As some of the people who goes to chat probably know, I'm a HUGE Comic Book Fan, it's even more obvious if you've seen my Steam Profile which has been made to reflect that of my favorite hero, Aquaman. If you're curious why, the first time I was introduced to the character was in the Justice League Animated Series which played him off as this Bad-Ass Sean Bean fellow with a hook for a hand and can trade blows with Superman, after that I got into reading his comics (I recommend the New 52 Aquaman Run which IMO is one of the best traditional take of the character, though if you like the more Bad-Ass Hook Handed Aquaman, then there's also Peter David's Run) But let's get back to the request (These are also pretty solid Aquaman stories to get into, with the exception of Brightest Day since that would require you to have background info on what happened before it)
Scribblenauts is a series that started out on the Nintendo DS, it's main premise is that using your vocabulary, you write various nouns in your magical notebook that will spawn the noun in game to help you in your mission. Can't reach a particular object? Why not write ladder and use it to climb up? Meet a band of homeless Firemen? Why not conjure up a Firestation for them? Pirates bothering you? Why not spawns some Dinosaurs to teach them a lesson? This mechanic is further expanded upon it it's sequel SUPER Scribblenauts which allows you to add adjectives to your nouns (It's not everyday you see a Winged Hairy Toxic Feminine Fertile Cannibalistic Golden Atomic Colossal Baby Tortoise........... but in this game you do!), it was then followed by Scribblenauts Unlimited, which replaced the previous games' mission system with a more freeflowing hub world systems that had practically unlimited tasks for you to solve with your magic notebook (TBH, never played that one). After that, 5th Cell took the next logical step and added in SUPERHEROES, not just any 2nd Banana Cape and Cowl wearing Prankster, they added in DC SUPERHEROES with their 4th Installment, Scribblenauts Unmasked. I mean have you seen this? I can't believe how much stuff there is! There's Stanley's Monster, Spoiler, Apokalips Superman, Dozens of Batmen (Heck there's Superman Batman from Speeding Bullets), there's Frankenstein and the Agents of SHADE, the Crime Syndicate of America, Justice League International, Lord Havok and the Extremists, Major Force, King Shark, and a crapton of Lantern Weilders.
Why do I want this game? Well, I've played the previous ones on the DS (They are also available now for Apple and Androids BTW) and remember having tons of fun with it (Like having All-Out Wars between different religious deities like Thor, Cthulu, and Satan) I also want to introduce some of my friends and younger family members into DC Comics in fun way. Knowing them they probably can't be arsed to binge read a complete run of Wally West Era Flash Comics with me or do a complete tour of the DC Wikipedia Page I think this is a neat way to introduce them to it, nothing says "OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS AND WHERE CAN I GET MORE OF THIS" other than Aquaman riding Batman riding Superman riding a Flying Flaming Tricycle and occasionally showing off my knowledge by thinking up some obscure and bizarre Super Hero like I dunno, Arm Fall Off Boy or Danny the Street to have them get interested on the lore and history of the DC Universe ("Wait wait wait, there were 4 Superman once? Cat given a ring that is fueled by its rage? A Living Planet with a Green Lantern Ring? Native American Batman? Beppo the Su-actually let's ignore Beppo the Super Monkey)
And even if don't manage to indoctrinate get them interested in the DC Universe, at least I'll still be able to spawn countless Aquamen and watch them fight sea crime and an unending onslaught of bad guys have fun with the game itself because of how and deep it mined the DC Universe just so people can SPAWN MORE AQUAMAN be more familiar with the DC Universe as a whole
Anyway, here's my Steam ID hopefully even if this doesn't garner much attention or doesn't actually gets fulfilled, there'll someone gaines enough interest to read some Aquaman comics and get into the community.
EDIT: Words and faulty links
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