Frybird:
Anyone said "Vampire the Masquerade" yet?

Sure...a movie/series like this has "kinda" been made often before ( i think the last that i've seen of that is that god-awful series "Moonlight"). But i'd like to have a movie said in this universe with it's multiple Vampire "Races" and...please, a story that isn't about romance, saving the world or saving/killing all vampires...

Ah so not a fan of the Underworld movie then? Seeing as that was pretty much a World of Darkness tabletop game made flesh.

FLSH_BNG:
A good movie of epic proportions would be based off of the Warhammer games... either fantasy or 40k...

the man speaks the truth, the Warhammer universe is immense, so many different stories and battles to make a movie about, would be hard to make a good warhammer movie though, but if it was done right it would be really sweet, as a big warhammer fan myself i would love to see it done right.

I was going to say Far Cry or Crysis... But according to Imdb, Uwe "screw it the fuck up" Boll is making the Far Cry movie, part of me died inside.

Quite possible: NONE. Games just don't work as films. Take Silent Hill - the film. Now, I love the silent hill series (although the 4th wasn't as good as the rest, and I think Silent Hill 5 will suck because it's not being made by the original team behind the first 4 games), but the film was really bad. Why? Silent Hill was scary because YOU were playing the character, walking around the deserted town, seeing all the weird monsters, YOU had to fight them, solve the puzzles, and survive the nightmare. The silent hill games were scary because it was about YOU playing the game.

The Silent Hill film just had actors (bad ones at that), running around, and it didn't feel scary in the slightest, because you knew it was the ACTORS that were doing stuff, not YOU. Thus, the Silent Hill movie failed.

This is why games don't make good films - games are (usually) about YOU being immersed in the experience. Films are about TELLING you the experience or showing you the experience.

Also, films are restricted to about 3 hours, 4 at most. It's too short a time period to do the story justice. Silent Hill thew out most of the story line from the games and put in a pretty crappy one instead.

I can't imagine a Metal Gear film that could properly implement the plot. I can't imagine a Halo film being any good - you wouldn't play as master chief gunning down aliens (which is fun), but you'd just WATCH an actor PLAYING as Master Chief (probably badly too), gunning down aliens (which would be boring). It's fun to mow down wave after wave of enemies - it forces to you react, to dodge, to reload, etc. It's really boring to WATCH an actor mow down wave after wave of enemies. Really boring in fact.

Games do not make good films. They are two different forms of entertainment, and they can't be meshed so easily.

Korolev:
...The Silent Hill film just had actors (bad ones at that), running around, and it didn't feel scary in the slightest, because you knew it was the ACTORS that were doing stuff, not YOU. Thus, the Silent Hill movie failed...

...Games do not make good films. They are two different forms of entertainment, and they can't be meshed so easily.

By that logic, no film could ever be frightening because 'it's just actors'and no book could ever be made into a good movie, both of which are clearly untrue.

nilcypher:

Korolev:
...The Silent Hill film just had actors (bad ones at that), running around, and it didn't feel scary in the slightest, because you knew it was the ACTORS that were doing stuff, not YOU. Thus, the Silent Hill movie failed...

...Games do not make good films. They are two different forms of entertainment, and they can't be meshed so easily.

By that logic, no film could ever be frightening because 'it's just actors'and no book could ever be made into a good movie, both of which are clearly untrue.

Ah yes, but you see, a film is designed to be passively viewed. It can be scary, as long as the director realizes that the audience is merely viewing the film, and designs around that (sudden scary moments, shaky cam, etc). A book is also a passive form of storytelling, much like a film is.

But games are different. Games are built around active involvement. Silent Hill is pretty un-scary to watch. I've watched my sister play through it loads of times. But when I play through it, it is scary. With actors, you know everything is predetermined. Not so with a game - whether the character makes it through or not depends on your actions.

Same with Halo - won't make a good film, because the mechanics of Halo, the run-and-gun style which makes it popular cannot be transitioned to film.

A great game is designed around active involvement. A good film is takes into account its passive audience (when I say passive, I'm just saying not much input or use movement is required).

All I'm trying to say is this - when you take a form of entertainment that requires active involvement, and try to design it to a medium which is completely or mostly passive, I think it's incredibly difficult to get it to work. Books can be made into films, because that's just turning descriptive words into images (but it still fails half the time). But both forms are still passive.

But gaming is a completely different form of media - it's all about active involvement. Halo would be really boring to watch if it was just a film - Master chief kills aliens, then some more aliens, and then some more aliens. As a game, it was fun. As a film.... it wouldn't work.

Neither would Silent Hill work as a film (and it didn't). The atmosphere wasn't really designed for film, it was designed for a game. Take the walking down long, foggy corridors, or the radio static, or the flashlight or the monsters - designed for a game. In the Silent Hill movie, the radio static was barely mentioned, the surroundings (for the most part), well lit (apart from one section of the film), because the audience had to see what was going on around them. The film also had to introduce new characters and have more dialogue, while Silent Hill had less and focused more on the creepy surroundings.

Side note: The Silent Hill movie failed because of the director.

Castlevania. But only Symphony or Curse.

Although an Arcana Heart movie would make me happy in that special way... ^_^

Korolev:

Neither would Silent Hill work as a film (and it didn't). The atmosphere wasn't really designed for film, it was designed for a game. Take the walking down long, foggy corridors, or the radio static, or the flashlight or the monsters - designed for a game.

I couldn't disagree more. Silent HIll would have worked brilliantly as a film if the game's core theme, that of isolation, had remained intact. As Tanthalos rightly pointed out, it was the director's fault that the film failed, not that it was unsuitable for film.

nilcypher:

Korolev:

Neither would Silent Hill work as a film (and it didn't). The atmosphere wasn't really designed for film, it was designed for a game. Take the walking down long, foggy corridors, or the radio static, or the flashlight or the monsters - designed for a game.

I couldn't disagree more. Silent HIll would have worked brilliantly as a film if the game's core theme, that of isolation, had remained intact. As Tanthalos rightly pointed out, it was the director's fault that the film failed, not that it was unsuitable for film.

I agree totally with nil. If the director had stuck true to Silent Hill's themes and atmosphere and not deviated from the plot so much, it could have worked wonderfully, but instead they decided to go for the Hollywood gorefest approach, and look what happened.

None, all game based movies are horrible. No matter what there based off of.

They should make a Half Life movie but it should not under any circumstances have Gordon Freeman in. I mean like a movie set in the Half Life universe could be good, if done right.

Prozoquel:

nilcypher:

Korolev:

Neither would Silent Hill work as a film (and it didn't). The atmosphere wasn't really designed for film, it was designed for a game. Take the walking down long, foggy corridors, or the radio static, or the flashlight or the monsters - designed for a game.

I couldn't disagree more. Silent HIll would have worked brilliantly as a film if the game's core theme, that of isolation, had remained intact. As Tanthalos rightly pointed out, it was the director's fault that the film failed, not that it was unsuitable for film.

I agree totally with nil. If the director had stuck true to Silent Hill's themes and atmosphere and not deviated from the plot so much, it could have worked wonderfully, but instead they decided to go for the Hollywood gorefest approach, and look what happened.

I have a theory that Christophe Gains had a a script for a movie he was already working on, and when he got the green light to use the Silent Hill license, he just tacked on a few bits and pieces from the games and called it good. It's the only thing I can think of that explains why the gender of the main character was changed, why Pyramid Head, a character that is meaningless in the plot of the first game, makes an appearence and all the other little unnecessary changes Gains made.

The World Ends With You might make a cool anime film, you never know.
Devil May Cry would work as an action movie. That would own.
Phoenix Wright. Phoenix Wright would make a movie of such epic proportions, that it would blow your mind.

I would rather not see ANY game turned into a movie. WHY? because games today are like interactive movies in their own right. It's pointless to make a movie based off of a good game and butcher the story, premise, and characters with bad acting and unrelated material that they just like to throw in to "spice it up".

The reason why most game-movies fail is because some assclown decides to take the general premise and then come up with their own story to go with it instead of stick with the actual game. Good example of this is Final Fantasy: Spirits within, great movie but had NOTHING to do with final fantasy at all, totally undeserving of the name.

Games play out well as they do, we don't need stupid people who probably have never played the game acquire movie rights only to sully the good name of a good game. Games stay as games, movies stay as movies, the two should never combine to create these bastard children.

Seraph, why do the Marvel movies do so well? Because people have either forgotten the plots of the comics or learned to get over the fact that the movies weren't steaking to them. It's not sullying a story's reputation to take the premise and make a new plot. That's why fan fiction exists, to explore the parts of a canonical world that weren't explained throughout the official story.

But some games made into movies suffered something known as "pop culturalization." That's why The Rock was in Doom. I like The Rock as an actor, but come on, DOOM!? The Rock should not be in Doom, he should be beating up slave driver in a third world country while backhand his partner every few minutes to remind him who's boss!

Nil, you're right, if they had just used those tactics to get people into the movie, it could have been great. I still found the story interesting, but I wasn't really scared, nor was I grossed out. Not even a full autopsy could gross kids out these days.

Fronken and you others who mentioned Warhammer... Are you guys following the MMO's creation, as well? I only discovered Warhammer through Mythic Entertainment, as I was playing their original MMORPG, Dark Age of Camelot, when they announced the creation of Warhammer. I think it looks great, but I'd love to read the books and play some of the other games (probably not the tabletop -- I couldn't get enough people to play with me) before it comes out, though. But when it comes to the books, I don't know which one to start with.

there was sort of a mechwarrior movie in the 80's robot jox or something like that

There was even an animated series based on the BattleTech universe. And here was me thinking that I had been delusional for the last ten years when remembering some of my favourite children's shows. It was my first exposure to the BattleTech universe, actually.

I remember something like that,the robotjox thingie.Would love to see a mecha movie.Armored Core comes to mind.They could make it all CG, i wouldn't care.

Rashjun:
I think if WoW ever fully died, I think they should make the last of it a movie.

They wouldn't make it a WoW movie directly, though. They'd make it a Warcraft movie in general. It might be a good movie, as long as they stick with the original story and keep the style of graphics (so long as they up the ante a little bit, though).

But honestly, I've always wanted to see a movie of Final Fantasy XI. Possibly during the war that precedes the game. This was a lot more relevent before the expansion came out, but it would still be awesome to see just how it all went down.

I'm going to assume that the game based movie we want is going to be good, have a good director, good script and good actors, They don't have to be famous, they just have to be good.

I think a good video-game based movie would be God of War, because it would be the greatest action movie ever (except for Hard-Boiled).

If Final Fantasy XI was turned into a movie, I'd make the director Michael Bay and give Shia LaBeouf a leading role. Not just because Transformers was/is one of my favourite movies of all time, but also because Bay is just the greatest director, and LaBeouf is one of the greatest actors.

pieeater911:
I'm going to assume that the game based movie we want is going to be good, have a good director, good script and good actors, They don't have to be famous, they just have to be good.

I think a good video-game based movie would be God of War, because it would be the greatest action movie ever (except for Hard-Boiled).

If conditions are as you say, I'm there, and I'm buying popcorn. Opening day, no less!

I heard the makers of God Of War want an Afrikan Kratos. Just putting it out there.

I wouldn't mind a decent Metroid movie. And of course the fajke Zelda teaser was of great interest.

Halo

I know not many people on this site are big halo fans (shatnershaman and myself aside) but I think that Halo is a game that could be easily adapted into a movie. It has some awesome action, a story thats interesting but not to long and complex for a movie, and Halo has a deep rich world with lots of back story

Im also really eager to see how the Bioshock movie turns out

I hope they STOP making movies based on games all together. Look at what Holiwood did to Doom, they basically destroyed the legendary games status in an hour and a half.

i would give my right long and my copy of assins creed and team fortress 2 to go see a Warhammer 40k movie fantasy would be cool to. But i think it would truly be cool to base the movie on a space marine or a captured human

-Seraph-:
I would rather not see ANY game turned into a movie. WHY? because games today are like interactive movies in their own right. It's pointless to make a movie based off of a good game and butcher the story, premise, and characters with bad acting and unrelated material that they just like to throw in to "spice it up".

The reason why most game-movies fail is because some assclown decides to take the general premise and then come up with their own story to go with it instead of stick with the actual game. Good example of this is Final Fantasy: Spirits within, great movie but had NOTHING to do with final fantasy at all, totally undeserving of the name.

Games play out well as they do, we don't need stupid people who probably have never played the game acquire movie rights only to sully the good name of a good game. Games stay as games, movies stay as movies, the two should never combine to create these bastard children.

QFT.

I wonder if we'll ever see a movie done by a damn fan of the series, rather than one penned and directed by people with no knowledge whatsoever of the game, except for the fact that it has many fans.

I think I'd do well directing a GTA movie.

Animal Crossing.
What? Just me? People waddling (they must waddle) in giant animal costumes? Oscar gold, I tell you.
But I won't accept anything less than Bruce Campbell as Tom Nook.

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Soycopter:
So you want Dr.House to become Dr.Freeman? He does look like gordon quite a bit, maybe if he grew his beard out a bit.

Eh, Hugh is a bit old to be playing with a crowbar.
But here's an idea that might work, and also would be intriguing for intro and ending a la 'Children of Men':

"For years, he's never met anything he couldn't swallow, or just beat by spitting in their face. But now, he hungers for a different thing - Justice.

Coming this Summer - Kirby!"

Someone make a poster now.

I'd love to see a Monkey Island movie - Probably animated, based on the Curse of Monkey Island-style graphics.

It's got dastardly pirates and dastardly humour; what's not to love?

Most video-games-to-movies wouldn't do so well, because they'd probably only go with popular video games, which would mean a lot of people would already know the plot and the major twists and what not. Unless they just took the canon and made a new plot around that, like they tend to do.