Comment on Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• jinkyanderson@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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  • bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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    • jorp@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨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

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    • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tbf, I bet Todd Howard would die before letting anyone else make an Elder Scrolls show. Especially with the success of the Fallout show.

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• Chozo@fedia.io ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They knew enough to include a first-person fight scene, because that's what gamers wanna see.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sounds like the Doom movie, which wasn’t originally written to be a Doom movie which is very apparent by not only a few unchanged lines of dialogue but also by the fact it was more like Resident Evil than it was like Doom.

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    • TheUnicornOfPerfidy@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I fuckin love that film though. The Rock’s best performance. The brief moment of transphobia can fuck right off though.

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• acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t even think that was the issue, the show was just fucking awful no matter how much or little it had to do with Halo.

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  • lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m really surprised they made two seasons.

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    • cdipierr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For a while streamers were doing this thing where they would renew a show for Season 2 before the Season 1 pilot even released. I guess it was a way to project confidence to the audience?? Or maybe just to get the production pipeline moving so there wouldn’t be 2+ years in between season releases.

      Anyway, they did that with Halo…

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      • Maggoty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I never thought I’d applaud the Netflix approach but it should have been used here. They should have just shut down production on season 2 when the first fell flat on its face.

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