Yes, absolutely!
The story/writing in the norse games is the worst part of them.
Yes, absolutely!
The story/writing in the norse games is the worst part of them.
Agreed.
I would much prefer this. Just pure spectacle for a hour and half or so with gods dying and good action.
From a Visual standpoint, this is much more difficult to adapt to TV. Good luck to the team, though.
this is how i feel too.
it's a crazy uphill battle imo.
the Clash of the Titans movies are kind of the bar for me visually which is definitely a major difference in budget
Think they'll definitely try to use the Unreal LED tech StarWars use. Some on location stuff in snowy areas. The fights and CGI characters with scale will be near impossible. They'll have to ground everything most of the time.
Yeah, skipping all of Kratos' crimes against humanity just feels like them again trying to sanitize his past. Not the way I'd do a show.
I know people are attached but there's actually very few moments that really need to be shown of the Greek saga in the show to get the point across and the obvious points in the game story to intersperse those flashback moments in the show.
I don't think brief flashbacks really cover how ELEMENTALLY monstrous and evil Kratos is. He's one of the worst living things on the planet, you have to show that. You can't hide from it.
Maybe if the show is successful they can make the Greek saga as a cheaper, animated prequel spin-off or something
who said brief? i think you have a whole episode of flashback and other moments dotted throughout - but you want it to be a reveal what a monster he is, and his son is finding out etc... bc it is a new show
BUUUUUUT you also don't need to spend hours and hours showing him murdering and raping everyone in sight (and at a certain point, we have to admit we're in 2023 and that stuff won't have the same effect it did back then when the edgelord 2000s schlock that it was, was seen as monstrous but cool), bc you have to believe that he can change and want him to change which is what he does over the course of the Norse saga, and the Greek games weren't made with that story in mind.
Do a full flashback episode when he gets the blades from under the house of Him brutally leading the Spartans, doing the deal with Ares for the blades, his family becoming scared of him, Murdering his wife and child. Have other flashbacks of Deimos to show the cruelty of the Gods, and brutally burning Greece to the ground in his quest for revenge including innocent people to the ground is plenty - stick to the stuff that's personal and meaningful (like TLOU) and make it very violent, brutal and tough to watch.
My point is there doesn't need to be three games worth of Greek stuff... you can get the point across much quicker without dragging down the much better Norse story.
Rings of power is so mediocre that I still can't wrap my mind around the fact it had a $700+ million budget. Apple is so much better at making shows and a lot of them have the same quality as HBO ones.
Yeah, no idea how they adapt some of the insanely over the top things from the games
Pretty much, going to need an insane budget and I dobut they'd be much point doing God of War Live-Action if the spectacle is neutuered, same with 40K. Rings of Power S1 was $500ish Million dollars with some flaws like frankly subpar costume design (Vs the Jackson Trilogy Costuming, what a downgrade), GoW or 40K going to need a bigger budget than Rings of Power and even if managed better (AFAIK RoP suffered production issues?).