I don’t care what Halo Purists say (I been playing Halo since the beginning too) I love that Halo Studios/343 added sprint. Made the library level and backtracking wayyy better in Campaign Evolved. 3rd-person POV isn’t too shabby too, especially coming off of Saros. #PS5Pro
Alex Garland wanted the Elden Ring movie so badly he wrote a 160-page script, plus 40 pages of visuals, entirely on spec. Then he flew to Japan to pitch Hidetaka Miyazaki in person. No studio sent him. He had no rights. He just showed up with 200 pages.
Video game adaptations usually start with a studio optioning the IP and handing it to a director who never played the game. Fans can smell it in the first trailer. This one started with the director spending months writing for free, then begging for permission.
A24 broke its own model to back him. Their previous budget records were Marty Supreme at $90M and The Smashing Machine at around $70M. Elden Ring came in well over $100 million, the most expensive film in the studio's history, shot across 100 days in the UK and Iceland on native IMAX cameras. Real Welsh castles stood in for the Lands Between.
The source material can carry the bet. The game has shipped over 30 million copies, built on a mythology George R.R. Martin wrote for FromSoftware. Kit Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Ben Whishaw, Nick Offerman, and Jonathan Pryce lead the cast.
Every adaptation director claims to love the source material. Garland wrote 200 pages and bought his own plane ticket before anyone gave him the rights.
I just hope somehow, someway there’s a way for other online stores (Fanatical, GreenManGaming, etc.) to be in the console space to compete for better sales for consumers. Also have better regulations/refund policies for PSN, Nintendo eShop, etc.
Sony CFO Lin Tao says they will not change their plans to end physical disc production and will cautiously move forward with the plan!
"There are various reasons we made this decision, the biggest being that the digitalization of content overall has been progressing, that’s the big factor. It’s not just for PlayStation, but for all kinds of content, digitalization is progressing.
And so when we think about the future–and we put in a lot of thought and time, and we cautiously considered this–and we came to this conclusion, and we’re going to cautiously move this forward. And to this decision, we have received various opinions and people have strong views, and we understand that the community has put forth those views to us.
Games are loved by many people. It’s a form of entertainment that’s loved by people, and it’s connected to people’s fond memories in many cases. And so we understand those emotions. We want to consider that. And in the future digital ecosystem, how do we engage the gamers is something that we would like to continue to explore."
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Having sprint is pretty cool, makes the game go faster. Also love seeing weapons that weren’t available in CE originally be available like SMG and Jackal Beamer rifles.
But Halo 1/CE Pistol eats like always. #HaloCampaignEvolved#PS5Pro
Some cheeky dialogue to welcome old and new players into this remake with these new cutscenes in the beginning. Pretty cool. #HaloCampaignEvolved#PS5Pro