Games that would make Good Movies

[SteakHeart]

Mirror's Edge. The game is short, so there would be no problem about shortening the plot. Also, it has just the right mix of action and storyline, so that would keep you entertained. If you could make sure that Faith is played by someone who is actually Eurasian, and that Uwe Boll doesn't direct it, it seems quite feasible!

 

[quiet_samurai]

KOTOR, I think the Old Republic Time period needs to be expanded on. Lets give Anakin and all his mates and offspring a rest.

 

[SimuLord]

The first two Fallout games would make better movies than Fallout 3 would. There was something more inherently cinematic (in the screenplay-craft department, at least) about the arc of those games' plots.

Football Manager: The Movie, in which a Sunday league player takes over a Blue Square North team and leads them to the Premiership, where on the last day of the season they play Manchester United with the title on the line...and win. Come to think of it, that might make a better Dream Team type running series in which the scrappy band of footballers work their way up through the ranks over the course of a few seasons.

Tropico: Legend of El Presidente.

I Wanna Be The Guy would make an above-average cartoon film if the game's difficulty were played up with Tex Avery-style cartoon mayhem. I'm thinking every life wasted in the game could be an expendable character (sort of a "they killed Kenny" running gag.)

RPGs would, in general, make lousy games because fetch quests don't translate well to the screen (Fallout aside, and that would be less about the games and more about, say, the character's adventures in the wasteland with the GECK as a convenient MacGuffin. I'm sure Reno wouldn't mind the influx of money if they were to shoot the Fallout 2-inspired scenes in town...this place looks enough like a nuclear bomb hit it, at least...or maybe that's just the super mutants and ghouls homeless people and meth heads.)

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Well, StarCraft, in my humble opinion, has the best cinematics of any game, and who doesn't love a good movie about dumbass redneck humans going to war against evil aliens and getting their guts splattered everywhere? It would probably have to be mostly CGI rendered, but I think that can be done now, and Blizzard just has so much God damn money.

The formula for a StarCraft movie is just made of win:

StarCraft = Alien + Firefly + 300

Plus, it has three of the most awesome characters of all time - Raynor, Kerrigan and Tassadar. How can you not love them?

Just leave blizzard to animate it, they seem to have the hang of it by now!
And yes, idiot redneck spacemen getting horribly blown up by aliens is a lot of fun to watch.

 

[Lightspeedzero]

I'd say the Xenosaga games might as well go ahead and cut out all that annoying gameplay and make themselves a full length movie. Then they could fan it back out to it's original six part plot and make a whole bunch of movies.

 

[Bilbo536]

The Searchbar. I'm sorry, but someone had to say it.

Fallout would make an awesome movie, and so would Assassin's Creed.

Also, I will kill the first person who says Nintendo should make a Zelda movie.

Don't be a searchbar Nazi. And Nintendo should make a Zelda movie.


Edit: and also Tales of Symphonia.

 

[A Weary Exile]

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Besides my obvious choice I'd say Assassin's Creed, those live-action promos for ACII were awesome.

I'm hoping that BioShock will be a good movie when it comes out...

Left 4 Dead would make a killer movie. Especially if they do it like they did with the opening cutscene.

Woah woah woah woah woah.....woah.....woah, (says very fastly>) Their making a Bioshock movie

That's weird, this didn't show up as a quote in my inbox.

It's in production but it might be brought down by budgetary constraints, Ken Levine is writing the screenplay though so it should be true to the game.

 

[Cpu46]

Pong

I would so pay to see that. Along with Minesweeper and Pacman (cookie for the reference)

College humor?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

 

[Teifi]

Metal Gear Solid 1.
Although all the MGS games are just interactive movies anyway...

 

[aebonhawk]

world in conflict. Alternate cold war history is never a bad idea. Also the cut scenes are already quite cinematic and the voice acting is superb. The other one that would make a good movie is sins of a solar empire. The back story is pretty much only touched on in the opening cut scene and game manual but the story is quite interesting and it would be great to see it expanded. Also its the best space rts out there but I digress.

 

[NBSRDan]

Bioshock could be a great movie, if it's presentation is not as shoddy as that of the game.
Mass Effect is compelling but ruined by the amount of filler, but getting it down to theater-friendly length would mean trimming the fat. I would pay to see a Mass Effect movie.
Other games that simply have awesome stories and would thus be great as movies too:
God of War
Golden Sun / Golden Sun: The Lost Age
StarCraft

 

[Razavn]

hmmm,
Assassins Creed
Brutal Legend
Half-Life
Dead Space
Pong
Resistance
Bioshock
The Saboteur
Uncharted
Heavy Rain

theres so many that if done right would make truly awesome movies, but thats the problem, people dont know how to do them right so sadly, some really great movies wont be made
but regardless, about half of the games i listed actually are going to be made into films

Resistance would be bloody awesome. The first one's story was great and it would be a great horror/action/romance(Parker was hot)/Conspiracy theroy all set in the 50's with futuristic weaponary....I see that.

The second one however...no, the story was much worse.

 

[_zuul]

here is a concept.

1)take what was good about a game: themes, atmosphere, tone, general plot, etc
2)do make a movie from that, instead of making "VIDEO GAME: the movie"
3)avoid all manner of rabid fanboys, studio execs, watering down
4)...
5)PROFIT-- you just made a better film of your beloved game than someone trying to do it on purpose!

 

[ethaninja]

Duke Nukem.

 

[Razavn]

Duke Nukem.

No! God no! Duke Nukem would be a terrible movie it was a bloody terrible game.

 

[SkullCap]

I would say Killer 7. Its an assassination game featuring Harmon Smith, a wheelchair bound old man with the power to take on 7 different personalities including a blind guy, a luchadore, black man, a woman, a young man, a theif, and a psychopath. All with the last name, Smith. Harmon Smith's 7 personality become the top league of assassins known as Killer 7.

 

[Razavn]

I would say Killer 7. Its an assassination game featuring Harmon Smith, a wheelchair bound old man with the power to take on 7 different personalities including a blind guy, a luchadore, black man, a woman, a young man, a theif, and a psychopath. All with the last name, Smith. Harmon Smith's 7 personality become the top league of assassins known as Killer 7.

That could actually be kind of interesting...never played it though but interesting nonetheless.

 

[ethaninja]

Duke Nukem.

No! God no! Duke Nukem would be a terrible movie it was a bloody terrible game.

>=|

 

[jak1165]

You people didn't like Mortal Kombat? Its basically a generic kung fu movie with characters named after people in the game

And Tomb Raider was at least good enough to warrant a sequel

 

[DJude]

Resistance would be bloody awesome. The first one's story was great and it would be a great horror/action/romance(Parker was hot)/Conspiracy theroy all set in the 50's with futuristic weaponary....I see that.

The second one however...no, the story was much worse.

yeah, i know
but after much, much thought, i came to the conclusion that if done absolutely perfect, it would be an ok movie, so after even more thought i decided to put it
but yeah, it would have to be more than perfect to be a good movie