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gmer412:
Other than that, any free game that you get with windows.

Nonsense. I saw SkiFree and I laughed the whole time. John Cusack not only bested the rich kid, he outran the Yeti for a really, really long time.

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Minesweeper...

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live action sonic the hedgehog, high speed scenes might look good, but the characters would look crappy

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Every single game ever made. Ever.

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You are all forgetting one important thing....fucking awesome games from the 80s and 90s, where is all the love for Metroid or zombies ate my neighbors,smash tv, guantlets 1 & 2, Wolfenstein, Streets of rage with JCVD or maybe even god willing Duke Nukem.

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Bad Dudes

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max payne oh wait

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The Darkness could be made into an okay movie, but not one based on the game. It would be another comic book movie.

The worst I can think of? Trying to do a movie based on something like "Monster Hunter Freedom" where there is minimal plot (it's all a hunting based RPG simulation).

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I think the worst would be Captain Novelin, or traffic jam for the computer. or even worse... Pac-man *shudder*

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Any sports game.

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quack35:
Bad Dudes

Would be amazing!! As long as they kept the 1987 ray-bans.

The mere thought of a Battletoads movie scares me to death.

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Gears of War

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Pong

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Can't think of any bad, but how awesome would a Red Faction: Guerrilla movie be? Hell, they can use the existing trailer, it already has the Movie Opening Guy.

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Diddy Kong Racing would be a hellish nightmare of an acid trip.

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Halo.
halo
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mass effect
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halo

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Minesweeper: The Movie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs&feature=fvst

Minesweeper: The Movie is pure win. I'm contemplating doing a "Kingdom of Loathing: The Movie" in the same style. Or maybe something from The Orange Box, lol.

Back to the subject at hand: Diablo would be crap. So would most other RPGs. Don't even get me started on WoW. Any racers or sports games wouldn't work.

What else is there...

Worms. ...Wait a minute... OMG, that could be win as well.

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SoonerMatt:
Diddy Kong Racing would be a hellish nightmare of an acid trip.

LOL

They could probably make a horrid jab at assassins creed.
*shudders at the thought of a movie like that*

Also, for an april fools joke they were going to make a Zelda: Hero of Time movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB89-9X6YS0

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World of Warcraft. (The quests, not the instances)

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The thing is in regards to the people saying sports games, we already get alot of American Football movies, mostly set out like Dawsons Creek. So i dont see why Madden would be any different.

Some rookie upcoming star gets drafted, trains his heart out, plays a couple of big games and eventually plays in the super bowl. While in the background another story could be evolving, like his relationship with his parents, or a story where he doesnt feel in control of his life ( being controlled by the player after all ), where he is a victim of his own talents.
Maybe track his career over a few years, where he gets transfered to another team and has deal with a bit of tension as the old rival / new guy. Then like the latest Rocky he gets old and has deal with the shotcomings of his life.

So yeah i dunno that it would be a great movie, but doesnt sound so bad.

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Any sports game.
Most older RPG's. The newer Final Fantasies or Chrono Trigger would be pretty ok, but the older one's don't have the plot necessary.
Movie based games (Yes, one of those exists: Street Fighter: The Movie: The game).
Most cel-shaded games would have whatever charm or uniqueness sucked out of them nowadays if made into movies.
And the worst of them all:
G-mod: The Movie.

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quack35:
Bad Dudes

In a world where the president has been kidnapped by ninjas, are two guy's bad enough dudes to save the president?

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Alberto GS lolcompany4u:
mario bros

Opening old wounds... Ughh...

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StarWolf180:
live action sonic the hedgehog, high speed scenes might look good, but the characters would look crappy

How about this, then:
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/uncyclopedia/images/a/a9/1118030354863.jpg

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banjo kazooie

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I'm not surprised to see Halo get mentioned.. I actually think that as series Halo COULD potentially be a really good movie trilogy... it's just that Hollywood would mishandle it, fuck it up and just make it a story about humans killing evil aliens without any of the depth and complexity of the actual trilogy (if Halo Wars was any indication).

Games that wouldn't make good movies:
I was surprised to see Portal get mentioned, because Portal is puzzle game. That can't be made into a movie.

You know what the one game that would make an awful movie... Left 4 Dead. it's would just be a zombie movie, nothing unique. The only way to make it interesting would be to have Zoey ridicule the cliches in zombie movies. And Hollywood would still mess her character up and cast some big boobed lass instead of a normal looking girl.

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gmer412:
Pong. Other than that, any free game that you get with windows. I can see it now. "Solitaire: The Movie"

Have you seen the trailers for Minesweeper? =D

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Unfortunately it seems all games make bad movies. I'm looking forward to the Metal Gear Solid movie, it was practically and playable movie to begin with so it shouldn't be to hard, just do what they did with watchmen and make it frame for frame (yes I am aware that watchmen was a graphic novel not a game) in live action.

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Stabber1010:

SoonerMatt:
Diddy Kong Racing would be a hellish nightmare of an acid trip.

LOL

They could probably make a horrid jab at assassins creed.
*shudders at the thought of a movie like that*

Also, for an april fools joke they were going to make a Zelda: Hero of Time movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB89-9X6YS0

This is the fake one

The one you linked to is actually being made.

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All of them

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roboosh:
The Good: WoW, GTA, Saints Row, Cooking Mama, maybe Warhammer 40k if it was done Black Hawk Down style.

The Bad: Halo, KillZone... any FPS

The Ugly: Pong, any Japanese games except for Cooking Mama, Gears of War

I'm curious to see how you'ld see Cooking Mama play out as a good movie...

Personally I'ld say Kingdom Hearts, its extremely confusing and full of silly Disney characters already. There would be no saving that.

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The Hairminator:

.Warheart:
Halo, first that came up in my mind.

Halo was planned to be a movie, however the project is on ice, Can't see why it'd be bad though. Or is it just because you don't like Halo in general and feel that you have to tell every body that some more?

I liked Halo at first. After Halo 3 I'm sick of it. The story wasn't THAT great, and how would they have to do those special effects in a movie? (In the case the entire film isn't computer animated.)

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ET for Atari.

As for Guitar Hero, I think it could work if it played out like Rock Star, where a guy from a tribute band ends up singing for his favourite band. It could start off with a guitar player joining a small time cover band, then they start to make it bigger until they end up opening for a big band (Maiden, Metallica etc) and at the end one of their guitarists falls ill and he has to play with them as a stand in. It's a fairly simplistic plot, but if they brought in some humour, some Spinal Tap like antics, it could be fun.

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Bad movie: Grand Theft Auto. There's no way it would be made without a Uwe Boll-ish story.

Good movie: StarControl.

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