From 'House of the Dragon' to 'God of War' to 'The Witcher,' shows are getting smacked by creators for seeming to stray from source material. And there are reasons it's happening now.
The thing about adaptations is that you can just enjoy the original book, or game or play or whatever that is actually good and became popular based on its own merits. Not to say there aren’t good adaptations, but you have to take it case by case there’s no way most of this stuff should sell just because of name recognition.
Do people hate God Of War tv because it too slavishly apes the look of the game, because there’s very little to go off there?
The article isn’t about people hating things, but specifically creators hating things. In the case of God of War, the creator of the original PS2 games has hated everything about the Norse games because he’s got the mentality of a 15 year-old who just wants to see tits and gore. He hasn’t been involved in a GoW game in almost 20 years now.
He jumped all over the first image that got released so he could get clicks and feel relevant.
I mean, it is weird to completely switch up the tone and gameplay of a series like that, and not lost on me that it was to something more mainstream. And you really can’t blame character action fans for being offended they called the old gameplay “outdated” (luckily, DMC5 came out a year later and disproved the notion.)
God Of War was always kind of dated next to Devil May Cry though. It was quite typical of western studios trying to get in on a Japanese game style but only really getting the superficial elements.
e.g. you can pretty much complete the entire first game by spamming Prometheus Plume.
The thing about adaptations is that you can just enjoy the original book, or game or play or whatever that is actually good and became popular based on its own merits. Not to say there aren’t good adaptations, but you have to take it case by case there’s no way most of this stuff should sell just because of name recognition.
Do people hate God Of War tv because it too slavishly apes the look of the game, because there’s very little to go off there?
The article isn’t about people hating things, but specifically creators hating things. In the case of God of War, the creator of the original PS2 games has hated everything about the Norse games because he’s got the mentality of a 15 year-old who just wants to see tits and gore. He hasn’t been involved in a GoW game in almost 20 years now.
He jumped all over the first image that got released so he could get clicks and feel relevant.
I mean, it is weird to completely switch up the tone and gameplay of a series like that, and not lost on me that it was to something more mainstream. And you really can’t blame character action fans for being offended they called the old gameplay “outdated” (luckily, DMC5 came out a year later and disproved the notion.)
God Of War was always kind of dated next to Devil May Cry though. It was quite typical of western studios trying to get in on a Japanese game style but only really getting the superficial elements.
e.g. you can pretty much complete the entire first game by spamming Prometheus Plume.