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Title: Video Game Movies?
Post by: adwight on March 26, 2004, 05:56:15 pm
Which game do you think could make a great movie, better than any of the other failures?  I think that HALO could make an awesome movie.
Title: Video Game Movies?
Post by: aldo_14 on March 26, 2004, 05:58:39 pm
(waits for Freespace!!!111oneoneone answer....)

Actually, i can;t think of any.  Mainly because a) all videogame movies turn out awful and b) game stories are largely dependent on the players interaction - and that can be hard to translte to a screenplay IMO.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on March 26, 2004, 05:59:38 pm
*waits for Mortal Kombat 3*
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 26, 2004, 06:02:08 pm
Op Flashpoint might, might make a good film, at a pinch.
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Post by: Knight Templar on March 26, 2004, 06:04:17 pm
Halo. Or rather, one of the books.
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Post by: castor on March 26, 2004, 06:14:18 pm
Minefield..
Seriously, can't think of any without lots of stuffing.
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Post by: adwight on March 26, 2004, 06:16:55 pm
Well back to my HALO thought.  Yes, I think a series based off the books would be pretty sweet, especially the Fall of Reach, I loved that book.
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Post by: Flipside on March 26, 2004, 06:19:05 pm
hehehehehe

Hostile Waters! :D
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Post by: Knight Templar on March 26, 2004, 06:19:25 pm
Ja, and First Strike as the sequel of course. Both of them felt very movie IMO.
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Post by: Turnsky on March 26, 2004, 06:20:13 pm
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Ja, and First Strike as the sequel of course. Both of them felt very movie IMO.


splinter cell movie, anyone?.. or deus ex?
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 26, 2004, 06:20:43 pm
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Originally posted by Flipside
hehehehehe

Hostile Waters! :D


:D

With Patrick Stewart as...someone.

How would DX work, though, Turnsky? They'd have to record multiple endings. :P
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Post by: Flipside on March 26, 2004, 06:23:08 pm
Actually, if you based it around when Ransom was alive and fighting in the war against the old guard, that would be cool ;)

And Patrick could be the General ;)
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Post by: Carl on March 26, 2004, 06:24:34 pm
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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
*waits for Mortal Kombat 3*


you're about 7 years too late.

*waits for eternal darkness movie and/or TV series* (http://www.hypnotic.com/press_items/release_16.aspx)
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Post by: Knight Templar on March 26, 2004, 06:28:09 pm
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Originally posted by Turnsky


splinter cell movie, anyone?.. or deus ex?


:yes: :yes:

Which reminds me, I need to play the PT demo.
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Post by: diamondgeezer on March 26, 2004, 06:37:24 pm
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Originally posted by Carl
you're about 7 years too late.

That'd be incredibly ****ing witty if we were discussing movies rather than games
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Post by: Windrunner on March 26, 2004, 06:40:06 pm
i was impressed by Resident evil movie. the second is coming in may. i am defenetly gonna see it
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Post by: Blaise Russel on March 26, 2004, 06:55:30 pm
Anachronox was actually turned into a machinima movie.
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Post by: Ghostavo on March 26, 2004, 07:05:57 pm
Any of Blizzard's main game series (WarCraft, StarCraft and Diablo). :nervous:
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 26, 2004, 07:08:22 pm
Quake 3, for sure
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Post by: Exarch on March 26, 2004, 07:12:40 pm
Starcraft could make a good movie, I think. Even if you chop away all the pretty graphics and good gameplay, there's still a pretty solid storyline behind it and the expansion that can hold it's own. Something like a hybrid between the original starwars trilogy and starship troopers I would imagine, only no Fuzzy Bears (which would be a good thing).

Pretty much any Lucasfilm Games/LucasArts adventure game would work, too. Well, maybe not Grim Fandango since it would be nigh impossible to make a world of nothing but skeletons seem plausible outside of cartoonish graphics, but the Monkey Island series (almost been done already, Pirates of the Carribean rips off these games in so many ways it's not funny... except it *was* funny and very enjoyable too :D) and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis would be good for action/comedy, and Full Throttle would own as a bit more serious movie. Too bad about Fandango though, since that's the best game of them all in my opinion.
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Post by: Ghostavo on March 26, 2004, 07:16:31 pm
StarCraft's story is legendary, period. It would beat the crap out of any sci-fi movie ever made or ever to be made.
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Post by: Flipside on March 26, 2004, 07:19:56 pm
Gothic 2 would be pretty good as a movie, though it'd probably take up more DVD's than Lord of the Rings ;)
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Post by: Turnsky on March 26, 2004, 07:56:40 pm
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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB


:D

With Patrick Stewart as...someone.

How would DX work, though, Turnsky? They'd have to record multiple endings. :P


or converge all into one.;)
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Post by: Liberator on March 26, 2004, 08:20:50 pm
Planescape: Torment.

As a Macro-series.

Failing that, maybe Rise of the Shadowhand expansion for Dark Reign.
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Post by: übermetroid on March 26, 2004, 08:23:43 pm
Street Fighter!







Oh wait....
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Post by: mikhael on March 26, 2004, 10:49:19 pm
Crimson Skies! Oh wait, we're getting Sky Captain in the World of Tomorrow (or whatever).

Starlancer could be a good movie if it didn't turn into another Wing Commander.

Sam and Max could be a good movie.

Jedi Knight or Jedi Outcast. ;)

Knights of the Old Republic SHOULD be the next Star Wars movie, damnit!

Um.... System Shock 2 could be a good movie--if it weren't screwed up.

Um... I'll go with System Shock 2.
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Post by: Xelion on March 26, 2004, 10:51:32 pm
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Originally posted by Carl
*waits for eternal darkness movie and/or TV series* (http://www.hypnotic.com/press_items/release_16.aspx)


If this gets through I'll be amazed. :nod:
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Post by: Bobboau on March 26, 2004, 11:19:19 pm
Super Mario Brothers
:)
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Post by: JR2000Z on March 26, 2004, 11:39:12 pm
They already made a move out of that.
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Post by: Bobboau on March 26, 2004, 11:41:27 pm
realy, have you seen it, I know it says super mario brothers on it but I don't remembering it haveing the slightest thing to do with the game
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Post by: übermetroid on March 26, 2004, 11:55:52 pm
Yoshi was in it.
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Post by: adwight on March 27, 2004, 12:24:12 am
Wasn't he the orange dinorsaur thing if I remember correctly?
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Post by: Nico on March 27, 2004, 12:46:37 am
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Originally posted by Ghostavo
StarCraft's story is legendary, period. It would beat the crap out of any sci-fi movie ever made or ever to be made.


Starcraft ( be it story or visuals ) is a complete rip off from warhammer 40000. Not surprising, since Warcraft was a complete rip off from warhammer fantasy battles :doubt:.

So I'd say: Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat would own.
Or Alone in the Dark. Or Dark Earth.
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Post by: Bobboau on March 27, 2004, 12:49:21 am
you seem to like games with a theim of darkness don't you
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Post by: Singh on March 27, 2004, 01:08:28 am
Freespace 1 and 2!!!
Come on...who wouldn't want to see 2 Kilometer long starships duking it out with thousands of fighters in-between??! Plus the lucifer will just kick @ss!!!!
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Post by: Setekh on March 27, 2004, 02:07:31 am
Definitely HALO. I'd love that. :)
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Post by: Singh on March 27, 2004, 02:09:34 am
HALO already has movies... (www.redvsblue.com) so :P
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Post by: IPAndrews on March 27, 2004, 03:01:05 am
You could maybe do something with the System Shock series. There's enough decent material between the two games I think, and System Shock 2 is of course the scariest thing - ever -.
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Post by: Knight Templar on March 27, 2004, 03:03:38 am
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Originally posted by mikhael

Knights of the Old Republic SHOULD be the next Star Wars movie, damnit!
 


:yes: I honestly wouldn't mind at all trading in Episode 3 for it.
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Post by: karajorma on March 27, 2004, 04:47:59 am
Max Payne. It's virtually a movie anyway.
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Post by: Dark_4ce on March 27, 2004, 04:55:38 am
I agree, Knights of the Old Republic SHOULD be a movie. Howver Halo is a very good concept for a film. So is Half Life. But.... There is one... It was destined to be a movie, although it was shelved because it would cost too much to make... Invisioned by Steven Spielberg himself. And then made into a AWESOME game!

-------------------------------------THE DIG------------------------------------
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 27, 2004, 04:58:30 am
Surely the obvious choice is The Movies
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Post by: Ghostavo on March 27, 2004, 08:43:38 am
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Starcraft ( be it story or visuals ) is a complete rip off from warhammer 40000. Not surprising, since Warcraft was a complete rip off from warhammer fantasy battles .


methinks you should go check the release dates on both games...
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Post by: Exarch on March 27, 2004, 08:52:13 am
Warhammer was around long before computer games were made based on it, which is what I think he was referring to. That said, Starcraft would still own as a movie, whether the concept is a ripoff or not, it's story is still more than good enough to support a couple of hours of screentime no problem.
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Post by: kode on March 27, 2004, 09:01:21 am
tetris
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Post by: aldo_14 on March 27, 2004, 09:02:46 am
whatever happened to the Doom movie, BTW?  I read somewhere it was optioned by a production company, but only under the provision that it entered pre-production within a year or thereabouts.......which would be expiring soon.

EDIT:
http://www.gamers.com/news/1245824
So, no then (time's expired)
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Post by: Corhellion on March 27, 2004, 10:25:10 am
Half-life! Come on people..Half-life!

Or...Homeworld...or Homeworld 2...

*looks through his stack of games*

...Diablo...Diablo 2...Shogo M.A.D. ....Aliens Versus Pred...oh wait...it's already being made :D
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Post by: kode on March 27, 2004, 11:40:48 am
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Originally posted by Corhellion
Aliens Versus Pred...oh wait...it's already being made :D


wasn't that a book or a comic before it became a game?

carmageddon'd make a good movie, but it's based on a movie (death race 2000).

Zelda would make a good movie too.
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Post by: Flipside on March 27, 2004, 11:47:38 am
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Originally posted by Corhellion
Aliens Versus Pred...oh wait...it's already being made :D [/B]


Yes, someone I know is on the CG team for it, and he's got the Predator, lucky b*stard :(
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Post by: redsniper on March 27, 2004, 11:48:12 am
I can't believe no one's said it but...
[size=8]METAL GEAR SOLID[/size]
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Post by: Nico on March 27, 2004, 12:39:19 pm
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Originally posted by Bobboau
you seem to like games with a theim of darkness don't you


I was about to add Dark project :p
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Post by: Gloriano on March 27, 2004, 12:44:00 pm
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Originally posted by redsniper
I can't believe no one's said it but...
[size=8]METAL GEAR SOLID[/size]


Agreed:yes:


and Onimusha movie would be great too


Zelda cg movie would be great too
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Post by: Gortef on March 27, 2004, 02:31:15 pm
Neverwinter Nights
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Post by: Ghostavo on March 27, 2004, 03:05:22 pm
Arkanoid :nervous:
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Post by: Petrarch of the VBB on March 27, 2004, 03:34:32 pm
Tetris
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Post by: .::Tin Can::. on March 27, 2004, 04:37:31 pm
Tetris

But seriously folks: Freespace 2 or System Shock 2. System Shock 2 would just kick so much ASS!
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Post by: Dark_4ce on March 27, 2004, 07:58:11 pm
Oh how could I forget. Bubble Bobble. Ooh ooh. Lemmings!

But seriously.

Yeah AVP was a book first, then made into a Comic Book series. Or viceversa. Dont remember. Anyway, they were good, and I heard the guys who are making it are all AVP nuts, some my fingers are crossed. I just dont want another Lara Croft crap or Aliens 4. *shudder* tho the director did direct Resident Evil wasnt it? And I didn't like it very much, however it was filmed rather well, and every director has a bad day. So I'll give him another chance. Gore Verbinski did The Mexican after all. And then he did the Ring AND Pirates of the Carribean.

As for a game to movie. Hmm... Theres been no decent movie made of a FPS really. So either Half Life or Halo. I wouldn't want to see Metal Gear Solid be made into a movie though. It would get raped. Seriously raped. They'd lower the violence to the market audience, get Tom Cruise to be Solid, give him a mullet and pritty much redo the whole mission impossible spiel. Let alot make an entire new story that makes no sense and keep it marketable so they can make more nonsense sequels. bah.

I say make a movie about US. The HLP. We got a script too. Dont we UT? :D
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Post by: Carl on March 27, 2004, 08:06:23 pm
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Originally posted by kode
Tetris


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Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Tetris


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Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
Tetris


(http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2003/20030124l.jpg)
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Post by: mikhael on March 27, 2004, 08:07:14 pm
AvP was comic books first. My set is from the first run of the first AvP series, with ish 0 signed by one of the artists on the cover. :)

Not quite as good as Grendel (any of them) but still pretty damned good. :)
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Post by: Flipside on March 27, 2004, 08:09:01 pm
ROFLMAO @ Carl!

 I haven't laughed so hard for ages!

Flipside :D
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Post by: Ghostavo on March 27, 2004, 08:14:15 pm
Carl :D :yes:

Tetris: Judgement Day!!! :nervous:
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Post by: kode on March 28, 2004, 03:43:46 am
Tetris V: The return of the bricks
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Post by: Setekh on March 29, 2004, 06:15:41 am
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Originally posted by Holy Imperial Gloriano
and Onimusha movie would be great too


If they make it anything like the intro we saw, that would be awesome indeed. ;)