Doomed to fail.
I mean, The Witcher TV adaptation was *okay*. But tits and swords and monsters are far easier to adapt for television audiences than cynical post-apocalyptic drudgery. Especially on an Amazon Prime budget. No other particularly successful (or memorable) video game television series adaptations come to mind. Perhaps a bit of a high bar for their first shot at it...
Amazon is making a Fallout TV series with the creators of Westworld
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I liked the Witcher
In theory this COULD work, but you might be right. I mean The Boys is the only decent show I've found that Amazon have pulled off.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 21:27,
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There's better game franchises they could have chosen?
Half Life?
BioShock?
Kerbal Space Program?
Horace goes Skiing?
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Hugh Breeze likes it. A Lot., Thu 2 Jul 2020, 21:58,
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There's a few I think could work.
I've always thought Silent Hill could always work well as a TV series rather than a full film. Disjointed single stories interwoven through the series would work perfectly.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:03,
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I am still angry at what they did to Silent Hill.
Lost the atmosphere and tension with no time to build it up.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:44,
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International Superstar Judo
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:08,
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Max Payne (especially #2) could work.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 0:41,
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You could make a fairly good scifi action film based on Alien Breed.
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brb natural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 13:49,
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Oh well, that's the best joke I'm likely to tell all day.
No recognition for one's finest work, it is ever thus.
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brb natural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 17:53,
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I found WW increasingly hard to watch as it progressed.
Note to filmmakers: non-linear storytelling may make you feel like you're Quentin Fucking Tarantino but it's painfully hard to follow.
As it happens this was my main gripe with the Witcher.
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jonbob loves you, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:00,
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Series 2 will be more linear apparently
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:01,
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The Boys was great, up until the final episode when you suddenly realised they weren't going to wrap it up and were setting up a new series instead.
The only really good Amazon series is The Expanse, and they bought that when it was already established.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:40,
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Bosch was pretty good.
Goliath is fucking spectacular though. I heartily recommend it.
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The Witcher was a series of books first
Which made it far more suitable for adaption.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Thu 2 Jul 2020, 22:13,
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True. But even if Fallout had anything in the way of lore to base a television series on
(Besides China getting pissy with the USA and kicking off a thermonuclear holocaust), a fantasy series based on a somewhat loose representation of an alternate medieval reality is going to be significantly more budget/production friendly than a sci-fi series set in a retro-futurist post apocalyptic wasteland.
I'd have been far more optimistic about a prequel. A story written by Obsidian Entertainment based on the years/months leading up to the conflict.
One of the things that made the first couple of seasons of Game of Thrones (for example) so fucking brilliant was all the politics and world building. The vast majority of Fallout fans will have played through the post-apocalyptic Fallout landscape in 7 different guises, already. I'm surely not the only one that would have preferred a television series covering the moments leading up to those events.
Maybe that's what we're getting. But I bloody doubt it.
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has the movie of it and centipede come out yet?
Atari movies
It'll be pong next
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I'm hoping for a Pong/Arkanoid/Breakout cinematic universe crossover.
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brb natural fistic, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 13:50,
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They could use a clip of Reagan saying 'break down that wall' in the 80s style theme tune
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Always cheaper and easier to write soap opera than hard sci-fi
I’m pretty sure the template will be the Walking Dead.
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Thrill_My_Chinchilla is old and unimproved, Fri 3 Jul 2020, 8:03,
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Specifically a book series written like a compilation of side quests
Perfect game/TV fodder. Glad they didn't go for the film option.
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