Yeah, I’m not going to pretend to understand how the legality of that stuff works, but I have read very specific things about those deals that explained the troubles.. Like, to get the GotG in-game, they had to agree to make Yondu and Ronan, even though they knew those characters were going to populate landfills.

It’s…

Infinity is not based on comics, it’s based on movie/tv properties; those were the deals they stuck. What else Disney owns is irrelvent...

I’m having trouble finding it at the moment, but I read a detailed breakdown of what rights they had at one point, and it very clearly stated that they were only licensed to make…

You should read the article’s (here) on exactly why; the story is very interesting. Mostly bad licensing deals, and over-production of figures.

No argument that the figures are gorgeous. I haven’t turned the game on in many months, but I can’t seem to bring myself to put the toys away... They are just styled so damn…

There was very strict deals made on all the characters, including exactly who they were forced to make and where they were allowed to be used in-game. It’s really not as simple as just patching support for them into older sets... 

It’s why you can’t for example play through the Avengers playset with Spider-man. Deals…

The game sold fine, it was the warehouses of Yondu (and similar) figures that killed them... 

The more you read about what happened to Infinity, the more it sounds like it was mostly just the licensing deals on the IPs/characters that did them in. They were hamstrung so bad by those deals that it’s not surprising they…

The toys were what they lost the money on. The game was pretty well received really...

I personally thought 2.0 and 3.0 were both great. 2.0 is easily the best Marvel Superhero game available on this console generation, and 3.0 is one of the best SW games in ages...

The game was never the issue... Especially the last one, which was received pretty well. The problem (for them) has always been the figures, and the licensing deals they had to make on them. That would still be there without the game.

For example, to get the Guardians of the Galaxy deal, they had to agree to make Yondu…

The current service (on Shield devices) requires a monthly subscription that gives a handful of games, and then you also have to buy or rent any other titles you want to play (which is frankly, most of the things of interest). In a lot of cases buying the game “on the Shield” also gives you a Steam code so that you…

Yeah, this is a major annoyance to me as well. I passionately love my Shield Tablet and I rarely leave home without it, but it annoys me to no end that it seems to be getting phased out by the STV and GFNow, when I have no interest in that device or that service. I specifically bought into this ecosystem for…

Ghosts, Monsters, or Ghost-Monsters?

This is cool, but seeing as how the only thing I use email for at this point is professional communications or following up on retail purchases or whatever, it’s not really a system I would trust to voice-to-text. I’d definitely want to see the email in print before sending it out... which obviously would largely…

I have had virtually zero issues with it understanding me, but I do get occasions where it doesn’t seem to trigger the tasks I asked it to... Like, I have it attached to a bunch of smart-home stuff, and one out of every like, 20 times I tell it to turn the lights on/off, it says ok, but then nothing happens.

Not sure…

Yup, the Dot is fantastic, and apart from lacking in some bass, it sounds totally fine. It also manages to pick up sound from across my damn house as well.

The only time it has any trouble hearing me is if I’m in a different room and there is music blasting. In those cases, just shouting Alexa at it, then waiting a…

Hah, I am too; majored in 3D animation in college. I had instructors talk non-stop about the Valley and I think “It” fell precisely in there. The eyes, the skin... pretty much everything they warn you about just exploded out of the screen to me when that other character came on.

What’s especially egregious about it is…

Yeah, that’s a really good point... Now that I think about it, it actually mirrors Godzilla pretty well. Both are really strong movies that took a very well known IP, made them much less fun and way less recognizable, while still managing to keep (most) fans pretty content.

He’s certainly got a talent for reworking…

Totally. While that looked kinda weird and over-shiny on Prof X, it was not remotely as bad as what was done here... 

Even the creepy plastic version of Flynn in Tron 2 was less disturbing than the other one was in this. I was really hoping that “it” would either not turn around and all or just be a shot of the outfit…

Mon Mothma was not in A New Hope, and neither was that line...

That is exactly how I’ve been describing it when asked... It felt like a very well funded fan-film. Not that it’s an insult, just a pervasive feeling. I enjoyed it very much, but it wasn’t fun, it didn’t get my blood pumping till the end, and the whole thing just felt like a dour war film shot on a sound-stage.

Not to…

Yeah, I’m with the others here. I thought Tarkin played great. Didn’t creep me out, and I loved seeing him again. That other one though... good lord no.

I liked it, and the tone/stakes were great, but I agree it wasn’t everything the reviews are making it out to be... Felt very canned, and very small... almost like a fan-film.

I loved Tarkin though; didn’t give me much of any Uncanny Valley, and I got super-excited seeing him again.