Though the second season of the show attempted to rectify some of the vocal backlash it faced, particularly from avid fans of the Halo videogame franchise familiar with the game’s extensive lore and its Season 2 premiere was among the most watched original shows across all streaming platforms — it appears the efforts were too […]
  • jinkyanderson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    681·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      4 months ago

      “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

      • jorp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        limited by being an interactive medium where the average narrative length is dozens of hours.

        We need the unlimited story telling freedom enabled by passively watching disjoint chunks of ad-riddled content