Microsoft Want To Revive ‘Heroes’… And Run It On Xbox LIVE

13 responses to “Microsoft Want To Revive ‘Heroes’… And Run It On Xbox LIVE”

1. 

   tofu

   April 18, 2013 at 9:53 am

   It’s an interesting idea running a tv show straight through xbox live … I think something like Defiance might’ve faired better, mostly because you would have the audience from the MMO

   Still … eh, everyone wants a piece of the multimedia pie

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2. 

   thom

   April 18, 2013 at 9:55 am

   Boy did Heroes ever die a swift death. I can’t recall another show plummeting in quality so quickly.

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3. 

   shane

   April 18, 2013 at 10:02 am

   Watched season 1 for the first time recently. My god, it was awful. Would have been awesome with eight fewer characters and 12 fewer episodes.

   And it gets worse? Dude… 😛

   And now it’s coming back?!

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   1. 

      trjn

      April 18, 2013 at 10:12 am

      The first season was a lot better than I expected it to be, which is probably why I remember it more fondly than it deserved.

      I think that conceptually, a comic book like TV show that doesn’t fall into some of the bigger comic book issues is pretty damned neat. Then you throw in the Summers Family nonsense from Xmen with the Petrellis. Then you get rid of the “anyone can die” aspect by having a handful of people with magic blood (which is conveniently forgotten about some times) and a hefty dose of Joker Immunity.

      Heroes could have been good but it kept going.

      It also held the record for most pirated TV show before Game of Thrones showed up. I wonder if that factored into things.

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   2. 

      rize

      April 18, 2013 at 10:27 am

      I liked the first season, but you’re right, it could have done with less simultaneous character arcs happening.
      Season 2 was affected by the writers strike, but even without that it got confusing and boring. It was a really big shame, cause I was so hyped for the series and it fell apart so quickly.

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4. 

   beeawwb

   April 18, 2013 at 10:07 am

   I’m probably in the minority that wouldn’t mind seeing it come back. I loved watching Heroes when it was on, read all the mini-comics as they were released, absolutely bought in to what they were going for and what they were trying to do. Yes, it got a bit stale towards the end, but then there’s so many other shows out there that keep on keeping on long after their use-by dates that I didn’t particularly care or mind.

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5. 

   brancha

   April 18, 2013 at 10:17 am

   Yes, it did dip a little in quality, but it also got way better in my opinion. I really liked the third and fourth seasons better the the first. What I didn’t like about it was how it ended. I want to see the fallout.

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6. 

   kermitron

   April 18, 2013 at 10:19 am

   I never watched Heroes so I’m really more interested in the idea of Xbox Live potentially becoming a platform for not only delivering but also publishing content. We’ve had smaller series that started out of Xbox Live such as The Guild, and Netflix is now publishing it’s own content such as House of Cards and Arrested Development season 4.

   There’s no reason why Xbox shouldn’t get in on this.

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   1. 

      braaains

      April 18, 2013 at 10:55 am

      I don’t know… they could spend that money on making some new games instead. I really don’t like this focus on TV/movies… there are any number of other devices and services out there that I can use for that.

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7. 

   thesorehead

   April 18, 2013 at 10:57 am

   Really enjoyed Heroes S1 S2 until the writer’s strike – it lost momentum and I never got back to it. Maybe one day I’ll catch up, now the DVDs aren’t too expensive. See how it all turns out.

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8. 

   Kolreth

   April 18, 2013 at 11:04 am

   Screw doing Heroes 2, just do a Hiro series, he was the only really interesting character in the show after season 1.

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   1. 

      zac

      April 18, 2013 at 3:35 pm

      I really liked the idea of Sylar. What I’d like to see is the future they show where Peter and Sylar are just walking around being powerhouses, that seemed like it would make a cool mini-series, not just an episode or two

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9. 

   mrtaco

   April 18, 2013 at 12:27 pm

   I liked Heroes, and thought it sucked that it got cancelled. But then ew, Xbox.

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10. 

    cyrogen

    April 18, 2013 at 5:34 pm

    Guess I’m another in the minority that would love to see this show come back.

    Yeah, it had a major dip in quality, but I was still enjoying it, though there were probably over 20 plot lines that they just abandoned halfway through & left hanging as the series went along.

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11. 

    Yupangco

    April 19, 2013 at 12:52 am

    They nerfed Peter Petrelli way too much.

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