Ideally? It’d be another setpiece-heavy shooter, but one where the blabbermouth tough-guy protagonist is almost completely irrelevant to the wider plot. Like an ascended sidekick who’s in the wrong genre. That kind of “epic loser” main character had been tried a number of times, but they always fuck it up by forgetting the game part of the game should be fun. Jack Burton is not Lester The Unlikely. He’s Zapf Brannigan. Capable, dangerous, assertive, impactful! Just, y’know… dumb. The kind of hero who can catch a flying knife and flick it right into the bad guy’s skull, but in a story where that barely inconveniences him.
Ideally? It’d be another setpiece-heavy shooter, but one where the blabbermouth tough-guy protagonist is almost completely irrelevant to the wider plot. Like an ascended sidekick who’s in the wrong genre. That kind of “epic loser” main character had been tried a number of times, but they always fuck it up by forgetting the game part of the game should be fun. Jack Burton is not Lester The Unlikely. He’s Zapf Brannigan. Capable, dangerous, assertive, impactful! Just, y’know… dumb. The kind of hero who can catch a flying knife and flick it right into the bad guy’s skull, but in a story where that barely inconveniences him.