What about an online cartoon?
By
Forbin_Project,
Posted on: 2009-07-03 22:24 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Okay, I'll grab this one...
While in concept this would be a great idea... in action I'm not seeing it happen. The main problem can be summed up in one word:
Profitability.
Web comics are popular because the production costs are relatively low. Art supplies and web space is pretty much it. You get a solid enough fan base and the donations alone will at least see you breaking even. The more popular ones allow their artists to work on it full time.
When you're talking actual animated cartoons the production costs sky-rocket dramatically. There would have to be a way to make money off the site. Or at the very least, if NCSoft produced them, a way to link positive advertising to it. If the only people watching the cartoon were the ones already playing the game... well.. hard to argue any benefit there.
So... excellent idea.. and I would definitely watch it... but unlikely.
Okay, serious time is over... we now return you to your regularly scheduled Steelclaw... already in progress...
... and dirty Johnny said "wrecked 'em? It freakin' killed 'em!"
My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw
This'd make a great fan project though. Even machinima with voices, I mean c'mon.
yeah i know it all ends with money ...... so i dont see it happening either but would still love to see it jump off. also, i think more than our community would watch it, and it would bring tons of players to the game i think. But production costs for a cartoon would hender its coming into reality. I agree.
But could they sell scripts and story plots? I think so.
awesome feedback steel
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I would love to see Rooster Teeth do an animated web comic for CoH.
i liked the comic
they should pick it up again
Growing up in the 80's was awesome! We had G.I. Joe smashing Cobra, Sgt. Slaughter clothes lining 25 B.A.T.'s, Snake Eyes round housing Tomax's face into Zamont's head in the same big brawl fight sequence while Cobra Commander calls the infamous "RETREAT!" because hes lost, again. We got to decide if it was his poor leadership, or his 400 Cobra Trooprs and Vipers shooting and not hitting a single stationary target 10 yards in front of them!
There was of course, Transformers. Prime and Megachops duked it out while the same 12 characters foiled each others engeuinious schemes to gain supremacy and find the damn energon and get it on back to the crib. Uhh thats Cybertron. But the sound that they made when they transformed was soooo cool. It touched me and I one day will be a 77 year old man waiting for Transformers Two Hundred and Fourty Fifteenf sequal to come out in the movies, trien to live another week till it comes out. heh .....
Anyways we also had He-Man, Thundercats, Ninja Turtles, Spiderman & Friends, The Justice League, Mask, Silver Hawks, Marshal Bravestar, Dungeons & Dragons, Go Bots, Cops, Bionic 6, X - Men, Hulk, Mr. T, Space Ghost and it goes on and on.
Now its 2009. Might as well say 10, and we got this awesome game that we play. So in depth with a vast cast of characters and story lines that it be a definite success! Also the fact that there is already so so sososososososos much in depth back story that a cartoon is basicly just not on the board, but would have a plethera of options on storys and characters. Gangster, or comedy? Team features and cameos. From the A.E. to the Paragon History.
Ladies and gents of the forth coming wave of critiques, we would all have so much fun with with a project like that. I'm sure it would have problems and "ob'stackles" to climb. I just know it would be huge on the net.
any ways, just a thought.....
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