Movies you can't make good games out of.
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I've been alive long enough to know by now that either making a game based on a movie doesn't work, and making a movie based on a video game CERTAINLY doesn't work. Movies that incorporate video games have had their ups and downs, but straight translations of either never fare well in the final product.
Devs could learn a lesson here that to "loosely" base a game on a movie franchise has potential to work, not a direct reproduction. Any video game in the last decade based on a movie has been terrible... while the game The Warriors wasn't bad, it didn't actually happen during the time scheme of the movie. All that you did during the game preceded the events of the movie, therefore not exactly qualifying it as a video game adaptation of the movie. Games like Terminator: Salvation (which sucked worse than a drunken Courtney Love) is a good example of a bad idea. Even the last Iron Man game was terrible, and I haven't heard anything good or surprising about the latest game tie-in for the movie. The only idea worse than making a game from a movie is making a musical about a movie... on ice.
Devs could learn a lesson here that to "loosely" base a game on a movie franchise has potential to work, not a direct reproduction. Any video game in the last decade based on a movie has been terrible... while the game The Warriors wasn't bad, it didn't actually happen during the time scheme of the movie. All that you did during the game preceded the events of the movie, therefore not exactly qualifying it as a video game adaptation of the movie. Games like Terminator: Salvation (which sucked worse than a drunken Courtney Love) is a good example of a bad idea. Even the last Iron Man game was terrible, and I haven't heard anything good or surprising about the latest game tie-in for the movie. The only idea worse than making a game from a movie is making a musical about a movie... on ice.
Dramas, they can be great movies, but there is no way to make a great game out of them unless you do it Heavy Rain style, and even then you need some action.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Level One: Press A to stare at a monolith.
Level Two: Press A to stare at a monolith on the moon.
Level Three: Float around for a bit and unplug a computer.
Level Four: Longest cutscene ever.
Level One: Press A to stare at a monolith.
Level Two: Press A to stare at a monolith on the moon.
Level Three: Float around for a bit and unplug a computer.
Level Four: Longest cutscene ever.
It's an adapted screenplay, actually. It was originally a play, I believe. So, we should be teaching plays in school, as well as film, which I totally agree with. Theater is such an important part of culture, people really should use them more when teaching. ASIDE from Shakespeare, of course.CoverYourHead said:
OP: Erm...I'm going to have to go with "Any of them" as I've never played a good game based on a movie.
I'd like to see someone try to make a faithful video game adaptation for Schindler's List.
"Quick Time Event! Maximize your focus on [GIRL IN RED COAT] to level up Schindler's [EMPATHY SKILL BAR]!"
"Nazi guards shot your one of your workers! Press [A] to scold guards; press to mourn death of a innocent and reflect on the importance of human life!"
"Quick Time Event! Maximize your focus on [GIRL IN RED COAT] to level up Schindler's [EMPATHY SKILL BAR]!"
"Nazi guards shot your one of your workers! Press [A] to scold guards; press to mourn death of a innocent and reflect on the importance of human life!"
I would have to say Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Great movie but it wouldn't work as a game.
Press X to say Neee!!
Press B to taunt them a second time!!
Press X to say Neee!!
Press B to taunt them a second time!!
Since there is no movie that can't be turned into a pinball machine I don't think that there are any that can't be turned into a video game.
I'm sure a lot of us here are a little young to have heard of MASH, so why have so many of us seen it? Also, I laughed far too loudly at that given that it's quarter to one in the morning, and hence the rest of my house are asleep...Furburt said:
OT: A Clockwork Orange, simply because you could not put that shit in a game? But really, any film that's primarily drama/character interaction based won't work unless you completely Heavy Rain the thing... That's right, "to Heavy Rain" is now a verb. Also, Iron Man. I'm pretty sure we said good games, right?
Umm. Not impossible...Deadonstick said:
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I haven't played it though.
Pride and Prejudice, I'd love to see some one try making a game out of that 
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Yes that game was laughable... the object of the game was to Win fights... did these guys even watch the film?. Though I thought if you took the fight club element out and fixed up a few things then added a better create a character mode... that game could have been a decent beat'em up. I guess a game where you played as a member of project Mayhem spreading anarchy would have been closer to the book and movie... not that close but closer then Winning fights.Hubilub said: