Games that would make crappy movies
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Actually I think the Red Alert series could make for an interesting movie, provided they discounted the third one because like the 2009 Star Trek movie, it buttfucks everything that came before it with a shaft the size of the CN Tower.Grivahri said:
As for games that would make shitty movies, pretty much any Japanese game, because we all know Hollywood can't grasp any culture that's not American.
Holy crap, you picked the one series that would make a *good* movie. I'm surprised there is so much agreement on this point. Have you all never seen Philanthropy? It was a good fan movie, and a real sanctioned movie would actually be awesome.Girl With One Eye said:
Basically, any game series that requires significant player input, would probably not make a good movie unless you departed from its canon really, really hard. If a game has choice, you're going to have to lock the main character into one path, and that sort of defeats the purpose. This is why Mass Effect fails the test. But 90% of genres would simply suck: RTS, WRPG, most third-person-adventure like Fallout 3, sandbox games...so on.
The easiest games to turn into movies are going to be the games that are *already* movies. Xenosaga, for one. Metal Gear Solid, for two. Sure, you'd have to turn Metal Gear into a good 4-5 movies just to show the entire plot, but each game could absolutely be a movie, with an optional extra Big Boss prequel covering Portable Ops and Peace Walker. Now, the obvious mistake would be trying to make 1, 2, and maybe 4 fit in the same movie, but that's just stupid. Movie 1 is all about Snake going to Shadow Moses and discovering Liquid Snake's whole shindig. You would have to include a little more about what Ocelot had to do with any of this. Movie 2 is about Snake showing up at Big Shell, more again about Ocelot's plot put in, as well as maybe a bit of what the point of Dead Cell was. Movie 3 is a prequel about Big Boss and might actually come either after 4 or before 2, and also includes some of the backstory you only find through CODEC, like how Ocelot is the Boss and Sorrow's son and all that, and where the Cobra Unit came from. Movie 4 wraps everything up, and everyone dies, just like in the games, except Snake and Otacon and the handful of characters still alive at the end. Hell, you could actually leave out MGS2 and still have something reasonable, so long as you played up the "Snake is an aging clone" thing a bit early, maybe at the end of MGS1.
Basically, Metal Gear suffers from Lord of the Rings problems, in that it has a lot of important details in footnotes/optional CODEC conversations, but if you glean the important bits from those and fit it into the main plot, you could almost make a movie just out of the cutscenes.
JRPGs would also make decent movies, for the same reason. There's already a Persona 4 anime that is pretty much "every major scene in the game, except nicely wrapped into a movie package."
Hm.
Now that they made a totally random movie out of Battleships, I guess we're already well beyond the wonderful crap of Uwe Boll.
So... the one thing that would surprise me somewhat would be a movie about Monopoly. Or hungry hungry hippos.
If it's got to be a video game, I guess my mind would be blown by a movie based on Shellshock 2 or Rogue Warrior, both Rebbellion Developments titles that are absolutely, abysmally horrible beyond description. Also, they should be made on the Philippines, with a budget of five dollars.
Now that they made a totally random movie out of Battleships, I guess we're already well beyond the wonderful crap of Uwe Boll.
So... the one thing that would surprise me somewhat would be a movie about Monopoly. Or hungry hungry hippos.
If it's got to be a video game, I guess my mind would be blown by a movie based on Shellshock 2 or Rogue Warrior, both Rebbellion Developments titles that are absolutely, abysmally horrible beyond description. Also, they should be made on the Philippines, with a budget of five dollars.
It'd be interesting to see a Marvel VS Capcom movie. Maybe if it was animated like the Street Fighter II movie...Broady Brio said:
Legacy of Kain. There is just too much there, no one would be able to condense it all into one film and no studio would allow a director to try and do it true justice. It would just be too great a risk to do so with a film adaptation of a game series that has not been relevant for the last 9 years. And if it was green lit, I can just see it being a watered down piece of garbage with bad pacing, ok CGI and flat acting due to the reasons I mentioned before.
Dear god what if Uwe Boll got a hold of it O.O The horror, the horror....
Dear god what if Uwe Boll got a hold of it O.O The horror, the horror....
What, can't you imagine the MC of Dark Souls pulling some Matrix-style acrobatics, high kicking Ornstein into Smough, then whipping out a hitherto unnoticed assault rifle and gunning them down, then pouring gasoline on them and chucking Great Chaos Fireball at them while walking away and putting on sunglasses, unimpressed by the explosion behind him?cojo965 said:
Tch, some people...
Not quite what I mean. I'm talking more along the lines of the Clash of the Titans remake. There were so many fight scenes so close together that using the toilet at any point caused me to miss out on most of a fight scene. Also I am dead sure there would be shaky cam during them in an attempt to make the fight edgy and force people to watch the dvd because they got motion sickness in the theater.King of Asgaard said:
Shadow of the Colossus.
...is what I thought at first. But in the hands of a masterful director, that movie could actually be one of the best things ever. They would need to cut it down from 16 colossi (that's how many there are, right?) to three or so (Land, Sea, and Air, perhaps?), and focus more on Wander's backstory and his relationship with his deceased girlfriend, but done right it could not just be a great video-game adaptation, but a brilliant film, period.
Here's hoping. One way or another, it's being developed even as we speak.
...is what I thought at first. But in the hands of a masterful director, that movie could actually be one of the best things ever. They would need to cut it down from 16 colossi (that's how many there are, right?) to three or so (Land, Sea, and Air, perhaps?), and focus more on Wander's backstory and his relationship with his deceased girlfriend, but done right it could not just be a great video-game adaptation, but a brilliant film, period.
Here's hoping. One way or another, it's being developed even as we speak.
Easy solution to this.eimatshya said:
"The commander saved the citadel from Saren and the Geth... Wish i could meet him. blah blah blah."
Refer to only the title/name. Commander shepard you're my hero.
Or if anything when the main character is knocked the fuck out have each voice actor say something. The same thing at the same time.
So that he's imagining both shepards at the same time.
The main character in Drive said almost nothing and that movie was awesome.bafrali said:
OT: Lost Planet, that made an awful game. At least I wouldn't have to play it.
I think most games if done correctly could work, it's just no one knows how to do it.
A Mass Effect movie would not work very well at all. And yes, I know they are making one. I was trying to stay optimistic about it, but that failed when they said that Seth Green would not be playing Joker because he "doesn't look enough like him".
Also, a Metroid: Other M movie.
Also, a Metroid: Other M movie.
Let me make this clear: ALL OF THEM.
Games are GAMES, and should STAY GAMES. They are created to be games, and they are best as games.
Games are GAMES, and should STAY GAMES. They are created to be games, and they are best as games.
The other day I was day-dreaming about Borderlands: The Movie. That wouldn't work at all. Never before have I seen so much happen in a game's plot without anything going on. Love it to pieces though.