The good old alienate your already invested audience in a futile attempt to attract people who don’t give a shit and in the process lose everyone
xsubo on
So it’s going to suck
RaltarArianrhod on
Oh well. Hopefully they dont dick over the 40k show.
monsieurxander on
Rage bait.
Every adaptation needs to appeal to new fans to sustain itself. Especially with the budget needed to do this justice.
jogoso2014 on
Gamers, how does this not make sense?
DisneyPandora on
Amazon is where good shows go to die.
NewsCards on
> the new head of global TV, Peter Friedlander, has asked to read the scripts of all in-development projects before awarding that all-important confirmatory green light
A good story is a good story, no matter what the medium.
Genuinely curious what made the script have too much “gamer appeal” in the eyes of this executive.
DisneyPandora on
Why does Amazon not spend all of its money on hiring good writers.
imconsideringdascrod on
Mass Effect has everything a “non-gamer” audience could ask for from a sci-fi property though
SurviveDaddy on
In other words: dumb it down for “modern audiences.”
It’s going to be dog shit.
Gastroid on
“Fallout has been such a big hit for us! Let’s not do that again.”
planemissediknow on
I don’t know, man. There’s just no way the show connects as strongly emotionally as the games do. ME3 has issues but I cried at least five times playing that (not counting Citadel DLC). There’s just no way the show can replicate that
The Garrus/FemShep goodbye in ME3 is so emotional because it’s a relationship **you** craft.
RegrettableDeed on
Yikes. So this project is dead then. Good try everyone. We’ll get ’em next time.
ThatCoryGuy on
Ask the Halo TV staff how that worked out.
Scazzz on
TLOU and Fallout have shown that being faithful and not worrying about non-gamers leads to better shows. How did this approach of turning off your older fans go for StarTrek Starfleet Academy and Halo?
innerShnev on
Shepherd is going to monologue about how he hates how Earth Government overreach forced him to sell his ranch in Montana.
mtb443 on
Its over
-Ari- on
This is the perfect recipe for painfully generic sci-fi.
hart37 on
Oh ffs these idiots really learnt nothing from Halo. Also what about the story of Mass Effect isn’t already appealing to everyone? One of the reasons the games are so beloved is the story
nycplayboy78 on
SIGH…..Just look at how Halo appealed to the non-gamers…..ISTG these writers, showrunner, tv execs don’t get it at all…..
TheMurderCapitalist on
Think we can safely write this one off then
Laughing__Man on
The story is already so good for non gamers. They don’t need to change anything.
LuinAelin on
Rewrotes like this isn’t a bad thing if what we get is good
mtb443 on
Yikes.
What does this even mean? Mass Effect is essentially just another space epic like star trek or star wars or battlestar Galactica or any other of the dozen or so. Audiences are quite aware and receptive to CGI or androids or masked characters. What does mass effect do that ‘only appeals to gamers’ instead of casuals?
Vanthan on
Gonna make Sheppard sleep with a human that is somehow also a reaper aren’t they?
ymcameron on
>Test audiences apparently weren’t a fan of the way Commander Shepard would just stand there for minutes at a time contemplating how best to respond. Another issue came about after 60 pages of a script was spent with Shepard talking to each extra present in the opening scene. Amazon Execs were quoted as saying “as excited as we are about this property, I just don’t think having the main character travel around to a bunch of stores asking for discounts is a good enough premise for an entire episode.”
SomeWeedSmoker on
Please just stop destroying our past lol
yeahwellokay on
As long as it has some hot human on Asari action, I’m fine. Maybe even a little human on Turian action.
Tryingagain1979 on
They will put it all in Chat GPT and put all of Babylon 5 in Chat GPT and ask it to make it more like B5.
bluehawk232 on
We’ll bang, okay?
uselessluna on
Aw shit, here we go again
MisterDuch on
Oh….were fucked ain’t we
ThomsYorkieBars on
Yeah, I’m gonna wait and see how the show turns out before having a meltdown
mikesaninjakillr on
gonna be halo all over again
syd_fishes on
Genius, I’m sure this will work out super well!
JediGuyB on
How about we actually wait and see how it turns out? Far as y’all saying “it’s gonna suck” know right now it’ll be fantastic.
Hayes4prez on
~~Halo~~
…
~~Witcher~~
…
Mass Effect
clintnorth on
The craziest part is that gaming is a way bigger industry with more revenue by a long shot. But they still shun gamers as a demographic. So stupid
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Ooooof
We’re getting Halo all over again, aren’t we?
The good old alienate your already invested audience in a futile attempt to attract people who don’t give a shit and in the process lose everyone
So it’s going to suck
Oh well. Hopefully they dont dick over the 40k show.
Rage bait.
Every adaptation needs to appeal to new fans to sustain itself. Especially with the budget needed to do this justice.
Gamers, how does this not make sense?
Amazon is where good shows go to die.
> the new head of global TV, Peter Friedlander, has asked to read the scripts of all in-development projects before awarding that all-important confirmatory green light
A good story is a good story, no matter what the medium.
Genuinely curious what made the script have too much “gamer appeal” in the eyes of this executive.
Why does Amazon not spend all of its money on hiring good writers.
Mass Effect has everything a “non-gamer” audience could ask for from a sci-fi property though
In other words: dumb it down for “modern audiences.”
It’s going to be dog shit.
“Fallout has been such a big hit for us! Let’s not do that again.”
I don’t know, man. There’s just no way the show connects as strongly emotionally as the games do. ME3 has issues but I cried at least five times playing that (not counting Citadel DLC). There’s just no way the show can replicate that
The Garrus/FemShep goodbye in ME3 is so emotional because it’s a relationship **you** craft.
Yikes. So this project is dead then. Good try everyone. We’ll get ’em next time.
Ask the Halo TV staff how that worked out.
TLOU and Fallout have shown that being faithful and not worrying about non-gamers leads to better shows. How did this approach of turning off your older fans go for StarTrek Starfleet Academy and Halo?
Shepherd is going to monologue about how he hates how Earth Government overreach forced him to sell his ranch in Montana.
Its over
This is the perfect recipe for painfully generic sci-fi.
Oh ffs these idiots really learnt nothing from Halo. Also what about the story of Mass Effect isn’t already appealing to everyone? One of the reasons the games are so beloved is the story
SIGH…..Just look at how Halo appealed to the non-gamers…..ISTG these writers, showrunner, tv execs don’t get it at all…..
Think we can safely write this one off then
The story is already so good for non gamers. They don’t need to change anything.
Rewrotes like this isn’t a bad thing if what we get is good
Yikes.
What does this even mean? Mass Effect is essentially just another space epic like star trek or star wars or battlestar Galactica or any other of the dozen or so. Audiences are quite aware and receptive to CGI or androids or masked characters. What does mass effect do that ‘only appeals to gamers’ instead of casuals?
Gonna make Sheppard sleep with a human that is somehow also a reaper aren’t they?
>Test audiences apparently weren’t a fan of the way Commander Shepard would just stand there for minutes at a time contemplating how best to respond. Another issue came about after 60 pages of a script was spent with Shepard talking to each extra present in the opening scene. Amazon Execs were quoted as saying “as excited as we are about this property, I just don’t think having the main character travel around to a bunch of stores asking for discounts is a good enough premise for an entire episode.”
Please just stop destroying our past lol
As long as it has some hot human on Asari action, I’m fine. Maybe even a little human on Turian action.
They will put it all in Chat GPT and put all of Babylon 5 in Chat GPT and ask it to make it more like B5.
We’ll bang, okay?
Aw shit, here we go again
Oh….were fucked ain’t we
Yeah, I’m gonna wait and see how the show turns out before having a meltdown
gonna be halo all over again
Genius, I’m sure this will work out super well!
How about we actually wait and see how it turns out? Far as y’all saying “it’s gonna suck” know right now it’ll be fantastic.
~~Halo~~
…
~~Witcher~~
…
Mass Effect
The craziest part is that gaming is a way bigger industry with more revenue by a long shot. But they still shun gamers as a demographic. So stupid
aka, show is going to suck
Rings of Power slop V2.