Greg is exhuasted blogging

Turns out I’m not as young as I used to be. Managed to take too much caffeine last night so a part-nighter became an all-nighter but without the productivity benefits of an all-nighter.

Anyways, here’s a cute post from Stephen Totilo:

I was recently IMing with my good friend Justin McElroy of Joystiq.com fame. It turns out that Justin and I share a similar lament. We believe that one of the most exciting parts of a super-hero’s life — the moment he or she needs to duck away from civilian friends and make the costume change into a hero — is woefully underrepresented in video games.

In fact, in some super-hero games, it’s not present at all.

Is there a level in a Superman game in which I have to figure out how to discreetly get Clark Kent out of the Perry White’s office so that I can rescue the crashing airplane that only my super-hearing can detect?

The risk with that sort of thing is that it gets implemented as a one level gimmick with a weak control scheme. To do it right, you’d have to combine it with a game where you actually regularly played as the "normal" persona. I’m thinking it might work best in a Superman or Spiderman game where the character actually does some investigating as a reporter/photographer. Maybe that can let them scout areas where going in a superhero would lead to instant combat. Batman doesn’t do that much investigation as Bruce Wayne and really you can only do so many "Gotham’s finest gather" levels.

On a vaguely related note, many are asking why the Democratic super-delegates are taking so dang long to get their act together and commit. My theory? Every time two supers meet for the first time they have to have a fight. That slows things down a lot.