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Re: Pipboy comes to TV!
« Reply #1 on: 02 July 2020, 13:42:29 »
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... Bethesda Game Studios' Todd Howard and Bethesda Softworks' James Altman will also exec produce.


Oh well.  It could have been good.

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« Reply #2 on: 02 July 2020, 16:21:53 »

Oh well.  It could have been good.

Executive producers aren't generally involved day-to-day and there's no way the current IP owners aren't going have some kind of official role. Look at the writer, regular producer, director combo before looking at the executive group.
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« Reply #3 on: 02 July 2020, 18:08:10 »
Executive producers aren't generally involved day-to-day and there's no way the current IP owners aren't going have some kind of official role. Look at the writer, regular producer, director combo before looking at the executive group.

I haven't seen any of Westworld. I remember people being pretty positive about the first season, but then less so about the following ones.

The article linked is interesting - I had never heard of a production deal that pays out regardless of whether the studio opts to go to full production or not. Is that common, or something that has come about due to streaming?


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« Reply #4 on: 02 July 2020, 19:13:47 »
Executive producers aren't generally involved day-to-day

They are usually the folks arranging the money

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« Reply #5 on: 02 July 2020, 19:28:01 »
They are usually the folks arranging the money

Precisely. Or it's honorary (like a beloved director giving a remake his or her blessing as Exec.).
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« Reply #6 on: 02 July 2020, 19:31:30 »
I frequently judge the quality of a series by the numbers of executive production credits - the more, the worse the series.  Once it gets to around seven or eight it's typically horrible.  Picard was one of the few exceptions to this rule.
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« Reply #7 on: 02 July 2020, 19:34:23 »
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« Reply #8 on: 02 July 2020, 20:27:15 »
<insert meme about Todd Howard looking for new ways to sell people Skyrim here>
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« Reply #9 on: 03 July 2020, 00:42:17 »
I haven't seen any of Westworld. I remember people being pretty positive about the first season, but then less so about the following ones.
Westworld is awesome all the way through, some people dislike it because it requires them to actually think.

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« Reply #10 on: 03 July 2020, 07:55:25 »
Westworld is awesome all the way through, some people dislike it because it requires them to actually think.

That is it exactly. I watched the first few episodes and decided that I didn't want to have to continually think up rationalisations for enjoying watching people get raped and traumatised.

See, you can do that both ways :-)

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« Reply #11 on: 04 July 2020, 16:06:04 »
Westworld is awesome all the way through, some people dislike it because it requires them to actually think.
and you see right there why it "fails" any show that might make you think is out.  To many of the canceled shows have required you to think and well people don't want that

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« Reply #12 on: 15 July 2020, 02:59:58 »
Amazon isn't allowed to produce another SF series until they produce the Culture adaptation they bought the rights to in 2018.
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« Reply #13 on: 15 July 2020, 09:46:00 »
I'm sure that this show is going to be super-buggy on launch.  Expect a day-one patch and even after that it's going to have terrible hit detection on attacks and characters will clip through objects all the time.
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« Reply #14 on: 15 July 2020, 20:37:40 »
I'm sure that this show is going to be super-buggy on launch.  Expect a day-one patch and even after that it's going to have terrible hit detection on attacks and characters will clip through objects all the time.

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« Reply #15 on: 15 July 2020, 21:02:22 »
I'm sure that this show is going to be super-buggy on launch.  Expect a day-one patch and even after that it's going to have terrible hit detection on attacks and characters will clip through objects all the time.
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« Reply #16 on: 16 July 2020, 20:34:38 »
I do too.

I actually got to talking about this with one of my friends last night, and the question is: what's the plot going to be about?

Mining one of the games doesn't seem like a good idea just because that requires you to establish canon and also sets people up to complain about their favorite character's lack of representation.

Personally, I think that the main characters should be a small group of Vault Dwellers who were forced to leave, and the Vault is now uninhabitable.  For the first season, I think that a gang of hostile Super Mutants would be good as the primary antagonists, with raiders being the starter villains and things like Radscorpions and Deathclaws showing up as more episodic threats.  The Brotherhood of Steel makes contact and offers help in the short term, but is obviously not looking out for the heroes' best interests.
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« Reply #17 on: 17 July 2020, 10:16:43 »
I do too.

I actually got to talking about this with one of my friends last night, and the question is: what's the plot going to be about?

Mining one of the games doesn't seem like a good idea just because that requires you to establish canon and also sets people up to complain about their favorite character's lack of representation.

Personally, I think that the main characters should be a small group of Vault Dwellers who were forced to leave, and the Vault is now uninhabitable.  For the first season, I think that a gang of hostile Super Mutants would be good as the primary antagonists, with raiders being the starter villains and things like Radscorpions and Deathclaws showing up as more episodic threats.  The Brotherhood of Steel makes contact and offers help in the short term, but is obviously not looking out for the heroes' best interests.

You got it! Thats 5 seasons in that story.  ;D

IMO if they dont do a story based in any of the games it wont work (because of those that dont know what is Fallout).
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« Reply #18 on: 17 July 2020, 13:10:09 »
Using the setting is enough, you only need a couple of core concepts for it to be Fallout.

- Post-apocalyptic
- Vaults
- Pipboy in some kind of form
- Mutiants and giant scorpions
- Power armor.

And only the first two are really necessary, maybe the third.

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« Reply #19 on: 17 July 2020, 13:16:11 »
Using the setting is enough, you only need a couple of core concepts for it to be Fallout.

- Post-apocalyptic
- Vaults
- Pipboy in some kind of form
- Mutiants and giant scorpions
- Power armor.

And only the first two are really necessary, maybe the third.

The first three are needed, along with that iconic narration and song(s) for the opening credits.

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« Reply #20 on: 17 July 2020, 14:58:09 »
And if they're smart, not retell any of the games, maybe even choose a new area to prevent overlap and cries of creative license.
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« Reply #21 on: 19 July 2020, 17:58:15 »
Mind you guys that I never wrote that it would need an exact copy of one game. I wrote that it should follow the model presented in the games.
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« Reply #22 on: 19 July 2020, 18:45:53 »
Though it should have a team of main characters with different skills rather than a hero who can do anything.
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« Reply #23 on: 21 July 2020, 08:49:06 »
Though it should have a team of main characters with different skills rather than a hero who can do anything.

Sure... as long as it doesnt turn into A-Team...  ;D
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« Reply #24 on: 22 July 2020, 18:29:42 »
A loner survivor finds some guy in a vault suit in trouble (animal attack, bar fight, raiders, about to get fleeced, whatever) and saves his blue butt.  This kindness backfires on her as he starts following her around like a lost puppy.  For some reason, she takes pity on him and puts up with it.  Even tries teaching him some things (like stop walking around in a bright blue jump suit with yellow trim).  Maybe she's just curious because the back story he gives her is questionable at best.  Maybe she's planning on taking advantage of him, trying to learn where his vault is.  Maybe there's a reason she's so familiar with how a pipboy works...
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« Reply #25 on: 22 July 2020, 20:38:42 »
Happy but worried. Tv shows and movies from games have very low results
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« Reply #26 on: 22 July 2020, 21:58:15 »
I'm trying to think of a TV show that was based on a video game that wasn't a kids cartoon like the various Super Mario Bros cartoons.
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« Reply #27 on: 23 July 2020, 03:23:10 »
Witcher.

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« Reply #28 on: 23 July 2020, 09:05:10 »
Hard to call that one a "low" result.  Anything else?
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« Reply #29 on: 23 July 2020, 09:33:50 »
Hard to call that one a "low" result.  Anything else?

There’s plenty of anime that crossover genres. Depends on if you consider anime a kid’s cartoon or not.

There’s a “list of television series based on video games” on Wikipedia. It’s divided by genre, such as animated, anime and live-action.

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