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Something like Mad God would be most appropriate, but I sincerely hope no one ever tries to make Dark Souls: The Movie, that’s the most hollowed idea I’ve heard.
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I think you could make a case for a Sekiro movie. Everything from the beginning of the game till waking up in the Temple can be recreated basically as-is. After that you might have to come up with a slightly more focused story than "rescue the heir". But there's all the stuff going on with the Tengu, and Isshin himself, and whichever troops are invading Ashina castle, etc., so I feel like you could tease a two hour movie out of all that which is interesting enough to stand alone as an actual movie, while having enough stuff in it for fans of the game.
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Sekiro is strongly influenced by an animated movie. Sword of the Stranger. Big recommend although sadly lacking in guardian apes
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There’s also Blade of The Immortal, about a ronin who can’t die because of
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I appreciate how they distilled Anor Londo down to what's really important: getting impaled off the rooftops by silver knights. Really though it was nice having multiple angles of attack and sneakiness to avoid them. Successfully found a spouse and unlocked the dark sigil ending (that's a look er upper for sure).
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I’m pretty sure a Firelink NPC just straight up tells you “your bride is ready Chosen Unkindled, go to the hidden section of Anor Londo” so it’s not as mean as it could be. And yeah, it was pretty nostalgic dealing with the greatbow silver knights in a non-miserable context. Did you find the Darkmoon Covenant NPC? this one really is bullshit, but I’m pretty sure From knew that since there’s two ways to enter the covenant. There’s a tower a far way off connected to the tower thingy that you rotate to adjust the height of…connected by an invisible path, where you can’t leave messages very near, which is the truly foul part.
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Last Celebration posted:I’m pretty sure a Firelink NPC just straight up tells you “your bride is ready Chosen Unkindled, go to the hidden section of Anor Londo” so it’s not as mean as it could be. And yeah, it was pretty nostalgic dealing with the greatbow silver knights in a non-miserable context. Did you find the Darkmoon Covenant NPC? She does but there's a few steps in the spouse npc quest that read like you can easily mess them up. One being telling them where their buddy was. No but that makes sense: it looked like there was a way to go but just no path and the wheel wouldn't turn. I assume the aldricht covenant exists purely to invade people who just beat the sword pope, got embered, and kept going?
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Aldritch covenant is the invasion kiddy pool. Covenant members don't have friendly fire relative to each other and you're more likely to spawn into a 3v3 instead of a 3v1 compared to traditional invasions. It's good for learning the ropes or for just being able to (relatively) consistently get invasions at all during periods where the game's online is mostly dead.
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I'd want to see a souls movie from the pov of a side character, sieglinde is an excellent example but it could also be someone less capable, maybe just some regular person trying to survive and deal with the challenges of trying not to go hollow as the world decays around them. You could set that one literally any time, too.
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The story of Patches.
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Mustached Demon posted:The story of Patches. Billion dollar opening weekend, guaranteed
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Mustached Demon posted:The story of Patches. Its just 2 hours of your perspective while Patches kicks you off different cliffs.
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Mustached Demon posted:The story of Patches. As you enter the theater the lights go out and minimum wage employees push you into a rolling trash can and begin to beat you with their plastic brooms
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skasion posted:As you enter the theater the lights go out and minimum wage employees push you into a rolling trash can and begin to beat you with their plastic brooms you buy your ticket, head into the theater, and Bee Movie starts playing
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BiggerBoat posted:Surprised there hasn't been one in development but what would a Dark Souls/ER movie look like? Groundhog Day with more somersaulting.
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Honestly a soulsborne movie is just Stalker but they kill a hosed up wolf monster at some point
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Aldritch covenant is the invasion kiddy pool. Covenant members don't have friendly fire relative to each other and you're more likely to spawn into a 3v3 instead of a 3v1 compared to traditional invasions. It's good for learning the ropes or for just being able to (relatively) consistently get invasions at all during periods where the game's online is mostly dead. That makes sense. I got invaded and was holding my own then some other aldritch bro came in with a steel
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Siegmeyer, you're a true bro. You completed your quest to save your friend and helped me in the process. Good story boss and way better implementation than seed bed. Suppose you could wail on him for 30 minutes but having Siegmeyer do it for you was good. Or smack him by yourself with the sword they put a giant target on. Immediately teleported to that lady in the castle and I guess that totally not obvious boss arena is next.
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I feel like a Souls movie would just be a regular dark fantasy movie but half the words are in a made-up language for which you have no context.
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I'm not only surprised that it hasn't been in development, but also that there's so much pushback to the idea among fans in this thread. I don't see why a good Souls movie can't be made. Get the dude from Dune to direct that bitch.
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found the one guy who's never seen a video game movie before like three different studios have tried and failed to make a good Berserk adaptation and that's an easier version of the same task
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I was mainly thinking about The Witcher
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the reason they've never made a souls movie is because there's never been a narrative more compelling than, "you, john darksouls, must reach the place to stop the ambiguously bad thing from happening." the experiential quality of the games are tied up in exploration and the fitting of the puzzle pieces of backstory together, so any big screen property with "Dark Souls" stamped on it is really just going to be a grittier fantasy film with some iconography slathered on top if you want the closest experience to it, go watch the 2011 season of the witch remake with nicolas cage and ron perlman, in which they're two beleaguered knights tramping across plague-ravaged europe dealing with a variety of familiar souls issues like a rickety rope bridge and random dog attacks
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You're all wrong, (possibly as usual?) Check this out. It's Dark Souls as gently caress. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0208502/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk Don't read anything about it. Put down your phone and watch it after it is in your possession. You will feel a Dark Souls Feeling. Thanks to Chapo and Felix Biederman for showing us it can be done. Any movie version of any FromSoft Souls game must absolutely not explain anything, like whatever the gently caress Anri's wedding is or why there's a flame that needs to be "linked." Set it between any two of the games. It can be done, Mamoru Oshii basically did it twenty years ago.
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modern film audiences generally do not go gaga for 90+ minutes of being extremely confused
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CAPT. Rainbowbeard posted:You're all wrong, (possibly as usual?) Check this out. It's Dark Souls as gently caress. a). it didn't give me strong Dark Souls vibes at all, Dark Souls is not just "is mysterious" b). it's one of those anime that fans elevate to being amazing when in reality it's just ok, because they're desperate for more genuinely good anime c). what sort of modern film company with any kind of budget is going to make anything like Angel's Egg, particularly when tasked to make a Dark Souls adaptation
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LazyMaybe posted:I've seen Angel's Egg and People say the same thing about Angel's Egg being like a Gene Wolfe movie and I don't really get it either. It's cool and worth watching but ?? In other news Dancer of the Boreal Valley has become that boss I keep tilting against, giving me way more trouble than Aldrich or Sulheyvan did lol
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I didn't find Dancer THAT challenging. Tough moments for sure since she doesn't give you time to chug. Sword pope was harder I think. I 2Hed a sharp lothric sword. Now dragon armor... That guy was tough. Maybe I'm just bad at slow swings and good at fast ones. It got the morning star. I do appreciate how the game started making GBS threads large shards at you. Now maybe they did with chunks too eventually... Now I'm not sure where to go next: messy library or toxic bit full of abyssal monsters.
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Mustached Demon posted:I didn't find Dancer THAT challenging. Tough moments for sure since she doesn't give you time to chug. Sword pope was harder I think. I 2Hed a sharp lothric sword. the goop garden is mostly a side area with a good number of upgrade mats, so it's worth poking around in before going through the main path library
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If you have to make a dark souls movie you basically have to adapt a character backstory instead of representing the player characters journey. Do like Havels story. Cast Dwayne Johnson
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I really appreciate that Elden Ring just lets you change weapon attributes on the fly after fighting the Twin Princes with a dark weapon. Maybe I just went all in on pyromancies the last time I played (or just cheesed them with PC summons) because the fuckall damage a dark weapon sure stands out more. Sick fight though, forgot that the younger brother has an imitation of Elden Stars. Also it is exceedingly hilarious that the oft-memed Dragonslayer bonfire actually serves a purpose with the final Archive shortcut but they still placed it wrong for that.
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The only way to do Souls movie is to base it around a particular NPC such as Siegward or Havel.
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A buddy action comedy /heist movie about Patches & Greirat looking for the treasure horde of Lothric.
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It's like trying to make a big budget mass market introduction to the 40k universe, like where do you even begin. Every single successful 40k adaptation has been deliberately niche, forcing the customer to engage on the maker's terms, not the other way around. And people like that!
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I still think a good movie is entirely doable in the right hands. The last D&D movie was pretty solid. They made a decent movie out of Mario. Silent Hill got a lot of things right. But you guys are right that the success rate of good video game movies is quite low, for whatever reason, so I guess I've come to understand the skepticism. The thing you have to do is stay true to the source while eliminating all the things that make a video game work but don't make for interesting film making, which is not easy.
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Just make a Berserk movie that's 75% of the way there.
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The Souls series is also a deeply idiosyncratic and deliberately obtuse series about struggle and despair heavily tied to its underlying gameplay. Being able to make a breezy summer romp about the D&D license doesn't mean you could just as easily make a film about the game where you get killed by a superboss twenty times whilst you try and figure out how they tie into the mythology of the world
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Please remember that Uwe Boll is responsible for pulling that average down for video game adaptations. (A DS movie is a terrible idea regardless imo)
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Serephina posted:Please remember that Uwe Boll is responsible for pulling that average down for video game adaptations.
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