Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
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Why Can't Hollywood Make a Good Video Game Movie?
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#2It's very simple: those two are not the same media. A movie, a book are made to tell a story. A video game is made for playing, not for telling a story. They should stop adapting video games, it's pointless.
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#3It's very simple: those two are not the same media. A movie, a book are made to tell a story. A video game is made for playing, not for telling a story. They should stop adapting video games, it's pointless.
Plenty of video games have great stories. Half Life, Bioshock, Firewatch, Life is Strange, Fallout.
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#4I actually really liked Prince Of Persia. I don't know that it compares to the game, but I liked it.
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#5I thought Children of Men was basically a HL2 episode.
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#6It's very simple: those two are not the same media. A movie, a book are made to tell a story. A video game is made for playing, not for telling a story. They should stop adapting video games, it's pointless.
You're right in that movies and video games are different media and I wish more developers would stop trying to emulate movies so much, but as my sibling commenter points out many games do tell stories. I've even encountered games that have affected me more than a movie could. This is because of the prime difference between the mediums, player agency. As a player, being able to participate and affect the story is entirely different from being shown a story in a movie or TV show. In effect, the player and the developer are co-authors of the story the player experiences.
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#7I actually really liked Prince Of Persia. I don't know that it compares to the game, but I liked it.
I thought it was better than than the trailers made it look like it would be. It's probably better without the game, though since, it simultaneously makes no sense within the game's universe and yet leads right into the beginning of the game version of Sands of Time.
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#8It's very simple: those two are not the same media. A movie, a book are made to tell a story. A video game is made for playing, not for telling a story. They should stop adapting video games, it's pointless.
Plenty of video games have great stories. Half Life, Bioshock, Firewatch, Life is Strange, Fallout.
The Road is a prequel to Fallout ;)
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#9It's very simple: those two are not the same media. A movie, a book are made to tell a story. A video game is made for playing, not for telling a story. They should stop adapting video games, it's pointless.
I actually enjoy video games with stories better than movies because I'd rather be the protagonist driving the story, rather than being the passive observer.
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#10It's funny that Assassin's Creed was mentioned as being too close to the game, but I thought it managed to miss most of the major points of the game series (which wasn't super complicated to begin with).
I mean, it doesn't even succeed at convincing the audience they should root for the Assassins instead of the Templars.
It's like they assumed everyone who was watching who didn't already know the story would be too stupid to understand it.