I suppose someone could consider fan-fiction just the same as the new Star wars movie could be.
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Minecraft: Story Mode Trailer (Telltale Games)
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I suppose someone could consider fan-fiction just the same as the new Star wars movie could be.
GreatestHits
Member
This sounds fucking amazing, like it's not taking itself too seriously so it might really pull of an aesthetic. All it's missing is David Cross
I don't know where people are getting the 'it doesn't take itself to seriously' and 'looks funny' from. Because either every joke in the trailer completely flew by me or this trailer wasn't funny at all.
Anyway, Patton Oswalt is cool, but this looks and sounds like a cash-grab.
Anyway, Patton Oswalt is cool, but this looks and sounds like a cash-grab.
Zomba13
Member
Seemed a lot more... serious than I thought it'd be. Like, I didn't expect them to have to go on a quest and there to be evil and magic and stuff. Like I thought it'd follow Steve? on his "quest". Like starting out building things, surviving, meeting other characters, mining, finding something and getting a reason to go The End.
Like, it just seems to be a made up story with no real connection to Minecraft. "You're giving me a sword?" "No, you're going to craft it!" seems the extent. Like with the Lego movie, I didn't think it'd work but it worked really well because they went in hard on the whole "you can build anything" angle. You had Lego Batman show up, Old Lego space sets, specific themed worlds and the element of us playing with Lego making the story as we go etc.
This seems like "We want to tell a magic fantasy story but don't have the IP to do that so we're telling it in Minecraft" rather than a story that is minecraft, that uses it's lego like appeal to tell a unique, fun story about your only limit being your own imagination.
From the looks it doesn't even dig into the stupid fan hoaxes like Herobrine. Like, there is very little actual Minecraft lore and the "ending" doesn't make sense at all but this could have take from that and the stuff fans have done with the game. Like people stream MC all the time and have servers full of builds. The story could have taken the player, Steve? on a magical journey through worlds with his friends as they work together to mine/craft the ultimate build or get the stuff together to tackle The End and slay the dragon terrorising a testificate village.
I dunno, from the looks of it it really seems like a generic fantasy story told in a blocky world with blocky people rather than something special and magical like what happened with The Lego Movie.
Like, it just seems to be a made up story with no real connection to Minecraft. "You're giving me a sword?" "No, you're going to craft it!" seems the extent. Like with the Lego movie, I didn't think it'd work but it worked really well because they went in hard on the whole "you can build anything" angle. You had Lego Batman show up, Old Lego space sets, specific themed worlds and the element of us playing with Lego making the story as we go etc.
This seems like "We want to tell a magic fantasy story but don't have the IP to do that so we're telling it in Minecraft" rather than a story that is minecraft, that uses it's lego like appeal to tell a unique, fun story about your only limit being your own imagination.
From the looks it doesn't even dig into the stupid fan hoaxes like Herobrine. Like, there is very little actual Minecraft lore and the "ending" doesn't make sense at all but this could have take from that and the stuff fans have done with the game. Like people stream MC all the time and have servers full of builds. The story could have taken the player, Steve? on a magical journey through worlds with his friends as they work together to mine/craft the ultimate build or get the stuff together to tackle The End and slay the dragon terrorising a testificate village.
I dunno, from the looks of it it really seems like a generic fantasy story told in a blocky world with blocky people rather than something special and magical like what happened with The Lego Movie.
hosannainexcelsis
Member
Right, this trailer looks like a deathly serious "This is the end of the world and you're the only one who can stop it" kind of story. Which isn't very exciting.
Pinko Marx
Banned
I feel like people are making too many snap judgments based on one trailer that is there just to set up an overall introduction to the story.
At no point did I write this was not an official work. I was referring to the existing Minecraft lore.
bengraven
Member
My son is, too. He watches tons of machinima on Youtube so in his thinking this is basically him being able to "play" a machinima of a game.
bobawesome
Member
That was certainly something. I'm sure my brother will enjoy this, though.
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you know what would be potentially cool, is an actual "story mode" that supplies official voice acting and story quests into a game of minecraft.
Thats not what this is though.
It will be popular nevertheless for reasons i have trouble processing. Its like the lego craze... where it starts to have nothing to do with what legos are and people just like the... aesthetic... of them.
Thats not what this is though.
It will be popular nevertheless for reasons i have trouble processing. Its like the lego craze... where it starts to have nothing to do with what legos are and people just like the... aesthetic... of them.
HyperZone<3
Member
this is gonna make stupid amounts of money.
and also, Corey Feldman? Huh? Good for him, I guess.
and also, Corey Feldman? Huh? Good for him, I guess.
randomlee26
Member
I don't play Minecraft, but this looks great I really like Tales from the Borderlands. That is one insanely talented voice cast, too 
Flintty
Member
I read this whilst two out of three of my kids currently building a Steven Universe world on Xbox 360. I know my kids aren't 'most kids' but they and their friends can't get enough of Minecraft - long after I got bored of it.
Americanmushroom
Banned
Why is this coming out on everything? I would think MS would want to push the Win10/XB1
get out
SoulUnison
Banned
Man that is a weirdly star-studded cast for something that looks so incredibly "young" and awkward.
I went into the concept with a clear head, but it's just so stilted and dumbed-down.
Maybe it's just for the sake of the trailer or the first episode, but it's like the character are just mobile exposition machines trying to work "the rules of Minecraft" into every bit of dialog.
Then there's the way they're trying to make the whole seem seem "epic" but it just falls totally flat.
I cringed through the whole trailer.
I went into the concept with a clear head, but it's just so stilted and dumbed-down.
Maybe it's just for the sake of the trailer or the first episode, but it's like the character are just mobile exposition machines trying to work "the rules of Minecraft" into every bit of dialog.
Then there's the way they're trying to make the whole seem seem "epic" but it just falls totally flat.
I cringed through the whole trailer.
MS care about money and Minecraft is much larger than any OS/console war they might have going on.
The trailer seems...weird. So this is going to have Telltale gameplay?
funkystudent
Member
Spencer tweeted when this was announced that the deal was made before Mojang was bought so there was nothing really they could do.
So dont expect this sort of thing for future Minecraft games.