Unless you’ve injected yourself with copious amounts of morphine over the years, it’s quite clear that movies based on games have generally been awful, time and time again. It’s a depressing trend, but one that makes sense. Hollywood sees anything remotely popular as a cash cow; a chance to exploit its popularity by ‘cashing in’ on it and hoping to lure in fans, without putting in any consideration into the film itself. This leads to bad casting, directing, budgets, and of course, popcorn stains on the silver screen from previous viewers who hurled their snacks at the screen in a fit of rage. (continued in article)
Nintendo Has Acquired Shiver Entertainment From Embracer Group
Great news it shows that Nintendo intends to continue developing ports of AAA games to its next gen platform
Buying studios from embracer now is a great deal, they must be dirt cheap at this point, Nintendo is a opportunist, they wait until someone fall so they get their best deal
I didn't do any gymnastics I can assure you, honestly I don't know why you think that, not hating I seriously don't see why you think that
Yeah I don't know where that came from. It's rare for Nintendo to flat out aquire studios. Guess they were trying to be edgy but why flex on this studio. 🤣
I hope someone buys Piranha Bytes, their future isn't looking good right now. I love their RPGs, they're janky as f***, but they have heart and soul.
Nintendo saw the Mortal Kombat 1 Switch port and were like, "Yeah, these guys are worth acquiring."
You can't make this crap up lol
Mortal Kombat 1 was never going to port well I'm sure they told wb it wasn't going to work but wb wants that sweet sweet 140 million install base
In the end wb approved the project cleared the milestones and allowed the product to release
Yeah this guys ported MK11 which is great, Hogwarts Legacy which is great, and MK1 is now ok, play it every day
Captain Price's fate at the end of 2011's Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 could've been very different, as this new post-credits scene reveals.
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
In all honesty games don't ever make for good movies and movies don't ever make for good games.
But where there's money to be made there's money to be made.
Mother f***ing Mortal Combat yo.
Seriously though, love that movie.
Does the author know there is a Mario film? Sucks but it exists.
Most of them wouldn't but one key thing in the issue is that hollywood doesn't respect video games as a source of creativity. Every game made into movie has clearly undergone rewrites in it's story and while that might make sense it actually highlights the key assumptions already made by hollywood - this is a GAME, it's story needs to be rewritten because why would a game have a competent story?
This shines in the insanity of adaptations such as Doom. Doom didn't need to have character development it just needed demons and space marines and action. Those three things and a competent script would have resulted in a standard monster feature which is all Doom could ever be.
But noooo they can't ever do it easily can they? Why not just set a movie in the universe? That would be awesome. Case in point - half life 2. Yeah following Gordon Freeman wouldn't really give us the most riveting of scripts but why not just have it set in city 17. There must be other vital characters in g-man's plan why not follow that? Why not examine Barney or even just some guys who have to watch the river and suddenly their whole life gets blown apart when a fugitive (freeman) comes through? You please the game's fans by having a fun new story in the world they love and yet you don't suffer the pitfall of translation issues (a speaking Gordon would be a travesty no matter who played him).
But when a group of people inbreed for over half a century to promote nothing but mindless vanity and indulgence it's not really surprising that a)movies are failing, and b)a large number of the people behind them must have cranial cavities filled with lint and biscuit crums.
Mass Effect, Uncharted, or pretty much any game that successfully blends narrative and interactivity. If you remove one from the formula, it just falls apart. I think Halo, would make a good movie though.