Movies you can't make good games out of.

[Deadonstick]

I watch a lot of movies and play a lot of games and just 2 minutes ago I started thinking, there have been games for a lot movies take for example: Avatar, Batman, Spiderman, the Matrix etc. And I wonder, is there any game that is simply impossible to make a decent game out of. This could be to technical limitations. Or games never being able to grasp the feel of the movies. Or simply that you can't add any form of gameplay element to it. Personally I was thinking of the Saw movies, in which you try to escape from death traps, sure it might be scary the first time, but as soon as you fail and die you realize there is no real issue in dying. You might even want to kill your character in as many possible ways within the same death trap. Which is kind of beside the point. However this thought in my mind that this could never be turned into a game was swiftly overcome by another thought: What if you were the torturer? You could design your own traps or other contraptions or just mess with the minds of the victims. I mean, bloody games like Manhunt sell like cold drinks in a desert. So that COULD be turned into a game. But what can't? I'll leave this riddle up to you.

 

[Radeonx]

Pretty much all of them.
I've never played a movie game that I liked.

 

[Alakaizer]

One small problem with the question: there are way too many movies that can't be made into good games. Better question would simply be: What are some good movies you can't make games out of? And the first thing that I could think of was Kama Sutra. For some pretty obvious reasons.

EDIT: I think there's already a game where you design torture systems for NPCs. I think it's the Sims.

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

The main problem is that films are a linear sequence of events that tell a over arching story. Games are interactive. They don't together well.

 

[Meggiepants]

My Dinner With Andre.

The Bioware game featuring the never ending dialog tree. And food.

 

[Cherry Cola]

Fight Club.

Because every game would miss the freakin' point.

Actually, the one game they made about the movie completely missed the point. There is my evidence!

 

[Cherry Cola]

"Press B to look at Donald Sutherland for a while"

I'd buy that game

 

[Meggiepants]

My Dinner With Andre.

The Bioware game featuring the never ending dialog tree. And food.

Argh, ye be a damn ninja!

OP: MASH.

It would be the most apathetic war game ever.

"Press X to not give a shit"

"Press B to look at Donald Sutherland for a while"

A ninja? Me? That's a first.

Well, if I stole your original response then the forum owes me a favor because the MASH one is pretty darned good.

 

[Chiefmon]

My Sister's Keeper
Good Luck with that

 

[CoverYourHead]

Twelve Angry Men.

Basically a short version of an Ace Attorney game, but not as awesome, and no shouting of "Objection!"

Would be terrible.

 

[Pseudonym2]

Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

The movie is entirely shown from the perspective of someone who is completely immobile except for one eye.

 

[Eliam_Dar]

Twelve Angry Men.

Basically a short version of an Ace Attorney game, but not as awesome, and no shouting of "Objection!"

Would be terrible.

hey, that movie is great, specially the older version. However I agree with you, it wouldn't make a great game

 

[Yureina]

Pretty much anything, to be honest. Movies are too limiting and constricting because they are confined to the space of ~2 hours or so. They take that same idea of contraint to games and end up creating something that's, at best, a replay of the movie's most memorable scenes, with perhaps a few more extra things added, like deleted scene actions or stuff going on in-between the scenes that they could not fit into the movie.

Movies being turned into games just does not work. I've never seen it work.

 

[CoverYourHead]

Twelve Angry Men.

Basically a short version of an Ace Attorney game, but not as awesome, and no shouting of "Objection!"

Would be terrible.

hey, that movie is great, specially the older version. However I agree with you, it wouldn't make a great game

Well of course, it's a fantastic movie. Kids should write term papers about it in school.

I'm slightly peeved that we have yet to start using movies to teach culture in schools. I can accept video games for now as they have yet to be widely accepted as an art form, but movies are ridiculous to not be teaching!

 

[the protaginist]

To Kill A Mockingbird. I hate that as soon as I typed that I started thinking of ways to make it a game.

Oh, Citizen Kane. "Press X to drop a snowglobe."

 

[unoleian]

I bet Titanic would make a pretty horrible game.

Lots of boring rich person schmoozy dialog stuff and some light PG romancing, then a brief timed escape level.

Then you lose anyway.

Boo.

 

[Kagim]

Pretty much anything, to be honest. Movies are too limiting and constricting because they are confined to the space of ~2 hours or so. They take that same idea of contraint to games and end up creating something that's, at best, a replay of the movie's most memorable scenes, with perhaps a few more extra things added, like deleted scene actions or stuff going on in-between the scenes that they could not fit into the movie.

Movies being turned into games just does not work. I've never seen it work.

The Warriors?

It's a pretty good game if you enjoy that style of play.

 

[Hollywood Knights]

The Remains of The Day springs to mind.

The only way I can think of it being made into a game (and not a good one) is sort of like Hitman only with laying tables and polishing cutlery as opposed to killing, occasionally punctuated with some cinematics of awkward pleasantries being exchanged between characters.