What video games would you like to see adapted for a feature film?
07-13-12, 01:06 AM
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07-13-12, 10:56 AM
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Re: What video games would you like to see adapted for a feature film?
Eternal Darkness ...might be cool with all the time shifting and different characters.
07-13-12, 12:56 PM
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07-13-12, 01:01 PM
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The plots for the games are great, there's more to GTA than just running around like a madman
07-13-12, 01:21 PM
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07-13-12, 09:58 PM
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Redo Max Payne with James McCaffrey. He did all 3 Max Payne voiceovers.
Others:
Metal Gear Solid
Splinter Cell
Pitfall
Myst
Castlevania
Others:
Metal Gear Solid
Splinter Cell
Pitfall
Myst
Castlevania
07-14-12, 09:16 AM
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Re: What video games would you like to see adapted for a feature film?
There's a reason why most videogame-to-movie adaptations are terrible. Most of the "best" modern games have worlds and stories that are so vast, lengthy, and/or full of player choice that turning them into movies can only be accomplished by condensing them so much that they become something else entirely. Any adaptation of the Bethesda games (Fallout, Elder Scrolls) would have this problem, as would Mass Effect and the Rockstar games (Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto) to a lesser extent.
Then there are games with linear, simplistic (not in a bad way) stories that could work well as movies, with Bioshock probably topping the list. But games in that category (Castlevania is another one) have the opposite problem, in that their plots would require some serious expanding to work as a film, and any such tinkering risks transforming the material into something else. Super Mario Bros. is the most obvious example of this kind of thing.
I think the best we can hope for are movies set in the same worlds as the source games, which then end up being good films in their own right despite not resembling the games in any way other than setting and tone.
Then there are games with linear, simplistic (not in a bad way) stories that could work well as movies, with Bioshock probably topping the list. But games in that category (Castlevania is another one) have the opposite problem, in that their plots would require some serious expanding to work as a film, and any such tinkering risks transforming the material into something else. Super Mario Bros. is the most obvious example of this kind of thing.
I think the best we can hope for are movies set in the same worlds as the source games, which then end up being good films in their own right despite not resembling the games in any way other than setting and tone.
07-16-12, 10:33 PM
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07-17-12, 12:39 AM
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