There was a time the place the thought of a TV or film adaptation to your favorite recreation would fill you with dread—however with exhibits like Castlevania, Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunners, Netflix: The Witcher, HBO’s The Final of Us, and Arcane bucking that pattern? I feel a Deep Rock Galactic present might be fairly rattling good.
As do some unnamed manufacturing studios, in line with the CEO of developer Ghost Ship Video games Søren Lundgaard in an interview with NME final week. “We had been speaking about it, and we’ve additionally been approached. It’s positively viable, however we are able to’t do every part directly … We might wish to be concerned as effectively. If we may simply say ‘eh, you do it’, and never be concerned, then it will occur, however that wouldn’t be the suitable factor to do.”
It is an fascinating pitch, to make sure. Whereas Deep Rock Galactic is not what you’d name story-rich, its moment-to-moment vibes and environment are immaculate. Spin-offs like Castlevania and Edgerunners have informed distinctive tales which both ignore or add canon to their respective video games, and a story of some ale-swigging lads mining the reaches of deep house seems like a good time.
Nonetheless, it is solely honest that Ghost Ship Video games will get a say and, as Lundgaard mentions—the studio’s at present busy with different initiatives together with Deep Rock: Survivor, which PC Gamer’s personal Robin Valentine tells us is “one of the best auto-shooter since Vampire Survivors.” If it hits even a measure of Deep Rock Galactic’s success, the studio could have its fingers full for some time.
I additionally fear {that a} poorly-handled TV adaptation may scupper what’s in any other case one of many extra healthful communities in gaming. Do we actually wish to saddle the easy pleasures of rock and stone with on-line discourse? Nonetheless, even when Lundgaard was contemplating signing off on such a challenge, it would be an extended whereas earlier than we might be handled to the delights of contemporary beard SFX. Till then, there’s all the time the mines.
