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.... why?

• saagarjha 4y ago
  Perhaps inspired by a recent submission of an interview with the creator of E.T.?
  • technothrasher 4y ago
    E.T. wasn't that bad. I remember playing it when it came out and enjoying it. But this Superman thing... I hope somebody got blacklisted for that.
    • tialaramex 4y ago
      Right, E.T isn't a stand out classic, it's a bit rushed, the game isn't a great fit to the movie (but it's far from the worst in that era), but what stands out in people's memories is mostly that it wasn't what they expected. Which somewhat tells us about that era of video games more than about ET. In an era with Goose Game, Paper's Please and Unpacking, people understand that just because this is a video game doesn't mean it needs to fit into a handful of pre-existing niches - games can do whatever they want, but ET pre-dates that era. I expect if you had shot a found footage mockumentary movie in 1940 (before even Citizen Kane was shown) audiences wouldn't even have understood what you were trying to do. It wouldn't matter whether you did a good job or not, reviews are going to say it's a bad movie because the reviewer does not have a framework in which to assess it.
      • alasdair_ 4y ago
        I just found out that Papers Please is coming to mobile on August 5th!
    • egypturnash 4y ago
      From the account in the linked article, it seems that a large part of the blame can be laid at the feet of the licensing folks at WB, who ate up a ton of the development time by constantly demanding changes. They probably didn't lose their jobs.