• DungeonPastor@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Eh, I get it. As popular as the brand is, I can understand studios being hesitant to take the main cast on a new adventure, since it’s not very believable with what they already do.

    There can be an appeal to a “just a nobody” story in the same universe, but then the only thing you can rely on is the setting and brand recognition.

    A side character turned main character let’s you “expand the universe” with a known character, and nest something with the existing story, without feeling like beating a dead horse in a fan-fic-esque revisit of the main cast.

    I was curious with Gollum, how they’d make an interesting game with an engaging story about a generally unlikeable side character.

    Turns out they didn’t. But it probably would’ve been very impressive if they had!

    • lamentforicarus@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They could have used the Silmarillion instead. That thing is chock full of information a lot of people don’t know that could have been used.