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My illustrious gaming career began on my grandmother's Windows 3.1 PC, a relic even when I was using it. On it, I played such classics as SkiFree, solitaire, and crappy DOS Star Trek games. As time passed, my tastes (and hardware) changed, and I fell in love with numerous RTSes, Isometric RPGs, and crappy Winddows '95 Star Trek games. For a few cold, harsh years, my game purchases all but ceased, and were limited to yearly installments of EA's NHL series. However, about three years ago, I met my then (and current!) girlfriend, who introduced me to the wonders of love, sex, and Resident Evil 4. She also made me play WWE Crush Hour, but I've forgiven her for that. What was once a passing interest in games evolved into an all-out addiction, and I now own every current generation console, and a collection of about 200 games. Though some have described my excessive gaming habits as "dehabilitating," I assure you that they are only mildly so.

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Among the flurry of Microsoft-related leaks that appeared yesterday was news of a new superhero action game, titled Powers and Titans. Though most reports lacked any details on the game, Gamasutra is reporting that Buffy/Angel/Firefly creator Joss Whedon will be providing "input" on it. I imagine that there's quite a large cross-section of fans of both Firefly and video games (Dtoid's own Reverend Anthony included, if his weekly mentions of the show on Podtoid and MGS4 review are any indication), so I pose this question: would you buy a superhero game by Joss Whedon? The man certainly knows the genre, having just wrapped up a much acclaimed run on Astonishing X-Men. Do you think his writing would translate well to a different medium?



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It's too bad his most unpopular series was the best work he's ever done.
As long as it isn't xbox-exclusive and doesn't suck. Also it needs to have zombies.
Yes. Yes, I would. Although he'd have to actually have to have an incredible amount of active, creative input in the story, characters, and dialogue.
have you heard of his internet musical? with neil patrick harris as a psycho super villian?

yeah...this is the kind of guy i want making games.
I never watched Firefly, but I do own Serenity and it was pretty freakin' cool. I also heard his work on Astonishing X-Men was fantastic (I'm trying to find an omnibus of it... I hate individual comic books).

Count me in.
Anything he touches with his brand of comedy and creativity, is an automatic win for me. I think it would be great if he got a few of the actors from Firefly to voice a couple of outlandish superheroes in tights.

LoL, I can see it now. Baldwin voicing the renegade Punisher-like rip off character, while making off hand comments to reference Firefly and reveal his true identity of being Jane. Doubtful, but I can dream... as do most brown coats.
I would be more interested if the creator of Superfly was creating a game.
I guess I'm the odd one out. I really don't like Whedon's writing at all. The dialog always seems hokey, too many whedonisms ("he does not inspire the trust"), stock characters (ex. anyone from Firefly) and self-aware pop culture references (I won't give an example so I don't spoil anything for B-rad). BUT -- here's the important part -- he did make a pretty creative blending of genres for Firefly/Serenity and I think he could contribute a lot to something I would enjoy if he kept his damn hands off certain parts of it. It's not that I don't like the guy, I just never want him to write what characters will say ever again.
Isn't he also working on some superspy series with Eliza Dushku?
I'd likely try it out. Not sure though. I'd have to agree with Anthony though, he'd have to have a rather large part in the script for it to be any kind of appealing to me.

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