I watched the latest 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Indiana Jones movie at the weekend, and what I can say about The Dial of Destiny is that it is better than The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Thus ends the list of nice things I have to say a𓄧bout it. I like Indiana Jones as a series enough, even if I think it falls short of the other timeless action-adventure tales it is often looped in with like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jurassic Park, or Die Hard. However, it is perfectly suited to video games, and I hope Bethesda's adaptation lives up to its potential.
As a culture, we like safe things. We like stories with predictable tropes, with characters we've seen before, in tales where the good guys win. We like sequels and spin-offs and cinematic universes. Safety. I often find myself as a rallying voice against this, asking for more experimental efforts, more protection for artistic risk, and fewer remakes and remasters to leave some oxygen in the room for new adventures to burn bright. But right now, oh boy do I want the MachineGames’ Indiana Jones game to play it safe.
There is an inherent sense of gameplay to Indiana Jones in any case. More than those film franchises I listed, ev🅠en more than Star Wars, Indiana Jones is packed full with video game-style adv🌄entures. He's always involved in chase scenes, figuring out puzzles (or brute forcing his way past them), and making his way through dungeons that seem to have been designed exclusively for him to make his way through. Indiana Jones is a gosh dang gamer. He's had a lot of them over the years - 17, by my count - but the most recent one was in 2011 and a lot were middling at best. This is his last shot at the big time.
His 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:upcoming game, which won't arrive for a few years yet, could be the biggest risk the series has ever taken. It will have a blockbuster budget and I suspect it will be banking on sales that can rival Uncharted. After a lot of point and click or basic linear action games, this will be the series' biggest undertaking. That sounds like the antithesis of playing it safe, but it's not really. This is going to be an adaptation of one of the most recognisable characters in the world into one of the most popular genres in video games, known for its safe and comfortable objectives. This is a safe game. Since it could never really be anything else with Disney looming overhead, I say the safer the better.
The reasoning comes back to The Dial of Destiny. The movie has potential, but is weighed down by a truly ridiculous premise taken to almost insulting 🔯extremes. Magic and the supernatural has always been a part of Indiana Jones, but that latest is way beyond the realms of what the movies have explored, and loses all respect for (and likely from) its audience in the process. To its credit, it takes a risk. Counting against it is the fact that what the risk achieves is pointless, makes the story worse, and adds to an already agonisingly long runtime without offering any real sense of closure or drama.
I don't want someone to come along, look at what the first three Indiana Jones movies did, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:and think 'what can we do differently?', because at that point, why make an Indiana Jones game at all? You're signing away a lot of your rights to creative risk taking when you're in bed with Disney over a 40 year old IP. This is not going to be a game that swings for the fences, so just play it safe. Give us an Indiana Jones game, no more no less. We haven't had one in a decade, and no one remembers anything bar the Lego games since the turn of the century.
Four of the five movies are about him being too old for this shit - it is a franchise that plays the big concepts safe and wedges in bizarre concepts like aliens to convince us it's taking risks. I hope the game can go a step further and just play it safe all the way through. That won't make it an all time great but Bethesda, Xbox, and Disney teaming💝 up on an exclusive IP deal to bolster the pro💟fits of their brand is ไnot an environment for greatness. But it can be the environment for a good time, so long as it plays it safe.