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Here's A First Look At Amazon Prime's Fallout Series - Game Informer (www.gameinformer.com)

submitted 2 years ago by chloyster@beehaw.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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[+] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

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[–] dustywinter@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

"In related news, the director of the Halo TV series will be taking over artistic control." /s

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I will never not be mad at that.

Let's take the show halo fans have wanted for decades now, bring in a bunch of people who know nothing about the franchise, forbid them from learning about the franchise, and then we'll market to people who don't care about the franchise.

Corpo marketing big brains right there. Halo has one of the largest followings in gaming and still that wasn't enough. Hell the fans would have encouraged others to watch but nooo had to make it bland and generic for non fans. And they didn't even do that well!

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh man, I've not played halo since the 360 and I didn't know there was a TV programme being made, what was it that made it so bad?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a lot of things, but what I said there was true. They literally forbade the writers from playing any of the games or reading the books. They wanted to "attract a new audience" and "make something new". So now instead of the TV show all of us fans wanted we have something with master chief and if you squint your eyes it might look like a halo plotline

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's... a bold decision. Who pays for the rights to a well-known character/IP with lots of fans and then decides they want to attract a new audience instead? Guessing it was pretty poorly received?

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 2 years ago

50% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Idk what the idiots in corporate marketing were thinking, but in my dreams they were all fired.

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Hard to say but a lot of Amazon shows have been pretty solid.

[–] EvaUnit02@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

I hope this show is about nothing but collecting forks.

[–] Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, it looks like Fallout. The people behind the costumes and set design certainly did good work. Hopefully it ends up feeling like Fallout too.

[–] Faydaikin@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

It looks like Bethesdas Fallout.

Hopefully the writing will be better.