Wind's Howling Through This Netflix The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep Clip

Honestly, the animated originals that Netflix puts out aren´t even that bad. A shame that the majority of people still prefer the live action drivel they constantly inflict upon us

Does anyone actually prefer "Henry Cavill" Geralt to the in-game one? I always struggle to see the point of live action adaptions. It´s the same with the upcoming Yakuza live action. Why? is the question resounding in my mind
I guess we´ll find out when it launches

I really really hope they do this story proud and don't ruin it with some fanfic sh*te like the live action series. Looking forward to seeing Essi Daven.

I still don't see any else purpose to screw game stories with live actions except writers lack of self ideas.

I genuinely think moving away from geralt will be such a bad decision for this franchise. Sure other characters are cool but I think it will end up so generic. Guess time will tell.

@Shepherd_Tallon I completely dropped live action Witcher after the second season, because the ending to that was so damn goofy and they character assassinated Yennefer by making her try to kill/sacrifice Ciri.
Not to mention the show runners/ writers displaying disdain towards the source material, instead of reverence. It just disgusts me a lot.

No idea why they keep hiring people to make shows about things they don´t like (see Amazons Rings Of Power as another prime example)

All these adaptions are playing it too fast and loose for my tastes. Anyone doing an adaption to target an audience outside of the already established fan base is an idiot in my book. People will flock to something great, not because it caters to them, but because it is fundamentally interesting

Really looking forward to it. I liked Nightmare of the Wolf and overall I feel like Netflix is doing better Anime than Live-Action. So let's see

I agree with the general consensus above, any and all tv-based Witcher stuff should have gotten the Castlevania treatment and been solely anime from the get-go. More often than not, live action adaptations just come across tacky and gimmicky.

@Yagami I've been hoping for years that Yakuza would get an anime adaptation since I feel it's best suited to juggle the action, the heartfelt drama and the silliness the games are known for. The reason I'm mostly excited for game adaptations (also live action) is that many games have great stories that I know my wife f.e. would enjoy, but I just can't expect everyone being willing to put the 60+ hours into it. Or an RPG where after a slow 20h start you're like "believe me, it'll get good from here on". Requirement is however that you do a good job and respect the source material which many just don't.
Witcher had an okay first season but just crapped all over the books starting season 2, just finished season 3 but there's not much to salvage. It also has a very cheap Xena era look about it which just doesn't cut it these days. Cavill was still one of the better aspects of the show.

@tameshiyaku I liked Cavill well enough. He seemed to want to do the role as well, it´s just everything around him that kind of dragged it down into nothingness.
Still, I personally don´t see a benefit between casting and filming Henry Cavill or just having 3d animators make some feature-length cutscenes with ingame graphics and have the game voice actors play their roles. I would vastly prefer the latter, and to be honest I don´t even know why they don´t do this more often, or at all. It can´t be that it would be more expensive than hiring some overpaid actors (nothing against Cavill, just generally speaking..)

If Yakuza ever gets an anime, I´ll only watch it if it´s in japanese dub and all the voice actors from the games make their return. I just can´t enjoy these games in English. For me, half of what makes Yakuza Yakuza is Takaya Kuroda's beautiful voice
Not sure that I wouldn´t rather have a feature length movie with the in engine cutscenes as base instead. Can you imagine? I think that would turn out well

@Yagami I'd absolutely love traditional animation or CG movie/series adaptations but most western adults still consider animation to be inferior juvenile media.
That's why Hollywood mostly produces junk like minions and at best Pixar movies that have a bit more to offer than just tranquilizing kids for 90 minutes, but are still very on the nose in comparison to brilliant Ghibli or Momoru Hosoda movies that assume kids are smarter than what Hollywood expects.

As for Yakuza, of course it should be in Japanese, though I'm not such a purist to disregard English dubs completely. If someone enjoys it with dubs so be it as long as they have a good time.
After shows like Tokyo vice and Shogun I'm cautiously optimistic about the Amazon show.

Looks promising so far! Netflix have generally been on point with their animated series (Castlevania being a prime example) so I'm cautiously optimistic.