Some folks who I’d like to see unshackled by the baggage of IP:
I’d like to see FromSoft move away from the Souls formula. They used to have a fairly broad catalogue, with some genuine weirdness, and for over a decade now they’ve pretty much made the same game with tweaks to the formula. And as some of the online reactions to Nightreign and Duskbloods show, there are lots of dudes who seem to think they’re personally entitled to get new Souls games forever, and that’s a toxic dynamic imo. They have earned the freedom to do something different, and there’s probably alot of skilled devs there with cool ideas that just need a shot.
This is kinda tweaking the question a bit, but there’s the situation of teams being reassigned from a successful ip onto something else for business reasons that I wish would be allowed to go back to their original projects, which would be ‘freeing from current ip’ in a way. The team behind Prince of Persia: Lost Crown was recently disbanded, which is an absolute travesty since that game was the most inspired Ubisoft project in years. And the Soul Calibur team has been scattered the winds, which is a bummer bc even though SC lost some of it’s luster in later releases, it’s an important IP with no existing analogue in fighting games (3D, 8-way-run, simple inputs and short combos, weapons).
I don’t like this credit system to continue a topic. It makes the show more interesting if they’re allowed to talk past time and spending a credit means we’re another week away from a panelist making everyone play a game, which I liked a lot. It feels like the flow of conversation is cut short and instead the topic ends with a disappointed “Oh” instead. If it turns out the thing wasn’t interesting enough to add time, well I figure Esper cuts stuff like that to keep the run time down.
I can understand needing a way to spend fewer credits or to avoid too many 10 credit spends, but I’ve been disappointed every time someone is cut off from sharing a thought.
Just my two cents. (Ringo voice) Peace and love, peace and love.
re: the Minecraft movie, Rob McElhenney (co-writer/creator of Always Sunny) was lined up to write/direct the movie, or a version of the movie, some years ago, to the point where Always Sunny basically went on hiatus so he could go make it, only for it to get canned after he’d relocated to go head it up in Canada or somewhere.
I do sometimes wonder how that version might’ve turned out—not because I trust that it would’ve been less commercial, but because he seemed to be appropriately disdainful of the game and the notion that his movie ought to be reflective of any of the minutae of the Brand.
I also agree Yasumi Matsuno could probably do something awesome. Y’all ever play Tactics Ogre Let us Cling Together on the SNES? It’s incredible! There’s also a great PSP version but the fact it came out on SNES it just looks and feels amazing.
I can’t believe Brandon’s been lying about being a Sega kid all this time, yet he doesn’t even know the Temp intro. SMH my head. I wish I could go back in time and cancel Brandon Sheffield.
Dude, I just Googled “Brandon Sheffield” to make sure I was spelling his last name right and the 2nd result after the Wikipedia page and right before the Instagram page is a Reddit post on /r/whenwomenrefuse talking about a “nice guy” Brandon Sheffield who did horrible things to his ex-wife that the poster doesn’t elaborate on at all. Then the mods had to link the context in the comments which leads to an article about a murder suicide commited by an unrelated guy with the exact same name.
Just to be clear, I have referenced the tempo intro approximately 10000 times in this show - but no part of that flows from “and I’m here to X” which was the prompt, which is what tripped me up. Ash chose to go rogue and do something unrelated, but I was trying to stick with the initial idea.
@Psinuxi also to be clear, multiple people having the same name is not a coincidence, it is just an extremely common thing that happens. That guy killed his wife only a couple months ago so he’s still relatively prominent in the news. The reason people got extra excited about that one was that his soon-to-be-ex wife (they were separating and that’s why he killed her) had just done a tiktok about he was “actually very sweet” and being helpful through the process a day or two before her death. Also she was conventionally attractive which makes people care more.
I understand that and all. It’s just an unfortunate association when the search results make it look like the same person is all I meant. I knew nothing about this before today so maybe this old news to everyone else. Apologies if it seemed I was trying to make light of things!
I’ve watched one minute and forty seconds of the Minecraft movie, and most of that was production logos. Jack Black in that first scene activated my fight-or-flight response.
I once read the local news and found out that someone with the same name as me was one of the areas biggest meth dealers and had been arrested the day before. Luckily the article contained a photo of the fella so at least there was no way of me getting mistaken for them.
I used to go to Rocky Horror showings all the time in my 20s, made a bunch of friends there etc, but hadn’t watched the movie since then cause i thought “well it’s silly and not fun to watch without a crowd”
but i rewatched it a couple years ago for the first time in probably decades, and it rules lol. i actually now think the midnight screenings sorta do a disservice to the movie haha. it’s way more self-aware than it seems in that context. i’m particularly into old rock and roll and sci-fi stuff so i might be biased in that sense, but also yeah the songs are great and Tim Curry is fuckin hilarious in it.
