The minute the show runners said that they did not play or care about the game before a single episode even aired, I knew it was going to suck balls.
If you don’t know or even care about the source material: you shouldn’t have the rights to make anything about it.
The quote from the showrunner, according to the article:
“We didn’t look at the game. We didn’t talk about the game. We talked about the characters and the world. So I never felt limited by it being a game.”
Looks like they should have looked at the game a little more closely.
“Limited by it being a game” is such a condescending thing to say. Just shows that these people look down on video games in general and most likely have little respect for the people who these games mean a lot to. I mean, that shows in this TV show, just based on the short bits I’ve seen. The Chief acts like a Stallone or a Tom Cruise stand-in, instead of a stoic warrior.
I can’t wait for an Elder Scrolls show helmed by these showrunners, the Witcher showrunners, and Alex Kurtzman
If they didn’t name it Halo, it would have been a good sci-fi show on it’s own. But because I walked into it knowing enough about Halo lore (even though I didn’t play all that much of it). The show sucked… It wasn’t even close to living up to the game series.
I felt exactly the opposite, I don’t really care about halo lore that much and thought the show was horrible.
Well I mean… it’s no Stargate… but Sci-fi, especially space-based Sci-fi has been kind of dead these past few years. If it wasn’t “Halo” I could give it a pass for sure.
But with all things taste-related… to each their own.
They knew enough to include a first-person fight scene, because that’s what gamers wanna see.
Sounds like the Doom movie, which wasn’t originally written to be a Doom movie which is very apparent by not only a few unchanged lines of dialogue but also by the fact it was more like Resident Evil than it was like Doom.
I don’t even think that was the issue, the show was just fucking awful no matter how much or little it had to do with Halo.
For a while streamers were doing this thing where they would renew a show for Season 2 before the Season 1 pilot even released. I guess it was a way to project confidence to the audience?? Or maybe just to get the production pipeline moving so there wouldn’t be 2+ years in between season releases.
Anyway, they did that with Halo…
I’m so glad The Last of Us exists to show people that not all video game adaptations have to be this bad.
Fallout is proof you can make a video game show good and still be true to the original game. Halo was a completely different story they tried to throw the Halo brand on and didn’t give two shits about the game. Bungie should have sued them for slander…. or whoever owns the brand now.
The Last of Us is supremely mid. It’s not bad, it’s not great it’s just ok.
It‘s a very solid adaptation. Sure, it will always sit in the shadow of the game because that’s a masterpiece but if you haven’t played the game yet watched the show, you’re getting a well produced and complete package that isn’t offensive to the source material. Because that’s what happens if you let the writer/director of the source material actually guide you in creating the show.
Fallout wasn’t too bad imo. A bit shit in places but they kept close to the game which certainly peases the gamers.
I couldn’t even get through the first episode. Legitimately horrible direction, shit acting, cliche story, terrible cinematography, and crap stage design. I’m surprised it lasted this long. I’m glad I didn’t need to get Paramount+ to watch it.
The fact they couldn’t even make it as good as Red vs Blue is amazing. And that’s not a high bar.
only two seasons
Two more than it deserved.
I cancelled it after the first episode.
