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[@Avant_Garden]

“He’s not even Chief. He’s just John.” That line hit hard. It shows just how absolutely disappointed Charlie is.

[@REvoLverj98]

No, he's just a tired trope. The amnesiac hero trying to remember. They did it with Captain Marvel too

[@agentice7718]

His name is Jimmy Rings

[@dereksbooks]

Not only do the writers and makers of these shows despise their IPs, they hate their fans with vehemence.

[@spirit_green]

Not just charlie. Everyone that calls themselves a Halo fan is beyond disappointed and frustrated. I am thankful to still own the original video games and I will still stick with them. I won't pay a cent to paramount plus and I refuse to watch the show, especially knowing full on before release that they didn't even bother looking at the source material.

[@toddthecat1921]

Yessir we got a v1nce army

[@MaybeNextYear03]

The fact that they made the Halo show and admitted "We didn't go off the games or the books" just means that the name Halo shouldn't even be attached to it.

[@strangerinastrangeland3613]

@@Cobra85291 "SJW" lmao what is this, 2014? Literally nobody uses that term as an insult anymore.

[@thekingofpotatoes1932]

They did read the books apparently, but missing the games that people love will still end up creating a show that is missing the soul of the franchise

[@BeefChocolate]

@@thekingofpotatoes1932 let em know !

[@toiletdestroyer875]

Dude TLOU is supposed to come to HBO at some point and I'm worried that they're gonna castrate the story and characters.

[@davidragon1]

Giving an IP to egotistical people with no respect or knowledge for the original source material results in bad shit like every fucking time. I don't get why it keeps happening.

[@tsayin2662]

They also broke the unspoken Halo rule: never show Chief’s face EVER And they did this several times

[@DrCL-cl4eg]

per minute

[@stephengrigg5988]

@@ThatOneAudioTeam it's funny how the mandalorian is a better master chief story

[@behappy5869]

@@ThatOneAudioTeam okay dude i get you but you need to touch grass a little bit

[@ThatOneAudioTeam]

@@behappy5869 Would you mind elaborating as to why I need to?

[@Robzeke]

@@behappy5869 I hope that's not a loser reference

[@LennoxParsec]

The fucked up thing is that the show is full of little details and references to deep lore and real life stuff related to the games, so the minor writters or directors of the show actually know pretty damn well the franchise. Then WHY TF THE MAIN WRITTERS ARE WORST THAN A WATTPAD FANFIC?

[@vevohitz8339]

So true, bringing up the Cole Protocol in the same episode as a human is walking around high charity feels like a slap in the face.

[@Thisisthegreatestatofalltime]

Microsoft is great at hiring incompetent management just look at 343

[@JOSWAY787]

Same for the assassins creed movie, it’s like the first plan was good but then some uninterested directors and writers fuck it up

[@atlasapathy7254]

This isn't even fanfic, because to write fanfic, you have to be a fan, and the people who made the show are proud of the fact that they've never played the games or read the books

[@GiantMoth]

Sad thing is, they claim to have read some of the books. Even then, they are just supplemental material to the games so having read a couple random books from the series serves almost no purpose. I think the only reason they even mention this is to look more high brow and intellectual by going "of course we READ because that is INTELLIGENT, but playing some stupid VIDEO GAMES is not".

[@theodemir1953]

Fanfics are better than this

[@slimeisbored]

It’s just fic

[@MHowellster]

Execfic

[@cortexius181]

A fanfic about Master chief x Reader would probably be more entertaining than whatever tf the show was

[@Ruxin34]

I don't think I have ever seen Charlie rant for 20 straight minutes... You know this show is BAD

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

You know it’s bad when even the show’s writers have no knowledge of the games

[@HarrethTheExiled256]

@Savetion Xi 😈 shut up

[@ItsJayden07lol]

@Savetion Xi 😈 Your content isn’t even funny 😂 Penguinz0 content is way better!

[@KatKitty_]

​@Savetion Xi 😈 d!e

[@KatKitty_]

​@Kavetion no u aren't bozo xx

[@zenithstudio6819]

Feels bad for the people who think this show is "good", they're huffing the strongest copium known to man

[@mannmctrash]

huffing their own farts

[@Razumen]

Happens to every new crappy show, from Doctor Who, STD, and more. Standards are so low these days they're basically six feet under.

[@guapo1372]

I could live with the fact that master chief is emo on the show if they had an abundance of fight scenes. I hope I’m not the only one that mostly just looked forward to seeing him kicking ass. Instead, all we get is just literally his ass.

[@gvs6462]

Huffing sum gud Jenkem

[@SekayeK]

I am one of these people lol, one of my favorite shows this year. Everyone wants action and fighting scenes but I think the drama makes for a way better story

[@Skwadley]

I feel like Arcane is one of the best examples of a game turned into a show/movie. It still kept its source material but added on more and more, making its own fully fleshed out world.

[@enormouswhale7397]

The show was better than the game lmao

[@claire6650]

Arcane is an animation show tho, it's not a live action movie. There is a massive difference between both, Halo also had an adaptation of Fall Of Reach book as a animated show, and it's pretty good

[@Pariux]

@@claire6650 Animation has nothing to do with shitty writing, not that hard to understand.

[@DizRupTnz]

@@claire6650 Halo has also had a live action movie, _Forward Unto Dawn._ While obviously lower budget than the Paramount show, it was still well written and captured the feel of Halo. Being live action has nothing to do with shitty writing decisions.

[@christianacosta3945]

@@Pariux true, but for some reason animated adaptations do tend to be much better than the live action ones. Maybe because the animators normally care about the source material

[@Goat-on-a-Stick]

Just using the name for a generic story that doesn't justify its own existence, made by people who don't even like the original story. That's so true, it hurts.

[@Mr.Djagent6060]

Read my name😇

[@dragonslayermasterornstein83]

It's like people who buy the ips for the show just want to shit on it to spite the fans than actually make something good

[@InheritingNightmaresDev]

half of the video game movies suck. i dare not even call this a video game movie because they clearly done give two shits about the games. sonic does it so well. this and the doom movies just...flop horribly.

[@XtraCheeesee]

Seriously, it makes me sad, because it makes fans not have hope in the show, but Arcane, Sonic, and I guess The Witcher, these are game based shows and movies that had been successfully mended into... something else that opens everyone's eyes to the franchise or Name.

[@Fartucus]

Exactly like the picard show.

[@nicielunar542]

I still remember that guy who said, “they made chief removed his helmet, his armor, what next, his clothes?”

[@AwesomeMutation]

Same

[@burp2019]

little did we know

[@PicanteAtlas]

he was trying to warn us

[@thatguy6482]

Oh, so now you listen.

[@soldio4143]

Spartan "SXE" was greatly debated and settled in 2010. That's right; 12 YEARS AGO. Spartans still have their dangly bits; _However_ the extreme augmentation left them with 0 sex drive; along with absence of many other emotions due to hormonal and a slew of other chemical alterations. It's believed Male spartan 2's would have incredible difficulty to even get a half chub while a full salute was simply impossible. Out of the 150 Children candidates (75 of which were abducted) for the spartan 2 project; only 33 Survived; 12 were irreversibly crippled the rest died during the procedure; it was a multi procedure process that quite literally changed children into _machines_ .

[@tylerbarse2866]

The procedure didn't turn them into 'machines' Project Aster just improved their physiology. The cause of their psychological profile was their training. Spartans have difficulty interacting with non spartans, because of a lack of social skills.

[@soldio4143]

@@tylerbarse2866 I did say it was a "multiple procedure process"; but procedure is more frequently associated with 'medical' ones; so that's my fault. I do recall one spartan who was trapped in a Dyson sphere for years(?) After being a survivor(?) and becoming mute; due to the mental trauma and lack of using her vocal chords.

[@vincenttorrijos9680]

I am absolutely baffled at how Halo has a definitive bad guy, yet the show still uses the “human nature is the real bad guy” trope, because when fighting an almost unending legion of alien species, internal politics are the real issue. (God I hope they don’t even try the Flood.)

[@aoki6332]

yeah knowing that its true that the UNSC and ONI did pretty insane stuff but it was for survival being label as just cartoonish evil is really stupid and show not only the lack of care about halo but there poor writing skill at this points its a the same level as the last two season of GOT

[@xZero9Ox]

@@aoki6332 - for survival? You know the spartans were built to fight other humans who didn't want to bend the knee to the UNSC right? They only became mankind's greatest weapon because the covenant came into the picture.

[@aoki6332]

@@xZero9Ox i speak about the thing that the UNSC did during the convenant war like during silent storm

[@stephengrigg5988]

I'm glad they blew off Peter Jackson, this show is so much better than anything he could have done. It's not like he already adapted a beloved property and won the most oscars in history for it.

[@vincenttorrijos9680]

@@stephengrigg5988 you say that, but it was really just the Lord of the Rings that people liked, The Hobbit and Mortal Engines we're both pretty poorly recieved. But, even with those in mind, he probably would have done much better than the current show runners, at least he TRIES to remain truthful to the source material.

[@TheHornswoggle]

The closest the chief was to sex, was when he teabagged the covenant after killing him. That line right there Charlie, is why I love you so much

[@disk3001]

"he claps his master cheeks"

[@Cobra85291]

Thats the one that got me. The true #1 of this video.

[@bigman2881]

@@TheFirstHumanAdam Bold of you to assume that i care if i die

[@AndersonClips]

His kills the whole character of chief because his internal conflict is if he's more machine than man physically and mentally. He's all about showing no emotion and only caring about the next mission because that's why he was made.

[@SlowNSteady123]

Master cheeks got me

[@nartaga1624]

Company: "We bought the rights to this really hugely popular IP and are making a show/movie!" Everyone: "Oh that's awesome I've been a fan of that IP for a long time. I'm sure the fans would love to see an adaptation." Company: "Fuck the fans. This isn't for you. We don't need you." Everyone: "...K..."

[@AxxLAfriku]

My haters throw rocks at me and IT hurts. I hope they don't throw The Rock at me because I like him as an actor. GAGAGAGAGA!!! I am funny!!! I am the funniest KZbinr EVAH! Please agree, dear na

[@notafascistchantisupportfa1793]

Slava Ukraine

[@mobiusmobius738]

Cowboy Bebop live action

[@ltb1345]

Disney's Star Wars in a nutshell.

[@superjare23]

@@AxxLAfriku Shut up spam bot.

[@WalkinChristum]

I've been watching your for a while, and never seen you so pissed about a topic lol

[@SlickRick81338]

Halo holds a special place in our hearts and to just see it not get the treatment it deserves is really infuriating

[@TrueUnderDawgGaming]

Poor Cortana…

[@affordablehousing9116]

You mean Casey? Her special cousin.

[@ladybabe6958]

NTR but halo

[@Jus4ya]

Honestly I would like it if Cortana didn’t look like that

[@AcheOfHead]

“It’s not just ass in the show; the show is ass itself” Powerful words from the Moist Man himself

[@gdphoenix5702]

I must have this on my tombstone

[@valueinyou9931]

I think it's Shakespeare...

[@Joosh_Canoe]

"The Master Cheeks have been on full display."

[@samthong3305]

@ForgiveZharion nobody cares lol

[@ApolloDawn85]

Hearing that Master Chief claps cheeks made me physically grimace. Like isn’t the point that even though Master Chief is a hero to humanity that he is unable to have real relationships with others due to his upbringing as a child soldier? Isn’t that what makes his relationship with Cortana that much more important is that his only real relationship is with an AI and not a human? Like he isn’t supposed to be intimate with people that goes against everything that makes him tragic.

[@YormanGina]

Cortana to Chief: "Before this is over, promise me that you'll figure out which one of us is the machine." People might not like Halo 4, but it gave Chief and Cortana some great development that was unfortunately squandered in Halo 5.

[@Stephens5150]

Dont worry your not losing your mind , we all fee this way

[@247Jay]

Your peen will grow 5inches tomorrow 👇🏾 Like to activate 👇🏾

[@keiz5052]

@@YormanGina i’m being 100% honest with the fact that Halo 4 literally made me cry despite what Bungie elitists will say, the development between Chief and Cortana in Halo 4 was some of the best storytelling in the entire series

[@Hustle-bones]

Yea and also he’s literally just not able to do it. Like they removed that from Spartans cuz they were supposed to just be soldiers

[@KapyBarra41]

Whoa, Charlie's acting skills just poured out of that performance as Master Chief. He was able to perfectly encapsulate the pain and struggle Master Chief is feeling at the loss of his memory and by extension his humanity. Charlie is able to capture all of that hurt in such a short demonstration because he is able to draw on his own experiences to breathe life into what could have been a shallow performance. He is truly the greatest acting talent of our generation.

[@jackjensen5364]

He should act for the hunger games

[@navb0tactual]

My fears came true, this show went from mediocre at worst to absolute garbage within a few episodes... I WAS warming up to it, now I'm just torturing myself by watching it.

[@MinorityRespecter88]

What was making you warm to it initially?

[@nikolaigorbachev582]

@@MinorityRespecter88 master cheeks

[@navb0tactual]

@@MinorityRespecter88 by warming up, I mean I was hating it much less by episode 5, because I managed to block and report the lore side of me so I could brainlessly enjoy the action. But then all hell broke loose after that. I'm glad I'm good friends with Davey Jones. Paramount don't deserve a cent for what they're doing.

[@navb0tactual]

@@nikolaigorbachev582 👀 mister cheeks?

[@MinorityRespecter88]

@@navb0tactual I guess that makes sense but how could you mindlessly enjoy the action if there's only 5 minutes of it and only in two episodes of the entire series? lol

[@BobbIehead]

The fact that the assault rifle is cgi and that they didnt even bother painting the plasma pistol is just baffling. No fucking way its 10mil per episode

[@vagamer522]

mabye the 10mil all went to cocaine?

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

WTF 10 million dollars per episode 😂

[@MbitaChizi]

Ok Dont read my name 😑 .

[@vagamer522]

​@@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375 wow the only non bot comment

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

@@vagamer522 I know Right I hate these Bots

[@junein4732]

"I'm getting really deep into spoilers but I'm doing you a favor, I wouldn't recommend watching the show. It isn't even like, fun bad." That is the most sincere and genuine remark I've heard him say about a show in ages. Like there's no hint of joking or playfulness, he's absolutely dead serious.

[@rexerator]

You know its bad, when its not even “fun bad”. Like yikes. Thats a solid 0/10.

[@engineergaming1669]

@@rexerator when a show isn’t even bad enough to be funny that’s not good

[@junein4732]

@@engineergaming1669 On one hand you have 'Haha, this is so bad' and on the other you have 'Oof.. I'm actually cringing.'

[@gian.4388]

​@@engineergaming1669 I mean, at least people have a reason to keep watching it, when it's not even fun then there's literally no reason to do so

[@vincenttorrijos9680]

It's like Internet Historian breaking character during his TLOU2 stream where he goes on a rant about how much he doesn't care about what's going on.

[@tonydude5053]

Fun fact: Reth, the crazy dude on the Rubble who gave the stupid halo reveal, is actually based off a character from the extended universe, except he’s supposed to be a jackal

[@caseybaker7935]

I remain convinced that the studio had a generic scifi show planned out, but couldn't get the obnoxious budget without slapping an existing IP on it

[@SlipspaceEntertainment]

Yea I feel the same it’s just like how out of all the Halo movie/show ideas did this get green lit

[@legendarybrando348]

Ik right. The fact that they just let them do whatever they want.

[@Raukuu]

Somebody knew somebody who had the means to make it and had the hook up more than likely

[@whatthefliplol]

I L

[@ButtCaked]

@@TheFirstHumanAdam oh good, the best reason for me not to sub

[@YaBoiJay999]

@@ButtCaked You dead? 🧐

[@bokgaming6645]

Haven’t even watched the video yet but I do in fact forgive you, Charlie.

[@David-ve5iq]

Nah, he's a twot.

[@lauralovesptv]

I agree ! :3

[@generic8618]

Lmao ikr

[@MbitaChizi]

Ok Dont read my name 😑 .

[@JB-pp1kt]

Already 40 likes in less then 1 min

[@perochialjoe]

Between Halo Infinite and the Halo TV show I feel like we're seeing the epitome of what happens when an IP has no passion left in its studio and is completely corporatized. It doesn't exist because somebody has ideas for a good story or something new to add to the genre. It exists purely to wring every last cent out of the dried up husk that is the Halo brand and they'll continue to do so for as long as it takes until the profit margins aren't there anymore. Then they'll just say nobody cares about Halo anymore and toss it in the garbage without caring that they're the ones who killed it.

[@burp2019]

infinite's singleplayer is fun but gets boring fast

[@tylerbarse2866]

​@@burp2019 Exactly Infinite's Story is good, but it's told in a way that's not coherent to the player, without the player understanding some of the Extended Universe Lore. If they added Time Stamps to the Cortana flashbacks, it would have done wonders to improve the story flow.

[@jacobcooper269]

Studios work for the investors, the largest investors in these studios are corporations like Vanguard and Blackrock which tend to see their investment power as a way of regimenting an industry, who they're regimenting that industry for, or what political/ideological interests, is the real question. It's clearly not purely profit-driven or else they wouldn't be consistently tanking products with mediocrity.

[@BrotherPigeon]

Better yet halo has books, stories, and things within the games that expand on the universe, they could’ve made a stellar first season using a few chapters from one of the books if they tried, as someone who loves to look into the lore of halo this show is just a slap in the face to the people that genuinely love everything about halo outside of just playing the games. The lore is much DEEPER than what the games represent too, I was hoping the show was gonna give us a visual representation on all of the great things the books and lore have and instead we get this “thing” that’s unrecognizable. It’s just such a massive disappointment

[@Lays-But-Not-The-Chips]

Yeah, from what Charlie is saying with the person trying to crack “the covenant language”, that’s already a theme in Blades In The Dark and the Kilo-Five series. Haven’t seen the show, but it sounds like it’s set before 2552 and all the other shit that was established in and around the K5 books.

[@BrotherPigeon]

@@Lays-But-Not-The-Chips this show had SO much potential with SO much to work with and it’s like it didn’t even matter

[@Jaykurosakii]

@@Lays-But-Not-The-Chips it’s like they loosely read or skimmed through all the books wikis and took what they wanted and changed around things for their agendas

[@---gj3qn]

I feel like good video game adaptions are usually based on books or lore written down outside of the gameplay or main story. The Witcher was based on its original books (which the games were adapted from as well) more than the games and Arcane threw out the whole gameplay part of lol and used the wiki instead. On the other hand there are good adaptations for games without a lot of lore where the writers are given a lot of freedom like in Castlevania.

[@BrotherPigeon]

@@---gj3qn I can see where you're coming from, I really liked castlevania, I havent watched Arcane yet but from what my friends tell me its really good, I've been thinking about giving it a shot. dont really know much of the lore on either of them, I feel like the people that like the Halo adaptation are mostly people that have no idea what its all about. The lore in halo is so expansive they could make a show as long as Supernatural with all the information you can dig out of it. I feel like another thing to do with the outrage is the fact that halo is such a MASSIVE series with a very large and very dedicated fanbase, especially those who favored the original bungie trilogy alongside reach. I feel like the trailers for most of the games say 1000 words with what we have. Imagine a show revolving around the ODST's using the original trailer for ODST as a visual aid. I would love something like that. It shows feared the covenant really is, and maybe when things look bad John can appear and save the day leading into why a spartan on the battlefield is such a force to be reckon with. Or better yet give us a show about red team. Give Jerome more time in the spotlight other than in halo wars. They could've gone in the early days of chief, show us his training from childhood, show us their first mission, show the death of Samuel-034 and how its effects John. there is 100 ways to think about this, I feel like when they announced a show that's what most fans were really hoping for.

[@GamingintheAM0801]

As a lifelong Sonic fan, I find it so bizarre that the Sonic movie, of all things, has become a go-to example of video game adaptations done right, but here we are. I just got so used to people shitting on the franchise while I sit in a corner quietly mumbling, "C'mon guys it's not that bad."

[@grimlicentia]

It was indeed good. Detective Pikachu was also pretty good but no one mentions it.

[@notafascistchantisupportfa1793]

Slava Ukraine!

[@adamushu]

@@grimlicentia Another one that may not have been great but was at least not terrible was the recent tomb raider.

[@Soapia99th]

Sonic adventure two did eggman justice

[@sailorhatguy5763]

I usually gaslight myself into enjoying official Sonic content BUT this is the exception

[@mandark1727]

I work in television and I'll tell you why this is happening- nobody wants to take the risk of backing projects that aren't already popular. Meaning, if the director wanted to make their own sci-fi movie, they had to choose a pre-existing property to tack on to. Most producers don't know anything besides 'this franchise sold a couple million games,' and thats all they need to hear. Unfortunately this leads to a lot of creators watering down their original visions to be able to call their work something else, while simultaneously ruining beloved franchises.

[@hugojuarez9282]

Interesting

[@obviouslykeith]

Interesting

[@pacotaco1246]

fucking capitalism's profit incentive ruining things again

[@malif1279]

Something something Tolkien quote about evil being unable to create something something

[@Takumay1]

Interesting

[@MinorityRespecter88]

The whole covenant language thing really stuck out to me. Are they literally not debriefing the Spartans after every engagement? It seriously never occurred to anyone to just ask the Spartans what they can tell them about the aliens? Also in the context of the show it seems like the entire UNSC alien research department is controlled by Miranda Keyes, she's the only human in the galaxy doing any kind of alien research. Like, couldn't they just have some extras in lab-coats or something?

[@scottwerner279]

Yes, on one hand, I felt like that was the smartest scene in the show since it was actually about the war. On the other, it just shows how terrible the writers are at creating a believable world since something like this belongs in a fantasy show and not a word where scientists are dissecting convenant

[@zachtindell7751]

I assumed this show was showing events before they had full contact with the covenant.

[@MinorityRespecter88]

@@zachtindell7751 why would you assume that?

[@BlackHawk8801]

It's disgusting how people are allowed to debase a created universe so badly. I'm not even able to really put into words how much this shit upsets me because the more I try the angrier I get and all i'm left with are sentences full of swear words.

[@CommanderTiaph]

I actually hate what they've done to Halsey and Cortana. They turned Halsey from someone who struggled with the ethics of the Spartan program to someone who thinks of her spartans as tools and generic evil scientist "for progress" bullshit. And Cortana being a tool to enforce her will on the Chief is so weak. But yeah, its insulting that Master Chief and Halsey don't resemble their former characters at all. The directors not having played Halo is the biggest red flag too. It's not like they're long games either, its the *least* they could have done to know what they're getting into. Instead they've just pissed off all the fans, so I genuinely don't know who this show is for.

[@HiddenRealm]

it's a longer game if you're absolutely garbage at FPS games, and something tells me they are too intimidated by the games to try.

[@Jim-yl6tf]

it's not meant for you. it's meant to program the next generation

[@zehsackett6132]

@@Jim-yl6tf The only show where UN is actually evil is programming? People here like Avengers where America drops in, saves the day and all of the locals are all happy. Everyone I know loves the halo show except me. You shouldn't have to play a video game to watch a show. THAT is lame.

[@playcube4564]

@@HiddenRealm they don't even need to actually play it, they could skim through a longplay of someone who is actually decent at the game and get a good idea of what it is about. They just hate video games I guess and see them as "lesser", thats my only guess

[@clydecraft5642]

Its literally for couch potatos who think the barest level of good visuals and a plotline too stupid to exist but they wishy washy explain it away and its fine for couch potatos

[@ashumon23]

The UNSC being this comically evil is so baffling to me. If they really wanted the "good guy organization but actually their secretly evil" trope, they could have easily used ONI. Something that actually is the in-universe overly controlling shadowy organization that does terrible things for it's own benefit!

[@malif1279]

Exactly, the UNSC is still pretty terrible in the lore but compared to ONI they're an organization of saints They had all this fantastic material they could use just laid out for them but they chose to throw it all away because they probably thought they could do better

[@GoldAk47]

They are trying brain wash people watching.

[@sirweebs2914]

@@malif1279 No they ignored the established lore because they didnt want to "waste" time researching it. Nobody cares about video games or gamers for that matter in the film industry the only reason some people found The Witcher ok was because Henry Cavill is a fan and tried his best so they dont ruin the script completely.

[@THExDUFFxBOMBx42777]

The problem with that narrative is that Humanity is still acting defensively against the Covenant and anything ONI did could be argued as a necessary cruelty. As far as the games are concerned, ONI still acts in Humanity’s best interests when the alternative is genocide by aliens or having humans self sabotaging their war efforts via every rebel faction imaginable. Had these hack fucks played a Halo game, they would have realized that this “blindly following authority bad” concept was done perfectly with Halo 2 and Arbiter.

[@byakuyatogami2905]

@@TheFirstHumanAdam why is your channel in Japanese but the message thai

[@GamerSisters]

You forgot about CastleVania being also a good adaptation. But, anyway, I just feel bad for Halo fans. Like I can't really play shooters (i can play other games but due to having one arm, mouse+key games or even shooters with controller are very difficult to play for me) but i like watching Halo LPs and lore videos because i find the story really interesting. I was looking forward to being able to consume Halo content without getting cockblocked by the gameplay being inaccessible to me, but i cant say i wasnt fearing the worst. And it happened... like I may not have as much attachment to the series, but I do feel bad for those who are bigger fans.

[@tylerbarse2866]

You don't actually miss a lot by not playing the games. It largely stems from the fact that Bungie themselves were antagonistic to the release of the Halo Extended Universe. Even though 343 is embracing the Extended universe, they don't actually tie the games into the extended Universe. Halo Infinite for example, took place on one of the most lore important Halo Rings, but there was no references to the period of time where the Gravemind had control over Zeta Halo, or when Master builder Faber was experimenting on humans.

[@Jaykurosakii]

@@tylerbarse2866 they had a on and off relationship with the OG halo book writer Eric Nylund. They felt they could write better than him and brushed him to the side instead of working with him in the early 2000s

[@yasmellrodriguez2632]

if you really wanna consume halo watch the live action trailers and the whole believe campaign they did for halo 3. Its not the same as watching a show or playing thru the games but its better than this garbage

[@deepanshyadav02]

6:32 You have no idea how much that caught me off guard and how much it made me laugh

[@unknownvariable9239]

I think it’s frustrating that the Halo show gets SO MANY small things right. Things like the battle rifle design and scale unchanged from the games, distant frigates keep their designs, consistent Covenant language, designs of the Covenant, Grunts, etc. BUT they get so much incredibly wrong. Like Master Chief putting his helmet on for 30 seconds to drive in a warthog then immediately taking it off, Chief trying to harm Halsey, Chief yelling “WHO AM I?“, Spartans emotions being suppressed by a conveniently removable pellet, and then there’s rebels using modern day AK-47s than halo weapons…

[@Bruhza5870]

Bruh these bots keep appearing everywhere

[@adamlaouiti6415]

It’s funny how then using an AK-47 is the in-universe equivalent to us using muskets nowadays.

[@TOONYBOY]

@@adamlaouiti6415 I was gonna say, I don't care how underdeveloped and poor your planet is supposed to be, this is 400 years in our future, you have access to better weapons that an AK47

[@cassiar4606]

It's because there are halo fans among the crew who are probably biting their tongue and doing their best to make the show halo. The sound design has been fantastic, and all of the props, set dec and cgi designs have been done with care.

[@TheCommanderTaco]

@@cassiar4606 hard to imagine considering they claimed none of them ( at least writers and producers) have studied anything off the games.

[@thedandymancometh]

I think it boils down to ego. My view has been that these producers don't like the idea of adaptation, they want a complete re-working of the game property to fit _their_ narrative vision. While creative liberties aren't bad, the blatant disregard to source material is baffling. Producers/Directors can't stand the idea that the material is pre-determined, they _need_ to make it their own idea...like it satisfies some desperate need to take credit for someone else's work. Then the end result is a bastardization of the source material.

[@TheAldriko]

Definitely ego. I always seeing it as the producers/directors seeing video games as being lower than them, since they work with movies and in Hollywood. It's only a video game so it doesn't matter, my ideas will obviously be better than the source material. At no point does it occur to them, that these video game IPs got big because they are already good. Not "video game good" but, just good.

[@flightlexx6985]

Ye this sums it up for me

[@jesusislord6545]

Repent to Jesus Christ ““Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭6:25‬ ‭NIV‬‬ K

[@Fusion97K]

This predates the game and everything is exactly the same as it was referenced to in the game so far.

[@notafascistchantisupportfa1793]

Slava Ukraine!

[@JessPoetics178]

"A Game of Halo" "Halo: John Van Helsing" "John 117: Spartan Gigolo" "The Halo Chronicles" "Master Cheeks: Busty Alien Hoes 5" Alternative titles to the Halo show.

[@BamSigma]

Halo and haloer

[@stephengrigg5988]

The guy that plays chief is actually a really good actor and was amazing in the wire. I'm sure with the right creators/writers/directors he would have done fine

[@Phantomghost-hm9bw]

I like how most people are forgetting about the fact there was a halo show, and the show was fucking great. red vs blue is a fucking classic

[@TheDarkLasombra]

@ForgiveZharion what is this zoomer schizo shit?

[@carlosperalta1714]

That show was not only funny, it was also epic!

[@Phantomghost-hm9bw]

@ForgiveZharion what do you have against red vs blue

[@dylannoname]

@@Phantomghost-hm9bw just another bot, we can try to report them but they will always come back

[@smsmsmsmsmsm]

@@Phantomghost-hm9bw it’s fine he comments it on every comment here

[@Pokanika]

Halo is a pretty simple story: "We gotta stop these genocidal aliens before they find an ancient superweapon and kill everybody!" How do they mess up this badly?

[@plantain.1739]

The most infuriating adaptation fuck up to me is the POSTAL movie. They like... *Almost* got it. Just bearly, but not quite. And POSTAL 2 is a fantastic game to adapt, it has a very simple plot with one character you have to nail, and the rest are interchangeable. It's like put a golf ball am inch away from the hole, and they manage to hit hard enough that it roles into a pond near by.

[@traphimawari7760]

@@plantain.1739 Hey the postal movie was a masterpiece, even if you haven't played the game it was epic, from a time when dark humor wasn't censored or didn't prompt the creators to cancellation, I salute them for even considering to turn the postal game into a movie and they didn't just consider it they actually did it, there isn't a lot to explain in the postal lore since you can pretty much replace it to anything that would match it in the real world as long as someone goes postal in the story it is a postal movie, besides Im pretty sure there's a huge disconnect and plenty of plot holes with the lore in each game, the first one wasn't even as wacky as the second it was just played straight, so theres really no need to beat the movie producers for "messing" with the lore since its basically non existent in the first place and is only contriving to to the gameplay as the postal dude as you set out and make your own story in the town of paradise, you can't compare the halo f4ck up with postal because at least postal was good and was coherent to what would actually occur in game compared to halo which has the simplest lore to follow around the master chief and yet they managed to turn it into some game of thrones hyperbolean bs, if you want to know the most terrible game adaptation try looking at the resident evil movies with Milla Jovovich as "Alice" instead of Leon, Chris, or Jill or anyone from the actual game as the protagonist instead they made up their own story

[@lulutango]

He's totally right- the problem is that there needs be a process so that these people, who likely aren't taking the time to understand what people like about videogames, can pick out the crucial elements from the story that makes people connect with them, and include them in the show- along with identifying the elements that NEED to make their way onto the production as a service to the property (like Charlie mentions in the video), and to the fans who already have a connection with the property. Ruining these sucks for the consumer, it's like watching companies set fire to your favorite brands. Also, LOL'd when he said 'master cheeks'

[@calus_bath_water]

It's so sad too because the halo games and books have such an amazing story and they just completely ignore it all

[@sirfeint6302]

It's honestly baffling how they decided to just make a whole "New Timeline" instead of making a show based on one of the hundreds of lore stories Halo has. Whats even worse is the fact that some Halo KZbinrs defend this. How? How could you defend something that just disrespects the thing you love so much. As a massive fan of Halo all my life, i'm not even mad at this. Just...really disappointed at this whole situation.

[@armouredjester1622]

I forgot about the Halo tv show like a month ago and never bothered to watch it

[@grimey666]

@@armouredjester1622 thanks for sharing bro

[@shooterDisease]

Cause they can tell ‘interesting alternate stories’ like Chief fucking a POW. Always wanted to see that in my halo content

[@WAcrobat19]

How cool would it be if 343 commissioned some film producer to greenlight a proper adaptation of *ANY* of Eric Nyland's original Halo novels. Imagine a *proper* adaptation of the Fall of Reach novel. Imagine some cool action scenes in Onyx's lush jungle in the Ghosts of Onyx book. MAYBE a Halo First Strike mini series. Omfg, there is so much shit they could have done. But no, let's create a shitty adaptation of Halo CE, but not give proper motivation of HOW the UNSC found the Forerunner Installations in the first place.

[@voxthesergal]

Remember this: They only said it was an 'Alternate Timeline' after the initial reviews. They shitcanned it so hard that they tried to cover it up AFTER the fact.

[@OneGiantOnion]

You’ve been forgiven, now time to watch the video

[@MbitaChizi]

Ok Dont read my name 😑 .

[@BoosterGoldest]

@@MbitaChizi ratio

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

@ForgiveZharion Ratio+Bozo+Kid+destroyed Ps4+Fortnite player = 🤡

[@eemeli7093]

Very honest

[@sylamy7457]

@@Volshebnik1 ratio

[@yuzzo92]

given the end result of the show, you CAN see why there was a massive turnover in terms of key people involved. It cannot be a coincidence that this show has lost so many producers and what not before even starting filming

[@AK47Uprising]

I know no one’s ever gonna see this, but they could have honestly done such a good job with this, follow the storyline of Halo but then you have the downtime, the time where we’re not in combat, and they could have used that to show hey Master Chief has some demons, he has some ptsd, he has problems and he’s still human in there despite being an unstoppable force on the battlefield. Looks all calm and collected on the outside when in combat and as a symbol, but you could showcase some issues behind the scenes and people would actually care about it.

[@unknownvariable9239]

If Rooster Teeth can make a show with several characters with extreme diverse personalities wearing spartan armor with rigid movements, then surely the Halo series could have a more accurate live action Chief without showing his face.

[@Joeyfield0]

Also to support that, college humor star wars

[@247Jay]

Your peen will grow 5inches tomorrow 👇🏾 Like to activate 👇🏾

[@Dylan-xx2tk]

Bro truth.

[@asnailwithpizza9724]

Red vs Blue is the true halo show, nothing will ever overtake it.

[@Zizpy]

What makes me even more mad is that they have 10 mil for every episode

[@ShotgunMcgee666]

What's irritating about that Halo show is that even in a separate timeline there's a LOT you can do with a Halo show. You can follow a contingent of Marines and ODSTs as they struggle against the covenant in a violent war movie and have some Spartans there as well. You could have a tense thrilling show about the UNSC navy and the very diverse cast of men and women that serve and die on the front lines in space against the Covenant in ship-to-ship combat. You could even tackle the UNSC conflict with the rebels amidst the Covenant War like the book The Cole Protocol does (which coincidentally has the planet Madrigal in it... glassed by the Covenant like 15 years prior to the start of the book). Hell even the books don't go into every single Spartan II, you could make up a couple and follow them as they travel to different theatres of battle and fight the Covenant (leading back to that show focusing on the Marines and ODSTs). Hell you could have a drama that *properly* explores Halsey and the very questionable ethics of the Spartan II Program because it is a veritable can of worms that leads into the Spartan III projects even worse ethics. You could even follow a rogue group of humans who aren't UNSC or rebels but weird fanatical Covenant worshippers who keep trying to follow the Covenant to join them on the Great Journey. And that's just the ideas I came up with. You have a setting of a war that humanity is losing to the point of near extinction, there's so much there. Instead we get this show that is all "but let's make Chief a completely different character and explore the past" and also "The Covenant hate all of humanity, except this one that Master Chief gets to cuck Cortana with" and also also "we hate Halsey too" because the book Glasslands wasn't enough of a garbage fire that transformed into a Halsey-bashing fan fiction. God it's irritating.

[@r00dbuster22]

W Amanda pfp

[@generalesdeath8157]

I go over similar rants in my head for every movie adaptation of a game that comes out. All the things they could have done great with their enormous budgets but they don't even care to look into the source material. And if they do it's only to get the characters names and 1% of the lore right. The rest is usually pure garbage and totally unrelated to the game and it's atmosphere. Random fans having 10% of their budget would do better

[@Major003]

Never even been into Halo, but your comment was so in-depth that I can safely say *based* take.

[@jackcolson4745]

@@Major003 You know the master chief collection is on xbox and steam for 50% off regularly. It comes with 6 Halo titles for the price of one. 😏

[@theearlofgrantham9816]

There's a parallel universe out there where this show begins with the Pillar of Autumn arriving at Halo and Chief has to help the almost doomed crew of that ship after they crash land in the ring world. There's also a wise cracking badass Sargent with a cigar and sudden unexpected parasite horror half way in. This show was a huge success in this parallel world because it reached a broader audience and didn't deviate from the source material.

[@lewhitey2544]

Then go watch a video of Halo CE campaign walkthrough without commentary. There you go bud.

[@RoyaltonDrummer922]

I firmly believe the Halo show started out as a script for a generic sci fi movie and then Paramount picked it up and made the deal with 343 so they tweaked it to kinda fit Halo without starting over

[@snapjackal]

The thing for me, about adaptations and remakes, is that there must first exist an ego, or a company, that believes that it can 1) improve upon, or at the very least, replicate every aspect of what made the original/source material great, and 2) dissuade viewers/buyers from believing otherwise. I long for the amount of self confidence and capital that one must possess to believe they can catch lightning (art) in a bottle twice

[@kade1348]

witcher did it

[@Mysterialic]

@@kade1348 Witcher is trash if you actually like the books/games.

[@thedukeoffunk]

Or at least feel they can bring the essence of the game narrative to people who like stories but don’t play games. Like…my mom will never play video games but she would probably enjoy a faithful adaptation of some of my favorite games.

[@deadfromhell1235]

@@kade1348 the witcher season 1 was an ok adaptation, season 2 70% of it had nothing to do with the books(which is what it is adapting) and it's fucking insulting

[@rubbishopinions6468]

@@deadfromhell1235 The Witcher season 2 wasn't just bad because it veered from the source material, it was also just poorly written.

[@AngryAmerixan]

you’re forgiven my child

[@benny_cooks]

u ain't finish the video yet

[@madcracker8077]

@hadlie both are wrong

[@justsomeguywholovesberserk6375]

@hadlie Press X to doubt

[@hecgarcia4]

Watch the fkn video first cole

[@MbitaChizi]

Ok Dont read my name 😑 .

[@carrotstix455]

Forgiveness is always available to you, Charlie. You're the golden boy of youtube, the moist newsman, the shitposter of truth. You will always have our trust!

[@master_swish]

the halo short films they made were perfect. they could've expanded on that for real

[@james117bond3]

5:27 Completely inaccurate, Charlie wore the Helmet way more than Chief has done in this Show

[@TrackpadProductions]

Using CGI replacements for easily buildable props is often a budgetary decision - but not for the reason you think. VFX houses are one of the few departments in the industry in which the majority aren't unionized.

[@MyaB1986]

Isn't programming a CGI prop and incorporating it into a scene more expensive than making a prop?

[@gotworc]

@@MyaB1986 depends

[@uhuhno6441]

@@MyaB1986 Not if the prop makers, prostetic make up designers etc have a union that protects their wages and the vfx people don't.

[@Primus-kz3ri]

@@MyaB1986 depends on the prop. And if ur using cheap ass CGI like this

[@dansan9858]

Unions are the modern mafia. Change my mind.

[@LegendaryDorkKnight]

8:39 It speaks volumes about my expectations for adaptations that I thought you were gonna say "she dies."

[@Karma-qw4lu]

And I love the fact that all of these shows that know they've screwed themselves by, for some reason not reading or playing or watching the source material always try and just throw sex or something sexual or horny in it just to try and please the audience

[@santimagine213]

Why do I feel like Sonic is the closest we would ever get to having an actual good movie adaptation of a video game?

[@slimeberry_]

or TF2

[@WLTR-]

I have no hope for the Mario/Illumination movie

[@magmarxiogaming6717]

@@WLTR- honestly same, with some recent leaks showing up it really doesn't give me hope

[@lorddraugr3138]

I thought Mortal Kombat (the first movie) was pretty good in its own right.

[@AlastorNightheart]

@@lorddraugr3138 i agree, they did a good job on Mortal Kombat for its time

[@eyessownshut1813]

A 20 min rant about how atrocious this show really is, is honestly flattering

[@xxyvng6831]

This show really sucks

[@xxyvng6831]

@@notafascistchantisupportfa1793 What does ukraine have to do with a shitty movie

[@p6v665]

@@xxyvng6831 i love ukraine 🇺🇦

[@xxyvng6831]

@@p6v665 good for u

[@xxyvng6831]

@@p6v665 why don't u fight on the front lines for them

[@theduke3778]

There's so many different directions the show could've gone. Like showing what its like to be a marine. Or a different spartan, or whatever. But that requires research. No, you gotta make that quick and easy buck while appealing to no one.

[@bogdan-cristiantimofte5625]

The Running Not Living sounds like a great series actually

[@elitadream]

The mere fact that they constantly show his face is a crime in itself. Like WTF. How hard would it have been to do the show Mandalorian style and only have him remove the helmet when absolutely necessary or narratively important?

[@fisherthegoat]

But that's the exact opposite of the narrative they're trying to go for obviously. They're clearly trying to humanize Master Chief, by showing him rarely in his suit, all these constant flashbacks of him as a child, everyone just calling him John pretty much.

[@ashhinman1919]

Yeah I haven’t played any of the halo games but I kept thinking “this moment would be a lot more impactful if he had kept his helmet on more”

[@zanierrules]

The worst part is just how generic the story is. Seen it a million times over - the enemy falls for the hero, the audience sees the change in heart but no actual character does, and then the enemy's newfound feelings are betrayed (rightfully so), and so they're the enemy again. The first 20 minutes of the show were the best part -- it was an unexpected slaughtering with the Spartans then kicking ass. Downhill from there.

[@isnanesavant]

seeing John face to face with enemies, then shrink back down to normal human size is killing me.

[@dpray96]

Ironically they did a good job recreating a concept that happens a lot in gaming. Taking a popular franchise (I'm looking at you Ubisoft) rewriting lore, ignoring the world building, and then slap the IP's name on it to sell to loyal fans of the franchise. Tom Clancy, and Assassin's Creed are two examples I can think of immediately.

[@jamesburk8145]

When someone makes a video game adaptation, they need to find a passionate nerd who has really gotten into the lore, and listen to them. Make them an advisor to the writers and director and put up with how insufferable they might end up being. It will probably produce at least a semi-accurate and enjoyable movie.

[@amir-jg4zy]

THIS 👆

[@heavensdoor7955]

You're describing Brian David Gilbert after reading every halo novel

[@SP-ie6nq]

A la Jon Favreau

[@bigf00tgaming37]

Describing the Sonic Movie right here.

[@eldoh3388]

Warcraft movie failed in spite of all that

[@mokooify]

The weird thing this show is doing making the UNSC evil, is the fact that while the UNSC is sketchy at points it's never the UNSC doing the very bad things it's ONI who are just asswholes, but it'd be too hard to actually establish a multi-faction world in 9 episodes...

[@247Jay]

Your peen will grow 5inches tomorrow 👇🏾 Like to activate 👇🏾

[@Bjornalgsson]

you could probably set it up with literally just a few people sitting at a war table and literally just have a UNSC person mention ONI. 10 minutes or less of any level of effort.

[@eliravioli8233]

@@Bjornalgsson he was being sarcastic

[@Xwartu]

FUCK! It just hit me. They’re trying to copy Red Vs. Blue while being legally distinct

[@MizzzFizzz]

@@Xwartu I haven't watched it and don't think i will but i appreciate your prediction/theory

[@ambermurphy3420]

Thank you for saying this!!!!! The fact they couldn't get barely anything right in the TV show is like what?! Halo could've been a multibillion dollar Tv show if done right. All they literally would've needed was one person on the production team who either knew the lore or played the game or knew the original story, to make the show a thousand times better.

[@stoopidginger44]

Halo has such a massive extended universe and history I feel like it shouldn’t be that hard to take some inspiration from it

[@bellystraw]

now now be careful Charlie, Kotaku might end up calling you an entitled gamer for not just consuming products

[@sleekhangman1590]

The thing that pissed me off the most is that in the game, master chief’s face hasn’t been revealed and has been a mystery for 20 years. But as soon as the TV show airs in the first season they reveal his face, remind you which has been a mystery for 20 year, remind you, which was revealed in one season. Also the show makes the UNSC look evil. Master chief has fucking sex as Cortana watches. This is one of the worst shows I’ve ever seen.

[@StarHunter28]

it feels like I was watching comic role-play

[@iamthehype3684]

I thought the spartan armor couldn't even be removed once it was put on. Am I just remembering the lore wrong or what?

[@alreadyblack3341]

@@iamthehype3684 The Mjolnir was removable with several technicians in the early models, but later and post-war saw the advent of machines which can completely dismantle the armor by the user just standing inside it.

[@hsoms1234]

To be fair the books did that first, not that they should have necessarily done it, but still. (The face reveal)

[@sleekhangman1590]

@@hsoms1234 that true but the books weren’t as nearly as hyped up as the show

[@gussyseemsfine]

2:35 Arcane goes into the category as well

[@fishfishrun1207]

The worst part, is that even if you pretend it’s not halo (which you should) it’s…not even a good show. It’s a bad story.

[@jexxer]

It needs to be a mandatory job requirement for writers adapting an existing series to another medium to be fully knowledgeable of the source material. If you can't even answer a solid "yes" to the question, "Hey, have you ever played Halo?" then you should not be allowed on the writing team for a Halo tv show.

[@SOLIDSNAKE.]

Or silent hill

[@CookingandWH40kVideos]

I don’t understand why they don’t. Wouldn’t it make your job as a writer easier???

[@gundamwalrus8522]

straight facts im so sick and tired of this trend, there needs to be a law or something for defacing the property.

[@zerovkarma9180]

@@gundamwalrus8522 they need people to stop making the game look trash because when people look at it and never played it they will sh*t on it bc they think thats how the game is. it needs to stop and they need to actually play the game and write it based on the game and stop being lazy

[@notafascistchantisupportfa1793]

Slava Ukraine!

[@munin9530]

IS THAT MASTER CHIEF????!?!???!?!?! 5:22

[@connorrice9699]

It’s so sad what they’ve done to halo.

[@Quzix42]

Charlie going off about "Halo cuckoldry porn" wasn't something I expected today yet here we are

[@indranilroy4822]

I'm a dude who's essentially an outsider to the halo franchise. Ive never played a single Halo game or read any novels, hell I don't even know what a halo is, and yet even I know they colossally fucked up master chief's character by revealing his face and making him have sex, like wasn't the point that he couldn't really form any meaningful relations with actual humans

[@sionnachdensolas9787]

The point was he couldn't form relationships with humans but found a close relationship to an AI that is beyond sexual or familial. The relationship with Cortana is the pinnacle of Halo because John is a faceless man that is made to perform like a machine and Cortana is a "machine" that is made to imitate a person.

[@hodder200]

Revealing his face didn't necessarily fuck up his character but everything else did. Revealing his face is a different issue whereby idiotic writers think the audience are incapable of empathising with the protagonist if they can't see past the helmet...in spite of the fact that the entirety of the game franchise is evidence to the contrary. Chief's character was fucked by everything else; being a miserable, whiny, violent, insubordinate, irresponsible and hypocritical. The Chief of the games was stoic, short-spoken, mission-oriented and just an all-round good guy. He would never grab a rando stranger throw him against the wall and yell 'WHAT AM I' inches from his face, jesus fucking christ show.

[@prodemonslayer2301]

@@sionnachdensolas9787 This was honestly a really beautiful synopsis of their relationship.

[@StarHunter28]

​@@sionnachdensolas9787 that is a really great way of putting it.

[@arealhuman826]

you can have sex without meaningful relationships

[@ryzer_red]

I've never been embarrassed to be a Halo fan until now.

[@spiritsofthesky]

I'm not embarrassed to be a Halo fan. I'm embarrassed to have watched a Paramount show

[@247Jay]

Your peen will grow 5inches tomorrow 👇🏾 Like to activate 👇🏾

[@CoOlKyUbI96]

I've been embarrassed to be a Halo fan since 343 got a hold of the series. Since Bungie left, the series have just been going downhill

[@rock4glory713]

@@CoOlKyUbI96 indeed

[@cesarrdyoniziak8402]

@Savetion Xi 😈 wow how sad are you? self promotion? poor you. so desperate for clout

[@truetape666]

I'm waiting for the finale to release before I start binging it. Not sure if I'll even finish it but I'm gonna at least check it out.

[@aestellatv6524]

the sandman was one of the best comic book adaptations ive ever seen, as a huge fan of the sandman comics

[@alexanderrichardson2686]

You didn't even mention how part of a Spartan's armor is a nutrient drip, a catheter, and a colonoscopy bag, because they never have to take it off. Sets the mood quite like removing two of those.

[@zachtindell7751]

so on base and not in combat spartans should just poop their pants cuz they can? lol

[@PerspectivEs]

Arcane did an amazing job at pleasing both fans and people who've never played the game, Riot is very in touch with its communities

[@powerfulech0356]

Arcane and Castlevania are both great examples of this

[@cici2753]

went through the comments to finally see someone else mention arcane

[@alexisea8874]

lol does not have many lore tho halo has like 6 fk games

[@defiantox2385]

While I do agree, its a little like comparing apples to oranges. Halo has tons of story game content and a million books to flesh out the world while lol has only multi-player games with very little emphasis on the world or story so they had a ton of artistic license to change whatever they wanted. (And they changed basically everything about the established lore of the characters even if it wasn't alot.)

[@dantederi5062]

@@powerfulech0356 imo castlevania is too boring.

[@MystearicaClaws]

I love all this discourse. Then the people live with are all "I can't wait for the next episode! This show is so cool!"

[@skallamanga]

me and my best friend sat down and watched like the first 3 episodes and he literally said “if i wasn’t a halo fan i would enjoy it”

[@dennysfosho]

“I want to apologize” me, a Canadian: NO Charlie, I want to apologize for you having to apologize

[@ahmedmx3575]

@ForgiveZharion ratio-if you dont like this comment why would you comment?-get a job-"imagine saying 🤓"🤓🤓🤓

[@static2488]

@ForgiveZharion self reflection nice

[@nyeeeeeee9346]

@@ahmedmx3575 its a bot

[@oradrive745]

As a fellow Canadian I'll apologize with u

[@IAmInsideYourWalls-wm9ek]

I’d love to see a band of brothers style halo show from the perspective of either ODSTs or basic marines. You could have this grounded military drama for the start of it and show the stages of training then nearer the end or in later seasons you could introduce Spartans as these inhuman killing machines that just decimate everything in their way. It would really serve to show how much of a threat the covenant are and also how powerful Spartans are in comparison to the human foot soldiers.

[@seanslaysean7097]

Exactly, split the middle and have your narrative while taking creative freedoms

[@lonelyrobin7576]

Yeah that sounds amazing

[@UnliVW]

But then how will they draw in free viewership with character recognition. Also they need to fulfill their desire to spit on long time fans and create a terrible first impression of the franchise for everyone who hasn't played the games.

[@SrgntSprnkls77]

i think a series following edward buck could work really well. bring nathan fillion in and follow the character from (roughly) the start of his career, the fall of reach, the events of ODST, and either cut it off at the end of the covenant war or show him becoming a spartan and take on the challenge of adapting the reclaimer saga

[@tdegrddeehjgd]

What you got is Bland of Brothers.

[@gothxm]

Life motto when it comes to Video Game Adaptations. Don't lie, don't try, don't cry, don't why.

[@Sofia_Sif]

I love the Halo novels, and was tentatively interested when I heard the writers looked at those rather than the game. I have no idea where they got John(Master Chief) having sex as an idea, that is like the least John thing ever. And human working with the Covenant??? They don't roll like that except for one time where they were just gonna kill the human after two days anyway. What the hell-

[@killergrooves2438]

The best part about these bad adaptations is that the executives don’t learn the right lesson. The lesson they SHOULD learn is to treat the source material with respect and make sure the showrunners and writers actually care about and understand the source material. They don’t learn this. The wrong lesson they ACTUALLY learn is that any adaptation of a video game property is unpopular and a waste of time and should never be attempted again. Which is untrue. Just make it authentic to the source material and tell a gripping and faithful story and you’re good to go. I do find it hilarious that Hitman has had two movies made and they’re both super obsessed with the backstory of Agent 47, when the appeal of the games is assassinating targets. If they made a movie that focused on Agent 47 infiltrating locations and assassinating targets and didn’t even have much of an overarching plot, it would probably be better received by fans than either existing Hitman movie. Hitman fans like Hitman games because it’s about assassinating somebody and escaping undetected.

[@StarHunter28]

I even watched the first hitman just an hour ago, it was really good at first when they had him store weapons I the ice chest and do stuff like the games, but then they HAD to have him fuck and he just turned into generic action guy 72

[@killergrooves2438]

@@StarHunter28 I noticed a few clever nods to the games, but I didn’t really like any of the movie. I’d prefer a thriller akin to the film “The Day of the Jackal” than an action movie.

[@AnimeProfilePicture]

7:26 random self reflection Charlie

[@kooperativekrohn819]

7:40 sounds like every 2022 girl

[@sharpshotefx]

The Mandalorian and Doom Patrol are master classes in how to have a character emote through a helmet

[@saltmines5761]

I think many have said this already, but it's like the writers and some other had plans for another sci-fi tv show (like a Mass Effect adaptation) but they instead had to make a Halo show.

[@MbitaChizi]

Ok Dont read my name 😑 .

[@coldestfire3474]

I heard mass effect might be getting a live adaptation so that’s something to kinda look forward to

[@CoOlKyUbI96]

Considering how open the people making the show are about not playing the game, I wouldn't be surprised if this was some sort of contractual obligation. In which they probably didn't want to make it, but someone tied their hands

[@TheRedrocketrover]

Honestly watching AngryJoes reviews has been 10 times more entertaining than the damn show itself. The show is written so BADLY they are going out if their way too block and hide the problems they themselves have created.

[@jakespacepiratee3740]

eh i find his reviews to be so reactionary and cringy i dont think its a good way to review the show. Ep8 hit me so hard that all the good-will I use to have for the Halo show is gone so i dont really care.

[@georgeserrano1805]

J saw that Charlie was a commentator at the Dr. Mike and idubbz boxing event, it was a pleasant surprise and so incredible!

[@WayysWorld]

A year later this still holds true if not being worse now.

[@WayysWorld]

It has been 3 episodes in a row now without Him in armor.