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Success of Fallout proves video game adaptations have gone mainstream (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 160 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 58 points 7 months ago (2 children)

cries in The Witcher

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So much potential, perfect actor, lots of lore and stories, and they just decide to make whatever story up they wanted.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey, it worked out for GoT season 8.

Oh wait...

[–] deus@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

To be fair they did run out of stories to tell.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

howls in Halo

[–] nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 7 points 7 months ago

bawls in battleship

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not even the humour, the thing is just miscast so hard I've never seen before.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jack Black seems to be a good fit

[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Not a bad fit, but why not the original voice actor? That's what a lot of people want to see. These VAs do amazing work and their faces aren't on screen

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

there was a whole pile of shit happening between gearbox and the original claptrap.

As for the current(? no idea, havn't played anything after pre-sequal) claptrap, they want star power, which is why the mario movie cast had none of the current voice actors for any of the characters.

[–] Jaytreeman@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I get it, but as a fan of Mario, would you rather watch the movie with the va or Pratt?
I'm 100℅ va, but I may be weird

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

would you rather watch the movie with the va or Pratt?

I'm explaining the answer to your question, not saying the reasoning is good or bad.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I can almost excuse jack black but what in the everloving fuck were they thinking casting Kevin hart as Roland? I guess we'll see what his acting range is, but seeing as it's a comedy I don't think he's going to be the straight man Roland was.

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 5 points 7 months ago

I'm more iffed by the casting of Tiny Tina. That actress basically acts out an arrogant teenage girl stereotype in every film, which is really not a good fit for TT.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 points 7 months ago

See also Halo, who took the opposite approach

[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 8 points 7 months ago

Don't get used to it.