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From: JAB <noway@nochance.com>
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Subject: Re: Mass Effect @Amazon
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 10:35:50 +0000
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On 11/11/2024 16:16, Justisaur wrote:
> On 11/11/2024 3:34 AM, JAB wrote:
>> On 09/11/2024 01:38, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 06:42:09 -0500, DotNettie <DotN@noaddress.net>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Saw this at Slashdot. Hope it happens.
>>>>
>>>> https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/11/08/0024209/mass- 
>>>> effect-tv-series-is-in-the-works-at-amazon? 
>>>> utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
>>>
>>> I mean, I think people here can already deduce my take on it. As much
>>> as I loved the first game (and had fun with the rest), the idea of
>>> them dragging out the IP just does not excite me. For gods sake, just
>>> create something new! Not everything has to be a mass-market
>>> multi-media franchise!
>>>
>>> And before you get too excited about the TV show, I'd like to remind
>>> you that for every "Fallout" we get a "Halo" or "Mortal Kombat:
>>> Conquest". More often than note, Hollywood mangles beloved IPs so be
>>> careful what you wish for.
>>>
>>
>> I rather enjoyed the D&D film and felt that a lot of the negative 
>> comments where more based on the new version of the OGL from WotC than 
>> the film itself. I'm not a big fan of D&D but I know enough to get the 
>> jokes and its portrayal of TT RPG's in that for all their lofty 
>> aspirations that often degenerate into slapstick humour - yep lets 
>> spend five minutes discussing the best way to revisit the town and 
>> speak to Dr. Perry again. Then a suggestion comes up, they do have 
>> phones in 1920's CoC you know.
>>
>> Saying that my better half who knows nothing about D&D also very much 
>> enjoyed it although it probably helped that Chris Pine was in it!
> 
> D&D's not a video game, and they just created something new loosely 
> using the Forgotten Realms setting.  I'd be more impressed if they 
> managed to bring one of the books to the screen successfully. 
> Dragonlance, or one of the FR books. Still even that's not as impressive 
> as a much higher percentage of books have been brought to screen 
> successfully than video games.  Or I suppose like for like would be 
> Neverwinter Nights or Baldur's Gate (A BG3 movie I could see being 
> really good, although much more likely they'd ruin it.)
> 

I think it was more that the made a film with a D&D setting but with a 
'feel' of what it's like to play D&D at the table top. It would probably 
have been easier just to do Lord of the Rings in a D&D setting.