Breaking news: big budget media product that was developed by a competent and hard working team who understood and respected the source material turned out susccessful
cries in The Witcher
So much potential, perfect actor, lots of lore and stories, and they just decide to make whatever story up they wanted.
And I am already waiting how the Borderlands adaptation is going to flop so hard that fishes out of the water will be envious of the move. For the same reasons.
Even if it’s faithful, the humor from the games is dated so much that only diehards will like it. If it’s not faithful, diehards will hate it.
It’s almost guaranteed to be bad by huge portions of people that will watch it
That’s nice. Now leave God of War alone.
No shit, good video game adaptation have more success than bad ones ?
Uhhh this is not the first successful adaptation. What the successful ones prove are that it’s possible when you don’t just make a cheap rip for the money.
As for previous adaptations, The Last of Us; Arcane; Resident Evil (how many movies did that series sell again?)
Whoever wrote this article needs their fingers chopped. Seriously, it’s just a matter of time they write something so stupid, it kills someone.
The success of Fallout proves that people involved cared. That they took the source material and turned it into a good show. It proves people are happy to watch good stuff.
The Last of Us: “do i look like a fucking joke to you?”
Yeah I personally like the Fallout show more than TLOU, but TLOU did it first, very successfully.
The resident evil film series has made over a billion dollars at the box office. The first movie came out over 20 years ago.
If you really have to leave out movies for your argument, the Castlevania tv show came out in 2017 and it’s a fantastic show.
I definitely wouldn’t count the Resident Evil movies. I don’t think you can even really call them adaptations. The only similarities between them and the games are that there are zombies in them.
I’ve never played a single fallout game or even knew the lore besides its post apocalyptic. Loved the show and it was cool as hell learning about the universe. They told the story well and made me care about the characters.
Whats great is that the people making the show really cared about the lore of the games, so if people like you who have no prior knowledge decide to ever check out the games, there isn’t going to be an inconsistency with the lore or setting.
The show looks and feels just like the games. Its great, wish more adaptations had writers, directors, actors, etc. that cared about the source material.
Well, well, well, producing movies based on “The Sims” and “Monopoly” doesn’t seem so far-fetched now, does it?
The Sims could be best if they go the Lego movie route and make it a meta narrative
What meta narrative? That we all eventually remove the swimming pool ladder or trap them in a room on fire? Or having to buy the >£300 ($700) dlc multiple times?
Well made adaptations can be mainstream.
Seriously! So many terrible adaptations. It’s refreshing to see really good shows based on games. It also doesn’t hurt that shows like “The Last of Us” and “Fallout” are based on story driven games so there is already a lot of good story to build off.
Fallout, the game series, is way better at lore than story, in my opinion, and that’s what makes it such a great setting for well-written stories like this adaptation. They can literally 1:1 all of the visual assets and pull from a well developed cultural and geo-political landscape, and yet there isn’t any specific character that they really have to ‘get right’, other than, like, Mr. Handy. That’s a huge advantage for a good creative team.
It’s just the first season. Witcher season 1 was good too
Fallout is a series filled top to bottom with passionate fans of the games. The Witcher was… very much not that.
If you’re skeptical, watch Tim Cain’s (Game director of Fallout 1) videos about the show and meeting the people who made it.
It wasn’t though.
