its simple. gaming is better understood by writers and directors mainly from experience now. whereas in the early days, those writers and directors trying to adapt games had never been exposed to them at all

I feel like the show or movie had a better chance to succeed & be good when the game devs are involved. Now when they just hand the rights off to a studio & say do what you will that’s where problems occur.

_Cries in Halo_

If we're talking about the things that make video game adaptations good vs. bad... I think a lot of it has to do with striking a perfect balance between showing things that are unique to the game and it's world while also having familiar elements anybody who hasn't played the game(s) can relate to as well. Previous video game adaptations leaned to heavily to one side, or the other which resulted in some adaptations being in name only, or not being universal enough for those who hadn't played the games, ironically. I think finding producers who understand this is a key element to why TLOU and Fallout have been able to (finally) walk that fine line between geek culture and mainstream appeal? It's not easy, but it's something more video game adaptations should be aware of if they want to replicate the success of TLOU and Fallout, IMO.

Hey, they can grab my cash. As long as they stun me first with an awesome adaption.

"Why Are Video Game Adaptations Good Now?" Are we forgetting Halo so quickly?

I think this is a good start to the discussion, it feels like a missed opportunity to not discuss the format of long-form storytelling (tv series) as being especially compatible to video game adaptations. TLOU, Edgerunners, and Fallout all succeeded with this format.

Well, I mean Season 2 of Halo was better than 1, but that's a low bar 😅

Yea honestly as someone who's a tried gamer but has never touched the fallout series I can honestly say I really enjoyed the first season. I think my grandfather would of enjoyed it too, god rest his soul.

Imagine a stylized and slow animated series by Genndy Tartakovsky like his Samurai Jack or Primal... but for Hollow Knight!

My worry is the same goes with MCU… they just keep making gaming movies and it’ll feel oversaturated and causing video game burnout.

I haven't properly played much Fallout, with exception of 1 & 2 way back in the day, but I enjoyed the TV show. I feel like they really got the atmosphere down pat.

Actually what never worked is going from movie to video game. But going from game to silver screen seems to work really well because even with the often terrible phoned-in dialogue from games the world tends to be worked out completely. Creating a world with all its rules and characters in it is a daunting task, which most movie screenwriters do not have time for, but with the game having all this layer out all a screenwriter needs to do is create a good script around it which they are more often than not much better at than a game dev.

although it wasn't "successful", I feel that the first Silent Hill movie like the First Resident Evil movie was really good, still my favorite adaptation (Silent Hill).

Fast and Furious is the only reason we haven't seen a GTA film and I am so thankful.

Always awesome to see a legednary game journalist, like Lucy, still in the game.

Spot on so underrated 😭

COUGH HALO COUGH!

Great and well made video!!!! Keep it up!!!!

its Saturday and we are looking forward to Jonathan fergus react to video game guns

Id still love a Half-Life tv series ...

it tells us you need a Nolan to have a chance

I already know I am gonna love the Fallout tv show

Lucy over here with the best shirt 😅

Obviously the secret formula is to name your protagonist Lucy.

Is BioShock movie still coming?

We need a Bioshock series!!!

Papers please

The Gran Turismo movie was good!

>why are they good are they?

I mean saying they're good now isn't much of an achievement, it took em over 30 years to get just a few right.

Setting aside video game adaptations, there will never be a better time than the 2010-2013 era for video games. A long list of memorable games. Simpler times.

I wouldn't say they're good. They're average at best but halo that was horrendous. I did definitely enjoy fallout though I can't wait for season 2. The only ones I really would say the top best is cyberpunk edge runners and arcane ❤

So many people in this comment section act as if Halo, Fallout and The Witcher are the only videogame adaptations that have released recently...🙄🙄🙄

Definitely _not_ with bad VG movies.

The League of Legends TV series was great.

Because Lucy James is cute ❤️❤️

Videogames adaptions I would like to see is “Sly raccoon”(ps2/3area)”Ratchet & Clank”(Ps2/3area)”Jak & Daxter”(Ps2/3area)

House of the Dead will always be the best one.

Lucy is such a babe.

All one series is good. TLOU was 7/10

I think video game film and TV series adaptations should all just be reigned on the case by case basis we do have definitely some bangers these days, but also still some films that perhaps should not have been made.

When there was a time they weren't good, i remember the king kong official game was at that time the best game based on movie.

Not all

Well, some of them aren't bad.

It looks good but the storie was realy mehh.

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neat (:

They haven’t gotten good. It’s just that the quality of other movies and TV shows and media as a whole has gone so dumb down and bad that these adaptions are either seen as being OK quality or better. It’s like saying air quality is good after decades of it getting steadily worse Almost any improvement will be celebrated, even though it can still be poisonous and detrimental.

*looks at halo* Citation needed

Because of 4 shows?

Good? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaa

Because they work better as a multi episode tv series than a movie. But two good adaptations doesn't mean they are all gonna be good

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One movie just one

Uhhm it was just Fallout... Halo and The Witcher were both good for literally a single episode and then became something unrecognizable and low quality as they continued only getting increasingly more divergent and difficult to enjoy at all... I guess you could count the Cyberpunk anime. That was definitely excellent.

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But they arent

😮 the show is terrible😮 people just think it's good because Halo beat you so bad😮 when fallout slaps you around😮 and destroys your lore telling you that Sandy shades😮 is in La when it was never anywhere near there😮 what happened to the boneyard I don't even know what I'm talking about cuz I don't even play fallout 1 and 2 get real😮 if you like this show you like the last three Star wars movies😮 it's like you people have Stockholm syndrome and have never seen good writing in your entire lives😮 I implore you read a book😮 watch all the cutscenes and listen to lore videos of fallout 1 and 2 and then come back and watch this show and you'll see how terrible it really is😮

Shalow writing, complete lore overhaul, and Hollywood mandatory mixed race couple? Yeah it’s just more mediocre slop.

A Mass Effect tv series would be so good…