Your favourite film, what type of game would it be?

[Samwise137]

Ocean's Eleven and, frankly, a bad one. Too much of a dialogue driven movie. I really wouldn't want to deal with that in a video game.

 

[Wapox]

RED

I'd guess... action shooter? *sigh* I'll just go fix my soundsystem, so it can play gunshot sounds again.. then destroy it with gunshot sounds, and then fix it and never play the game again...

I hate Tie-Ins!

 

[magicpokey]

Megamind: as a colorful, self referential, fourth wall breaking parody of sandbox games. Kind of like simpsons hit and run tried to do a few years back. I'd play hours and hours of this game just trying to find all the references and snarky comments.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Brick, and they're already making L.A. Noire, so...yeah, that.

Blade Runner would probably be a traditional PC adventure game. They actually sort of did that. It wasn't based on the movie but still.

Snatcher.

 

[soren7550]

Fight Club: Mind-fuck arcade fighter/adventure game.

Fight Club does have a game [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club_(video_game)]

Well, since my favorite films are Black Hawk Down and Shaun of the Dead, they'd end up being a FPS and a Left 4 Dead copy respectivly.

 

[ChromeAlchemist]

Operating with the understanding that all movie tie-ins are cash cows, and almost without exception are awful, either take a great movie that's never had a game or one that's had a bad game, and give a little treatment to making it a game you'd love as much as the movie.

Die Hard Trilogy on PSX remains one of my favourite games of all time. The games are blocky, fairly clunky and have a few soundbites they use over and over. It's fantastic. While replaying it today would probably make me throw up, it's the best tie-in I can think of.

Playing Splinter Cell: Conviction makes me think; how would it feel to play John McClane, burned out cop, sneaking around Nakatomi just like the movie? There'd be no need to add endless filler sections (GO FIND DETONATORS! FIND C4! GO TO A TO PLANT! GO TO B TO DETONATE! GET BORED AND STOP PLAYING!) since, if each of the four movies is included each one could take 2 hours, giving a solid and action-packed 8-hour campaign. For a bit of spice, disrupted narrative, perhaps including moments where you take control of a hostage attempting to make an escape, or the police force on the outside?

Any thoughts?

TL;DR, don't be lazy.

They made Die Hard: Nakatomi Plaza on the PC. It was...okay. Die Hard Trilogy was excellent, but while I loved Die Hard: With a Vengeance, I'm of the understanding that it wasn't made to be finished. IT WAS TOO BLOODY HARD!

 

[octafish]

Glengarry Glen Ross. Some sort of trading game? A Always. B Be. C Closing. Always, Be, Closing.

 

[Spookimitsu]

Chanbara

and I would hope for a never ending style mmo

 

[ConvincingJohn]

Where the Wild Things Are....pretty sure that would just be LittleBigPlanet

 

[Proteus214]

I guess Aliens would turn out to be...probably a lot like the older Aliens vs. Predator games.

 

[magicpokey]

Chanbara

and I would hope for a never ending style mmo

Oooooohhh! Not what you meant, but how about a mmo based on the neverending story? Fighting the nothing and getting quests from falcor. The char select screen could be an animated version of the storybook, I'd pay money to see this in development, I'd buy a lifetime subscription and any collectors edition swag they sold!

 

[Socks and Shoes]

Apocalypse Now.

A shooter, obviously.

 

[shini]

All my favorite movies would be action games and therefore all sorts of been-there-done-that, so I'll go with Hard Candy which would be a mix of adventure, dating sim-like dialogue options and quick time events. On second thought that sounds awful, but I'd play any game where I can look at Ellen Page.

 

[WarCorrespondent]

V for Vendetta would play a lot like Assassin's Creed, except with bullet time towards the end.

The Brave Little Toaster would play like an artsy platformer I guess.

 

[LazerDragon]

Monty python would probably be a collection of bad mini games. Unless it was the holy grail. In which case it may be an rpg.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

The Emperor's New Groove IS a game.

A solid little PS1 platformer.

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

My favorite film already has a game. My favorite underrated film, Dragonheart, would fare best as a hack-n-slash. It did have a Gameboy game but it was awful.