@dipset All of that looks cool, and I have a passive interest in it, but it's one of those things where I don't think I'll ever really want to play it. Fun to watch from a distance.

Skywind, on the other hand, I am very invested in. I don't think Morrowind holds up very well, and have quit playing it a number of times because it was too obtuse. The remake is an actual necessity in order for me to enjoy the game.

@dipset This stuff is always cool, but unnecessary to me. I think games like Oblivion and New Vegas hold up very well on their own, and would lose some of their charm by bringing it to updated engines.

@dipset I genuinely love this intro. I want to watch the rest lol. I thought the script sounded great, and the VO wasn't bad at all.

@DMCMaster I like the video. I agree with Dip that you probably shouldn't cut on the beat as much as it ends up being a bit distracting, but I really liked the ending. Also I don't know how long you plan on making this video, but a two minute long outro is pretty long if you want the video to be like ten minutes. If it's like half an hour or longer then it's fine though.

If there's one thing I know from experience though, it's that you will always be the worst judge of your own work. The best advice I've ever gotten is to always finish it. If it sucks, then revise it to make it better. When you finish it you at least have that opportunity.

@themarcv Oh they're definitely based on the original concept. I think any good game story could be adapted without needing to heavily adjust it. Essentially what my brain does is takes a scene and turns it into TV. Adjustments obviously need to be made, but there never needs to be a change like Monster Hunter.

@themarcv I never think about casting, but I think about editing and framing quite a bit. I get some fully formed scenes in my head.

I guess I think about giving it a wider audience than fans of the game, but I think that goes hand-in-hand with the actual content, so it's even less conscious than everything else. They arent blindly faithful, and more often than not big changes need to be made to be palatable.

@themarcv said in My Pitch for a Resident Evil TV Show:

You all have any ideas for tv shows/films adapted from games?

So something interesting that I subconsciously do every time I play a game is I adapt it to TV in my head. It's not even a conscious thing, I just do it. Don't really know why, because I've been doing it for as long as I can remember, long before I was actually trained in TV. I don't just adapt broad stories either, I'll hear a line of dialogue and tweak it in my head to have it better fit in the TV version. Now that I think about it, it's rather weird that I do that, but I don't know that's just how my brain works.

Some games lend themselves to it better than others. For instance, a game like Mass Effect 2 is relatively easy because it's comprised of many bite-sized stories. The only problem with it is giving it a steady throughline so that it doesn't become too episodic, but that can be solved as long as the main plot is sprinkled throughout.

I've been playing Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and it is proving to be much more difficult. The problem is that much of the game's value is derived from multiple playthroughs, which simply doesn't make sense in a TV format. It's also very hard to give characters meaningful screen-time when there are so many of them. I have a feeling I'm not gonna crack the code on this one, and even if I do I'll likely forget it shortly after beating it.

But yeah, you could ask me about pretty much any game I've played (recently, because it doesn't really stick with me) and I'll have some sort of idea of how it should look as TV. It should rarely be a film though, as there is often just too much to show. A game like Banner Saga could lend itself well to film though.

@dipset Damn that sucks, sorry. I know they have an app for Xbox, but I don't know if you have one.

Hell I could do it, I just don't know that the Allies would be willing to delegate it in that capacity

I just saw The Wicker Man, and it is perhaps my new favorite "horror" movie, if you could call it that. It is absolutely entrancing, and after watching it I was a little pissed off because I don't think there is any other movie that comes close to capturing the tone of this one. It is so unique, and utterly defies genre conventions. Hell, there were even points where I was getting Muppets vibes because of the comical editing and musical numbers. It's like if Hitchcock made Mary Poppins, with a dash of Cannibal Holocaust.

God I wish there were more movies like this.

@oscillator Alright I guess that works in theory. Don't know how easy it would be to convince the Allies that we are able to do it though.