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Grand Theft Auto Movie? Take-Two Films Are in the Works, Will Have Creative Control

Is a Grand Theft Auto movie incoming soon? Get ready to see your favorite Rockstar and 2K games on the big screen as Take-Two films are in the works. The company wants creative control.

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-Foxtrot2633d ago

Well Ubisoft had creative control over Assassins Creed with a great actor and director behind it yet they still screwed up

Creative control means nothing if you are going to follow the same mistakes Hollywood would make without you.

Derekvinyard132633d ago

I've said it once and I'll say it a million times, Hollywood will never make a good video game movie after the screwup that was max Payne. With that game you are literally handed a movie and they still managed to botch it

-Foxtrot2633d ago

All they have to do is to have a writer who is a gamer, loves the games and who will follow them as closely as they possibly can.

Not hard to do

Gamble202633d ago

Just my personal theory but I think the interactive element of a video game is still the part that makes it difficult to translate to film. There are a lot of games with great stories, but the fact that you can immerse yourself in playing the characters is what makes it better. In a movie you lose that immersion and you have to rely solely on the emotional attachments to the character. There hasn't been a film yet that has been able to truly create that emotional bond. With books or comics coming to film, they are already designed to create that in a narrative process. Video games, even if they do use heavy narrative process, still need that interaction. There are some stories that I love playing but when I take a step back and ask myself "If I couldn't play this and just had to watch it start to finish, would I enjoy it just as much?" And the answer is generally no.

-Foxtrot2633d ago

If you take the gameplay out and focus on the main cutscenes you could easilly bridge the gap between the scenes.

Take Drakes Fortune for example. Most of the gameplay sections within the game could easily be removed and replaced with quick cuts to the next scene. If we take the first section of the game where Sully and Nate look around the jungles of Central America for El Dorado you could easily by pass most of the traps and puzzles in that level, all you would have to pick is one or two key scenes then move it along to the next scene when they realise that the statue has been moved.

Personally I would choose the scene where everything starts to collapse and you need to run for your life only for Sully to take the easy way in the end by just walking across what's almost crushed you to death. This scene would be 1) A great set piece. 2) Shows Nates struggles and so called luck. 3) Shows the comedy with Sully taking the easy route in the end which would lead to 4) The interaction of the two characters. This scene in that first level would literally sum everything up nicely of that chapter.

You go in the entrance, walk around, pull a chain for the door, get through, the massive set piece happens, they get through ok and BAM they end up in the room where they discover El Dorado was a statue and was dragged out by a back entrance. This shaves a shit load of time off the story.

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cfc832633d ago

They would basically be using the i.p to milk it. How on earth can you make a movie that accurately portrays gta ?

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Limbrick2633d ago

I think GTA works as a movie if it is a parody type. A parody featuring multiple GTA games, or GTA and other games. Something like " Not Another Teen Movie" or " Scary Movie". GTA games are basically parodies and would not be a fun movie if done all dramatic and serious.

Gamble202633d ago (Edited 2633d ago )

But beyond the first few Scary Movies when the genre was brand new, live action parody films have flopped so hard.

smolinsk2633d ago

I would say that in some way what makes the resident evil films work is that it do not follow the games and have more freedom to make something creative on top of the residents evil formel. That works much better then the films tries to much to follow the games to strictly.

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Square & Bandai Namco Being Honest About Quality Is A Step In The Right Direction

Saad from eXputer: "After suffering from massive financial hits, Square Enix & Bandai Namco appear to be turning over a new leaf but I'm still unconvinced."

Nerdmaster22m ago(Edited 21m ago)

I was talking about games with some Japanese guys here in Japan, and it seems like around here Bandai Namco has a fame of making low-quality games, with the occasional gem.

About Square Enix, I believe they lack the capacity to improve. They should learn with Capcom (although even Capcom still makes some bad mistakes), but I don't think they ever will. They keep chasing whatever is new at the time (blockchain, AI...) to say "we innovate", without considering the public perception and if these things actually improve the games or not. Them releasing too many small games with no advertising also shows a lack of trust in its own products. Even with their biggest games, like turning FF into an action game with XVI and the very divisive plot changes regarding whispers and timelines in VII Remake, shows them trying to attract a new generation of gamers without understanding what made the series so big in the first place.

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Steam’s Refund Policy Change Won’t Affect You Unless You’re A Lowlife

Steam is changing its refund policy, but you probably won’t be affected

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thorstein2d ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii2d ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo2d ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows902d ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel19891d 22h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

Nooderus1d 13h ago

"X" type of gamer conversations are cringe

qalpha2d ago

Daily reminder that 'TheGamer' is a corporate-generated, anti-gamer, anti-consumer, clickbait web site. They are mostly A.I. generated articles that villainize gamers. They provide nothing positive and actively try to provoke and divide the community through extreme view points and politics. Do not give them any clicks.

Inverno2d ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan2d ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno2d ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life19812d ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn6691d 22h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19811d 17h ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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Outriders Dev's Next Game Has Been Canceled After Publishing Agreement With Take-Two Fell Through

Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.

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Tacoboto4d ago

"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."

If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.

banger884d ago

If it was more online-only crap then good riddance.

jjb19813d ago

Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.

thorstein3d ago

I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.