The top 6 best TV shows based on games

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Hollywood has oftentimes tried to capture the magic of video games on film, and the most fun audiences have ever gotten out of it was seeing it fail stupendously pretty much every time. Still, you cannot say the same about game-to-tv-show adaptations, as those have already provided us with actual top-tier entertainment. Let’s take a look at the best of the bunch.

Okay, It’s very important to establish that Netflix’s The Witcher is an adaptation of Andrzej Sapkowski’s books, and not of the games — Just kidding. It’s pretty obvious that Henry Cavill is emulating video game Geralt because this series only exists due to the success of the games. Yes, I know damn well that the only people watching this are the millions of Witcher 3 fans out there.

It’s also important to mention that the entire show (so far) is very uneven, hence landing at number six in this ranking. Still, the show does many things right — the fight choreography is awesome, and so is the costume and set design. Production-wise, this feels closer to the original Lord Of The Rings trilogy than to The Hobbit trilogy. Sadly that’s not a given these days when they usually just use CGI for everything. It’s great to see a video game adaptation putting so much work in.

Also, it’s clear that the heart is there. Cavill is awesome, the same goes for Ciri, Yennefer, and Jaskier, obviously. The only real problem here is the story’s awkward progression, but you can always come back to the first season to enjoy some fun and uncompromising episodic monster-of-the-week action.

Oh, and that song about throwing money at Witchers is an instant classic.

Please don’t get angry for seeing The Last Of Us merely at number five in a ranking about the best things of a specific kind