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CraigeryTheKid, do gaming w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

Season 2 (“Book 1” in the US), I agree made some TERRIBLE changes, especially around Yennifer’s relationship with Ciri.

Having just finished Season 3, however, I feel like they mostly pulled back into following the book’s major plotlines. Sure, a TV show makes some concessions on content, but overall I felt it followed the books “okay”. Everything that happened in Thanedd was close, and everything after that too, in the final 3 episodes. Rience was the strangest change to me, since that doesn’t happen for several books and it’s Ciri’s doing.

Does the general public agree? Or are we still so mad about Season 2 that we refuse to see Season 3 positively?

Arcane_Trixster,

I’m not watching S3, knowing Cavill won’t be back. Not worth investing anymore time. The series is a failure to me.

Veraxus,
@Veraxus@kbin.social avatar

This. I see no point in investing any more of time in this show. Netflix needs to fire everybody, pull every episode from existence, and just start over with people who actually care about the source material and are willing to invest the time, effort, and respect to do it right.

CraigeryTheKid,

I guess you two are answering my last question - we’re so mad at Season 2 that the negative verdict is decided regardless.

My point was that Season 3 seems to have pulled back and DID honor the source material much better, but I guess it was too late.

Veraxus,
@Veraxus@kbin.social avatar

Yeah, fair, but I didn’t like the first season, either. Cavill was perfect, Joey Batey as Dandelion was… fine… and that is where the positives stopped. The show was a mess from the start and you can’t just erase those seasons if they did happen to do a little better on 3… and knowing that Cavill is out for season 4… there is just no point. I’d rather replay Witcher 3 again than ever watch another minute of that show.

CraigeryTheKid,

oof, you just reminded me - Dandelion in season 3 was… not as good as Season 1/2. Even down to the detail that every time he came on screen, my wife demanded to know what they did with his hair. That, and the strangely unnecessary sex scenes with another male.

ok ok, season 3 wasnt perfect either. but I was “surprised” that the big events at Aretuza and the major events afterward all followed the book rather closely…

anewbeginning, do gaming w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

It’s a bold strategy, Cotton!

Hyperreality, (edited ) do gaming w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot
Challenger, do gaming w The Witcher producer blames Americans and social media for Netflix series' simplified plot

When asked what he believed to be significant for younger people, Baginski replied: “Just emotions. Just pure emotions. A bare emotional mix. Those people grew up on TikTok and YouTube, they jump from video to video.”

So basically It’s Gen Z that he couldn’t create an interesting plot from the source material

Wisely, do gaming w Assassin's Creed Mirage will take 25-30 hours to complete – and that's if you're a completionist

I seem to have a differing opinion here but I love long games if it is actually full of good content.

I don't play games with micro transactions and find a lot of open world games to be full of time wasters. If that's all it is then sure cut that out.

But with games costing $70 I would feel like I wasted my money for only a 10+ hour experience like some comments are wanting. That can be done in a single day. Assassin Creed games really aren't meant to be replayed either.

Games with lots of replayabilty are such good value and keep me entertained for hundreds or even thousands of hours. Games like Civilization, Persona 5, Zelda, Elder Scrolls, GTA, Metal Gear, old school Final Fantasy, Roller Coaster Tycoon, Xcom, Command and Conquer, Colonization, etc.

Maybe it's more a sign of modern games being full of stuff that isn't fun? Boring extremely limited NPC's, lots of wandering with nothing to do but collect some useless thing. In that case I agree with all the other comments but instead of wishing for a shorter game I would wish for a better game that is fun to play for long periods of time.

Zahille7,

I paid full price for Jedi Survivor, and minus a couple (somewhat big) bugs, I feel like I got my money’s worth after I finished the story. I think it took me around 60-ish hours to get to 99%

3rd,

I'm currently on my second playthrough of the original Fallen Order and while I got the game for free I'd say it's worth full 60$. It's a great intriduction to the souls-like games for someone new to the genre

iforgotmyinstance, do gaming w Assassin's Creed Mirage will take 25-30 hours to complete – and that's if you're a completionist

Does anyone still follow this franchise? It’s pumped so many half-assed sequels into the market that the brand has to be suffering.

harmonea,
@harmonea@kbin.social avatar

The brand suffers because people care about it. If no one cared, the brand would just wither and die, forgotten, like so many others have. This seems obvious enough that I really have to wonder, did you ask this question because you're actually surprised, or because you want to portray some weird image of being above all this?

awwsom, do gaming w Dark Souls reportedly being turned into Netflix anime
@awwsom@beehaw.org avatar

oh fuck

Tetra, do gaming w E3 2024 and 2025 cancelled according to Los Angeles tourism department
@Tetra@kbin.social avatar

I thought E3 died a couple years ago already?

MidsizedSedan, do games w Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed again to March 20

I feel more sorry for the Assasins Creed fans. Started by being a stealth parkour game, and its now just trying to be The Witcher

mbinn, do games w Assassin's Creed Shadows delayed again to March 20
@mbinn@fedia.io avatar

They are welcome to delay it again and again :)

badbytes, do games w Black Myth: Wukong producer on The Game Awards top prize snub: "I came all the way here for nothing!"

Aren’t the game awards, just a panel of a handful of members. If so, not sure the award means much.

UnbrokenTaco,

The Game Awards are chosen by an international jury of over 100 global media and influencer outlets

From the FAQ

badbytes,

Thx, aren’t many of those outlets owned by same conglomerate?

ampersandrew, (edited )
@ampersandrew@lemmy.world avatar

They run the gamut from the long-standing outlets like IGN to the Patreon-funded stuff like MinnMax.

UnbrokenTaco,

No, I don’t think so. Maybe a couple but it’s a pretty wide net. Which ones did you think were?

NuXCOM_90Percent,

There are definitely some large chunks. But there have been no signs of any of those outlets caring enough to try to vote as a bloc.

There are definitely a lot of flaws in how the jury is selected and many (most?) of the judges past and present have pointed that out. Stuff like how they are fundamentally not qualified to judge fighting games as fighting games or the mess that is the “simulation and strategy” category or whatever they call “PC games” where people are somehow comparing MS Flight Sim to Farm Simulator to Satisfactory.

But for stuff like the major awards? It is a pretty diverse crowd and there is no indication that any group cares enough to rig the vote beyond group discords where people pester other games media folk because they want to play Helldivers again and their usual crew are busy.


I’ll also add on that, for its many many flaws, the keighleys is pretty good about being aware of this kind of thing based on a few outlets that talked about how they were judges in the past and then suddenly never mentioned it again after an acquisition or the loss of a core editor.

Semjaza,

I’ll also add on that, for its many many flaws, the keighleys is pretty good about being aware of this kind of thing based on a few outlets that talked about how they were judges in the past and then suddenly never mentioned it again after an acquisition or the loss of a core editor.

Is that /s?
Because that last sentence really gives me pause for thought…

prole, do games w Elder Scrolls Online developer votes to unionise

Hell yeah!

Midnitte, do gaming w FromSoftware is making more Elden Ring after all, with the co-op Elden Ring: Night Reign

Well, they said they were done making DLC/content for Elden Ring 1 — they didn’t say anything about a new game that you need to purchase.

Mandy, do games w Employees at FromSoftware owner Kadokawa reportedly "thrilled" about possible Sony takeover

I would imagine, shitheads at a huge company excited they can hoard even more money?
Sounds about right.
Is also like how nobody ever mentions anything but from software.

Like this isn’t a gigantic conglomerate basically owning the Japanese anime industry.

slug, do games w UK counter-terrorism unit demands Steam withdraw controversial shooter from sale

I’ve been thinking of this game in the context of recent discussion about Steam’s laissez-faire content moderation

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