Boston Show This Weekend
Just a quick one today. Got the at Primate’s Boston Comic Book & Toy Spectacular this Sunday. Hope to meet some new people, do some sketches and sell some pages.
ROBO #5 is coming along. Still can’t seem to hit a comfortable groove with it, but I’m wrapping up pencils on pg17, so its getting done.
The only other thing that’s new is Lost Planet. This game has single-handedly saved the X-box 360 in my eyes. Gears of War was cool, and visually it was everything it claimed to be. But it was damn repetitive, the environments were not terribly interactive (meaning I couldn’t blow the crap out of . . .everything), and the tactics and weapons at my disposal were very limited.
Lost Planet though . . . Wow. Just wow. Okay first of all its sci-fi, with monsters. You’re on an ice world that makes Hoth look like a resort planet and you are fighting Godzilla with an assault rifle. At one point you are hauling ass across a frozen waste dodging the snowy cousins of the Spice Worms from Dune. Did I mention you only have an assault rifle? Its really fun –lots of running away from stuff.
To sweeten the deal you occasionally use a Vital Suit –its basically a suit of power armor, or a really small mech. So now you’re fighting Godzilla with a mini-mecha. The Vital Suits have a great range of weapon systems and there are about 8 different suits you can pilot, ranging from clunky industrial VS’s to agile combat VS.
So far its an awesome game. The only gripe I have are the “boss†fights that Capcom throws in at the end of each mission –these can be frustrating enough to make me throw the controller across the room. Like clearing out the snow pirate’s base wasn’t hard enough, I gotta fight a boss too?
Oh well, nothing is perfect. But so far, this comes pretty close.
February 19th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Hope you had success at the Boston show. I decided to skip this one as I just went to Larry’s the week before and NYC is this weekend.
February 20th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Actually it was a pretty bad show. I guess I’ve done about 8 of these shows now, and each time it gets a little worse.
I think its because the artist alley is stuffed in that small back room and no one knows we are there. One of the guys got fed up with it and brought his own sign directing folks to Artist Alley this time, but even so it was dead.
I ended up leaving an hour early and went for Chinese with s few of the other guys.
February 20th, 2007 at 7:00 pm
None of my sketch buddies were there… it was quite sad… But I did get a great sketch from Scott in my daughter’s skethbook. I haven’t scanned it yet, tho’. I’m probably going to wait until after NYC this weekend.