It's like hearing someone say "there were no strong female leads in movies before the Hunger Games"
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It's frustrating how people in charge are so far away from reality.
Remember when Kathleen Kennedy said that writing for Star Wars is hard because there aren't any books and comics?
She can't have said that.
Hate to break it to you, but...
Can't use material you don't own, if your primary interest is money.
So on one hand, that reads to me like she meant "we are not pulling from the existing comics or books", as opposed to "we are unaware of them".
On the other hand, Darth Caedus (aka Jacen Solo) might have something to say about Kylo Ren being an "original concept" that "was not pulled from the books or comics".
Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow was slated to write and direct Episode IX before you brought J.J. Abrams back in. Is this final entry in the trilogy a particularly hard nut to crack?
Every one of these movies is a particularly hard nut to crack. There’s no source material. We don’t have comic books. We don’t have 800-page novels. We don’t have anything other than passionate storytellers who get together and talk about what the next iteration might be.
Lol what? That's like saying drawing is hard if there's no connect the dots
I have a biased take here, but:
It's so much worse than that. It's like saying "We can't trace any completed connect the dots drawings" when there were 200 already completed connect the dots drawings specifically based on Star Wars.
I would kill to have a Darth Bane movie trilogy or two movies based on Revan. There's even a Star Wars zombie book they could have turned into a movie at the height of the zombie media craze for crying out loud.
Horribly, horribly mismanaged.
It is like she is saying filming Lord of the Rings was hard because there were no books to start from.
Have I been playing Skyrim wrong all this time?
Someone call a psychiatrist, we have another case of Other Games Syndrome.
You'll be ok. Let's just sit down and play either of your games. Do you want to play Super Mario, or Last of Us
No, it's the same thing. You're an arrow who jumps on the heads of enemies.
Wait, you didn't think you were the person with the bow did you? The stealth archer is inconsequential to the story. It's the arrow that matters.
There are actually very few games overall where you jump on enemies.
That's right because playing Dark Souls, I had to insert my sanity in the coin slot every time I died and it said Thanks Obama.
Wonderful mod, that one
Nobody else inserted quarters into their computer whenever you died in Doom?
You can't die in Doom. Per the quote - you die after jumping on enemies. The lack of jump button and infinitely tall monsters were specifically implemented to prevent player death in Doom.
I did once. The quarter fell onto some solder points and short circuited a bunch of stuff. Fried the whole machine. This was back in the early 90s, of course, when a typical computer cost as much as a nice used car and maybe four people in the county had one, much less knew how to fix one. Some original joke about getting beaten with jumper cables. Sometimes the hard lessons are the ones that stick with you most because as I got older, I learned how to solder and perform board level repairs. It's an insanely useful skill.
The Last of Us whas the first game you could play without quarters? I had no idea. That's pretty incredible.
Super Mario Bros was published in 1985 not 1972 but yeah.
Back in the 90's, video games were new enough that you could forgive the film industry for not being familiar with them. It's been 30 years. They still don't get it.
They don't play video games, they do coke or children. They live different lives than us poors.
I kinda stand with Yahtzee Croshaw on this: The video game industry is a lot bigger than the film industry and makes a hell of a lot more money, so filmmakers should probably do a little learning their place.
I mean, lets be fair here. Its both coke and children.
You're being too generous. In the 90s we were playing PlayStation and TV shows were still using the death sound from Atari Pac-Man
Yes, like GoldenEye. No one played it, and it was definitely not a popular FPS where you jumped on enemies. It's an obscure game based on the obscure movie where James Bond jumped on every single woman he saw. /s
There have been more good Movie: The Video Game releases than Video Game: The Movie.
It's maybe 50/50 on Movie: Game releases. The NES had a TON of really terrible movie-based games, some utterly unplayable.
I've got a suspicion that this is one of those "say something intentionally stupid so that everyone jumps on the train to correct you and create engagement".
Next up: post a math problem with no right answers and watch the post get a million comments (where only 10% notice the lack of a right answer)
It's Cunningham's Law in action.
Sod's Razor
I couldn't find your reference on google, could you explain what that is and how it relates or corrects my comment of Cunningham's Law?
That's how everything in the internet works nowadays. I just can't do it. Everyone (mostly bots I suspect) seem to want to get pissed off or feel themselves like correct or interesting.
Or someone says something evocative of their meaning but not fully fact-checked and cited because they aren’t a clanker.
There's not all that much fact checking about something like that. It's not like they claimed something and got one small detail wrong. It's just a blanket statement that is unsubstantiated. Assuming they have common knowledge of the industry they're in, it takes just one game that is not coin-operated and has some save functionality to make the original statement invalid.
I was listening to a podcast recently, New York Videogames Critics Circle, and they talked about The Last of Us 1 and 2 and Neil Druckman as if it was the first game to ever make the player feel emotions. Like not just that it did so successfully, but that it did it at all.
Honestly, I'm more angry about the meme creator thinking that Super Mario Bros. was 1972.
I have to admit I miss the days before the invention of the home console and PC in 2012 😣
I can't think of any aspect of The Last of Us that didn't appear in an earlier game. It was well enough done, but I don't feel like it was innovative in any way.
As far as I'm concerned Pong is the ONLY video game worth playing.
Pretty simple they hit the ball in your direction, you hit it back.
Truck simulator 2012 changed that.
You're clearly missing the intricacies of the game. Not to mention the whole cold war story arc. I'd suggest educating yourself before replying....../s
all downhill from there... not
I keep jumping people in leisure suit Larry and they aren't dying is this a bug
The showrunner of TLOU was also the head writer for the game.
It was the other showrunner, Craig Mazin, who said this. He doesn’t work in vidya gaems Though I can’t find the original source where he said it. So could be a shitpost.
According to google, this popular meme is entirely fictional.
I do not trust google but i am skeptical all around
Edit with the real quote that inspired this:
“They didn't shoot anything out of their eyeballs. They were just people. And that, in and of itself, is remarkably rare in games”
Combined with calling tlos “the greatest story that has ever been told in video games”
movies and tv shows are pretty simple -- you had charlie chaplin and leave it to beaver and then the last of us on HBO.
i have a private school/ivy league education in film theory btw. i'm short for time, so excuse the grammer.


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