VerilyFemme
@VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 18 hours ago:
Hawking. No chair.
- Comment on My kind of bar 1 week ago:
Imagine if someone came into the bar you frequent and said this about you.
The regulars like Spot are what keep them in business.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 1 week ago:
Good. May they learn to never preorder.
- Comment on POSTAL 2 Redux has launched on Kickstarter 1 week ago:
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 1 week ago:
The acting was great, but no, I don’t think the writers respect the source material. They respect the feel of the source material, for sure. I love the way most of it’s shot, and I really love how the vaults are shown to be much more massive. Leaning into the cultish aspect of the Brotherhood of Steel was an awesome move and I think totally fits the path of their organization.
But, as I said in my last comment, there were a few key points about the Fallout world that they changed without much to give a new story a familiar setting. And I think that’s just inherently disrespectful in a world where large swaths of land haven’t been touched by the franchise.
It’d be just as easy to set it in Texas, or Illinois, or somewhere without a ton of solidified lore. But they set the show in a location with >135 years of post-war history and post-war development, that was under control of a nation so large it was manufacturing concrete and colonizing new lands. Then they kinda… just said their capital got nuked and they’re communist now???
Also worth noting that East Coast Fallout and West Coast Fallout are very different thematically, with East Coast focusing on rebuilding and West Coast focusing on humanity repeating the same mistakes that led to the Great War (War Never Changes…).
The show wears Fallout’s skin, for sure. There’s also many dialogue exchanges that feel like nods to how the world works in-game, and I love that. But that doesn’t make it a great adaptation, because the Bethesda Fallout games also look like Fallout. And they really shirk exploring the franchise themes in favor of making a zany wasteland to explore.
I’m no hater of those East Coast games, I love Fallout 3 and I’ve put a lot of time into Fallout 4. But they do really feel like a totally separate take on the same world. With the show, the lens of that take is applied to the world of the original franchise and they definitely misrepresented how realistically ideology works in this world.
All that said, they left enough open-ended for me to want to watch Season 2. But I really hope they delve more into the actual ideologies at play. Because Fallout is not about a wasteland, it’s about people, what we believe, and how we repeat our mistakes. They’re already halfway there with how the main characters interact, I’m just hoping they apply that writing to the factions.
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 1 week ago:
I hope they draw inspiration from the Mass Effect games.
Not to be negative, but save for Last of Us Season 1, none of those series are great adaptations.
Fallout had some great dialogue that was very reminiscent of the games at points, but the lore decisions they made were questionable at best. Ghoulification was changed to be less mysterious and more like the process of mutation; the Sino-American war was simplified from a resource war into Capitalism vs Communism; and the NCR, an imperialist nation and I believe the largest in that area, has been all but destroyed by one nuke to their capital. Also all of the survivors of the NCR are communist, for a reason I’m sure.
Maybe I just needed to rant about the Fallout show. Either way, I sincerely hope they get some huge Mass Effect fans on the team for this one that care about the story the games present above all else.
I’m really tired of this attitude that Hollywood has toward adaptations, where they all want to make it their own. You adapt the story to the best of your ability, and the decisions you must make to adapt to a new medium make it your own. Not rewriting what has come previously.
Mini rant over
- Comment on Can an American explain to me what's with the grooves on PS1 NTSC cases? 2 weeks ago:
I love the groove. Problems start arising when they sell enough to gain Greatest Hits status 😬
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 2 weeks ago:
You’ll be among the pool of husbands and dads who also had to go. Enjoy not waiting for the bathroom the whole concert.
But yes, you are overthinking it. Go have fun and do what you do naturally. Maybe you don’t have to constantly be giddy every second for 2 hours.
- Comment on mogbattle 2 weeks ago:
Little bloke looks like a true Brexit geezer, no wonder he won the mogbattle.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 3 weeks ago:
Man, Yuzo Koshiro did some unique work with the Genesis.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima learned "so many ways to kill people" in training, says it's "kind of sad" many devs "don't know how to dismantle a gun or shoot a gun" despite making military games 3 weeks ago:
Actually though. Call of Duty is just Fortnite now. I miss when those guns were licensed from the manufacturers and modeled with care.
- Comment on Next BioShock Game Suffers From More Development Hell After Failing an Executive Review 3 weeks ago:
Unrelated, but sick fucking username
- Comment on oof 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on I can hear the 8-bit theme playing now 4 weeks ago:
Huh, I guess I played the console versions and internalized that his name was supposed to be spelled weird, never noticing when they changed it back.
- Comment on I can hear the 8-bit theme playing now 4 weeks ago:
Is it no longer spelled Rayden?
- Comment on I can hear the 8-bit theme playing now 4 weeks ago:
California…
- Comment on I can hear the 8-bit theme playing now 4 weeks ago:
I do say Guy-den, because I was exposed to other media with the word first, but saying Gay-den is a mark of a high-class individual.
- Comment on Alabaster Dawn (CrossCode sequel) - Demo Release Date Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Nice. The first time I ever played CrossCode, I was shocked at how much it felt like a Nintendo DS game. The sprites, UI, and music are so representative of the DS era. Plus, playing the game with Mouse & Keyboard controls is so reminiscent of using the stylus for games it’s ridiculous.
It looks like they’re doing the same thing with this, except it looks like a 3DS game. I’m in.
- Comment on Leaked image suggests the next Battlefield game will be called Battlefield 6 - and the reveal event is coming very soon 5 weeks ago:
Almost anything with 6 at the end of the title feels tedious at this point.
Make a trilogy, and then follow the public’s opinion after that. If people are trashing your new games, it’s time to stop.
I guess some people will buy anything though.
- Comment on What should I get my online friend for their birthday? 5 weeks ago:
They’re trans. Is it safe to assume New Vegas is in their library?
- Comment on Danny McPhee: A remake of Nanny McPhee starring Danny McBride 5 weeks ago:
I would go see it for sure. Would love to see the reveal at the end where he’s actually very handsome, wearing a wife beater and jorts.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen advice to turn the firewall on, but that would probably mess up any multiplayer.
Tbh I just started playing Unciv instead, which is an open-source recreation of Civ V + G&K, with a BNW mod already existing.
AFAIK, there are mods that add Civ VI rules as well. It’s been great for me because you can play it on your phone, so you can start a Marathon game with your friends and just crack out a few turns throughout the day.
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on I'm tired of people pretending Miss Maxwell isn't awesome 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 5 weeks ago:
Just a warning, 2K’s new EULA is EXTREMELY invasive.
- Comment on in the circd tent. straight up "snorking it". and by "it", haha, well. let's justr say. My peanits. 5 weeks ago:
Beautiful post OP, this is art.
- Comment on YSK: There's an easy way to make retro game memes 5 weeks ago:
Had this copypasta stuck in my head for no reason just now, and I check my inbox to see this.
Did not realize lemmy.world federated with my head.
- Comment on YSK: There's an easy way to make retro game memes 5 weeks ago:
hahahahaha
- Comment on YSK: There's an easy way to make retro game memes 5 weeks ago:
Is that… Is that Domald fucking Trump?
Pls tell me which generator that is.
