Comment on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait

vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  the taming of the shrew by William Shakespeare was successful, what if we made as an animated TV show like Rick and morty.

  I hate to be the guy, but Simpsons at their peak retold a number of classics including Lord of the Flies and Hamlet.

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• tuckerm@feddit.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I’m OK with it because some of them have been good, like the Metroid first-person shooter games. (I haven’t played them, but I know that people liked them.)

  I think one of the reasons it doesn’t work well with movies is that changing the genre of a movie also changes its tone. But with games, the gameplay genre is different from the narrative genre. You can make a strategy game, platformer, or shooter with the same tone, and so it stays “true” to the original setting, and it makes sense as being in the same fictional universe.

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• missingno@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I miss the days when development cycles were short enough that spinoffs could be released alongside main series games without feeling like one was detracting from the other. I miss the days when every big IP had a goofy and experimental straight-to-handheld companion piece.

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• xylol@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  That sort of happens a lot though

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Not nearly as much as in gaming. It does I music a lot but mostly small productions like a single person making a blue grass cover of a metal song, not here’s 100 million budget and a full nationwide ad campaign.

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• Sina@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  “We are making a new breakfast club movie… It will be a space opera!”

  I would love to watch that actually …

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  • vrek@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But totally different from the original movie

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