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General Category => Video Games => Topic started by: Red_Raven on November 27, 2005, 01:17:54 pm
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Has anyone noticed that alot of video games from movies suck, thier short, thier graphics suck.
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i don't see why they have to make videogames out of the movie.
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Joefus explains all:
Movies are made into games for one reason and one reason only. Money. Yes that green stuff that you stuff in your wallet everday. This inconspicious piece of paper drives many a man to perform actions that by some could be considered "evil." In fact this for-all-practical-puposes-worthless-paper has so much power that it even makes the world go round.
This has been another episode of Joefus explains.
Now onto the opionions:
Movie based games have up until recently been pretty bad. But a string of games like LotR, Goldeneye, Star Wars Battle Fronts, King Kong, and several others have been turning this norm around.
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FACT
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True there were some exceptions to the rule... but let us not forget the flip side, Movies based on games... so very few good ones out there, so much crap...
Resident Evil: Good Movies
Mortal Kombat (first one only) Good movie
Um... can't think of any more, but I know there are a few.....
Bad:
Double Dragon
Wing Commander
Super Mario Bros.
Anything Uwe Boll puts his name on
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that I think Mario Bros is an awsome movie. I even bought it on DVD ;D
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Tomb Raider = good movie
final fantasy = bad movie
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I think the worst part is that most of these movies COULD have been good, they just weren't. Get the scripts from the lowest bidder, since everyone involved in making it gets their paycheck whether it sucks or not, then they promote it and make some money no matter how badly it does, and usually profit from some merchandise for a few months afterwards. If it were about actually entertaining the fans and not profit, I bet we'd have some awesome movies.
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Also if they'd actually get people who had played or had ANYTHING to do with the games in question.
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I actually wrote a paper about video game movie transitions and why they fail. I might try and find the paper and post it here one day, but here are teh basic reasons video game don't makethe transition very well.
1. Time. Movies are generally 2 hours or less. Games are usually 10 hours or more depending on the game, those Japanese RPGs are like eleventy billion hours. It's hard to compress the story that takes 10+ hours to tell into 2 hours.
2. Interactivity. If you played the game it's a step backwards.You are no longer in control. You could totally make that character run without falling and shoot teh zombie right in the head, the charcter on the screen is rather inept. It's the lack of control taht makes it less interesting.
3. Bad choice of games. Some games are known for their story some games aren't i.e. fighting games like Double Dragon and Street Fighter. Also, if that Metroid movie ever gets made it will be horrible. There's no real dialouge and the movie would consist onlyof jumping and shooting. That is if they choose to follow the games plot whichleads to the next argument.
4. Choice of whether to retell or do something new. If tehy decide to tell the storyof the game they won't be able to condense it or put all the apsects in the game. People aren't full of items...I think. However, if they did try something new it would be bad because they aren't remaining faithful.
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About the Metroid movie thing. They could always do the Prime series, or add in dialect to the first one or something.
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A lot of recent movie-based games have been good. LOOK AT THE WARRIORS GAME. Spider-Man 2, and The Path of Neo were also both good.
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If they do make a Metroid movie, they could always just make it not a remake of a game at all, and have it be a movie set in the Metroid universe.
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Like Final Fantasy was?
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Here's you fellers a question. What games that aren't already movies would you actually like to see turned into one?
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Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem could be a good movie. So could Skykid, mainly because it would essentialy be the most absurd, Red-Barron-centric World War 1 movie ever.
Also, I would like to see The Brothers Grimm turned into a game.
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I've always thought that with Blizzard's great CG talent and storytelling capability, a Warcraft movie would be totally awesome.
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Yeah, I'd totally go for a WC1 or WC2 movie. Maybe even WC1-3!
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I think any of the Medal of Honors would do the trick, seeing as they are sorta movie like as it is!
Or Half Life. B/c Ethan Hawke = Gordan Freeman
Look at the proof!
(http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/10/23/48m.jpg)
(http://www.valvesoftware.com/img/game_hl2.gif)
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The proof..... is broken...
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Prince of Persia: Sands of Time would make such an awesome movie.
The story is good and the game was short enough it could be condensed. Alot of the dialouge was said while you actually played the game rather than in a cutscenes. The effects in the game and the stunts could be easily simulated in real life. THere si actually a movie for it in the works or at least the writes were bought, but who knows if it will ever get made.
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(A)greed with Sino's. I'd like to see a Medal of Honor movie (in CG) and a Half-Life movie (live-action or CG).
How true to the original PoP games was Sands of Time, anyhoo? I never played it or read much aboot it.
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Never played the original, but the first game had a very Arabian nights feel to it. Like teh aladin and Sinbad stories. If you can find the game cheap I would reccomend picking it up although it is extremely short, it's probably a better rental.
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PLZ Medal of Honor movie exists, it's called Saving Private Ryan.
Also Castlevania movie exists, called VanHelsing
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I think I read somewhere that Castlevania was either getting an anime/manga or movie made someday. Also Van Helsing was a rather bad movie.
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I never said it was a GOOD movie, just Castlevania the movie
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I pick the legend of zelda.
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ok my favorite games are....
any mario game (excluding dance dance revolution mario mix cause it looks gay)
any megaman game
any sonic game
any link game
and etc.
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any mario game (excluding dance dance revolution mario mix cause it looks gay)
NOTE: Any usage of the word "gay" other than a quick description of a homosexual person, results in a horrible beating.
any link game
P.S It's Zelda
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Link means the same thing as zelda
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For all intents and purposes yes, but Sino has a point, the games are called "The Legend of Zelda" Link is the hero and his name does appear in a few game sub-titles, but the proper connotation would be to call them "Zelda" games. Otherwise it's akin to calling Pokemon "any Pikachu game".
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Didin't nintendo recently come out with a pokemon game called Pikachu?
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i don't think so.
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That was that N64 game where you talked to pikachu through a mic.
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then there was the Pokemon Pikachu, the little digi-pet device... remember that?
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Oh yeah!