True, all wants to play Arthur or one of his knights, not all want to play
any thing less. Like being in the SCA, all want to be nobles, but few want
to play pesants, some do but few.

Gaming is the new people, kids coming up, like RPGing Harry Potter? Who
wants to play James Bond, unless its the new one, that people see, and can
ID with in the current and now?

True LOTR and characters lived on, but .. Are they a marketable product now?
Still or LOTR who, what?

New Mutants and more, got to keep reinventing, it makes for a marketable and
selling product. Yes, some stories are timeless and all you need do is
replace the old face with a new one and it sells, some take harder to rework
and revitalize or redo or .. Why people real Sun Tsu?

Mike



----- Original Message -----
From: "MoonHunter" <MoonHunter88@...>
To: "Abrigon World" <abrigon-world@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: Future of Gaming


>
> There is a lot of IP out there. Not all of it will make a great game.
> While a given book or movie is a really great adventure, the question
> you have to ask.... "Would this story be as good with different
> characters or villians, in the same setting." That determines what
> would be a good game.
>
> This is the problem with Marvel Superheroes. Unless you are the cool
> characters, you are just B-Listers in the Marvel Universe. Now you
> can more easily substitute your characters in a marvel like Universe.
> "Okay, the original X-Men are gone, which new Mutants are going to be
> recruited by Xavier now." "Or The Blue Team and Gold Teams are
> engaged, who is stepping up to help Moria with her new
> investigation?" By altering the "Main Verse", your supers character
> slip in and take their role. However, that is harder to do in other
> settings and genre.
>
> So Star Wars Universe has lost Luke, Leia, Hans, and Chewie, Darth,
> and the Emperor, all died. Now what? Your characters are not the non-
> jedi people who are "personalities" in the Rebellion, You get to be
> "the important people". Would it be that cool? At least Wedge would
> get the honor that is his due.
>
> Indian Jones is a great movie and setting, However, when you are not
> Indian Jones (or not Sydney Fox) is the game as fun? It is really
> just a trap orriented Dungeon Adventure with a seedy underbelly
> dealing with the cool artifacts (small portable treasures). After you
> have solved some puzzle traps scenarios made by the GM (which is hard
> on the GM), can it keep being great? Well it makes a good game, but
> not a great game. And, it is not really part of that IP.
>
> Transformers may or may not be a good RPG because you aren't Optimus
> Prime (and even if you are, what about the other four players?). A
> Transformer game is not that great because you aren't "The Guys" in
> which everything revolves. Now a Transformer like setting (with
> different names... I mean Autobots? Car bots. Another name please),
> might work.
>
> The Charmed or Buffy meme seems to be played out. Love playing Buffy.
> Most people go, Ughhh. They were innovative 10 years ago, but now...
> well we have "been there, done that". Supernatural works because it
> is good supernatural action, conspiracy, and hot guys, instead of
> Buffy's Supernatural Action, comedy, and hot girls. Still
> supernatural investigation genre seems not to be very popular.
> Hunter isn't selling that well.
>
> Setting is not enough. Spiderwick Chronicles is a great setting, a
> good movie, and okay books. However, do you want to play a kid from
> the age 8-16? And can you run more than one campaign in this? What
> happens when the kids grow up? So a very playable setting, but is it
> something a gamer would want to play? This this is questionable, The
> Warriors series is very gamable, but not may players want to be a
> cat.
>
> MoonHunter.
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