Neocrisis: Why do Games to Film Always Suck?

Neocrisis writes: The original Street Fighter film has garnered a reputation as being so bad it was good by some. However there is no such luck for the new film. Needless to say the movie is a terrible pile of trash. This got me to thinking why do all the movies based on games suck?

[Raoh]

Easy answer... owner of the product thinks it will sell on name alone, developer/publisher of the game thinks it will sell on name alone.

all parties involved put little to no care into the game cause it will sell anyway.. and the fact that most of these crap games sell well their right.. (idiots stop buying these games)

there is nothing wrong with a game coming out at the same time as the movie but they should be working together...

with all the cgi in movies lately there is no reason why the movie and game cant share the cgi studio or work together with two studios...

the video game and movie director should be at each others staff meetings...

etc etc etc...

its a shame too, cause not only should some of the games released should have been better, there are some movies that could have been great games...

game versions of rocknrolla, way of the gun, etc would be great games (think indigo prophecy, soon to come heavy rain, mgs4, soon to come alan wake etc)

all the movie based games are action but many adults would love to play a story driven movie game, i would...

[jazzking2001]

it all comes down to is $$$$$$$$$$

[Trollimite]

Beacuse you touch yourself at night

[BkaY]

they dont give a flyin rats azz about the game ... they think tht they can get away with just the name like "max payne".... worst acting and directing ever.....

i think if they really want to make a movie based on game.. then do in 3d, not real actors...

like final fantasy 7 and RE:D....

they were pretty decent movies...

peace

[Hiruma Youchi]

smh at street fight chun li

[jazzking2001]

ya

[nix]

i never buy a game that's made out from a movie. hell.. i don't even bother to download the demo. i did download the Wall-E demo by mistake... man that demo just wouldn't end. it was so freaking long and equally boring.

only the kids will love "movie" games.

[jazzking2001]

lol

[Major_Tom]

Golden Eye certainly didn't suck, but I reckon that's the exception to the rule!

[jazzking2001]

exception to the rule
but the movie came before the games

[Rockox]

The best line from Street Fighter is:

"Now who wants to go home...and who wants to go with ME?!"

[PirateThom]

Writers get their hands on video game licenses and don't really give too much thought to the source material. They're making a movie, not a game.

There's still yet to be a really good movie based on a game because no one wants the take the time write one. Some of them have been watchable, but nothing "wow, that was awesome".

Maybe if Kojima and Hayter get to co-write the Metal Gear movie, it will maintain the feel of the source material.

[jazzking2001]

good point

[Rockox]

They did already write a Metal Gear movie...

...it was called MGS4.

[TheColbertinator]

They rush the game development along with the movie release.Iron Man is the great example of that mistake

[nerubii]

because they were expecting a game rather than a movie.

or if the movie were to adapt to the game's story.. ahhh plagiarism.

[ChaoticStupid]

Maybe. Just maybe there is hope for 1 movie to game to be good this year. Harry Potter 6 has the chance. Think about it. The game and movie got delayed a good 8 months. So they practically had their development time doubled. Surely they can take that time and really polish the game into a gem.