Author: Simulacrum  <nub>    99.67.112.42 Use this link if you want to link to this message and its entire thread of discussion. Post a Msg
Date: 6/9/2021 2:37:43 PM
Subject: RE: Been watching through a lot of "What Happened?

Id will never do anything except go back and forth between Doom and Quake. That's all they've ever done if you don't count Rage, which I can't explain as an id IP.

Since the latter-day Monolith is a different animal than the one that made the Blood games, they aren't likely to do anything with it. I still don't understand the license ownership. I've heard everything from Infogrames to Atari to Warner Bros. to oil sheiks to the Russian mob. I don't think anyone knows who owns it, including the lawyers who are supposed to keep up with it. Whoever has it doesn't seem interested in restarting the franchise. On the off chance they can be enticed out of their camel spider hidey holes in Wafwafistan or wherever, Gearbox or Devolver Digital might be able to do something with it. That's the best hope for Blood 3. I don't think anyone wants even a best-case Blood 2.

I will now try to imagine what would happen if a reasonably competent developer got a decent budget and sufficient time to raise Blood from the dead.

First, it would be a console shooter. If it had a big budget, it would be a glory-kill platformy clown party on the order of Doom Eternal or Shadow Warrior 3. If it had more modest funding, it would tone down the platforming because that calls for elaborate level design, but it would keep the controller combos and other console parts. That's what people expect nowadays.

Second, it would have RPG-lite and unlock elements, which can be done on even a middling budget. Again, we see the console-centric direction.

Third, Caleb would be run over by a train during the credits so that Ophelia could be the main character. The new Ophelia would be a person of some exotic ethnicity, and she would have a lesbian relationship with the villain, whom she would have to kill at the end. This is necessary so that people can make youtubes about it, even though no one will watch them because they saw all that in The Last of Us 2. This is why there's a good chance the lesbian villain will be replaced by a goat, which has a fair chance of causing disagreeable exchanges on the publisher's Twitter account.

So my plan is not to lose my copy of Blood: Fresh Supply.