Bandai Namco and A24 announce live action Elden Ring movie

For a long time now, the phrase "live action adaptation" for any video game has felt gross and exploitative to me. It's like announcing that there's a porn parody of your game.

I see the vision

waiter waiter milk this "intellectual property" for even more profit please

just go read berserk instead

Some people don't care to see SA and loli bait on every other page.
- That's completely fair. I just want to point out that SA is often treated as a life destroying event in the story. Both Guts and Casca suffer heavily because of that, and when they enter Casca's mind it is shown through representations as the mind destroying thing that it is. Still, the amount of SA depicted in the story is completely unnecessary.
  The loli bait thing I legit don't remember, and that was not my impression reading the story. I can comment on Schierke which is a kid and as far as I remember is never, ever, sexualized. At most she develops some kind of crush on Guts that she thinks about sometimes, but that's it.
- I love the golden age arc, but even I was glad they cut the whole wy*ad thing from the 1997 anime. Good god can you ruin the story elements with fetishes displayed clear as day.
- If I remember correctly in the arc with the fairy apostle she is drawn completely naked

You'll need to read the back of the ticket and the inside of the promotional popcorn bucket to get the full story for this one

After how bad Civil War was I don't know how to feel about this

Didn't he also do Warfare right after? Getting those sweet, sweet MIC bucks must be nice. Maybe moving away from military slop will get him back on track though.
Bad
It's bad

featuring chris pratt as the dire shit-slurper

The film creatives will try put their own spin on it because ego and it will be trash

- also, the movie will establish the big sword build as the canon Elden Ring build.
  It has to be Dual UGS. You want your action scenes to be readable? Fuck you, here's the protagonist flailing about with two hunks of metal as big as he is.
- True there is an element of adaptation but these adaptations usually go out of their way to incorporate their new elements. It's kind of like staking their ground while not realizing the source material is popular for a reason. I think the Witcher tv show is a great example of this where little to no remixing was necessary but they did it anyway.
- I don’t really say what could be improved on it. It looks fantastic and live action would just diminish the art direction.

why

I don’t understand either its a relatively fresh game and not THAT big of a phenomenon

Does the game even have like...a story? Or is a fromsoft game and the story is told in item descriptions or whatever?

Without touching any item descriptions and only worrying about the main story in the base game, you get:
The intro cutscene which explains the overview of the setting and how it got to be like it currently is
Dialogue with characters like Miriel and Gideon, who are very knowledgeable about the world
Melina, who helps you level up when you rest, tells you a relevant story when you reach many different locations
Quite a lot of dialogue from Margit, one of the main bosses who you fight several times and who gets a couple of cutscenes, tells you about what's going on
Basically every NPC in the Roundtable Hold has some kind of significant involvement with either a possible ending or a major faction and can tell you about it if you progress through their story
The finger reader crones give you prophecies
Ranni, Blaidd, and Iji will all tell you a lot of stuff that turns out to be highly relevant to the main story if you help them
Jerren tells you about Radahn and Malenia, two of the main players in how the setting got to be like it currently is and also significant factors in why it is still that way, before you fight Radahn
Like, it's still a story told with very little direct storytelling compared to its peers, and there is still a lot of info in item descriptions. You don't need the item descriptions though, you just need to be ready to piece things together from what disparate people with strong personal biases tell you and what you see
- Sounds like it would make fir a bad movie
Yeah it does. There are NPCs that do tell you about the world and your place in it but it's still pretty weird.
The base game has a narrative but it's extremely weak, and most of the important things happened a long time in the past, as with other Souls games. Shadows of the Erdtree, the DLC, is noteworthy for actually having a plot where things happen.
- Shadows of the Erdtree, the DLC, is noteworthy for actually having a plot where things happen.
  Even then I'd say it's still a pretty weak plot, and the delivery is awkwardly struggling against their usual style. Which is still an improvement Elden Ring desperately needed, and understandable when I have no doubt the direct writing style has suffered some atrophy.
  Huh, saying that has actually made me a bit more optimistic for this adaptation, since they do show a consistent desire to improve and experiment. Not for the adaptation itself, but it might be a good learning experience if there's a lot of back-and-forth with A24?
- If the director has a great sense of humor and a horror background, just make Hornsent the protagonist. Also Jar People please.
  Most slop isn't made for my taste, so I'm honestly looking forward to it.
Ngl that would be fun metacinema
It’s basically dark souls but written by GRRM
- So it's got like 20% good ideas, 20% shitty ones, 10% food descriptions, and the remaining 50 is just openly ripping off Lovecraft and calling it homage?
Well you answered your own question. It has a story, told in item descriptions

oh shit i already blocked fakenews

Hey nothing ever happens gang wy@???

I've never played a FromSoftware game in my life. I just want to see how /c/fakenews responds to this announcement.

Are they gonna make 75% of the characters bizarrely taller than the remaining human sized people or is the movie bullshit?

Fromslop games are about the struggle of short people in a tall man's world

Probably will be hot garbage but I really hope it’s not a Videogame Movie™️. Like don’t show me Timmothy Chevrolet going “wuh oh guys! I’m out of flasks!” I would also love if the movie had nothing to do with Miquella or the shattering but instead of being a potentially interesting spin off or side story it will almost certainly be a clumsy retelling of the most important historical bits in the game. Or… oh god it could be a story of the player playing the game

Or… oh god it could be a story of the player playing the game
actually would be excited to see this film ONLY if they copy-pasted the plot from Minecraft movie. and if they cast Jack Black n mamoa attempting co-op i'd buy the directors cut dvd or whatever lol
- To each their own, but I’m always amazed when people like these big star, big IP, big budget meta movies. It’s an immediate turn off for me when a movie is drenched with the feeling of some executive going “KIDS LIKE THIS, RIGHT? AND THIS TOO, RIGHT??? SMASH THEM TOGETHER AND MAKE IT IMAX!”

If it's just a remake of Civil War, but everyone is dipped in gold leaf, half the soldiers are Really Very Big, the white house is like the Mines of Moria after a jetwash, the president is the size of an oil tanker, and the photographers are actually making magic paintings, it'll be a masterpiece.

Edit: and to step closer to the lathe, the story is told by the descriptions on each Elden Ring themed snack you can get from the concessions. Radahn Rum Punch, Malenia Mint (and blue cheese) popcorn, blah blah blah.

Stay after the credits for the Zanzibart sequal teaser.

Every follow up post release related to this game gets progressively worse and worse.

Ok? Seems like a struggle to adapt. Also who's ready to see some goofy as hell dodge rolls when they have an actor do it.

It's gonna suck

Wonder if there's any plan to keep the elden ring brand going, I can't really imagine another game that big being released this decade

Nightreign (a spinoff coop game that's sort of a roguelike) is coming out in like a week, so there's at least that.
- Oh yeah I guess they are already doing it. My brain was just fixed on the idea of an elden ring 2 or another single-player thing.

I am curious about how they are going to make dying to the final boss fifty times dramatically interesting

Civil War was great, hopefully this isn’t just a cash grab

Lol, seeing everyone else here express the exact opposite opinion. Then I checked the instance and realized where I was
Edit: the fact this is still positive gives me hope.
- Yeah, coz it's a bad movie with nothing to say except "Journalism, important?"
  And don't go starting on some tangent about how it's an apolitical movie because that's exactly why it's bad
  Just gray sludge dressed up in the guise of enlightened centrism