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Kainser posted:The difference between the X-men and the FF is that there actually is a decent chunk of dedicated X-men fans out there. The reaction to the FF slowly being removed on the official forums is pretty telling, people are (outside of a few diehards) mostly going "oh well", "that sucks" or "lol Disney" but if they tried doing it with the X characters so would the oforums revolt. Aren't the FF invovled heavily in a lot of the story lines in the comic books though? Which makes it even more hilarious that they are failing in the movies and in video games.
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Their last comic outing failed miserably too, to be fair.
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Apr 17, 2017 16:16
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I can't imagine how low the bar must be for a comic to fail anymore.
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I have finally finished this dead gay game
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Kainser posted:I have finally finished this dead gay game But do you have one thousand hours on one hero?
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Apr 17, 2017 18:42
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Saint Freak posted:I can't imagine how low the bar must be for a comic to fail anymore. Absurdly low considering where the industry's been since the late 80s. Cape books are a niche market for ubernerds and old grognards, only the very few most successful titles can break 100,000 copies a month and depending on the property, less than 10,000 can sustain an ongoing (for a while, at least). Compared to the heyday of the 40s-70s when the biggest titles routinely pushed over a million a month... yeah. Superheroes have never been more popular. Comic books have never been less so.
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Apr 17, 2017 18:53
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20-25k is the cancellation line for DC or Marvel usually. But digital sales are never released, and some stuff sells a lot digitally. The Fantastic Four don't have their own comic right now, their last one sold like crap, but Thing and Johnny are in other comics. And they were a major part of the last big Secret Wars event.
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Apr 17, 2017 18:58
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The F4 are like the Hulk in the MCU, they work great as part of the world but who gives a poo poo about their stand alone stories?
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Apr 17, 2017 19:48
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Anyone have solid data on number of thingburgers sold?
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Apr 17, 2017 19:52
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That poo poo looked loving delicious and i still kick myself for missing it.
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I don't see why FF movies keep getting made (although after the last one, hopefully the series is dead for good). It has no cultural relevance anymore; it hasn't for over 20 years. Fans don't give a poo poo, yet studios keep pumping out lovely movies. It's almost like fox execs have no idea what they are doing!
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Erdricks posted:It's almost like fox execs have no idea what they are doing! Something something ducks quacking like ducks. But yeah, Dr. Doom has held more relevance than the heroes he's supposed to be arching. No matter how many times they make up some convoluted story about how Reed is the superior scientist who built a Council of Ric- Reeds with his alternate selves. And they still gently caress up his character more than anything in every single movie.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure Marvel is more interested in the FF rights for Doom/Surfer/Galactus than the actual team these days.
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I would have actually liked the last FF movie if there's been no executive meddling I think. Weird body-horror science vibe it had was interesting, at least up until the second half and the obvious, lazy reshoots. And I actually really liked head-explody Doom.
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Besides, Disney already did the F4 movie right. It was called The Incredibles.
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Oh hey, looks like the PS4 beta for Marvel Heroes begins on Friday and it also has couch co-op for up to four players.
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PS4 version may be dumbed down baby trash but hey, they've got a MUCH better buff UI than PC so right there it justifies itself.
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Local co-op is actually a really neat feature, good for gaz. Just four guys cosmicing together Kainser fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Who wants to come over to Mr 69's house and play some 4 player this weekend? I'll supply the beer and vegan thingburgers. I call Luke Cage and the good controller.
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oh man its gonna be like gauntlet when everyone wants to go a different direction
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Yellow Lucas needs food badly.
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Erdricks posted:I don't see why FF movies keep getting made (although after the last one, hopefully the series is dead for good). It has no cultural relevance anymore; it hasn't for over 20 years. Fans don't give a poo poo, yet studios keep pumping out lovely movies. It's almost like fox execs have no idea what they are doing! They knew exactly what they were doing. They had to make the movie to keep the film rights and that's exactly why they did it.
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Gibbering Madness posted:Who wants to come over to Mr 69's house and play some 4 player this weekend? I'll supply the beer and vegan thingburgers. I call Luke Cage and the good controller. I do. I'll bring the Cialis.
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https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xadhJkbS--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/ka2soxmrquk9148g6uuk.jpg Jujoh, this chubs for you
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I like the console hero/costume selection menu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdyQxFK7H1c&t=804s
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Console version has bigger chests, clearly the new focus.
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HandsomeBen posted:They knew exactly what they were doing. They had to make the movie to keep the film rights and that's exactly why they did it. You don't blow 100 million on a movie just to keep the rights, the one time they did this in 90s the movie cost them like 100 bucks. They still made a better movie than the last one though.
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malhavok posted:You don't blow 100 million on a movie just to keep the rights, the one time they did this in 90s the movie cost them like 100 bucks. They still made a better movie than the last one though. The Roger Corman Fantastic 4 is some entertaining, cheap B Movie fun.
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Jusupov posted:JO&MH@MR69 420 a must. 69696969696969696968
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So they announced when the closed beta is but still haven't released the founders pack which is the only way to get in.
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Rad Valtar posted:So they announced when the closed beta is but still haven't released the founders pack which is the only way to get in. They mentioned in a forum post something about needing to have the game in the store before they could start selling founders packs
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HandsomeBen posted:They mentioned in a forum post something about needing to have the game in the store before they could start selling founders packs Did they say when that might happen? I just want to know the pricing.
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malhavok posted:You don't blow 100 million on a movie just to keep the rights, the one time they did this in 90s the movie cost them like 100 bucks. They still made a better movie than the last one though.
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I wonder if everyone has access to PC version founders costumes like Spidey symbiote there or if that's just for beta.
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McSpanky posted:I wonder if everyone has access to PC version founders costumes like Spidey symbiote there or if that's just for beta.
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Ghostlight posted:Yeah, you also do it to suck up a huge amount of tax breaks for your entire studio for running at a loss. Somehow I don't think deliberately burning $100m generates tax savings worth more than $100m (otherwise just keep the money), but I wouldn't be shocked if there were magical tax rules in place for Hollywood.
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The trick is burning other people's money by using filming incentives and investors as well as funneling those "losses" into legally separate production and effects companies. Tax break movies have a long history because not only do you get to shuffle a lot money around now, it may very well even make back its budget in time (as FF has) that you can then use to plow into your next 'loss'.
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the term "hollywood accounting" exists for a reasonMMAgCh posted:I'm in favour of whatever'll induce the biggest meltdowns in the PC founder crowd. In celebration of the console release of Marvel Heroes Omega, all current PC accounts will be given the founder costumes for free!
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"We're not, like, the types where we release something and then we just forget it."cl_gibcount 9999 posted:In celebration of the console release of Marvel Heroes Omega, all current PC accounts will be given the founder costumes for free!
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