With Commandant Steele's opening the Vault and the withdrawn Atlas support on Pandora it seems like some things would have to be left behind, particularly, some really pissed off soldiers. Maybe one of the Crimson Lance Royal Guard/Soldier/etc witnessed the Vault Hunters slaying the Destroyer after Steele's screw up and wanted to be a part of it. It would make sense that with the Lance attempting to take all the credit, and the real heroes being labeled as enemies, that there may have been deserters. Even more so after General Knoxx died and Atlas abandoning Pandora. Then Roland took a semi-reformed bunch and made the Crimson Raiders. The character could be someone Roland contacted or called in, maybe an old war buddy from his time with the Atlas Corp., but they arrived too late and want revenge.
Really, think of another melee type character using a Lance Assassin. One more sword user could be pretty decent.
Hell, they could even use the humorous "Personal Ice Cream Leave of Absence"(code 3.5.31 in the manual). Something along the lines of they went on an ice cream leave and came back to a missing military company and are just trying to find their way.
Theoretically the skill couldn't really be ANOTHER turret, but perhaps they could deploy a Lance probe, mine, or an assault pod with back up soldiers or supplies. Or, in an extreme case, a reverse engineered Eridian weapon. I wouldn't mind an Atlas Engineer that somehow could call in a Guardian from the Eridian Promontory. Maybe they tapped into the lost technology and in a fit of revenge on their employer, due to being abandoned and left for dead, the character joined up with the Crimson Raiders.
Whatever this Eridian tech would be, it shouldn't be a typical weapon, make it an Eridian Prototype of something that would work "like magic," think like something similar to the Siren's powers in the Borderlands universe. (More on this in the next 6th playable character potential post)
The Eridian tech could even be something salvaged by a Dahl employee, think of another Tannis type somewhere else on Pandora coming across something still working.
The skill trees-(like the Atlas Badasses) could be divided into- Infantry, Defender, and Engineer.
Just a quick post here. Saw these on Twitter earlier today.
So it looks like we'll be getting some new DLC before the year is done. Hopefully it'll come with a patch to fix some of the problems like Master Gee the Unbeatable System Killer. I'll be looking forward to whatever it is.
For the new character I am hoping for a faulty Hyperion robot that deploys a Jimmy Jenkins like tinier robot. There are plenty of Hyperion robots that go all wonky, so when can we actually play as one? Think about it- there's the Hyperion Intelligence Core, Mal, Innuendo Bot, Censor Bot, Jimmy Jenkins, and Perv-E- I'm sure there's plenty of other robots gone awry that could be fun.
It would be loads of fun to play as an off-kilter Wee Loader!
I'm running short on break time here at work so here's a quick rundown of some others I think would make for good possibilities.
1) A were-skag or were-bullymong with a Skill of transforming into the alternate character for a short time. Maybe a Midge-mong like centaur creature, there is so much potential here.
2) A Zombie left over from the Zombie island. Can use a puking skill with elements.
3) Hyperion or Torgue engineer type with the exo-skeleton for ground shaking or Brick berserking punchy goodness. Maybe an actual midget character that uses the exoskeleton to be "regular sized."
4) An escaped Rat with laser beam power. Let them have a Mordecai like Ransack skill for increased looting like a Rat Thief.
4) A Bandit. There's a plethora of things to draw on for a Bandit character. A bandit just one day gets sick of being repeatedly getting slaughtered by Vault Hunters and thus starts their journey.
A possible skill -they could become enraged and get bigger and stronger like a Goliath. I would like to see a Skag rider or Giant rider. Why the hell aren't skags a ride already?
Even a simple Axe thrower would be ok. Plenty of bandit kind to make use of.
5) A forgotten or left behind Atlus employee.
6) A Guardian, Seraph, or an Eridian. (This would be guessing Zero isn't one of the 3 things listed) This would open up more mystical or "magic" like powers similar to the Sirens abilities. I believe this could be an amaing DLC addition. (I'll have a larger post on this later)
Saw this trailer for M. Night Shyamalan's "After Earth." I must say it looks fairly impressive. Then again, when I first saw the Last Airbender trailer, it looked good at first- but it turned out to be an absolutely atrocious film. He hasn't made a really good film since "Signs."
For me at least, I'll give it a chance. Will Smith tends to be great in pretty much everything. So what I'm wondering is, can the Smiths help redeem movies for Shyamalan? This has the added benefit of Shyamalan not being the writer. It is mainly written by Stephen Gaghan, who wrote Traffic and Syriana. Which could be a very good thing for him- having anoter writer to level things out. Hopefully this does well enough to regain the respect of moviegoers towards Shyamalan.
Overall this looks like a father and son bonding movie combined with a coming of age film (in a new and hostile environment). Intriguing if nothing else. I'm going to take a chance on this, even if it's just for the visual effects' eye candy. I'm hoping it'll be at least a decent movie.
Plot synopsis:
One thousand years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape from Earth, Nova Prime has become mankind's new home. Legendary General Cypher Raige returns from an extended tour of duty to his estranged family, ready to be a father to his 13-year-old son, Kitai. When an asteroid storm damages Cypher and Kitai's craft, they crash-land on a now unfamiliar and dangerous Earth. As his father lies dying in the cockpit, Kitai must trek across the hostile terrain to recover their rescue beacon. His whole life, Kitai has wanted nothing more than to be a soldier like his father. Today, he gets his chance.
Well, I know the first thing many people are going to wonder is, aside from the fact their last names are Raige, what's the twist? Shyamalan seems to always need one. Just from the trailer- I would guess one of two things-
1) Will Smith is a "non-person"? It looks like he's ripped out of the ship when it's being torn open and crashing so maybe he dies in the beginning and continues through the rest of the film in a non-physical manner. Maybe he's Jaden's future self, being imagined as a guide of sorts. Or, on a FAR OUT THERE guess, perhaps a time travelling future self, guiding him through events he knows about before being sucked out of the ship. Hell, Will Smith might play both Cypher and an aged Kitai. If they set the film in multiple times.
Perhaps he could be a hologram or synthetic human. I don't know. It's fairly difficult to judge by just the trailer here. While it says there were 2 survivors, that could also be a ruse for storytelling purposes, as it looks fairly bad when he's thrown down that hall, then the ship is pulled apart during the fall to Earth. So maybe he does survive and is just injured pretty badly and Jaden's character has to make it to Will and then go from there. I mean it does show a LOT of Jaden scenes by himself, and then Will in a small control center type area communicating with him.
2) This Earth may be in the long reaches of the past, as opposed to a possible distant future. Many old Scifi stories have used this notion and it works all right. I don't think it would matter much as to when the story takes place. The reason I mention this is because I believe I caught glimpses of a couple of dinosaur type animals. In particular a sabre-toothed tiger.
This might end up being an Earth seeding film- one where man leaves then returns to re-seed and repopulate the Earth. Not necessarily through the typical human reproductive means.
I'm sure I'll have more to say as more is released.
Here's another stupid comic I made that I've thought about for a long time. Gimli offers his axe to assist Frodo the Ringbearer in the Fellowship of the Ring, literally minutes after destroying it on Sauron's One Ring of Power. Thinking about it always gave me a chuckle, hopefully it does the same for you readers. Perhaps he just has a large supply of backup axes.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is out in less than a week, and I am super excited!
*SQUEEEEEEEE!!!*
I always laugh at some parts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, here is one of them. Pretty much right after saying one does not simply walk into Mordor, Boromir and the newly formed Fellowship of the Ring sets out to walk to Mordor.
Made this while completing my yearly rewatch of the extended trilogy. I'll put up another one later, probably more as the Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey nears to theatrical release in a week.
With a week and a half until the Hobbit is released, and the Star Trek Into Darkness 9 minute preview, excitement is high. I saw the Teaser Trailer for Star Trek and it looks good. J.J. Abrams is up to his good old misdirection with trailers.
It also seems Inception and Prometheus added the GWWWWOOOOOOONNGG!!! sound to the trailer for dramatic effect. There also appears to be a significantly less number of Abrams patented lens flares. Ok, only about 20% less lens flare.
The trailer, being a minute and 20 seconds, contains lots of quick snippets featuring most the main characters and it looks like Benedict Cumberbatch might be playing Gary Mitchell. (From the original series' episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before") And I would guess if that's who he is, Alive Eve could then be playing Elizabeth Dehner??? While I am not 100% sure, these guesses are just speculation so far, but I will enjoy the movie regardless.
It looks like a hooded, kung fu Cumberbatch is fighting a Klingon (leather masked person) at one point, and Spock possibly visiting the molten caverns of Mount Doom. Many explosions, Starfleet bases and cities exploding, and a ship (possibly the Enterprise, but that's highly doubtful, maybe an older model starfleet ship- but if it's Gary Mitchell- it could be the Valiant) crash landing in water are a few highlights of the teaser. Then again the crash scenes might not even be related to the ship in the water scene- what if its rising out of the water?
As for the screen capture pic above, could it be the result of someone's Wrath... as it's following Cumberbatch's character asking, "Is there anything you would not do for your family?" (Note- they do NOT show who's hands they are, and I believe that is VERY purposeful) That leads me to personally believe that Cumberbatch's crew, like Kirk's crew, is his family- much along the likes Khan's mindset. From the many rumors I've heard, a LOT of people are thinking that Khan will be the villain. But wouldn't it be cooler if Peter Weller was Khan and the scene above would be not Kirk and Spock, but Cumberbatch and Weller. Providing the background for the revenge plot.
I would like to add if Khan is here, I hope the ship crash is the Botany Bay in the past and it leaves him in suspended animation in the beginning of the film- which would explain the planes flying overhead for a funeral. I mean the ship doesn't have the right nacelles to be the current Enterprise's. I would like it if Weller was Khan and stuck in suspended animation and having Gary Mitchell raising the forgotten ship from the depths. This would be FAR out there, but whatever. Just a nod to the augmented people of the lost Botany Bay. Keep it a small homage.
It looks like Cumberbatch is of Starfleet, at least for a time with the insignia showing on a black shirt, so that would lean towards Gary Mitchell or Garth of Izar. Maybe this is all a back story- Weller and Cumberbatch in a ship crash (Botany Bay?), but I don't know. Too many maybes right now. I mean they haven't shown pics of Weller, so he might not even be playing a human.
I've also seen talk of Sybok (without the ears) as the villain. Any of these villains would work. Khan or Gary because of what looks to be semi superhuman/telekinetic feats- fighting and jumping through thick plate glass.
Oh, well, super excited for this film. More to come, probably after the Hobbit shows the first 9 minutes.
The Dark Knight Rises is out on BluRay and DVD today, so I made a couple stupid humor pics. (the other is on the previous post)
I was going to make it "Put a Bat on it!" and do a series of pics from the show Portlandia's "Put a bird on it!" skit, with a slew of Bat symbols placed on the objects. Something about a jelly-smear Bane face just stuck in my mind, and this is the result.
With The Dark Knight Rises being released today on BluRay and DVD, I figured I'd throw some stupid pics up.
Apparently Derek Zoolander has been tricked by Ra's al Mugatu and his League of Shadows. Billy Zane/Bane is trying to get him to back down from a walk-off with a Bruce Wayne sponsored Hansel. (I originally wanted to photo shop Bane's mask onto Billy Zane, but didn't have the time)
Perhaps I'll make some more Banelander pics in the near future...
Super quick post here:
Holy Crap! My blog has finally hit the 10K visitors mark. The counter at the bottom was added quite a bit after I started here. A hearty "Thank You" to anyone that has actually read anything here.
Anyway, not that it's here, it's super fun. Just in time for generating a bazillion dollars along with the theatrical release of the Hobbit during the Christmas season.
Well, I noticed that one of the trophies (or Achievements on Xbox/PC/other) is "One Simply Does Not..." and it is achieved by walking into Mordor. This is quite possibly the best PS3 Trophy made ever. Thank you Traveller's Tales for putting this in there. I laughed for like an hour about it, and decided to make this meme.
I don't believe this Lego game is quite as good as a couple of the other Lego games- particularly the first Harry Potter and the 2nd Batman, they are spectacularly well put together. There are a few new mechanics in play that are decent and the way they changed the "hub world" will take some getting used to, but it's looking pretty good so far.
I still highly recommend this game, for whatever system you play on.
