A few years ago I’d have wanted a series too. Now? You get to choose HBO, Netflix, or Amazon. All three have a better chance at fucking up an IP than doing right by them at this point.
I think small(er) studio gaming is at a really good place where they can punch above their weight right now.
Maybe I’m just a pessimist, but I think there’s a better chance of us getting a pleasant surprise from a video game than a TV show now.
Maybe it would be better to have a Mistborn game that takes place in the Mistborn universe than a retelling of Vin’s story, or Kelsier’s. Maybe another attempted coup on the Lord Ruler, or something set after the events of the first book but before the end of the third one. Trying to avoid spoilers but if you’ve read them, you know the events I’m speaking of. Sanderson kind of boxed in when a game could reasonably take place. No one seriously attempted to take on the Lord Ruler before Kelsier (the first time, when he was thrown in the mines) and after the third book… why, you might as well just go the Wax & Wayne era (which might be better, have kind of a Dishonoured kind of setting). Maybe an original story in the W&W era.
Era 2 would be fun. You could have guns and/or the player be a misting/ferring/twinborn and then maybe have a quest happen where you become full mistborn.
Or you could do Era 1 but have the game set like 1000 years before Kelsier. Just say the events were suppressed by Rashek and the canton of Inquisition.
A few years ago I’d have wanted a series too. Now? You get to choose HBO, Netflix, or Amazon. All three have a better chance at fucking up an IP than doing right by them at this point.
I think small(er) studio gaming is at a really good place where they can punch above their weight right now.
Maybe I’m just a pessimist, but I think there’s a better chance of us getting a pleasant surprise from a video game than a TV show now.
Fair.
Maybe it would be better to have a Mistborn game that takes place in the Mistborn universe than a retelling of Vin’s story, or Kelsier’s. Maybe another attempted coup on the Lord Ruler, or something set after the events of the first book but before the end of the third one. Trying to avoid spoilers but if you’ve read them, you know the events I’m speaking of. Sanderson kind of boxed in when a game could reasonably take place. No one seriously attempted to take on the Lord Ruler before Kelsier (the first time, when he was thrown in the mines) and after the third book… why, you might as well just go the Wax & Wayne era (which might be better, have kind of a Dishonoured kind of setting). Maybe an original story in the W&W era.
Era 2 would be fun. You could have guns and/or the player be a misting/ferring/twinborn and then maybe have a quest happen where you become full mistborn.
Or you could do Era 1 but have the game set like 1000 years before Kelsier. Just say the events were suppressed by Rashek and the canton of Inquisition.