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For a long time now, the phrase "live action adaptation" for any video game has felt gross and exploitative to me. It's like announcing that there's a porn parody of your game.
waiter waiter milk this "intellectual property" for even more profit please
just go read berserk instead
Some people don't care to see SA and loli bait on every other page.
That's completely fair. I just want to point out that SA is often treated as a life destroying event in the story. Both Guts and Casca suffer heavily because of that, and when they enter Casca's mind it is shown through representations as the mind destroying thing that it is. Still, the amount of SA depicted in the story is completely unnecessary.
The loli bait thing I legit don't remember, and that was not my impression reading the story. I can comment on Schierke which is a kid and as far as I remember is never, ever, sexualized. At most she develops some kind of crush on Guts that she thinks about sometimes, but that's it.
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I love the golden age arc, but even I was glad they cut the whole wy*ad thing from the 1997 anime. Good god can you ruin the story elements with fetishes displayed clear as day.
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After how bad Civil War was I don't know how to feel about this
Didn't he also do Warfare right after? Getting those sweet, sweet MIC bucks must be nice. Maybe moving away from military slop will get him back on track though.
Bad
It's bad
You'll need to read the back of the ticket and the inside of the promotional popcorn bucket to get the full story for this one
featuring chris pratt as the dire shit-slurper
The film creatives will try put their own spin on it because ego and it will be trash
It's an open world boss-battler, it would be impossible to adapt without some kind of spin.
also, the movie will establish the big sword build as the canon Elden Ring build.
also, the movie will establish the big sword build as the canon Elden Ring build.
It has to be Dual UGS. You want your action scenes to be readable? Fuck you, here's the protagonist flailing about with two hunks of metal as big as he is.
True there is an element of adaptation but these adaptations usually go out of their way to incorporate their new elements. It's kind of like staking their ground while not realizing the source material is popular for a reason. I think the Witcher tv show is a great example of this where little to no remixing was necessary but they did it anyway.
I think this is a real problem with a lot of adaptions, but I don't think it applies to Elden Ring.
The way it engages with its story is too uniquely video game-y; you get minimal explanations for everything that happens, and if you want to figure it out you have to search through item descriptions and cross interrogate NPCs then put things together from context clues.
It's a form of storytelling that's impossible to do in a movie, they have to completely change how the story is told or it simply won't work.
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yeah, that's what I was thinking. the book they were adapting was actually an episodic anthology, yet rather than do 1 chapter per episode, They decided a non-linear timeline, without even showing up front that they were doing events out of order, and pointless changes to make it their own, which ironically was just copying themes and tropes from other popular franchises like Game of Thrones.
Game of Thrones
Speaking of, didn't George R.R. Martin write for Elden Ring? How much you wanna bet he helps with the film adaptation? The man will do literally anything else except writing the sequels that were supposed to come out a decade ago.
He's credited, but neither side is really claiming ownership of specific elements. The story and setting of Eldenring is very similar to other Fromsoft titles, and not that similar to George's work. there is also the complexity of collaborating between a US author and Japanese studio. I would guess George didn't do all that much for the finished game, though I do sense the character genealogies, and names like Godfrey and Godrick are his touch.
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oh shit i already blocked fakenews
why
Because Mario and Minecraft made a lot of money so that must mean the public wants every popular video game franchise to have a movie made about them.
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Does the game even have like...a story? Or is a fromsoft game and the story is told in item descriptions or whatever?
Without touching any item descriptions and only worrying about the main story in the base game, you get:
- The intro cutscene which explains the overview of the setting and how it got to be like it currently is
- Dialogue with characters like Miriel and Gideon, who are very knowledgeable about the world
- Melina, who helps you level up when you rest, tells you a relevant story when you reach many different locations
- Quite a lot of dialogue from Margit, one of the main bosses who you fight several times and who gets a couple of cutscenes, tells you about what's going on
- Basically every NPC in the Roundtable Hold has some kind of significant involvement with either a possible ending or a major faction and can tell you about it if you progress through their story
- The finger reader crones give you prophecies
- Ranni, Blaidd, and Iji will all tell you a lot of stuff that turns out to be highly relevant to the main story if you help them
- Jerren tells you about Radahn and Malenia, two of the main players in how the setting got to be like it currently is and also significant factors in why it is still that way, before you fight Radahn
Like, it's still a story told with very little direct storytelling compared to its peers, and there is still a lot of info in item descriptions. You don't need the item descriptions though, you just need to be ready to piece things together from what disparate people with strong personal biases tell you and what you see
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Yeah it does. There are NPCs that do tell you about the world and your place in it but it's still pretty weird.
The base game has a narrative but it's extremely weak, and most of the important things happened a long time in the past, as with other Souls games. Shadows of the Erdtree, the DLC, is noteworthy for actually having a plot where things happen.
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Ngl that would be fun metacinema
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Hey nothing ever happens gang wy@???
I've never played a FromSoftware game in my life. I just want to see how /c/fakenews responds to this announcement.
Are they gonna make 75% of the characters bizarrely taller than the remaining human sized people or is the movie bullshit?
Fromslop games are about the struggle of short people in a tall man's world
Probably will be hot garbage but I really hope it’s not a Videogame Movie™️. Like don’t show me Timmothy Chevrolet going “wuh oh guys! I’m out of flasks!” I would also love if the movie had nothing to do with Miquella or the shattering but instead of being a potentially interesting spin off or side story it will almost certainly be a clumsy retelling of the most important historical bits in the game. Or… oh god it could be a story of the player playing the game
Or… oh god it could be a story of the player playing the game
actually would be excited to see this film ONLY if they copy-pasted the plot from Minecraft movie. and if they cast Jack Black n mamoa attempting co-op i'd buy the directors cut dvd or whatever lol
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If it's just a remake of Civil War, but everyone is dipped in gold leaf, half the soldiers are Really Very Big, the white house is like the Mines of Moria after a jetwash, the president is the size of an oil tanker, and the photographers are actually making magic paintings, it'll be a masterpiece.
Edit: and to step closer to the lathe, the story is told by the descriptions on each Elden Ring themed snack you can get from the concessions. Radahn Rum Punch, Malenia Mint (and blue cheese) popcorn, blah blah blah.
Stay after the credits for the Zanzibart sequal teaser.
Every follow up post release related to this game gets progressively worse and worse.
It's gonna suck
Ok? Seems like a struggle to adapt. Also who's ready to see some goofy as hell dodge rolls when they have an actor do it.
Wonder if there's any plan to keep the elden ring brand going, I can't really imagine another game that big being released this decade
Nightreign (a spinoff coop game that's sort of a roguelike) is coming out in like a week, so there's at least that.
Oh yeah I guess they are already doing it. My brain was just fixed on the idea of an elden ring 2 or another single-player thing.
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