fantastic_four

Which games?

It's not reasonable to think I'd spend time Googling features that previous systems had to make sure they didn't get removed. A good idea, yes, but not one that will always occur to me.

It's more about hating to hook and unhook system from my television for me. Pain in the rear. Was doing a Sega Saturn and a PS2 for a while and hated the hooking/unhooking, so not having to do PS2/PS3 was a major factor in my buy. If not for that plus Blu-Ray, I wouldn't have bought one. I have no reason at all to buy a PS4 right now because it offers nothing new until some decent games come out. I might not have bought it yet even with backwards compatibility, but without it, there's absolutely NO reason.

Because of the lack of BC in the vast majority of PS3 units, and the half-working BC of the 360, and knowing that both companies and the industry as a whole is trying to go digital...honestly, no. What's digital got to do with backwards compatibility?

Hate to state the obvious, but the general public had no clue and I've seen a people at Futureshop, EB or Best Buy complaining that their PS4 or Xbox One won't play their PS3/360 games. I've heard the same story from friends, relatives, etc. that had no clue that they couldn't play their old games like they could on the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360. At a recent post-Christmas party, a few parents were complaining about it - "Why did I buy it now?" when their kids are still playing the PS3 and the PS4 is gathering dust due to no killer games. When they bought it, they thought it would play last-gen games to make up for the year or so you need to wait for the hot PS4 titles, just like the generations of the past. Outside of hardcore gamers who read up on this stuff, how can you expect the average person to have a clue - it's not like Sony or Microsoft advertised this omission. I'd agree. I've come to expect backwards compatibility, and the lack of it is why I have no current plans to buy a PS4. The fact that it doesn't have it isn't something I went looking for--I assumed it would have it and was surprised when I happened to hear that it didn't. If you've purchased a PS3 in the last 5- 6years, either for yourself or for your children, you'd know it doesn't play PS2 games, so I'm not sure why the general public would automatically assume that the PS4 would play PS3 games. When did that happen? I bought my PS3 at launch.

Exactly, and why would anyone want to keep old systems, controller, peripherals, et al, all up and running, when with BC you can just load any game you want. I find it incredibly bothersome to have to keep boxes and boxes of controllers and other just to finish up some games, when I didn't have to with the Wii, Xbox 360, PS3 or PS2. That's the great thing about PC gaming or buying through STEAM, you can play games you bought decades ago on your brand new system. I wish I was more PC savvy. The mods alone are worth it. People are still creating mods for games that came out a decade ago, like Morrowind. Yep, that's a huge reason I've been mostly a PC gamer for 25 years.

Hate to state the obvious, but the general public had no clue and I've seen a people at Futureshop, EB or Best Buy complaining that their PS4 or Xbox One won't play their PS3/360 games. I've heard the same story from friends, relatives, etc. that had no clue that they couldn't play their old games like they could on the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360. At a recent post-Christmas party, a few parents were complaining about it - "Why did I buy it now?" when their kids are still playing the PS3 and the PS4 is gathering dust due to no killer games. When they bought it, they thought it would play last-gen games to make up for the year or so you need to wait for the hot PS4 titles, just like the generations of the past. Outside of hardcore gamers who read up on this stuff, how can you expect the average person to have a clue - it's not like Sony or Microsoft advertised this omission. I'd agree. I've come to expect backwards compatibility, and the lack of it is why I have no current plans to buy a PS4. The fact that it doesn't have it isn't something I went looking for--I assumed it would have it and was surprised when I happened to hear that it didn't.

I'm thinking your fascination with Spider-Woman centers around the fact that the yellow markings on her costume cup her boobs and look like an arrow pointing directly at her hoo-ha.

There's something you're missing, because 1/16" overflash tears are present on multiple 9.x copies I've seen. The most common defect that's hard to see that CGC would hammer like this for is a light stain. Study the interior front and interior back covers looking for ripples or discoloration. I've got an FF 13 CGC 9.2 that should be a 9.8 except for a light, barely-visible water stain, and I have a Silver Surfer 1 CGC 9.0 that should be a 9.6/9.8 except for an even larger water stain that you can only see from the interior front cover, it's not visible from the outside. Another possibility would be a VERY light, lengthy non-color-breaking crease somewhere, most likely the back cover. But for them to give it an 8.0 at ANY point in CGC's history, there's GOT to be a defect you've overlooked.

Were you able to tell which defects made it an 8.0? The cover looks flawless.

Good lord man, what a run, thanks for posting scans!!! Didn't you used to have a 9.6 copy of #2, or am I remembering that wrong? That copy of #4 is just insane...better put that one in a safety deposit box or I might be coming after it! You going to move on to another title now that you're about done with a run? Or does the constant upgrading game hold some appeal for you?

Nice copy! FF #40 is a surprisingly tough book in high grade.

The only similarity is that the accident that happened in the Ultimate books took place while they were all teenagers. The thing about it only happening to Reed and Ben wasn't in that series--it happened to all four of them at once. I'm neutral about the idea of it happening to them at different times until I hear more. That summary from the article linked doesn't say what the accident was or whether or not the same type of accident happened to both pairs of people. I can, however, imagine a few compelling reasons to split the origin up like that, I just don't know if the writer's idea for doing it will end up being a good one. It's best to reserve judgment until the full origin is revealed.

That White Mountain copy has been flipped like a hot potato for several years now. Sold in 2010 for $143K, 2012 for $203K, 2013 for $191K. And whoever just bought it in August is going for an immediate flip at the current list of $225K.

All of them will be in the movie. I would really hope so. I do like Patrick Stewart as Xavier and despite people complaining about height, I enjoy Hugh as Wolverine. I missed a tiny Wolverine at first back in 2000, but I'm long past that. I presume they made him so small to mirror the fact that wolverines in the wild are small compared to other ferocious creatures like bears, but what they lack in size they make up for in ferocity, hence Wolverine being like 5' 2". Pretty unrealistically artificial character trait when you think about it, so I don't mind them ditching it. Of course honey badgers are smaller and even more ferocious than wolverines are, but hey, I can't see "Honey Badger" sticking as a name nearly as well as "Wolverine" has.

I don't know. I haven't seen the movie yet. It's a mind swap. Something about Kitty's powers lets her swap Wolverine's mind from the past. Pretty sure I heard Singer himself say that in an interview.

SOT has now rumbled into the forum and posted a competing thread to this one, so I hereby declare this thread closed.

What didn't you like about Azazel? He looked cool and they used his teleporting in highly interesting ways. Loved the scene where he kept porting the CIA agents up into the air and dropping them.

As a nod to the original story I presume. By this point his seeming immortality hadn't been written, so I suppose I agree that Singer choosing to use that element from X-Men 141 and 142 seems odd.

Trapezoid cuts like that are actually somewhat common on some isolated issues--maybe 1 in 20 on certain issues are cut like that to some extent, although one as severe as your example is probably more like 1 in 100. As a hardcore FF collector, I see it a lot on issues 62 and 67, especially 67. I've seen CGC give the 9.6 grade to that kind of trapezoid cut that's maybe a third less angularly severe than that one, although I'm not sure I've seen what the max is they'd give to one as severe as yours.

I bet Dice would say that's one the operators shouldn't have even let leave the factory.

Weren't you one of the ones I contacted through ebay about Matt Stanley, ebay user names "infinitecapacity" or "notch_top", and that huge run of high-grade Spideys he sold off after he had reported them stolen to his local police department? I know I contacted Joseph/comicwiz like that and he joined the boards because of it.

We'll that does make me feel a little better. Yea not even close. About a fifth of all copies of FF #48 look exactly like that, as if they were printed by the "arvel omics roup". Here's one randomly pulled from a Google image search. It took me about a decade to get a 9.6 copy of FF 48 that had no miswrap.

I don't think you'll be able to find the original threads, as I think one of the board updates truncated the early posts/threads. IIRC, "fantastic_four" (JAR) also confirmed this in a previous thread, where he looked up his sign up date and his first post date, and they were way off. I joined on 6/29 and it says my first post was 7/12, and then says I only posted like 4 times in the next 2 months. No way that happened! Several months of posts from 2002 are gone, so the very first post is likely gone. I know for sure I posted a lot right from the start because I was actively trying to get others to post by making an effort to share as many thought-provoking topics about grading, restoration, and certification as I could think of. The earliest post I can find by me is in the big "ebay related stuff" thread where Danny Dupcak made his big forum debut.