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I think I hate Hollywood enough, but I don't. I must improve myself.
It's not like there's much to bastardize, From Software did a good enough job of that themselves. Outside of the cookie cutter bosses, copy and paste dungeons, Breath of the Wild inspired open world, and Ubisoft collect-a-thon, even the lore is mediocre and a shell of itself compared to the likes of Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne and even Dark Souls II. It's normie slop, there's nothing there to ruin.
It’s a fine game that excels at providing a feeling of exploration, but it really needs some major tuning and changes for the FS game design (outside of combat) to be as well made as their other games.
I fully disagree, it's mediocre. It looks good in comparison to everything we get now because the game industry does nothing but produce a pile of shit. Even if From and Kadokawa aren't openly hostile or spiteful towards their audience and doesn't spit in your face doesn't make it a good game. Especially in comparison to From's previous works, it's thoroughly mediocre.
I think a lot of the issues are with it being an open world. I know towards the end I just wanted to get done with it and haphazardly ran through a bunch of dungeons and basically the entire snowy area minus the castle in it. I never felt that way in all three DS games and Demon Souls doesn’t let you do that strategy.
That's because they broke a working game design to shove it into an open world. Miyazaki is probably the best level designer alive, and what does he do, creates a game with no fucking levels.
Nick Offerman and Peter Serafinowicz are the only two names I recognise from this list.
For those who didn't know Peter voiced Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace. It was his second ever movie credit.
To be honest, I didn't remember that Darth Maul actually spoke a single line in that entire movie. When does it happen?
Also, here's Peter on one of the times he showed up to 8 out of 10 Cats does Countdown.
This has a chance to be interesting. The Green Knight, another A24 production, actually had the tone and aesthetics of a FromSoft game (but the story was trash). Alex Garland is a legitimate fan of the IP and has written and directed a few genuinely good movies in Annihilation and Ex-Machina. The cast appears mostly unknown and white/Asian. The material doesn't lend itself very easily to any modern political or cultural agendas.
Don't misunderstand. This is Hollywood. Chances are overwhelmingly likely that they fuck it up with gay race feminism. But if a good Elden Ring movie were possible, this is probably what it would look like at this stage in development. We'll obviously know a lot more after the first trailer.
Gonna stop you right there and disagree.
Annihilation was nonsense, plus DEI slop (Yes, I know the in-story reason for this. I watched it). Ex-Machina was nonsense that was semi-entertaining if you never bothered to think about anything.
Agreed on Annihilation -- it looked good from a technical perspective, but was still DEI'ified to the max, it was just that because it was a technically sound film, most people overlooked those aspects.
The only praise I can give Ex-Machina (other than it also being well shot and edited) is that it's one of the very few movies that got robot logic right. The big "twist" at the end is that the robots actually do not have emotion, and cannot emote -- they are only programmed to pretend to emote for the sake of achieving a programmed task.
Too many movies (i.e., almost every Hollywood film) make robots have "emotions" but never explain "what" creates those emotions? They're simply logical processing units, so they have no reason to feel because they do not create cognitive responses based on empathy.
I did appreciate that Ex-Machina addressed the elephant in the room: no matter how much a poor bloke simps for a piece of synthoid machinery dressed up like his dream girl, she never cared about him because she was only programmed to manipulate him for the program's desired ends. Robots have no empathy.
(though to that end, the robot was also retarded because without a charging port it was going to shut down once the battery depleted after getting off the island)
I agree that the film might look good if the production staff are given enough free reign to visualise the film the way they want, but Nick Offerman alone is a HUUUUGE red flag.
This guy seems to be in nothing but anti-White, anti-nationalist, pro-faggotry projects. He seems to be the go-to selection for Hollywood to use as a generic White male to undermine or humiliate or castigate in some way.
I also don't think we'll know more after the first trailer. A24 is basically the smart-arm of Hollywood when it comes to indie production. They're a normie darling.
Many of their first trailers for their films -- even if they are nothing more than agitprop and subversion -- are usually pretty good, or vague enough that it's hard to tell what direction they will go in (they do this on purpose, because, again, unlike the rest of the zeitgeist, A24 knows how to play the long, smart game).
You'll know how DEI'ified this movie is once the cast starts opening their piehole to a media outlet and doing the general self-wankery they're known for, where they will talk about the gay-race-feminism you mentioned.
Elden rings story is VERY shallow. Fromsoft fanboys disagree, but cmon guys compared to literally any other rpg ever that game sucks when it comes to story. It's got good visuals and cool architecture and maybe a dozen sidequests total.
It also has probably the least attack animations of any hacknslash game over played.
I've so many friends obsessed with Elden ring so I welcome a shitty Hollywood misadaptation.
And don't say the game is too hard, it's a grindfest which means it's only as hard as your patience for it. And yes, very unbalanced. Requires mods to truly enjoy.