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minus-squareXeroxCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·8 months ago“It was a clear case of a cult game failing to find a broader audience.” The non-gamers assumed it was about the game. The gamers knew it wasn’t about the game. It failed to find any audience. And a decade too late.
minus-squareBruceTwarzen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 months agoI’ll never understand the ego that is required to take a beloved ip and go: never read it never played it, don’t wanna know anything about it, here is what I think it should be. Even if it’s good somehow, it’s not what anyone wanted.
minus-squareXeroxCool@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agoMr. Krabs leans into the mic, unprompted, “money!”
minus-squarescutiger@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 months agoBy this, they mean “We made a bad movie, and for some strange reason people didn’t want to see it. We’re confused.”
minus-squareMercuri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·8 months agoWhat a BS excuse. That’s like saying the Dragon Ball movie did bad because it’s a cult show that failed to find a broader audience.
minus-squareArtyom@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoHe says, implying all Borderlands fans watched or even wanted this movie in the first place.
“It was a clear case of a cult game failing to find a broader audience.”
The non-gamers assumed it was about the game. The gamers knew it wasn’t about the game. It failed to find any audience. And a decade too late.
I’ll never understand the ego that is required to take a beloved ip and go: never read it never played it, don’t wanna know anything about it, here is what I think it should be. Even if it’s good somehow, it’s not what anyone wanted.
Mr. Krabs leans into the mic, unprompted, “money!”
By this, they mean “We made a bad movie, and for some strange reason people didn’t want to see it. We’re confused.”
What a BS excuse. That’s like saying the Dragon Ball movie did bad because it’s a cult show that failed to find a broader audience.
He says, implying all Borderlands fans watched or even wanted this movie in the first place.