If you need some form of watchable media TV series would probably be the way to go tbh. Don't feel it needs it though.
Would Mass Effect be better as a TV series rather than a movie?
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#52
Posté 31 mai 2013 - 09:39
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Mass Effect Fan + BetamaXBox = OTPRavensword wrote...
BetamaXBox TV for LI in ME TV series.bobobo878 wrote...
Hell yeah it would, especially if I'm watching it on the Xbox One. After all, for the first time, my TV and I are going to have a relationship.
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Posté 31 mai 2013 - 09:42
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bobobo878 wrote...
Mass Effect Fan + BetamaXBox = OTPRavensword wrote...
BetamaXBox TV for LI in ME TV series.bobobo878 wrote...
Hell yeah it would, especially if I'm watching it on the Xbox One. After all, for the first time, my TV and I are going to have a relationship.
Like Shepard and Morinth.
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Posté 31 mai 2013 - 11:40
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SpamBot2000 wrote...
ZacTB wrote...
I really don't understand how people want the Mass Effect movie/tv show to be about Shepard. It makes no sense. His story has already been told through the three games and the movie or tv show will not do it justice at all. It would make more sense to tell a different story in the Mass Effect universe. It would leave it more open for the producers to create their own story and it would work much better. Hasn't it been said many times that they are done with Shepard's story anyway? Why would people want them to have a Shepard that may not make the same decisions, have the same romances, etc... as we did? It makes no sense to me.
It's not "the people" who decided the ME movie was going to be about Shepard. It was the producers.
And it makes no sense to me either.
Well, to the extent that Mass Effect is a known quantity in pop culture, its brand is probably identified with the story of Commander Shepard fighting the Reapers. In terms of marketability, they'd likely want to include Shepard. A "spinoff" story about the First Contact War, or the Skyllian Blitz, or the discovery of the relays, or anything else of the sort might be tougher to sell to casual ME fans and to people who have heard about ME but have never played it.
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#55
Posté 01 juin 2013 - 04:20
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Shepard's story could work great as a TV show, especially if they got some competent writers that could make a coherent overarching myth arc from the games' narratives.
But movie or TV, I don't see why it has to be Shepard's story. Why not another story set in the MEverse? There's so much potential.
I'd be down for a TV show/movie completely retconning TIM's nonsensical origin and giving him a backstory worthy of the (pre-ME3) character.
But movie or TV, I don't see why it has to be Shepard's story. Why not another story set in the MEverse? There's so much potential.
I'd be down for a TV show/movie completely retconning TIM's nonsensical origin and giving him a backstory worthy of the (pre-ME3) character.
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Posté 03 juin 2013 - 10:49
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Because what this show really needs is to focus tightly on a megalomaniacal racist.grey_wind wrote...
I'd be down for a TV show/movie completely retconning TIM's nonsensical origin and giving him a backstory worthy of the (pre-ME3) character.
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Posté 03 juin 2013 - 12:41
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Assuming you really want ME turned into other media, it depends.
ME could totally work as a TV series, many of the missions or mission clusters are long enough to fit into an hour or two-hour long episode. This style would work quite well for ME2 due to the scattered nature of its missions. ME1 could be a standalone movie though it might be a bit long, simply because it was written as a standalone story that could be either continued or discontinued.
ME3 could work as a series, or it could be split into a trilogy of films - it would still work better as a series though.
In short:
ME1 can be either a movie or a series
ME2 only works as a series
ME3 could be a trilogy of movies but would work better as a series
ME could totally work as a TV series, many of the missions or mission clusters are long enough to fit into an hour or two-hour long episode. This style would work quite well for ME2 due to the scattered nature of its missions. ME1 could be a standalone movie though it might be a bit long, simply because it was written as a standalone story that could be either continued or discontinued.
ME3 could work as a series, or it could be split into a trilogy of films - it would still work better as a series though.
In short:
ME1 can be either a movie or a series
ME2 only works as a series
ME3 could be a trilogy of movies but would work better as a series
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Posté 04 juin 2013 - 05:11
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I hate when a single story with a beginning, middle and ending is split into three films, just to have more films. None of the Mass Effect stories has enough actual story in it to require three whole films, and 6-9 hours is a lot to expect people to sit through to get to the end of an action film.
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Posté 04 juin 2013 - 12:54
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It's already way too close to Babylon 5
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Posté 04 juin 2013 - 03:43
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I think episodic content would work wonderfully, both as video content and game content. Episodic gaming (going forward) helps everyone avoid the whole ending debacle. Lets the writers "test the waters" so to speak, before committing to a story. We see this all the time in TV shows. Writers will test out little arcs, and if the viewers dont like it, they back track.
A ME tv series wouldn't have to worry about testing storylines, but you could carry out character "missions", much like the loyalty missions. Only difference is, the rest of the world calls it "character development" not "loyalty missions". But for our purposes, they are nearly the same thing. Because, as everyone has stated, ME is about the characters as much (if not more) than the story.
A ME tv series wouldn't have to worry about testing storylines, but you could carry out character "missions", much like the loyalty missions. Only difference is, the rest of the world calls it "character development" not "loyalty missions". But for our purposes, they are nearly the same thing. Because, as everyone has stated, ME is about the characters as much (if not more) than the story.
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Posté 04 juin 2013 - 03:57
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Sure, it's already got an ending like a long-running tv series
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
The Sopranos
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
The Sopranos
#62
Posté 04 juin 2013 - 05:08
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So who else thinks that a 30 minute, 52 and over episode formula would work better than a 1 hour, 10 to 12 episodes segments?
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Posté 05 juin 2013 - 12:17
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Only if it's written as a Saturday morning cartoon.Darth Brotarian wrote...
So who else thinks that a 30 minute, 52 and over episode formula would work better than a 1 hour, 10 to 12 episodes segments?
I'm not entirely joking there, there was a cartoon for Starship Troopers:
http://en.wikipedia....pers_Chronicles
Pretty good, I thought.
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Posté 05 juin 2013 - 12:26
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I think six seasons of hour-long Mass Effect episodes---on HBO or Showtime---would be just right, if they were going to adapt the story lock, stock and barrel.
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Posté 05 juin 2013 - 02:30
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I feel like an online webcast would be cool. I'm not a huge fan of live action series like forward unto Dawn, which was horrible. It'd have to be really well executed
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Posté 05 juin 2013 - 02:31
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I think it'd be better to not have it revolve around shepard, but rather his teammates
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Posté 05 juin 2013 - 02:36
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@iakus thats an insult to Lost. Its ending was 100 times be5tter than ME3 (although I wish they made an EC for Lost to explain it more)
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Posté 05 juin 2013 - 02:36
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All I know is Channing Tatum needs to play Shepard, Kanye needs to play Jacob, Angelina Jolie needs to play Miranda, Seth Rogan needs to play Joker and Rihanna needs to play Liara.
#69
Posté 05 juin 2013 - 02:42
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CSI- Citadel... You know you want it.
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Posté 06 juin 2013 - 01:28
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I agree that Mass Effect would make a better TV than movie, and given the way TV is heading, with scripts, effects and actors to rival the glamour movies use to have I don't think you would lose quality.
That said I probably wouldn't watch either. Unless Shepard is a dark hair white female (preferably played by Cobie Smulders *i can dream
*) then its just going to feel wrong.
That said I probably wouldn't watch either. Unless Shepard is a dark hair white female (preferably played by Cobie Smulders *i can dream
*) then its just going to feel wrong.
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Posté 06 juin 2013 - 01:43
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This could work. Do it Game of Thrones style: put it on HBO or Stars or whatever, throw gobs of money at it because, lets face it, any adaptation is going to require tons of visual effects. Get good producers and directors, who care about the quality of their product and won't just throw stuff at the wall hoping it sticks. The actors have to be very good in order to live up to the expectations. And, the developers need to be involved, adaptations work best when the creator/s have some say in the final product, or are at least involved in some way or an another. This would, honestly, sit better with me than a movie, because as so many people have said, you just can't fit everything from the game into a movie, without chopping it up into something unrecognizable. And, the caliber of director you would need for such a film, just doesn't normally work on video game adaptations, sadly there is too much ill will created by all the horrible films Hollywood has concocted based on popular games.
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Posté 06 juin 2013 - 01:51
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I'd love a Mass Effect TV series. Not with Shepard but with new characters and stories.
However, in order to be good, the show would need a hell of a budged, probably on par with series like Battlestar Galactica. I wouldn't want a show that can't afford to really look great because of money constraints. So, since it would be a spin off for video game, I doubt we'd ever see something worthwhile.
However, in order to be good, the show would need a hell of a budged, probably on par with series like Battlestar Galactica. I wouldn't want a show that can't afford to really look great because of money constraints. So, since it would be a spin off for video game, I doubt we'd ever see something worthwhile.
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Posté 06 juin 2013 - 04:19
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Megaton_Hope wrote...
Because what this show really needs is to focus tightly on a megalomaniacal racist.grey_wind wrote...
I'd be down for a TV show/movie completely retconning TIM's nonsensical origin and giving him a backstory worthy of the (pre-ME3) character.
Yes. Certainly much better than the generic space marine default Sheploo is (because let's face it: if they're gonna focus on Shepard they're going to do the default maleshep who would be the paragon of virtues.. which would not be very interesting to watch not atleast for me.)
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