Don't forget that Dragon Age had a movie called <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Dawn_of_the_Seeker>Dawn of the Seeker and, according to that one Facebook comment, Warhammer 40,000 had <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarines:_A_Warhammer_40,000_Movie>Ultramarines...Zontar said:I think it's worth pointing out that two of these universes do have a movie. Mass Effect has Paragon Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect:_Paragon_Lost] and Halo has Forward Unto Dawn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_4:_Forward_Unto_Dawn].
Because someone is going to get it right someday but if fewer movies come out then the longer it takes.canadamus_prime said:Remind me again why we WANT more video game based movies? Do we LIKE complaining about how much they fucked it up?
There's also Damnatus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatus], a full-length German fan film set in the Warhammer 40K universe.FPLOON said:Don't forget that Dragon Age had a movie called <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Dawn_of_the_Seeker>Dawn of the Seeker and, according to that one Facebook comment, Warhammer 40,000 had <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarines:_A_Warhammer_40,000_Movie>Ultramarines...Zontar said:I think it's worth pointing out that two of these universes do have a movie. Mass Effect has Paragon Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect:_Paragon_Lost] and Halo has Forward Unto Dawn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_4:_Forward_Unto_Dawn].
But why do we WANT them to?Xpwn3ntial said:Because someone is going to get it right someday but if fewer movies come out then the longer it takes.canadamus_prime said:Remind me again why we WANT more video game based movies? Do we LIKE complaining about how much they fucked it up?
Ugh, Ultramarines. Just your usual sort of space marine wank-material.Asclepion said:There's also Damnatus [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatus], a full-length German fan film set in the Warhammer 40K universe.FPLOON said:Don't forget that Dragon Age had a movie called <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Age:_Dawn_of_the_Seeker>Dawn of the Seeker and, according to that one Facebook comment, Warhammer 40,000 had <url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramarines:_A_Warhammer_40,000_Movie>Ultramarines...Zontar said:I think it's worth pointing out that two of these universes do have a movie. Mass Effect has Paragon Lost [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_Effect:_Paragon_Lost] and Halo has Forward Unto Dawn [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_4:_Forward_Unto_Dawn].
Cain's stories only work because we can see the inner-workings of his mind. Which does not translate well at all to visual medium like television or cinema.rcs619 said:Something about a rogue trader, or maybe even Ciaphas Cain.
I heard somewhere that back in the 1890s, back when all these inventors were making, flying and getting themselves killed in rudimentary wood-and-canvas gliders, a balloonist of the time said something pretty much just like what you're saying now about the first batch of games-to-movie attempts.canadamus_prime said:But why do we WANT them to?Xpwn3ntial said:Because someone is going to get it right someday but if fewer movies come out then the longer it takes.canadamus_prime said:Remind me again why we WANT more video game based movies? Do we LIKE complaining about how much they fucked it up?
Don't know how well that comparison really stacks up.Squilookle said:I heard somewhere that back in the 1890s, back when all these inventors were making, flying and getting themselves killed in rudimentary wood-and-canvas gliders, a balloonist of the time said something pretty much just like what you're saying now about the first batch of games-to-movie attempts.
And now we can get a planeload of people to the other side of the world in less than a day.
THAT is why we want to see more. That is always why we want to see more.
Making a video game movie is hardly on the same level as flying around the world in simplistic flying machines. Assuming they even succeed, a movie of these universes can't possibly be as engaging as the game, so I repeat why are we do we want this?Squilookle said:I heard somewhere that back in the 1890s, back when all these inventors were making, flying and getting themselves killed in rudimentary wood-and-canvas gliders, a balloonist of the time said something pretty much just like what you're saying now about the first batch of games-to-movie attempts.canadamus_prime said:But why do we WANT them to?Xpwn3ntial said:Because someone is going to get it right someday but if fewer movies come out then the longer it takes.canadamus_prime said:Remind me again why we WANT more video game based movies? Do we LIKE complaining about how much they fucked it up?
And now we can get a planeload of people to the other side of the world in less than a day.
THAT is why we want to see more. That is always why we want to see more.
On topic, this was a pretty good list, though I'd personally take a Perfect Dark movie before a Halo one anyday. Also Interstate '76 and Crimson Skies on the PC need to be movies like... yesterday.