General gaming discussion

Yes, this, if it's not too late play the mode without water/food requirements. It's not the worst, just gets annoying further on.

I'd say it's the usual problem you see when the show runner / writer doesn't have any love or respect for the original material. Plenty of recent examples unfortunately.

I watched it......it's grand. Not awful, not great but watchable. I'll probably keep watching it to see if it gets any better but for now the only description that comes to mind is it's fine. Almost like fine for background TV if that makes sense.

I think the trouble with most game to TV/movie adaptations, is that the company making them want to please the fans of the original, have to take it out of that framework and make it work as something else, and also try to appeal to non-fans of the original. In doing so, they usually end up with something that pleases no one.

The most obvious representation of that was the original Sonic The Hedehog look, where they tried to make Sonic look not-Sonicy, instead trying to make him somewhat more realistic (even though he's a f*cking blue anthropomorphic hedgehog). Same can happen with comic book adaptations where they try to make a more grounded and realistic version of characters and situations which are, at their core, pure cartoonish nonsense.

With Halo, they're trying to make it be recognisable to Halo fans, but come up with a new expanded lore that fills out the TV show, and tries to appeal to non-Halo fans who might otherwise dismiss it.

I dont know Warren Ellis openly admitted he did all his research for the castlevania series on it's wikipedia pages and the castlevania series was until Arcane dropped the best video game adaptation out there.

And Arcane is good despite being a video game adaptation, unlike Castlevania which genuinely hits those highs that bring back warm game feels while also being very much its own thing. Arcane was it's best when one didnt realise it was goddamn League of Legends.

I personally subscribe to the dual narrative issue being the biggest hurdle. Video games have their lore and characters but it also has how the game actually plays and there is actually a lot about how you adapt a video game into a film that needs to be drawn from that aspect. Not many filmmakers out there can look at gameplay and translate it to film narrative. Resident evil is a weird example but if you compare how the resident evil games played at the time the first film was released, there is a chasm of difference (the games weirdly then mimicked the film from 4 onwards, but the films never really embraced 4) Where the tank controls and inventory aspects of the early games promoted tension, isolation and a pace that had sudden shifts into panic and then back to constant sticky tension, the first few films embraced action stunts and drop kicking a zombie dog.

I've only seen the opening to the Halo series and straight off I have issues that the combat loop that is core to the halo franchise (the very thing that brought everyone back for infinite) has not made the transition to the screen and that's a big mistake, it might seem that it only affects the action scenes, but I think its more important, it affects the sort of character Master Chief is, as limited as he is generally with a painful amount of lore on his shoulders. The throw grenade first, fast moving multiple target acquisition sort of gameplay of the games really leaned into those small cut scenes between missions where he plays up a resourceful thinking on his feet sort of character.

IIRC it doesn't actually run on that, it only displays on it.

They replaced both CPU and the LCD so the only thing that was a pregnancy test was the plastic shell.

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