What games would make great movies?

[Cranyx]

Video games and movies have a bad history together. However often times it's because the wrong games are chosen for the transfer.

I'm not asking for what your favorite games are, a good game does not make a good movie. Remember it will have to be solely chosen on the merits of it's story. For instance, Portal is an amazing game, but doesn't have enough narrative structure for a movie (Also I think the fact that the protagonist is silent is a red light, so sadly that knocks out games like Half-Life and Bioshock)

Well what about Mass Effect, it is hugely focused on story, right? I doubt it the fact that it's choice based, the game's story requires too much input from the player, something movies can't do.

So what games do have a strong narrative structure, and active protagonist, and a story where little is dependent on player input, and WOULD make a good movie?

 

[Casual Shinji]

Ico

The game already gives the impression that there's a lot of story that's never actually told. Mainly in regards to Yorda, the Queen, and the castle itself.

It wouldn't be a blockbuster sized movie however, more of an intimate film like Let the Right One In.

 

[Vhite]

Street Fighter the Movie the Game the Movie. And then they could make a new game based on it.

 

[kidwithxboxlive]

Even though everyone says it, Mass Effect. It has the story and characters for it to be a really good and fun film to watch. They might have to exclude the alien sex though, shit might go down if thats in it

 

[GiantRaven]

Arcanum, with a little tweaking and plot trimming, would make a good LOTR-esque trilogy.

 

[Elijah Ball]

freakin halo, man.

 

[teh_Canape]

I think either Quake or Quake 2 would be pretty badass movies, especially the first one, I mean, I see it working as a badass Matrix-tier movie
as well as a cheesy Commando-tier movie

 

[Eduku]

Well what about Mass Effect, it is hugely focused on story, right? I doubt it the fact that it's choice based, the game's story requires too much input from the player, something movies can't do.

So what games do have a strong narrative structure, and active protagonist, and a story where little is dependent on player input, and WOULD make a good movie?

Um, Mass Effect IS being made into a film. As for the player input point, they would just use the 'canon' decisions in ME.

I think Devil May Cry 3 could make a decent movie if it was full CG. It obviously has the flashy style and probably the strongest narrative of the series.

 

[nunqual]

GTA 4. The writing was great. Now only if it wasn't 20 hours long...

 

[Dopubalimatu]

Max Payne and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. if done right.Max Payne has been done but I honestly think that the movie was godawful and took nothing from the game's story so I don't count that as a movie based on a video game. A movie of S.T.A.K.E.R. is in production but I don't expect much from it considering the trailer that has been released.

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Uncharted is already being made into a movie so i dunno.

Something else i would love to see would be a BlazBlue anime.

 

[DPeteD]

For some reason if done well, a fallout film BEFORE the war.

 

[galdon2004]

Eternal Darkness; the game literally is about Alex reading the stories of various characters in a highly narrative format before having to face the horrors herself.

 

[Eduku]

Something else i would love to see would be a BlazBlue anime.

Yes, this. It seems a shame to put so much story emphasis into a fighting game and then not have an anime of some sort.

 

[Trivun]

I'm going to state the obvious here, and say that Alan Wake should be made into a real TV series. Not a film, but still, either way, it would be awesome. But for much the same reasons, I'm also going to say a bit of a shocker - the 2008 reboot/sequel Alone In The Dark. It's got a pretty decent story on the whole that would fit well to a TV miniseries, and it's designed as a game in that same style and format (just as Alan Wake kind of is). The dialogue is pretty cheesy and the characters aren't well developed in the game (though I still love the game itself), but that can easily be rectified with a decent screenwriter. It would actually work really well if you think about it...

 

[Ulquiorra4sama]

Something else i would love to see would be a BlazBlue anime.

Yes, this. It seems a shame to put so much story emphasis into a fighting game and then not have an anime of some sort.

My thoughts exactly. The story kinda died under the frustration of the battles, plus the story wasn't really well-told, but it was very well-written. I would've loved to see it adapted to something that could actually tell the story properly between the epic battles.

 

[Episode42]

I've said it before, but Primal would be a good film. The game is pretty much linear enough to make a simple film from and no-one knows or cares about it enough to be concerned if it turns into a huge pile of terrible.

 

[DarkhoIlow]

Mass Effect,Dragon Age Origins(Warden mini episodes were awesome).Animated or CGI would be awesome.

Also agree with GiantRaven on Arcanum as well.