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Sarcasmancer
09/17/09

In reply to Lost Planet Movie Has Nothing To Do With Lost Planet Games
I'm predicting a marginal experience at best. Hayter is a great voice actor, but the first two X-men flicks were passable at best. Same with Lost Planet. It had lots of cool concepts and it was a fairly enjoyable experience, but it also never really excelled.

I'm really happy to hear the film won't be touching on Lost Planet 2. The arctic atmosphere was a crucial part of the first game and the sequels new tropical take on EDN completely turned me off to the series.
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TheNexusRebound
09/17/09

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He simply said they aren't referancing Lost Planet 2. I highly doubt David Hayter is going to completely throw out the core of the Lost Planet. With that said they are going to have to present it so that the non-gamer doesn't confuse it with some Starship Troopers movie. Sadly that is what most non-gamers would see giant bugs, mechs and guns "Oh they are making another starship troopers?" Top it off it is generally directors that screw up a screenplay. There have been plenty of movies written well but the director had another vision.
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Desolation_Angel
09/16/09

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So they don't like the story, but they like the setting?

Is Hollywood so used to mining other genres for ideas that they absolutely HAD to spend millions on an IP so that they could what?

Decide that snow is pretty on film?
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develin
09/16/09

@Desolation_Angel: It's all about brand recognition
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wanion
09/17/09

@develin: It is, even when you won't necessarily recognize the brand once in the new iteration. That's why I buy Charmin hot dogs. Brand recognition.
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wohdin
09/16/09

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Any inconsistencies with the original franchise's story will ultimately be forgiven; they had me at David Hayter.
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Rinaldus
09/16/09

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As long as it has to do with humans getting stranded on an ice planet I'm happy.
Also, I better hear the word Akrid, or I'm raging.
What really bums me out though, is I'm asking for too much...
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Komrade Kayce
09/16/09

@Rinaldus:

Thats called 'The Thing'.

We'd better see some damn mechs and bugs, or I won't see any reason to replace my current frozen landscape movie.
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Strife Fox †
09/16/09

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It would be cool if the movie showed the human migration to EDN-3, the first encounter with the Akrid, and the first development of the original VS's.

I think this is a smart move, as the plot of the game was pretty lackluster to be quite honest, and would probably translate terribly to the big screen.

Hell, even Capcom kind of retconned it by making Lost Planet 2 have nothing to do with the first one's characters.
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(Zombie) D Mitsuki, Gotta have guts kid!
09/16/09

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It's OK, David Hayter is awesome and Lost Planet isn't winning any awards for Story anyway.

Imagine if he made it Metal Gear Planet somehow. That would be badass. It would be JUST like the games without all that gameplay getting in the way!
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
09/16/09

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A videogame movie that has nothing to do with its source material? I am shocked. Utterly. Shocked.
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
09/16/09

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That isn't from Lost Planet. That's Rising, from Dead Rising.
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maxtenorio
09/16/09

@BubbleF**kingBuddy:
That's Frank West. He's covered wars, you know. Wars against the Akrid.

[kotaku.com]
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BubbleF**kingBuddy
09/16/09

@maxtenorio: Oh yeah, the villain was named Rising, wasn't he?

It's been so long since I played this game.
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(zombie) buddhathing
09/16/09

@maxtenorio: Bubble Buddy was just trying to get a rise out of you.
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Komrade Kayce
09/16/09

@BubbleF**kingBuddy:

Are you sure thats not zombie? I heard the games had zombie in it.

Rising was the powerup.
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muu
08/14/09

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Monster Hunter Future.

Well, I AM expecting them to have upgradable weapons and everything for the coop stuff. Horde/Zombie mode and such are fun and all, but it never hurts to add an element of grinding to give you the illusion that you're doing something constructive.
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Paradox me
08/14/09

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Hopefully a PC demo follows shortly. I didn't really like Lost Planet all that much, but this one looks interesting.
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Pyrefly
08/14/09

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If they remove the stupid energy guage and make it so the AI doesn;t just constantly knock you down i think the game will turn out very well.
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MtlAngelus
08/11/09

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I haven't played any of those either. I was about to purchase them several times but couldn't really make my mind. I suppose being indecisive has finally paid off. :D
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ThisCharmingMan
08/11/09

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I actually haven't played any of those titles. I was way on the fence about Lost Planet and Dead Rising for some reason, and DMC4 wasn't appealing after I played the demo. $40 does sound like a bargain though...
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Blue Ninja
08/11/09

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I've played Lost Planet and Dead Rising, but sold the former and only rented the latter... If I've got any money left at the end of the year, I might actually consider buying this.

If it gets released for PAL, of course. :(
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