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?
The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."
Black ops 4, because it was the last cod of duty I was able to dominate with a +2 k/d ratio. Before all the freaking cheating started to happen. It was nice catching people off guard and shooting at them first and getting the kill. Unlike now, where I shoot people first, but they gun me down with less hits, less time, literally feels like they can kill me in a split second. At times, they are able to run away after me shooting them way more than necessary, yet, the second I'm spotted, I'm dead, there's no me running away to cover. They can do cartwheels, summersaults, backflips and gun you down perfectly. They can shoot you across the map with perfect accuracy. They can jump around like morons and gun you down without even having to correct their aim. They have superman split second perfect reactions. That's the best way to describe it, everything they do is spot on perfect. They can spam and spray (no praying) their gun from far away, because they have no recoil or bullet spread. It always feels like I have to aim and also correct my aim when moving around, while these pricks don't have to do the same.
And yes, I know how to play fps games. I dominated many fps games like: Resistance 1&2, kz 2&3, Socom, MAG, Crysis, Gotham City Impostors, blitz brigade etc. all with 2-4 k/d ratio. Kz2 (lag input controls) and resistance (no aim assist in resistance) being the hardest and were the games I reached either close to a 3 k/d ratio or above.
I truly got to enjoy blacks ops 4 and got my money's worth out of it. Afterwords, I would either stop playing cod games after a while, because of the cheating, or would skip buying cod games for a year or two before buying another.
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.
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!" :(