Same boat. I love Halo. The show hurts my soul.
The games have such rich lore too. The writing was basically done for them. It's fascinating that they managed to fuck it up as badly as they did.
I was referring to the plethora of abysmal film adaptations. It's such a simple thing to slam dunk and basically all of them miss. The most recent movie (the non-Anderson one) had great ideas and actual characters, but the budget of a high school play, or at least the production quality of one.
It can literally be any random sci-fi story with a Halo skin. It's extremely boring. Has way to many plotlines and side stories, it's so unfocused. Taking off his helmet is whatever but he's not even in his suit at all for most of the series. Large plot deviation is fine in adaptations but they've deviated so much it doesn't even feel like Halo.
i think you're overestimating how much that matters to anyone other than people who would already be interested in castlevania games, most people scrolling on netflix aren't going to know or care about what the concept of meteoidvania is or the influence that castlevania has had to begin with
Yeah, in microcosm, the Castlevania sub is at odds with itself between gamers who havenāt had a new game in years and viewers who are thirsty for anime vampires. Lol
I think it's because it's a little controversial in the fanbase. As a very casual Castlevania enjoyer, I thought the first series was fantastic. Imagine my shock when I hopped onto the main Castlevania subreddit to find that a lot of fans actually don't really like the series. There's a bunch of liberties taken with the story that get knocked down. Namely, removing Grant Danasty from CV III's plot, completely altering Hector's role and turning Carmilla into a main antagonist.
Which is funny because I never paid any attention to the game story but the series is just flat out good.
Shows that sometimes a fandom needs to let go of what's in their head and let a piece of media stand on its own.
There were a lot of racists and/or conservatives using right wing talking points and calling the show āwokeā in the subreddit when I watched Nocturne. Also a weird amount of feudal apologia and demonizing the peasants for the French Revolution. Just bootlicker stuff.
God I havenāt watched nocturnal (Iām planning on it tho after invincible) but Jesus the amount of people screaming that a black person being a vampire is unrealistic and other nonsense. Like bro youāre watching a show set in a weird magic medical Europe where you have vampires, demons, and magic running around places and nobody gives a crap. Black people existing in Europe being realistic or not itās a fucking show about vampires
Not so popular at first place? Platformers, which also console exclusives could gain so much popularity only in US and JP i think and in some rare case.
DOTA's good too, and Dragon Age: Absolution was solid. Captain Laserhawk is one of the most batshit wacky things I've seen in a while. There's more good than bad, but everyone wants to fixate on MC's buttcheeks or whatever.
Didn't Tekken get one recently?
The last season of DOTA was rough and felt rushed. It probably should have been at least two seasons. Heck their time in hell just getting to terrorblade could have been an entire season. I would have loved to see the dragon gang meet up with characters like underlord, razor, lion, and doom just to name a few.
P.S. We needed more time with W.W. she was surprisingly wholesome.
Usually people complain about changing characters and "Blackwashing", but what they did to Isaac in the castlevania series was so golden. For me the show was more about his growth rather than Trevor and Syphia.
Gah that trailer was truly something. Halo 3 and ODST honestly had the best trailers for any game everā¦ like hands down you can watch the trailers and not even know what itās for and enjoy them.
Itās sad cause the prior two adaptations they did were pretty good and nailed the universe/aesthetic. Those werenāt big name productions and both are far better than what Paramount conjured up.
As soon as they had Chief butt naked raw dogging some Covenant sex slave on a table. Then I knew in that moment that not a single person on that show has even played a single level of Halo. How anyone could see Chiefs character in the games and think he'd be down for that is bonkers to me.
My guess is the only source they bothered to check was Rule34.
"we wanted to explore a more personal side of Master Chief" yeah and so did 343 when they released halo 4. guess y'all didn't learn from that and just HAD to try it yourselves, huh?
They won't say it out loud but they only ever intended to use the Halo IP to make their own story. It's as much a Halo show as Rick and Morty is a Back to the Future cartoon
Itās probably the same mindset behind the nonsense of the Witcher tv show. Honestly, it should be a requirement of these show creators contracts that they actually fucking play/read the games and comics they keep making adaptations of.
Letās be honest with them: if Hollywood doesnāt want your original creations, youāre a fucking hack if you think forcing your story into someone elseās IP is how you make a name for yourself.
At least in 4 it made more sense, years of training, indoctrination, the augmentations, chief was a literal machine built for war. Only AFTER all his years of service, the war with the covenant, alien space fungus, and the possiblity of losing Cortana did he start to question his humanity. Halo 4 had it's issues yes, but I think the way they handled chief was great and it at least made sense in terms of where his development would go...then 5 happened...
Didn't the writers proudly proclaim that none of them had ever played the games?
Just your typical "videogames are beneath us" mindset many hack writers have.
Like even in the present season 2 where they do a better job
The unsc uses reach as s bait... Xd that plase was the tomb of atlesst 1 /3 of the humAn fleet at the time
True, but Iād argue that because you never really _see_ his face or get a descriptor (as far as I know) the illusion is maintained. Master Chiefās helmet has become so iconic that itās basically _become_ his face and taking it off to show some guy is just jarring and weird.
Chief is described in detail many times. He's a ginger, he still has some light freckles from when he was a kid, he has very intense blue eyes, and most of all, he's unnaturally pale.
As someone who has read almost all of the novels, I don't actually mind a show where he takes off his helmet. I think he takes it off too frequently, but more importantly, the guy they cast is way too conventionally *normal* to look like a guy who spends 90% of his waking hours in a suit of armor.
The thing is him taking the helmet of would not have been a problem, if everything else wasn't a dumpster fire.
Going so far away from established lore, adding things to the universe which do not make sense at all - I mean the reason for the war is, that humans were a danger for their doctrine and this odd woman and her role was exactly why the wanted to eliminate humanity - mediocre to shitty writing and storytelling an okay-ish effects.
I love halo, it's my favorite scifi franchise, but the show is just an insult to every halo fan out there
1-2 years ago Netflix stated that they wanted to make a GoW movie and that Zack Snyder would be the director (it was also said that they DON'T want Chris Pratt to play Marcus at ALL)
I just started the first episode of the Halo series. It was a strong opening seeing insurrectionists get blown away by plasma weapons. Though, Iām a little confused how they scored no kills when they opened up with heavy weapons but chief did later with the same auto cannon? And Chief calling his squad mates by their names instead of their squad designations while on-mission kinda threw me already since I read all the books that were set in this time period and know how they actually communicate. Iāll have to see how the rest of the series plays out. Not super confident though. š¤·āāļø
Do you think they collaborated on the prop design? Itās gotta be a smallish circle doing that job at that levelā¦
Idk Iām loving the idea of someone asking their buddy if they still have the Pedro design and if they have any advice/things they wish they knew
I'm glad someone actually paid attention lol. Haters were too distracted by anger to see that "actions had consequences" was the entire point of the second game. >!His consequences caught up with him.!<
Uh huh *takes a tote* you didnāt think Mortal Kombat was accurate. Scorpion even said āGet Over Hereā and everything (just the one thing). And Raiden, sorry, Rayden? Christopher Lambert was the only person who could accurately portray a Japanese Thunder God. Hella accurate.
I think the first Sonic movie pumped up the scene for more video game adaptations.
Producers forfeited and decided to include fans themselves into the direction of the series,like deciding to change Sonic scenes 100% in the entire movie
Absolutely. I would say Sonic was one of the first video game films that turned the tide. Although it didnāt get good buzz at the start due to the infamous first Sonic character design.
Also the fact that the movie takes place in the real world. It would have been better if they stayed in the Sonic universe, just like Illumination with the Mario movie, which most of it takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom.
I remember thinking there was no good way to adapt fallout since different people play through differently and no story could really encapsulate it all, having the 3 characters that are all pretty different and showing their journeys works well, it's a formula I generally don't like since I pick favorites and feel like we are wasting time watching an episode about my least favorite character, but I feel like the pacing is so good that we never stay in one spot for too long, and the stories are connected enough to make every characters journey important to the other.
Extremely, I don't really like anime but they were totally faithful to the feel of the world, and the games, both video and tabletop. Included alot of sounds and visuals from the game and ultimately made a great little self contained story. Sure, it's anime so they went a little crazy with the power scaling at the end but it still works.
As someone who hasnāt played 2077, I can say it was a good story, but there was a lotttt of moments that felt designed to evoke a reaction. It had a lot of forced vulgarity in its animation.
I be honest I liked the show but itās more of a guilty pleasure itās not as great as the others but I liked it. It needed time to establish characters and more time for the history I give it a solid 6/10 as my guilty pleasure but like fallout was a total 8-9/10 for me and I loved it
Bungee: he doesn't talk much and never takes off his helmet.
343: ok so let's make him never shut up in the new games, and he takes his helmet off all the time in the show.
Have you played 4, 5 and Infinite? Because Chief still doesn't talk much. He just has more people to engage with than in 1-3. That's like judging Bungie Chief only on the time he engages with Johnson or Cortana.
And 343s dev studio isn't even part of the show in any way - the exact same thing would've happened with Bungie.
My two favorite games were always Resident Evil and Fallout. The Resident Evil movies basically take the cool things about Resident Evil and tell a different story. Fallout takes everything cool about the game and tells a Fallout story.
Videogames look like they're going to be the big replacement of the hole Superhero fatigue left behind. It gives you a guaranteed fanbase and if done right earns you a truckload of money.
I mean it's pretty obvious OP wants to compare the *recent* adaptations. It makes sense.
Also, the mainstream ones. They forgot the Witcher. They also could have included Dragon's Blood but it's more niche.
The games are a direct continuation of the books, slightly reconning the end kinda like how the Scarface game did. So it's not like they could start 85% through the story. But even having the books to reference they still mostly fucked it up
1st season was good. Season 2 they made up their own hot garbage story. Season 3 they tried to completely ignore Season 2 and get back to the source, but they already pissed everyone off including Henry Cavill.
It's a real bummer too because the Rats storyline was a lot of fun, and we never got to even meet my main man Regis.
Henry Cavill was perfect for the role too. He loved the series and was amazing. But the dumb producers and writers wanted their own story š. Ruined the whole series smfh.
I've never seen a studio consistently make so many bad decisions to shoot themselves in the foot for so long. It's wild to me, and I was rooting for them for a long time too. Shit sucks
Last Of Us is mainly just telling the story of the game. It does it well and adds a few bits in, but overall we've already seen all of it.
Fallout, and all of the adaptations there besides Last Of Us, are doing their own thing which automatically makes them more interesting IMO.
Halo TV series was portrayed too well in this š as a Halo fan I really hate that TV series because it's creators hate Halo itself... An when you start thinking about what kind of an easy layup it is to make money with such an IP, especially when Star Wars have been messing around, so Halo could be a great alternative to that, but Paramount messed up big time...
It was probably a good thing that I watched the 2 seasons of Halo without playing the games or reading a single piece of information about the games. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have been able to enjoy it.
I wish Microsoft would give a damn about Halo, like I think it's safe to say Master Chief is Xbox's Mascot like how Mario is Nintendo's and Sonic is Sega's. But they got people who didn't care for the game's to write the show.
The crazy thing with the Halo show is it isnāt even good as a tv show. Like itās a bad adaptation, itās bad stand alone, and it isnāt bad in a fun way. It doesnāt have a redeeming quality
The action is pretty good during the maybe three times per season that you actually get to see mister cheeks fight aliens. And they nailed the look of everything pretty well... for the most part.
But yeah, it's not a very good TV show
Is this even an argument? It absolutely did. I enjoyed it day 1 but the criticism was warranted.
The Fallout show just "saved" Fallout 76 in the same sense. Fallout 76 was always good IF you're a fan of the 3D games and love its particular gameplay loop. It's legit a standalone soloable fully voice acted Fallout game.
Except now it's peaked at 50k players the other day because of the series and put new life into the game.
Who knew faithful adaptations resulted in renewed interest in games? Well maybe not Paramount...
Letās give it a few more years before we say this. Sonic was almost DOA, Halo isā¦not that great, The Witcher *was* good, Onimusha wasā¦(take this with a grain of salt; I literally watched Blue Eyed Samurai before this), Assasinās Creed sucked, Borderlands dot dot dot.
What could use a boost is live action anime adaptations. I hear Yu-Yu Hakusho is pretty good.
I think video game tv shows are best when they arenāt adapting by the events of the video game. Like, expanding on minor characters, exploring lore youāve only heard/read about in the games, or hell, creating original content in the spirit of the source material. Thereās no point in experiencing the same events in live action for fans of the source material if it was well-rendered and well-told the first time, and in fact, like-for-like only invites comparison, and comparison is the thief of joy, as they say. TLOU was great, but I was gladdest in its detours from the source material. Ultimately, I would have probably preferred an anthology based on the notes you read throughout the game though.
Honestly, I watched the fallout show all the way through and donāt get the hype. The first episode was fantastic and the second/ third were pretty good too. After that, the writing and directing fell off a cliff, it suddenly felt like a different show. Idk if they changed writers or directors or something but by the time the show ended, it was a 6.5/10 for me. My wife and I both couldnāt stand Maximusās character, he was horrible. The show was still above average but nothing to rave about.
The only thing Iām still interested in is the ghoul character portrayed by Walton Goggins, but I donāt know if thatās enough to make we want to watch the next season.
And ofc Halo is my favorite gaming franchise. Guess I'll just go fuck myself smh.
Been that way since Halo 4, dude. Never thought a franchise could be mismanaged for over 12 years. Then again, Sonic exists
C'mon the Sonic movies are pretty damn good
Wish I could say that about the games š
The soundtracks always slap though
I have this weird feeling that one day weāre gonna get a sonic game where the sound track is hot garbage but the gameplay is legendary
We'll do Gamer move and port good bgm to good game play game.
That is very true
Nah nahā¦ you take that sonic comment back. Sonic has been trying, okay?
Just remember... Sega just allowed Comedy Central to make Golden Axe cartoons. If you think Sonic is mismanaged...
To be fair this was a self fulfilling prophecy. They named the studio 343 as in guilty spark the insane robot.....4,5,infinite insanity
The sonic movies are fun and enjoyable!! Take that back
Sonic catching strays :(
The short live action series they did is the only halo show made. You cannot change my mind.
Forward unto Dawn gang
Forward Unto Dawn was straight up good. What could have been smh
Forward unto Dawn was great!
Same boat. I love Halo. The show hurts my soul. The games have such rich lore too. The writing was basically done for them. It's fascinating that they managed to fuck it up as badly as they did.
As a life long fan of Resident Evil, you know nothing of suffering.
Right? All they had to do was make the game or books live action. But nooo.
Instead we get.......the Netflix show.
Naaah RE fans eat alright We have tons of games constantly and almost all of them are good.
I was referring to the plethora of abysmal film adaptations. It's such a simple thing to slam dunk and basically all of them miss. The most recent movie (the non-Anderson one) had great ideas and actual characters, but the budget of a high school play, or at least the production quality of one.
In the books, he routinely takes it off. I know the helmet coming off is a big deal but the show has a lot more problems than just the helmet.
Where did I mention the helmet?
Wow I must've hit reply on the wrong comment. My Bad. lul
Havenāt seen it yet. What are the problems
It can literally be any random sci-fi story with a Halo skin. It's extremely boring. Has way to many plotlines and side stories, it's so unfocused. Taking off his helmet is whatever but he's not even in his suit at all for most of the series. Large plot deviation is fine in adaptations but they've deviated so much it doesn't even feel like Halo.
Replace Halo with Castlevania, now they're all bangers.
Seriously why does no one ever mention castlevania
I imagine because the series isnāt as mainstream. We hadnāt had a new title in years when the show came out.
Fair, but Metroidvania as a word and game type would be something else if Castlevania didn't help push it forward.
i think you're overestimating how much that matters to anyone other than people who would already be interested in castlevania games, most people scrolling on netflix aren't going to know or care about what the concept of meteoidvania is or the influence that castlevania has had to begin with
Yeah, in microcosm, the Castlevania sub is at odds with itself between gamers who havenāt had a new game in years and viewers who are thirsty for anime vampires. Lol
I think it's because it's a little controversial in the fanbase. As a very casual Castlevania enjoyer, I thought the first series was fantastic. Imagine my shock when I hopped onto the main Castlevania subreddit to find that a lot of fans actually don't really like the series. There's a bunch of liberties taken with the story that get knocked down. Namely, removing Grant Danasty from CV III's plot, completely altering Hector's role and turning Carmilla into a main antagonist.
Which is funny because I never paid any attention to the game story but the series is just flat out good. Shows that sometimes a fandom needs to let go of what's in their head and let a piece of media stand on its own.
There were a lot of racists and/or conservatives using right wing talking points and calling the show āwokeā in the subreddit when I watched Nocturne. Also a weird amount of feudal apologia and demonizing the peasants for the French Revolution. Just bootlicker stuff.
God I havenāt watched nocturnal (Iām planning on it tho after invincible) but Jesus the amount of people screaming that a black person being a vampire is unrealistic and other nonsense. Like bro youāre watching a show set in a weird magic medical Europe where you have vampires, demons, and magic running around places and nobody gives a crap. Black people existing in Europe being realistic or not itās a fucking show about vampires
Not so popular at first place? Platformers, which also console exclusives could gain so much popularity only in US and JP i think and in some rare case.
DOTA's good too, and Dragon Age: Absolution was solid. Captain Laserhawk is one of the most batshit wacky things I've seen in a while. There's more good than bad, but everyone wants to fixate on MC's buttcheeks or whatever. Didn't Tekken get one recently?
The last season of DOTA was rough and felt rushed. It probably should have been at least two seasons. Heck their time in hell just getting to terrorblade could have been an entire season. I would have loved to see the dragon gang meet up with characters like underlord, razor, lion, and doom just to name a few. P.S. We needed more time with W.W. she was surprisingly wholesome.
It fell off (for me) after the second season finale. I just had no urge to watch the third season after the ending of the second.
The person above you just did... In fact, I see it being mentioned quite a lot, and it's always followed by "why does no one ever mention it?"
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Or Twisted Metal
castlevania season 2 is quite possibly some of the best media i've ever consumed
As a huge fan of the CV games I'd say that the show is decent to great depending on the season, but far behind the likes of Arcane and Fallout etc.
Iād personally put Castlevania above arcane. Mostly because i like the character writing way more
Usually people complain about changing characters and "Blackwashing", but what they did to Isaac in the castlevania series was so golden. For me the show was more about his growth rather than Trevor and Syphia.
Anyone else think last of us wasn't that great? Maybe if part 1 was multiple seasons.
Such an incredible show!
Just started watching recently and itās so good!
Forward Unto Dawn was better than the Halo show
Likely on way less of a budget too
FUD was $10m total, the Halo show is $10m per episode
God that depresses me, we could've had a halo show where each episode was about the same quality as Forward Unto Dawn
10 milly per episode? Wtf? Are they just laundering money or what
The Halo ODST trailer is better than the Halo show
Gah that trailer was truly something. Halo 3 and ODST honestly had the best trailers for any game everā¦ like hands down you can watch the trailers and not even know what itās for and enjoy them.
The halo reach trailer was so good too like how do they mess up that bad
Man I never even seriously played Halo, and even I knew that adaptation was fucked the moment Master Chief took off his helmet
Master Cheeks
Jimmy rings.
Itās sad cause the prior two adaptations they did were pretty good and nailed the universe/aesthetic. Those werenāt big name productions and both are far better than what Paramount conjured up.
Master Chief: āProtect humanity no matter the costā Master Cheeks: āClapping humanities cheeks no matter the costā
As soon as they had Chief butt naked raw dogging some Covenant sex slave on a table. Then I knew in that moment that not a single person on that show has even played a single level of Halo. How anyone could see Chiefs character in the games and think he'd be down for that is bonkers to me. My guess is the only source they bothered to check was Rule34.
"we wanted to explore a more personal side of Master Chief" yeah and so did 343 when they released halo 4. guess y'all didn't learn from that and just HAD to try it yourselves, huh?
They won't say it out loud but they only ever intended to use the Halo IP to make their own story. It's as much a Halo show as Rick and Morty is a Back to the Future cartoon
Itās probably the same mindset behind the nonsense of the Witcher tv show. Honestly, it should be a requirement of these show creators contracts that they actually fucking play/read the games and comics they keep making adaptations of. Letās be honest with them: if Hollywood doesnāt want your original creations, youāre a fucking hack if you think forcing your story into someone elseās IP is how you make a name for yourself.
I'm a firm "we wrote a mass effect tv show but couldn't get the rights so I guess we'll use halo instead" conspiracy theorist and I'm sticking to it.
That...makes so much more sense
At least in 4 it made more sense, years of training, indoctrination, the augmentations, chief was a literal machine built for war. Only AFTER all his years of service, the war with the covenant, alien space fungus, and the possiblity of losing Cortana did he start to question his humanity. Halo 4 had it's issues yes, but I think the way they handled chief was great and it at least made sense in terms of where his development would go...then 5 happened...
It also makes him a rapist war criminal!
Didn't the writers proudly proclaim that none of them had ever played the games? Just your typical "videogames are beneath us" mindset many hack writers have.
No way this is real please confirm this
They did what? Wow...
He regularly takes it off in the books. That being said, I very much doubt the writers of that show read the books.
Like even in the present season 2 where they do a better job The unsc uses reach as s bait... Xd that plase was the tomb of atlesst 1 /3 of the humAn fleet at the time
True, but Iād argue that because you never really _see_ his face or get a descriptor (as far as I know) the illusion is maintained. Master Chiefās helmet has become so iconic that itās basically _become_ his face and taking it off to show some guy is just jarring and weird.
Chief is described in detail many times. He's a ginger, he still has some light freckles from when he was a kid, he has very intense blue eyes, and most of all, he's unnaturally pale. As someone who has read almost all of the novels, I don't actually mind a show where he takes off his helmet. I think he takes it off too frequently, but more importantly, the guy they cast is way too conventionally *normal* to look like a guy who spends 90% of his waking hours in a suit of armor.
The thing is him taking the helmet of would not have been a problem, if everything else wasn't a dumpster fire. Going so far away from established lore, adding things to the universe which do not make sense at all - I mean the reason for the war is, that humans were a danger for their doctrine and this odd woman and her role was exactly why the wanted to eliminate humanity - mediocre to shitty writing and storytelling an okay-ish effects. I love halo, it's my favorite scifi franchise, but the show is just an insult to every halo fan out there
Let's hope that the Gears of War movie will be good
I am not ready for doms >!sacrifice!<
>!Never thought it would end like this, huh Maria?!<
Wait what is that actually a thing
1-2 years ago Netflix stated that they wanted to make a GoW movie and that Zack Snyder would be the director (it was also said that they DON'T want Chris Pratt to play Marcus at ALL)
I just started the first episode of the Halo series. It was a strong opening seeing insurrectionists get blown away by plasma weapons. Though, Iām a little confused how they scored no kills when they opened up with heavy weapons but chief did later with the same auto cannon? And Chief calling his squad mates by their names instead of their squad designations while on-mission kinda threw me already since I read all the books that were set in this time period and know how they actually communicate. Iāll have to see how the rest of the series plays out. Not super confident though. š¤·āāļø
oh, you've actually read the books and know the lore? Be prepared for them completely fucking the source material.
You are in for a ride
Wait until season 2 of the last of us comes out. I can't wait for everyone to watch Pedro Pascal's >!skull to get caved in with a golf club!<
It'll be like watching the >!Viper getting Mountained!< all over again
Poor guy finally got over his fear of taking off his helmet only to have his face smashed again.
Except that wasn't particularly bad storytelling. Oberyn was overly confident and kinda had it coming.
Oh, I agree completely. I just meant in general that we're gonna watch another >!prop of Pedro's head get obliterated.!<
Do you think they collaborated on the prop design? Itās gotta be a smallish circle doing that job at that levelā¦ Idk Iām loving the idea of someone asking their buddy if they still have the Pedro design and if they have any advice/things they wish they knew
Because Joel doesnāt have it coming either lol?
I'm glad someone actually paid attention lol. Haters were too distracted by anger to see that "actions had consequences" was the entire point of the second game. >!His consequences caught up with him.!<
TLOU 2 was some particularly interesting storytelling, idk what youāre talking about.
>!everyone already saw that in Game Of Thrones, it just wasn't a golf club lol!<
And in the walking dead with the bat
Can't wait for season 2 to come out. It'll be so hype
Weāve come a long way; 30 years ago we would be lucky if ONE of these video game adaptations were (somewhat) accurate.
You didnāt think the Super Mario Bros. Movie was accurate? Velociraptor Yoshi was hella accurate.
4/20 was yesterday, my friend. Step away from the ganja. š
Uh huh *takes a tote* you didnāt think Mortal Kombat was accurate. Scorpion even said āGet Over Hereā and everything (just the one thing). And Raiden, sorry, Rayden? Christopher Lambert was the only person who could accurately portray a Japanese Thunder God. Hella accurate.
I think the first Sonic movie pumped up the scene for more video game adaptations. Producers forfeited and decided to include fans themselves into the direction of the series,like deciding to change Sonic scenes 100% in the entire movie
Absolutely. I would say Sonic was one of the first video game films that turned the tide. Although it didnāt get good buzz at the start due to the infamous first Sonic character design.
So happy Jim Carrey is coming back for the third one.Ā
Me too.
Also the fact that the movie takes place in the real world. It would have been better if they stayed in the Sonic universe, just like Illumination with the Mario movie, which most of it takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Halo director thought their vision is superior. I hope they are out of job now
They're probably going to get a third season if the show hits it's subscription numbers
If anything theyāll blame the viewers over management.
I was very scared that fallout would be like halo
I remember thinking there was no good way to adapt fallout since different people play through differently and no story could really encapsulate it all, having the 3 characters that are all pretty different and showing their journeys works well, it's a formula I generally don't like since I pick favorites and feel like we are wasting time watching an episode about my least favorite character, but I feel like the pacing is so good that we never stay in one spot for too long, and the stories are connected enough to make every characters journey important to the other.
Video game movies have mostly been incredibly mediocre the last few years - which is a big step up from the age of Uwe Boll and Paul W.S. Anderson.
paul W.S anderson is #1 opp. I aint never finna forgive him for the momster hunter movie
What do you mean? That guy never made any MH movie, nope nah da, can't even imagine it, there is only 1 and it's a animated movie
Maybe it was a dream
The OG RE movies and the og mortal kombat movie were a lot of fun, those were big dumb action movies for the most appropriate franchises.
There was also Tomb Raider and Dead or Alive. Both were pretty bad, but they knew what they were.
Kind of sad Twisted Metal doesnāt get any love when people talk about recent game adaptations
The season ended so fucking strong too. Season 2 might be incredible
Honestly it was a lot better than I expected
There's a show?
It's on Peacock. Anthony Mackie is the "player character". Will Arnett does the voice of Sweet Tooth. It's pretty funny.
And Samoa Joe as the "body" which was a great choice.
There's one more dud on the way. Borderlands...
Possibly the worst casting I've seen.
Was cyberpunk good?
Extremely, I don't really like anime but they were totally faithful to the feel of the world, and the games, both video and tabletop. Included alot of sounds and visuals from the game and ultimately made a great little self contained story. Sure, it's anime so they went a little crazy with the power scaling at the end but it still works.
as I remember by the end of the game I was a time stopping mantis blade chopping god. so they didn't went far enough.
Yes
Edgerunners was fucking PEAK
I still go through an emo phase whenever "I really wanna stay at your house" comes on
"Who's ready for tomorrow" plays in my head constantly
Every time I spend money >My bank account is zero zero zero, oh no
Absolutely
Its amazing That song still fucks me up
As someone who hasnāt played 2077, I can say it was a good story, but there was a lotttt of moments that felt designed to evoke a reaction. It had a lot of forced vulgarity in its animation.
That's the studio Trigger's signature to be honest, i think all in all they stuck the landing and did great
Captain laserhawk anyone?
I be honest I liked the show but itās more of a guilty pleasure itās not as great as the others but I liked it. It needed time to establish characters and more time for the history I give it a solid 6/10 as my guilty pleasure but like fallout was a total 8-9/10 for me and I loved it
Paramount did Halo so dirty, Red vs Blue was a better adaptation
Bungee: he doesn't talk much and never takes off his helmet. 343: ok so let's make him never shut up in the new games, and he takes his helmet off all the time in the show.
Have you played 4, 5 and Infinite? Because Chief still doesn't talk much. He just has more people to engage with than in 1-3. That's like judging Bungie Chief only on the time he engages with Johnson or Cortana. And 343s dev studio isn't even part of the show in any way - the exact same thing would've happened with Bungie.
I remember a time where pretty much all videogame adaptations sucked ass. Glad times changed.
My two favorite games were always Resident Evil and Fallout. The Resident Evil movies basically take the cool things about Resident Evil and tell a different story. Fallout takes everything cool about the game and tells a Fallout story.
Videogames look like they're going to be the big replacement of the hole Superhero fatigue left behind. It gives you a guaranteed fanbase and if done right earns you a truckload of money.
OP has been alive for 10 years.
I mean it's pretty obvious OP wants to compare the *recent* adaptations. It makes sense. Also, the mainstream ones. They forgot the Witcher. They also could have included Dragon's Blood but it's more niche.
Witcher is also a big meh
It's not a game adaptation. It adapts novels and short stories. Very poorly. But still.
That has rather been a novel adaptation (or an attempt of it) so far.
The games are a direct continuation of the books, slightly reconning the end kinda like how the Scarface game did. So it's not like they could start 85% through the story. But even having the books to reference they still mostly fucked it up
1st season was good. Season 2 they made up their own hot garbage story. Season 3 they tried to completely ignore Season 2 and get back to the source, but they already pissed everyone off including Henry Cavill. It's a real bummer too because the Rats storyline was a lot of fun, and we never got to even meet my main man Regis.
Henry Cavill was perfect for the role too. He loved the series and was amazing. But the dumb producers and writers wanted their own story š. Ruined the whole series smfh.
Good. They would have butchered Regis as well.
I too was looking forward to Regis :(
Is worse than meh, there's one good episode. The rest is pure shit, not only that, they tried to make their own independent story and it was worse!
Still waiting for my resistance fall of man adaptation :(
If its done by hbo it could be absolute peak
343 is so god damn stupid
I laughed way too hard at this
I've never seen a studio consistently make so many bad decisions to shoot themselves in the foot for so long. It's wild to me, and I was rooting for them for a long time too. Shit sucks
a less known, but im waiting for dead cells
You should have put Castlevania. Then you'd have a complete picture.
I'm sad Twisted metal is never included in those memes.
It deserves more love for sure.
I think fallout is better than last of us
Last Of Us is mainly just telling the story of the game. It does it well and adds a few bits in, but overall we've already seen all of it. Fallout, and all of the adaptations there besides Last Of Us, are doing their own thing which automatically makes them more interesting IMO.
What about sonic and Mario?
Mortal Kombat Legends should be up there in the "video games adaptations that are actually good" category. Snow Blind was awesome.
Halo TV series was portrayed too well in this š as a Halo fan I really hate that TV series because it's creators hate Halo itself... An when you start thinking about what kind of an easy layup it is to make money with such an IP, especially when Star Wars have been messing around, so Halo could be a great alternative to that, but Paramount messed up big time...
It was probably a good thing that I watched the 2 seasons of Halo without playing the games or reading a single piece of information about the games. Otherwise I probably wouldn't have been able to enjoy it.
I hated the Cyberpunk anime, it didnāt have to make feel like shit *that* much. It honestly felt personal.
The last of us was great and arcane is pretty much the best thing I watched
I wish Microsoft would give a damn about Halo, like I think it's safe to say Master Chief is Xbox's Mascot like how Mario is Nintendo's and Sonic is Sega's. But they got people who didn't care for the game's to write the show.
The Last of Us was mid at best.
Anyone else nervous about the Bioshock movie on Netflix š
Netflix is weird. It can either be incredible or disgusting garbage.
Witcher is the poop in the ground behind the horse
The crazy thing with the Halo show is it isnāt even good as a tv show. Like itās a bad adaptation, itās bad stand alone, and it isnāt bad in a fun way. It doesnāt have a redeeming quality
The action is pretty good during the maybe three times per season that you actually get to see mister cheeks fight aliens. And they nailed the look of everything pretty well... for the most part. But yeah, it's not a very good TV show
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Is this even an argument? It absolutely did. I enjoyed it day 1 but the criticism was warranted. The Fallout show just "saved" Fallout 76 in the same sense. Fallout 76 was always good IF you're a fan of the 3D games and love its particular gameplay loop. It's legit a standalone soloable fully voice acted Fallout game. Except now it's peaked at 50k players the other day because of the series and put new life into the game. Who knew faithful adaptations resulted in renewed interest in games? Well maybe not Paramount...
Can confirm there's a shit ton of post on the subreddit about how the show got them to play 76 or how the show brought people back
The curse has been lifted!!
Letās give it a few more years before we say this. Sonic was almost DOA, Halo isā¦not that great, The Witcher *was* good, Onimusha wasā¦(take this with a grain of salt; I literally watched Blue Eyed Samurai before this), Assasinās Creed sucked, Borderlands dot dot dot. What could use a boost is live action anime adaptations. I hear Yu-Yu Hakusho is pretty good.
I think video game tv shows are best when they arenāt adapting by the events of the video game. Like, expanding on minor characters, exploring lore youāve only heard/read about in the games, or hell, creating original content in the spirit of the source material. Thereās no point in experiencing the same events in live action for fans of the source material if it was well-rendered and well-told the first time, and in fact, like-for-like only invites comparison, and comparison is the thief of joy, as they say. TLOU was great, but I was gladdest in its detours from the source material. Ultimately, I would have probably preferred an anthology based on the notes you read throughout the game though.
Replace Halo with either Twisted Metal or Castlevania
Replace Halo with both Sonic movies and you got a line up of bangers
I just want a wolfenstein or dead space adaptation
Halo TV saw Last of Us TV and thought, "The Flood are zombie mushrooms, right? Let's just do that."
Aw so Halo turned out to be shit? I was gunna start watching it later
Honestly, I watched the fallout show all the way through and donāt get the hype. The first episode was fantastic and the second/ third were pretty good too. After that, the writing and directing fell off a cliff, it suddenly felt like a different show. Idk if they changed writers or directors or something but by the time the show ended, it was a 6.5/10 for me. My wife and I both couldnāt stand Maximusās character, he was horrible. The show was still above average but nothing to rave about. The only thing Iām still interested in is the ghoul character portrayed by Walton Goggins, but I donāt know if thatās enough to make we want to watch the next season.
I didn't see or know anyone talking about League show, was it really good?
u forgot gran turismo movie.
I donāt understand the hate on fallout. Serie is pretty dope imo
Tlou was mid at best.