>>1804412 >It's getting away from the thread theme >You know who wears a cloak? Wiz N Liz >You know who saves their home planet? Toejam N Earl >You know who the hero we all deserved is? Buggerman I think X-Men came with a comic in the manual if you lived in NA, but in europoor, the translating it into many languages part of it sucked so they never were gave one

>>1804721 For western magical girls, I usually think of stuff like WINX and W.I.T.C.H. both having comics and cartoon adaptations. The latter example, was also an isekai, as the girls would go back and forth from the real world to the magical world. There were other shows that had girl protagonist who had magical abilities and fought monsters, but did not transform, such as Juniper Lee and more recently, Star vs the Forces of Evil.

>>1805092 Winx and WITCH aren't capeshit at all though. Aren't they French or something? I think there is pretty significant cultural divide there. I could hear an argument for Jonah Hex or The Creature Commandos being "capeshit," but Asterix isn't. And it's not just because they aren't guys in capes flying around modern day cities or outer space. There's a pretty drastic tonal difference. Even within America, I don't think it's right to call The Crow "capeshit" even though it's effectively a superhero story. On the other hand, nobody thinks of GI Joe or Transformers as superheroes, but reading the comics (which were basically adapted into the cartoons, especially later ones), I can hardly tell the difference. Most superheroes aren't giant robots, but the Transformers are. Tonally and stylistically their stories are pretty much the same. Brits have capeshit too though. Brits count as Americans for everything I said above. In fact, they make a lot of the best superhero stuff. Judge Dredd is arguably "capeshit." There I said it.

>>1806274 Winx is Italian, don't know about WITCH

>>1806274 I didn't say they were capeshit, only that they were examples of western magical girl.

>>1806389 Sure, but the original question was if magical girls are capeshit. That said, I suppose you raised a reasonable point that magical girls aren't purely Japanese. I am still tempted to say that capeshit is exclusively American and British though. And Canadian, like Wolverine. But they're basically Americans anyway.

>>1806366 They're both Italian Even competed with each other in 2004 Main differences are >Winx was always just an animated series >W.I.T.C.H started as a comic book series >W.I.T.C.H animated series was made by the French Both series gave me an interest in the opposite sex Both got a reboot recently

>>1806366 >>1814343 Another tidbit of trivia from a 90s European kid. W.I.T.C.H and Winx only got as popular as they did, or even greenlit because Disney Comics produced in Italy were doing ganbusters. Every kid I knew had like 300 of them, and plenty of adults would read them as well. I had full fucking volumes including The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, still do, thought that one was created by Don Rosa, a pure American. Disney would sometimes publish comics in Europe in a more limited fashion as a testbed and then release them on the USA. That popularity of comics in Europe was the reason Disney and Nick produced these European shows. Whole different world back then.

Just realized there's no METABARONS game. Like nothing, nada. How come?

>>1804412 >he recommends a girly girl game its fun though but still wtf dude let him pop his saturn cherry with a manly game >>1804316 play guardian heroes

>>1549172 dont know about that but they sure were made for humans hubbu hubbu

>>1545818 they were fun not braggable you could only experience the coolness not explain it to others and awe them marketing hates them

>>1515177 really liked spiderman 3 on ps2. loved how the game map was controlled by gangs and I had to beat them to gather territory for the police. the missions were fun too. lots of things happened in it. like the lizard thing. man that boss fight was tough as fuck. playing the end boss was hard too. no indication on how to beat venom, till I watched the movie and it told me to use sound. kek. they expected you to reach that after watching the movie. people shat on it cause it didnt have rpg-esque levelups and combo unlocking like the next gen versions had most memorable thing about it was that I played it on french dub for a while and everyone called him spidekhman. kek. >>1514799 other than rami ones, the side scroller on psp was great fun. the one on the 3ds was lots of fun too. made by the devs behind monsters vs aliens game which was a ps2 classic.

>>1514438 I had more fun with incredible hulk than ultimate hulk on ps2. the game was techincally infantile in comparison but you could do lots more things when just dicking around. >>1514438 >Injustice 2 is censored. the writing was on the wall when they made transforming need mtx god I hated the jump from 7th to 8th gen

I want a game where you can have the powers of someone like Superman, but you get to decide how good or evil you want to be. I mean full coding to be able to save the day and stop super villains from whatever they're doing, or rule over them and control the city, or even kill fucking everyone and flatten that city before squaring up against military response and other heros. It would be a hefty project for sure and there would no doubt be alot of moralfagging, but being able to choose what kind of super you are and the fate of the city would be neat.

>>1514411 So Prototype might be getting a remaster, but it's Monkey Paw'd since it's by Iron Galaxy.

>>1819471 I'm trying to remember why people don't like Iron Galaxy, I only have a vague notion of "IG bad" rattling around in my head. Was it that they butchered some FPS remaster?

>>1819497 I heard they handled some ports really poorly in the past, AAA level stuff. Some are saying they might have improved but who knows...

>>1819449 Sounds like the type of game that would be made with text only, maybe even a porn game ala Corruption of Champions or Degrees of Lewdity.

>>1819497 I don't know if it was Microsoft or them, but Tony Hawk 3+4 was poorly done and they worked on it.

>>1819497 Support and consulting studio that developed botched ports and the latest Tony Hawk Remake. >>1820426 It was them yeah, Extinction and Rumbleverse, their original titles flopped so hard that their company is literally just a shell for DEI funds and nepobabies.

>>1820451 What a damn shame.

this was my favorite harley queen outfit. I hate how the suicide squad movie completely overwrote it.

>>1820703 >shadman

Shadman nowadays is nostalgic shit. It all AI nowadays that looks like shadman coloring traced over real people.

>>1650729 >>1650801 There were two times in my life I knew about "Professors" for comics. Both of em were women and both needed the local stereotypical comic book guy to find material and explain comics to them.They were so full of pride talking about how they were professors and yet so ignorant in the subject they taught. One wanted to know which definitive Batman comic to read. No, I shit you not. You don't even have to guess which book was recommended. It's Batman: Year one, come on In retrospect I should have done what you have done and got the easy elective. >>1650700 Because Comics were heavily involved with the war effort during WW2 as propaganda t. had a business professor who clearly wanted to talk about comics instead of busines

>>1820765 That's funny, he's been caught doing that.

>>1820797 Honestly, Batman: Year One is pretty boring and overrated, and comes off feeling like a Gordon story more than a Batman story. But of course if you want to introduce an absolute normalfag, then starting with the origin story is a good idea. If I was recommending a Batman comic to someone who already knew and liked Batman adaptations (so basically most males, but practically no females), then I'd go for The Dark Knight Returns. Year One is practically a prequel to it, and it explores the character with much more depth. Of course, I think it doesn't quite understand Superman properly, and contributes to some casuals who have dipped their toes into comics but not gone very far misunderstanding Superman, but it's a Batman comic, so I don't care too much. Also, it still sort of gets Superman. It doesn't completely ruin him like many works influenced by or even adapting The Dark Knight Returns have done. Of course even a casual, let alone a damn professor, should realize that it's hard to say there is such a thing as a "definitive Batman comic." The character is so varied, with so many interpretations, even if you stick solely to main canon. Tone changes so wildly over the decades, and the different tones are all beloved, and that variability is a big part of why the series is so successful. Plus, for many decades now, most stories have been very long multi-part arcs that only make sense if you already know a great deal of information from previous stories. Even defining a single story is difficult in the last 40 years, and when they can be easily defined, they're often very long and even then still rely on years and decades of continuity. DC marketed the New 52 as a "reboot" so casuals felt like they could jump in, but actually it was halfway through Grant Morrison's run, which is a favorite but is many years long, and is based upon the premise of calling back to basically every Batman story ever and reminding readers that they're all canon. Even the non-Morrison New 52 Batman comics, like the well liked and successful Court of Owls storyline, not only takes place at the same time as the Morrison stuff, and expects you to understand who dozens of pre-existing characters are, but actually is referencing and adapting previous stories about characters and concepts like Owlman and Thomas Wayne, Jr., who each go back many decades. You can understand the plot without knowing them, but you won't understand the full significance of the story. Or maybe you want to read Knightfall, a very famous story that has led to many adaptations. Okay, you're expected to know who Batman is, but everyone knows that. Also basically every Batman villain ever shows up and does important stuff, but okay, you know guys like Joker and Catwoman and Two-Face and Riddler, so you can get most of that. It's the first appearance of Bane, but actually Bane is just a villain who uses a pre-existing drug called Venom, which is basically super-steroids, but to understand the significance of that and why it's such a big deal, you're supposed to have already read the previous Batman story where it was introduced a few years earlier. And Robin is important, but you know Robin. Did you know that in this story Batman is on his third Robin, and the first is grown up and has a different name now, and the second one is dead? You're expected to understand and care about these characters quite a bit. Did you know Superman was dead when this story happened? Wait what? You're wondering how Superman died? Better back up and read the whole Death of Superman arc, which Knightfall is a blatant ripoff of, meaning it's just as long and complicated. But even that story begins with Lex Luthor secretly being in a clone body which he is passing off as his own son, who is fucking Supergirl, who isn't even Superman's cousin, but a psychic goo monster from something called a "pocket universe." Also there's a bunch of stuff about underground mutants and something called Project Cadmus. Want to understand that? Just go back to the '70s and read all of Jack Kirby's Fourth World, the epic magnum opus of comics' greatest creator which spanned four different ongoing comic series, and not only spins out of the solo series of "Superman's Pal: Jimmy Olsen," (so you'd better be somewhat familiar with him), but heavily references stories Kirby did back in the '40s about The Newsboy Legion and The Guardian, essentially bringing them back and acting as a sequel series. What, you don't know the super famous characters of The Newsboy Legion? Just go back to the '40s and read all their comics, and you'll figure it out. Then you can finally understand Knightfall. Oh wait, I forgot about how Green Lantern, and the end of the entire Green Lantern series, is so important to The Death of Superman. Okay, so first you have to understand that there are 3600 Green Lanterns... You honestly have to be very, very uninformed to not really realize the stupidity of even asking for "the definitive Batman comic." The very question barely makes sense. But of course these women didn't become professors because they were actually experts in their fields, they became professors because they were women and would get pushed ahead despite not having even casual knowledge of the field. And yes, I know the absurdity of complaining about this after saying I'd recommend The Dark Knight Returns, a story which takes place in the future and expects you to understand Batman continuity up to the mid-1980s pretty well, including things like Jason Todd. But I'd only recommend it to men, since they already understand most basic Batman characters and concepts, and they're probably casual enough that, since Nightwing doesn't show up, they will either understand who Jason Todd is, or not realize there are two Robins in the first place, so they won't be confused.

>>1899615 Only comic I ever read for Batman is Court of Owls (all 3 books or whatever its called). Really cool story, I remember thinking they didn't elaborate enough on the conspiratorial acts taken by the Court, so that felt a little weak for supposedly the real rulers of the city. Still great read as a non comic reader, and its most likely going to be convered in the new Matt Reeves movies. The reason I don't read comics is I didn't grow up doing so, and they're not a thing here.

>>1900549 Yeah I do like Court of Owls. If you ever get super autistic for Batman, you'll get more references and learn to like it even more. Talon is basically a main universe version of Owlman, who is the evil universe version of Batman, who is actually Thomas Wayne, Jr., whose brother, Bruce, was killed along with his parents. Of course Thomas Wayne, Jr., also existed in the main universe, but only in one story from the early '80s, and then continuity changed several times since then, so he was arguably not canon anymore, but I'll stop before I get even more autistic with it. >The reason I don't read comics is I didn't grow up doing so, and they're not a thing here. I didn't start reading comics until I was 18. By the time I was growing up, comics were already very rare outside of comic book stores, which were rare and confusing unless you were already a fan who knew what you wanted. And even then, stories were all multi-part, so you'd have to read months worth of stuff to get a full story, and finding a point where you can actually understand your first issue was very hard. And of course they were already getting expensive. It was only once I was already graduated high school and had lots of time on my hands, and learned to pirate comics online, that I had the time to get into it. Also it was because of a very depressing period in my life when I really needed a deep fantasy world to escape into, and comics provided that escape. I suppose that period never ended. Kids can't even understand modern comics. They haven't been written for kids for decades. They're for adults. Which is obviously a terrible financial decision, but worked for me, at least until like 10 years ago when they all became SJW trash. Also I'm pretty sure there are sequel stories to The Court of Owls that get a lot more into it, but I haven't read those ones yet. Talon definitely appears a bunch more.

>see somewhat recent TBT where you play vigilantes >and it's one where all the levels are hand crafted and it's more a puzzle than tactics >and it has a cool mechanic of each character having a special teamup with every other character <it plays like shit <aesthetics are awful <voice acting is awful, can't believe the main bitch wasn't ashley burch <levels are awful <story is awful God damnit

>>1899615 The complete opposite for me, and true enough its clearly more of a Gordon story then a Batman one It was not for me, I understand there is an appeal to many people out there. I could not love the book. I've read it multiple times trying to examine every nuance ultimately decided it just wasn't for me. >Tone changes so wildly over the decades, and the different tones are all beloved, and that variability is a big part of why the series is so successful. Yes, The local comic book guys also discussed this in length with the professor. The reason they chose Year one, is because for them they felt it codified what makes Batman Batman. For them it was the singular story that almost all others draw from. At the time as a kid it was quite enlightening. >Grant Morrison's run I know exactly what you mean, his run really expected you to know the character in order for you to fully appreciate the writing and when you appreciate you could feel how much work Morrison went through and his passion. And whilst I was able to do that, by the end I felt that this was a detriment to him in the end of his career at DC. Some stories simply don't carry well unless you know the esoteric lore and when you pulling from decades that simply doesnt work. I think Final Crisis his magnum opus for the finality of DC for the next reboot was where It went wrong. He needed another book and several more runs if he wanted to make that work and frankly a guide. In my opinion. Ultimately it made me understand the ultimate weakness in comics. Having too much lore can be a detriment, and the solution of constant reboots will not stave off the inevitable boredom. I can only stomach so much reboots until I just lose interest. Of course shit writers don't help much either. >>1900743 Yeah its terrible isn't it. I want a good original capeshit game so bad but there isn't a single damn one.

>>1910939 True comics nerds know DC has never truly been rebooted. Final Crisis didn't even pretend to be a reboot, it just had a name that sort of implied it. New 52 was marketed as a reboot a couple of years later, but Batman and Green Lantern just continued their years long epic arcs that drew from all continuity ever, and even other things that felt almost rebooted, like Swamp Thing, Superman, and Hawkman, actually follow directly from their previous stories too. It just so happened their previous stories happened to lead to decent jumping off points, except for the fact that the very first issues reference things like The Death of Superman and the fact that the original Swamp Thing still existed and wasn't actually Alec Holland. So yes, all the crazy lore makes things confusing, but I think if you look at it purely for the art, then you can say it's the viewer's fault for not being knowledgeable enough. But if you want to make money, then obviously it should be more accessible, like it used to be in the '70s. I still say that was the sweet spot for comics using continuity but not needing you to be an immense autist.

>>1916079 Well of course but you can say the same for marvel. >new 52 You remember when the new superman did so bad they just outright replaced with the old one? That was fun >But if you want to make money, then obviously it should be more accessible Thats all contingent on good writers though, its been nothing but rage baiting for a decade and im just tired of it.

>>1910939 >I want a good original capeshit game so bad but there isn't a single damn one. Well there is that new dispatch game people are talking about. But that is a telltale style story game.