Back to the Future!

The year is 2015! Doc and Marty are flying down towards the modern town of Hill Valley.  3D Jaws 19 is playing at the hologram cinema, and children play blissfully on their hover boards! Blissfully unaware THAT THEIR FUTURE HASNT HAPPENED YET!!!

The future looks fake!

(Not my music of choice… but appropriate subject matter!)

Ahem. Excuse me. ?

Happy Weekend everyone!

My Pledge involves things pointy-eared, tree hugging, long-lived and mysterious. I’ll be focusing on Wood/ Wild Elves and if I get through those, I’ve got a more Neutral character to address. Still an Elf.

To address the questions!

Age of Kickstarter – I am really really glad I got in on Kingdom Death. The art and the game are like nothing else I’d come across before really. Not in tabletop gaming at any rate. I’ve jumped in on the Terrain Tutor book. I’ve been reading through Dave Taylor’s book (which I got retail) so I know the production value will be great. I regret not getting in on Mythic Battles: Pantheon. And I’m still salty that it basically became KS only. Yes, I’m salty coz I didn’t get the toys I wanted. I’ll own that. Though to this day, I still don’t understand why BoW continue to promote that game, and others from Mythic and Monolith that are KS only… if you haven’t got them, you can’t get them…

Music Online – has it expanded my genres? Not as such. What it has allowed is for me to investigate bands/groups and genres that I was always interested in but hadn’t given the time to. Back in the 90’s we had to hear something somewhere (Rage was awesome for this.), find out the band/song, track down a copy of the album/ single (or tape it from the radio). Now I can go to YouTube, and find a bunch of stuff to try out. Love it! It means my daughter can share her music with me… and stupid videos… and I can show her weird videos from the 80’s and 90’s heheh

There was a good chat on the XLBS a month or so ago about peak entertainment, which I made quite a comment about. Warrant picked up on it in the follow-up show. Basically: I choose this hobby over all the other noise almost all of the time. That said, I do enjoy taking a break to binge a show or a few movies. Having gone to see Alita last night, I feel the mood coming on again for a movie/series binge.

Of the current IP’s/ Franchises/ etc etc I’d say the various flavours of Marvel (Disney/ Fox/ Netflix/ Whoever it is that’s producing SHIELD) keep me coming back. I’m planning on seeing Captain Marvel this week coming. Star Wars of course. Mario on Nintendo, in all his various adventures. Though that’s primarily because it’s my daughters thing, and it’s one of our shared enjoyments. (Actually she prefers Luigi and Daisy ?) There’s no retro stuff that I really get back to, every so often I’ll pull up retro gaming stuff to show my daughter what it was like. That’s about it.

@sundancer I think that the answer is “yes” original Star Wars counts as Retro ?

Bonus Answer: A retro game that was The MoFo Gateway Drug of Gaming for me: Space Crusade! Proper 40K based not-quite-Space-Hulk, Space Crusade.

It had great detailed boards, an interesting variety of minis, it was a fantastic little glimpse into the Grim Dark. If you read the story woven through the rule book, you realised that these “Space Marines” were tough, but they weren’t invincible.

An updated GW version with their current fixation on mono-pose good quality plastics, the value game-Box attitude…. I reckon it would smash it out of the park!