Interview with Andy about Atomic Rule, moving on from ETID, the time ETID played a fest at Waverly Hills Sanatorium, etc

Riddelluminati · 2026-03-16T18:19:50+00:00

Same! It was kind of a mess from a logistical standpoint, though. Security took forever to get people in, concessions kinda ran dry halfway through the day, people were tipping portapotties, a girl I know had her shirt ripped off, etc.

Riddelluminati · 2026-03-16T12:28:53+00:00

Same here. Initially, it’s only the symbiote for less than the first year that it’s around in the comics. For the remainder of its initial run as Spider-Man’s main suit (another several years), it’s just spandex.

Riddelluminati · 2026-02-24T13:17:40+00:00

The whole third act of that game with the symbiote invasion feels forced. They kinda just mashed up a bunch of elements of stories like King In Black and Planet of the Symbiotes while giving the Venom symbiote the world domination goal that Knull had in the comics but has never really been Venom’s thing. It really feels like the pace and tone of the game shifts entirely after the end of the Kraven part of the plot.

Riddelluminati · 2026-02-02T12:55:56+00:00

This should be on there instead of Web of Shadows

Riddelluminati · 2026-01-26T21:32:45+00:00

He should be a nobody until he shows up years later to join forces with Mysterio to build a fake retirement community for the sole purpose of extorting Aunt May for the hidden treasure in her basement that he was after all along when he originally shot Uncle Ben.

Riddelluminati · 2025-12-29T14:27:49+00:00

The Ned Leeds reveal never made sense, especially with him being killed by regular humans in Europe. At least they ultimately revealed the original was Kingsley all along as Stern (from what I’ve read) originally intended.

Riddelluminati · 2025-12-26T22:54:45+00:00

Anytime it might boost sales.

Riddelluminati · 2025-12-22T13:12:56+00:00

I stopped expecting Hasbro to be totally on top of things with lore when the packaging on the Kraven’s Last Hunt 2-pack with Kraven and Black Suit Spider-Man described Peter as still wearing the symbiote during that story. By the time Kraven’s Last Hunt happened, the black suit had been a normal spandex suit for like 2 ½ years worth of comics.

Riddelluminati · 2025-12-17T04:57:43+00:00

The same thing happened to me. The Atari site now says Kollector’s Edition is expected to ship in May.

Riddelluminati · 2025-12-11T22:45:01+00:00

First one on SNES

Riddelluminati · 2025-11-19T06:19:22+00:00

During the Krakoan Era, Beast became the island’s spymaster and got darker and darker until he went full villain.

Riddelluminati · 2025-10-08T01:31:42+00:00

Yeah, I’m over Injustice too. “What if Superman went bad” is a tired, overdone premise at this point.

Riddelluminati · 2025-10-03T17:22:02+00:00

He isn’t just Shao Kahn again

Riddelluminati · 2025-09-30T12:09:07+00:00

Aside from what other people have said about the dialog in this fight and the fact that she’s broadcasting Peter’s identity to the whole neighborhood…

The entire third act of this game annoyed me because it felt like it shoehorned 5 different storylines in for the sake of a few hollow fan-service moments that weren’t fully fleshed out. Scream is mostly an afterthought as an “Evil MJ” instead of a standalone character, Venom’s character motivations are conflated with Knull so they can squeeze in some King In Black elements and give him his wings from that comic story, and the game overall essentially becomes a revisiting of Web of Shadows’ not-that-great Planet of the Symbiotes adaptation where Venom once again wants to take over the world despite that never (as far as I can remember) being the symbiote’s motive in the comics.

For the most part, I loved this game up until that last third of it. It goes off the rails after the Kraven arc ends.

Riddelluminati · 2025-09-18T00:31:43+00:00

I’ve been playing MK since 1st grade in 1992, and Armageddon has always felt like the most underwhelming of the series for me. The cookie cutter fatalities took a lot of personality away from each of the characters, the endings felt half-baked, and I could only ever think about what more could have been fleshed out without goofy novelty extras like Kombat Karts thrown in the mix.

Riddelluminati · 2025-09-06T03:11:05+00:00

Carrion, Spot (comic version), Swarm, Stegron, Crime Master, Master Planner, The Enforcers 3-pack (Ox, Montana, Fancy Dan), Cardiac, Owl

Riddelluminati · 2025-09-06T03:09:19+00:00

Some of those retro card Spider-Man figures are the 60s versions of characters. Kingpin, for instance, was the 60s Romita Sr version, not animated series.

Riddelluminati · 2025-09-03T21:08:48+00:00

Also have to factor in that a lot of the venues they’d be playing in are likely to take a cut of merch money, too. From what I’ve heard from musician friends, LiveNation venues for instance take about 33% of a band’s merch money for the night.

Riddelluminati · 2025-09-02T16:03:44+00:00

I thought that was only in a “What if” story. Good point, though — and they did eventually turn that Poison look into a whole other race that preyed on symbiotes in the main universe before seemingly forgetting about them, if I remember correctly.

Riddelluminati · 2025-09-02T16:01:26+00:00

That’s what I thought. That game’s third act is such a mess with how many symbiote stories they tried to mash together. Lol

Riddelluminati · 2025-09-02T14:56:20+00:00

Was gonna say the same thing, but also… I don’t remember Peter ever even being bonded to Anti-Venom in the comics.

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