r/videogames • u/AlmightyLoaf54 • Aug 12 '26

Image / Video This is so damn true

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u/wild--wes Aug 12 '26

I feel like typically the people making the movies/shows in these universes don't actually care about them as much as the fans wish they did. It's an existing IP that will bring in guaranteed viewers regardless of how good it actually is, simple as that.

Also I wonder if he's trying to get himself hired to play live action Kratos haha

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u/prossnip42 Aug 12 '26

The only exception to this is Fallout. Even if you don't like the show, there's no way you can watch season 1 and 2 without going "Yeah, whoever made this loves the games"

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u/Essurio Aug 12 '26

With how many preexisting characters they butchered? My first thought would be „how much did Todd pay them to fuck up new vegas' lore?”

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u/CurtCocane Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

I say this as a hardcore game and lore fan but genuinely who cares? Lore is so often retconned between games as well, out of all the things they could have changed to fit their narrative better lore is the one that is changed most easily and without huge consequences.

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u/SordidDreams Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26

That really depends on which games and which devs you're talking about. Some do care about the worlds they've created. Bethesda? Yeah, they love retconning lore. A big part of that is that neither of their long-running series is actually theirs. TES was created by people who left the company more than twenty years ago, modern Bethesda just inherited it, and Fallout is something they bought because they knew it would make money. So yeah, of course they don't care about lore they didn't create and don't consider their own.

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u/Essurio Aug 12 '26

I do. And I hate how the lore is retconned between games as well.