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I'm wondering if a Gremlins 2 approach might work. You could have a scientist, a CEO, a janitor/intern, one of the OG crew who knows what's going on, and someone who's really into the body swap thing specifically, and doesn't want to leave.
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Jumanji, but pachinko. It will do fantastic in Japan.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Jumanji, but pachinko. It will do fantastic in Japan. Seems like bad timing.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Seems like bad timing. Why?
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Len posted:Why? There were some recent regulations on gambling that meant pachinko lost a whole lot of popularity
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More like deregulations. Now people can do real gambling so no one gives a poo poo about pachinko
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Apr 2, 2018 13:29
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poo poo, how else am I going to get my Metal Gear Solid sequel?
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So what I'm learning is that even the Yakuza have lost their balls.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:So what I'm learning is that even the Yakuza have lost their balls. Bullshit! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejxklDwvGx0
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I see RPO has had one of the best opening weekends for a Spielberg movie in years.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Jumanji, but pachinko. It will do fantastic in Japan. Jumanji, but mobage.  The incompetent doofus pulls a SSR while all the competent protagonists are stuck with N/R tier cards.
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Can you really get a whole movie out of a phone game? I feel like you would run out of jokes really fast.
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Apr 2, 2018 15:00
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They made Angry Birds. When they ran out of jokes they just used some jingoism and xenophobia
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It's a key thing that the movie isn't just based on video games, but as I said, it's based on old video games. And not just the sprite-based bleep bloops that are fading into memory but specifically early 3D-era ones that have enough elements from old and new but also non-abstracted characters and features that the premise can work for people who have no idea what video games are, but work in the elements and in-jokes in ways people who are familiar with them can recognise. Being based on phone games would be a terrible idea, because they're already considered a dodgy and disposable form of entertainment that may fall into the memory hole for all but the most determinedly nostalgic by the time the movie comes out. The original movie works because everyone knows what a board game is, and Jumanji takes the form of something familiar, innocuous but enticing.
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Obviously the next Jumanji should be an anime. I'm only half kidding. Some weebs getting a download of some obscure anime fansub on Kodi and getting sucked in, and it being animated, would be a fun miniseries on Netflix.
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The whole reason I said a mobage instead of a regular phone game is because, instead of being disposable, they're insane time and money vacuums that prey on people with gambling addictions.
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Those are regular mainstream phone games though.
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Jumanji as an escape room
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Apparently the other twist with the phone game Jumanji plot was that the game quickly spread throughout the entire school. A.I. Borgland Corp posted:Some weebs getting a download of some obscure anime fansub on Kodi and getting sucked in, and it being animated, would be a fun miniseries on Netflix. I'm pretty sure this is the exact plot of an anime seriesd already, possibly more than one.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Apparently the other twist with the phone game Jumanji plot was that the game quickly spread throughout the entire school. I hear the phone game spreading thorough the school is a huge problem right now with Pubg Mobile and Fortnight Mobile. People can't use the WiFi anymore due to the game traffic. I hear that being sucked into an MMO is basically an entire anime genre at this point.
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Detective No. 27 posted:I hear the phone game spreading thorough the school is a huge problem right now with Pubg Mobile and Fortnight Mobile. People can't use the WiFi anymore due to the game traffic. Pretty much, yeah. (moreso in 'light novels', I think the Japanese equivalent to YA lit, which are often adapted into anime)
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Detective No. 27 posted:I hear the phone game spreading thorough the school is a huge problem right now with Pubg Mobile and Fortnight Mobile. People can't use the WiFi anymore due to the game traffic.  It'd also be pretty funny if the game became an MMO and there were 500 of each character running around, so every time a villain respawned it gets swamped by 50 Rocks all laying the smack down on it simultaneously.
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Apr 2, 2018 15:40
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The principal shuts off the wifi and makes everyone get stuck in the game forever.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Pretty much, yeah. (moreso in 'light novels', I think the Japanese equivalent to YA lit, which are often adapted into anime) Somehow I read "kidnapped into anime" in there and that would be a fate worse than death.
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The Jumanji cartoon did have an implication that at least one tribe of Jumanji beings were at least partly made up of players who'd gone native, and Alan wasn't far off. It's been a recurring element for players to find an older player who's been trapped in the game for years, if the sequel has to escalate things, that might be a way to do it. (though frankly I don't think an immediate sequel would be good; as I said, that the movie was good at all is a freakish anomaly)
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Iron Crowned posted:Somehow I read "kidnapped into anime" in there and that would be a fate worse than death. Your best case scenario is that you're surrounded by crazy women who want to gently caress you and you are too chickenshit to gently caress them, so yeah pretty much
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feedmyleg posted:The principal shuts off the wifi and makes everyone get stuck in the game forever. It's that bloody Black Mirror...
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RPO is kind of like a Jumanji movie, isn't it?
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What if they did the next Jumanji as an action game, in the vein of Devil May Cry or a Platinum title? I think it'd be an excellent excuse for ridiculous amounts of high style action.
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Wheat Loaf posted:I see RPO has had one of the best opening weekends for a Spielberg movie in years. On the other hand Box Office Mojo ran the numbers and the closest comparable openings they came up with were G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Terminator Salvation ... And the only other films that Spielberg has directed this last decade were The Adventures of Tintin, War Horse, Lincoln, Bridge of Spies, The BFG and The Post, none of which exactly big budget wide appeal blockbusters that were expected to have huge openings.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:On the other hand Box Office Mojo ran the numbers and the closest comparable openings they came up with were G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Terminator Salvation ... Fair enough, though I think that's still better than the year's other would-be blockbusters so far other than Black Panther.
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Next Jumanji should be a bridge between the first and second movies where the protagonists get sucked into one of those terrible VHS board games like Nightmare. So...Beyond the Gates, basically.
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Phylodox posted:So...Beyond the Gates, basically. Except it should actually be good.
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Basebf555 posted:Except it should actually be good. I wanted to like Beyond the Gates, but 
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Wheat Loaf posted:Fair enough, though I think that's still better than the year's other would-be blockbusters so far other than Black Panther. Yeah the only other 'big' action/adventure films so far this year have been Tomb Raider and Pacific Rim 2 and I guess maybe A Wrinkle in Time (I didn't see it, I dunno what it's about) which didn't exactly set the world on fire, but then again Jan/Feb is often fairly slow compared to the rest of the year. But we should also note that Black Panther's opening weekend of $202 million was roughly five times bigger than Ready Player One's $41 million so it's still in the little leagues in comparison.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Pretty much, yeah. (moreso in 'light novels', I think the Japanese equivalent to YA lit, which are often adapted into anime) It's become so common that it's displaced "transported into a fantasy world" and, IIRC, a big pro-am writers' short story contest in Japan will no longer accept stories with that premise it's become so prevalent. Myself, there's some merit in the scenario, but only if the MMO is Second Life.
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Basebf555 posted:Except it should actually be good. You shut your mouth I will not have you ruin my fond memories of Atmosfear.
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they should make it a souls-like.
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TIKI TORCH LIT
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so apparently they got gamemasteranthony to review rp1. Spoilers: he liked it! http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/gamemaster-anthony-reviews-ready-player-one.html
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