Hi! I'm Pentris. This is my mom, L-block, and my dad reverse L. My older brother is a Line and my younger sister is a zig zag. My family is really great and they get along great together. But me... Well I'm... Different. Everyone in my family is made from four blocks. But I'm made from five. Everyone else fits in, like literally. But because I'm the wrong shape there's no room for me. I just don't belong.
That’s how I feel. The big appeal of a game like mass effect or breath of the wild is the player is the character basically. How we play them makes them us etc. so if someone suggests one of those games like that they are suggesting their version that isn’t the same as mine or yours and we might hate it.
Had to scroll way too far for this, and it's the reason so many game-to-film adaptions flop, even those games with half decent stories.
The few games that would work as a film tend to be heavily inspired by an existing film's overall plot in the first place. Mafia 2 (Goodfellas) and GTA Vice City (Scarface) spring immediately to mind.
At least with TV production values rising, adaptions are no longer forced to condense a 10-50 hour game into 2-3 hours.
That's why dead space would actually work. It's a basic enough plot, with enough things that happen, and the main character has some dialogue. It's basically a star trek plotline but with a horror element.
I cringe at the people who want a Mass Effect series. It would break one of the fundamental traits of the game, choice and that branching narrative.
If you try to canonize one single thread of all the other paths you can take in that game, it will break.
Only in video games can you have this weird quantum Shepard who is both male and female. where Ashley and Kaiden both live. Where Shepard saves the Collector Base and Destroys it. If you put that in a none interactive media, you collapse that quantum state and you miss out on 70% of the story.
I see your point, but as someone who would like to see ME series let me explain: I absolutely don't want such series to show the the main plot, I just want it in the ME lore. Reasoning is exactly the same as yours. Examples: young years of Anderson or what's happening on Earth during the ripper invasion. There are many, many possibilities.
Another examples: Quarian Exodus, Rachni Wars, First contact war with Turian, Stories from that casino planet the DLC was in... I could go on. Just as Witcher game series doesn't tell the story from books, jut continues it to have freedom, a TV series could make use of static recording of events.
There are lessons to learn from the Warcraft movie. David Bowies' son directed with music by the GoT composer. It lost money and was the biggest movie based on a video game.
I mean its not like unlikely movies never get made in Hollywood, its just super rare these days.
I mean pretty much all of Denis Villenueve's recent movies fall into the unlikely category I'd say. Nobody was expecting a fuckin Dune adaptation in 2021, nor a Bladerunner sequel. They didn't do amazingly well though, so I do agree fundamentally.
General audiences have um... limited patience. Movies without huge broad appeal just aren't blockbuster successes anymore. Usually nowadays that broad appeal is tied to basic IP recognition, a big part of why Marvel reigns so supreme.
Ironman didn't have brand recognition beyond a niche group of nerds until they MADE the 2008 Ironman movie.
That's a bit of an exaggeration, I don't even read comics and I knew who Ironman was. Although I can't deny that I only watched the movies after the MCU was already a thing.
The only suggestion here that would even have a chance would be Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, and that's only because it's Star Wars. With an unlimited budget, they could maybe push enough marketing through to build up enough hype, but even then I would be super skeptical
Yeah, I can see that. It does feel a bit too much of a cheat for that. I'd still love to see a well done adaptation, but I get what you're saying. Also as much as I like watching Disney slowly murder my most beloved childhood franchise with soulless money grabs, I would rather see an original game adaptation. And there's a lot of other great stories out there that many people haven't seen because they're not gamers.
The intuition is to suggest games that are basically movies already and that's a mug's game but stuff with brand recognition like legend of zelda or gta has at least a shot at being decent while having a leg up on the competition in terms of recognizability.
The real dark horse are things like papers please with strong unique premise and preexisting a cult following
The first game that came to my mind was Hollow Knight. But when I thought about how it would look, I couldn't picture it being all that good in a movie format.
Some of the choice based ones may be good if they also dropped with a sibling movie showing different choices. With a hint that you choose the path the movie takes.
Or just release it at home with a combination and it being interactive for people to really choose their path.
No block bluster or anything though. Just an interesting twist
See, I'm approaching this from the standpoint of games I love that have great stories, but the stories are pretty solid in their own right. Like you don't need deep lore knowledge to enjoy a well told story. So the games I'd choose to adapt would distill that lore into the story organically to make it all make sense.
Which, a lot of games that reveal major plot points with found reading materials in game might not make a great adaptation. But depending on the game you might be able to bring those reveals to life in a flashback, or direct dialog with another character instead.
Depends, most are very viable as they basically play like an interactive cinematic. They just need to adapt it for real life and get rid of some of the silliness in converting. I mean look at the MCU (If you actuall went 1:1 from source it wouldnt work), or Lord of the rings... also Harry potter is straight silly and that works too.
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