https://xcancel.com/dexerto/status/1825985438017802688
Remains to be seen if its any good of course but I'm into them trying.
REMEMBER ENGAGING WITH THIS INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY?? REMEMBER CONSUMING THIS CONTENT AS A VIDEO GAME?? CONSUME IT NOW AS VIDEO
I mean not to come at you but to get mad at the broader fact that the only media that anyone seems to want to invest in is pre-existing IP, and video games have always been the very bottom of the barrel for adaption. There's how many books or original stories out there, but Amazon paid a bunch of losers to do analytics that told them the biggest ROI on their media is by adapting Spelunky and Pac Man
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Idk I just like the idea of anthology series of one off episodes for them? Its not a crossover as far as I can tell.
Its not a crossover as far as I can tell.
That helps. A lot. I am very sick of franchise blender smoothies that are basically corporate acquisition flexes. "Metaversus" was horrid to me.
I may take a peek at some point, with guarded interest.
Yeah as far as I can tell its just an anthology of a bunch of one off episodes for each game.
I actually do not mind Multiversus at all lol but I totally understand why people do.
If Disney and Nintendo weren't both such utterly ruthless IP hounds that have ruined the lives of ordinary people that did very little ultimately wrong, over and over, I'd be more in the mood to gobble up whatever crossover slop they're offering next. I mean I used to enjoy Smash Bros quite a lot, and Kingdom Hearts was fun until the cumulative story soup flooded me out of the room.
Like I've been into crossovers since WAY before they became saturated. Like I came up with an "Omniverse" comic book universe with just... everything fictional in it when i was in like early highschool. And ive used the same basic concept for wrestling companies (multiple), dueling companies along the line of wrestling but with actual fights that are to the death, jrpgs, fighting games, ect. Ive always been into the idea.
The only thing about Multiversus that sucks for me is that its based on what company owns the IP.
The only thing about Multiversus that sucks for me is that its based on what company owns the IP.
It's also loaded with predatory monetization, and many of the IPs in it are cynically and terribly misrepresented (the Iron Giant especially comes to mind), and in many, many cases the corporation that owns all of that won't likely ever use the less-mainline characters or IPs in any other way except more crossover flexing.
Right yeah meant to mention the monetization.
I'm ngl though I must have some sort of disconnect in my brain because Iron Giant is a very emotionally important movie to me and I totally get the idea of how its bad to put him in a fightin game, but I dont mind seeing him in a fighting game? Just one of those random autismdragon disconnects where I dont get whats upsetting people (there are a few too many of those and I am broken).
Sterling summarized a lot of the bad feelings I felt about the whole "Multiversus" thing probably better than I could, some time ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ITWExeJguk
Yeah I saw. I was half responding to their thoughts with what I said. I totally get and technically agree that its bad for corporate reasons I just dont emotionally connect.
I understand that.
This video is a follow-up that might shed more light on how many of the rest of us feel about it, in particular the simultaneous watering down of horror characters and concepts to render the horror of them sort of meaningless and the utter cash-in cynicism of a related crossover: the Space Jam sequel, that even featured the Droogs from Clockwork Orange as a wink wink nudge nudge gag within an ostensibly all-ages children's cartoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2s5_I4i3hw
Yeah I saw this one too (I watch most of their videos) and the only thing I could really connect with was the Droogs part because the tonedeafness of that seems obvious.
It really is a matter of subjective experience and emotional connection (or lack thereof) to the characters and settings. I suppose you already know well enough why others that are tired of (or didn't like in the first place) crossover products, while for you you already made a different connection that sparks joy for you: that you had crossovers of your own already in mind, which I can only assume reached for forests over the individual trees so it didn't matter as much if specific characters seemed "off" as long as it worked for you to see them clash.
As a former enjoyer of both Smash Bros and Kingdom Hearts and even Super Robot Wars, I used to like crossover stuff but I burned out especially as the corporations got bigger and more bloated and devoured more and more of what were once unique entities, many of them not likely to ever be seen again except as crossover IP flexes by the ever-larger holding corporations. That's my take, and I'm not alone in it, I think.
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It's a matter of subjective experience. Your experience is yours, and mine is mine. To me, seeing the character being (mis)used like that all to make a buck and go against everything he was and what he resolved to be in the one movie where I got to know him, well... it was bleak for me. It drained some of the joy and tenderness I felt about the experience, even after the fact.
It'd be like if Artex from the Neverending Story was suddenly doing Fortnite dances while still halfway sunk in the Swamp of Sadness as part of a marketing stunt for Atreyu to start peddling NFTs.
I want new stuff. Please.
Also I want all IP to end, full stop. Which is a position I take literally in reaction to the overreach of existing cultural imperialism and therefor literally reactionary but I don't care, I'm just sick of it all.
Stop making the same shit. Stop making corporate "art". Stop turning everything into advertisements. Give me art you cowards. Last new movie someone convinced me to see was Us, which was at least new, but it felt like someone trying to do political art in a universe where that's never existed before and was just bafflingly bad if you try to take it on any terms other than a popcorn horror flick, which isn't what it was supposed to be I don't think.
edit: And no I am not just salty Dragon's Dogma 2 kinda sucked and if it doesn't get an expansion like Dark Arisen for 1, to fix all the same problems in the base game Dark Arisen fixed for 1, I am also salty about that, I hate IP much more deeply than the one disappointment :p
If you end IP then it makes everything public domain and would lead to MORE adaptions not less.
Which is why I want that to happen lmao
ETA: Anyway I'm an art maximalist and I want stuff like this and totally new stuff to exist so I dont get angry at the stuff like this I get angry they arent making new stuff. Totally separate struggles to me.
That's the thing tho - folk art is usually interesting even when it's shit. IP has turned movies into billion dollar ads, mass merchandising, a literal tool of war.
Creative commons and reuse culture figures all you want, but rip that shit from the hands of the corporate state.
Also hell I like the setting of the Dresden Files but Jim Butcher is a misogynist and self-insert dweeb who FINALLY came out the the big climax book and not only was it just as disappointing as it could only have been because there were so many damn threads to the universe that have been discarded or shredded over the years and you need dozens of writers to start sewing the tapestry back together. . . It was just the worst actual writing he's done since the first one.
Dresden Files for the people! Some of us will do something better with it and I can just skip the stuff that's not at least interestingly worse.
SCP, as someone who was real into it back when I was also a shitty 4chan kid, fell off, and started to love it again as a new crop of writers have come to the universe, is my go to example of folk art fucking rules even when it's bad, and a lot of SCP is just awful and childish (most the 4chan shit has been rewritten or purged unless you go browsing the revision history of like SCP-420 tho. .. it was just some transphobic 'jokes' about Bridgette, that's the SCP)
Lovecraft is prolly like this if you find good segments of the community, but I've never met a mythos fan I liked IRL and most the games just don't scratch an itch for me. Some do, Dredge for example. Also Lovecraft himself is basically "what if a tumbler nazi poet who had some real grating "favourite word"s but people take him seriously?" and I jsut find it real hard to get passed that because I started with a collected works of Lovecraft book as my intro to it all. Everything he did has been done better, I don't particularly credit him even when the idea was blatantly just to redo his story.
My only thing is, if you think the only result of abolishing IP would be reasonably described as "folk art", then you have never explored AO3 lol. There will be slop. There will be lots of slop. BTS will gain superpowers in the MCU.
i hope some get pick up as pilots, would be cool for some to become animated shows
For a decade we've heard rumors about a liva-action Mega Man movie and then a Netflix series, I guess this is what came out of that. I couldn't give a piss about the rest of this series, because I really don't like the "serious AAA
" aesthetic.I think they did a good job at converting him into a realistic style (wonder what his voice will be like), for something like this, I think they should have gone with the X series instead, not the cartoony original series.
Also, Capcom willing to put Mega Man in anything but a new game lol.
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My guess is they're trying to build an audience for a new game, so essentially pre-emptive advertising? His appearance in Smash did bring him to the foreground again for many people, I think that's how I first encountered him even.
Sifu adaptation and its a unaltered cut of a 90s jackie chan movie
Sifu adaptation but it's a comedy overdub like Kung Pao and the entire runtime is just the main character eating shit
Lol at The Outer Worlds.
I mean, a perfectly enjoyable game but one with limited replayability and combat could be a bit of a slog sometimes. Probably not deserving of this expensive an advertisement for a game that has, afaik, no meaningful fanbase. Though I guess it sold well enough that supposedly there will be a sequel, so maybe that's why they're doing this.
Though I guess it sold well enough that supposedly there will be a sequel, so maybe that's why they're doing this.
There is hunger for bethesda-like games but beth is trash at making them now. Expanding on the work they did in the first title along with their internal tools until they're at feature-parity is a good path to competing with them. The Outer Worlds team are more creative than Bethesda, they created a legitimately new IP with lore and likeable characters and story which is something Bethesda utterly failed at with Starfield.
The people really want a shared setting where they can both play a character (or at least, have a free form levelling up experience) where they can upload their own content and it's relevant to their friends.
If anything I think it might make a better show then game? lol
Love, Death, & Robots is very hit & miss. But some of them are pretty good. It's interesting because each episode in those is a different animation style and the stories vary pretty widely. I expect these to be similar with one or two standouts and the rest being pretty mid. But even that's great for video game adaptations (looking at your Borderlands).
I'm feeling cynical about adaptations from different ips coming together but it could be fun and it's better than hyping a movie for five years.
Do they come together at the end? I thought it was just an anthology.
I just meant being brought together as an anthology series implies the possibility of joint projects in the future. Just IPs coming together for a project makes me suspicious these days.
Yeah that New World episode is just gonna be an advertisement for Amazon’s MMO
Toy advertisements have made good content before why not game advertisements? Lmao.
But yeah like most anthology series I assume we'll have some bangers and some stinkers.
That's fair, that game just left a bad taste in my mouth after playing it quite a bit on release before realizing endgame was ass
The title I'll be keeping an eye on is Sifu, because I thought while playing that game that despite it's incredible visual style the story would work a lot better as an animated movie.
Also Armored Core getting any kind of non-anime adaptation lmao.
Interesting that you basically have WotC, Games Workshop and Playstation(I guess in this case God of War) as the big ticket items, and then a whole string of B and C listers whose franchises were either relatively obscure or on life-support propping up the whole thing.
To me it comes off as LDR wasn't profitable enough so Netflix dropped it and the people had to come up with a more marketable idea.
I forgot what thread I was in and thought "long distance radio" and "long distance relationship" before dead robot show
Saw this earlier and I thought it was fake until I saw the source. I'd be willing to give it a shot. Granted I haven't played most of these games, but I'm interested in seeing the Mega Man, Armored Core, and to a slightly lesser extent the Sifu and Outer Worlds episodes.
Anthology series of one off animated episodes about individual video games.
I could post a large wall of rage text about this but I think it'd be better if I just went to sleep lmao
I just thought it seemed neat.
