Y-Disciple
[09] Warrior
Game movies don't work out for a number of reasons:
In a way, games are already movies. Games like Metal Gear Solid already have an incredibly intricate plot shown in cutscenes. With a comic, you can just translate the still pages directly into a movie and it would be awesome, but with games, why would anyone pay to see a movie based on cutscenes, which are essentially already movies, since you already know exactly what's coming? They would have to come up with a completely different plot, and in most cases, it ends up sucking, because it's not Metal Gear Solid.
The plots in games are too bizarre for movies. How would you translate Mario Bros. into a movie? Have Danny Devito in a red plumber suit jump on CGI mushrooms and search castles and giant tubes for a princess and only find midgets in mushroom suits? That wouldn't work, and straying from the plot obviously didn't work either. Either way, the movie is screwed, so it just shouldn't be made, period.
People read comics for their storyline, but play games for the gameplay aspect. People watch movies for their storylines. So which one fits? While games can have interesting plotlines, that's not the reason we play them. Why would we go to a Soul Calibur movie if we couldn't actually play Soul Calibur? You mean I have to sit through the terrible SC4 endings again, but in a theater? Screw that.
In a way, games are already movies. Games like Metal Gear Solid already have an incredibly intricate plot shown in cutscenes. With a comic, you can just translate the still pages directly into a movie and it would be awesome, but with games, why would anyone pay to see a movie based on cutscenes, which are essentially already movies, since you already know exactly what's coming? They would have to come up with a completely different plot, and in most cases, it ends up sucking, because it's not Metal Gear Solid.
The plots in games are too bizarre for movies. How would you translate Mario Bros. into a movie? Have Danny Devito in a red plumber suit jump on CGI mushrooms and search castles and giant tubes for a princess and only find midgets in mushroom suits? That wouldn't work, and straying from the plot obviously didn't work either. Either way, the movie is screwed, so it just shouldn't be made, period.
People read comics for their storyline, but play games for the gameplay aspect. People watch movies for their storylines. So which one fits? While games can have interesting plotlines, that's not the reason we play them. Why would we go to a Soul Calibur movie if we couldn't actually play Soul Calibur? You mean I have to sit through the terrible SC4 endings again, but in a theater? Screw that.
