Far Cry 4 creative director Alex Hutchinson has spoken out after comments from Fargo and Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley drew ire from video game fans online. <\/p>\n
Hawley, who is currently preparing to launch a new Far Cry TV series, sparked controversy when discussing why his series would not adapt any of Ubisoft’s popular open world games. <\/p>\n
“I’m not specifically adapting any of the games that they’ve put out,” Hawley told Deadline. “I’m saying much as I did with the Coens or X-Men or Alien, ‘Let me have a dialog with this franchise, because this is what I think a Far Cry story is.’<\/p>\n
“We can have a larger conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of adapting video games specifically because games are built in a way that doesn’t make for the best drama,” he continued. “When you play a video game, you only really move forward through the gameplay section, and then you have these cutscenes that you can skip, so when you go to adapt those games you have to be aware that makes the human drama kind of irrelevant to the storyline. That is death for a show.”<\/p>\n
This last comment has not gone down well online, particularly among fans of the franchise you’d think Hawley would be keen to court as his next TV audience. Hutchinson, too, was one of those expressing annoyance at Hawley’s words. “This is kinda pissing me off,” he wrote on LinkedIn. “And I like Noah Hawley’s work.”<\/p>\n
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