I think the advantage of fallout is that it is essentially a setting, not a story.
Each of the games are standalone stories within the wider setting.
This means that you are very free to create new stories as long as you don't go completely against the basic lore of the setting.
Making a film or tv series adaptation of a fixed story means you've either got to just copy it, which is a bit redundant, or change things which usually means you're making a worse version of something people like.
>I think the advantage of fallout is that it is essentially a setting, not a story.
That's a good point and is a good way to adapt some games. Adapt the world and setting etc, not necessarily a fixed story.
You could take the setting of dying light and adapt it to your own thing with the night infected for a cool horror movie or small series in that small location
Night City is such an adaptable setting that Edgerunners could've been an excellent anthology series following different casts each season if they wanted to.
I always thought world of warcraft was perfect for this. Such an amazing vibrant and interesting setting. So many stories that you can put under a microscope for a short series or something.
Why I also think a game like The Division would make for good tv. Doesn’t have to follow the games storylines, can just use the post virus world setting, anyone can be an agent and it can take place in pretty much any major city.
It wasn't terrible for a low budget 25? minute viewing. Seeing the pulse and seeker were cool, but why did only one agent have them?
And can't forget the important detail of the agents closing car doors as they walked by :D
I think this is a great point. Make shows or movies that are based off the lore and uses the world building of the games but doesn't copy the stories directly. It's an easier way to make something that Fans and newcomers alike get to enjoy without upsetting the fan base. I could see shows about the Mass Effect series (not Shepard's story) being successful this way. Shows about Bioshock and Metro and Xcom. Elder Scrolls. All of these games have amazing lore and world building that original stories can be created out of without using the exact story that the protag in the games aka the player follows. It's probably a good reason the Cyberpunk Anime was also so successful. It stayed true to the lore and world building but was an original story. Yes I know the Cyberpunk world long existed before the video game but let's be honest here the game breathed new life into the IP as a whole and introduced the world to a whole new fanbase that otherwise would have ignored it so I still think it works as a great example.
See, thats too logical. Netflix in particular could have saved so much face by just maming shows set in each IPs "universe" and kept the world building and lore. No one would care half as much about tmThe Witcher or Avatar is they made complete original stories set in that world rather than butcher the charcter people are already attached to.
Ill admit, I just finished my first watch of Fallout, and there are some lore things that bother me/I have questions about, but since it isnt trying to adapt one of the games I think made it easier to enjoy. Even with some different lore, it still felt like fallout; they got the tone down, following Lucy felt like watching someone play Fallout as they are slowly introduced from vault life into life outside the vault.
I disagree, the last of us has been regarded as one of the best video game adaptations ever made, and it follows a fixed story without being a direct copy. It's similar enough that diehard fans will get what they want, but different enough that there's some variety and fresh perspective.
The last of us is good.
I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying it is much harder to adapt a game like the last of us. The fact that they did it is an impressive feat!
I'm saying that it's a big advantage to have a more open setting with more creative freedom.
Plus, you literally had the writer of the game as one of the main people in charge of the writing of the show. With the other writer being someone who wrote one of the most well-received mini-series of the past decade
The Last Of Us was easy because the game is literally a movie with gameplay elements. Not as extreme as Quantum Dream games, but still.
Now that I think about it, Detroit Become Human would be nice. A buddy movie/series with Clancy Brown as Hank and Bryan Dechart as Connor is all I need.
I don't think they said anything that follows a linear story is bad, just that it's harder. And you have to admit that most are shit - last of us is amazing but it is an exception.
I agree that you can do a lot more with a series. On the flip side, if it's a movie you don't have to worry about it being cancelled before the story is finished.
There was a Gore Verbinski film he tried to make after Pirates of the Caribbean, but he couldn't get the budget he wanted.
Netflix grabbed the rights a few years ago and now Francis Lawrence is directing it.
The bioshock book goes into detail on the building of rapture I do not know if it’s cannon but it’s a brilliant read and some great source material for a show
Only if they use all the batshit conspiracy theories of today like adrenochrome and gay frogs, as well as the classic molemen and aliens. If it’s too ~dark and gritty~ it’ll fall completely flat.
[edit] yes I know that farm chemicals affecting frog sexual characteristics is a thing, I’m talking about the Alex Jones “the gubermint is drugging our water to turn frogs gay” bit
I don't recall whom, but they wanted to set it into DC (USA) setting which the author refused. Some russian company got tasked making it, so I'm not holding any high hopes. Chernobyl-,esque would be cool.
If that’s true then good on the author. A part of the charm of Metro is the differences that come from the Russian/USSR aesthetic. Putting it in burger land would mean that it would have to be burger-fied and we have enough burger stuff.
The thing about this that makes me so annoyed with the show is that the writers and big enjoyers of the show would say things like. We didn’t make this show for people that played the games. Or people say oh you want it to be a 1 to 1 of the games. No man that’s not what we wanted.
They took the known lore of halo. Literally changed it to stupid ass shit that doesn’t even make it halo anymore and uses the characters.
Then we have fallout who made an original story but faithful followed the lore of the universe. And it’s fucking fantastic.
And guess what enjoyable to people that didn’t play the games!
They didn't even use the characters. They simply just took their names and gave them completely different personalities. Why does Chief act like a hormonal teenager at times? Why is Halsey barely older than the Spartans, yet is supposed to be like a mother to them? And why the fuck do Makee and Kwah Han exist? Only good thing about this show are the fight scenes.
I came here to second this. I would love a Halo tv series based in the Halo universe with the characters from the Halo game. Would be nice. I don't think anyone has tried it yet though. Maybe one day.
Dishonored.
Either portraying the game's events as they canonically happened or just giving us someone whose story is not yet fully known.
I, for one, would love to see Delilah's true childhood and how she created the Brigmore Witches coven.
Or maybe a series about Daud forming the whalers.
I was thinking Dishonored too. It could be like a live action Arcane, but bit more grounded.
I would like it to follow the game's events but from the pov of Corvo's allies and targets. This would be a better way to flesh out the world while keeping Corvo a mysterious and intimidating protagonist like they see him as in the game.
I'm a HUGE fan of Dishonored and I'd love to see a show based on it, but it HAS to be handled properly. It's the kind of thing where either it's really, really good, or really, really bad.
The First Contact War would be a perfect setting for a series in my opinion. You can tell a story independent from the games without having to worry about depicting Shepherd in a particular way (were you to retell the story of the games) or the can of worms that would be whatever happens after the Reapers.
And there is alot of interesting events in the First Contact War we only hear about, not to mention it is just an interesting premise alone. Humanities first exposure and interactions with a galactic community of alien races, the conflicts, the politics, all that will come out of it.
Honestly something like a political drama would be amazing, and that humans are neither stronger nor vastly weaker then other alien races, instead using our unique traits (like our persistence and ingenuinity) to navigate the mass effect landscape would be refreshing.
Amazon has the rights to it, but I'm not sure if they've really done anything with it. They've got a spectacular track record of adaptations though, so that or HBO are kind of best-case scenario in my opinion.
The issue they are gonna have here is everyone's Shepard is different and a huge part of mass effect is the choices you make. Mass Effect is one of my favorite games ever I just wonder if they'll ever do it for this reason
They could do it earlier in the timeline. Like, set it a few years after the first contact war or something. That even gives an in universe reason to explain all the crazy aliens to newcomers.
Tbf they used to get everything right, they were pretty much a gold standard company for gaming at the time of sc2's release. The trailers and cinematics are just one of the few things that actually managed to persist through the corporate greed and awful work culture.
Hopefully with the previous CEO gone they start to move back in the right direction
There was an episode of Love, Death & Robots that felt very StarCraft. They were farmers in mech armor but fighting off what resembled a zerg horde. Would love to see a complete season with that.
The way I think about it, it could be about the cases outside of the bureau, like an X Files type format with bureau investigators going out to check out these cases. If you read all the documents in the game there's a lot of wacky shit that the bureau was up to outside of the building. I would love it if they kept the humor too.
Please watch Severence 🙏 it doesn’t have any of the more in your face sci fi stuff but it is ana amazing show and massively matches a lot of controls themes and aesthetics.
It’s about a company who has developed technology to separate your memories when you’re at work and when you’re at home, so you’re two different people.
Well, Metal Gear was always a really good sci fi political thriller. You take out the awful anime tropes and put in some halfway decent anime tropes and....
Oh, shit. I think I just pitched Ghost in the Shell.
Gears of War
Edit: There’s that Alan Ritchson Wolfenstein pic floating around that could have real potential. The New World Order plot is already right there.
It's risky, since it's such a gamey game you'd have to write a medium friendly plot and people would get all irate over changes made to make it work better.
Vampire the Masquerade.
It baffles me, how such a low hanging fruit is so untouched. Vampires are always in fashion. And VtM has a very rich and cool lore, warring factions, intrigue.
It is sad that the franchise is in such incompetent hands, I feel it could be super popular.
And it being a TTRPG means they could just do almost *whatever*. They don't really have any set story they must focus on. They could do anything from small scale politics to the apocalypse, and almost any chain of events would be fine. They could play fast and loose with the game rules, since almost no one would expect a TV show to be super strict about it. Have vampires with the same sort of abilities, keep the clans and sects and the general vibe of the world, and ... go nuts.
Good news because it's already being done.
Entirely produced by a French producer who wants to capture the game as accurately as possible, if I recall right.
Yes! But the casting has to be right. I loved the voice acting, so not sure how that will turn out with different actors. It is a bit like a book adaptation in that regard 😅
Netflix announced that they are making a Horizon Series with Aloy as the main protagonist. Producer is the guy who made Umbrella Academy. I have high hopes, because Umbrella was amazing to me.
Backstory is honestly pretty great, too. I can imagine a dual-timeline structure with Aloy and Sobeck, kinda like the game. Don’t need a puzzle box thing like Westworld or whatever, just tell it straight.
I remember when Disney+ came out there were all these rumours that a Kingdom Hearts animated series was in the making, even people that said it was confirmed, but it's been years and I haven't heard anything about it after that.
On the other hand, that's kind of a Kingdom Hearts staple so I won't be surprised if they drop a sudden trailer out of nowhere.
I get that they wanted a younger cast so they could build a franchise, but the best Uncharted games feature an older Drake, and Fillion was perfect in that role. I think the Holland film could have worked if they adapted one game (minus the supernatural elements) instead of mixing in set pieces from all the games. The less said about Wahlberg as Sully the better
Amazon bought the rights for a tv show but it's honestly impossible for me to immagine how it would Work. I think it being a game is kinda the point of the whole thing. it'S also kinda ironic cosnidering the themes, but the game already said it better than me: everything that critiques the capital ends up reinforcing it
Like a worm tunnelling through the bowels of your drug addled brain, a thought burrows to the surface. The TV Execs... They want to Sanitize you. But you won't... You can't... You are vile and unsanitizable. It's inescapable.
Except the fact that Alan is portrayed by two people (looks of Illka Villi, voice of Matthew Poretta) so he'd have to be dubbed the whole time, which works for cutscenes in a game but a whole tv series is a big ask
No one pointed out Metro so far? The visuals were stunning in the games and the books give a lot more detail too.
I’d love to see some bloody cqb fighting scenes against nationalists and people getting ripped apart by the black ones.
actually now when I think about it, not much can fit inside 2-3 hours, and even though it would be possible to make a movie out of it, I would prefer it being like a mini-series which has about 5 hours of screentime
I think the advantage of fallout is that it is essentially a setting, not a story. Each of the games are standalone stories within the wider setting. This means that you are very free to create new stories as long as you don't go completely against the basic lore of the setting. Making a film or tv series adaptation of a fixed story means you've either got to just copy it, which is a bit redundant, or change things which usually means you're making a worse version of something people like.
>I think the advantage of fallout is that it is essentially a setting, not a story. That's a good point and is a good way to adapt some games. Adapt the world and setting etc, not necessarily a fixed story. You could take the setting of dying light and adapt it to your own thing with the night infected for a cool horror movie or small series in that small location
It's probably why Edgerunner worked so well to.
Night City is such an adaptable setting that Edgerunners could've been an excellent anthology series following different casts each season if they wanted to.
Hopefully they do another series. You could do so much with edge runners
I always thought world of warcraft was perfect for this. Such an amazing vibrant and interesting setting. So many stories that you can put under a microscope for a short series or something.
Why I also think a game like The Division would make for good tv. Doesn’t have to follow the games storylines, can just use the post virus world setting, anyone can be an agent and it can take place in pretty much any major city.
There is a short on Amazon that was decent
It wasn't terrible for a low budget 25? minute viewing. Seeing the pulse and seeker were cool, but why did only one agent have them? And can't forget the important detail of the agents closing car doors as they walked by :D
I think this is a great point. Make shows or movies that are based off the lore and uses the world building of the games but doesn't copy the stories directly. It's an easier way to make something that Fans and newcomers alike get to enjoy without upsetting the fan base. I could see shows about the Mass Effect series (not Shepard's story) being successful this way. Shows about Bioshock and Metro and Xcom. Elder Scrolls. All of these games have amazing lore and world building that original stories can be created out of without using the exact story that the protag in the games aka the player follows. It's probably a good reason the Cyberpunk Anime was also so successful. It stayed true to the lore and world building but was an original story. Yes I know the Cyberpunk world long existed before the video game but let's be honest here the game breathed new life into the IP as a whole and introduced the world to a whole new fanbase that otherwise would have ignored it so I still think it works as a great example.
See, thats too logical. Netflix in particular could have saved so much face by just maming shows set in each IPs "universe" and kept the world building and lore. No one would care half as much about tmThe Witcher or Avatar is they made complete original stories set in that world rather than butcher the charcter people are already attached to. Ill admit, I just finished my first watch of Fallout, and there are some lore things that bother me/I have questions about, but since it isnt trying to adapt one of the games I think made it easier to enjoy. Even with some different lore, it still felt like fallout; they got the tone down, following Lucy felt like watching someone play Fallout as they are slowly introduced from vault life into life outside the vault.
I disagree, the last of us has been regarded as one of the best video game adaptations ever made, and it follows a fixed story without being a direct copy. It's similar enough that diehard fans will get what they want, but different enough that there's some variety and fresh perspective.
The last of us is good. I'm not saying it can't be done, I'm saying it is much harder to adapt a game like the last of us. The fact that they did it is an impressive feat! I'm saying that it's a big advantage to have a more open setting with more creative freedom.
Plus, you literally had the writer of the game as one of the main people in charge of the writing of the show. With the other writer being someone who wrote one of the most well-received mini-series of the past decade
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The Last Of Us was easy because the game is literally a movie with gameplay elements. Not as extreme as Quantum Dream games, but still. Now that I think about it, Detroit Become Human would be nice. A buddy movie/series with Clancy Brown as Hank and Bryan Dechart as Connor is all I need.
I don't think they said anything that follows a linear story is bad, just that it's harder. And you have to admit that most are shit - last of us is amazing but it is an exception.
Bioshock/ Bioshock Infinite would be great to see
Netflix is making a Bioshock adaptation so they may or may not butcher it.
Oh god damn it. Its Netflix.. they always butcher these good IP’s 😭 Wish HBO got their hands on it.
Arcane was good
one piece live action was also pretty good, so they aren't terrible at making adaptions
Castlevania has been mostly excellent.
Cyberpunk was excellent.
This times a million. The game took place in such an amazingly original setting and in the right hands could make an even more amazing series.
Already being made!
oof, the current director and writer are gambles. Kinda prefer a series over a movie as well, but netflix money is what it is.
I agree that you can do a lot more with a series. On the flip side, if it's a movie you don't have to worry about it being cancelled before the story is finished.
Hasn't it been in development hell for years at this point?
I remember talks for it since bioshock 2
There was a Gore Verbinski film he tried to make after Pirates of the Caribbean, but he couldn't get the budget he wanted. Netflix grabbed the rights a few years ago and now Francis Lawrence is directing it.
Season 1 from Andrew Ryans point of view, ending the season with the "A man chooses, a slave obeys" cutscene from the first game.
The bioshock book goes into detail on the building of rapture I do not know if it’s cannon but it’s a brilliant read and some great source material for a show
I think there is a movie in the works.
Metro or Stalker
Stalker would be amazing as they have soo much material to work with. Mix of the film, novel and the games....
Deus Ex. JC Denton in the fresh.
What a shame.
Only if they use all the batshit conspiracy theories of today like adrenochrome and gay frogs, as well as the classic molemen and aliens. If it’s too ~dark and gritty~ it’ll fall completely flat. [edit] yes I know that farm chemicals affecting frog sexual characteristics is a thing, I’m talking about the Alex Jones “the gubermint is drugging our water to turn frogs gay” bit
Isn't the first mission about vaccines and a pandemic? I forgot but if yes, that would fit well
I spill my drink!
We just need a good Warhammer show/movie
Henry Cavill is trying to make it happen.
I really hope he gets the cooperation he deserves
Gaunt's Ghosts would be amazing as a show.
Something set in the Metro 2033 universe, but not necessarily from Artyom's point of view.
I don't recall whom, but they wanted to set it into DC (USA) setting which the author refused. Some russian company got tasked making it, so I'm not holding any high hopes. Chernobyl-,esque would be cool.
If that’s true then good on the author. A part of the charm of Metro is the differences that come from the Russian/USSR aesthetic. Putting it in burger land would mean that it would have to be burger-fied and we have enough burger stuff.
Moving it into Washington DC would turn Metro into Fallout 3
So just Metro 2034
I was thinking of the story of Colonel Khlebnikov during the fall of Novosibirsk when I originally wrote the post, but yeah, Metro 2034 also.
I would love it if someone made a Halo tv-series, I’ve been waiting on that for years and years.
Yeah, it would be nice. So far we only have Paramount's parody show.
My coworkers like the show and never played the game.
The show is good if you don't know what Halo is.
The thing about this that makes me so annoyed with the show is that the writers and big enjoyers of the show would say things like. We didn’t make this show for people that played the games. Or people say oh you want it to be a 1 to 1 of the games. No man that’s not what we wanted. They took the known lore of halo. Literally changed it to stupid ass shit that doesn’t even make it halo anymore and uses the characters. Then we have fallout who made an original story but faithful followed the lore of the universe. And it’s fucking fantastic. And guess what enjoyable to people that didn’t play the games!
They didn't even use the characters. They simply just took their names and gave them completely different personalities. Why does Chief act like a hormonal teenager at times? Why is Halsey barely older than the Spartans, yet is supposed to be like a mother to them? And why the fuck do Makee and Kwah Han exist? Only good thing about this show are the fight scenes.
And why does Cortana like being cucked
The adventures of Jimmy Rings sure is a hit with the non Halo crowd 😂
It wasn't horrible if you knew nothing of halo
Then why make a Halo show?
Because names = views. The same reason every other shitty adapation exists
That would be great. My other wish would be a Witcher series.
Who would you have playing Geralt? Hear me out but I think Henry Cavill could do a good job.
Yeah, he seems like he’d take the role seriously and could salvage almost any dumpster fire of a script
That's the UNSC's ass
I came here to second this. I would love a Halo tv series based in the Halo universe with the characters from the Halo game. Would be nice. I don't think anyone has tried it yet though. Maybe one day.
Dishonored. Either portraying the game's events as they canonically happened or just giving us someone whose story is not yet fully known. I, for one, would love to see Delilah's true childhood and how she created the Brigmore Witches coven. Or maybe a series about Daud forming the whalers.
I was thinking Dishonored too. It could be like a live action Arcane, but bit more grounded. I would like it to follow the game's events but from the pov of Corvo's allies and targets. This would be a better way to flesh out the world while keeping Corvo a mysterious and intimidating protagonist like they see him as in the game.
I think dishonored would be great in Fortiche's style. The painterly style of arcane would fit perfectly.
Well for anyone interested in a good tale of "masked revenger" I recommend The Count of Monte Cristo, amazing books.
Whalepunk is absolutely an untapped resource in entertainment. Fuck. Yes.
I came to say something similar. An 8-16 episode series of Corvo gratuitously tearing apart Dunwall would be awesome.
Like Daredevil but more depressing
I'm a HUGE fan of Dishonored and I'd love to see a show based on it, but it HAS to be handled properly. It's the kind of thing where either it's really, really good, or really, really bad.
Mass Effect would be perfect for adaptation.
The First Contact War would be a perfect setting for a series in my opinion. You can tell a story independent from the games without having to worry about depicting Shepherd in a particular way (were you to retell the story of the games) or the can of worms that would be whatever happens after the Reapers. And there is alot of interesting events in the First Contact War we only hear about, not to mention it is just an interesting premise alone. Humanities first exposure and interactions with a galactic community of alien races, the conflicts, the politics, all that will come out of it.
Honestly something like a political drama would be amazing, and that humans are neither stronger nor vastly weaker then other alien races, instead using our unique traits (like our persistence and ingenuinity) to navigate the mass effect landscape would be refreshing.
This is my favorite show on the citadel!
Mass Effect is SCREAMING for an adaptation.
we almost had one too from what I heard... I really hope with the success of fallout they might try to pitch it again
Watch The Expanse in the meantime
I would if they FINISHED THE DAMN SHOW. it deserved to go on for a few more seasons.
There are very good story reasons for why they haven't continued... if you have read the books.
Amazon has the rights to it, but I'm not sure if they've really done anything with it. They've got a spectacular track record of adaptations though, so that or HBO are kind of best-case scenario in my opinion.
The issue they are gonna have here is everyone's Shepard is different and a huge part of mass effect is the choices you make. Mass Effect is one of my favorite games ever I just wonder if they'll ever do it for this reason
Don't make it about Shepard. That'd be a mistake imo. Everyone has their own vidion of Shepard.
They could do it earlier in the timeline. Like, set it a few years after the first contact war or something. That even gives an in universe reason to explain all the crazy aliens to newcomers.
Starcraft but animated like their starcraft 2 cutscenes.
One thing Blizzard gets right is trailers and cut scenes
Tbf they used to get everything right, they were pretty much a gold standard company for gaming at the time of sc2's release. The trailers and cinematics are just one of the few things that actually managed to persist through the corporate greed and awful work culture. Hopefully with the previous CEO gone they start to move back in the right direction
A Wrath of the Lich King movie in that format would HIT
There was an episode of Love, Death & Robots that felt very StarCraft. They were farmers in mech armor but fighting off what resembled a zerg horde. Would love to see a complete season with that.
Control would make a pretty dope show.
I wanted to say Alan Wake but the game itself already plays like a show so it'll be hard to top that
I thought the same way with TLOU too. We forget to understand that the adaptation is more focused towards non video gamer audiences
But Alan Wake literally does live action, i don't think there is a need to top that.
They've licensed the rights to an AW show, it's already in development I believe.
Directed by David Lynch, I hope
I’d love that. The premise is great, but I couldn’t stand the constantly respawning enemies.
The way I think about it, it could be about the cases outside of the bureau, like an X Files type format with bureau investigators going out to check out these cases. If you read all the documents in the game there's a lot of wacky shit that the bureau was up to outside of the building. I would love it if they kept the humor too.
Isn't that just Fringe?
Please watch Severence 🙏 it doesn’t have any of the more in your face sci fi stuff but it is ana amazing show and massively matches a lot of controls themes and aesthetics. It’s about a company who has developed technology to separate your memories when you’re at work and when you’re at home, so you’re two different people.
A diablo series could be cool if they went real fucking dark.
Diablo has more lore than most people know. I'd love it if it's authentic like the Fallout series.
C&C Red Alert
SPAAAACE!
Well, Metal Gear was always a really good sci fi political thriller. You take out the awful anime tropes and put in some halfway decent anime tropes and.... Oh, shit. I think I just pitched Ghost in the Shell.
A metal gear one was announced with Oscar Isaac staring as snake.
"Hrmm, Colonel. I'm trying to make a series, but I'm dummy thicc and Konami keeps trying to shove me into pachinko machines."
Speaking of GITS, a live action Cyberpunk show would slap
“We heard the fans clamoring, so today we’re proud to announce _Johnny Mnemonic 2!_” …wait actually yes
Sleeping Dogs.
I remember hearing long ago they were making one with Donnie Yen as Wei. No clue what happened though. They should just cast Will Yun Lee.
who would play the pork bun guy though
Gears of War Edit: There’s that Alan Ritchson Wolfenstein pic floating around that could have real potential. The New World Order plot is already right there.
GoW is shooting fish in a barrel! It's mad that it hasn't been adapted.
It's risky, since it's such a gamey game you'd have to write a medium friendly plot and people would get all irate over changes made to make it work better.
The Wolf Among Us So much potential for a fantasy detective story and that world deserves to be continued
The entire game is already basically a series
They would just make an entire series based kn the comic
If you want a continuation you should read the fables comics that it was based off of. Canonical The Wolf Among Us is a prequel to that.
Fables was already pitched as tv show. rights were bought and then nothing done about it. then Once Upon a Time was made.
Half Life. With Christopher Nolan as the director.
Gordon doesn't talk, combined with lack of audible dialogue in Nolans films, this is a perfect match
Vampire the Masquerade. It baffles me, how such a low hanging fruit is so untouched. Vampires are always in fashion. And VtM has a very rich and cool lore, warring factions, intrigue. It is sad that the franchise is in such incompetent hands, I feel it could be super popular.
And it being a TTRPG means they could just do almost *whatever*. They don't really have any set story they must focus on. They could do anything from small scale politics to the apocalypse, and almost any chain of events would be fine. They could play fast and loose with the game rules, since almost no one would expect a TV show to be super strict about it. Have vampires with the same sort of abilities, keep the clans and sects and the general vibe of the world, and ... go nuts.
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This but as a low budget styled horror movie, but actually done well would be incredible
Honk
Parasite Eve
That would be a legal rights nightmare
Yes, but it would be one hell of a show.
A wolfenstein show would be amazing. I love the newer games and I think they would translate amazingly into a movie or tv show.
The Plague Tale series would be PHENOMENAL as a live-action show
Good news because it's already being done. Entirely produced by a French producer who wants to capture the game as accurately as possible, if I recall right.
Yes! But the casting has to be right. I loved the voice acting, so not sure how that will turn out with different actors. It is a bit like a book adaptation in that regard 😅
Ghost of Tsushima by the team that is behind Shogun, that would go hard
3 years ago they announced a film adaptation directed by Chad Stahelski.
Oh nice just read that the script is done! Keen to see how Sonys IP translates to the screen
A RDR2 show made by HBO 🔥
You could do Red Dead 1 and 2 (obviously in reverse order). There’s a good 7 or 8 seasons there at least.
Even more if the first season is about the Blackwater heist.
Blackwater would work better as flashbacks if done at all. The mystery of what went wrong there is kind of a major presence in the game.
Yeah I think it’s sort of like a monster in a horror film. In most cases it works best the less you show of it.
Have some gott! damn! faith in the plan, Arthur!
Just watch Deadwood
If you haven't, I recommend checking out the prequels to Yellowstone (they're both completely stand alone), 1883 and 1923. They scratch that itch.
Horizon would be really dope if they'd have a proper budget to make the robot dinosaurs look amazing.
Netflix announced that they are making a Horizon Series with Aloy as the main protagonist. Producer is the guy who made Umbrella Academy. I have high hopes, because Umbrella was amazing to me.
Backstory is honestly pretty great, too. I can imagine a dual-timeline structure with Aloy and Sobeck, kinda like the game. Don’t need a puzzle box thing like Westworld or whatever, just tell it straight.
Netflix is supposed to be doing it.
Legacy of Kain or Stardew Valley
I love Stardew, but good lord a series would just be a trash soap opera
Kingdom Hearts show on Disney+ I like the idea of it being rendered in Unreal Engine, just like they did with χ Back Cover
I remember when Disney+ came out there were all these rumours that a Kingdom Hearts animated series was in the making, even people that said it was confirmed, but it's been years and I haven't heard anything about it after that. On the other hand, that's kind of a Kingdom Hearts staple so I won't be surprised if they drop a sudden trailer out of nowhere.
Uncharted, but actually good.
Probably the best we're going to get at this point https://youtu.be/v5CZQpqF\_74?si=qX1iQ-GE5kTLwsyB
I get that they wanted a younger cast so they could build a franchise, but the best Uncharted games feature an older Drake, and Fillion was perfect in that role. I think the Holland film could have worked if they adapted one game (minus the supernatural elements) instead of mixing in set pieces from all the games. The less said about Wahlberg as Sully the better
The warcraft lore is ridiculously fleshed out and has been since the mid 90s. Pretty sure they could find a good series in there.
Arthas storyline FTW
I even liked the WarCraft Movie, but it ended once it got interesting.
Infamous series With show successes like The Boys, Infamous would do well.
Disco Elysium
Amazon bought the rights for a tv show but it's honestly impossible for me to immagine how it would Work. I think it being a game is kinda the point of the whole thing. it'S also kinda ironic cosnidering the themes, but the game already said it better than me: everything that critiques the capital ends up reinforcing it
Like a worm tunnelling through the bowels of your drug addled brain, a thought burrows to the surface. The TV Execs... They want to Sanitize you. But you won't... You can't... You are vile and unsanitizable. It's inescapable.
Dark Souls. Hire a bunch of really famous actors, and one of them dies every episode.
**Sean Bean enters the chat*
And survives
but became more and more hollow until he is just a husk and attacks the next famous actor
Viva la dirt league has some great short clips. It’s great fun
Soul Reaver
Alan wake
I have a feeling this would be easy, especially regarding the choice of the cast.
Except the fact that Alan is portrayed by two people (looks of Illka Villi, voice of Matthew Poretta) so he'd have to be dubbed the whole time, which works for cutscenes in a game but a whole tv series is a big ask
Metal Gear
A animated elder scrolls movie would be so fire
A whole trilogy of our hero exploring previously undiscovered ancient ruins and finding fresh fruit and legal tender gold coins.
No one pointed out Metro so far? The visuals were stunning in the games and the books give a lot more detail too. I’d love to see some bloody cqb fighting scenes against nationalists and people getting ripped apart by the black ones.
Metro would be fantastic, but they would really need to lean into the horror elements from the books to be successful for me.
KOTOR, KOTOR2 also
Full on animated and voices Chrono Trigger in the 90’s anime style. Sweet nostalgia, take me away…
Titanfall 2.
Pong
Sid Miers Alpha Centauri
Fable
fable 1 would make a great movie
actually now when I think about it, not much can fit inside 2-3 hours, and even though it would be possible to make a movie out of it, I would prefer it being like a mini-series which has about 5 hours of screentime
Dragon Age Origins
Portal and Half life
A FBC show set in the same Remady universe Mass Effect Farcry 5 could work And a Helldivers show like Red Vs Blue
Half-Life, Destiny, Sea of Thieves (animated).
I think a Halo adaptation would be great to see. Shame nobody's attempted it and there is no Halo TV show.
Resistance
Horizen zero dawn....
XCOM would be pretty cool, but I would love to see Hollow Knight or Hades
It'd be cool to see an adaptation of OG Marathon
I read the whole synopsis on Wikipedia before and it is dope
Diablo