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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 15, 2012 5:31:11 GMT -5
Anybody see the premiere? I thought it was really good. This show ain't taking it's time so far. Herschel looks better with the beard.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 15, 2012 9:24:28 GMT -5
Nope.
Don't have cable, and still haven't watched an episode from season two, but I'm going to buy the second season on dvd.
If you are a fan of the teevee series, don't read the comic book if you haven't picked it up yet. If you are a fan of the comic series, issue 100 was one of the sickest and most heartbreaking comic books I ever done read. Hollee Guacamollee! It really is one of the best modern graphic series! I care about ALL the characters, except The Governor and his ilk like The Hunters and The Saviors. All deserve to be eaten. Or shot.
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Post by jipper on Apr 2, 2013 1:30:15 GMT -5
Nope. Don't have cable, and still haven't watched an episode from season two, but I'm going to buy the second season on dvd. If you are a fan of the teevee series, don't read the comic book if you haven't picked it up yet. If you are a fan of the comic series, issue 100 was one of the sickest and most heartbreaking comic books I ever done read. Hollee Guacamollee! It really is one of the best modern graphic series! I care about ALL the characters, except The Governor and his ilk like The Hunters and The Saviors. All deserve to be eaten. Or shot. I haven't had cable in 5 years. I don't let that stop me from watching all the television shows I want. If anyone is interested you're welcome to message me and I'll direct you to the right direction.
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Post by wulf on Apr 2, 2013 14:02:18 GMT -5
The only similarity between the comic and the show are the character names and the locations. The events are completely different and the character personalities develop differently. Comic Rick is a very different person that series Rick, Carl too. Season 3 finale was awesome!
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Post by jipper on Apr 6, 2013 14:53:13 GMT -5
The only similarity between the comic and the show are the character names and the locations. The events are completely different and the character personalities develop differently. Comic Rick is a very different person that series Rick, Carl too. Season 3 finale was awesome! The only thing I read of the Walking Dead was listening to the audiobook, Rise of the Governor. To my understanding the audiobooks they have out are basically the comic book series on audiobook. All season I kept expecting them to come out with who the Governor really was based off the audiobook. They never did. They actually seem to be going the other way with it. Maybe it's like the Dexter series and Dexter books. I just had to treat those two like two different things. A paralleled universe of the same characters or something. I enjoy them both. Hopefully the comics and the Walking Dead show can be treated the same by those who have read them.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 7, 2013 8:58:52 GMT -5
Megapost, spoilers, and shocking and extreme graphic violence and traumatic loss ahead. Great stuff I tells you. Okay. Many spoiler of both the series and the comic. I will give a fair warning (Van Halen reference) for whether it is for the teevee series or the comic series, and yep, they are basically two cannons, two parallel universes, two wholly different stories. And I paste this for those that like and seek out spoilers, like me. One thing I like is that episodes and comic book story arcs have very occasionally shared names like "This Sorrowful Life". But something that happens to Rick and Michonne won't be repeated on teevee. Spoilers for that in a bit. I have only watched the first season and I plan to some day watch the next two seasons bunched up in a marathon viewing like I did with The Sopranos. I get my spoilers for both versions of The Walking Dead at this great site, walkingdead.wikia.com/wiki/The_Walking_Dead_Wiki and I am caught up through the finale this past Sunday. I can't wait to watch the series now, this sounds like very good stuff. About the Governor books. My understanding through the spoilers in the synopsis I read is that this story is directly the origin of the Philip from the comic book. This wasn't necessary, because the character is sufficient for the series, but I do like the idea of corresponding origin books for comic book characters that are so intriguing, like this evil fuck. Can't wait to read these sometime. I have been collecting the series from about a dozen issues after the first collection known as The Walking Dead Compendium, Vol. 1. If you are not reading the comic but kinda want to but don't want to invest the time and/or money, the economical way to start from issue one and end up with about a ten pound book, really ten pounds, is through these two books. The first collects four years plus of real time that the original collector and fan of the series had to wait to read the story, issues 1-48. The second collects issues 49-96. The series is currently at around issue 108 or 109, so it is a great time to jump on with these two volumes: www.popcultcha.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/330x350/0f396e8a55728e79b48334e699243c07/d/s/dstmar092419-walking-dead-compendium_3_1.png/img]For individual issues, it is all on youtube, every gory issue is there. Here are the most fucked up issues with spoilers for the character affected by misery or violence. COMICSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERS About Rick and Michonne, an ass-kicker through and through and sturdy like an oak tree. Michonne and the Governor, round 2. About Lori, Judith, and the Governor Carl, but he gets better but basically does look like at the end without the blood. About Glen and Maggie. I think Robert Kirkman enjoys breaking his audience's hearts. I have never seen a letter's page like of TWD. Fans cuss out Kirkman every twenty issues or so, but for more issues of the Woodbury/Prison than any other story arc (basically six issues). COMICSPOILERSPOILERSPOILERSEND Yep, brutal shit and the two universes are so different. Can't wait to knock out two seasons at one time. The series has introduced wholly new major audience favorite characters. Andrea sucks on teevee but rocks the comic's page, scar and all. Dale is killed of on teevee way before he does die in the comic. Shane dies by issue 4 or 5 but lives to the second season. Yeah, different stories based on Robert Kirkman's seminal epic of the undead and us the living walking dead. In the words of the great Stan "The Man" Lee, "'Nuff said".
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 7, 2013 13:33:54 GMT -5
Also the video game is great, I mean story wise just great managed to make me cry. It's set in the comic universe. Need to check out the comics.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 7, 2013 17:11:47 GMT -5
So a quick history Jake. i gave up games in the Playstation 2 era which I loved. i just never got into the gaming culture but grew up with arcade alleys full of games and fellow kids. That experience was so fun to me. I have liked some type of games like combat arena pitfighting stuff with all types of characters. I loved the arcade game The Punisher and every damn Star Wars machine I ever saw. So with Playstation I got into any LucasArts games which were great. I am a caveman at this point, and basically only play Civ3, an addiction at times. I am in awe of what games are now but don't see myself jumping on. I actually still have in my posession a circa 1979 K-Mart brand Pong game console that I am proud to have guarded over a lifetime. "It's the little things" to quote Zombieland.
The last game I tried to play was Silent Hill and had to turn it off after 40 minutes. It disturbed me like no horror movie ever has. And I am far from censorship, but PARENTS need to control what their kids play for hours at a time. For everything there is a place, and there are also individuals who will fuck shit up for everyone else. I would like to see more introspection from gamiong companies on their goals and less attempts to shit on our American heritage and the wisdom behind the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. Gonna step of the soapbox before I start.
My question JAS, what the hell did you see in that game that made you cry? If a game was made for Y the Last Man on Earth, another incredible comic book, I would cry by the end, no doubt. Issue 59 made me cry of that series of 60 issues. A handful of comic books have made me, shall we say, misty eyed.
So give me spoilers on this game please.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 7, 2013 17:35:42 GMT -5
I tried to post images earlier of these two books but technology denied me. So another attempt from the interwebs. So I was just thinking about 109 issues of slow burn Horror greatness. Kirkman has never had characters discuss the events of the outbreak in detail and the few stories are as parts of dialogue on a personal or family level and brief. And panels of jumpbacks don't occur. The plot slowly grinds on forward like a bulldozer in a field of skeletons. I think I like that Kirkman has teased so little about "Z-Day", as I'll call the initial outbreak in the Zombie genre scenarios. I like that instead, he focused on character development to the point that us fans haven't really asked, well, how did all this start? We haven't really noticed the omission of the genesis of the living dead in Kirkman's deadish world. I bet we find out in a future teevee or comic series.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 8, 2013 18:08:55 GMT -5
Ok so throughout the game you're acting as a surrogate father/ guardian for this 8 year old girl (voice acting and writing is great) and you're with a group and you're trying to help her find her parents. Well by the end you get to Savannah where her parents should be and you have a boat and someone who can drive it, so the plan is to ride it out on the boat or at least make it to somewhere safer. Throughout the game you can make various choices ,but you still follow a rough outline. I chose to be honest most of the game with the girl and told her we probably wouldn't have time to look for her parents. Anyway she cries and you go to sleep. The next morning she's missing and you get bitten on your left arm by a stray zombie that lunges at you. Anyway you have a radio and find out she's been kidnapped or lured by someone else with a radio. Anyway I told the rest of the group about the bite and we decided to amputate the arm. On the search for her, the boat driver sacrifices himself and there's only a couple left. You tell them to wait at a specific location so that incase you don't make it the girl will have people to take care of her. Fought my way through a horde of zombies with one arm and a cleaver, killed the guy who took her in a brutal fight (who's sympathetic, but all the same quite nuts.) But since you've been exerting yourself you start to fade. You start being unable to move and she almost gets killed by a walker ,but you lose the last of your energy to save her ,but your spent. Earlier you'd found her turned parents, and there's no way you can leave with her so you're given the choice of having her shoot you or to leave you ,but basically she watches the closest thing to family slowly die because I didn't want her to have to go through killing the person she's closest to. That got me to cry ,but I figured at least I'd been able to save her and she'd be in good hands, but then the epilogue shows her alone in the wilderness (not where she's supposed to have met up with the couple) and there's two ominous figures on the horizon (that could possibly be the couple ,but due to her terrified reactions were more likely walkers). That was like a kick to the gut after the previous punch and I just felt like I'd failed her and left her alone and terrified in a hostile world. I recommend it to anyone because it was just that powerful. Though there's a sequel coming out which I can't wait for.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 9, 2013 21:51:21 GMT -5
I said "wow" out loud while reading. How long is the basic gameplay? I know that would just draw you in emotionally after investing so much into a game that sounds like you will lose any way. I can't believe that the main player is actually dieing during a large part of the game.
Silent Hill got to me in the school building. First the blood writing on the principal's office walls, but what made me stop the game was walking through the school courtyard and a little child ghost walks through you suddenly from behind you and passes you and then you notice more of these child ghost things. I immediately thought "school shooting". It was creepy as Hell.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 10, 2013 1:34:54 GMT -5
I can't really say because it mixes the game and story together at the same time. Sorry for the huge rambling paragraph ,but the ending itself wouldn't have as much weight without some idea of how much you go through with those characters.
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Post by wulf on Apr 14, 2013 2:18:28 GMT -5
The silent hill games are just fantastic, I watch horror to be frightened and those scared me. The early resident evil games I played on the PS where the same way. I just picked up Deadspace 2 but haven't had a chance to play yet, that series is supposed to be excellent.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 19, 2013 18:07:11 GMT -5
LOB thanks for the link I power read all of those comics , while listening to The Walking Dead TV soundtrack.
I like all three iterations , man The Governor was a great villain.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 21, 2013 3:10:31 GMT -5
My pleasure and my duty to fellow Horror fans my friend.
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