BulletPoints: The Red Capes are Coming!

It’s another week for another BulletPoints and I apologize for missing last week. I recently acquired a fulltime schedule as you might know from having watched out Podcast the previous week. I’m also working on finding new places to move to now that I can afford to, but I don’t have time to do anything this week due to a full-over-time-schedule. I literally have no extra time, so thank Christ I finished this week’s Smash Suggestion Box before the week started. Anyway, Some big news happened this week in gaming I could talk about. But I know that the podcast crew and I will be discussing the passing of Satoru Iwata in full detail and fondly remembering the good times he gave us. Rather than double-dip into that topic, I’m going to double-dip into the topic of the upcoming DC-films. But please understand, we have much respect for Mr. Iwata and we will give him as much time on the podcast to be discussed and remembered properly this upcoming Friday.

The Majestic Twelve - Custom Character Ideas

This was originally going to be a “Top Twelve” characters I want to make for Dark Souls. But as I wrote, I thought, why should I just do my favorite ideas for custom characters in one game? But then I realized I don’t want to do multiple posts on the topic because it’s basically just me going on about character ideas without much context other than that. So here is just a compiled list of my favorite “Create-A-Character” ideas from a variety of games. Some of them I’ve already attempted to make… others I am in the process of working on it. Enjoy. 

Majestic Twelve - The Best of Miracle of Sound (as of 2014)

I’m not very musically inclined. Sure, I played music a while ago, but I’m not all that skilled at it and I certainly couldn’t make up my own serious song. At best, I could write a catchy jingle that people would hate me for because they couldn’t get it out of their heads and it would be a song that gets on everybody’s nerves. Everybody’s nerves. It would be a song that gets on everybody’s nerves… all day long. What was I talking about? 

Right! So I may not be talented with music to any notable degree, but I know what I like. And I absolutely LOVE the sounds of The Escapist Magazine’s indie musician, Gavin Dunne (aka, the Miracle of Sound). For those who aren’t familiar with him (you’re about to be) he’s an indie musician that writes songs based on games (sometimes film and TV too). But it isn’t just a remix of songs from the game. He takes the tone and feelings he felt during the game and translates it into an original piece. Some of the song might have melodies inspired heavily from the original work (such as his Breaking Bad homage, “Forever Blue”) but it’s all his original work and most of it is quite good. Before we kick off our “Best Of” lists for the end of the year, I thought I’d stop and just list my twelve favorite songs of this talented internet bard and maybe see if we can get him some new fans. If not, at least I’ll have fun re-listening to some of my favorites. 

BulletPoints: Why Get Hype For Suicide Squad?

Some of you might have been wondering with the last issue of BulletPoints why I seem more inclined to like Marvel films over DC films. Taking it farther, why I was surprised by my excitement for Suicide Squad over… anything Marvel or Marvel-related. But there are some good reasons which I guess I’ll explain here. 

BulletPoints - Trailers and Casting Calls Part One

We’ve done a lot of talking about video games and while I could easily spend another BulletPoints throwing Ubisoft under the bus, I thought maybe this would be a week I could take a step away from that and talk about films. It was either this or the alternative of discussing Naruto some more, but I don’t want to waste anyone’s time with that if I don’t have to (but I totally will if pushed to it). 

While I haven’t seen a new film recently (lack of funds mostly), I have been keeping an ear to the ground on casting decisions for various super hero films and watching the trailers to the big movies of 2015 we’ve all been waiting to see SOMETHING of. This might get long, but this will be kind of a “grab bag” BulletPoints of film topics related to all of these. If anything in particular grabs your attention, please let me know in the comments and I’ll maybe try to expand upon that a bit more in a future discussion. That said… 

Majestic Twelve - Arkham Games Easter Eggs

We love the Batman Arkham games (Origins notwithstanding), and it was recently revealed that there was, in fact, an Easter Egg within Arkham City (a three year old game now) that still hasn’t been found. This was recently “leaked” by the developers which then prompted players to find it on their own and now we all know what it actually is. There might be more but before we go off trekking for more Easter Eggs in the Batman Arkham games, here’s our top twelve favorite Easter Egg moments in the series thus far (and, no, we unfortunately couldn’t include all of them). 

Majestic Twelve - Villains We Want in Gotham

Were you expecting "Shows I Expect to See Canceled of 2014"? Nah. That doesn't sound fun. Let's just talk about Batman instead.