Why do TV shows and movies screw up video games or people playing video games? Is it just writers who don't know shit about games or what?
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TV Shows / movies fucking shit up
Josiah Edwards
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Sebastian Flores
Yes.
Thomas Rivera
It just seems too improbable to have a writing staff where there isn't a gamer objecting to shitty representations.
Jeremiah Rogers
It's the same reason they fuck up hacking. They have to make it look more active and actiony so it's more exciting.
Jonathan Wright
But it alienates the people that are actually knowledgeable in the fields they're portraying. It just doesn't make sense to me.
Samuel Thomas
Four handed hacking
Jackson Martinez
Maybe the people that are indeed actually knowledge about it aren't the intended audience to begin with (IE: appeal to normalfags that don't know better)? Granted, that's not an excuse for not doing the research as to how to handle video games as that's easy enough. Best case scenario, it gets portrayed wrong on purpose for humor, such as Malcolm in the Middle did (Hal's "Nobody beats Sub-Zero" quip, as well as Dewey "playing" a Game Boy that isn't even on and then vocally complaining about how the family can't afford to spare him any batteries). The sort of things where it fits both characterization and/or the scenario and can't exactly be called not doing the research on the writer's end.
Aiden Turner
According to these games, they don't.
Medal of Honor was the brainchild of Steven Spielberg (Never made a game prior to), and Dragon's Lair was the brainchild of Don Bluth (Never made a game prior to, and on a shoestring budget). Clearly the problem isn't the mere presence of people from different fields of media.
Xavier Smith
Same reason why games are shit nowadays:
They try to appeal to normalfags, not to their core fanbase
Jayden Ortiz
I think you misunderstood what I meant, I was talking about the portrayal of video games/gamers on TV or in movies.