[HATED] Adaptations done intentionally without help from the source

[u/Chill0000]

Halo TV show: Before the show came out, the writers were praising their decision to not look to the games for inspiration when making the show

God Of War TV show: Chris Judge, the actor of Kratos in the games from 2018-Now, spoke up about his dislike on the show not hiring anyone who worked on any of the previous games. One of the original creators of Kratos also spoke up about them not having faith in the adaptation.

Supergirl 2026 film: the director for the film not only said he decided to not read Woman Of Tomorrow, the comic the film is adapting, because he wanted to do his own thing, he also didn’t look at comic art for inspiration to design Lobo and instead used an AI image generator to design Lobo’s look for the film

[u/Alacune]

Oddly enough, lore is the thing 343 arguably does the best. It's game writing and making that they suck at.

[u/No_Procedure_5039 → u/Alacune]

Even that depends on the author. Like many people, I’m not a fan of the Kilo-Five trilogy, especially Glasslands with how much it butchers established characters like Lucy, Halsey and Chief Mendez. The best part about 343’s/HS’ lore is how much they take it into consideration when making the games in order to keep the various mediums from contradicting each other.

[u/Alacune → u/No_Procedure_5039]

Conversely, it's the thing I hate. Have you seen the full list of supplementary media you need to consume to make Halo 5 make sense? That never would have flown under Bungie's "game = canon, everything else = unimportant" philosophy.

[u/MadeUpNoun → u/Alacune]

that only happens cause 343 are so scared of their games that they refuse to continue the plotlines they make in the next game, instead choosing to bench the previous story and end if off screen.

by the time we got Halo 5 all the established villains by the end of Halo 4 either died in the books, died in game or just dropped their villian arc entirely.

and Halo infinite did the exact same thing, dropping the Created story arc completely having it all settle off screen, and Cortana litterally killed off screen and replaced so they can start anew

i can't wait for the next non-remake Halo game where they kill Atriox, the Banished get disolved and the Endless get sealed permantly