Since the Great B-Ball Purge of 2041, he hasn’t picked up a basketball under threat of death at the hands of the fascist B-Ball Removal Department (headed by Michael Jordan). He’s jaded and cynical, and cares only about himself. No, the only real way to make the joke work - and Tales of Game had the intelligence to realize this, thank God - is to treat it as seriously as possible.Ĭharles Barkley has lost his wife, his friends, and his hope in the human race. With a premise as ridiculous as this, to start making self-aware gags or goofy jokes would be an act of comedic suicide. If you’re going to set an RPG in the year 2053 in a postcyberapocalyptic universe where a Chaos Dunk destroys Manhattan Island and it’s up to Charles Barkley and the octaroon great-grandson of LeBron james to save the world, you can’t treat it as a joke.
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