A (tiny) bit more expansion about Intergalactic from the recent Druckmann/Garland interview

cormack12

cormack12

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Not much new, but a little expansion on certain things. Better than nothing right?



  • Takes place 2000 years in an alternate future which diverges from the 80s;
  • New religion becomes very prominent from the 80s with the original 'prophet' on the planet Sempiria;
  • The game focuses on the faith and religion, and how it evolved and changed/was bastardised from the 80s to the current day;
  • All this takes place on one planet (the religion part);
  • Jordan is chasing a bounty when she crash lands;
  • Theme is loneliness, being lost and confused about the history;
  • The only chance to get off the planet is to figure out what happened;
 
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cormack12 said:
  • Takes place 2000 years in an alternate future which diverges from the 80s;
  • New religion becomes very prominent from the 80s with the original 'prophet' on the planet Sempiria;
  • The game focuses on the faith and religion, and how it evolved and changed/bastardised from the 80s to the current day;
  • All this takes place on one planet (the religion part);
  • Jordan is chasing a bounty when she crash lands;
  • Theme is loneliness, being lost and confused about the history;
  • The only chance to get off the planet is to figure out what happened;
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Metroid x GotG

Straight up mashup game.

Surprised there isn't a woke-exclusive bullet point in there for the investors. I guess religion being arbitrary will have to do.

Can we talk about how dumb and impossible it would be to have an 80's themed religion survive for over 2000 years and become the dominant religion of some planet? Because this is a real narrative stretch just to add some 80's nostalgia here.
 
Pretty hyped for this. I'm not really religious myself, but I am also fascinated when games take the chance to explore it in their games. Very interested in this.
 
I don't know, I'm not even a Druckmann hater and I liked TLOU2, but this sounds meh to me... Religion is probably one of the least interesting themes I can think of. I'm willing to give it a chance, though.
 
Punished Miku said:
No dumber than any other religion surviving for 2000 years. Just have to use your imagination a bit.
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You know what, I'll give you the POSSIBILITY that this could be done believably but only if you admit that if the religion revolves around a bunch of 80s themed pop culture memorabilia then it will have been much dumber.
 
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I continue to feel mildly pushed away from this game. Nothing about it sounds interesting to me personally. I do hope it's good for those that are interested in it. It just feels like a big "nope" for me.
 
Zacfoldor said:
You know what, I'll give you the POSSIBILITY that this could be done believably but only if you admit that if the religion revolves around a bunch of 80s themed pop culture memorabilia then it will have been much dumber.
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Well I'm not really out to insult people or their religion. But just think of Mormonism. That was invented fairly recently in Missouri. That's kind of what religion is (even if you just want to say all the ones you don't believe are like this). A story takes hold, people latch onto it, time passes, and it gets ingrained in the culture and their faith. Lots of great sci-fi has explorers landing on a planet and viewing strange religions from an outsider (and non-believer) perspective. Stargate has a lot of cool episodes like this. Probably the fact that the religion is based on the 80s is exactly what will make it fun for us as the audience, since we know what it is, but the planet is going to hold many things as sacred without their original context. I think it sounds cool honestly.
 
cormack12 said:
Not much new, but a little expansion on certain things. Better than nothing right?



  • Takes place 2000 years in an alternate future which diverges from the 80s;
  • New religion becomes very prominent from the 80s with the original 'prophet' on the planet Sempiria;
  • The game focuses on the faith and religion, and how it evolved and changed/was bastardised from the 80s to the current day;
  • All this takes place on one planet (the religion part);
  • Jordan is chasing a bounty when she crash las;
  • Theme is loneliness, being lost and confused about the history;
  • The only chance to get off the planet is to figure out what happened;
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The things I don't need in my games. This might be a pass....was looking like that anyway
 
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I wonder if there will be an alien called Millerian Joelien that you have to beat to death with a laser golf club.
 
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How can you "diverge from the 80s" 2000 years into the future? It's a dumb premise that would only make sense if history had been frozen for nearly that period.

If TLOU had a lot of plot holes with grounded worldbuilding, I expect a level of nonsense on par with movies like Zardoz.
 
I didn't know Alex Garland was involved in Intergalactic. Hype levels just exceeded over 9000!
 
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My main fear is that, like many modern non-religious writers, he won't be able to see religion as it is experienced by most people and will instead treat it like a dogmatic scheme to control power and money. That minority of people exist, sure, as they do in any large social or political group, but I hope it's not another one dimensional take on religion.

When I used to watch The West Wing, I was always struck by how the conservatives were written about. It was like the writers thought they knew how a conservative would think, but any real conservative thought it was ridiculous. That's what I hope doesn't happen with religion in this game.
 
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Punished Miku said:
Still too early to tell if this is accurate I guess. Maybe?

Spoilers: Maybe?
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Yeah, no - my mind went straight to that leak. It looks like it might be dead accurate.

Druckmann can't do anything but "intellectualism" on politics / religion.

ND will sell plenty of games like always, but man - this studio has grown stale and tired IMO. Hate that comment all you want, but it's the same crap over and over again.
 
The concept sounds interesting.
Still not very hyped if it's made in the style of all modern Druckmann games. Constantly having to walk around for 40 minutes doing basically nothing as characters talk about religion isn't what I come to videogames for.

Zacfoldor said:
You know what, I'll give you the POSSIBILITY that this could be done believably but only if you admit that if the religion revolves around a bunch of 80s themed pop culture memorabilia then it will have been much dumber.
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I didn't watch the video, but from the summary posted in the OP I didn't interpret it as being a religion that revolves around 80s pop culture. To me it just sounds like the religion the story revolves around is some new prominent fictional religion that in this world appeared in the 80s (and that's when their timeline deviates from ours).

I'd be cool if someone who watched the video could clarify.
 
Many of us were pretty spot on regarding the theory of some alternate universe, I'm loving what I see so far

Lots of love regarding the 80's design themes
 
Nowa said:
I don't care if Dostoievski himself is reborn to write the plot, I'm not playing as that, I refuse

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But c'mon man. It's tackling themes of religion and faith! Only the most intrepid storytellers would dare tread on those grounds. Set 2000 years in the future, but the parallels are going to be thoughtful and provocative; deftly pointing to the current injustices in global ethno-religious equity, affinity and affirmity institutions. Can you handle that? Be honest.
 
Mr Hyde said:
I didn't know Alex Garland was involved in Intergalactic. Hype levels just exceeded over 9000!
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Shtof said:
Alex Garland is a genius based on Ex Machina alone.
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So much this....I'm officially super interested in this.

Alex Garland is fantastic.

Ex Machina is one of my favorite movies of all time, Annihilation is soooo fucking good and Civil War was pretty great too.
 
  • New religion becomes very prominent from the 80s with the original 'prophet' on the planet Sempiria;
  • The game focuses on the faith and religion, and how it evolved and changed/was bastardised from the 80s to the current day;
  • All this takes place on one planet (the religion part)
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sounds like material for a star trek episode. thinking that kirk & spock'd be better equipped to handle this situation than ms cue ball...
 
simpatico said:
But c'mon man. It's tackling themes of religion and faith! Only the most intrepid storytellers would dare tread on those grounds. Set 2000 years in the future, but the parallels are going to be thoughtful and provocative; deftly pointing to the current injustices in global ethno-religious equity, affinity and affirmity institutions. Can you handle that? Be honest.
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Going from revenge bad to religion bad, truly a visionnaire
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