I doubt we'll see another triple-A cowboy game until Red Dead Redemption 3. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rockstar's Wild West adventure casts too large a shadow for anyone else to try to meet it on equal terms. With both RDR games depicting the fall of the way of the Old West, Rockstar may need to shake things up for the threequel (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:maybe letting us play as Charles?), but anyone else attempting the same thing will needꦿ to shake thing𒈔s up even more.
Most cowboy games we've seen since RDR, and particularly RDR2, have been indie efforts concerned with magical goings on in the Weird West genre. One of them was even called Weird West. But there's a perfect way to combine this while marking yourself out as different from Red Dead Redemption - make The Dark Tower into a video game.
If you only know The Dark Tower from the movie with Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey, you do not know The Dark Tower. And this is not to gatekeep, as if movies are for philistines and the essence of storytelling can only be contained in yellowed pages that smell of dust and life - it's just that the movie is bad. The Dark Tower is a series of eight novels by Stephen King, and the movie attempts to cover disconnected pieces of all of them in just 95 minutes. If the movie had tried to cover the first book alone, The Gunslinger, then it might have stood a chance, but in trying to be everything, it ends up as absolutely nothing.
The Dark Tower series is divisive amongst King's extensive catalogue, and I must admit it would not land in my personal top ten. But it has a richness that the other titles driven by ghosts and ghouls often lack. Even some of his thicker novels like It come with a lot of extra filler that makes them dense rather than rich. But The Dark Tower has so much depth that exploring it through an adaptation that takes it seriously feels like a necessity. The movie was always a strange idea because the series is not the name brand that Carrie or indeed It are, and it's staggering that someone would choose to adapt it without the affection and passion for what is contained within its pages.
I might even suggest that this hypothetical game go ✨a step beyon💎d the movie and, rather than use the luxury of a longer run time games have over movies to adapt each book in one cohesive narrative, to drill deep into just The Gunslinger and bring that tale to life. It would scratch the itch for a Wild West game, be distinct both visually and thematically from Red Dead Redemption, and yet have the powerful storytelling to match it.
The Gunslinger is a pretty classic Old West setting on the face of it, although as the story rolls on it becomes clear it's set in an alternate universe. The plot is typically driven as you’d expect a noir tale too - our gunslinger, Roland, is on a quest to catch the mysterious Man in Black, who turns out to be recurring King villain Randall Flagg. But along the way, a child crosses over from the everyday universe in modern day Manhattan into Roland's world, and from there the concepts of time and place become vague and open. There's a lot of opportunity for inventive ways to explore the Wild West and, like Red Dead Redemption, fertile ground for parallels between morality in Frontier times and our own. With the stranger science fiction concepts, that seems like something a game could expand on in ways the movie outright refused to.
It's a shame that many only know The Dark Tower from its terrible movie, as even with my own lukewarm feelings towards it I know it contains some of King's best writing and most creative and expansive storytelling. I've lamented in the past the lack of Stephen King games, and put my own personal favourite The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon in the shop window for it. But with the gap in the markღet for a western, The Dark Tower seems like 🍷the perfect fit.