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And before you get too excited about the TV show, I'd like to remind
you that for every "Fallout" we get a "Halo" or "Mortal Kombat:
Conquest". More often than note, Hollywood mangles beloved IPs so be
careful what you wish for.
On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 06:42:09 -0500, DotNettie <DotN@noaddress.net>
wrote:
Saw this at Slashdot. Hope it happens.
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/11/08/0024209/mass-effect-tv-series-is-in-the-works-at-amazon?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
I mean, I think people here can already deduce my take on it. As much
as I loved the first game (and had fun with the rest), the idea of
them dragging out the IP just does not excite me. For gods sake, just
create something new! Not everything has to be a mass-market
multi-media franchise!
And before you get too excited about the TV show, I'd like to remind
you that for every "Fallout" we get a "Halo" or "Mortal Kombat:
Conquest". More often than note, Hollywood mangles beloved IPs so be
careful what you wish for.
On 11/11/2024 3:34 AM, JAB wrote:
On 09/11/2024 01:38, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 06:42:09 -0500, DotNettie <DotN@noaddress.net>
wrote:
Saw this at Slashdot. Hope it happens.
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/11/08/0024209/mass-
effect-tv-series-is-in-the-works-at-amazon?
utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
I mean, I think people here can already deduce my take on it. As much
as I loved the first game (and had fun with the rest), the idea of
them dragging out the IP just does not excite me. For gods sake, just
create something new! Not everything has to be a mass-market
multi-media franchise!
And before you get too excited about the TV show, I'd like to remind
you that for every "Fallout" we get a "Halo" or "Mortal Kombat:
Conquest". More often than note, Hollywood mangles beloved IPs so be
careful what you wish for.
I rather enjoyed the D&D film and felt that a lot of the negative
comments where more based on the new version of the OGL from WotC than
the film itself. I'm not a big fan of D&D but I know enough to get the
jokes and its portrayal of TT RPG's in that for all their lofty
aspirations that often degenerate into slapstick humour - yep lets
spend five minutes discussing the best way to revisit the town and
speak to Dr. Perry again. Then a suggestion comes up, they do have
phones in 1920's CoC you know.
Saying that my better half who knows nothing about D&D also very much
enjoyed it although it probably helped that Chris Pine was in it!
D&D's not a video game, and they just created something new loosely
using the Forgotten Realms setting. I'd be more impressed if they
managed to bring one of the books to the screen successfully.
Dragonlance, or one of the FR books. Still even that's not as impressive
as a much higher percentage of books have been brought to screen
successfully than video games. Or I suppose like for like would be Neverwinter Nights or Baldur's Gate (A BG3 movie I could see being
really good, although much more likely they'd ruin it.)
On 11/11/2024 16:16, Justisaur wrote:
On 11/11/2024 3:34 AM, JAB wrote:
On 09/11/2024 01:38, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 06:42:09 -0500, DotNettie <DotN@noaddress.net>
wrote:
Saw this at Slashdot. Hope it happens.
https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/11/08/0024209/mass-
effect-tv-series-is-in-the-works-at-amazon?
utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
I mean, I think people here can already deduce my take on it. As much
as I loved the first game (and had fun with the rest), the idea of
them dragging out the IP just does not excite me. For gods sake, just
create something new! Not everything has to be a mass-market
multi-media franchise!
And before you get too excited about the TV show, I'd like to remind
you that for every "Fallout" we get a "Halo" or "Mortal Kombat:
Conquest". More often than note, Hollywood mangles beloved IPs so be
careful what you wish for.
I rather enjoyed the D&D film and felt that a lot of the negative
comments where more based on the new version of the OGL from WotC
than the film itself. I'm not a big fan of D&D but I know enough to
get the jokes and its portrayal of TT RPG's in that for all their
lofty aspirations that often degenerate into slapstick humour - yep
lets spend five minutes discussing the best way to revisit the town
and speak to Dr. Perry again. Then a suggestion comes up, they do
have phones in 1920's CoC you know.
Saying that my better half who knows nothing about D&D also very much
enjoyed it although it probably helped that Chris Pine was in it!
D&D's not a video game, and they just created something new loosely
using the Forgotten Realms setting. I'd be more impressed if they
managed to bring one of the books to the screen successfully.
Dragonlance, or one of the FR books. Still even that's not as
impressive as a much higher percentage of books have been brought to
screen successfully than video games. Or I suppose like for like
would be Neverwinter Nights or Baldur's Gate (A BG3 movie I could see
being really good, although much more likely they'd ruin it.)
I think it was more that the made a film with a D&D setting but with a
'feel' of what it's like to play D&D at the table top. It would probably
have been easier just to do Lord of the Rings in a D&D setting.