"One person posted something I didn't like. The entire forum is bad!"

Man with that attitude you must think the entire internet was a mistake. Then again, maybe it was. But I would like to remind you of a very old saying. "Do not throw out the baby with the bathwater."

Just so you know, when you say absurd things like that you immediately invalidate any opinion you might have and most people will not bother to pay any attention to you. If you feel you have an opinion people should listen to you must be reasonable, not absurd.

If this forum can apparently house two people with seemingly incompatible points of view and those two people can voice their displeasure with one another, it can't be doing so bad; despite all its flaws. But about the game... I'll probably skip this one and just read the original novel itself if it takes my fancy; or play a different, original title.

I don't even understand what the fuss is about. Adaptations happened since the beginning of time. Like the Blade Runner video game which IIRC doesn't exactly follow the lore of the movie despite having the same title as the original movie. I've never seen a Casino Royale movie that follows the exact beats of the original 007 book either, and things turned up just fine.

That boat has sailed long ago.

Interesting, but little bit on the expensive side.
Wishlisted for now.

I was talking in general

As for reworking classics not many good real reasons I can think of for doing so in most cases given most classics are made it such a way they often are very much ''of the time they was made'' aswell as reworking them would be hard to do in how most people rework classics nowadays

As for this game it doesn't seem my sort of game so likely won't get it till its cheaper
Adaptions when truly adaptions are different to reworks as adaptions are supposed to properly capture the concept and story of the source material, not basically rework everything about it in ,

For example of something lets take the Wizard of OZ given the fact there is talk of adapting it for a new age to explore .''modern female and the social aswell as economical troubles they face while removing the fantasty elements'' .. Would you still call such a rework a adaption of Wizard of OZ and not just slapping the likeness on a idea do to it removed most of what made the book series and movies a thing do to the whimsical fantasy elements being gone ?

I just brought that name up as its kinda been recently been talked about in a modern rework

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Couldn't agree more. They won't do it though, if they were capable of writing original characters and material that were actually genuine and interesting enough to stand on their own, then they wouldn't have to co-opt an existing franchise in the first place. "I hate the GOG forum because I can't stop people from having opinions I don't want to hear."

Removing the fantasy elements would make it not sound like Wizard of Oz, but on a surface level based on what you have given me of info. But I'd reserve judgment until I see what the actual final product looks like - can't really judge it fairly based on merely "talks." For all I know, the director, writer, and actors can concoct something so good with the premise you laid out and without the fantasy elements, a deconstruction of the original classic if you will.

I see the usual sexist, racist bigots of this forum are triggered by this new release that is not pandering to their outdated reactionary agenda. This is an unmistakeable sign that this game is doing something well.

If it were not lacking a native Linux build, I would have bought it already. With only a Windows build (meaning I won’t get any kind of support from GOG in case of problems), I’m going to wait for it to be much cheaper.

I'll side with Breja and ReynardFox, which is shocking because I usually disagree with them about their anger or frustration or nitpicking.

Not interested in arguing, just sayin. Simple as.

See thats the thing most people take issue with , that you said you don't understand when people basically take a thing and strip it of what makes it well what it is ,then sticks something vastly different onto it but using the name of it and character names for something almost completely different ..

Its also very common practice nowadays and alot of people are sick of it .. same with the deconstruction storytelling as rarely does it add something or even better reconstructs, but rather people keep deconstructing the deconstruction done last time .

I guess this is where we have difference in opinions - my take is that most classics are timeless and capable of sustaining all kinds of adaptations and reimaginations. For example, "Antigone" with its countless versions set in different historical periods and contexts or numerous adaptations of Shakespeare's plays (Kurosawa's Run, just to name one).

I also believe in supporting creativity, either original works or those inspired/adapted/reinterpreted/reimagined. Of course, some are going to be bad, some good, some meh, some in poor taste... Tastes change, opinions are varied.
In the end, it doesn't matter, as long we don't put artificial restrictions on creativity, and let authors be the ones to take the risk of exposing their work to the public eye.

Did I miss something: "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33" supposed to be released on GOG today? This would be a truly lovely surprise for me.
EDIT

*YEAH* its true. [Oo] Link: https://www.gog.com/de/game/clair_obscur_expedition_33

Like I said, depends what we're looking at. Which reminds me, yes, I've seen The Joker recently. I know, starring The Joker on his own without Batman to stop his punchlines is pretty silly. Gotham as depicted doesn't seem like this den of supervillains ruining it everyday. But I think it worked wonderfully despite stripping a fair bit of what makes Gotham City special.

Again, let's wait until the movie comes out and THEN we can judge it fairly.

Oh I forgot but Disney's animated adaptations, a.k.a. their classics, pretty much outright omit a lot of dark things from fairytales, spinning them up into positive stories. That was their bread and butter.