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Bethesda could have made a Fallout movie or TV show a decade ago, but "credit to Todd Howard," they refused Hollywood's offers until they found "the right partner" (www.gamesradar.com)

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[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The right partner? You mean the one that makes the most money. You partnered with Bezos, dude. The show is alright, but it was clearly made to appease a wide market.

why would you expect any less? TV is made to make money, it is what it is.

You didn’t want a “video game movie director”, but you still made the equivalent of the Mario Movie.

oh come on, that's ridiculous. Who would you have preferred to make it?

A little more fan service wouldn’t kill the show. Reading journals, hacking computers, feral ghouls, side quests. A little faster pace would help too.

You can say the exact same stuff about The Last of Us which is also well done. Some things just wouldn't translate well to TV, especially with 8 episode seasons.

Look I'm not even trying to say you're wrong for wanting something different, but at least acknowledge it could have been a lot worse, like the Halo TV show.

[-] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Oh, absolutely. Rampage? Need for Speed? Any fighting game movie? Sonic was entertaining. So was the Mario movie, honestly. But both of those are tough to make into films. They kind of strayed from their original source, just like Fallout. But when it comes to video games as live action, there's a high bar that was set for me. I had higher expectations due to it and maybe that's my issue. Fallout could translate to this medium much better as was shown by The Last of Us. Season 1 was immaculate. It captured the video game and the characters and even added more depth to them. I expected too much, I guess.

[-] kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

Pacing is my worst complaint about the show, I've stopped watching until a full season is out because in some episodes nothing actually happens. Also they keep doing hard cuts to black with a bass hit as a transition over and over again, I think thats really lazy.

Other than that, I agree with your comment and still really enjoying the show as a longtime fallout fan.

[-] BenderRodriguez@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Why did you make your comment one question and then edit it to be a paragraph agreement with multiple points?

Initially, your comment was one sentence asking me if I would agree that there's a lot of terrible video game movies. Then you argued in your initial comment points that I made in my reply.