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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
sometimes rather than watch tv I will watch people speed run video games.

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You know I hardly ever watch any movies or TV shows unless I'm stuck watching them with my brother and dad. I watch speedrunning quite often.

But unless it's a game I've played before and really enjoyed like Dark Souls, I don't watch many modern speedrunning and prefer watching people who were too young to have played the games just totally obliterate the 8bit and 16bit games my brothers and I grew up with.

Castlevania NES in 10:45 seconds *World Record*

Super Mario Bros. NES in 4:54.798 seconds *World Record*

(In Super Mario Bros, the go down to 3 digits past the second because we're just about one step away from having the Perfect Game. This is a feat that is not possible on most other games because there is no Random Number Generators in SMB, so the game plays exactly the same every time you play it.).

I wouldn't watch these on Twitch. Not just because Twitch is cancer, but in order to get these world records, these people will play the game tens of thousands of times, and most false starts end up with a reset within the first few levels. In fact, you can see in this video that it was Niftski's 15,285th attempt, which is actually quite good because I've seen runners well into the 30 and 40 thousands on attempts. I couldn't think of many things more boring to watch than resetting the game a billion times except for what Hollywood puts out today.

I actually prefer to watch them during competitions when two runners are racing against each other. These almost never result in a world record, but I find it a lot more fun to watch. There have been one or two occasions where a runner was able to get a world record on a game in front of a live audience during a race and the crowd goes nuts.

I think my favorite runs to watch are Zelda II (NES) randomizer tournaments. Some genius figured out how to randomize almost everything in that game, and they've got a real tight community. The top tier runners in that game have phenomenal skills. They've got some entertaining commentators for the matches too.

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I feel these days the writing is sometimes way better in a video game than a movie, what a strange time

HBO is a big studio that can adapt from one media medium into a another type of media medium and Film producers and Hollywood studios have made movies and shows based on video games since the 90s. Super Mario Bros is dumb but a very fun movie by Buena Vista Pictures, Tomb Raider had a big box office Sonic the Hedgehog made 400 Million bucks. There is also a genre of Strategy, virtual world exploration, survival horror, action-adventure game, fantasy scifi, investigative puzzle story telling video game. Sony a tech, music and video game company and multinational conglomerate from Japan already showed it could make money with Stuart Little. Gozilla and Spider-Man movies. Hollywood they have already made almost very superhero comicbook film which can be made live action television TV series. People still want entertainment and the show was the second-biggest for HBO since 2010.

Some of the bad guys are people 'zombies' or Firefly Reavers infected by a mutated fungus, it is a post apocalypse world with difficult Human interaction sometimes the worst are humans themselves.

Maybe its even a scifi Western?

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The Last of Us (HBO) Teaser

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
The Game

I did not play this game but would argue the game is more violent and creepy especially as you interact with a virtual world, non-player NPCs controlled by a computer software but 'human like' and you moving a character around makes a game more creepy.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
The Game

I did not play this game but would argue the game is more violent and creepy especially as you interact with a virtual world, non-player NPCs controlled by a computer software but 'human like' and you moving a character around makes a game more creepy.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:


Yeah. And TLOU 2 got perfect 100% and 10/10 ratings from nearly every shill access media website and magazine when it came out, with a lot of them claiming that it was the best video game ever made. Only after the game wasn't new anymore did you get a few detractors that lowered the ultimate Critic score to 93% on Metacritic. The ultimate audience score was a 5.8.

https://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/the-last-of-us-part-ii

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
I kinda spoiled the show for myself watching games again and remembering what I seen before.

So this is not the first video game to tv show at all, the Canadians got there way back in 1990 with a thing called 'ManiacMansion' the TV series, it looks like a spooky family comedy if that makes sense but I do not watch sitcoms, especially old ones and I have not played the game, there may have been other games remade as tv shows before this?

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I think its unfair to call it a 'zombie' thing it looks more like 'The Road' or 'Children of Men'

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
'The Last of Us' Renewed for Season 2 at HBO

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/last-of-us-season-2-hbo-1
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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Looks like they already started to put homo lesbo rights or gay stuff into the show

During a cataclysm, a full on apocalpse the most important thing for writers is to make effort to be the most gay of the diversity of the lebos of homosexuals, if there is a world ending event the most important thing is for hollyweirdos to have their 'progressive' STI STD disease spreading LGBT stance.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
That whole future past setting of Final Fantasy might work, the games are huge universes, amazing sound and visual designs but they also had a movie that flopped, performed very poorly in theaters, blamed for the demise of Square Pictures. Aki Ross, the computer-generated protagonist of the movie The Spirits Within, intended to serve as the world's first CGI actress re-used in later movies but it flops.

it has some scifi elements like Dr Who episodes, Planet of the Apes, Mad Max but also a lot of 'magic' a mix of Low and High Fantasy or science fantasy maybe similar to Ursula K. Le Guin or Gene Wolfe "Dying Earth" genre story

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:


It's crazy to think how many millions of dollars were spent on the budget of that movie back then to make those characters, but people have free access to software today that is capable of doing even more impressive work depending on the skill of the person behind it.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
Five Nights at Freddy's

very creepy looking

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
didn't see your post and its kind of diffuclt to keep track of posts on this online community

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No worries.

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I watched most of the show, kind of casually in the background but getting into it more at the end of first season. I thought it was a good show but I know many were offended for it not following a story almost exactly like the 'Video Games'. I don't know the games but some of my friends played them you might know more about the games than me. I also played old games like Doom which was weird demonic, Wolfenstein very good gameplay but straneg zombie Nazis and GoldenEye was fun especial the Split-goldeneye 4 player screen, a different time an era of gaming before credit cards upgrading weapons and interwebs chat addictions.

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I was like 11 years old when DOOM came out, so of course I loved it. Growing up with the Atari 5200 and Atari 7800, it was amazing to me that 3D graphics were even possible and the game just blew my young little mind at the time. I remember thinking when DOOM was out on PC and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was in the arcades "that's it. Graphics can't possibly get any better than this!."



Goldeneye was the best of the best. I used to have parties all the time at my first apartment and a lot of people there were always taking turns playing Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64. It's kind of funny looking back on that.

I don't know any more about Halo than you do I'm sure. I've played games up until the Playstation 3 / XBox 360 generation, and have gotten hand me down consoles and games from my brothers who had moved on to the next generation. I used to play them quite a bit too, but my problem is that I always want to 100% games (perfectionism is a curse), and my brain is wired in a way where I can do mindless virtual chores that most people wouldn't ever be able to do to get those Platinum Trophies. I sunk over 660 hours into Bethesda's Oblivion, and that was after I stopped drinking. It was even worse back when I was drinking. I remember playing a game called Torchlight II on the PC (it's very much like Diablo, if you know what that is). I probably put 2,500+ hours into that one when I was drinking. Same with Borderlands 2, which was the last game I played while drinking.

Borderlands to IS a first person shooter, but I was able to play it because it had very heavy Role Playing Game elements like leveling up, a skill tree, and the "loot farm", with probably a million different guns and shields of different rarities that would force you to do the same things over and over and over again until you got the best loot.

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It didn't have much of 'The Message' a sudden appearance of Gay Black Islamist Transexuals Diversity Feminist Gay Lesbian Multi-Sexual Antifa appearing suddenly for no reason...the show seemed kind of normal like old shows used to be.

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Of course. That's just expected in current year.

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To me 'Halo' I didnt have time for it or it seemed like it was done before, like the whole Space Marine from the book Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein or the Warhammer board game Space Marines or any of the other dozens of military in space genre with 'alien' worlds. The game is known for great shooter gameplay, top music score, very good computer graphical imagery. I know the Halo franchise is a huge seller so it is understandable it has its fans who are very particular about how video game to a show could be made. I never seen the game as 'wow that looks super original' I feel the 'Space Marine' itself is everywhere now Just like a a Green Alien man is everywhere or StarTrek FlashGordon StarWars style ship is seen everywhere another cliché pre-existing trope genre archetype, the Space Marine is everywhere now in Gears of War, Starcraft, Colonial Marines of Aliens, maybe its better to enjoy a tv or movie a little ignorant of the franchise without knowing too much about its history.

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I played one of the HALO games once 2-player with my brother for a couple of hours. It was a technological marvel at the time. I didn't get what was happening, but that's only because it was already the 3rd or 4th game and I jumped in with him at a point in the middle of the game.

He knew everything about it. He was in the army and he set up an entire network on base where 20 or 30 guys would be able to play multiplayer on the LAN. They were all huge fans of an OG youtube channel that made a series called Red vs. Blue, which was a comedy using assets from the original Halo game and the characters.

I'm pretty sure all of those guys ended up super disappointed with the show. It's not like back in the day when the original Super Mario Bros. movie came out and they had no real story to work with. For probably at least 20 years now there has been rich storytelling in the video game industry that I would argue rivaled almost anything coming out of Hollywood on the big and small screen. Especially when they upgraded to getting real actors to voice characters around the XBox 360 era. I was kind of pissed that they were putting voice actors out of work by doing that, but it's hard to deny that the quality of the games increased quite a bit when people like Patrick Stewart and even Firefly's own Adam Baldwin were the voices you were hearing.

So I'll bet it's really tricky making a show or movie with a huge budget that not only caters to long-time fans of a property, but also can have enough appeal with general non-gamer audiences that don't know all the back story and aren't about to go play through half a dozen games as homework before watching a new show.

At least they used to try though. But then they got high on their own farts and started forcing DEI agendas into everything for likes on Twitter. But now the venture capital is gone, all the tech companies and the studios are laying off everyone and I think we'll get back to actually making good content instead of stuff that just pushes "The Message".

Everybody always talks so doom and gloom about Hollywood, but that's never my point I'm trying to get across when I make all those Hollywood bashing threads. I want them to fix themselves. I want them to do better. Great entertainment is a great thing. Let's get back to making great entertainment.

I'm not MAGA. I'm MEGA. Make Entertainment Great Again!



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Political correctness is just tyranny, with a smiley face.

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
It looks like Walton Goggins isn't just the Vault-Tec guy in the intro, and he plays one of the 3 main protagonists. He's the ghoul. So they do have a white guy playing a sort of anti-hero, which to be honest is probably going to make his character the most accurate depiction of Fallout in the entire show.

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
did Amazon mess it up?


‘Fallout’ review: learn to love the bomb in this fun yet flawed adaptation
https://www.nme.com/reviews/tv-reviews/fallout-review-show-3616018

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Originally posted by JAYNEZTOWN:
They put a lot of money into Fallout. Watched the first ep and enjoyed it

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I haven't ever looked into the budget, but it is VERY evident that a lot of money went into this one. The sets were absolutely gorgeous and those vaults were perfect living recreations of what you saw in the game.

80% of the songs that were in the show were in the game Fallout 3, and there's a whole bunch of lore surrounding the Fallout musical style. They did a good job finding other music of the era and even sometimes from the same artists that did other songs in Fallout 3. I had to laugh and tell my dad that he already heard most of those songs before even though he never played the game. When my brother got married, pretty much the entire Fallout 3 soundtrack was playing during the dinner part of the evening.

Strangely enough, one of the few songs they didn't play at the wedding (for obvious reasons) wasn't in the show either...

Pretty sure they're saving that for a really good part next season though... although I can think of a few parts in the first season where it would have fit well.




And the sound effects were on point. There were so many things that happened in the show where you'd hear the exact sounds that happened in the game. Sometimes almost to the point of being spoiler territory for a huge Fallout fan who's played the games multiple times. There was more than one instance where I knew what was right around the corner before general audiences would have just because of what I was hearing.

And damn if they didn't get the exact same guy to voice Mr. Handy on the show as they did in the games, he's one of the best mimics around. I like Jack Black and all, but it's a downright sin they didn't get the guy who voiced Claptrap in the Borderlands game to voice him in the Borderlands movie. (There's even a joke in the Fallout show about how little the guy who voiced all the Mr. Handy robots got paid for that gig, but I bet Jack Black saw at least a Million or two to do the voice of Claptrap... what a senseless waste of money).



I've been told by a few other people who have never played the games who have either seen it already or started watching it after I told them about it that it took them about 2 episodes to really get into it, so if you're already enjoying it after 1 episode you've got a fun 7 hours ahead of you.

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20 Best Video Game Adaptations Ever
https://www.denofgeek.com/games/20-best-video-game-adaptations-ever/

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LOL... The 20 "Best", huh? Boy, they had to cram a bunch of crap in there to stretch that list out.

Of course they picked uber-woke The Last of Us as number one though. That's bullshit. There's no chance in hell that was better than Fallout is, even if it wasn't a woke dumpster fire. These writers are no doubt the same people who gave TLOU2 a 100% or 10/10 on failing or already failed video game "journalism" sites a few years back. That's cool. They'll all be pushing carts and serving coffee soon if they aren't already.

And honestly... Ain't everybody "zombied" out by now anyhow. *yawn*

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7 games that would make TV shows as good as Fallout
https://www.pocket-lint.com/7-games-that-would-make-tv-shows-as-good-a
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I've never played any of those, although I have played one or two of the Shin Megami Tensi games, of which the Persona games are a spinoff.

Personally, I'd love to see a Borderlands TV show but I have a real bad feeling, particularly in the 2024 market, that the Borderlands movie is going to be a massive flop, so I'm not going to hold my breath on that one.

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Video Game TV Adaptations That Could Be The Next ‘Fallout’
https://uproxx.com/edge/video-game-tv-adaptations-next-fallout/

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