Greatoneshere

Martyr's might be worse than A Serbian Film in that department, agreed, brutal. I absolutely did - edited my post, total brain fart.

Well Grave of the Fireflies is, in a way, based on real people since the writer of the novel on which the film is based is "the boy" in the film, and the sister he lost during the WWII firebombings of Japan is the younger sister in the film. The only difference is in real life he didn't die too (he has the boy die in the novel because he felt great shame and survivor's guilt over it). The writer of the novel (Akiyuki Nosaka) actually lost two sisters to malnutrition and an adptive father to the firebombings in real life. But I otherwise take your point.

The comparison isn't great, but I do understand both theoretically being "trying" experiences (just in different ways) in which case I do understand the comparison, though I agree again that the comparison is lame. Perhaps a different example of an emotionally trying film or game experience?

I agree with you on every point! The only distinction I'd make here is it seems Jeff Cannata explained in his tweet that he was comparing it to Schindler's List, not the Holocaust, which is a movie, not a real life event. And he only compared the two in that both were very difficult to get through. Not for the same reasons, but in that both are simply difficult watches/playthroughs (in different ways). That specificity makes the comparison make more sense. I will say though that when making comparisons of fictional things, it tends to be prudent to err on the side of comparing fictional things to fictional things rather than fictional things to real life events (or films based on real life events, I guess, though that's more allowed I think). Then again, I compared Death Stranding to Super Monkey Ball rather than a movie, so what sense do I make.

This is what I would prefer.

Yeah, I mean, it's a remaster, not a remake.

Son of Saul is so good.

Just trying to be objective lol.

It's very likely, so I still suggest Youtube video but up to you.

Just watch a Youtube movie version of all the dialogue and cutscenes if you've already played it twice.

It was after watching his TV series Too Old To Die Young that I could easily see him doing McCarthy well. Though Drive and Only God Forgives hint at it too I think. Nice to see another fan of The Counselor!

I have seen those films, and except for Irreversible, no, I have not seen them more than once. A Serbian Film isn't worth it the first time. I completely agree with you about Blood Meridian, and I doubt Terrence Malick would ever do it (though he would be perfect for it), but he did do Badlands (his first film) which was about killers on the run so you never know. Cormac McCarthy has been adapted numerous times, and most turned out really well. No Country for Old Men, The Road, and The Sunset Limited (adapted by McCarthy from his own play) are all excellent. I know I'm in the minority but I think The Counselor (the director's cut) is actually really good, just highly misunderstood (though McCarthy wrote the screenplay directly - it wasn't based on any of his novels or plays so I'm not sure if it counts as a McCarthy adaptation). The only out-and-out bad/poor adaptations are All the Pretty Horses and Child of God. I think Blood Meridian is adaptable, but extremely difficult - you'd definitely need a Malick or a Denis Villeneueve or Alejandro Jodorowsky or Nicolas Winding Refn to pull it off.

If you are excited, I believe you, it's just been a lot of tonal whiplash from my POV is all. I think you'll have to make peace with the fact some things will be different, at least more than you'll probably be comfortable with. But in many other ways the remake will probably be better than the original. Like, gameplay is one thing I don't want messed with for the most part, but "muting the Flute set" doesn't matter to me at all, that seems small time (to me at least).

It's Larian Studios, everyone should be hype as fuck about this.

This is a much better take on the trailer than just saying the boss fight looks boring, so this is a bit different. Perhaps they are going for a realistic, weapons move slow and feel heavy-type combat system where blocks and parries and dodges are key, I don't know. I'm just saying people will find and latch on to the strangest and most minute of issues with a game and then let that derail their entire enjoyment of the rest of the game.

I'm in the same boat. I'm day one for PS5 if Sony's games stay exclusive, but if they port them over eventually, well, there's dozens of other games I want to play so I am more than happy to wait. I think Sony should port because they are leaving money on the table, but I won't need a PS5 if they do.

Agreed - I've seen Mandy, Schindler's List, Enter the Void, and more multiple times. There's a lot to take away and learn from things that don't always simply give us pure unadulterated pleasure or fun. Not everything has to simply be a good time, and I often feel a lot more honesty in art that seems disinterested in my needs than art that caters to me. And it tends to be more unpredictable and far more enjoyable for me as a result. People find this point of view pretentious, but I also enjoy base pleasures such as Independence Day (as a for instance) as well. It's about enjoying things on their terms, and then judging whether it was good or not for what it was going for, not whether it pleased me specifically or not.

It's not about having an opinion, I don't frequent the game board here too much though I have more frequently lately and it's a lot of cynical takes and criticisms that to me feel often very petty. Few video games are perfect yet people will find way more faults than positives. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be frank or honest, but to complain a boss fight looked lame by watching it in a gameplay trailer just seems silly. It's like when people complain about overly lit pre-release costume shoots for magazines for films to be released - everything looks a bit fake and lame out of context. Like, you simply can't make many conclusions based on the trailer alone, and for many peoples' biggest takeaway is "potentially lame boss fight from watching it rather than playing it" then I think people have lost the forest for the trees.

Man people will bitch about anything these days. Game looked good, obviously will wait for impressions when it comes out first, but game looked good to me.

What's the issue(s)?

Again, it's Bluepoint. You think they don't know about what your guys' concerns are? They are more purist than you are, I can assure you. There's literally no basis in fact to worrying yet here you guys are, worrying. A lot of prevaricating going on here, I'd say. Bluepoint's entire catalogue of remasters and remakes is all held in high regard. The Shadow of the Colossus remake, as someone who played it, thought it was fantastic, and I've played the original PS2 version twice. It has universally excellent reviews across the board. You're finding the few nitpicks and basing your worries off expanding those small nitpicks from SOTC remake to meaning Demon's Souls will suffer too? What, a few nitpicks? Or will it derail the game? I've played almost every Bluepoint game and if anyone was going to remake it, I actually trust Bluepoint more than From Software. They'll base their remake off of the original code, not to worry. I just . . . it's one trailer, and the game is actually happening. Maybe be super happy that the best remaster/remake company in the business is handling it, or keep going on and on about how the SOTC remake wasn't perfect, ergo this game will be bad? Just doesn't make sense. We're in the hype phase, and we have no reason not to be hype.

This is completely accurate. As someone who beat it just a month or so ago the tension and dread in the beginning is thick. It was hard for the first few hours to muster on, but eventually you do leave the house and things do become less scary but I found the entire game very involving. First person is way scarier than third person, as much as I enjoyed the RE2 and RE3 remakes.

Dude, it's Bluepoint. The amount of antipathy you already have in mounting potential worries is very cynical. What reason do you really have to be so worried? Bluepoint has never done a bad remaster or remake. That's evidence enough, I think.

I'm saying to not let some criticism of what appears to be otherwise complete agreement by critics that the game is otherwise amazing (in terms of music, gameplay, direction, etc.; everything unrelated to the tone or violence). In what way am I calling anyone out?

I think you should try to look at the positives in the game rather than this one potential negative and look forward to the game then, if you're buying it anyway. The reviews are overwhelmingly positive.