r/masseffect • u/jazz4717 • Jun 22 '25

NEWS Tv Series

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I guess they are going with the game script

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u/akaMichAnthony Jun 22 '25

Not sure if it will work or not, but I guess I’ll take it instead of what was done with the Halo tv show.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '25 edited Jun 23 '25

I can’t see it working tbh. Making choices and forging your own version of the story was key to what made the games so good. Any attempt to adapt it for tv will have to make a canon decision for every single choice made in the games, which is gonna make so many people mad. There’s literally no way to do it in a way that isn’t going to infuriate the majority of the people who played the games.

People seem to forget that mass effect has a ton of fleshed-out lore and a creative group of writers could definitely come up with a good original story that maybe ties into the events of the games somewhat, sort of like what we got with fallout. Sure it’ll be harder, but it’s more likely to make everyone happy, and it’ll be something new, which is better.

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u/East-Property-3576 Jun 23 '25

The TV show isn’t going to “change” the games themselves or “make things canon”. An adaptation could never retroactively change the original work like that. Why? Because they’re separate entities from each other. The TV show doing something different from the games isn’t going to “erase” or “undo the player experience” or whatever nonsense hysteria people are buying into.

I don’t think they should use the story of the games and instead just make something adjacent set in the universe like the Fallout show did. But everyone who’s played the games is always going to have those memories of doing so. The show isn’t going to take that away whatsoever.