Superman 64 is regarded by man, and rightly so, as one of the worst major video game releases of all time. A fact not lost on this game store employee.
Cliff Bleszinski didn’t grow up reading comic books. He was all about video games and movies as a kid. But that all changed when he started reading Preacher, the blasphemously brilliant series written by Garth Ennis, and drawn by Steve Dillon. The series published by DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint opened Bleszinski up a whole new storytelling medium and he’s been a regular reader ever since. I talked with Epic Games’ Design Director last week about his favourite writers, superhero sex and why he loves dogs more than cats.
I started off my talk with DC Entertainment’s Chief Creative Officer on the wrong foot by forgetting that Geoff Johns has been writing an Aquaman series. “You just proved my point,” he chided me. The point being that people rag on the publisher’s amphibious character, which is a phenomenon that Johns is trying to reverse in the DC Comics New 52 relaunch.
I don’t know if you caught this over at io9, but Max Landis’ drunken, half-crazed retelling of the saga of “The Death and Return of Superman” was the funniest thing I saw last weekend.
Great Rao, does the Man of Steel have terrible video game luck or what? Either the games that have Kal-El as the main character suck tremendously or they never get finished in the first place.
2011 saw its share of disappointments, but it was also a year that contained a good number of nice surprises. Some were games we just didn’t see coming — they snuck up on us and grabbed us with their excellence. Others were games that we thought were going to be terrible or at best so-so, but which would up being terrific.
