Board 8 > Stupid question: Which of these four franchises fared best in the 2010s?

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LinkMarioSamus
01/21/21 11:26:24 AM
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Which franchise managed the 2010s best?




These four franchises all strike me as having similar appeal (in subject matter at least), and have had similar trajectories in the 2010s. To think Metroid is probably the runaway winner...

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colliding
01/21/21 11:33:53 AM
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I voted for Alien because at least Prometheus was pretty to look at

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LinkMarioSamus
01/21/21 11:35:46 AM
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I guess Prometheus and Covenant aren't as notoriously reviled as Other M? But Covenant underperformed financially leaving Metroid the franchise with the more sure future somehow. Mostly I'm just not terribly surprised Nintendo seems clueless about what to do with Metroid when Hollywood is just as bad regarding similar properties.

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Leonhart4
01/21/21 11:35:52 AM
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Ah so we've returned to Other M topics I see

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bryans7
01/21/21 11:40:21 AM
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Leonhart4 posted...
Ah so we've returned to Other M topics I see

I would have lost the bet on whether or not Star Wars was on the list.

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trdl23
01/21/21 11:42:12 AM
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Alien because Alien Isolation was actually great

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LinkMarioSamus
01/21/21 11:47:24 AM
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Oh right I was only thinking of the movies, d'oh!

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redrocket
01/21/21 11:47:53 AM
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Wheres the poll option for, take the lot of them out behind the shed and shoot them?

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LinkMarioSamus
01/21/21 11:48:39 AM
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bryans7 posted...
I would have lost the bet on whether or not Star Wars was on the list.

Was considering asking whether Metroid or Star Wars has a brighter future ahead, but I figured with how excited is over a certain cameo in The Mandalorian SW would take it fairly easily.

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redrocket
01/21/21 11:49:49 AM
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Star Wars as a whole is looking fine for now.

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LinkMarioSamus
01/21/21 12:12:43 PM
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Although to be fair if you take Alien video games into account you'd have to bring up Colonial Marines so uh.

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Lightning Strikes
01/21/21 12:32:05 PM
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Alien, very easily. Two overall well received, profitable movies, and a very well received game in Isolation, all those short films and even a play. The next film is already confirmed as well as a TV series, it had a bit of a scare with the Disney purchase of Fox but its future is very secure.

To put it a different way, compare Alien in the 2010s to Alien in the 90s and 2000s. It is ending this decade a significantly stronger franchise than it started it. Yeah Colonial Marines sucked but also that had been going on for years by that point anyway.

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LinkMarioSamus
01/23/21 7:55:47 AM
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Yeah I thought that Other M, Federation Force, and Samus Returns would be enough to top Prometheus, Colonial Marines, Isolation, and Covenant. But hey at least Metroid had a better decade than Terminator and Predator! Probably not saying much. There were some things I wanted to rant about regarding Other M and The Predator.

I made this topic because after getting into the other three franchises it felt interesting to me that Metroid has had a somewhat similar trajectory.

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pjbasis
01/23/21 8:30:55 AM
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Lightning Strikes
01/23/21 11:52:57 AM
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Most people liked Prometheus! It got good scores in all the critic and audience metrics, and it was a financial success. One of the clearest cases of a vocal minority I can think of.

This is true of Covenant as well to a lesser extent, that turned a profit but not as much as hoped, and had a bit more of a mixed response but still net positive. Its still the third best Alien film (excluding Prometheus that is)!

Colonial Marines should have just stayed cancelled.

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jcgamer107
01/23/21 11:58:03 AM
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colliding posted...
I voted for Alien because at least Prometheus was pretty to look at

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