Far Cry TV Showrunner: "Gamers skip cutscenes so that makes the human drama irrelevant to the storyline"

[u/Skelligean]

[u/MammothAsk391]

Sounds like the TV show is gonna be a Far Cry from the games.

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[u/Present-Passenger772 → u/Boomerang503]

he said it's gonna a far cry

[u/Glados1080 → u/Present-Passenger772]

from the games.

[u/Proper-Evening9754 → u/Glados1080]

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[u/Disastrous-Zebra-211 → u/MammothAsk391]

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I hate how good this joke was...

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[u/Chase_The_Ace_50]

Bro chose the “gamers skip cutscenes” argument for one of the few games where you can’t skip the cutscenes 😂

[u/CosmicJackalop → u/Chase_The_Ace_50]

Not only do several of the games if not all not allow you to skip cut scenes, it's one of the worst game IPs to make this argument. Far Cry always put a lot of effort into the story and characters through cut scenes

I barely liked Alien Earth and can only imagine how bad this will be, I'm frankly amazed he's been trusted with another IP

[u/FlyingStealthPotato → u/CosmicJackalop]

For real. Far Cry actually has pretty good stories and always has excellent scenes. Shit, Far Cry 3 has I’d say a top 5-10 scene in the history of gaming. It’s a sandbox and it doesn’t take itself that awful seriously, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have a good story.

[u/Jaxonhunter227 → u/FlyingStealthPotato]

And it's a story that could have benefited from being adapted as a TV show, mainly because we never get to see Jason's face in the cutscenes, that alone would have added a lot, but it's also just a story that would work really well as a TV show

[u/ThingYea → u/Jaxonhunter227]

They did make a short YouTube series with Vaas that was awesome

[u/NeverDiddled → u/Chase_The_Ace_50]

I didn't you were prevented from skipping cutscenes, because I never tried.

Far Cry 3 is a fan favorite specifically because of the story arc. Starts with college roomies on a vacation in paradise. Turns into a horror flick when some get abducted and others murdered. Enter one of the best villains of all time. The protagonist is just a frat bro at first, and only takes a pirate life as a final act of desperation. He is absolutely sickened by what he was forced to do. Then over time, through training from the local tribe and more acts of desperation, he becomes really good at killing. He starts to enjoy stalking his human prey. Which tees up the redemption arc and final choice. Do you stay on the island having fulling succumbed to the darkness in you that enjoys hunting humans, or do you leave with the people you rescued and begin putting it all behind you?

The story arc was nearly perfect. I can understand fleshing out some of the main characters and adding more of them. But the overall arc would make for an excellent season of TV. Especially if you end it at the crossroads choice, and leave it up to the viewer to decide if Jason leaves or stays.

[u/stikves → u/Chase_The_Ace_50]

Yep

WTAF? Pardon the language, but a main point of Far Cry is they "force" you to live the uncomfortable stuff. No skipping, no turning your head away...

I really "love" when showrunners did not even take a cursory look at the original media. Look at how "successful" was Halo TV show for example, or Star Trek X: Nemesis.

[u/Clayman60]

Why do people make adaptations of things they don’t care for?

[u/hereforpewdiephy → u/Clayman60]

So that they can milk the ip

[u/Turbulent_Set8884 → u/hereforpewdiephy]

And turn it into something they want they know won't get attention unless it had the name of something already established

[u/Sempere → u/Turbulent_Set8884]

Noah Hawley can get whatever he want made and marketed at FX.

Fargo. Legion. Alien: Earth.

[u/CappnMidgetSlappr → u/Sempere]

Alien: Earth is exactly why dude should not have free reign.

That show was hot garbage.

[u/DLottchula → u/hereforpewdiephy]

There are piggy backing off the IP to tell a story they want. Good thing FarCry isn't far off of cheap Hollywood action films

[u/Mathfanforpresident → u/DLottchula]

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[u/ismellmyownfarts2 → u/hereforpewdiephy]

Its also an ego trip. Writers and showrunners like to change the lore of established IP so they can say they created something that became popular as if they were the ones who created the entire thing in the first place. They arent "adapting for modern audiences" they're just hacks with inflated egos who happened to know somebody who knows somebody up high enough to at the studio to land them a job.

Anytime you see an interview with a showrunner saying "we wanted to adopt the franchise for modern audiences" or "we wanted to put our own spin and tell our own stories.." you're really just witnessing codewords for "we are untalented nepobabies who couldn't worldbuild from scratch to save our lives and the studios love making money with an already established IP, so here we are."

(Speaking about Star Trek and Kurtzman's goons here as just one example) It's kinda odd that someone who has only directed a commercial or idiotic short film nobody likes is given the reigns to a 60 year old sci-fi franchise that's generated billions of dollars over the years, dontcha think?

You could go onto fanfiction.net, put a blindfold on and still manage to pick out a better story than 99.999% of what these hollyweird goblins manage to come up with. George Carlin was right...it's a big club and we ain't in it.

[u/crustyrobots → u/hereforpewdiephy]

Imagine milking the IP by keeping the cow well fed with actually good stories and care for the property

[u/lukkasz323 → u/Clayman60]

money

the better question is why they are given permission to do so in the first place

[u/SmolishPPman → u/lukkasz323]

Same reason. Money

[u/SeahorseSix → u/SmolishPPman]

But it should be understood by the IP holder that a director that puts their identity of directing above the identity of the IP is a bad bet to make. Look at the Halo TV show for an example.

Then look at The Last of Us, specifically season 1. It had the creative director of the game directly involved, and the narrative was fantastic. Made loads, and put actors on the mainstream map like Bella Ramsey. Look at Fallout for the same setup.

The only Ubisoft people attached to this project are executives that are acting as producers. They are not learning from what has been successful in the video game adaptation space. Best of luck to them.

[u/93Apples-in-a-Box → u/SmolishPPman]

And this is how people like Uwe Boll manage to get the rights to make slop based on games, including this adaption of the first game back in 2008...

[u/Few-Improvement-5655 → u/SmolishPPman]

And in both cases it's REALLY short sighted money. Look at how Sonic, after listening to fans, and have a creative team that is passionate about the series, has been well regarded and made tons of money. They could have franchises like that, instead they want to push out a bunch of poorly received products that might maybe make their money back when if they did a good job they could milk it for way way longer.

[u/fenderguitar83 → u/Clayman60]

It’s becoming a terrible trend in video game adaptions. No respect for the source material. They just the IP as a vehicle for their own shitty story.

[u/DisRup → u/fenderguitar83]

This has been a "trend" for a loooong time...

[u/Lancair7 → u/fenderguitar83]

“Becoming”

It’s always been this way. Remember the live action Super Mario Bros movie or the Donkey Kong cartoon?

[u/SaltyMeatSlacks → u/Lancair7]

Hey now, the Super Mario movie is a certified masterpiece.

[u/ReivynNox → u/SaltyMeatSlacks]

It's a cult classic, but they're still right, they just wrote a completely unrelated movie and gave it a Super Mario paintjob.

[u/fenderguitar83 → u/Lancair7]

Yeah. I agree. Has it been that long since that movie. Holy hell.

[u/Whitezombie65 → u/fenderguitar83]

Fallout has done a great job of having a unique storyline while still capturing the feel a d world of the games

[u/Orion_824 → u/Whitezombie65]

That’s because it’s produced by Toss Howard and directed by Johnathan Nolan. It has the literal (current) god of Fallout as an executive producer

[u/tobitobiguacamole → u/Clayman60]

They don’t want to make a Far Cry show. They want to make their own show, but companies want established IP’s. So they sign on to make this or Halo or whatever, then just disregard the source material because they didn’t want to do that story anyways.

[u/ReivynNox → u/tobitobiguacamole]

Ironically in a way that is the most Far Cry thing about it all, because that's basically what the series was built on after Crytek left.

They didn't want to do a Far Cry game, they just wanted the Far Cry audience.

[u/KillTheDictator → u/Clayman60]

Because the OG game's writing & directing was done by others, and these people what to write and direct their own shit so they get credit for writing/directing instead of the OG writers.

[u/Tiernoch → u/Clayman60]

Generally it falls into two camps.

They couldn't get anyone to bankroll what they wanted to make, so they sign on to a project the studio doesn't care about and just make what they wanted in the first place.

The studio or director just had a script lying around that they slapped Far Cry on so they can spend as little money as possible.

[u/yeaman1111 → u/Clayman60]

Option 1: Wallow in despair as their shitty original script languishes in oblivion as the studio execes demand pre-built fanbases. Come to terms with your lack of talent and dedicate yourself to adapting something that is already good, in a faithful matter.

Opinion 2: Find (any) moderately succesful IP, rip out its intestines, stuff it with your shitty original script with the names filed off, and use it as a skin suit with which to dance in front of the exec and mesmerize them.

These hacks know which option they're taking.

[u/Emperor-Pizza → u/Clayman60]

I remember an interview from some author discussing this in regards to adaptations. I don't remember who it was, might have been Brandon Sanderson but don't quote me on that though.

It basically went that a lot of these writers simply can't get any studios behind them for the stories they want to tell based on their own ideas. So they audition for adaptations with built in fan base which is seen as a safer bet by Hollywood & then they repackage them into the story they want to tell instead.

[u/THEGHOSTHACXER]

The story is skippable? Then why watch a TV show out of it? Why not just play the game?

Doesn't every video game into movie adaptation basically always fail BECAUSE They dont get the story right? Braindead take for sure.

[u/ClammHands420 → u/THEGHOSTHACXER]

"Something something insanity, something doing the same thing" idk, I didnt watch the cutscenes

[u/Chimpanzerschreck → u/ClammHands420]

Do you know the definition of definition?

[u/Generally_Kenobi-1 → u/Chimpanzerschreck]

Do you know the insanity of defining something?

[u/LeastReactionary → u/THEGHOSTHACXER]

The story is skippable! Let's raid this nuclear base in a war game! For no reason. 

Here we are in a forest as a knight in an rpg, how did we get here? Who knows. 

Look farming simulator! Okay no wait we dont need a story for this one. 

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[u/VoiceofKane → u/THEGHOSTHACXER]

No, they fail because they're bad. The best episode of The Last of Us was an original story that only tangentially related to the game. Cregger's Resident Evil movie has very little to do with the game series. The Fallout series uses the world of the games to tell an entirely new story. Diverting from the games is one of the best choices an adaptation can make, if it's done well.

[u/Burnah4STeeeD]

Is this guy fucking stupid?

[u/Skelligean → u/Burnah4STeeeD]

Don't sugar coat it. He is a fucking moron

[u/PermaBanned4Misclick → u/Skelligean]

who is this guy and how do we make sure he stays far away from anything of value

[u/ANUSTART942 → u/PermaBanned4Misclick]

He's the critically and fan acclaimed show runner behind Legion and Alien Earth. It's a dumb comment, but he rarely misses when it comes to TV.

[u/therealultraddtd → u/ANUSTART942]

Don’t forget Fargo.

[u/moochacho1418 → u/therealultraddtd]

Like literally his most well known show, and arguably best. Noah Hawley has never missed imo

[u/katril63 → u/ANUSTART942]

Alien Earth was absolute trash

[u/SaltySeahorses → u/Burnah4STeeeD]

Yes

[u/VoidSister → u/Burnah4STeeeD]

He’s very talented and has made some top tier tv, but this is a very stupid comment from him

[u/WillSym → u/VoidSister]

Oh, the translation of this is easy: "I have a screenplay I want to get made and got offered this license I don't care about so I'm going to make my show and put the title and a coating of whatever IP this is over the top."

See also the Halo TV show (different guy, and compared to the Fallout show that's clearly a labour of love to capture the game)

[u/JBeez13B]

Why do we let people who've never played a video game before make video movies and tv shows? It absolutely baffles me.

[u/Necroban77 → u/JBeez13B]

Because “we” don’t get a say.

[u/Jarodreallytuff]

Nice of the showrunner/director to inform me not to watch his shitty adaptation

[u/eBrown0104 → u/Jarodreallytuff]

I didn’t even know that there was a Far Cry show being made until right now, and now I also know that I don’t even have to bother watching it

[u/angelikeoctomber → u/Jarodreallytuff]

Bingo

[u/ProfessionalRough741]

Exactly the type of dumbfuck to struggle during the Cuphead tutorial

[u/WorldMean]

There goes another of my favorite IPs, hijacked by people who don’t understand it or like it

[u/GuiltyGlow → u/WorldMean]

It's honestly hilarious how predictable it is at this point. Until Hollywood stops looking down on gaming as an entertainment medium, this won't change.

[u/edman9677 → u/GuiltyGlow]

It’s funny because the recent successes in gaming movie/tv adaptations is because they respected the source material. Fallout might be its own story but it exists in the same world as the games. Still respecting what came before. Halo failed spectacularly because it looked down on what the games had for a story. The Witcher failed because it didn’t respect either the games or the books. Even the Sonic movies respect what the games created which is why they’re so successful.

Why do they keep getting directors that still think of game storytelling like it haven’t evolved past 1980

[u/JinkoTheMan → u/WorldMean]

Try being a Supergirl fan. The Supergirl movie that came out this year was based on one of Supergirl’s best comic runs and the writer and director butchered it. The writer was someone who had zero experience writing full length movies. 🫩

[u/CornDoggyStyle → u/JinkoTheMan]

That is insane. I had to look it up myself because I didn’t believe it, but she literally only has one writing credit for a short film from 2018. They wanted it to fail, huh?

[u/l3tsgo0 → u/WorldMean]

Far Cry is a perfect example of a game IP translating well into other media like TV, all the games have no relation to each other apart from some characters, perfect for an anthology or an adaptation that can stand on its own like the Fallout TV series

[u/TheItzal11]

Here's the thing, I never skip cutscenes on the first playthrough... on the 3rd or 4th after I know all the story beats maybe. Who skips cutscenes from the beginning? What's the point of that?

[u/FooFencer]

[u/GoncaloEsteves]

What? Ahahahah I presume he ain't a gamer. Sure, there are games that allow you to skip cutscenes and people that skip them constantly, but I would say for sure that most gamers don't skip them, unless they've played them already (or the game story is boring and bland)

[u/Big-Discipline2039 → u/GoncaloEsteves]

Yeah.

I’m not sure why he thinks the ability to skip a cut scene makes it irrelevant.

[u/Live-Position-3459]

So he’s just making whatever he wants and throwing “Far Cry” on it as the title to get extra funding.

[u/TheRealSchackAttack → u/Live-Position-3459]

Another director forsaking source material because, "I just really didn't get into it."

Then find something you like and tell a story you want to tell.

[u/bongophrog]

Reminds me of the lead Bethesda writer behind Fallout 4 and Starfield who said don’t bother writing compelling stories because gamers don’t care about that shit, meanwhile gamers have regularly complain about how bland and uninteresting the writing in these games are.

[u/prossnip42]

What...in the fuck did i just read? Are you serious? The narrative/characters of these games have been like the only consistently great things about them, and i say that as a huge Far Cry Fan. The story in these games is so fucking good that it literally propelled Michael Mando into mainstream stardom and he himself knows this and has acknowledged it multiple times. Even Far Cry 6 which is WIDELY hated even by the fanbase (i personally thought it was okay) has a great story and fantastic voice acting. You couldn't have picked a worse mindset for the director of a Far Cry show if you tried

[u/ilikepentatonics]

I like the generalization here about video games. I'm sure we all skipped every cutscene in story driven games like The Last of Us. Zero human drama there.

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[u/kratoskiller66]

The showrunner is a dumbass

[u/ImmediateHoney2191]

Nearly every videogame movie has been made by old ass people who have zero respect or understanding for them

[u/Silver_Wolf_Dragon]

Good thing we can just skip the TV series and just watch the movie instead

[u/ButtsFartsoPhD]

Noah Hawley is responsible for some of the best TV shows of all time— Fargo, Legion, etc. This is an exceptionally bad take. I’m sure the show will be good given his track record but way to immediately kill any good will you could have had from video game fans in general.

[u/SpaceBandit13]

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[u/AnxiousPacifist]

Why would anyone put a person who shits on source material in charge of filming it!?!

[u/MrBorden]

Cutscenes are indeed skippable.

Just like this show will be.

[u/DustyF3d0r4]

They literally could’ve just said, “All the Far Cry games have different settings and stories, so we’re doing the same”

[u/ProcessTrust856]

People who skip cutscenes are incomprehensible to me. If I’m skipping cut scenes, it’s because I don’t like the game and I usually stop playing it.

The first NBA2k with the cutscenes in Career Mode was the exception. That shit was so bad.

[u/Green_Odin → u/ProcessTrust856]

I feel like gaming would have a better rep in art spaces if it became the norm for cutscenes to only be skippable once the game has been cleared for the first time.

Otherwise ppl like my younger brother and his mates all just skip every cutscene in every game they play then whine unendingly about how they dont know what to do next or understand whats going on, which is also why we end up with games like wolverine having mandatory stink trails or every console game character voicing what to do next every 30 seconds.

[u/zterrans → u/Green_Odin]

"Why am I fighting this guy? What is that thing I'm carrying? Why doesn't the game explain anything? You mean I have to read the words on screen or listen to the dialogue? This game has a shitty story." Sadly you get that with movies, sometimes too.

[u/Bishop_Cornflake → u/ProcessTrust856]

This. If I wanted to NOT take in major sections of a game, I'd just not play it at all.

[u/PlantQuick]

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[u/TheSeattleSeven]

So patronizing. Imagine if a movie writer did the same thing for a book he was adapting and said something along the lines of "no one cares about story building and exposition. All the readers want to see is fight and romance scenes"

[u/Gangleri_Graybeard]

Time and time again... These assholes disregard gamers and the stories of the games they want to make a TV show of.

[u/CipherWeaver]

"When you eat food you don't really taste it, it just goes right into your digestive system, so it's pretty much the same as the bowels."

[u/Arkenway]

Someone please tell this guy why Vaas is in the cover of Far Cry 3 instead of the final villain.... And also why every other mainline Far Cry since then has the main villain front and center

[u/F1reatwill88]

The attitude is dumb af, but a Far Cry movie being it's own story is fine. The games are only connected by their gameplay.

[u/TommyDontSurf]

Who the hell skips cutscenes? They're one of the best parts of any game.

[u/GamerFanGamer]

Why the fuck do studios get people that HATE video games to make movies about them

[u/SmolishPPman]

What a fucking moron

[u/Specific_Farmer_4582]

Why is it ALWAYS the people who fucking hate the source material who are allowed to do these shows

[u/664mezcal619]

I have some psychopath mouth breather friends that do this, they just skip the cut scenes so they can play, I asked one of them why they do that and he said if I want to watch a movie I’ll watch a movie, I want to play then game.

[u/longtall94]

[u/No-Lobster-8012]

If gamers skipped cutscenes then why does anyone care about the Last of Us, which is literally one of the most popular games in the world???? 

[u/notBackgroundtree]

This guy read that one Reddit post about the guy who always skips cutscenes because he doesn't have time for story and assumes that's everybody

[u/deeznunchuckas]

Did I tell you the definition of insanity? it's doing the exact same thing and expecting a different outcome

[u/Drog_Dealure420]

So what he's saying is that I should skip the TV show and just continue playing the games instead?

[u/throwtheclownaway20]

Literally every Far Cry game has a completely different setting, story, & characters with zero interconnection, so him doing an original story shouldn't be an issue with anyone. He's not wrong in saying a lot of people skip cutscenes, because it happens so much that nearly every AAA game released in the last 5 years gives you the option to by default. Lastly, he made Fargo, Alien: Earth, and Legion, so I'm not sure why anyone's talking about this guy like he's some idiot hack.

[u/howisyesterday → u/throwtheclownaway20]

I mostly agree with you, but this is a bad quote. If “the human drama is irrelevant to the fans” then don’t make an adaptation of that product.

Maybe the statement makes more sense in the full interview though. These journalists love to drop sensational headlines and quote people out of context.

[u/Schwiliinker → u/throwtheclownaway20]

For a long time I thought they were skippable only for weird cases where someone has already seen the story or wants to sort of watch the story on a second screen as they play or something or like speedrunning purposes maybe.

Took me years to find out people simply skip the cutscenes on purpose for no reason. Genuinely insane behavior imo

[u/HeartInTheSun9 → u/throwtheclownaway20]

Yeah I promise that Noah Hawley is better at storytelling than anyone commenting online. Absolutely 0 of us are better than him at this.

Give him the pieces of a franchise and let him do whatever he wants with it. It’s like if Grant Morrison or Alan Moore said they want to take a stab at any franchise. You don’t question it, you just say yes.

[u/TheRagingElf01 → u/throwtheclownaway20]

They learned a lesson from Fallout.Trying tk make 1 to 1 remake is a death wish because fans will always find something to bitch about. You look at the Mass Effect show just picking the gender of Shep will make people pissed off let alone what do you do with Wrex, what decision you make for Virmire or who you romance. Fans will complain.

You are better off making your own story away from the games but set in the world.

[u/APlayerHater → u/TheRagingElf01]

Learned their lesson with fallout? Fallout was a successful and highly popular show. Look at something like Halo, where they went in their own direction, and see how much success abandoning the source material gets you.

[u/abject_cynic → u/TheRagingElf01]

Fallout works because it respects the source material. Halo didn't work because it didn't respect the source material. It's the same reason the FOX-Men movies are garbage, while the MCU flourished. "Telling their own story" and ignoring the game is how these types of projects fail every single time.

[u/Opposite-Grade3712]

Why adapt it then? 

[u/Confident_Moose_2556]

I did skip a few cutscenes…. On my third playthrough

[u/fnex101]

Anyone else have the irrational hatred of when you’re listening to a comic book podcast and they start talking about video games? Or a video game podcast and they start talking about movies? This is like that for me.

[u/takkun169]

Are you all really this fucking stupid?

[u/Bitter_Mountain]

Why does like everyone in Hollywood not respect games as an artistic medium

[u/BoogieSmools]

… Far Cry might be one of the worst examples to use of “People don’t actually care about the story in any of those games”.

[u/DerBernd123]

aaaand there’s the next shitty show based on a game. it’s like a curse

[u/FenixWahey]

Guess I'll be skipping this TV show altogether then, right Noah?

[u/The_Ironhand]

This should be a red flag for the studio execs. Like this guy isn't even trying to understand the medium hes dipping his toes into, why would they invest millions in this?

[u/Prophet_NY]

"as he thinks"

So we have someone directing TV show game adaptation that has never played any games??

[u/Embarrassed_Fact_111]

So by your own admission this Far Cry show is a waste of time and money. Since gamers won't watch it because they don't care about story.

[u/DJteejay04]

Sounds like someone skipped all the cutscenes and doesn’t know the story he’s adapting

[u/Nanocon101]

Oh great, another showrunner adapting a medium he doesn't understand.

[u/Marlowe126]

Fire this man!

But seriously, what a late 90's-early 2000's way of thinking about something like this. This just sounds like an excuse to ignore any and all source material and do his own thing. It's like he didn't pay attention to what happened to the Resident Evil movies or the Halo show, and ignored the successes of Fallout, Edgerunners, Castlevania, TLOS(season 1 anyway), etc. These days, people will ask fans of a franchise whether these things are worth investing time into watching, since everyone has more and more choices of content with less time to watch them all.

[u/Playing_One_Handed]

TV shows also have a skip button. Ill be skipping this for sure

[u/No-Lobster-8012]

Who the fuck is this moron?? And more importantly, who put him in charge of a video game adaptation?? 

[u/ThisIsATracka]

So, that guy doesn't play video games then. Gotcha.

[u/L3v1tje]

If no one cares about cutscenes/stories in games, then why are they still around? Surely yhe devs would save a boatload of cash by not making those. Its almost as if a grand part of players actually care about this stuff.

[u/deepbluefrogmods]

I can't remember a game where I skipped cutscenes on the first run of the game. Or the first 5. The only time I would skip a cutscene is when I have been replaying a game so many time, and a cutscene is so annoying, that I couldn't stomach watching it again. Like the intro ride to Helgen in Skyrim, except it is not skippable :)

[u/Available-Drummer757]

How tf do these people get greenlit and then say stupid shit like this and still continue to make it.

[u/madpoke]

then how is it a FarCry series?

[u/VOIDofSin]

Wow, this might go down as the worst video game adaptation of all time.

[u/DFQreactions]

oh cool, so i can safely skip his entire show then since theres no gameplay? What fucking stupid logic.

[u/dirtymurt]

Just do an adaption of far cry 3 and cast the same VAS actor. Instant hit

[u/b0sanac → u/dirtymurt]

Literally all they have to do. But I bet they will fuck it up.

[u/NoExplanation6203]

Bro has no misses as a show runner so I trust him. But how is it an adaption if it’s not based on any far cry games?

[u/TheFizzledamnsizzle]

Why they keep selecting these people? Just why?

[u/dbe14]

Or, and bear with me here, sometimes people play games and enjoy the story as well as the gameplay. Call me crazy.

[u/brokendream78]

Thanks for the heads up, this will be an easy show to skip.

[u/ThisIsKing18]

Just casual gamer like this tv showrunner will skip the cutscene, real gamer never do that

[u/3d1thF1nch]

They never, ever learn.

[u/spartacus7173]

Oh another director totally ignoring the source material, this always goes so well.

[u/Solid_Ad_3776]

It doesn't need to adapt any story but 1. Stfu And 2. What MAKES Far cry...Far Cry? What will make THIS a Far Cry show that will make players of the games WANT to watch it

[u/RoseBeach123]

Yet another showrunner who views a beloved IP with nothing less than utter disdain and condescension. No doubt thinking that HIS adaptation will be above this sort of drivel and he’ll show people how superior his vision is.

[u/Lebhleb]

Did i ever tell you the definition of insanity?

[u/Taineq]

The skipping happens on the subsequent play-throughs not the first run.

[u/AdFlat1014]

People skips story part… so I am making a full new story but they will totally look at mine!!!

[u/arkens89]

Do they always pick the biggest dumbass in the room? Or do they just flip a coin or smth

[u/BotherResponsible378]

What an idiot. I've never skipped a cutscene in my life unless I've already seen it at least once.

[u/King-Andy]

Guys a fucking idiot

[u/WesternKey2301]

This show is so doomed. It's gonna have the FarCry name but none of its charm

[u/tokishoki]

This should give enough justification that this will be another Halo TV series where showrunners think their version of the IP is better and the show ends up being trash.

[u/MongolianDonutKhan]

An original story for a Far Cry movie sounds fine, but dogshit opinions like this bodes ill. Not respecting the source material is bad enough though not a dealbreaker, but the disrespecting the medium is another level. As far as I know, Verhoeven likes books despite not being a fan of the novel Starship Troopers.

[u/Promature]

Yet another example of the lowest common denominator influencing the quality and content of products for everyone.

[u/MatejMadar]

Then why are you making a series about it?

[u/The_CMYK_Avenger]

I'm not surprised that a guy who wrote what he writes is saying dumb shit like this.

[u/Musama-The-Slim]

Translation "I haven't played a game since I was a kid and have no knowledge of video games, their audiences or the industry. Also I'm a fuckwit"

[u/Personal-Web729]

That guy is an idiot! The cutscenes in Far Cry were my favorite part of the game

[u/Axxxem]

I'm gonna walk into a movie studio and talk aboug how much i fucking hate videogames and how gamers are all a bunch of unemployed losers, hopefully they'll give me the film rights for RDR2

[u/SmegmaSlurper1996]

hell yeah that works so well with The Witcher & Halo

[u/DetectiveChmpionFace]

Yeah because if theres one thing that makes games fun, its not knowing what or why you're actually playing it. Final fantasy would be so much better without the words or cinematics.

/S

[u/Nairbnotsew]

What a head ass take. Sounds like he skips all the cutscenes and assumes everyone else does as well

[u/Idfk_1]

Guy never met a gamer before

[u/Big-Discipline2039]

So he thinks game stories aren’t important because you can skip cut scenes?

Ok well now he has convinced me to skip his show.

[u/jkhunter2000]

This narrative that people skip cutscenes needs to stop. Just say your catering to brainrot tiktok audiences and be done. Stop trying to formulate this narrative that gamers dont like games

[u/teunteunteun]

This has to be ragebait

[u/declandrury]

Why do they always insist on hiring stupid directors that know nothing about the gaming industry or gamers as a whole?

[u/ElysiumXIII]

Yes the series SPECIFICALLY known for great cutscenes and great villains.

[u/Terrible_Life5040]

What a moron

[u/Lord_Jashin]

Why give this guy Far Cry if he doesn't give a damn about Far Cry? What a fuckin idiot

[u/Molten_Plastic_]

Every. Single. Time. 

The conspiracy theorist in me thinks they say these things to rile up the fans for engagement. 

[u/Lorithias]

I feel like Uwe Bolle lesson wasn’t t enough…

[u/No-Habit-1568]

Didn’t they expressly REWARD you in Far Cry 4 for politely waiting for Pagan Min for 10 whole minutes with a fun ending?

Sure it’s not a cutscene, but clearly a value is out on patience haha

[u/DarwinGoneWild]

Sounds like the show is gonna be skippable too.

[u/xDeathRender]

Bonkers to have a story with fucking Vaas in it and talk about the human drama being irrelevant.

[u/Polkawillneverdie17]

https://giphy.com/gifs/um5zgB7txzYeBPZnPZ

[u/Pristine-Budget9171]

This statement reminds me of the guy who’s was supposed to direct the Splinter Cell movie. In which he called it a first person shooter, and there isn’t much story to enjoy. Like why make the movie if you know nothing about the games.

[u/VladDHell]

That’s got to be rage baiting

[u/Masta0nion]

How do these people land these gigs

[u/ViC_tOr42]

What a dumb take holy shit

[u/RaidriConchobair]

Is this the apprentice of Uwe Boll or something?

[u/Candid-Independence9]

https://giphy.com/gifs/PrDKl5OM60nc7eEaWY

[u/redtiger288]

Who are these people they find to make shows? Does he realize you couldn't even skip in the early titles? Does he understand one of the biggest copy pastas came from a Far Cry 3 cutscene???

[u/ThatVarkYouKnow]

Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity when it comes to adapting certain media?

[u/Holiday-Bat6782]

Remember when they tried to make Sonic look human? Pepperidge Farm remembers

[u/MoonsterGoopter]

Man. Noah Hawley wrote Se1 and Se2 of Fargo, two of my favorite seasons of television. And then he mucked it up with Alien: Earth.

On the one hand, I've already seen the FarCry games stories (because I paid attention to the story when I played them and really enjoyed them...) so it would be cool to see a new story. And I get it, as a writer, you probably want to write your own stuff. I'm not against a writer exploring an IP through their own creative lens.

On the other hand, we'll know why the show fails if it does.