Re: "Fallout 2"... in 3D

On 4/9/2024 7:43 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:

On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 06:55:17 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:
 

On 4/8/2024 2:41 PM, rms wrote:

I rather doubt they can pull this off, but lets wait and see.

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    Related:  The as-yet unreleased Fallout tv show has a second season
coming!  Guess they are confident
https://kotaku.com/fallout-amazon-tv-show-season-2-confirmed-release-date-1851395200
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That's surprising.  I haven't heard anything good so far, just the usual
internet picking apart and complaining about what little has been released.

 I'm not really sure who the show really is for. Diehard fans of the
game are going to hate it, just because it will inevitably stray from
the source material. ("How can you watch it? They said the Great War
started in 2243 when everybody knows it started in 2047!")*.
Casual fans aren't going to rush to watch the TV show just because of
the association. And Post-apocalyptics as a genre aren't really that
popular on TV in general (not to mention they tend to be more
expensive to make). Recent game-to-tv conversions haven't been
spectacular either; at best, they've been bearable TV, the sort of
thing you watch just because there's nothing better on.
 Fallout especially lacks draw because it doesn't have any compelling
characters of situations; it's mostly got its setting, and that's it.
That's great if you're making an open-world sandbox game of the sort
Bethesda is famous for, but it lacks the draw of "Master Chief" that
makes people want to watch "Halo".
           * years pulled out of my ass because I'm too lazy to go check the wiki
for something so trivial ;-)
 

That's still more effort than many TV executives will exert or allow their writers to exert.
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