Every video game film has failed. How would you make a good vidya movie?

Every video game film has failed. How would you make a good vidya movie?

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Umm...
*clears esophagus*
Excuse me?

Stick to the source material. It's really that simple, but no one ever does it. Hollywood writers think they can improve on vidya writers' work. But they can't.

Mortal Kombat was quite successful

This. The best video game movie ever made

I guess wow was fine action wise The pacing was terrible. But the movie made good money did it not? Wont there probably be a Wow 2 movie?

An Ace Combat movie would work. Don't base it directly on any of the games, just have the basic tropes that the games are known for:

OTT dialogue
Tropy characters that are almost silly in their quirks, but still likable
10/10 music
Fast paced aerial action that should ignore realism for visual spectacle
Superweapon at the end

It almost writes itself and I couldn't see any way fans of the games wouldn't enjoy it. The bonus is that Ace Combat isn't a really well-known series to most casuals, so if it gets decent marketing, you could get a good amount of people in the theatre that haven't even touched a vidya.

you literally cant
You're forgetting that gamers are absolutely retarded when it comes to expectations for their film adaptations.
Its almost as if every gamer collectively forgets that the only reason they even like the games they play is because they get to PLAY them. Not in the sense that the story is interactive, but they are physically playing it via game mechanics called gameplay.
Gameplay literally can never be replicated on film without it being fucking STUPID.
The gaming industry is literally killing itself to try and be more like movies but meanwhile series that value the only unique thing games have, THE FUCKING GAMEPLAY, are either dead or dying, or like Dark Souls, over.

>Stick to the source material
So you would have wanted a 90 minute movie of some guy walking around and killing demons? Wouldn't have made Doom good.

What I loved about this movie is the backstory of the brother/sister and how something traumatic happened to their parents. The first person scene is all about the main character getting back to finding his sister.

>BUT THE DOOM GUY ISN'T IN IT
Karl Urban IS the Doom guy for fuck sake!

>BUT IT DIDN'T HAVE ACTUAL DEMONS AND HELL IN IT
Not realistic. I liked how the demons were due to experiments gone wrong and how they did address that some earlier civilization built the Mars facility but no one could work out who

I have some strong ideas on how to make a good Hitman movie.

Beyond that, really depends on the game. I'd say point-n-click games are the absolute easiest to make good movies out of because they're so plot-driven.

Also I really want to see a John Woo-directed Max Payne.

Silent Hill and Mortal Kombat.

Am I the only reason who thinks that the reason people make video game movies is to draw in an audience who don't play games?

So because you don't play the game: HERE is a re-imagining of the story on movie form for you to enjoy!

Video game movies are not just made for gamers... I hate when people think this

Should not be hard to make a Tlou movie

I love this movie

I actually think it's the opposite. If you want to make a good movie based on a video game you need to make your own thing and not just try and copy the game verbatim. The game already exists and modern video games are already pretty cinematic. There's no reason to remake them as movies, removing the gameplay.

Top Gun 2 is happening , AC can't compete

We live in a time where regular people watch other regular people play games, and sometimes pay them money! These people are the game movie audience.

Which is why I loved the new GitS with what they did with the story.

They gave Motoko an entire original backstory that the anime never did and this was brilliant.

Die hard fans who cried can fuck off

Oldfag here

SMB holds up better than people think. I saw it in theatres at release, and while it's relation to the game was minimal it was a fun ride

Prince of Persia's roughly in the same boat: Decent film, but bad adaptation.

The Resident Evil series managed to get less worse with each new sequel, but they're still pretty mediocre.

The best video game film is Mortal Kombat. Accept no substitutes. It took everything Street Fighter tried the year before and improved on it immensely.

Oh fuck, you're right.

I just want more fighter jet kino.

My pitch:

KATAMARI

>Directed by: Edgar Wright
>Genre: Family/Ghibli-esque Whimsy
>Starring: Vin Diesel as King of All Cosmos, Asa Butterfield as Son, Michael Fassbender as Father

Story:

One night on a drunken bender, the flamboyant alien King of All Cosmos accidentally destroys all the stars in the sky. Unwilling to admit his mistake, or let the Queen find out, he sends his son, the two-inch tall Prince to Earth. He asks him to use Katamaris to roll up material to make new stars, as Earth has a bunch of junk nobody needs.

Meanwhile on Earth, a state of emergency is declared as all the stars in the sky have disappeared, leaving the planet in perpetual twilight. An expedition from NASA is sent into space to investigate and confirm, one of the astronauts is man who is distant from his young son, who is growing up without a fatherly influence.

The Prince (a mute character) lands on Earth near the son and befriends him, bonding over their shared absent/abusive parents. The boy helps the Prince fulfil the King's requests, which start small and are frequently bizarre - like rolling up coins, school desks, and cats. Eventually, the King's demands start to grow, asking them to roll up people, buildings and entire cities.

In the climax, when the Prince refuses to obey the King anymore, the King personally comes to Earth, as tall as a skyscraper with a giant Katamari, to finish the job himself. The only two who stand in his way are the Prince and the boy.

Film ends with the King, the son's father, and the world in general learning to think beyond their own selfish desires. The world agrees to work together to get rid of unneeded junk and provide enough material for Katamaris to fill the sky with stars once again.

A family picture.

>So you would have wanted a 90 minute movie of some guy walking around and killing demons? Wouldn't have made Doom good.

Alright, you make a neat point here: Doom isn't well-suited to a filmic adaptation because all it is is just FUCK YOU WE'RE KILLING DEMONS NOW.

Hell, the guys that originally made it threw out a massive document detailing the world and story of the world of Doom because, as John Carmack put it, "Story in a video game is like story in porn; it's expected to be there, but it's not that important."

While I absolutely WOULD watch 90 minutes of well-shot, well-choreographed brutal and over-the-top violence with the barest threads of a story tying it together (I loved John Wick 2 for this very reason), it simply isn't gonna work for mainstream audiences. Stick to smaller genre shit, and you could make a series of successful short films maybe.

>pop assassins creed in BD player
>have to go through a 4 hour tutorial
Thanks fox

Adding onto this, the best vidya game movies that aren't based off vidya games are The Scorpion King (basically Zelda) and Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World (basically awesome)

well thats the thing, the only reason the story was enjoyable in the first place is because of the fun you have when PLAYING it.
Assassins creed has a good concept but the film tackled it the same way the games did, so without the gameplay it fucking sucked.
It was for non gamers absolutely, as all video game movies are, but non gamers arent going to care or enjoy stories that gamers love because they love things for different reasons.

Use the setting, but don't copy the game's story. Tell a story in the game's world that the player can't or wouldn't be able to see in the game.

I was expecting shit at first, but I would definitely watch this.

>tfw BIOFORCEGUN
it's not a Doom movie but it's a fun movie

Make a Metroid movie. Style wise make it a Dredd like action movie in an Aliens setting.. Relentless action showing us a day in the life of bounty hunter Samus as she gets caught up rescuing a space colony from space pirates and the metroids they discovered there. Also, don't reveal samus is a girl till the very end.

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Mortal Kombat
Resident Evil

They are such big success they both got sequels and RE has like 6 sequels.

>someone makes a Metroid movie
>they turn Samus into a guy
I can imagine them being this stupid.

Every video game film has failed because the stories aren't good enough to be translated into film, and no matter what the kids and manchildren of Sup Forumseddit would like to you believe, this is a fact.

Video games are enjoyed because of their gameplay. The gameplay is what makes them engaging and enjoyable experiences. The stories are always secondary, and most of the time nonexistent. Trying to adapt a video game into a motion picture is like making a novel out of a crossword puzzle.

Now, there are many video gayms today that pretend to be films and try to develop stories like films would. But the problem with all of that is these stories aren't being written by good writers, they're written by manchildren who don't know anything about effective story telling and who work in nothing but tropes. Adapting those "stories" is just the same recipe for disaster.

Many screen writers know this, and have tried to adapt video games to the screen, but of course it's evident that you cannot make a good movie when the source material is a pile of shit. The best you can do is alter it so much to the point you hope it resembles a good "movie", but at that point you'll piss off the target demographic, the main fanbase who'll autistically chimp out because the film is nothing like the video gaym they were so used to jerking it over.

So the process of making a good video gaym movie becomes a balancing act of unrealistic expectations. You change anything and the autists will want your head on a pike. You make it too similar, you'll be attacked for fanservice (which makes no fucking sense, but it's apparent that fans in the 21st century absolutely hate fanservice). At the end of the day it's just not worth it, and I think most people in showbusiness realize that.

Which is why the big studious who greenlight video gaym properties aren't interested in making good video gaym movies. It's really just all about suckering people (the gaymers) in.

I had an idea for a hitman movie.

Movie focuses on an Interpol investigator trying to catch number 47. He's got some personal problems, Issues with home life, so he's thrown himself into his work and become a little obsessed.

Shows up at an accident at a hotel, Local police ready to call it until he directs a small hole cut into glass on the skylight, something trivial or shit like that.

At one of the scenes he manages to link the victims together and figures out who is going to be next, He arrives at the conference where they are locking it down, Number 47 gets his target.
The interpol agent has failed.
But the interpol agent has now gotten too close and is the next target, the rest of the movie is kind of a cat and mouse game with tense scenes of the agent getting freaked out in public, they kill someone but it is not 47 Interpol knows it. Agency doesn't believe him.
He's a hunted and paranoid man.

The WHOLE movie, The guy who did the voice acting and original model of 47 is in the background, he's blending in, an extra walking past in the background, A man ordering Coffee at a cafe. A police officer helping to secure the area. Hardly in focus but he's there. Hardly at all at first. But then when he's full paranoid he's seeing bald guys everywhere.

I haven't figured out yet but, Eventually he makes it home, he believes he's safe, that 47 is no longer after him, sits in his favorite chair, glass of scotch.
You hear 47's iconic voice
"You know, It's nothing personal"
Interpol agent just gives an amused and accepting scoff as the piano wire comes down over his neck.

Theres no Gunfights,
No love interests.
No 47 driving sports cars around or backstory or anything like that.

Thanks user. I think there's some cool visual stuff you could do with Katamari's style.

>Video games are enjoyed because of their gameplay.
I can tell you aren't really into video games because the whole thing now is how cinematic your game is. Sure, you're right, the stories are shit and cliche but they're still a very large part of modern video games and in quite a few games eclipse the gameplay pretty much entirely. Pretty much being movies with tacked on gameplay.

And you're acting like every movie has an amazing story. There are plenty of movies with video game tier stories.

Why would we need to make movies based on games while all the games are basically are movis now. They are based on movies and use the same cliches, techniques and scripts.

I'm just now realizing that Rosamund Pike was in Doom.

I wouldn't because video games are for ADD children.

>Not realistic

You are fucking cancer and deserve to lose your eyesight and hearing

As opposed to cape shit since we're judging the entire media forms as one thing?

>He doesn't know about the Angry Birds theatrical release

Videogames have shit plots. They are objective based.
>Go collect the piece of shit at the quest marker
>Bring piece of shit back to quest giver
>Go collect another piece of shit at quest marker
>Repeat
Doesn't translate to kino like a movie.

Take this game, change the characters a and flashback situations a bit, then drive to the bank to collect your millions of dollars

Psssh, nothing personnel kid.

>he plays video games instead of programming his own

I'm curious to see what you think is good writing and good story telling. If you don't mind could you list five films that you've seen that you thought had excellent writing?

And just for curiosity's sake, please list five of your favorite video gayms.

Unironically a series of six semi-slow-paced movies based around the events of the original Borderlands game.

Get a truckload of B actors to audition for each of the four Vault Hunter parts and pick one who really really sold it with passion for each, even get (slight) overactors if they were the best of the lot as far as energy and devotion and actually getting into the characters. Up and coming but semi-established A-list starlet to be Moxxi and just lean over the counter and tit-window through a few longish talking/plotting/bantering scenes.

Blow the budget on the special effects for the big scenes that need them, and on decent-and-reliable elemental effects for weapons. Have some scenes just with plain SMGs mostly to save money, and one or two elemental sniper shots or so. Especially the first few movies where they'd have "poorer" gear.

When it gets to hand-to-hand, have it be mostly Brick and have the reasons for hand-to-hand for the others make sense. No just charging out or throwing weapons aside, unless it's Brick getting hype/berserk for his super move as per the game. Actually get a nicely trained vulture and doll it up to look like a Bloodwing. Actually put a little camera on its leg and/or behind its head and use cuts of that or even occasionally a full circle-and-swoop just on that cam all together, for the Bloodwing attacks. Make the tattoos on Lilith look as vibrant and cheesy as in the game and spend a little on making them pop/glow in aftereffects, but not too much, and emphasize it only when she's throwing out siren magic and/or angry and/or the rare seductive scene.

Only hire truly decent and energetic midget actors to be midget psychos/raiders, just reuse them a lot and slightly change their costumes. Less picky about other raiders but do be sure to get a few decent "lead psychos"/a badass actor or two.

Show tits once and briefly in movie, but just as an old faded photo Marcus has of Moxxi in his bus or something.

Sony makes some good movies that are exclusive to their consoles. Last of Us, the Uncharted series, David Cage films.

All kino

>Every video game film has failed because the stories aren't good enough to be translated into film

Has this been even attempted? To me it seems video game movies have failed because of horrible scripts and horrible execution by trying to make the movie more video gamish with weird camera angles or horrible attempts to translate gameplay elements to a film.

This got five sequels, is it a failure?

This movie was fucking terrible. I don't really remember much but I remember that any time they needed their guns the guns would jam.

Came here to say this.

>brilliant
Settle down Mr. Edgy. It wasn't a bad movie but it wasn't a good one by any stretch either. Too many scraps of the original awkwardly jammed in to justify using the original title and character names.

The first Resident Evil is a genuinely great movie.

A lot of people complained about this but The Rock actually says 'big fuckin' gun' under his breath when he first finds it. If they had made that line a bit louder they might have saved themselves a lot of shit.

Spastic

I don't remember any gun jamming.

UM EXCUSE ME FRIENDO, ARE YOU FORGETTING SOMETHING?

HMMMMMMMMMMMM?

Actually make a film based on a story based game or one with a deep universe, rather than some popular, shallow murder simulator.

Deus Ex for example could be godly if the right people were picked and the fuckers at the studio gave the director total creative freedom.

Who would direct Deus Ex?

SHYAMALAN

john carpenter

>While I absolutely WOULD watch 90 minutes of well-shot, well-choreographed brutal and over-the-top violence with the barest threads of a story tying it together

Literally Nolan. Or Ridley Scott.

(me)
100% serious, Carpenter in his prime would deal with Deus Ex's sanctimonious bullshit without making a mockery of it, but still with some self-awareness

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SEE ME IN MY OFFICE, Sup Forums

Pic relted is one of, if not the best adaptations of a video game.

How about copy paste a game but with real ppl?

they could win a alot of cash if they just made Etzio saga into a damn movie.

This.
A movie like this promo video would be pure kino

youtube.com/watch?v=3S5I0_hjS3c

It was so fucking stupid and bad and it made it kinda good. The scenes with the director were 10/10

Not video games, but how would you do Warhammer 40k?

In my opinion, video game movies should take place in the universe of the game rather than the game's actual story itself.

FOR ME IT WAS TUESDAY

give it a few years

I think the netflix witcher series has a chance

and anything contemporary in setting, like driver could work

mortal kombaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

>netflix witcher series
Not based on a game.
youtube.com/watch?v=GZlIMnIe9e0

I guess the good ones are
>Silent Hill
>Mortal Kombat
>Resident Evil 1 and 2
>Doom

Step 1. Pick a game would a good plot.

Step 2. Make movie actually about said plot.

Step 3. Profit.

It's actually very simple.

no man you got it all wrong

step 1. pick a game with strong story and plot such as Max Payne

step 2. make it about drugs and shadow demons

step 3. shut down your studio

Would you watch a Shin Megami Tensei kino?
>fictional beings (gods, monsters, demons, ghosts, angels) from every culture come to life and want to eat the humans
>a group of teenagers have to survive and protect their loved ones
>major gods like Hermes Horus or Ganesh either give them a hand or try to kill them
>almost everybody dies in the end
>also Jack Frost is an extremely marketable mascot

Litteraly the next Hunger Games.

Following a group of spess muhrines as they receive a distress call to re-enforce a besieged world. Orbital drop in and fight their way to a Imperium stronghold. Attempt to hold out until they are forced to retreat and bomb the planet.