Hunter: The Utter Waste of Space

[thessalian]

Hunter: The Reckoning -- the movie.

Oh, there's going to be a reckoning, all right. Given the tendency to make movie characters uber, by the time the film starts, they're not going to be so much hunters as hunted.

And yes, I've heard of tabletop Hunter games where everyone ends up uber; they wind up as half-angels or some such similar bollocks. The sorts of things you can't get unless you've been playing for years. That. Is not. The point! I'm seeing Hunter as a game you run fortnightly for six months maximum before another bunch of hunters comes along and frags your uber arse! If you really want to have a long-running Hunter game, when your characters become uber, roll up new starter level people, hand the old characters over to the GM to NPC, and hunt yourselves. It's not ideal, and you do know your old characters' strengths and weaknesses, and you probably don't want to kill them anyway after twelve or so sessions' worth of play, but at least you're still keeping to the point of the whole thing.

And yet Hollywood will have uber-hunters so they can go after the baddies and look impressive. Feh.

Comments

[aberrantangels]

It's (potentially) worse than that, sweet bird:

a) It's based on the console game(s), not the tabletop version, so it's likely to be focused on Zealots;
b) It's directed by the man responsible for the House of the Dead movie, so (judging by what he did to HotD and Alone in the Dark) any resemblance to the source material will likely be pure coincidence.

Still, at least you've got until next year to convince the SBC posse not to drag you to this homesick abortion (™ sclerotic_rings).

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, Hunter has done such a sterling job of winning over the WoD fanbase already, I'm sure a movie about how they kick butt and take names is really going to convince all the non-combat monkeys that this game does indeed have worth. *sigh* Just when I was starting to build some respect for the game, too.

If this thing turns out to be more than Schwarzenegger: the Black Trenchcoat, I'll eat my fuzzy black top hat.