Netflix adaptation of horizon zero dawn dead
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Too bad, I was really looking forward to seeing Aloy played by that negress from the Blackolyte, and hearing the director tell us that straight white people shouldn’t watch it. Oh well.
Why the hell do good IPs (or at least formerly good ones) keep getting shitty adaptations, but worthless ones that wokies already get their girldicks hard over are always skipped? This is one redhead I would have gladly let the blacks have! Then again, it's understandable in this case. I don't think anyone at Netflix has the talent to convincingly animate a freaking Watcher machine, let alone something big and iconic like the Thunderjaw which is what everyone would tune in to see.
Nobody is getting hard over Horizon. Literally both times they pretended to it was entirely in response to people on our side criticizing it, and them being contrarian on that. They didn't actually go and play it.
Its only played by fans of generic open world games and people who want to fight giant mech animals, which isn't a low number when the games go on sale for under 30$ quickly.
I will defend the first one. The first one had a greart story, and the combat was great.
The second one featured terrible writing/story, and meh combat.
I saw past the obvious wokeness of the first one because as you said, the story was good (at least until the big reveal) and yeah the combat was legit. I couldn't get past the first 2 hours of second one - good thing I got it on sale for like 10 bucks.
The first one's story wasn't great. It was decent, but what people liked was the BACKSTORY. The tale of Ted Faro fucking over the entire human race not once but twice due to his retarded stupidity cemented him as one of the worst human beings to ever exist. And the first time he didn't just fuck over the entire human race, but made Earth's whole biosphere extinct because he didn't think his perpetual motion killing machines needed a killswitch in case something went wrong.
But Aloy's story is just okay. She plays the "smartest caveman" cliche to a T, but really the reason characters are so impressed with her is because she tells everyone she's from the Nora tribe - which is the tribe with the gimmick of being the stupid Amish while all the other tribes are advancing through civilization. So Aloy, who actually grew up segregated from the Nora and has been completely reliant upon advanced technology to tell her how to survive and fight, knows a bit of how to fight and track things makes people easily impressed by her.
And since Aloy does the Strong Independent Woman thing, there aren't any secondary characters who are memorable. Can't have a boyfriend, can't have a family (albeit there's a plot reason why), can't have a deep emotional connection with anyone else. This isn't the worst thing, since most of the game is just you enjoying the lush environment and fighting robot animals and dinosaurs, but it makes it difficult if you're going to make a show. Not to mention how expensive it would be between depicting a post-apocalyptic Earth and all the robots to fight.
If it doesn't have a solid built-in fanbase to piss off, they don't bother. They can't create, only parasiticlly corrupt.
I think it’s simpler than that. Horizon is already pozzed, so there’s no reason to adapt it. The entire motivation for adaptation is to destroy or subvert IPs that are not already gay.
Couldn't find a chick ugly enough and Danny Mcbride was too busy for them to use his likeness again
they love wokifying good IPs, but the moment an actual woke IP crosses their desk they can it.
Because why bother? The whole point is to subvert and destroy. Horizon is already gay.
Evil cannot create, only corrupt.
Naming conventions for games have suffered along with every other convention for like 15 years now
Still slightly better than the "I reincarnated as the weakest monster but little does everyone know I got all the OP skills of the game" sentence vomit that Japanese isekai titles have.
Lol okay I won't say that's good but there is a certain charm to it. When I was a little high school cretin post-hardcore was a thing and I fondly remember bands with songs named like, "I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard"
Contextually, the Zero Dawn part of the title makes sense and is explained in the story. Honestly, it's what the series should have been called, rather than being the subtitle of the first game. Horizon, however, is just one of those stock words that gets thrown into the titles of fantastical stories to make them sound epic and mystical, but are really just trite and pretentious. Others tend to include shadows, darkness, destiny, empire, fire, throne, fate, eternal, eternity, chronicles, dragon, blood, and likely others.
I'm glad that it makes sense in-game and isn't random. Very nice list lol.
Despite me believing it would have been horrible, and probably should not even have it exist anyway ... It's Netflix, it would have sucked anyway.
And to think, they already made Aloy gay and uglier in the sequel. Guess they should have just raceswapped for the hat trick.
Shame.
I was looking forward to not watching this.
Netflix somehow couldn't make a girlboss movie with a female protagonist and a multi-ethnic matriarchy, and the apocalypse was caused by an insecure white man? They couldn't figure out how to make their own bread and butter