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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:Oh God, I just remembered that the romantic heart of that game involves Page being in a relationship with her much older government handler who has been her jailer since she was a child. Framed always as a positive relationship the game will not stop trying to force you into it. The game also ends with a sequel hook which is really stupid because Cage has never made a sequel to a game and he definitely won’t be making a sequel to Beyond.
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FlamingLiberal posted:It’s even worse, because I have seen a playthrough where even if you keep rejecting him with the dialogue choices the game give still makes it so that you have feelings for him and he just never stops trying to convince you to date him. He has admitted he won't be making a sequel to Beyond. I missed a choice to reject his kiss at one point and he and Ellen Page started to make out and went to her bedroom. Before anything could happen though she had a PTSD flashback to the attempted rape that happened as a teenager and had a breakdown. Chiseled McSquarejaw took that as a good time to just peace out and left her alone to sob uncontrollably. There's parts of that game i'd like to go back and replay but it won't change anywhere near enough to justify trying to get the platinum.
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 15:58 |
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Why is this a videogame thread now
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got any sevens posted:Why is this a videogame thread now I mean. Goons. Give it a few days and it will be a food thread.
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A Sometimes Food posted:I mean. Goons. Give it a few days and it will be a food thread. And all of those topics will be under the umbrella of Star Wars discussion.
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 16:37 |
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Videogame movies and tv shows are hot now and David Cage is emblematic of making lovely movies through the medium of games. To tie all the conversations together: Someone should make a movie based on the Episode 1 Podracing game. No no, not Episode 1, I mean like Days of Thunder but with podracing, based on the podracing in the game, not the film, and that way Taco Bell can do a combo box crossover and call it Boxracing
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 16:58 |
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does anyone want to try and explain how pixar went from pumping out consistently great films to being consistently mediocre? i just saw onward and it's not a bad movie but it is extremely bland
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 17:06 |
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I would assume the steady march of time leading to a change in talent and management, as well as a more competitive marketplace including their own past work rather than a specific singular thing. Edit: Also doing sequels.
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 17:10 |
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You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become The Simpsons.
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QuoProQuid posted:does anyone want to try and explain how pixar went from pumping out consistently great films to being consistently mediocre? I know nothing of the people who work at Pixar, but much like with video games (heh) as the studio keeps growing there is probably a lot of people who rotate out. So it becomes a Ship of Theseus situation.
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Barudak posted:Videogame movies and tv shows are hot now and David Cage is emblematic of making lovely movies through the medium of games. There are so many game designers who are failed filmmakers it is unreal. Whenever you see a game filled with unskippable cut scene that is most likely what motivates it.
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To be fair, there were some games with unskippable cutscenes to hide loading, or in FFX's case, to keep the game from crashing.
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Is that really why you can't skip the cutscenes in FFX?
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 17:58 |
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Yeah. They couldn't even fix it in the HD versions. The game is basically put together with gum and popsicle sticks. The reason why the English voice acting is because they had to dub it exactly to the same amount of time the Japanese dub had, not a second shorter or longer, because it would also crash. The voice acting was noticably better whenever someone was speaking off screen or if their lips weren't on screen. Auron's VA job being the overall beat because of this.
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Leavemywife posted:Is that really why you can't skip the cutscenes in FFX? In the original it was to hide loading I think. But they way they did it is so hosed up and bizarre it's stopped any remaster from adding a cutscene skip. I think they've said they'd need to do a full remake and start the code from scratch to implement it.
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 18:08 |
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Assuming Monster Hunter the movie doesnt tank CAPCOM is currently investigating exploiting the hell out of their franchises for films and the success of Sonic is making them hungrier. Leavemywife posted:Is that really why you can't skip the cutscenes in FFX? Similar issues arising from converting an open world engine to a linear shooter is why you cant skip them in Max Payne 3. Theres a mod to remove the loading screens, but even there occasionally the mod requires you to wait a second before progressing or otherwise you cause the game to have a bad time.
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 18:09 |
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Speaking of both video game developers and Pixar, I always thought it was a shame that Steve Purcell didn't get to do more high-profile stuff for them.
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# ? Mar 8, 2020 19:27 |
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Lasseter was a GREAT story editor with the clout to make things happen or not happen. He could demand the creatives make changes or make The Board eat it and kill/suspend/redo a project after burning tons of dough. He was also a creepy grabber, but I suspect there is a reason that stuff came out when he did - the Pixar slate is, like Marvel, now much more explicitly communicated in advance. This means hard deadlines set earlier in a project lifetime.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Yeah. They couldn't even fix it in the HD versions. The game is basically put together with gum and popsicle sticks. See, that's why I don't want to replay FFX. Not the voice acting, that's whatever (I think they did well, considering the restraints put on their performances), but because the game starts so slowly. gently caress off, I don't care anymore about the entire beginning.
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QuoProQuid posted:does anyone want to try and explain how pixar went from pumping out consistently great films to being consistently mediocre? Anyone working at Pixar at the beginning is now 45 or older. Very few people maintain good creative content after that.
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QuoProQuid posted:does anyone want to try and explain how pixar went from pumping out consistently great films to being consistently mediocre? I enjoyed it for what it was but it’s premise of “fantasy world but mundane and familiar modern world building” was inherently going to head in that direction. Doesn’t help that Pixar has kind of defined the 3d animation feature style so anything that isn’t that becomes risky
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Remulak posted:Lasseter was a GREAT story editor with the clout to make things happen or not happen. He could demand the creatives make changes or make The Board eat it and kill/suspend/redo a project after burning tons of dough. Yeah, I think this is a big part of Pixar's slide into mediocrity. Lasseter absolutely had his blind spots (see his absurd love of the Cars franchise, for example), but he has a brilliant creative mind and a sixth sense for knowing what works and what doesn't. Don't get me wrong, he is a creepy-rear end son of a bitch and he has no place working in Hollywood and gently caress Skydance for hiring him, but we're now seeing post-Lasseter Disney Animation and Pixar output and the studios are very clearly still looking for a firm hand at the rudder.
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Didn’t some studio quietly hire Lasseter not that long after he was fired?
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Didn’t some studio quietly hire Lasseter not that long after he was fired? Skydance
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Didn’t some studio quietly hire Lasseter not that long after he was fired? As I mentioned in my post, he's now the head of Skydance Animation. Following his hiring, there was a staff exodus and Emma Thompson backed out of a movie with them.
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did they pull Guns Akimbo? It was already relegated to arthouse theaters here and now I can't see any showtimes at all (LA) but a guy at a mixer mentioned a race incident online involving the director but I don't know if that contributed to it https://twitter.com/kittypurrzog/status/1232412085348253696?s=20
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Alan Smithee posted:did they pull Guns Akimbo? It was already relegated to arthouse theaters here and now I can't see any showtimes at all (LA) oh wow, so someone got doxxed for tweeting this to the point where all her workers quit and she attempted suicide and then the director of guns akimbo tries to defend her, in a pretty dumb way tbh, and twitter warriors get all defensive over it because bullying people on the internet is only okay when they do it. quote:"I was gonna reply to this with 'nigga say what' then I was like holy shite that's racist, i can't say that on twitter."
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Alan Smithee posted:did they pull Guns Akimbo? It was already relegated to arthouse theaters here and now I can't see any showtimes at all (LA) they didn't pull it, but they cut down the number of screenings drastically and made it same-day VOD. afaik it was gonna be a regular wide release before the director showed his rear end on twitter.
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poor Danny Rad from one extremely onliner to another
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hemale in pain posted:oh wow, so someone got doxxed for tweeting this to the point where all her workers quit and she attempted suicide and then the director of guns akimbo tries to defend her, in a pretty dumb way tbh, and twitter warriors get all defensive over it because bullying people on the internet is only okay when they do it. he accused some of her former writers, who weren't even online when the whole thing went down, of pushing her to commit suicide, and then when people tried to explain that to him, he like, quadrupled down and called them all murderers. When someone who is a big enough deal to make movies with Harry Potter goes on a twitter campaign against random black internet film writers who are expressing their displeasure at people using the n-word and calls them all murderers, that someone should probably get the gently caress off of twitter, whether by hook or by crook. It should be noted that most of the people who resigned did so before the suicide attempts, and after she posted those videos actively worked to find her and keep her from actually succeeding, thus possibly saving her life. (it should also be noted that within a few days the director created a burner twitter account to continue complaining about this and people found it almost immediately because he was absolutely unsubtle about it) edit: honestly that Stranger article is kinda lovely and solely coming from the "Everyone On Twitter Is Terrible" perspective and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. A writer on RogerEbert.com wrote about it and did a much better job of talking about the experience of being a black critic online and the inability on the part of some (like the writer of the article you posted) to discriminate between actual Twitter trolls and people who are trying to say something. Robert Daniels posted:“While young critics dream of being pull-quoted, I asked for mine not to be used. Here’s why.” DC Murderverse fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Mar 9, 2020 |
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He's an idiot then but jesus christ twitter sounds exhausting.
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# ? Mar 9, 2020 01:39 |
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Twitter culture is so sad.
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hemale in pain posted:He's an idiot then but jesus christ twitter sounds exhausting. can you believe it's free?
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Free idiots?? No thx
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Alan Smithee posted:can you believe it's free?
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Alan Smithee posted:poor Danny Rad He still has his TV show (and millions of dollars) so this doesn't exactly hurt him that much.
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Timby posted:Yeah, I think this is a big part of Pixar's slide into mediocrity. Lasseter absolutely had his blind spots (see his absurd love of the Cars franchise, for example), but he has a brilliant creative mind and a sixth sense for knowing what works and what doesn't. Don't get me wrong, he is a creepy-rear end son of a bitch and he has no place working in Hollywood and gently caress Skydance for hiring him, but we're now seeing post-Lasseter Disney Animation and Pixar output and the studios are very clearly still looking for a firm hand at the rudder. Wasn't one of the issues with Lasseter (though a much smaller problem than his sexual harassment, of course) was that he was an aggressive credit thief? I seem to recall hearing that all of "his" ideas for Cars were demonstrably someone else's, and Lasseter just "loved" it because it was a billion dollar merchandising opportunity he could slap the Pixar Seal of Good Movies onto.
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Coaaab posted:most of the world will call me a sucker for paying to post on an internet forum but i think it's paid itself off a hundredfold for keeping me off twitter I'd rather pay $10 for SA than go on Reddit or Twitter for free
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Coaaab posted:most of the world will call me a sucker for paying to post on an internet forum but i think it's paid itself off a hundredfold for keeping me off twitter Wisdom.
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Barudak posted:Assuming Monster Hunter the movie doesnt tank CAPCOM is currently investigating exploiting the hell out of their franchises for films and the success of Sonic is making them hungrier. We'll never get the George Romero Resident Evil movie. But maybe they'll get Goblin to do the soundtrack for the next one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Xw_7BUXic
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