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

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> looked up from reading the
entrails of the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs
say:

On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 06:55:17 -0700, Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com>
wrote:
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On 4/8/2024 2:41 PM, rms wrote:

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

 
   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.

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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.

Expensive yes, but post apocs have been very popular in recent years;
The Walking Dead, and spin offs, Last of Us.

They wouldn't even think about making Fallout into a TV show if they
weren't fairly sure it would have an audience.

Media producers and risk are rarely in the same time zone, which is why
we have so many remakes and reboots and continuations.

Fallout especially lacks draw because it doesn't have any compelling
characters of situations; it's mostly got its setting, and that's it.

Ahh but that gives you the freedom to make any characters you like,
instead of being stuck in the straight-jacket of pre-defined game
characters your actors will never, ever be a match for, leading to
endless whining from the game fans (see the whining when Tom Cruise was
cast as Lestat, or Heath Ledger as The Joker.)

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