Netflix is Removing Its Interactive Films and Shows - Now is the time to save them

[TheySeeMeRowlin]

ATTENTION, ARCHIVISTS:

Netflix is removing its interactive films and shows.

https://www.whats-on-netflix.com/le...t-four-interactive-specials-in-december-2024/

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/4/24287857/netflix-removing-interactive-titles-games

Whoever knows how, archive all of these in some kind of emulator NOW before they become lost media.

Puss in Boots: Trapped in an Epic Tale and Minecraft: Story Mode were already removed. The others will be removed on December 1st, so there isn't much time.

Hopefully, the two that were already removed can still somehow be retrieved from the servers or something.

 

[reptile baht spaniard rid]

What were these? Some kind of choose-your-own adventure shit?

 

[rel=alternate]

Ok? Are these any good? I have never heard of any of these. Maybe it's for the best..

 

[MetokurGroomedMe]

Ok? Are these any good? I have never heard of any of these. Maybe it's for the best..

nah, shitty media should be archived so we can remember what not to do (maybe.)

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

What were these? Some kind of choose-your-own adventure shit?

Yeah, more or less. All of them follow Bandersnatch's formula (altough that one isn't getting axed)

 

[Ghostse]

Imagine growing up owning nothing and being told to be happy.

 

[Tablet County]

I didn't even know it had those.

 

[Vect]

The Boss Baby: Get That Baby! (2020)

Well, then, what a loss for humanity.

 

[Cucktry Roads]

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Well, then, what a loss for humanity.

I'm more worried about losing Johnny tests meatloaf quest.

 

[BirdUp]

Ok? Are these any good? I have never heard of any of these. Maybe it's for the best..

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch was pretty good, if a little pretentious.

 

[jakkufurosuto]

i liked bandersnatch for what it was, it's probably the most interesting black mirror ever got before regressing back into "le phone... LE BAD?", and i dig anything involving a game developer protagonist
i don't see them making anything more neat than that though, and judging by all these titles i had no idea existed, seems like they never got anything else to work again. oh well, a (good) visual novel is more worthwhile and won't be lost to video streaming's march of "progress".

 

[rel=alternate]

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch was pretty good, if a little pretentious.

I'll give it a shot. At least something good came out of this, I got something to add to my queue.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Ok? Are these any good? I have never heard of any of these. Maybe it's for the best..

This cartoon was pretty good but everything else was generally baby shit

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_Burglar

Not a huge loss but media disappearing is always bad

 

[Grub]

I never understood why they made these in.this modern era of cinematic video games. They always reminded me of those light gun movies from the 80's and 90's.

 

[Teknorat]

Burning dog shit the lot of them. Maybe someone will archive to laugh at in the future.

 

[BirdUp]

I never understood why they made these in.this modern era of cinematic video games.

"Cinematic video games" like The Last of Us tell a linear story through cutscenes and have "gameplay" that consists of walking around, doing quick-time events, and choosing dialogue options. In other words, they're movies pretending to be games, without the benefits of either medium. Interactive movies like Bandersnatch aren't rendered on your computer, don't waste your time with bullshit "gameplay," and present you with choices that actually affect the story.

 

[Jex]

My brother played through one where you play as a schizo trying to make a video game. I called in to say hi while he was towards the end of getting an ending, you have to kill and dismember your dad to get the good ending. It was nothing special, reminded me of when people used to use YouTube annotations to make choose your own adventure videos.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

So Give Yourself Goosebumps but it costs 10x as much.

 

[Dysnomia]

I'll give it a shot. At least something good came out of this, I got something to add to my queue.

I enjoyed it. You can play it quite a few times to get different endings.

Axing Bandersnatch would be a problem. It would be like deleting an episode from a popular series. It's not something you can just pirate and have it work as intended. I'm not sure if there's an emulated version out there somewhere of if that's possible to do. But hopefully someone is preserving it just in case.

I never understood why they made these in.this modern era of cinematic video games. They always reminded me of those light gun movies from the 80's and 90's.

Looks like several of them are for kids. So it could be some kind of edutainment. I actually didn't know about any of them other than Bandersnatch.

The article says that it concerns a UI update:

As Netflix preps its new user interface, and given that the format takes place entirely within the Netflix UI, Netflix likely considered the “technical debt” of keeping interactive programming running across the majority of devices not worth it.

I can't wait to see how awful and even more PC unfriendly the new UI is.

 

[Jarl Varg]

Netflix should be removed from streaming anything.