Looking at why video game movies do terribly, the best performing video game movies, and the money they make. Comparing video game success to movies. Black Ops vs. Avatar?
RPGs are often huge, sprawling endeavours. With limited playtime, we have to choose wisely, so here's the best western RPGs available today.
"I started playing games yesterday" the List... Meh!
How about a few RPGs that deserve some love instead?
1 - Alpha Protocol - Now on GOG
2 - else Heart.Break()
3 - Shadowrun Trilogy
4 - Wasteland 2
5 - UnderRail
6 - Tyranny
7 - Torment: Tides of Numenera
And for a bonus game that flew under the radar:
8 - Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Not only glorious jank, but the idea that the story can completely change depending on what you do, or say, or side with, makes it one of the most forward thinking games ever. The amount of story permutation is the equivalent of a Hitman level but in Story Form. And it wasn't just that the story changed, no, it was that you met completely new characters, or missed them, depending on your choices. Made Mass Effect feel static in comparison.
Alpha Protocol was absolutely glorious, indeed. And it was, and still is, more Next Gen than most anything out there these days. In this regard at least.
Pity.
Based on one narratively fitting ending in Mass Effect 3, Prothean squadmate Javik is highly unlikely to return in the next Mass Effect game.
He was one of my least favorite characters. I wish they would have done the Proths different.
Wealth of Geeks explores some of the best gaming romances that have stolen our hearts over the years.
But Mortal Kombat wasn't too bad I thought. Silent Hill was cool too.
If they make a Bioshock or Mass Effect movie I would still see it even if the reviewers gave it zero stars. Mass Effect is crying our for a movie, there is so much scope to expand on. It could be like the Star Wars - Clone Wars types, they are great too...
I totally agree. I am hoping that Mass Effect can quell the failing history of video game movies.
Video game movies are likely doomed to fail because while a movie is an experience that is shared with a group a video game is, more often than not, a personal experience. While you sit and watch a film and have no control over the pace or choices within it, in a video game you can speed through some parts and choose where the character goes or what he says in some cases. The transition from that to film is impossible because while video games are about giving the player choices, Hollywood is all about controlling things.
Sadly, Hollywood just doesn't take video games seriously. They think they can 'fix the stories, or create their own characters (*cough*Alice from Resident Evil*cough*), or just ignore the source material alltogether.
Then there's the fact that Hollywood are more focused on targeting the 'mainstream' audience, instead of the gaming audience. So they will dumb down their movies, or add pointless sex appeal, or use big-name actors who might not necessarily fit with that role...all so that the movie will draw in a big crowd.
And by the end of all that, the movie no longer resembles the game its based off. So fans are left thinking "wtf is this?" and the mainstream audience is thinking "wow, is this what the games are like? They must suck!" :(