Felicia Day to Star in Dragon Age Web Series [UPDATED]
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For those interested in yet more Ms. Day, Kotaku has a video interview with her about the project as well:
http://kotaku.com/#!5763207/felicia-day-teaches-us-proper-dragon-age-dagger-techniques
http://kotaku.com/#!5763207/felicia-day-teaches-us-proper-dragon-age-dagger-techniques
Remember, she was in Buffy so she has that sort of experience. Sounds like it's going to have that kinda feel.StriderShinryu said:
Love her and love Dragon Age so I'm excited!
I love Day, but the most exciting thing about this piece of news to me is that this is going to be a professionally made web series, which means web series are starting to become a serious medium for smaller entrepeneurs who want to tell a short narrative but don't have enough money and/or material for a TV show. Longer than a movie, shorter than a serial, relatively free of editorial control and (hopefully) immediately available worldwide, this is a good one.
My backlog of games is so great I don't dare even thinking about playing either Dragon Age, though.
My backlog of games is so great I don't dare even thinking about playing either Dragon Age, though.
So your argument is that two novels, a flash game, a tabletop roleplaying game, an anime film, a comic, and a series of action figures are fine, but a web series will "fuck the franchise"?Roperius said:
Even if it's awful, Dragon Age will be received based on its major games. It's hard to imagine any of the numerous tie-ins damaging its brand much.
Felicia Day is pretty fun and I really enjoyed The Guild but I'm not sure how I feel about this. I sometimes enjoyed playing Dragon Age, but I don't really feel like it created the kind of world that warrants the production of this kind of peripheral media. While there were good elements, it was really just a spin on something that had been done a million times in one form or another, and it didn't really add anything new to the genre at all. I think the only reason that games get away with this sort of generic fantasy setting is because we're willing to cut them a lot more slack because they're an interactive medium. If this was a stand alone series where an elven assassin hunts down a mage I feel like you'd have to wake most people up halfway through the article because they'd been sent to sleep by the sheer genericness of the plot and the setting. But put the Dragon Age stamp on it and it gets a pass. I'll admit that I haven't read any of the other stuff that's been created around the Dragon Age brand, because the game didn't really do enough for me to make me interested in looking into the franchise any further.
Consider instead two upcoming adaptations of fantasy novels - HBO's take on George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones and Ron Howard's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower. Those are both fantasy series that (in my opinion at least) really did add something new to the genre, and are interesting and different enough to warrant the projects that are being set up to work on them.
Back to this series to finish off - I like Felicia Day, I enjoyed Dragon Age and I'll probably watch this, even though I don't really get why it exists. Just my opinion though, I'm willing to change my mind if the series is good and if Dragon Age 2 impresses me in some way.
Consider instead two upcoming adaptations of fantasy novels - HBO's take on George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones and Ron Howard's adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower. Those are both fantasy series that (in my opinion at least) really did add something new to the genre, and are interesting and different enough to warrant the projects that are being set up to work on them.
Back to this series to finish off - I like Felicia Day, I enjoyed Dragon Age and I'll probably watch this, even though I don't really get why it exists. Just my opinion though, I'm willing to change my mind if the series is good and if Dragon Age 2 impresses me in some way.
I've only seen the first episode of the guild and I was bored by it but the trailer for this seems promising so I'll be sure to check it out.
Edit: Quick question relating to the people saying Felicia Day was in Buffy. Which season and episode cause I don't remember seeing her? But then again I haven't seen every episode even though we have all the seasons.
Edit: Quick question relating to the people saying Felicia Day was in Buffy. Which season and episode cause I don't remember seeing her? But then again I haven't seen every episode even though we have all the seasons.
She played Vi, one of the Slayer Potentials in Season 7. Not the most memorable of parts--I have trouble remembering her too--but this was well before Dr. Horrible and The Guild.Nile McMorrow said:
*clears throat*
Ahem.... AWWEEEEESSSSOOOOMMMEEE...yeah, that's pretty much all I have to say about it for now; Felica Day is good at her job, and is a nerd icon; add to that, she's great in The Guild, I'm really looking forward to this, and hoping the script/directing/etc/etc allow the whole thing to be great.
Ahem.... AWWEEEEESSSSOOOOMMMEEE...yeah, that's pretty much all I have to say about it for now; Felica Day is good at her job, and is a nerd icon; add to that, she's great in The Guild, I'm really looking forward to this, and hoping the script/directing/etc/etc allow the whole thing to be great.