Re: WoW - I wonder....

--- Nils Jeppe <nils@???????????.de> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, David Shepheard wrote:

> Anyway, let's not argue about WoW, that can only end
> badly.

Heh, didn't say I played the game, just I liked the
artwork :)


> The expansion will also feature an "inter
> diemnsional craft" via which one 
> of the new races arrive on the world.

That one has everyone scratching their head, for
certain :)  Why they can't call it a spaceship is
beyond me...:p


> No, becuase first of all many of the mainstream
> players weren't even born when SJ came out and
> they'll cry "u noobs stole from wow, u teh 
> suck!!!1!",

Like they did with LotR movies?  Man that was a
hilarious display of sheer ignorace.  Just got to
laugh at people like that.


> And second, I remember Disney once made a movie
> which basically transplanted treasure island into
> space. Granted, that was sailing ships powered by
> rocket motors (if I recall correctly) but I think it
> still flopped.

It did, but it was also one of a long series of flops.
 Disney at that time (and still is) having serious
problems making animated movies that make money; it
wasn't until their deal with Pixar that their
animation department turned around.  I believe that
Disney's recent, non-Pixar movie cartoons have all
been direct-to-video.  


> I fear SJ is one of those strange fringe genres that
> simply aren't cut out to make it in the mainstream.
> I think that generations of players who grew 
> up with actual space travel and rockets can't
> suspend their disbelief enough for SJ to work.

True, but at the same time, I'd have never thought
that elements of magical space would be seen in
something as "mainstream" as Warcraft, either.

Adam

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