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Telltale Minecraft was originally T rated, Guardians gutted comedy on executive order
- Thread starter Nirolak
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My only explanation for M-rated Minecraft is that their perception of Minecraft might have been a few years out of date. Like Minecraft has always been fairly popular among kids AFAIK but I don't think they became the primary demographic until after the MS buyout and the console releases. Back in the alpha days when the game was first gaining traction it seemed to be mostly popular among 20-30 year olds.
...naw fuck it they were just dumb.
...naw fuck it they were just dumb.
A few years ago, pornhub released a report where the word "minecraft" was one of the most searched word
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/...comes-fastest-growing-search-term-pornhub.htm
By all accounts, hilariously inept management was the driving problem at the heart of Telltale. It's so, so depressing.
I still need to play Tales from the Borderlands, I've been putting it off til I finished the 3 games, not played them for at least 4 years now....
alot of people have forgotten, but minecraft was made by really popular through youtubers, who weren't really kid friendly
I mean, of course I get that, but it doesn't take an MBA to realize you don't want to cannibalize your own business. In my experience (at least playing the first episodes), Batman, Game of Thrones and the Wolf Among Us all kind of felt samey in terms of the tone they were going for. They all felt so similar that I never felt particularly compelled to finish any of them.
"Our executive team insisted that what was popular about Guardians of the Galaxy, was darkness and violence, and sadness," said Buck. "And that people did not associate humour with that brand... " what the actual fuck?
That was a long time ago (in the gaming world sense)
A huge amount of people playing the game and buying merch are under the age of 13.
That was stupid. Not every game needs an edge to go with an M rating, Jesus Christ.
The biggest games in the world right now is also not M rated. Fortnite is T.
The biggest games in the world right now is also not M rated. Fortnite is T.
I was on Minecraft before it got re-written. It wasn't really M rated in any capacity, but it was definitely aiming to be more of a sitcom than aimed towards kids. As for Guardians, a lot of it had to do with Marvel approval and alignment with how they saw the brand
Like most IP holders, they have final say on a lot of things - such as direction on story and art. For instance, in Minecraft everything had to be 'believable' in the sense that they wanted it to look like you could build and setup everything in the actual game.
I don't recall anything that was dark and gruesome in Guardians and I was on the original greenlight team - it was a demo of Peter dancing to the tune of.. I can't remember, I've listened to it so many times. That got turned into the opening sequence that the game starts in.
The game did explore Peter's relationship with his mother throughout the season which was fairly sad, and it also visited Drax and Gamora's past that's only somewhat hinted in the second movie. The original steps of the game were very heavy about Peter's past and his mother getting sick. This was still in the game, but stretched out over the entire season.
The high level execs making these decisions haven't seen the movie. Guarantee it.
M rated Minecraft really makes no sense, like why did they even think that would work
real shame about what happen with GotG, could have been good if not for the execs
real shame about what happen with GotG, could have been good if not for the execs
But 97% of GotG's relevance to justify a game like that comes from its comedy.
The Guardians movies have plenty of darker moments and somberness, but that only comes from the humanity people have learned to understand within these characters, beneath all their glibness and harsh exteriors.
Like, all of this makes sense to me. Which is why it's so puzzling that the execs could misinterpret the IP so much when the greenlight team clearly knew what the IP holders wanted and worked with that.
They could have gone the other way and if it had the usual Marvel Quality it would have justified a game. Maybe not by Telltale
It's half and half. The executive team / 'board' had say, but so do the IP holders as part of those green light meetings. As somebody who has worked on multiple projects that are basically licensed, it can be really difficult to get alignment. The only difference was, at Telltale we had some pretty rigid deadlines.
So now you get conflicts on where they meet and want to move forward with. Some IP holders are more protective than others over their brand image, and when they ultimately control the purse strings they can have more external pull than internal. As far as I know, for Walking Dead that was mostly internally driven re-writes.
Batman, for instance, got changed artistically multiple times before it was greenlit because it looked too similar to Wolf Among Us. And that was an internal decision.
