Rifts Path of the Storm Question
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currently reading it. Boy's magic using village is overrun by DBs. The coalition comes in wipes the DBs out, boy is taken by a CS grunt and hands him over to an orphanage. Boy becomes CS SF but gets caught up with a group of magic users and DBs to stop an evil wizard from the fallen Tolkeen.
One thing I've disagreed with is the presentation of the coming of the rifts. According to my Rifts book, the rifts came as a result of a nuclear war which caused billions of deaths all at once and all this energy boosted the ley liens and created rifts.
the screenplay has it that we were not using magic and the build up of the energy from the ley lines without release caused an explosion that destroyed the world. Blah
In general its good. A bit formulaic. I think sometimes it uses too many gaming parlance without using independant perspectives on some given things. but good so far
One thing I've disagreed with is the presentation of the coming of the rifts. According to my Rifts book, the rifts came as a result of a nuclear war which caused billions of deaths all at once and all this energy boosted the ley liens and created rifts.
the screenplay has it that we were not using magic and the build up of the energy from the ley lines without release caused an explosion that destroyed the world. Blah
In general its good. A bit formulaic. I think sometimes it uses too many gaming parlance without using independant perspectives on some given things. but good so far
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It's ok. Story is a bit rushed at spots. Some of hte minor plot points are easy to figure out.
Overall though I thought it was worth the buy. You also get stats of the characters in the script.
Overall though I thought it was worth the buy. You also get stats of the characters in the script.
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Panomas wrote:Rifts Path of the Storm-
What is the plot?
Was it any good?
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Yes, it is very good. You should buy it for the Chuck Walton cover alone!!!
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the NPC stuff and the art is good
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I just say the storyline was very predictable.
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Didn't the boy go to become a CS officer and the sister go to become a Lay Line walker and then they end up in the same place later on down the road?
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Pepsi Jedi wrote:Didn't the boy go to become a CS officer and the sister go to become a Lay Line walker and then they end up in the same place later on down the road?
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I really liked it!
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Mech-Viper Prime wrote:I just say the storyline was very predictable.
Agreed. Although, I was amused (and sort of happy) that they needed to add new equipment to make the story work.
I can't figure out why Palladium can't use canon rules for NPC's and their equipment.
You would think that they could get by using bionics and grenades already statted out.
Oh well, more things to add to my compiled charts!
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I don't think they needed new gear. Its fine for players, but to the larger viewing audience its all going to be new
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KillWatch wrote:I don't think they needed new gear. Its fine for players, but to the larger viewing audience its all going to be new
Exactly KW, that was kind of my point.
They should of mostly focused on "staples" of what we know about Rifts.
They didn't really need to add the extra stuff to make the story work.
Otherwise, the story was a bit straight forward and predictable.
I think that they should have had a brief prologue of how Rifts Earth came this way.
Include how the Coalition States is trying to regain humanity and show how they took it too far.
Then, maybe show a story of how a group of adventurers (mercs, maybe) are struggling to protect some "innocent" D-Bees from a overly cruel Colonel.
Include a few magic casters and maybe have the finale involve how the evil Colonel gets swallowed into a Rift that one of the hero D-Bee's opens to save the innocent villagers at the last moments.
Anyway, it felt a little too "Star-Wars"-esque for my liking.
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If it were unpredictable, it'd probably break people notion of the setting "Oh, how on earth could that happen?". It's difficult to be both true to setting/predictable, yet unpredictable. Unless you start writing new setting.
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Remeber the audience of the RIfts movie is far more than the few current Rifts fans so the setting needs to be explained only as much as the story requires.
I truly believe that a simple story is the way to go and the cool visuals of the movie are its selling point. Remember star Wars was THE most cliche story ever - farm boy learns magic from and old wizard with his maical sword he storms the castle with his thief buddy to save the princess from the dark knight. which is a massive reason why it worked so well.
I truly believe that a simple story is the way to go and the cool visuals of the movie are its selling point. Remember star Wars was THE most cliche story ever - farm boy learns magic from and old wizard with his maical sword he storms the castle with his thief buddy to save the princess from the dark knight. which is a massive reason why it worked so well.
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The Dark Elf wrote:I truly believe that a simple story is the way to go and the cool visuals of the movie are its selling point. Remember star Wars was THE most cliche story ever - farm boy learns magic from and old wizard with his maical sword he storms the castle with his thief buddy to save the princess from the dark knight. which is a massive reason why it worked so well.
It totally was not!
It was a totally a swashbuckling theme - galleons, racing across the seas...
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The Dark Elf wrote:Remeber the audience of the RIfts movie is far more than the few current Rifts fans so the setting needs to be explained only as much as the story requires.
I truly believe that a simple story is the way to go and the cool visuals of the movie are its selling point. Remember star Wars was THE most cliche story ever - farm boy learns magic from and old wizard with his maical sword he storms the castle with his thief buddy to save the princess from the dark knight. which is a massive reason why it worked so well.
Valid point and being that the script of Path of the Storm was slated and submitted as a script to pitch to a Hollywood ideology in mind, I completely agree with this assessment.
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This is when someone brings up Campbel and Hero with A thousand faces.. .right? "The Hero's Journey" and all that? lol
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Panomas wrote:Pepsi Jedi wrote:This is when someone brings up Campbel and Hero with A thousand faces.. .right? "The Hero's Journey" and all that? lol
Joseph Campbell?
Yeah. You didn't like Joseph Campbell?
Oh I very much did. Did reports on him and his works in college. It's just pretty well known, to the point of people pointing it out now, is sorta tellin' people stuff they already know.
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