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Remember, that show made by the Always Sunny guys starring Rob McElhenney and Aloy/Chloe Price and Abed from Community that was announced by Ubisoft at E3 last year about the game company that's basically developing World of Warcraft

The full first season has been up on Apple TV (which, yeah, fuck that, but still) and I'm curious if anyone has thoughts on it

watched the first season and I've got kinda mixed feelings, like I think there's a lot of potential but it's not really there yet. Some of the cast is a lot stronger than others. Episodes feel less independent and more story-driven than Always Sunny, but at the same time it doesn't feel like the story really goes anywhere?

I definitely got quite a few laughs and there was one episode in particular I really dug. Curious where the show ends up going

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me

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https://challonge.com/b8bnc2010s

-1 vote per match per user
-Each match will last approx. 24 hours (or until whenever I can update)
-Ties will be broken by rematches the next day

Wheatley/Deadpool (17-12)

Rapunzel (Tangled)
https://imgur.com/Jjpw1ce

Sandor "The Hound" Clegane (Game of Thrones)
https://imgur.com/l8eFEGq

Quick Vote:
Rapunzel/Hound

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Despite only making it to the semi-finals in the Best New Character of 2011 contest, Wheatley has now directly beaten two winners and one runner-up (Deadpool, Edelgard, Cave Johnson) and has by proxy beaten another winner and runner-up (Imperator Furiosa, Lyanna Mormont), securing a spot in the semi-finals for the 2nd time.

In 2011, he lost in overtime in the semi-finals against Louise Belcher, who went on to also beat Cave Johnson for the title, whereas in this contest, Louise was the only previous winner to lose in the very first round.

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No update tonight

Results:
Wheatley/Deadpool (17-12)

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Mewtwo59 posted...

Mike is new, it's just that he technically debuted in 2009.

That one was a tricky situation back when the 2010 contest was running. He appears in 2009 but as a brief nameless cameo and wasn't officially introduced as a character until 2010

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Deadpool

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Your elite eight!

Deadpool (Deadpool)
Ellie (The Last of Us)
Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad)
Rapunzel (Tangled)
Sandor "The Hound" Clegane (Game of Thrones)
Spider-Gwen (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
Wheatley (Portal 2)

Of these eight, only three are winners of their respective years.


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https://challonge.com/b8bnc2010s

-1 vote per match per user
-Each match will last approx. 24 hours (or until whenever I can update)
-Ties will be broken by rematches the next day

Tyrion/Panther (14-8)
Mae/Gwen (10-9)

Wheatley (Portal 2)
https://imgur.com/nkddpLD

Deadpool (Deadpool)
https://imgur.com/WFstyHK

Quick Vote:
Wheatley/Deadpool


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Tyrion
Mae

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MetalmindStats posted...

@Johnbobb Mae's YouTube link is missing the https://www. part, and so GameFAQs doesn't register it as media to display.

Nice catch, should be fixed now

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https://challonge.com/b8bnc2010s

-1 vote per match per user
-Each match will last approx. 24 hours (or until whenever I can update)
-Ties will be broken by rematches the next day

Mike/Tywin (16-6)
Miles/Ellie (11-10)
Hound/Arya (10-9) [19-18]

Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baDBgSJpI6o

T'Challa/Black Panther (MCU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKeuNcHY9c

Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS6uh00n08A

Spider-Gwen (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bhxFN2e6ns

Quick Vote:
Tyrion/Panther
Mae/Gwen

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Don't get my hopes up like that

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Lopen posted...

I would say VNs (of which AA is one) hardly even count as a game for the purposes of the difficulties faced in converting the medium

I'd argue there are definitely exceptions to that though.

In particular Doki Doki Literature Club would be extremely difficult to make into a proper movie.

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up

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Mike (what a great matchup)
Ellie
Arya

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Bump

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https://challonge.com/b8bnc2010s

-1 vote per match per user
-Each match will last approx. 24 hours (or until whenever I can update)
-Ties will be broken by rematches the next day

Ralph/Rapunzel (15-9)
Hound/Arya (9-9) [TB]

Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS6kAKj8R9o

Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk5hKomP4MA

Miles Morales (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-euUGPQZoHw

Ellie (The Last of Us)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87pgeRTh-Hs

TIEBREAKER:
Sandor "The Hound" Clegane (Game of Thrones) vs. Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)

Quick vote:
Mike/Tywin
Miles/Ellie
Hound/Arya


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tbh I haven't played the game but I also feel like many Pokemon fans haven't

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Lopen posted...

So like Detective Pikachu basically does this, but it does so in a way that is palatable to the Pokemon fanbase-- but it's a very difficult thing to do in general I think. You have to write something that's not only high quality but also captures the feel of the original while not actually being the original-- otherwise, as Leon said it's easier to just make a completely fresh movie at that point because you've got a net negative by working with the IP.

I think what makes Detective Pikachu work so well is that even that it completely changes things like story, tone, and literally having Pikachu talk and make jokes, it really captures the feeling of living in a world with Pokemon. That was my favorite thing about it, and the favorite aspect for a lot of others. The setting and world building was dead on.

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scarletspeed7 posted...

I could have sworn there was a Tekken movie. But I honestly can't remember if I've seen one.

there were two actually but they were bad and flew super under the radar, with Katsuhiro Harada specifically saying they didn't attempt to involve him at all and that it was a terrible movie

I think it still COULD be an excellent movie if they really made the effort though

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HEY YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE FUN HOW ABOUT A TEKKEN MOVIE THAT'S ACTUALLY GOOD

so much interesting lore potential there

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Cavedweller2000 posted...

I also like how Ratchet and Clank is 'one character'

they did the same thing with Jak and Daxter in the vote-in round

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meanwhile movies like Rampage 100% needed to take liberties to even be a feasible movie

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Honestly I thought the main issue with Tomb Raider was the liberties they took. The casting was perfect, but spending too much time building unnecessary backstory and not enough time adventuring on the island was what ultimately held it back

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up?

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oh shit I forgot about that

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no promises either way but I had fun running the snubs contest for the last Best Character contest and I'm curious to if there's interest

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in hindsight, it is weird that it doesn't provide pictures or sources for any of the characters, especially characters with just basic first names like Ryu or Ellie who could theoretically be referring to multiple characters

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Arthur Morgan is the protagonist of Red Dead Redemption II

edit: goddamnit

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine gets points for the game based on the movie being better than the movie was

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Eh, I almost never remember my dreams. Only a couple times a year and even then, the memories are usually vague.

When I do remember them they're either 1. random nonsense or 2. me pining after some mysterious dreamgirl

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couldn't find art of Ralph and Rapunzel together so went with the next best thing

meanwhile the amount of Hound/Arya art is overwhelming

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I lierally had just googled "golden age of comics" and used what it said for a quick reference

and like 3 years ago, saying video game movies would be critically successful would be a drastically unpopular opinion, given that until 2018, the best reviewed video game movie of all time was Prince of Persia with a 37% on RT. There's plenty of reason to argue against vg movies being "the new superhero movies" at any point

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The upcoming Last of Us series on HBO definitely seems promising

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man just let me have my fun

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Give me a blockbuster God of War trilogy starring Jason Mamoa with a Marvel budget

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Ralph
Arya

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According to Wikipedia there's an upcoming movie based on Just Dance!

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MZero11 posted...

What?

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Hear me out

So let's look at how comic book movies ended up developing

The golden age of comics was around the late 40s, I'll just round to 1950.

It took ~40 years until the 1990s for comic book movies to really be a thing, and the ones that existed weren't really taken all that seriously. It took until the 2000s for comic book movies to really show a real effort and payoff, with franchises like Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Nolan Batman trilogy. It took until the 2010s for the MCU to show up and make comic book movies the biggest trend in blockbuster filmmaking of the decade.

Ok, so let's look at games by comparison. Golden age for games was probably around 1980? So while there were a few vg movies in the 90s, it was the 2000s when they really started showing up regularly despite generally not being great, so we can compare that to the 90s for comic movies. That puts the progression for vg movies about twice as fast as comic movies.

That's where it gets tougher though, because they've been around for ~20 years without really improving in quality until just recently, where movies like Rampage, Tomb Raider, Pokemon: Detective Pikachu and Sonic the Hedgehog (while all pretty flawed) have started to pull out of the "pure garbage" territory that many vg movies end up.

I feel like what comic movies had in the 2000s, vg movies will have in the 2020s. One movie will come along here soon as the "X-Men" of vg movies, which is considered both critically AND commericially successful, with many others quickly following suit.

By the time 2030 hits, we'll have had a few successful series. Pokemon and Sonic seem like decent possibilities for this, assuming they continue to build off the first (I mean, X-Men, Spider-Man and Nolan Batman all really had their best entries as their 2nd movie). The 2030s will see the emergence of the MCU of vg game movies; both the quantity AND quality of the films will rise significantly, with shitty vg movies being the exception rather than the norm. They'll consistently become the most profitable movies each year, and directors like Christopher Nolan and David Fincher will come out saying how they're not real films.

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Janus5k posted...

that second match is too good

I'm so happy it ended up working out that way

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Bonus vids:
Ralph and Rapunzel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDGNmqa8hO8

Arya and The Hound
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrC5pck78kM

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https://challonge.com/b8bnc2010s

-1 vote per match per user
-Each match will last approx. 24 hours (or until whenever I can update)
-Ties will be broken by rematches the next day

Edelgard/Wheatley (14-9)
Furiosa/Deadpool (12-8)

Ralph (Wreck-It Ralph)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxeR95aYer0

Rapunzel (Tangled)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz6yTajsYwY

Sandor "The Hound" Clegane (Game of Thrones)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2P2ByOtOOs

Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4US9QGU2yQI

Quick Vote:
Ralph/Rapunzel
Hound/Arya


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I mean I think we'd all much rather he keep that shit there where the board doesn't need to see it

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Wheatley
Deadpool (though I love both)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM8MAeKdkP4

voiced by Keith David!

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Your Sweet 16:
Arya Stark (Game of Thrones)
Black Panther (MCU)
Deadpool (Deadpool)
Edelgard (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
Ellie (The Last of Us)
Imperator Furiosa (Mad Max: Fury Road)
Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods)
Mike Ehrmantraut (Breaking Bad)
Miles Morales (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
Ralph (Wreck-It Ralph)
Rapunzel (Tangled)
Sandor "The Hound" Clegane (Game of Thrones)
Spider-Gwen (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse)
Tyrion Lannister (Game of Thrones)
Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones)
Wheatley (Portal 2)

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