https://xcancel.com/dexerto/status/1825985438017802688
Remains to be seen if its any good of course but I’m into them trying.
https://xcancel.com/dexerto/status/1825985438017802688
Remains to be seen if its any good of course but I’m into them trying.
That helps. A lot. I am very sick of franchise blender smoothies that are basically corporate acquisition flexes. “Metaversus” was horrid to me.
I may take a peek at some point, with guarded interest.
Yeah as far as I can tell its just an anthology of a bunch of one off episodes for each game.
I actually do not mind Multiversus at all lol but I totally understand why people do.
I agree but have two exceptions to this, Nintendo and Disney.
If Disney and Nintendo weren’t both such utterly ruthless IP hounds that have ruined the lives of ordinary people that did very little ultimately wrong, over and over, I’d be more in the mood to gobble up whatever crossover slop they’re offering next. I mean I used to enjoy Smash Bros quite a lot, and Kingdom Hearts was fun until the cumulative story soup flooded me out of the room.
Like I’ve been into crossovers since WAY before they became saturated. Like I came up with an “Omniverse” comic book universe with just… everything fictional in it when i was in like early highschool. And ive used the same basic concept for wrestling companies (multiple), dueling companies along the line of wrestling but with actual fights that are to the death, jrpgs, fighting games, ect. Ive always been into the idea.
The only thing about Multiversus that sucks for me is that its based on what company owns the IP.
It’s also loaded with predatory monetization, and many of the IPs in it are cynically and terribly misrepresented (the Iron Giant especially comes to mind), and in many, many cases the corporation that owns all of that won’t likely ever use the less-mainline characters or IPs in any other way except more crossover flexing.
Right yeah meant to mention the monetization.
I’m ngl though I must have some sort of disconnect in my brain because Iron Giant is a very emotionally important movie to me and I totally get the idea of how its bad to put him in a fightin game, but I dont mind seeing him in a fighting game? Just one of those random autismdragon disconnects where I dont get whats upsetting people (there are a few too many of those and I am broken).
Sterling summarized a lot of the bad feelings I felt about the whole “Multiversus” thing probably better than I could, some time ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ITWExeJguk
Yeah I saw. I was half responding to their thoughts with what I said. I totally get and technically agree that its bad for corporate reasons I just dont emotionally connect.
I understand that.
This video is a follow-up that might shed more light on how many of the rest of us feel about it, in particular the simultaneous watering down of horror characters and concepts to render the horror of them sort of meaningless and the utter cash-in cynicism of a related crossover: the Space Jam sequel, that even featured the Droogs from Clockwork Orange as a wink wink nudge nudge gag within an ostensibly all-ages children’s cartoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2s5_I4i3hw
Yeah I saw this one too (I watch most of their videos) and the only thing I could really connect with was the Droogs part because the tonedeafness of that seems obvious.
It really is a matter of subjective experience and emotional connection (or lack thereof) to the characters and settings. I suppose you already know well enough why others that are tired of (or didn’t like in the first place) crossover products, while for you you already made a different connection that sparks joy for you: that you had crossovers of your own already in mind, which I can only assume reached for forests over the individual trees so it didn’t matter as much if specific characters seemed “off” as long as it worked for you to see them clash.
As a former enjoyer of both Smash Bros and Kingdom Hearts and even Super Robot Wars, I used to like crossover stuff but I burned out especially as the corporations got bigger and more bloated and devoured more and more of what were once unique entities, many of them not likely to ever be seen again except as crossover IP flexes by the ever-larger holding corporations. That’s my take, and I’m not alone in it, I think.
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It’s a matter of subjective experience. Your experience is yours, and mine is mine. To me, seeing the character being (mis)used like that all to make a buck and go against everything he was and what he resolved to be in the one movie where I got to know him, well… it was bleak for me. It drained some of the joy and tenderness I felt about the experience, even after the fact.
It’d be like if Artex from the Neverending Story was suddenly doing Fortnite dances while still halfway sunk in the Swamp of Sadness as part of a marketing stunt for Atreyu to start peddling NFTs.