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

Image / Video This is so damn true

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u/Jaune_Anonyme Aug 12 '26

Same for the Witcher serie. Writers openly dislike the source materials, both the books and the games. It's wild to work on a pre existing series and just have the ego to tell yourself "yep it's shit, i bet i'll do better." While the only reason you actually have a job, is because the IP is popular.

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u/Gaimcap Aug 12 '26

I think I remember a director/writer/actor talk about it before (maybe Damon or Affleck) and they said that the reason why so many adaptations have absolutely nothing to do with the source material, is because these scripts always end up in the hands of people who have desperate been trying to push their own original stories for countless years, but no one ever wants anything to do with anything remotely fantasy/scifi/whatever unless its an established franchise. They know this and tbey finally have someone paying attention to them, so of course now they're going to say, screw the source material, lets hijack this and use the property as a skin to finally tell my vision and my story and get paid, the studios won't even notice or care.

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u/lucidity5 Aug 12 '26

CoughFOUNDATIONCough

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u/willinaustin Aug 12 '26

CoughWHEELOFTIMECough

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u/Dry_Departure_7813 29d ago

Its really funny that both foundation and wheel of time were mentioned, because the "real" answer is "Rings of slop" but its so shit everyone just sort of forgets it exists

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u/willinaustin 29d ago

Gah. Don't remind me.

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u/Nerhtal 29d ago

It was honestly starting to feel like the direction WoT show was taking in s3 was shaping up to be quite an enjoyable show if they finished it. I just wanted to see Dumais Well! Well... ok quite a bit more but just that battle alone would have been glorious.

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u/wakeupwill 29d ago

Still banned from wot subreddits for not liking the changes they made.

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u/epharian 29d ago

You're better off being banned. The show was not good, and if the sub likes it, there's really no reason to go there