead, TV On The Radio, Nirvana, Gorillaz, Bon Iver and Modest Mouse. I'm surprised so many people here know MGMT, which is really awesome.