Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer and ‘Fallout’ TV series showrunner Jonah Nolan weigh in on Hollywood’s new approach to adapting video game IP.
It was good because the people making it were competent. That’s really the long and short of it.
The Fallout series released in the same year as the 2nd season of that awful Halo series, and Phil Spencer is basically saying they’d do it all over again if asked.
They don’t have a magic formula, they got lucky with their choice of showrunner is all.
I would also have to acknowledge that Halo, Doom, Borderlands… Are focused on being a fun videogame, not a great story. Fallout, The Last Of Us… Already give you a pretty good story to adapt. Very cinematic, if you will.
Obviously it’s not everything and you still need a good team.
See also: Castlevania