Typically, when a franchise does well, people are excited for anything and everything to come out about it. With things like Star Wars, books and games that went beyond the canon established in the movies are alright, at least watchable in some serious tone.
Crossovers for videogames though, like any of the Uwe Boll Films, the Resident Evil movies, and whatever other example you can possibly throw at me would have arguably been better off not being made. This is where Bethesda’s most recent action taken with the Fallout franchise comes in.
While I really like the Fallout games, I’m not too sure how a TV show or a Movie about the series would go. Sure, it could be the next Firefly (in terms of being awesome, not getting canceled really shortly into its run), but it could also be massively bad, like the Super Mario Bros. or anything Uwe Boll has shat out in the nature of a “videogame” movie.
Until we hear more about this — there’s just a trademark right now — like director, producer, writers, and actors, I won’t try to pass judgment on it. Post-Apocolyptia is one of those things that can make for a really interesting premise, given the right care and attention to the humor and characters that make the world a fun place to be, and not really depressing or not fun to watch.
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What made the story in Fallout 3 for me was part choosing what to do, and part interacting with the wasteland, scavenging and whatnot. A movie just cant convey that sense of loneliness and “wastelandness” that you got when you were wandering around the captial wasteland. Im sure even though im writing this im going to cave in, see the movie, and then leave dissapointed.
@Dr Steve Exactly. It’s the same reason that a Bioshock movie would suck.
Videogames made into movies suffer for the same reason books made into movies are never good enough.
The original content was made into the form it was for a reason and if it was done well at all it won’t transfer easily into movies.
I really wish hollywood -and all the other movie people- would understand there’s reasons that content comes out in different forms and not everything works as a non-interactive(and in the case of books, fully visual) form.
I think the best we can hope for is that they just rewrap the Road Warrior or Mad Max and sell it under the Fallout name to avoid a shitty game movie.