Mad Max Won't be Set in Australia

[bluepotatosack]

That's a bloody outrage it is! I'm gonna report this all the way to the Prime Minister!

Hey! Mister Prime Minister! Andy!

Spoiler: Eh Mates, what's the good word?

And now I'm just adding nothing to the conversation.

 

[Stevepinto3]

We need to take a traditionaly American franchise and just set it in Australia for a change. Or maybe South Africa, or even Brazil.

As an American I apologize on behalf of my fellow countrymen. We have difficulty remembering there are other countries on the planet (besides Canada and the ones we're invading).

 

[The Last Nomad]

Err, I don't see why this is such a big issue, sure Australians are more interesting than americans, and therefore this game is gonna have less interesting characters. But the movies never explicitly mentioned they were set in australia. It was only filmed in australia because it already looked like it was a post-apocalyptic landscape. Infact, I think it was implied that the whole world now looked like that, so it would make sense for the films to actually have been set outside Australia, where the world had been reduced to looking different, not like it always did...

And the aussie accents were really just there out of necessity as the films (the first one in particular and to a lesser extent the Road Warrior) were low budget films and they couldn't afford to get any big name actors from america and had to use local talent, who for the most part were all pretty rubbish by todays standards, (but perfect for 80's action movies)

I'll reserve judgement til i play it, or at least read/see a few reviews.

 

[BeeGeenie]

Fallout 3 was changed for Morphine to med-X iirc.

True, Bethesda tried using a real drug (morphine) instead of a fictional one like those found in Fallout 1+2. It was a dumb idea and we're all glad they didn't get to go through with it.

I just...no.

OTOH, they were going to set Harry Potter in the US in the movies, until Rowling told them no.

No way, I can believe the article in the OP because the games industry is retarded but I can't believe that Hollywood would try to set the Harry Potter movies in OH GOD I JUST LOOKED IT UP IT'S TRUE!

What is wrong with America? Why must everything be American? I get loving your country, I love Australia. But that's just over the top.

I think you're looking for this:

Stupid F-ing Corporate goons. Always trying to take something unique and interesting and turn it into bland generic tripe.
I support Aussie Mad Max! Woo!

 

[One of Many]

Mad Max game? Very interested, I love those movies. I have so many good memories watching the movies with my old man, as a boy.

Wait.....its not going to take place in Australia? Fuck it, not a Mad Max game and I'm no longer interested.

 

[ScruffyMcBalls]

Setting not important? Pff, I'm not buying it. Clearly just using the Mad Max brand to shift units for a shitty generic-as-piss post-apocalypse game. Fuck that noise.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

They should throw everyone off and set it somewhere completely unexpected like, I don't know... Poland.

[sub][sub][sub]... I gotta see Mad Max and find out what I'm missing.[/sub][/sub][/sub]

But then it wouldn't be available on Xbox One!

This is marketing stupidity in it's finest.

 

[Eikoandmog]

That's a bloody outrage it is! I'm gonna report this all the way to the Prime Minister!

Hey! Mrs. Prime Minister! Julia!

 

[Wereduck]

"We treated [the Mad Max game] as a completely new property, and that was really the only way for us to take on a licensed game."

Except it's not, it's a Mad Max game.

This +1.
What kind of buffoon could believe that using a licensed IP as a completely new IP makes any kind of sense? What kind of imbecile would then outright state that they've thrown the license out the window and just done their own thing?
Was nobody paying attention when Syndicate went down in flames or have all these marketing pinheads just repressed the memory?

 

[MrHide-Patten]

And Australia gets shafted again for Nevada or some shit. As an Aussie this ticks me off, we never get any love. No wonder the stereotype that Americans are shit at geography persists.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

Err, I don't see why this is such a big issue, sure Australians are more interesting than americans, and therefore this game is gonna have less interesting characters. But the movies never explicitly mentioned they were set in australia. It was only filmed in australia because it already looked like it was a post-apocalyptic landscape. Infact, I think it was implied that the whole world now looked like that, so it would make sense for the films to actually have been set outside Australia, where the world had been reduced to looking different, not like it always did...

And the aussie accents were really just there out of necessity as the films (the first one in particular and to a lesser extent the Road Warrior) were low budget films and they couldn't afford to get any big name actors from america and had to use local talent, who for the most part were all pretty rubbish by todays standards, (but perfect for 80's action movies)

I'll reserve judgement til i play it, or at least read/see a few reviews.

Nope.

Between the vehicles, (the V8 interceptor in the first movie was a Ford XB Falcon, built only in Australia) the crashed Quantas 747, and the last scene in Thunderdome showing a ruined Sydney there is no doubt that it's pure Aussie.

 

[TheMightyBill]

As an Australian I can see the truth. Clearly, this is the way of the future;
"Aligator Dundee."
"Ned Kelly; Bushranger of the West."
"Priscilla, Queen of Texas."

Besides, video games probably couldn't handle what post-apocalypse Australia has to offer. Everything is incredibly deadly and poisonous already. Imagine a super-kangaroo. A giant wombat. Mega platypus. Oh god, koalas would become Drop Bears... we'd be doomed.

 

[josemlopes]

Maybe after Just Cause 2 they realised they dont know how to do accents so now they are just avoiding any kind of accent possible

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

What; not set in Australia!? That would be like making an Akira movie not set in Neo-Tokyooooo.... wait a minute....

 

[johnnnny guitar]

*Sigh* As an Aussie it really disappoints me that there are no open world games that make use of our environment I mean it's diverse as shit with deserts, Icy mountains, tropical forests, bushland and beaches it's all killer locales for a open world sandbox game I mean for fuck sake can we at least have bloody MAD MAX!!! set in the land down under where it belongs

P.S. also does this mean no Aussie voice actors at all and also have they said where the hell its going to be set.

 

[I.Muir]

but people love to hear Australian accents
I love to hear Australian accents and I AM Australian

bloody wankers

*Sigh* As an Aussie it really disappoints me that there are no open world games that make use of our environment I mean it's diverse as shit with deserts, Icy mountains, tropical forests, bushland and beaches it's all killer locales for a open world sandbox game I mean for fuck sake can we at least have bloody MAD MAX!!! set in the land down under where it belongs

P.S. also does this mean no Aussie voice actors at all and also have they said where the hell its going to be set.

What icy mountains?

 

[LongAndShort]

Well... let me just say, in my strongest Australian accent: Fuck that shit. I ain't buyin' it.

 

[TheKwertyeweyoppe]

This is the part where they see the backlash and pretend it was a joke all along right?...

...Right?

 

[The Last Nomad]

Err, I don't see why this is such a big issue, sure Australians are more interesting than americans, and therefore this game is gonna have less interesting characters. But the movies never explicitly mentioned they were set in australia. It was only filmed in australia because it already looked like it was a post-apocalyptic landscape. Infact, I think it was implied that the whole world now looked like that, so it would make sense for the films to actually have been set outside Australia, where the world had been reduced to looking different, not like it always did...

And the aussie accents were really just there out of necessity as the films (the first one in particular and to a lesser extent the Road Warrior) were low budget films and they couldn't afford to get any big name actors from america and had to use local talent, who for the most part were all pretty rubbish by todays standards, (but perfect for 80's action movies)

I'll reserve judgement til i play it, or at least read/see a few reviews.

Nope.

Between the vehicles, (the V8 interceptor in the first movie was a Ford XB Falcon, built only in Australia) the crashed Quantas 747, and the last scene in Thunderdome showing a ruined Sydney there is no doubt that it's pure Aussie.

It was only really the third one before they really explicitly implied it was australia, and that film is a load of horseshit compared to the others, (Ironically only when American filmmakers got their hands on the series, and it became one of the generic 80's action films the series had previously set itself apart from).

 

[I.Muir]

but people love to hear Australian accents
I love to hear Australian accents and I AM Australian

bloody wankers

*Sigh* As an Aussie it really disappoints me that there are no open world games that make use of our environment I mean it's diverse as shit with deserts, Icy mountains, tropical forests, bushland and beaches it's all killer locales for a open world sandbox game I mean for fuck sake can we at least have bloody MAD MAX!!! set in the land down under where it belongs

P.S. also does this mean no Aussie voice actors at all and also have they said where the hell its going to be set.

What icy mountains?

The snowy mountains and all of these other places
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ski_areas_and_resorts_in_Australia

The hills that have snow on them less than half the time? We have all been to thredbo or perisher at some point, it's not exactly mountainous.