Though the second season of the show attempted to rectify some of the vocal backlash it faced, particularly from avid fans the Halo videogame franchise familiar with the game’s extensive lore and its Season 2 premiere was among the most watched original shows across all streaming platforms — it appears the efforts weren’t quite enough, […]
  • jinkyanderson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    831·
    2 years ago

    The quote from the showrunner, according to the article:

    “We didn’t look at the game. We didn’t talk about the game. We talked about the characters and the world. So I never felt limited by it being a game.”

    Looks like they should have looked at the game a little more closely.

      • jorp@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        limited by being an interactive medium where the average narrative length is dozens of hours.

        We need the unlimited story telling freedom enabled by passively watching disjoint chunks of ad-riddled content

      • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Tbf, I bet Todd Howard would die before letting anyone else make an Elder Scrolls show. Especially with the success of the Fallout show.