97 – The Crooked World
Jay & Miles X-Plain the X-Men
Jay Edidin & Miles Stokes
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2016
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In which we venture out of our wheelhouse; Contest of Champions is ridiculous in any medium; Captain Britain would like you to unhand that elf; the Fury is legitimately terrifying; the Special Executive is the best at heists; Brian Braddock knows exactly what he’s getting into; Merlyn is the multiversal Charles Xavier; and this is really just the tip of the iceberg.
X-PLAINED:
- Various Contests of Champions
- ISO-8
- Marvel UK
- Marvel Superheroes 377-388
- Daredevils 1-11
- Mighty World of Marvel 7-13
- Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)
- Jackdaw
- Earth-238
- Mad Jim Jaspers
- The Crazy Gang
- Algernon the Rat
- Omniversal Majestrix Opal Luna Saturnyne
- Life-Enhancing Fluid
- The Fury
- Alan Moore juvenilia
- The (first) death and rebirth of Captain Britain
- How to make a retcon work
- Mastermind (but not that Mastermind)
- Emma Collins
- Pre-Psylocke Betsy Braddock
- S.T.R.I.K.E.
- Vixen
- Slaymaster
- The Trial of Saturnyne
- The Special Executive
- Mandragon
- The Captain Britain Corps
- Captain U.K. (Linda McQuillan)
- Marvelman vs. Miracleman
- Future Traumatic Stress Disorder
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jay could you whoa what are you playing? |
| 0:03.0 | Uh just a sec I gotta finish being up Captain America. |
| 0:05.5 | Okay. Okay. There we go |
| 0:07.4 | Contest of Champions. The one the comics based on. Well one of the comics. The other series with that title predates the game by about 30 years. |
| 0:13.7 | So what's it about? The original mini series? The game. |
| 0:16.7 | Uh, let's see. You play an unnamed character referred to only as the summoner, who's been selected |
| 0:21.4 | to represent Earth in some big multiverseal |
| 0:24.4 | hoop jumping to determine interdimensional mineral rights. In practice, it |
| 0:28.8 | mostly means a lot of screen tapping, and if you or me it also involves getting |
| 0:32.3 | really grumpy about game |
| 0:33.4 | mechanics geared around microtransactions because you're an old school kid who |
| 0:36.6 | can't stop thinking of paying real money for in-game resources is cheating which is |
| 0:40.3 | why you will never ever ever ever have a chance of winning the really cool 92 Cyclops. |
| 0:47.0 | Huh. |
| 0:48.0 | Oh, and you have to obsessively hoard this stuff called Iso8, so you can level characters. |
| 0:52.0 | Iso8? Isot level characters. Iso8? |
| 0:53.2 | Isotope 8. |
| 0:54.2 | According to the more recent eponymous comic series, it's an isot type of |
| 0:57.0 | neutronium, an element found only in exospace. |
| 0:59.7 | Which is... |
| 1:00.7 | The neutral zone, you know, the space between universes. Anyway, Neutronium is basically universe glue, although in the game it works more like experience points in rock form. |
| 1:08.0 | And this is based on a series from 1982. |
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