Expanded DBD Universe? DBD Part 2?

AshInTheTallGrass · October 2021

Welp, I got a whole lotta ideas spinning in my head about a possible sequel to DBD. So I'll try to be as short and linear as possible.

Should DBD expand as a universe? What about licensing deals for some series about the characters (like a Trickster anime? Or an anthology for each Killer/Survivor similar to Love, Death + Robots?)? What about a new DBD game altogether? Maybe one with an online and story-based version? Story-based being where you're trying to break free from the Entity once and for all. What about Killers battling each other, or a group consisting of some Survivors and some Killers "battling" (literally and by doing objectives like gens) to see which team gets out first? (Obviously something like the last one is so different that it could spark an immediate "yes" reaction or "no" reaction, before serious thought is given as to how that could work).

What do you guys think? Do you want a new DBD game? Would you watch shows about the characters?

ThiccBudhha · October 2021

I would watch a Trickster anime. Plus Yun Jin could official earn the title of waifu. This is a win-win.

AshInTheTallGrass · October 2021

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2537812#Comment_2537812

Honestly, why there isn't a Trickster anime in the works is beyond me . . . at the very least it should be getting shopped around. It would take a while for it to go into production, let alone air.

Maybe BHVR is doing that but they won't say until a deal is signed. One can only hope.

humanbeing1704 · October 2021

I wouldn't mind the game becoming more storyesque

It always feels like they hold back on good lore

Huge_Bush · October 2021

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2537832#Comment_2537832

Probably because anime production is expensive and there isn’t much of a guarantee that a lot of Dbd fans are anime fans. They’d have to see that there is a huge demand for it and figure out how to make money out of it.

AshInTheTallGrass · October 2021

https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/2537837#Comment_2537837

I see your point, but I look at it differently. The cost of production would be the network's, not BHVR's, so shopping it around isn't much of a financial hit. I was thinking Netflix, for example, would be a good streaming platform to produce it. They're expanding with original anime content, and they're picking up more and more Kdramas (as well as producing their own), so there's a demand for Korean-based content already in their subscriber base.

And I don't think you have to be a DBD fan to want to see the anime. The story wouldn't be a DBD story, it'd be a Trickster and Yun Jin story. The entity wouldn't be a part of it, in my mind. A Kpop star with a nefarious secret, the people around him slowly getting more suspicious, unsolved crimes piling up... there's so much that could be done.