All paths lead to Pennywise?
So if you seen the recent trailer there has been theories and tinfoil hats that say Pennywise will be the 10th anniversary killer.
What would you feel if Pennywise became the 10th anniversary killer?
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I would be so happy! He's one of my favorite Horror Icon's other than Sadako.
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After we got the animated teaser and another number string I stopped knowing what to think. The theming and clues are impressively hard to extract concrete meaning from.
Either Jason or Pennywise make sense as the 10th anniversary not just because they're probably the two most known horror villains not on the roster along with Predator, but they're also the characters Mathieu Mcote has admitted BHVR wasn't able to get ahold of earlier in the game's life.
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Next min its gonna be another skull merchant situation where it comes out and we are like "oh really this is what we are getting?"
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Indifference is how I'll feel but as long it isn't Vader or a dinosaur I'll be all right with just about anything.
The trailer didn't give me Pennywise energy at all though. The imagery involved a lot of fractured self stuff. Different reflections in broken glass and multiple shadows, as well as disappearing and reappearing headphones and glasses.
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i really doubt we will get him - but would be pleasently surprised if we ended up getting him. Pennywise and Jason are the last remaing ones that just objectively speaking have no other reason not to be in DbD other than Licensing issues.
As for the animated video, i do think it is directly referencing Pennywise. But not to tease him as (Next) playable killer but to draw parallels between IT and the Entity, maybe even as a homage. There is no doubt that BHVR/the devs are fan of Stephen King, Pennywise has kind of an open invitation and it was very likely heavily influencing the creation of DbD Lore and the Entity itself.
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as someone enjoying the newly released dino in rivals, why the dino hate D:
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is it possible though? Stephen King is known for hating anything to do with video games, not that i wouldnt look forward to our favorite Clown
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the statements that Stephen King hates anything to with videogames isnt completely true. He has stated concerns about the graphical violence in games and other stuff but that could now be an outdated view of his..
Btw he has given permission to use his quote for Alan Wake’s opening, so.. its at least something i guess.
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Yes. Possible.
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Yeah, I was excited when saw a vid saying the trailer indicated Pennywise, but I didn't get that from it at all. Hope I am wrong, but I think it's a whole lot of hopefully grasping at straws.
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This whole excercise feels like people taking what they want it to be and projecting it onto what's given. "How can I make this set of numbers into a 13!"
Because it doesn't pass the vibe check. I don't want a regular animal chasing people around. It's goofy. And Jurassic World is a gross, corporate option, just like SW.
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I agree, but I thought even the Jason/13 stuff was way more compelling than the Pennywise stuff. It just seems like a total nothingburger.
Also on the dino subject, I agree. I don't think a killer should be a member of a collective or an animal without a distinct personality. I even feel that way about the Xenomorph, and I'm a massive Alien(s) fan.
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I'm the other way around and I'd honestly rather prefer Vader or a Dinosaur. That's not to say I don't think Jason or IT don't deserve a place in DBD, they absolutely do. I just find them to be less interesting as potential chapters, despite being unambiguously horror related.
If we do get something from Star Wars or Jurassic Park, of course I'd be disappointed if it was sourced from anything other than the original Lucas / Spielberg productions. I definitely don't want anything from Jurassic World in the game. But if we're honest with ourselves, is there really a successful horror franchise on earth that hasn't been milked dry, run into the ground or otherwise corporatised to some degree by now? I don't think so. There are quite a few more Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Saw films than there really should have been.
I don't think BHVR would make a non-horror or horror adjacent chapter for the 10th Anniversary, anyway. Though I do think people are really desperate to see clues where there are none. They're all red herrings imo and I don't think there have been any real clues in the teaser trailers at all.
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I'd be thrilled
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fair enough. I suppose jaws is out for you too then, eh? I'd love jaws over jurassic if I had to pick haha
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I'm of two minds about xeno. I'm also a fan of the franchise, and the first film is important and deserves representation, but it is indeed a hive-mind-based animal. I will say, at least demogorgon and xeno are otherworldly creatures. Personally, I'd like an Engineer as a killer, because at least that's an intelligent, will-motivated being. But I know Prometheus isn't everyone's favorite Alien film (even though it's mine).
In regards to IPs being milked dry, I agree. This is kind of a bigger conversation and my opinion is probably not popular, especially amongst horror fans who only skim the mainstream surface of the genre, but I personally think slashers (and distinct visual iconography in place of substance) ruined horror for decades, Scream being one of the most detrimental films in the genre's history. Horror is only now just recovering from 80s bubblegum stupidity, 90s satires, and 00s soulless remakes, and that's mostly because of the heavy lifting done by A24 (despite Blumhouse's constant efforts to keep the genre stupid). And these are the eras most modern people are familiar with. The only really great and important piece of cinema that's represented in this game, to me, is TCM.
If I were to pick a couple ever-so-slightly more offbeat but still well known and visually striking IPs that would mesh okay, I'd go for Pumpkinhead and Phantasm. In terms of importance, I'd say Psycho and Silence of the Lambs, but these are hard to do, being films featuring regular men with knives. But with the direction this game has moved—away from more established franchises and into younger ones like Tokyo Ghoul and FNAF—I don't have very high hopes.
I mean, I'd rather have Jaws. That at least passes the vibe check by being a Very Important Horror Film.
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I'm still seeing a ton of licenced speculation, but the trailer definitely struck me as being an original release?
Kinda hope I'm wrong cause people are gonna be pissed if the 10th anniversary isn't a big name, especially since we already have a high profile original creation coming up in Chorus of Sin.
All I can think is, what the hell could that teaser have been promoting if it's licensed, and why the hell would BHVR make this an arg if it isn't?
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I don't think Stephen King is the type of guy to do video games. As much as I love him, he is kind of stingy with what he signs his stuff away too.
If pennywise was the anniversary though, I wouldn't have many gripes to it. I still would like for it to be Jason, though.
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Alternate Reality Game. It's just a label for things being present inuniverse that we in the real world need to figure out.
An example is something like a movie or show that has a scene with a website. If the creator of the media wanted, they could create a real world website to match the one in the movie/show. If there's a puzzle in the in the website that leads to secret details about the next movie/season, the website can be a considered an arg.
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Realistically speaking, the odds of anything Stephen King related getting added is less than negative.
There hasn't been a single piece of video game content of his work in the last 2½ decades, and even companies like Warner Bros who has done movie adaptations of his stories, haven't done anything video game related to IT either, not even for their own games.
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It is very unlikely, yeah, but i still kinda hope for it.
There isnt really any recent statements from him that suggest it isnt possible and if you look at his older statements (haven’t seen all of course) then thats also kinda outdated, as he was speaking against the visual portrayal of violence in videogames.. but having watched the first episode of the Welcome To Derry Show… Uhm.. DbD doesnt seem more graphical or violent than that?
And this is the 10 year anniversary, we have gotten licenses that were said to be almost impossible (Alien and I think Fnaf at some point?) in the past, Stephen King and especially IT are truly significant in Horror.. it would be cool and kinda not completely impossible?
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There also isn't any recent statements that suggests he has changed his stance on video games, and you need to remember that bhvr have tried obtaining a Stephen King license for the last 9-10 years by now, all to no avail.
Also Alien was never impossible according to bhvr, they were just waiting for when they had to tools to adapt the franchise. Plus, it's worth pointing out that they had already had a working relationship with Disney for years, even before DBD, as they've done work for hire jobs for other companies, with Disney being one they've done games for multiple times now in the past. They still do work for hire to this day also.
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