Games that would make great movies/Movies that would make great games.

[Vern5]

Spoiler: Reign of fire

The movie wasn't exactly great, but this sort of story would be perfect for a game. You play Christian Bale in a post-apocalyptic Britain who has to protect the survivors in order to rebuild civilization, and it culminates in having to slay a massive dragon.

So it's Skyrim's dragons + Fallout's environment + Rebuild's goals (the flash game)...

I need to kidnap a development team and get them to make this.

OT: Psychonauts: The Series. It doesn't even have to be about Raz. All it needs is the Psychonauts organization and wacky adventures and the show could practically go on forever while still being fun to watch.

 

[Garyn Dakari]

An Arkham City-like game set in the Nolanverse would be pretty awesome, I think(Though it will never, ever happen). I just think it'd be fun to be roaming around as Batman fighting the more realistic-style Nolan villains. And maybe a lot of other villains would have to be Nolanized(Riddler or Hugo Strange anyone?). Anyway, if done properly that'd make a pretty awesome game, but there's practically no chance of it ever happening.

And, not technically a movie, but Doctor Who. I'm not even that big of a fan of the series, but imagine an RPG where you play as a companion character(That you create with character creation) rather than the Doctor himself. It'd be a hard game to make, especially given the fact that you couldn't just have mass killing for the central gameplay, but in the right hands it could be fantastic.

As for the other way around though, a movie set in the Mass Effect universe could be quite great. Not following Shepard though, it should have an original plot either centering around entirely new characters or side characters from the game. Or better yet, an in-universe Blasto movie, just like the ones they ran ads for in the games. I rarely see movies in theaters, but if someone made a Blasto movie, I would *totally* see that.

 

[Mikeyfell]

I was always under the impression that Assassin's Creed would make a great serial TV show.

And...
And I'm only going to say this once, so listen close.

Telltale's Breaking Bad The Game...
Oh yeah... I went there.

 

[immortalfrieza]

Metal Gear Solid is almost a movie as it is, so it would probably translate well into the big screen. Pretty much the same with Xenosaga.

 

[Greg White]

Games to Movies:

Mass Effect: there is a great deal of lore that only gets mentioned in the games that would make for great entertainment. Take the First Contact War for example.

Bioshock: More fitting as an HBO series than a movie because of its length, but same concept.

Dragon Age: Dear god at all the unexplored lore out there. They could do a movie just on the First Blight and still have plenty of lore to tap into.

Saint's Row: Either 2 for a semi-serious parody of gangster movies or 3 for full-retard, over-the-top zaniness, radioactive Sant's Flow and all.

Double Dragon: Yeah, I know there was one, but come on, that thing was awful. Something closer to Warriors would have been more fitting.

Movies to Games:

Honestly, I've yet to see a decent movie-based game that didn't come out until years after the movie it was based on did(see Goldeneye), so I can't say I would wish this fate on any movie besides Twilight.

 

[Jake Storey]

Bunraku would make an awesome game. A co-op focused beat em up where you play as a cowboy and a samurai, fighting their way through legions of quirky gangsters in a crazy, colourful world made of origami. This movie is perfect for a video game and if you haven't seen it, check it out, it's a lot of fun.

 

[Jake Storey]

As for games to movies, I'd like to think outside the box. Everyone suggests things like AC, Uncharted, Mass Effect and Bioshock, stuff that is already a fully fleshed out story and narrative. It doesn't need a movie, the story is already told. Better ideas would be concepts that are interesting but fairly light on plot and so as to give the development team some creative freedom. Older Castlevania titles like 1-4 are perfect for a film. The setting, cast, major set pieces and concept are all there, it practically writes itself. All you need to do is create a sufficiently interesting personality for Simon or Trevor or whomever you decide to use, get that gothic aesthetic and signature hamminess down and then slap on a script with a lot of one liners and speeches about the morality of mankind and you've got a Castlevania movie.

 

[Souplex]

None.
The conversion never works in either direction.
...Maybe Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective...

 

[Jake Storey]

None.
The conversion never works in either direction.

Spider Man 2 and most Star Wars/Lord of the Rings Games.

 

[Souplex]

None.
The conversion never works in either direction.

Spider Man 2 and most Star Wars/Lord of the Rings Games.

Spider Man 2 was not very good outside of the swinging, which wasn't worth the price of admission.
Most Star Wars games and Lord of the Rings games aren't terribly good either, there are a few that stand out as good by licence game standards, but that's still not good.

 

[Jake Storey]

Katamari Damacy, done in the style of Cloverfield.

Why am I wasting this idea on you people, get me on a plane to Hollywood, ASAP.

This made me laugh much, much harder than it has any right to.

 

[Jake Storey]

None.
The conversion never works in either direction.

Spider Man 2 and most Star Wars/Lord of the Rings Games.

Spider Man 2 was not very good outside of the swinging, which wasn't worth the price of admission.
Most Star Wars games and Lord of the Rings games aren't terribly good either, there are a few that stand out as good by licence game standards, but that's still not good.

Spider Man 2 is a fun game all around in my opinion, but I suppose that's just an opinion. There are some genuinely great Star Wars games though. KOTOR, the Battlefront games, Dark Forces, The Lego Star Wars games. The Battle For Middle Earth Games kicked ass and War in The North was a solid Action RPG. Direct tie-ins to films almost always suck but games based off an established film franchise can often be a lot of fun.

 

[Gatx]

I'd love to see a Force Unleashed movie. The gameplay wasn't good because it seemed like they were trying to make a combo focused action game like God of War, but went half way with that because it didn't mesh with the physics based Force power side of the game, but the basic premise of the story was interesting (being a sort of "darker and edgier" version of Luke's hero's journey) and the I thought the actors did a pretty good job with their characters.

Spoiler: Reign of fire

The movie wasn't exactly great, but this sort of story would be perfect for a game. You play Christian Bale in a post-apocalyptic Britain who has to protect the survivors in order to rebuild civilization, and it culminates in having to slay a massive dragon.

I think in the actual game its more or less mission based, but you could play as humans and dragons. They also had various stages of the dragon life cycle, or maybe it was just different breeds of dragons (I remember seeing like these flightless dinosaur things in the screenshots before). The human gameplay is also entirely vehicle based.

 

[Kinitawowi]

Grim Fandango: The Movie. This MUST happen. It's already a 30's detective story, just blow it up to cinema size with the aesthetic intact.

I think there's still one more decent game to be made out of The Running Man, too; the old ZX Spectrum game and Smash TV aren't quite there.

 

[Auron]

An Arkham City-like game set in the Nolanverse would be pretty awesome, I think(Though it will never, ever happen)

No, not that terrible version of Batman where Batman isn't Batman or a detective and the only interesting things are the gadgets.

 

[Berithil]

I myself am still holding out for a Fallout movie.

No! I don't care about how it couldn't work because you "create your own character" and the "moral choice system".

IT MUST BE DONE!!!

......

AND IT MUST BE DONE AWESOMELY!!!

 

[Godhead]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. It's a great world and the idea that a guy and maybe a couple of other folks are trying to get into/deeper into the zone would be really awesome. Not to mention that plot progression can happen off screen just as easily in a movie like it does in the game.