Absurd Ventures, the sport and inventive studio began by Rockstar Video games co-founder Dan Houser again in 2021, has proven a first-look picture of characters from its upcoming Absurdaverse setting, and introduced an in-development sport set there.
“A really first have a look at only a few characters from the ABSURDAVERSE. Put together to fulfill some new sorts of heroes (and watch them endure). Extra data to come back this 12 months in regards to the first animation initiatives and about our authentic story-driven action-comedy journey sport set within the Absurdaverse, now in improvement at Absurd Ventures,” says the announcement publish.
I am not completely certain what that style is, to be frank. “Motion-comedy journey” is so broad a style that it could possibly be God of Conflict (however humorous), or it could possibly be that shooter the Rick and Morty individuals did. Figuring out Houser’s previous work, although, we are able to know that the core would be the laughs. The one factor we are able to reliably draw from the picture is a mixture of fantasy tropes and modern-day individuals—skeleton dude and businessman subsequent to one another. That is about it.
Personally, these character drawings are aggressively stock-stereotype-comedy-coded. They’re ridiculously generic to the purpose that I can inform the first joke for each character simply taking a look at it—annoying child, small man who’s match, plus-size lady, variety stereotype lady, barbarian, obnoxious fashionable man, competent-yet-ignored lady, annoying magician/inventor. I may go on, although I am open to being stunned by the standard of no matter comes out. I am simply not betting, based mostly on the title and on the picture, that something revolutionary goes to occur with regardless of the “ABSURDAVERSE” finally ends up being.
To be frank, this seems like an virtually clear try to provide from zero a mass-marketable world to promote merch about. It simply tastes industrial, relatively than artistic. Like a webseries from 2012 that obtained a single overfunded season and was subsequently cancelled. Hopefully for the sake of all these individuals from the Immortals of Aveum studio that now work at Absurd Ventures it is higher than that and I’ve to eat my phrases.
