Re: Mass Effect @Amazon

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>
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Saw this at Slashdot. Hope it happens.
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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

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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.