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If so, you may or may not like to hear that I’m writing a Blue Fang/FoE crossover thing. I got this idea screwing around on Fallout 4 with mods. So uh... yeah. Let’s see if I can balance FG:SO and Fallout Equestria: Blue Fangs
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I'm sure it's gonna be awesome!
Ooh, I’d like to see that.
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Heh, thanks
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Really?
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No prob
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Mhm.
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Huh. Well, thanks
Always though crossovers were bad taste. Mashing together incompatible fragments from completely separate works almost never produces anything original. Not to mention that both works get warped to the point of neither of them being what they were intended to be.
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I mean, doesn’t it sorta depends on what the crossover is
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No, it really does not. Take two extremely similar franchises. Let's say Starship Troopers (the movie, we do not talk about that animated rubbish) and something very similar, like Alien Swarm (the game about a tiny but an extremely diverse band of marines fighting alien bugs.) You can take a small detail, like a brain bug, and put it at the end of a level as a boss. And you immediately find that it doesn't fit. The thing is, Alien Swarm bugs have almost nothing in common with the bugs you see in the movie. Bugs that private Rico fought are intelligent, they are almost like Starcraft Zerg, while those in Alien Swarm are nothing but a colonization issue. A hyper-intelligent brain bug from the movie would turn the world upside down, it's not going to be AS anymore, it's going to be something completely else from what you intended. But still, we have a crossover about characters, don't we?
It works exactly the same with the actual characters too. If you take Corporal Jaeger (who is basically AS version of Private Rico anyway) and put him alongside Mobile Infantry... nothing is going to happen. Literally nothing. The movie is going to go exactly the way it was going to go anyway, there'll be no story to tell. Again, not what you intended.
If you go ahead and outright mash two things together in their entirety... well you face an enormous pile of contradictions. This Fallout Equestria bit, that is popular around here, is simply a collection MLP character that had to be terrified warped to fit Fallout theme. The problem with this whole thing is that it goes completely against everything FIM was about, you cannot just take Equestria and make things go boom and hope that it's still going to be the same thing but with Fallout stuff in it. The boom itself is simply not going to happen unless you severely modify the setting to the point until it becomes its own thing separate from what it used to be, at that point you aren't making a crossover anymore and might as well scratch that out of headline to avoid confusing your readers.
Literature can't be treated so crudely, it doesn't work like this.
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By the way, Starship Troopers the movie is an unwited stroke of genius
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Oh
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Also true
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And stupidity... the good kind.....
Fallout 4 mods... heh... played far harbor? Haven't myself, but watched my roomate play alot of it. Its awsome!
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Heh, yep! It’s the best!
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Oh, no. It has nothing to do with stupidity. It's just an example of the producers not understanding the kind of a movie they are making. They intended to make satire and that they did, but its extents were clearly beyond their own understanding, that or they are very keen at laughing at themselves.
Starship Troopers isn't a movie about fighting bugs somewhere out there. It's about many things really. First, it's about the profound influence of war on human society and specifically why war is a necessity. The Federation is extremely militarized, yet they are totally incompetent at anything they do, they phased out armor, opting for mass infantry assaults, they stopped developing weapons and still run around with 21st-century style firearms, they do not thoroughly plan their operations and their army is not disciplined. This is a recipe for a disaster and the disaster does happen. The Federation did not have a war in several hundred years, they forgot what war is and now it's like a grand adventure for them. Without war, our society becomes complacent therefore weak. And the movie clearly demonstrates so, the second they lose that damnable drop, their Sky Marshal immediately steps down and the incompetence in nearly everything gets toned down considerably. They stop using mass waves of infantry instead opting for heavy bombardment and using infantry to clear out the entrenched bugs. They pick up the weapons development, resulting in planet crackers and anti-bug force fields. Even armored forces are back, in the form of Marauder mechs. After they remembered what the were actually doing, the Federation stomped the bugs.
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that was a joke, I've seen the movie 3 times 
and their "sequals" once each...
How about tremors? I love all those movies except the last one, it was meh.
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I am not very familiar. I only saw the first one and it was too many years ago.