I’m so glad The Last of Us exists to show people that not all video game adaptations have to be this bad.
Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons
Submitted 5 months ago by sheevpalpafiend@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.retbit.com/2024/07/19/halo-on-paramount-has-been-canceled-after-only-two-seasons/
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Ibaudia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And Fallout. Goddamn, Fallout was such a good show.
billwashere@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Fallout is proof you can make a video game show good and still be true to the original game. Halo was a completely different story they tried to throw the Halo brand on and didn’t give two shits about the game. Bungie should have sued them for slander…. or whoever owns the brand now.
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Last of Us is supremely mid. It’s not bad, it’s not great it’s just ok.
accideath@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It‘s a very solid adaptation. Sure, it will always sit in the shadow of the game because that’s a masterpiece but if you haven’t played the game yet watched the show, you’re getting a well produced and complete package that isn’t offensive to the source material. Because that’s what happens if you let the writer/director of the source material actually guide you in creating the show.
viking@infosec.pub 5 months ago
I never played the game, but thought the show was pretty great. Maybe not being familiar with the game is key, since you have different expectations?
Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I couldn’t even get through the first episode. Legitimately horrible direction, shit acting, cliche story, terrible cinematography, and crap stage design. I’m surprised it lasted this long. I’m glad I didn’t need to get Paramount+ to watch it.
SoupBrick@yiffit.net 5 months ago
But, but, it has Halo man in it, how could you not enjoy it? ~Investors
Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
They just straight up canceled the John Halo. It’s preposterous.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 months ago
The fact they couldn’t even make it as good as Red vs Blue is amazing. And that’s not a high bar.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The mid-late seasons of rvb were pretty good. Story got fucking convoluted at the end because they had to turn the silly jokes of the early seasons into honest plot points, but overall an amazing series.
UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Same as. It felt like watching a higher budget Power Rangers.
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
only two seasons
Two more than it deserved.
nevetsg@aussie.zone 5 months ago
I cancelled it after the first episode.
cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Every single character in the show is unlikeable. Maybe except Cortana, but idk if I’m biased. Been having a thing for Cortana since 9th grade.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Cortana did nothing wrong…well in the 3-4 episodes I watched.
I really wanted to like it but I just couldn’t.
MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It was a good sci-fi show, just not a good Halo show.
pachrist@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Truly one of the worst adaptions ever made. It’s astonishing that people might have actually tried and worked hard to make this heap of garbage.
Usually, in trash movies/TV you can see the vision at least and understand how maybe studio executives, or lack of technology, or even lack of ability destroyed the project. The kernel of what originally sold it is still there. But with Halo, I didn’t see any of that. Everything was bad. Nobody cared, and nobody tried.
franklin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A live-action Halo is a terrible idea, as is a live-action Avatar.
Some media is so ingrained in its spectacle that to make live action work, you’d have to spend Marvel levels of money on special effects, and why? When animation is right there.
Sure, you might be able to appeal to a larger audience, but how’s that working out for you?
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
A live-action Halo that was proud to not follow the games was a terrible idea. They did not care at all about following the source material, they did not care about wanting to make something good for Halo fans. If it had been better executed it could have done well.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I really don’t get why studios do that. They pick some well known franchise to attract the fans of that franchise, but then either figure they can do something better or that fans won’t care if they aren’t able to stick to the original story?
And so often that “better” they go for is really just different. And there’s nothing wrong with telling a different story, just don’t try to slap the franchise name on it for the name recognition.
Funny thing is, in some cases they could still do both by just making a new story in the same universe, either one that happens before the video game or after it (and fans would love references to events in the original story in the latter or foreshadowing events to come in the former). Though it’s still gotta be a good new story that follows the rules of the universe it’s set in.
And to add insult to injury, after seeing the result of this over and over, people walk away thinking movies based on video games can only suck making things harder for those who would do them right.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Exactly, they hated Halo fans and wanted to make something to spite them and it turned out to make no money and they’re all out of a job.
Just like Saints Row 4 and Volition…
bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Halo has worked live action in the past, albiet for shorter durations (Halo 3 and ODST both had really well done live action ad campaigns, plus there was Forward Unto Dawn).
The problem is Paramount completely missed the mark in terms of tone and faithfulness to the source material, and it seems like they didn’t even try. They just went “Big green guy punches aliens, that’s what those gamerzz like, right? We can do that for a few million bucks.”
skulbuny@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I legit like the live action avatar. It isn’t the best thing ever, but I am actually legitimately enjoying it and it’s changes.
franklin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Agreed but the action is noticeably impacted by the move to live action for sure
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It wasn’t even that. If they had just gone for a grittier more realistic take it would have been fine on visuals and effects. The acting though was cringe worthy at times and the writing wasn’t any better. It just wasn’t a fun show to watch.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And one where MasterChief doesn’t remove his helmet at every opportunity and doesn’t have sex with the first sketchy woman he meets.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I think a live-action Avatar could do well. I haven’t watched the Netflix show, but at least the bending in that one actually looks like they’re doing something.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Oh thank god
umbraroze@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ah!
Now let us never discuss it if we can help it.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Discuss what?
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 months ago
Exactly
solarvector@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Wow, that’s one more season that I knew about, assumed it’d never go beyond the first.
morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
TIL there’s a Halo show
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No there isn’t. There’s also only 3 Indiana Jones movies.
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And 6 Star Wars movies.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Crystal Skull honestly isn’t that bad. It’s way more fun to watch than Dial of Destiny imo.
Cause Harrison Ford could still do some stuff.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
The second season was a lot better than the first. They made Cortana so strange looking in that first season…
vikingtons@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Let’s just pretend this fever dream never happened
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Good riddance.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So, I tried to watch it…
The non English parts with the aliens wouldn’t show the subtitles no matter what I did.
I wasn’t the only one having that trouble
Wtf am i going to watch something where I can’t understand important scenes?
doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
For what its worth, you weren’t missing much…
gianni@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I guess I was the only one who thought it was a fun action show and enjoyed it?
rowdyrockets@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In a vacuum it could have been a fine sci-fi show, IMO. They took something completely unrelated to the lore and but a Halo skin on it.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 5 months ago
Halo deserves a bit more than a fun action show, yaknow?
gianni@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I agree it was fine, a little slow at times but not a bad show. I enjoyed watching it, it’s too bad they cancelled it just as it was getting good.
Halo at its core is a first person shooter with a lot of lore built up around it. The show did a good job with respecting the lore and world building.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There was a Halo show? Oh Paramount, I hate paramount. When I had to do the contracts for renewing channels at a cable system they were by far the worst.
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 5 months ago
What was it like working in the cable TV industry? Did it pay good and have good benefits?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It generally sucked. I was the sysadmin and the whole system was maintained with near end of life or end of life equipment. I fell into doing the renewal contracts for programming because I maintained the channel maps. The worst were viacom, paramount and espn. What a bunch of opportunist trash. I started in late 2008 before netflix hit and watched the price go up as the subscribers for TV went down. I battled the old school notions of cable while watching the owner and his cronies flail about without understanding the changes. They couldn’t understand why we were topping out on bandwidth every night and I tried to tell them that people were actually using it now. They wouldn’t pay for any type of proxy. They also at first wouldn’t pay for more bandwidth. They had a absurd user to bandwidth calculation in their head from ten years before and were slow to recognize that what was true then wouldn’t stay that way.
I did predicted how it would end up though. Cable isn’t gone like everyone said it would be but many cable companies have dumped video completely. There is no profit in carrying video. I knew that netflix wouldn’t remain the only game in town and that all those cord cutters would soon be faced with similar bills to keep the same amount of access to programming in the end. I was told I was wrong by both sides of it and I have to say the smug from being right about it all hasn’t earned me one dime. All in all I’m glad I’m out it.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com 5 months ago
When my dumbass father calls out BS that same guns do different damage when a spartan hold them you missed up.
Coreidan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Huh. So you’re telling me a show based off a FPS game sucks? Totally shocked!
No one saw this coming! /s
Clasm@ttrpg.network 5 months ago
More like a show based off of a random super-soldier script they bought that they slapped the Halo logo on and hoped nobody would notice.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nah it can work. It’s just another in a long line of Hollywood cash grabs though.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Does anyone else remember seeing this video and getting excited for the movie?
Bbbbbbbbbbb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I remember seeing This video and getting excited
MacedWindow@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I was so sure that was going to turn into a movie
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 5 months ago
It was amazing promo for 3 when they did this, they knew how to hype it perfectly. I watched this so many times back then
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Don’t do this, don’t give me hope
aciDC14@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Wow, what a surprise. I didn’t see that coming at all.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
The minute the show runners said that they did not play or care about the game before a single episode even aired, I knew it was going to suck balls.
jinkyanderson@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The quote from the showrunner, according to the article:
Looks like they should have looked at the game a little more closely.
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
Chozo@fedia.io 5 months ago
They knew enough to include a first-person fight scene, because that's what gamers wanna see.
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.
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.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 5 months ago
I’m really surprised they made two seasons.