This is quite surprising to me as Kamiya co-founded Platinum Games, and I always considered it to be largely under his influence creatively.
I have no idea why he would leave the studio that was already largely under his control. Based on the quote at the end:
I have a sneaking suspicion he'll pop up soon somewhere else, perhaps funded by a Chinese company.
I have to wonder if he wanted to sell Platinum Games to Tencent some time back when they were having financial troubles but he wasn't allowed to, so he left on his own to have more financial stability for his games.
Platinum Games has a problem of putting out solid games but rarely owning the IP themselves, so by leaving Platinum, I guess Kamiya is really only leaving Wonderful 101 behind (IP wise), and I'm not sure how likely he was to revisit that anyways. (Though Platinum did jump through a few hoops to secure the rights to it, so who knows?)
This move is quite perplexing to me, honestly.
I think that would still be considered a reboot as well (see the iCarly reboot or the new Frasier reboot as examples of reboots that follow the cast some number of years down the line).
I would personally prefer a fresh cast over a continuation, though. With any continuation there are going to be missing cast members who's absence is felt, which would not be the case with a fresh cast. Additionally a fresh cast gives you room to have a new plot from scratch instead of being constrained to an old show where you have ~10 years of established lore that you need to be careful not to contradict or retread.
Hopefully the show holds up either way, though, as I know there are fans of the original who would be quite disappointed if the quality was poor.
It seems like Twitter is really trying to find a value-add for Twitter Blue, but I can't see this enticing anyone.
What is the overlap between people you met on Twitter that you want to have a video call with that you don't trust with your phone number/ other contact information?
This feels especially value-less when you remember you would only be able to call people who are also Twitter Blue subscribers (approximately 1 in 550).
I agree, but I suspect this is mostly being pushed through because Comcast needs more "Peacock exclusives" or something, not because they believe in it.
Having said that; that doesn't mean it won't turn out to be a good show against the odds. The fact that it sounds like a mostly new cast is certainly a good sign (to me).
The article mentioned it ended in 2013, so that's about 10 years ago; but I don't think studios reboot franchises because there's a new story to tell in the modern era, I think it's because studios sense there's money left to be milked from the series.
With Greg Daniels attached, I hope it's not just a blatant cash grab, but it's hard to far l say, this early on.
In a nutshell: No WGA member (which often included show runners) could be on site for filming or make script adjustments. This means that frequently actors need to do their own rewrites which are often of questionable quality, and they don't like to do (since it's essentially being a scab). I think producers can also do rewrites, but I'm not sure they'd be much better at it.
One of the primary reasons Quantum of Solace was such a rough movie is Daniel Craig was doing rewrites himself in the evenings since it was filmed during the strike.
The obvious solution would be to do everything in their power to follow the script to the letter but oftentimes it can't be avoided. Some lines might not land the way they read on paper, and some sets cannot accommodate action the way it was initially scripted. All of these would require script rework.
This is why even completed scripts can still be a concern for the WGA.
I'm glad the WGA got an agreement they're happy with. This beats the deadline mentioned a few months ago about having to scrap the 2023-24 season (October 1).
I'm also glad there seem to be protections about AI in the writers' rooms, since that was what I assumed the studios were fighting to hard to have their way on.
Over all, I'm hoping this momentum will carry forward into SAG getting a favorable agreement as well.
That reminds me of when the GTA remaster collection came out and Rockstar had to delist the original (and I think they might have started C&D'ing some of the mod developers too).
At the end of the day, a direct port (or a cheap AI upscale in GTA's case) does not have a lot of value add. This is especially the case when classic consoles (and the Nintendo Switch) can be emulated at an even higher resolution than native.
I understand why developers don't want to actually remaster the game (or remake it, if they want to get really intense). It's a lot more resource intensive, and it's not a good guarantee of return on investment. Plus, most people who would buy a remaster would probably buy a straight port, too; so there's really no financial incentive.
But having said all that, I simply don't have much interest in playing direct ports. As far as I can tell, they're really only useful if you don't feel like doing the requisite tinkering to get an emulator working; but as you said, you'd probably still have better results on the emulator if you're willing to put in the work.
I was able to track down the article (Garbage Day URL, Archive.today URL).
The portion I was referring to was:
Most major subreddits show a decrease of between 50 and 90 percent in average daily posts and comments, when compared to a year ago. This suggests the problem is way fewer users, not the same number of users browsing less. The huge and universal dropoff also suggests that people left, either because of the changes or the protests, and they aren’t coming back.
Personally I was not contributing much there; but I suspect the users they offended most were the power users, which is where most of the content comes from.
The Reddit blackout had more of an effect than it appears. I saw an article a couple of weeks ago that showed commenting and posting was down ~50% since the blackouts; and I can safely say I haven't gone back to Reddit since, and I'm sure others have made similar choices as well.
People can have trouble "voting with their wallets," but I genuinely believe it is possible and does have an effect. Hopefully people do not forget the choices Unity has made here; but even if they do, Godot has already gotten a significant boost from this catastrophe.
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