We’ve had a pretty good hit rate with video game adaptations lately. Fallout and Arcane are both among my favorite TV shows. I think we finally got far enough along that show runners are gamers themselves and aware of what makes these things good and what needs to change to be a good show.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 days ago
Can we just not do this?
One, not every thing needs to be a whole franchise universe.
Two, the game had a lot of decisions players could make. Collapsing that into a single canon is going to be unsatisfying. It was annoying enough that bg3 made some big decisions about choices from bg2.
Related, if they ever make another game in the franchise this show will probably be canon, so it’s not entirely ignorable.
Three, it’s not even that interesting a setting. It’s pretty Standard Fantasy.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 days ago
I kind of refuse to watch Fallout. Partly because I read they fucked up the NCR. But also Amazon sucks , and Bethesda is kind of creatively bankrupt.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 days ago
To each their own, but I thought they completely nailed the tone, respectfully incorporated the established fiction, and even wrote some great new characters.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 days ago
What made new Vegas interesting was that it’s not just another kitschy wasteland romp. It’s post-post-apocalypse, and it asks who rebuilds after.
My limited understanding is the TV show nuked the NCR so they could do more wasteland theme park, and not continue that train of thought. But also didn’t just set it somewhere else.
But admittedly I haven’t actually watched it.
But also, again, trying to make a TV show intersect with a video game with multiple endings is a foolish idea. You won’t make everyone happy, and it’s an entirely avoidable problem. They could’ve just set the show in a different part of the world that hasn’t had a game.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 days ago
You know you don’t have to watch it.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 days ago
Related, if they ever make another game in the franchise this show will probably be canon, so it’s not entirely ignorable.
Technically I don’t have to watch it. I don’t have to play any more games in the franchise either. But if I do want to play more games in the franchise, I’ll probably have to deal with the show.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 2 days ago
That’s such an exaggeration. Do you know how many people played BG3 without ever even knowing 1 or 2 existed, let alone played them?
Damage@feddit.it 2 days ago
Yeah but they’ll mess with the canon and then we’ll all have to deal with it.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 days ago
wait. bg3 is influenced by the bg2 story?
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Somewhat. It’s story is mostly independent, but it does take place after 2 and therefore has canonized several of the decisions you could make in 2, as well as a few returning characters.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 days ago
interesting. I had not played 2 and 3 seemed like such a contained story I did not think there was any crossover.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 days ago
Spoiler for Shadowheart’s story
spoiler
Viconia is a recruitable party member in bg1 and 2. You can even make her not evil at the end. I was bummed that they decided that she just stays evil.
And for the main plot in act 3, with a certain bhaalspawn.
spoiler
You can also redeem sarevok, but they just decided that he’s evil.
Annoying, but I get why they didn’t do like a save import from an ancient game.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Yeah, not sure who was in which games, but Minsc and Jaheira were grouped with one of the protagonists, and at least one of the games had another Bhal spawn.
mcforest@feddit.org 2 days ago
One, not every thing needs to be a whole franchise universe.
Bruh, DnD already is one.
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We don’t get many high budget fantasy shows. I’m all for it. Larian is already moving away from big anyways, I think wizards of the coast upped their licensing price by quite a bit.
PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
That was an annoying thing, every Larian game that was released in EA had an EA price. BG3 didn’t, it was full price from the start. And a highly inflated price than what Larian titles had been going for once released.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
It’s almost as if they factored the cost of licensing a third-party IP into the price.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Because HBO has a good track record for fantasy shows?
Grimy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
HBO has a good track record period. I’m guessing you mean GoT but that series is a gem until the last season. Even in the last season, the zombie fight lasted a whole episode and a half and was peak tv. House of the dragon was pretty good as well.