[unofficial weekender] Return of the VOID

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First time visitor to OTT? Then please introduce yourself in the New Member Thread and look around in the Project System. Then come back and read on…

https://www.beastsofwar.com/forums/topic/introduce-yourselves-new-member-thread/

https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/

Read all of this before you start as it will save you any trouble later.

First thing you must do is make your “pledge”. It can be anything gaming related, big or small, and you don’t even have to finish it. No, in here, happiness is the road. Have fun doing whatever it is, but it is not a race. Accompany your work with pictures or we might think you are do something sinister and just using us for cover.

You are also presented with a few questions. It is to get the conversation started. Try and keep your answers ‘conversational’, no text speak, and certainly no “basically”. This is how we all get to know each other better. While you are here feel free to tell us a story, show a picture, joke, tales of love or woe, or just add your own little bit. This is the whole point…in here it is just us.

If you have never taken part before we may bark and bite, but we also like a cuddle! It is all done in the best possible taste and it is character building. feel free to give as good as you get.

A few other things to note: NO RELIGION & NO POLITICS! Glasgow pub rules are in effect. If you need to make a better point then it is fine, but don’t take the piss. And always keep it civil. This includes no philosophy, no home computer culture wars.

Play plenty of music to go with your work. Loud and through proper speakers. Write us a playlist of things we might not have heard before.

Now, after all of that there is only one ‘real’ rule in here and it cannot be broken: NO DICKS! (Exceptions may be made for little fighting men with little plastic/resin/metal wieners)

And don’t forget the highlights of the weekend: The Weekender on Friday and XLBS on Sunday. And the little show that is the unofficial Hobby Hangout over at twitch.tv

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Question of the week:

• Bringing back the past: with The Walking Dead, VOID and armoured clash coming back. Are you excited about proper reboots of old stuff or can’t you be bothered?

And now back to the show.

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Pledge: make the most of the rest of the year. Aka “have fun”.

My answer should be quite obvious. I like stuff from the 90/00 getting brought back now that I have a fighting chance to get into it. If G’Wullu would have done it right I would have bought some re-released EPIC and Gorka Morka and Mordheim.

Music, something classic

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This weeks pledge is to print my final Raging heroes model (it’s printing as I type) and then undercoat it and start printing. It’s quite a big one to end the project so will likely run into next week for printing.

 

• Bringing back the past: with The Walking Dead, VOID and armoured clash coming back. Are you excited about proper reboots of old stuff or can’t you be bothered? – I was only really aware of GW back then so to me any of these reboots is like a new game to me.

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My pledge is to keep working on next years ‘Bikers’ RPG setting which was going to use modified One Ring rules, but now is going use modified Dragonbane rules. I know there are existing modern rules, but I like to ‘tweak’ things.

Never played any of the games being rebooted. I might have a void miniature that I picked up for an SF RPG and I have some damaged cars for Walking Dead that I bought for post apocalypse RPG.

If a reboot is better then it interests me, but the Free League reboot of One Ring RPG was not as good so I’m going back to first edition.

Reboots coming out of hollywood are generally a pile of crap.

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Pledge: Secret Santa is ready to mail off.  Just need to finalize packing and get it mailed off.

 

Question of the week:

Bringing back the past: The Walking Dead, VOID, and Armored Clash coming back.

Are you excited about proper reboots of old stuff or can’t you be bothered?

 

Answer: Well, if it was something that I wanted and couldn’t get ahold of then I’m excited.  Otherwise, I’ll just have to see if I develop an interest in it and or discover that I need it in my hobby life.

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Reboots coming out of hollywood are generally a pile of crap.

@pagan8th  no argument here. The Judge Dredd reboot was far less good than the Sly Stalone one 😉

@templar007 that’s the most zen answer possible. Good on you 🙂

It’s Sunday, XLBS time. Let’s see what happened there. Also since my Secret Santa has arrived and was unpacked here is the project for it: https://www.beastsofwar.com/project/1838987/

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Wonderful (though rainy) Monday morning to you lot. Even with getting wet while driving to work I was greeted warmly by a Kickstarter that had arrived. It’s the “Dwarf Adventurers Miniatures” KS.

They even have a tiny @dignity (far left) and a @brennon (middle) XD

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cs-minis/dwarf-adventurers-miniatures-for-pandp-or-tabletop

The picture is obviously nicked from the KS page but have no fear, these will reappear (at some point)

Now: coffee

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In general, I’ve been quietly impressed with recent reboots.
We expect them to be rubbish. And the ones that are, are easily forgotten. But now and again, there’s a reboot and it’s not bad. Good even.

I quite liked the rebooted Star Trek movies. Just like when William Shatner took over directing the original film series, the rebooted ones got silly very quickly (that schtick with the motorbike was lazy and predictable, just as the thing with the whales in the 80s was). But in the main, the original reboot (not the rebooted sequels) was surprisingly good.

The rebooted V series was rubbish. So I forgot it even existed.
Likewise the rebooted Judge Dredd.

Was Rogue One a Star Wars “reboot”?
The prequel trilogy were probably the first “reboot” of Star Wars and they were so dreadful, they’re easily forgotten.
But the later sequels… expected them to be awful and thy weren’t absolutely horrendous – another successful “reboot” in my eyes.

The recent “reboot” of 80s metal, however – thanks to Bandcamp pushing ever more “retro hard rock” my way – I’m all in favour of.

So I can understand some people seeing games being re-released and cheering and clapping and feeling like Xmas can’t come soon enough. While others might roll their eyes and grumble “it’s not like it was in my day” at exactly the same news.
I was delighted when Blood Bowl started to get some love again in recent years.
Then actually played it again and remembered that it’s not actually a brilliant game.
So reboots of old stuff?
Good if you like that kind of thing, I guess.

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I never was aware that they did V again.

Reboots can be nice, even when different (see Battlestar Galactica. Different kind of show still “in the spirit” and all)

Rogue One I wouldn’t consider a reboot as it’s more dark and “grown up” than any previous movies. (same as the series Andor)

Blood Bowl (and Battletech) don’t really count as reboots as the core is still the same after all these years (though I’m out of the BB loop for a while they might have just rebooted it in small steps)

It’s Tuesday! 10 more days until the end of the working year.

Huzzah!

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Wednesday just went away and now it’s Thursday already?

FLOCK!

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Just a few more weeks and you’ll be replacing Wednesday with January and Thursday with April!

Didn’t get much hobby don’t at all this week despite my promises.

However, the back extension on my house is finally wallpapered, after five years and finally we’ve got skirting boards in there.

Miniatures painted = 0. Brownie points earned = loads.

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What are weeks? I recently just started counted “sleep phases” because time is relative and shit 😉

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I still haven’t finished my pledge from last week (I think it was also my pledge from the week before) so I think I’ll refrain from pledging this week…

Regarding game reboots: I’m not familiar with VOID and haven’t played Walking Dead (never seen the TV show either) so I can’t comment on those. Two recent game reboots/2nd editions that recently did the rounds on Kickstarter got my attention, as they were both games I play: Gangs of Rome and Dead Man’s Hand. These might be too recent to be considered true “reboots,” I think they fall more into the “second edition” category. The Gangs of Rome one interested me, as it seemed like a major retooling of the rules that adds emphasis the things I like about that game, while clearing up (or doing away with) the things I didn’t like, so well done there. With Dead Man’s Hand, it seemed like mainly a rules consolidation without any major changes — the main value add is the plastic buildings, which are nice but didn’t interest me over much, so I gave that one a pass. In conclusion: if a reboot brings something new to the table, it’s more likely to catch my interest.

Regarding TV/Movie reboots: A lot of the material that is sometimes called “reboot” isn’t really. It’s a continuation taking place either before or after the original (as with the Disney Star Wars stuff, or even post-2005 Doctor Who). Occasionally it’s a new thing based on something that previously had an adaptation. For example, Dredd isn’t a remake or reboot of the Stallone film, they’re both based on the same source material but are otherwise unconnected.

As has already been mentioned, I would hold up Battlestar Galactica as a near-perfect example of a reboot done right. Its recognizably the same thing (rag-tag human fleet in danger of annihilation by Cylons) but it covers a lot of new ground, and it updates the material for modern audiences. A not-quite-as-good example would be the recent Planet of the Apes movies.

I think rebooted properties often fail because they want to have it both ways, as with the Terminator series which keeps trying to recast the characters so they can change the story to make it work better as an ongoing franchise rather than a stand-alone film, but at the same time they want Arnold to be in it, so they come up with increasingly silly reasons why a killer robot would look older.

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A lot of the material that is sometimes called “reboot” isn’t really. It’s a continuation taking place either before or after the original

True, wording really seems to have fallen of the cliff. Regardless if you look at movies, games or videogames its “reboot” here, “directors cut” there and a bag of “ultimate edition”.

Regarding reboots: No new thread this week. News and all is about “old new things” or “new old things” so why not recycle this thread? Also my brain is empty. Still no idea for dungenalia… coffee needed.

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@sundancer here is an idea for you “Dung ‘n Alien”…

It’s the adventure of a xenomorph lost in the maze of sewers under London as he has a really shitty time…

Weird moment ends… tries to think of something for own dungeonalia…

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