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    The minute the show runners said that they did not play or care about the game before a single episode even aired, I knew it was going to suck balls.

    If you don’t know or even care about the source material: you shouldn’t have the rights to make anything about it.

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      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.

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        “Limited by it being a game” is such a condescending thing to say. Just shows that these people look down on video games in general and most likely have little respect for the people who these games mean a lot to. I mean, that shows in this TV show, just based on the short bits I’ve seen. The Chief acts like a Stallone or a Tom Cruise stand-in, instead of a stoic warrior.

        I can’t wait for an Elder Scrolls show helmed by these showrunners, the Witcher showrunners, and Alex Kurtzman

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          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

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      If they didn’t name it Halo, it would have been a good sci-fi show on it’s own. But because I walked into it knowing enough about Halo lore (even though I didn’t play all that much of it). The show sucked… It wasn’t even close to living up to the game series.

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      They knew enough to include a first-person fight scene, because that’s what gamers wanna see.

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        Sounds like the Doom movie, which wasn’t originally written to be a Doom movie which is very apparent by not only a few unchanged lines of dialogue but also by the fact it was more like Resident Evil than it was like Doom.

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          I fuckin love that film though. The Rock’s best performance. The brief moment of transphobia can fuck right off though.

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      I don’t even think that was the issue, the show was just fucking awful no matter how much or little it had to do with Halo.

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          For a while streamers were doing this thing where they would renew a show for Season 2 before the Season 1 pilot even released. I guess it was a way to project confidence to the audience?? Or maybe just to get the production pipeline moving so there wouldn’t be 2+ years in between season releases.

          Anyway, they did that with Halo…

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    I couldn’t even get through the first episode. Legitimately horrible direction, shit acting, cliche story, terrible cinematography, and crap stage design. I’m surprised it lasted this long. I’m glad I didn’t need to get Paramount+ to watch it.

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      The fact they couldn’t even make it as good as Red vs Blue is amazing. And that’s not a high bar.

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        The mid-late seasons of rvb were pretty good. Story got fucking convoluted at the end because they had to turn the silly jokes of the early seasons into honest plot points, but overall an amazing series.

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    Every single character in the show is unlikeable. Maybe except Cortana, but idk if I’m biased. Been having a thing for Cortana since 9th grade.

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    Wow, that’s one more season that I knew about, assumed it’d never go beyond the first.

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    A live-action Halo is a terrible idea, as is a live-action Avatar.

    Some media is so ingrained in its spectacle that to make live action work, you’d have to spend Marvel levels of money on special effects, and why? When animation is right there.

    Sure, you might be able to appeal to a larger audience, but how’s that working out for you?

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    Huh. So you’re telling me a show based off a FPS game sucks? Totally shocked!

    No one saw this coming! /s

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    I’m so glad The Last of Us exists to show people that not all video game adaptations have to be this bad.

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        Fallout is proof you can make a video game show good and still be true to the original game. Halo was a completely different story they tried to throw the Halo brand on and didn’t give two shits about the game. Bungie should have sued them for slander…. or whoever owns the brand now.

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    I guess I was the only one who thought it was a fun action show and enjoyed it?

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      I agree it was fine, a little slow at times but not a bad show. I enjoyed watching it, it’s too bad they cancelled it just as it was getting good.

      Halo at its core is a first person shooter with a lot of lore built up around it. The show did a good job with respecting the lore and world building.