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Mass Effect TV series in the works at Amazon
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CoreyFlawless
Member
Some how, I kinda liked halo
Matt_Fox
Member
Perhaps I worded it badly. Fallout is dense, but I think is easier for newcomers because it's the post-apocalyptic trope with a dash of 1950s gee-whiz Doris Day. The series handled it very well, and made it easy to follow.
My memories of playing Mass Effect are that it serves up way more heavy exposition because it requires the player to make weighty choices, such as understanding the subtleties of the Krogan genophage... I'm not sure it has the sparkle and light hearted touch to capture a mass audience like Fallout did.
Trogdor1123
Member
I totally understand and agree. A space opera can be very tough to do.
Madflavor
Member
Setting aside the uninspiring creative behind this thing, how are they even going to pull this off from a visual standpoint? The budget for the CGI just for the aliens is going to be insane. It’s not like they can get around it by showing the aliens every once in a while, Shepard has alien companions with him all the time.
This is going to be an insanely expensive show with a team of hacks behind it. Sounds like a real recipe for a success. Good thing I’m no longer a fan after they gave us the most aggressive and vicious, buttfucking to a story with 3’s ending.
This is going to be an insanely expensive show with a team of hacks behind it. Sounds like a real recipe for a success. Good thing I’m no longer a fan after they gave us the most aggressive and vicious, buttfucking to a story with 3’s ending.
ozz ex machina
Member
Fallout has a fairly unique identity. Does anyone really care about see mass effect as a TV show? Mass effect was just a clone of popular Scifi that already existed. Hard to be exciting for me.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
I mean...you do know that theses shows generally are being pitched from within the owners of the IP right? Like EA would find a studio, they would be open to it being a show, then they shop around to see who can win the bid to get streaming rights to the show...
As in The Last Of Us was almost going to be at Netflix.....then HBO got the contract, Sony then had Horizon done at Netflix and God Of War done at Amazon.
AMAZON IS NOT just saying "ok, lets make a Mass Effect Show"
That is not what is happening here...like 99% unlikely, its them being approached, as I'm sure this studio and EA reached out to Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Apple etc
? smh
So...lets get this clear, that is not up to Amazon, Sony wants to make God Of War the show, they have a studio, they are look for a deal with a streaming company, they all bid, Amazon won the contract instead of Netflix........
I don't think some of you get what might be going on regarding a lot of this....
AMAZON is not just saying "we want to make God Of War"
Sony is saying ,we have a studio, we want a show, who wants the marketing and streaming rights etc
Fallout was almost going to be on HBO, but Amazon got the bid
This has nothing to do with what Amazon wishes to adapt, this has to do with SEGA, Sony, EA etc. They own the IP, they are the ones with the studios behind those shows, they are the ones selecting where the show is streamed
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
And only one of those has come to fruition and I think its fucking garbage
Kacho
Gold Member
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
lol ok, but it would have existed regardless of HBO, thus this whole Amazon thing, Mass Effect will be a show with or without Amazon as they likely approached them (as they probably did Netflix, HBO etc)
This has nothing to do with Amazon wanting a Sci-fi show, this has to do with EA wanting a Mass Effect show....
Rambotito
Member
Shepard crashes the Normandy into a planet.
Shepard "Bitch!"
*Shepard goes to get a tuna sandwich and talk to Liara*
Saryn chases after him on the way out : "Try Fat Burgers from now on. You can get yourself a double cheeseburger with fries for 2.95, faggot"
Shepard : "I like the tuna here. And I endorse that message".
Shepard "Bitch!"
*Shepard goes to get a tuna sandwich and talk to Liara*
Saryn chases after him on the way out : "Try Fat Burgers from now on. You can get yourself a double cheeseburger with fries for 2.95, faggot"
Shepard : "I like the tuna here. And I endorse that message".
IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
Really?
Sony offered up the idea of a God of War series. Amazon outbid their rivals.
Clearly they're saying "we want to make God of War".
Dr. Samuel Hayden
Member
Commander Shepard (she/xer) fights to defeat the Reapers (they/them) and The Illusive Man's (he/him) tyrannical patriarchy death squad, Cerberus.
EDMIX
Writes a lot, says very little
Not really, they are saying they will fund, market and get the streaming rights to a show SONY wants to make with the studio they assigned
As in, the show is not ONLY existing because of Amazon
Look at Sekio Shadows Die Twice, this is a marketing and distribution deal, Activision isn't fucking saying "We want a Souls game to make" FROM SOFT is going to them with a idea and a concept that will exist, with or without Activision.
As in, Sekiro, Bloodborn, Elden Ring 3 different publishers, 1 team, all of those games could have swapped publishers and still existed almost exactly the same way you know them already..
The deal is to market, publish etc
So this is more so saying "We want the contract to have the streaming rights to God Of War, a show you are making and will clearly make regardless" lol
If HBO took that contract, if Netflix won the bid, the God Of War show is still happening, just showing up in a different place.
