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Post by scifiguy53425 on Aug 15, 2019 20:24:23 GMT
Do you think its more important for the Mass Effect franchise to continue as a series of games or for the Universe to continue in any form of media? Would you be happy if the game series was dropped entirely with the promise that the Universe, it's characters and events will be explored in movies, tv shows and novels? Is it important, if the games are to continue, that the franchise expand into other media?
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Post by SirSourpuss on Aug 15, 2019 20:40:17 GMT
Do you think its more important for the Mass Effect franchise to continue as a series of games or for the Universe to continue in any form of media? Would you be happy if the game series was dropped entirely with the promise that the Universe, it's characters and events will be explored in movies, tv shows and novels? Is it important, if the games are to continue, that the franchise expand into other media? That will also depends on the writing. I was not impressed by the books and the comics, written by Mac Walters, weren't particularly well written and drawn even worse. I wouldn't mind a TV show, but would it be live action, 3D or a cartoon? A movie wouldn't allow for enough character development and would, most likely, focus too much on Shepard, while neglecting the crew and their interactions, which is a dynamic that I would hate to see unrealized in its potential.
Though I would love to see Jillian Murray in blue, Yvonne Strahovski in a catsuit and Candice Neil with a buzzcut, I think the 3D approach would be the best, kind of like that show on ... netflix? What was it called, "Love, Death & Robots". The budget would potentially be unreasonable, though.
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Post by natetrace on Aug 15, 2019 21:14:48 GMT
Continue as games. No doubt in my mind. To elaborate, breaking into another medium will just spread toxicity. Best to keep current toxic levels contained. Plus, I'd prefer to play something over and over rather than watch it as a show.
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Post by SirSourpuss on Aug 15, 2019 21:27:36 GMT
breaking into another medium will just spread toxicity Would you mind talking about this some more?
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Post by scifiguy53425 on Aug 15, 2019 23:20:08 GMT
Do you think its more important for the Mass Effect franchise to continue as a series of games or for the Universe to continue in any form of media? Would you be happy if the game series was dropped entirely with the promise that the Universe, it's characters and events will be explored in movies, tv shows and novels? Is it important, if the games are to continue, that the franchise expand into other media? That will also depends on the writing. I was not impressed by the books and the comics, written by Mac Walters, weren't particularly well written and drawn even worse. I wouldn't mind a TV show, but would it be live action, 3D or a cartoon? A movie wouldn't allow for enough character development and would, most likely, focus too much on Shepard, while neglecting the crew and their interactions, which is a dynamic that I would hate to see unrealized in its potential.
I imagined a writer's room or story group like Lucasfilm has to oversee a variety of writers writing books in universe. BOOM!Studios might be a good place to license to in terms of comicbooks. I think I agree on the movies, unless they make six 3-hour long movies covering the trilogy or something or they just go for some other event. I would prefer animated series although I wouldn't mind too much either way. I suppose I just think it would end up looking too much like a generic science fiction series if it were live action, and have an irrational fear that all the aliens would end up looking too puppet-y.
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Post by garrusfan1 on Aug 16, 2019 3:00:46 GMT
Stay with games primarily and make more books if they want but don't go beyond that. I can't think of any video game based movie that lived up to the hype. Especially with a game that has so many options like mass effect.
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Post by Hanako Ikezawa on Aug 16, 2019 3:07:22 GMT
Stay with games primarily and make more books if they want but don't go beyond that. I can't think of any video game based movie that lived up to the hype. Especially with a game that has so many options like mass effect. Yeah, the only good video game movies so far are ones that aren't based on actual video games.
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Post by scifiguy53425 on Aug 16, 2019 17:35:01 GMT
Stay with games primarily and make more books if they want but don't go beyond that. Personally I do want a much more expansive selection of books connected to the franchise than we have now, with a lot more variety. Books can come out a lot more frequently while maintaining quality whereas a game could take 6 years and still not be what I want.
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Post by burningcherry on Aug 16, 2019 19:32:39 GMT
So far the books > the games > the comics > the movie so I'd continue with books and games.
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Post by AnDromedary on Aug 16, 2019 20:31:35 GMT
While I wouldn't necessarily be against more ME in other media (as long it is well executed), I don't think this is a particularly good time to do it. Right now, ME as a franchise just doesn't have the relevance to really sell it to anyone, I'm afraid. With the franchise on a (perceived) decline in public opinion and no major release out in 2.5 years, I don't think a lot of people have it on their radar atm. Comics and novels based in video game franchises are usually just niche products anyway and I can't see BW successfully pitching the IP to a network (series), let alone Holywood (movie) producer in a way that it would get any kind of decent budget.
So no, I am afraid BW needs to put out a decent ME game with positive public perception before they can even think about going into another medium in any big way again.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2019 23:25:23 GMT
I wouldn't like them to base a movie on any of the games themselves because of the games are based on giving players choices. They could base movies on the story lines in the books. It's up to them. I'd just have to wait and see what, if anything comes out.
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Post by LogicGunn on Aug 24, 2019 16:30:47 GMT
I'd probably watch a ME show/film, but I'm more interested in the games. It's not really a good time to do something like that though, to much controversy from MEA. If they make another ME and it's a hit then it's something that might be a good idea, esp if they also remaster/remake the trilogy (though that isn't something I think needs to be done, it would just be a popular move.)
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Post by griffith82 on Sept 18, 2019 18:38:18 GMT
I'd probably watch a ME show/film, but I'm more interested in the games. It's not really a good time to do something like that though, to much controversy from MEA. If they make another ME and it's a hit then it's something that might be a good idea, esp if they also remaster/remake the trilogy (though that isn't something I think needs to be done, it would just be a popular move.) I'd watch as I've liked some video game based movies. Resident Evil and Tomb Raider (Angenlia Jolie version havent seen Alicia Vikander's version) aren't bad. Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat were terrible. Still I'd prefer games and books.
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Post by Sanunes on Sept 21, 2019 17:00:11 GMT
I rather they just stick to games, its such as different way to consume the media by playing a video game versus the other forms of media due to it being so interactive.
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Post by griffith82 on Sept 21, 2019 17:53:43 GMT
I rather they just stick to games, its such as different way to consume the media by playing a video game versus the other forms of media due to it being so interactive. Agreed. The choice aspect would be lost in movies etc..
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Post by KaiserShep on Sept 22, 2019 8:21:01 GMT
The only part of Mass Effect that matters to me is the interactive part. If the franchise went forward only as media outside of the games, then the franchise is pretty much dead to me.
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Post by urkibalurki on Sept 22, 2019 13:05:50 GMT
As many said before, BW has to stick to games, and these have to be single-player RPGs. They just tried to replace a full-fledged DLC with a lousy book: very bad idea.
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Post by revelationeffect on Sept 22, 2019 15:46:52 GMT
The other media works best as supplemental material fleshing out the world and telling side stories, like I've enjoyed the Mass Effect/Dragon Age books (Deception aside lol) but I'd be very disappointed if they stopped making ME games in favor of moving into other media formats.
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Post by burningcherry on Sept 22, 2019 17:51:57 GMT
Continue as games. No doubt in my mind. To elaborate, breaking into another medium will just spread toxicity. Best to keep current toxic levels contained. Plus, I'd prefer to play something over and over rather than watch it as a show. Good. Purgatory for everyone who argues on a topic without learning the relevant lore. As many said before, BW has to stick to games, and these have to be single-player RPGs. They just tried to replace a full-fledged DLC with a lousy book: very bad idea. Under their resource constraints, the choice was "a book or nothing", though yet again outsourcing a book did not work very well.
Non-interactivity might be an argument for not consuming a product if your attention span is low, but not against its quality. Even in the games most of the story happens independently from the player, the only thing we can change is some details, the big choices (the rachni queen, the Council...) mostly get trashed in next games so far. So, still no valid argument voiced for constraining Mass Effect to what can get a game-sized budget.
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Post by urkibalurki on Sept 22, 2019 20:47:25 GMT
Non-interactivity might be an argument for not consuming a product if your attention span is low, but not against its quality. Even in the games most of the story happens independently from the player, the only thing we can change is some details, the big choices (the rachni queen, the Council...) mostly get trashed in next games so far. So, still no valid argument voiced for constraining Mass Effect to what can get a game-sized budget. I've read many sci-fi books, and found many of them valuable; this is not the case of this particular book; it simply didn't pan out.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on Sept 22, 2019 21:13:03 GMT
I wouldn't like them to base a movie on any of the games themselves because of the games are based on giving players choices. They could base movies on the story lines in the books. It's up to them. I'd just have to wait and see what, if anything comes out. Yeah I can see the story about how Anderson and Saren for example from their first encounter the story where Anderson was being considered a Spectre candidate that would make a good film. As I enjoyed the book about it. For the most part though I think Bioware need to focus on the games rather than books. If they want to do movies on the books then fair enough but I think they should leave the player character protagonists in the games and anything around them well alone other than the basic vague reference similar to like what we got when we had vague references to Shep in MEA as I thought that was handled well.
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Post by burningcherry on Sept 22, 2019 21:51:37 GMT
Non-interactivity might be an argument for not consuming a product if your attention span is low, but not against its quality. Even in the games most of the story happens independently from the player, the only thing we can change is some details, the big choices (the rachni queen, the Council...) mostly get trashed in next games so far. So, still no valid argument voiced for constraining Mass Effect to what can get a game-sized budget. I've read many sci-fi books, and found many of them valuable; this is not the case of this particular book; it simply didn't pan out. If you undig the Annihilation release thread, I was the first hater of it on this forum. But I'd read all the ME books written by Bioware and they are in most cases excellent, on average better than the games IMO.
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Post by urkibalurki on Sept 23, 2019 15:45:57 GMT
I've read many sci-fi books, and found many of them valuable; this is not the case of this particular book; it simply didn't pan out. If you undig the Annihilation release thread, I was the first hater of it on this forum. But I'd read all the ME books written by Bioware and they are in most cases excellent, on average better than the games IMO. Maybe I'm too demanding about sci-fi novels, but I find that there's no comparison with many great sci-fi authors (too many to be mentioned here). Well, I'm very demanding with movies and games as well. I just found Annihilation too simplicistic in comparison with many other sci-fi books I've read in my life.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2019 17:10:35 GMT
If you undig the Annihilation release thread, I was the first hater of it on this forum. But I'd read all the ME books written by Bioware and they are in most cases excellent, on average better than the games IMO. Maybe I'm too demanding about sci-fi novels, but I find that there's no comparison with many great sci-fi authors (too many to be mentioned here). Well, I'm very demanding with movies and games as well. I just found Annihilation too simplicistic in comparison with many other sci-fi books I've read in my life. To be honest, it's sort of like trying to compare a Harlequin Romance to Gone with the Wind and expecting them to come even close to each other in substance.
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