I always thought that in recent times video games based on movie franchise are showing better stories, better pacing, capturing the soul of original movies and being respectful of fans and characters. Alien isolation was a good example: it was better than Prometheus crap and his sequel.

the new Indiana Jones game (The Great Circle) could save gaming!

I definitely agree with your first point, buying Tears of the Kingdom made me feel an overwhelming sense of commitment to finishing it because of the steep $70 pricetag, but games that I got for free or for cheap have been sitting unfinished for years

Season 2 is atrocious and It's not even the lack of action and dragon battles that got me turned off this season, It's the awful brain dead writing, monotonous storytelling and character assassinations. I rewatched season 1 of GOT last week and god damn I could watch them just talking all day. There was tension and conflict. It goes to show that a multimillion dollar budget and all the cgi in the world cant replace good writing & storytelling. HOTD, season 2 specifically, is just filled with shameless cameos, marvel-esque fan service, and nonsensical plot lines that veered too far from the book. They're literally making the same mistake as D&D. Well at least D&D had the excuse of running out of source material.

Let me know down in the comments how often you actually finish a game?

I hope this new game is the first (albeit, small) step forward of everyone realizing that Harrison Ford himself isn't required in order to tell a cinematic Indy story...hopefully, eventually leading to a live-action recast. And going forward, treating the franchise similarly to James Bond (except in this case, remaining in the same time period)...and knowing the current owners (Disney), that may end up being the plan in the long run.

I’m honestly sick of the battle royale, first person shooter, and online exclusive games. These days they’re made almost strictly for streamers and competitive Esport tournaments. Everything is corporate and made with the intention of pushing cosmetics and micro transactions through online shops. There’s no heart or soul, and there certainly isn’t any passion behind most games these days. They’re almost made by an assembly line of bored developers who just want to cash their paychecks and repeat. I’m praying this Indiana Jones game is a step in the right direction. I pray the developers genuinely want to give us a solid and polished single player adventure game. The Indiana Jones franchise only really has two options, since they went all in on their promise to never recast Jones in film… those options are video games, and animation.

Indiana Jones reboot without Williams, Ford and creative genius of Lucas is bound to fail. There shouldnt be one, plain and simple

It wont. HOTD has bad writing and wokeism all over it. It wont ever touch GOT besides visuals and dragons.

It's not really divided. If you prefer the three RPG games, you're wrong, GO find another series, instead of ruining ours. The fact people act like this is a debate, is crazy. Classic AC is what EVERY game moving forward should be. Never again that RPG bullshit.

I truly can’t stand this Dial of Destiny trash-talking. Dial of Destiny is deeply misunderstood and will be reappraised favorably in time. It’s a wonderful, thoughtful film and Harrison absolutely should have done it and I’m glad that he did.

How about... and hear me out... don't make it first person...

Well, nice to know I am not a player because the loading screens don’t upset me, but then I have played other BGS games so I always understood that loading screens were gonna happen because that is how they separate the various cells. I swear all y’all complain about something that all Bethesda has done since at least OBLIVION. Also, I was never one for wandering around some boring ass map, I am there for my objectives. Also, love fast travel and the PoI indicators that my scanner reveals to me. I don’t have to be bored wondering if there is anything around to even bother with. Mostly, I love it because it is a Bethesda game that like all their games lets me have my power fantasy and shoot all the space pirates I can and want to. Wandering around is boring and dull and was never a thing I enjoyed in BGS games. Doing missions and quests though, that I love and I got plenty of that in STARFIELD and finally in a setting I love, space. I have finally got my Bethesda game and I love it, so hate all ya want, never gonna change my mind; STARFIELD is the best Bethesda game ever. I don’t need Elder Scrolls (in fact that is a genre I really dislike) nor Fallout’s hellish dystopia, I got my bright, shiny space game.

Me too I love uncharted and tomb raider I happy Thats Xbox game

the only reason i love indiana jones as much as I do today is because of the lego game, it was the only thing i could get my brother to play with me. lots for fond memories there

My fellow South African. Great video!

I dressed up for Indi at comic con and there were at least 50 of us!!!

People have no problem seeing Indiana Jones old. That should be made very clear. Dial of Destiny’s failures had nothing to do with age. All the complaints were about character assassination. Knocking down an icon to prop up a new hero

Indy has always been strong in the video game realm. Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is one of the acknowledged greatest point and click adventures ever made. I also played Emperors Tomb on my xbox til the disc didnt work anymore. The locations and level design were out of this world. And it was a true globe trotting adventure.

indiana jones and the empero's tomb was the best video games

I'm not impressed. It looks like some half-assed indie project, no pun intended. What's with the dated graphics? It looks like it came out in 2013.

A big theory I have of why it seems harder and harder to care about this franchise besides the dwindling quality and excess of content is simply that, well, they haven’t given us a reason to care about the future. They promise that everything will add up and we will get greatness with Secret Wars, but you have to consider the journey is just as important, if not more, than the destination. They have been simply green lighting as many projects as they can, not giving a crap if anything will tie into a larger narrative. Nothing feels cohesive, instead we just have so many dangling plot threads. The earlier days were great as we kept seeing characters throughout different films, watching them evolve and grow. Now, while we have a ton of characters, we haven’t seen them across multiple films in this new saga. It hasn’t really been a saga where we see heroes go on a journey spanning several filmed instead it’s been a hodgepodge of random projects. In Phase 1, Avengers tied everything together. In Phase 2, Captain America Winter soldier and Age of Ultron had our team continue on, facing new struggles. We don’t even know who the Avengers are at this point!

Indiana Jones deserves several seasons of a 2D animated series. That way you can have Harrison Ford young again with manerisms both captured and exagerated to perfection in a way that only 2D cartoon can. So many stories to tell and in any setting. There's a fan made (Patrick Schoenmaker) Indiana Jones cartoon trailer on KZfaq that does just that; and it's superb. How Disney have not picked up on this, especially considering all the junk they are pumping out at present, is insane.

I've always felt Indiana Jones could continue on one of two ways: Animated movies, especially if they decided to lean heavily into the original pulp-feel of Raiders of the Lost Ark and employed a more pulp comic aesthetic, or video games. As much as I adore Harrison Ford and he thinks he is the only one that can truly portray Indiana Jones, really it all comes down to the writing and if it feels like an Indy adventure or not with a ton of VA's out there able to replicate the tone and cadence of a younger Harrison Ford. It's clear that Disney/LucasFilms are not interested in pursuing more adventure or adult animation (Especially since Disney keeps striking out with its adventure films like Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, and now Strange World) so maybe licensing out to studios to make more Indiana Jones adventures would be the best thing going forward. Nothing is stronger than a recognizable brand with its most iconic character being the series' namesake.

Indiana Jones can never be like James Bond. I don’t know why people think that. Each Indy film is set in a specific time period. Each James Bond film is just set the year it comes out with no explanation as to how. It just is. Two completely different storytelling motifs

This would be great, BUT it's in 1st person not 3rd person. It's not as good if you can't see the fact that you are controlling Indiana Jones. The greatest Indiana Jones game was and still is Emperor's Tomb for the original Xbox.

Same thing that happened with Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is going to happen with this game, cinematics look great, graphics insane, but this is one of those games that need to be played 3rd person to really enjoy the scenery, puzzles, character interactions and all, in this type of games the character needs to interact with the environment for this to be fully enjoyed, same thing that happened with Avatar, not seeing your character interacting with the environment sort of killed the essence of the world they built since what you want to see is a big blue avatar all the time interacting with everything, not just the hands, that's why people think it was just another Far Cry game. Take this Indiana Jones game as sort of an "Uncharted similar experience", those that have played Uncharted know that it won't be the same played 1st person since you want to see Nate jumping around all the time, resolving puzzles, using the rope (that's why the camera changed to 3rd person in this game when using his whip, they want us to see Jones jumping around, why not just make it permanent?) . Game looks great, I just think it would be more enjoyable if you can see Jones all the time, not just his hands and shoes.

Seriously well made video, looking forward to more ASOIAF content!!

Sayin Origins isn’t AC is crazy

So far it's failing to do so miserably, it could have been much better but the writing is just as bad as the last seasons of GoT even tho the story isn't as complex as GoT, D&D had a more difficult job

Too soon buddy you have already jinxed yourself

The multiverse saga has been the worse

U forget to mention the Emperor's Tomb

My concern is first person view for an Indiana Jones gsme

Multiverses are such an easy way to make me not care about something. Endless possibilities, but limited creativity. This is why the restrictions we put in stories matter.

I would have preferred if 'Crystal Skull kinda era' where he was mid 60's could have transitioned into a series format rather than movie. Movies are dead short and need a lot of spectacle to compensate for their more limited scope of exposition. As Ford has gotten older he's had to become less of what made him a hit originally i.e. a bit of a Han Solo masquerading as an academic. If you're toning down on action and spectacle you need to make stuff more interesting and intelligent and for that you need time... Yeah it can be done in movie format but it's considerably harder. Games are probably honestly the best way for his legacy to continue.

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Spot on. The multiverse makes it less emotional, there are less stakes. Hoping for some good films in the future though.

Starfield is a shameful display of corporate slop! ....and phuk todd16x...phukkin charlatan

its clear that HBO set budget free for this one!

As much as I do not like she-hulk, the marvels, Secret Invasion, Cloak and Dagger I don't think this was thought through. I also have seen D&W so I have a bigger perspective, since it was a multiversal one. Spiderman creators wanted to artificially create an "end game" moment.. whaaa? ..says you, never corssed my mind that it was supposed to be grand in that way, since it was clearly a Peter moment when the words about power and responsibility actually sink in. I would call that a character moment and a damn good one at that. That is THE moment when Peter Parker becomes Spider-man, THE DEFINING Spider moment, so what are you talking about? They did not throw away the legacy movies, they did not even gave them a shoutout, they incorporated the characters and their stories into the current MCU and they did it while remaining respectful to the source material and the movies, while not showing us the same scene of uncle Ben dying for the Nth time. Where is the bad part? "Where do you go from here when you've exhausted all the possibilites.." ..again, whaaa? Wherever a LIMITLESS human imagination takes you, the simple fact that you think that all the possibilites were exhausted is a big red flag about this video. Nothing was exhausted and if you think about it just a little bit, for a little while a new world of possibilites have just been discovered. Loki is another example of a very good character arc, from a selfish God of Mischeif to the selfless God of Stories. I'd argue that Loki series is the best thing MCU cerated, a movie or a series and alongside Rocket's the best character arc in the whole MCU. Not only Loki gets a proper ending though, people have come to like Mobius, B15, O.B. just to name a few and Renslayer is established as a formidible anti-villain. Where is the bad part? WandaVision is also very good, besides a few things. Start of Wanda's mental problems after the loss of Visiona and the snap, Vision comes back as a white (yellow in the comics) one. New characters enter the scene without another boring origin story, not only Monica, I mean the boys. Wanda is established as a threat, shame they did not have the balls to keep to it, because we were so close to the House of M story, a big shame imho. Kind of like they killed World War Hulk by making it a joke, a bigger shame imho. :P Moon Knight has some real problems, mostly the tone, but it wasn't terrible, you wanna see a terrible show, watch she-hulk (I'm joking, don't!). Cloak and Dagger is not bad, just boring. There is one point I agree with 100%. The good MCU movies after the infinity saga were the ones that focused on their main or a title character(s) - Spiderman, Loki, WandaVision, Deadpool, I will include Ant-Man, even though in Quantumania Scott didn't feel as a MC, but the movie title includes "Antman and Wasp" and there are two Ant-men and Wasps and the story revolved around them and I enojeyd it for the most part. I think the problem is different, it's not that there are a lot of verses within a lore, the problem is there are over 30 movies in reality now and all of them create a part of the lore so you need to know all of them very, very well to not make major mistakes (some mistakes will happen), because one line can change a lot of things. Like the fact that Janet has a problem with sending signals to QR all of a sudden, but didn't have one when they sent Scott there before the snap, D&W established a phone line between TVA and the void, which was stupid and lazy at the same time. You cannot alter any character through other dimension, it's a different character. Nexus event creates a whole new timeline. Logan from "Logan" is dead, he will not come back. Loki from the sacred timeline is dead, the current God of Stories Loki was always a variant, a nexus being who's actions created a branch that would grow beyond the red line if not pruned, thus he was arrested by B15's team. Deadpool and Wolverine also established that one cannot change events in any timeline at will. They cannot change Logan Universe's history, it is also heavily implied that Avengers, Deadpool or Summers' time trips within a branch are lesser evils compared to the alternatives, even though they also create nexus events. Entire universes are at stake now, I'd say those are higher not just one or two planets. Every life form on every planet vanishes from existence along with a planet and space and time. In fact characters like Deadpools or Woverines need that kind of motivation, they do selfless deeds for selfish reasons. You need to know all of the above and many more to write a solid MCU screenplay at the moment. One last thing, just to be sure we are on the same page. You do realize that multiverse, Kangs, He Who Remains, multiversal wars, TVA, timelines, ouitside of time, Alioth are all canon? Marvel studios did not invent any of that. Remember in the Age of Ultron when Banner says to Stark that he feels as if he lived in a loop? Back then there was just the Sacred timeline which was a loop. Yes, it seems the idea is at least that old and the Multiverse was always a destination. This video from the very begining sounded to me like "it wasn't as good as my favourite movie so it's all bad". You claim you "wanted more grounded stories.." and yet you come back to infinity saga over and over again "I got end game levels of excitement". So which one is it? Marvel aside. They have to revive the dead characters because people do not watch the new ones. Why do you think they revived Ripley in the Alien Ressurection, because they figured people would not watch a new MC and knowing what I know now I would bet a lot of money that they were right. And 25 years later "shit, here we go again.." same shit different day. :/ A new term, the "anchor being" shows that they know the problem, I think.. I hope. It's a meta-comment that people watch movies because of certain characters (or actors), so when that character is no longer a part of a frenchise, cause of reasons, people loose intrest over time. Mr. Paradox's motives in the movie kind of reflects exactly the choice the creators of the movie had, let the old movies "die" a natural death, meaning let people forget about them, or kill those stories now (for example by pruning them, let Mr. Paradox "win") and begin anew.. it also seems that Deadpool was a pivotal one in that regard and the ending suggests they saved at least some parts of the legacy. :P

Truth, I thought I was the only person who slightly didn't give a shit about this film, lmfao! 💯

Avengers endgame gave us conclusions to most of our characters but then the next phase was the multiverse saga we got to see our characters again realizing their deaths didn't really matter since they could be replaced in the future as seen in wolverine and deadpool but as i watched wolverine and deadpool with an open mind i must say that the way they did the movie makes you care for those characters it shows that even in the multiverse saga we can have characters we care for if it's done right

I think that under very specific circumstances and with good care, the concept of a muliverse can yield a good and even thought provoking story. That said, the MCU did not even make an attempt at doing that. Instead they treat the multiverse as a device to fully dedicate their films to a pretty shallow meta winks at the audience. You are no longer expected to watch the films because of the story, to see how the lore unravels or how the characters deal with problems and grow. You are supposed to go to the cinema because Disney managed to cast this or that actor, either because it was a popular fan cast, or because he was in an old, pre-MCU superhero film (sometimes even a film everyone used to make fun of). At this point, MCU movies feel more like a reality show played at the level of casting agents than an actual narrative. We are pretty lucky the Infinity saga turned out as good as it did.

Who is "we"? You are beyond wrong and the MCU is not meaningless. Many people, including me, still care

Could you make a video about in which order to read all the books including the novellas and illustrated books?

This show is boring for the most part, there aren't really any well developed characters, and everyone basically sucks... So for the title of this video... imma say no...