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paradoxGentleman posted:And it sucks! Only because it didn't go far enough.
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SatansBestBuddy posted:They did that, though, Disney Infinity was actually quite popular and had figures for every character in the game which was constantly expanding. Infinity I think actually ran into one of the inherent problems with this; trying to have all the characters adhere to a recognisable aesthetic at all once as well as in a video game that not everyone necessarily likes. The whole game-accessory-figurines thing has kinda burnt itself out pretty bad now. Infinity's dead, games stores have tubs full of second hand Skylanders they're trying to get rid of, Lego Dimensions I think mostly sold in the first place for the figures rather than the game and the remainders are gathering dust on shelves... it's even getting hard to find new Amiibos in some places, though they've mostly sidestepped the issue by, well, being by a game company in the first place and thus tied to games that people actually want on their own merits.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:My friend, you need to think bigger. Imagine a movie, with all characters. Every shot is a panoramic sweep of pop culture history, averaging 339 intellectual properties per second of film footage. The narrative is nothing more than the kaleidoscopic movements of these figures. the simpsons intro?
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Aug 17, 2018 11:15
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there's way more narrative in the Simpsons intro
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paradoxGentleman posted:And it sucks! It sucks, too
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Disney Infinity also ran into the problem of being a fairly boring game. Maybe later iterations improved on it, but my wife and I got it for her sisters when they were really into Minecraft and the game is too directionless to be fun as a campaign and too sparse to be fun as a sandbox.
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Aug 17, 2018 15:46
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I saw videos of people playing it and it looked loving godawful
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Funny side effect of mainstream game development becoming so much more expensive is that it's pretty much wiped out crappy tie-in games other than phone games (which are basically an entirely different market) because you can't half-rear end it anymore, and you can't make even passably decent video games without having a studio that is both sufficiently funded and knows what they're doing.
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Aug 17, 2018 16:29
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Shame, because the Burger King x-box games were actually among the best games for that console.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Funny side effect of mainstream game development becoming so much more expensive is that it's pretty much wiped out crappy tie-in games other than phone games (which are basically an entirely different market) because you can't half-rear end it anymore, and you can't make even passably decent video games without having a studio that is both sufficiently funded and knows what they're doing. Conversely, indie games are making tons of great games with shoestring budgets and teams of two or three people. It's mostly the middle ground between the $50,000 games and the $50,000,000 games that's been wiped out, which is where tie-in games used to live. They're not gone entirely, Lego Incredibles came out pretty close to the movie's release, but they're not flooding store shelves the way they did in the PS1 era.
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Aug 17, 2018 17:13
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Star Wars: Resistance trailer out now: https://twitter.com/starwars/status/1030469299691970560 (Apropos of nothing: 10pm seems late for a children's cartoon - when I was little, Cartoon Network stopped at 9pm and became TNT.)
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Wheat Loaf posted:Star Wars: Resistance trailer out now: I kind of...hate the aesthetic? The cel shaded faux-2D characters are honestly a bit nauseating to me.
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Aug 17, 2018 18:25
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In the end, I wound up learning about a Zootopia shirt I hadn't seen before and picked it up last night. The clerk says the chain's looking into more Zoo-themed for adults going forward, but I don't know how much a clerk at a random Disney Store actually knows about the matter. Kind of a missed opportunity not making that shirt a button-up short sleeve as opposed to just a T-shirt, but I suppose that might cost a fair bit more than the fare you'd sell at The Disney Store, so.
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Aug 17, 2018 18:34
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Phylodox posted:I kind of...hate the aesthetic? The cel shaded faux-2D characters are honestly a bit nauseating to me. The style sort of reminds me of these two cartoons I remember from a while ago, but I don't remember what they were called: one was on Cartoon Network and had a kind of post-apocalyptic setting with a team of four or five teenagers flying about in an airship fighting bad guys on either flying surfboards or motorbikes; the other was this futuristic outer space show in which everything is resolved by superpowered football (soccer) matches (it switched up between this kind of style during said matches, then had a more traditional-looking style the rest of the time).
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Shadow Hog posted:In the end, I wound up learning about a Zootopia shirt I hadn't seen before and picked it up last night. The clerk says the chain's looking into more Zoo-themed for adults going forward, but I don't know how much a clerk at a random Disney Store actually knows about the matter. I asked at a Disney Store once about Gravity Falls merch, and the employee there insisted it wasn’t a Disney cartoon.
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i watched shrek 1 for the first time in years yesterday and i hated it
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I think that Céll shaded style looks a whole lot nicer than bargain full lighting/rendering that Clone Wars has. If you’re a feature film and can afford a fully lit and subsurfaced setup, go for it. But tv does not have those kinda budgets.
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Aug 17, 2018 23:25
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Rebels looked fine, though.
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Aug 17, 2018 23:51
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It just makes me think of that CGI Spiderman cartoon MTV did, only slightly better rendered and animated.
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Invalid Validation posted:Just finished the last season of Trollhunters and man that thing is much better than it should be. Didn’t realize Anthon Yelchin played Jim and that’s kinda sad. What does better than it should be mean? It's an animated tv show from Guillermo Del Toro Wheat Loaf posted:(Apropos of nothing: 10pm seems late for a children's cartoon - when I was little, Cartoon Network stopped at 9pm and became TNT.) Justice League used to premiere at 9-9:30 and that was like fifteen years ago.
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Thompsons posted:It just makes me think of that CGI Spiderman cartoon MTV did, only slightly better rendered and animated.
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Unmature posted:What does better than it should be mean? It's an animated tv show from Guillermo Del Toro Honestly, I've always wanted to give the show a watch. My only exposure to it was a series of obnoxious videos discussing it thanks to a well-meaning (but kinda dense) friend of mine randomly linking them to me.
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Phylodox posted:I kind of...hate the aesthetic? The cel shaded faux-2D characters are honestly a bit nauseating to me. I watched the two part Godzilla Anime and it had this style. I found it kind of distracting.
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Aug 18, 2018 05:35
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the merch besmirched
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Pick posted:Shame, because the Burger King x-box games were actually among the best games for that console. Sneak King owned.
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Wheat Loaf posted:The style sort of reminds me of these two cartoons I remember from a while ago, but I don't remember what they were called: one was on Cartoon Network and had a kind of post-apocalyptic setting with a team of four or five teenagers flying about in an airship fighting bad guys on either flying surfboards or motorbikes; the other was this futuristic outer space show in which everything is resolved by superpowered football (soccer) matches (it switched up between this kind of style during said matches, then had a more traditional-looking style the rest of the time). first sounds almost like Code Lyoko - which was notorious for all the kids have not fiveheads and sixheads, even sevenheads, the second doesn't sound familiar.
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Aug 18, 2018 15:34
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I found it - it was called Storm Hawks. Ran on Toonami from 2007 to 2009, which seems about right. As far as ongoing CG animated series go, the one I remember as looking the worst was one I think Disney had (though they didn't make it, as far as I'm aware - they just had it on their channel) called Monster By Mistake. Wheat Loaf fucked around with this message at 15:39 on Aug 18, 2018 |
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Aug 18, 2018 15:36
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that's a show??? that look like someone's lovely Deviant Art mock up with their Jak and Dex OCs
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Aug 18, 2018 15:42
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It looked a lot better in motion. I'm suspecting thats actually a deviantart fanmade promo
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Aug 18, 2018 15:55
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Found it on GIS - it looked official to me. In any event, the entire series seems to be on YouTube (first episode) if you want to see it in action.
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IIRC Storm Hawks is decidedly average, the plot is pretty much entirely cliche but there's nothing particularly wrong with it.
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Storm Hawks is someone's favorite show and that person really wants a Netflix revival. There's at least one person.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Storm Hawks is someone's favorite show and that person really wants a Netflix revival. There's at least one person. That person is “whoever owns the Storm Hawks IP”
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Aug 18, 2018 22:01
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Welp https://twitter.com/aptkr_/status/1030582001336635392
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Aug 18, 2018 23:03
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I have very conflicting feelings about taking that to Twitter.
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I'm hearing mixed on disenchantment. Someone give me the definitive take
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Aug 19, 2018 08:46
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A waste of time but not completely garbage.
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Aug 19, 2018 08:57
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I've watched five episodes and it's pretty fun. The dialogue is mostly funny and the sight gags are usually great. It's more violent and dirty than I expected but it's no Rick & Morty where some episodes made me feel like taking a shower afterwards.
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Alan Smithee posted:I'm hearing mixed on disenchantment. Someone give me the definitive take It's good but it is not Futurama or the Simpsons in that it is definitely one large arc that is building on itself and ties together more strictly (like Venture Bros does), but still has Groening humor, with a little more room to breathe. Good show.
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Same plus pretty backgrounds
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