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    Psychonauts 3

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    I've yet to finish "Psycho XX". Shame on me for getting distracted sometime in the middle.

    EDIT: maybe add "rumor/speculation" or something to the title to avoid disappointed thread viewers 😉

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    The Mojole Results Thread

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    Posted

    👕 I beat #MojoleXtreme #431 and all I got was this stupid t-shirt. 5/6
    🖤🖤🖤🖤💚💚
    💛💛🖤💛💚💚
    🖤🖤💛💛💚💚
    🖤🖤💛🖤🖤🖤
    💚💚💚💚💚💚
    https://funzone.mixnmojo.com/Mojole/

     

    The game itself abbreviates it's title right in the openong with the second largest letters I've ever seen!



     

    Whenever somebody says "💚💚💚💚💚💚"... the monkeys are listening.

    Indiana Jones 5

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    2 hours ago, LuigiHann said:

    your human experience playing the game is a substantial part of the story

     

    This is a big part of what I meant with my post.

     

    Some experiences can best be conveyed by telling a story to somebody. If you have this kind of experience, write a book or make a movie.

     

    But others have so much more impact if you get a player invested by their own actions, and then feel something that you couldn't feel in that intensity by just watching, listening or reading "someone else" do it.

     

    Return to Monkey Island has impact not because we were told a good story but because we lived one, and helped shape it.

     

    These experiences were made with that interactive element in mind. To just remove it without replacement and call out the "story" for being bad is like just removing the meat from a dish and conclude that vegan food sucks, or eating the meat by itself and say it's nothing special.

     

    Therefore, when adapting a game like Fate of Atlantis as a movie, one would of course have to make changes, while keeping the best (of the straight forwardly adaptable) parts.

     

    The beginning is already quite memorable, in particular the scene with Kerner.

     

    The idea that Sophia is involved and Indy at first seeks her out to warn her and drags her into the adventure that way would work too.

     

    For a movie, the Sophia path would probably work best as a baseline, and maybe it could have been done in a way that Indy, Sophia and maybe Marcus each track down some pieces of the puzzle, to avoid too much travelling.

     

    I'd mostly stick to the premise (Atlantis, the lost dialog, Orichalcum powered machinery), build on the Indy/Sophia dynamic and use the locations from the game.

     

    The rest would be up to change in any way that works for a movie, including adding beats where they may fit.

    Indiana Jones 5

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I will make a completely unrelated post to certain posts in this thread, and say that I think that most stories are nothing special when taken in isolation.

     

    Video game stories often compare unfavorably to movie stories, because they're compared on the grounds of the latter. Will a shark or a lion win in a fight? Depends if it's on sea or land.

     

    Just like movies adapted from games often suck, games adapted from movies often do too.

     

    I would love to discuss this more, in particular related to Lucas* games, but maybe not at the expense of this Indiana Jones 5 thread.

    Indiana Jones 5

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    Posted

    7 hours ago, Huz said:


    Audience vote. Most popular branch gets played in the cinema at each showing. Guaranteed repeat business, with at least some customers rewatching the same film multiple times against their will. A flawless business idea with no downsides - I'm taking this to Dragon's Den.

     

    A delightfully devilish business idea!

     

    Indiana Jones and the Dragon's Den actually sounds like a fun movie itself.

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    Indiana Jones 5

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Just now, Vainamoinen said:

    One day we'll make a "Describe the story of a LucasArts game in five sentences so that newbies would never ever touch the game" thread. I think I'd make a pretty great TSoMI entry.

     

    Go ahead! :D

    Also, I should probably replay Fate Of Atlantis some time. It definitely shines as a game. For a movie, it would have to be adapted differently, I'm sure. However, if they could somehow make THREE movies about the action, puzzle and Sophia paths... 🤔🤔🤔

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