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Posted by Crono on Tue Mar 23rd at 3:44am 2004

Same here, man.

I like the RE movie, I don't know why. As I've said it many times before. There are no really good aspects of the movie (Except the director, he is a good director, it was mostly the focus of the story). And I'm also looking forward to RE: Apocalypse ... not sure why lol. But I'm sure I'll like it, even if it isn't great. [addsig]



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Posted by Jinx on Tue Mar 23rd at 4:59am 2004

RE wasn't that great but it was as horrible as I was expecting therefore I was almost satisfied lol.

still want to see House of the Dead, that's supposed to be horrible.

American McGee's Alice is supposedly being made into a film- cgi one directed by Wes Craven last I heard. Not sure if it fell through or what, but it has potential, I loved the world in that game.

Metroid could be good if it was done well. mmmm... real life Samus.. *drool*





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Posted by Crono on Tue Mar 23rd at 5:59am 2004

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American McGee's Alice is supposedly being made into a film- cgi one directed by Wes Craven last I heard.

Oh, God! What a bad director. (Yes, Craven is a terrible director)

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Metroid could be good if it was done well.


That would kick so much ass.

Oh, also, I personally think a tweaked version of the Hitman story line would be pretty bad ass as well. [addsig]



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Posted by SuperCrazy on Tue Mar 23rd at 8:11am 2004

Beyond Good and Evil



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Posted by Crono on Tue Mar 23rd at 8:25am 2004

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Beyond Good and Evil


I thought the game did a pretty good job of being a movie [addsig]



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Posted by Hugh on Tue Mar 23rd at 8:38am 2004

Pah, most of the good ones have been used.... so I'll just repeat the ones I'd go see.......

Doom: A beefed up Kevin Spacey as the Marine.

Half-Life: Charlie Sheen as Gordon. He did a really crappy movie regarding aliens where he looked a lot like Gordon, so it'll work out well.

Morrowind: Purely because Morrowind, as a movie, would be some hard-core trippy s**t. "wtf, walking cat people with swords!?" Good luck writing a coherent screenplay, though.





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Posted by Crono on Tue Mar 23rd at 11:46am 2004

The Arival was okay. (the movie in which you refer to), it wasn't crap though.

However, something I don't think many people here are realizing, the ones who suggest Half-Life anyway, is that, specifically for HL, there would be so many things that would need to be changed. There's absolutly no character development in the entire game, it would be one of those movies you see that have, in theory, a really complex plot, but it gets dumbed down by action.

The over all story line would have to be ripped apart and carfully pieced back together to resemble anything close to good story telling. The way it is now works as a game, but it would need some major tweaking, even if you include all the add-ons as part of the story, which I wouldn't accept a HL movie as HL if it didn't have Opposing Force in the story line.

Charlie Sheen, by the way, is a terrible actor, however, you're right, he looks like Gordon, but then again, so does Danny Badaduchi [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Tue Mar 23rd at 1:17pm 2004

Perhaps Front Mission 3 - plenty of characters and development in that, with a pretty complex storyline. With those things it could mean there is plenty of content for a film without just having action to go on (ie. like an FPS being made into a film). I'd love to see some realistic CGI of those wanzer's too - the stuff in the games is great but the quality of something like LOTR's special effects would be incredible. [addsig]



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Posted by fraggard on Tue Mar 23rd at 1:21pm 2004

Unreal.

Not Unreal2. Not the mission pack. Just plain old Unreal.



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Posted by wil5on on Tue Mar 23rd at 1:52pm 2004

I'm not sure if Half-Life is movieworthy. Its a great game, with a good storyline, however I dont think the story would translate well to a movie.

And anyway, who would play Walter Bennett?

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Posted by Death To lag? on Tue Mar 23rd at 2:13pm 2004

Killswitch... thiers so manny moves like this game its not funnie.... [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Tue Mar 23rd at 2:28pm 2004

How is kill.switch? I played the demo and, as a fast paced shooter, it was good fun. Is the full game any good? I can imagine it being a bit short lived. [addsig]



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Posted by Jinx on Tue Mar 23rd at 4:51pm 2004

Half-Life's plot is basically "Die Hard for nerds".



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Posted by Forceflow on Tue Mar 23rd at 4:54pm 2004

Let's do this the other way around ... which movie would make a good game ?





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Posted by Smoke on Tue Mar 23rd at 5:01pm 2004

The only thing worse than a movie based on a game, is a game based on a movie, but what about a game based on a movie based on a game???



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Posted by Gorbachev on Tue Mar 23rd at 6:26pm 2004

Metal Gear Solid and Silent Hill would make great movies...actually my friends and I are going to make indie versions of both when we get a camera in the next while. When my hair grows long I've got a great Snake impression, and I can do the voice spot-on [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Tue Mar 23rd at 6:35pm 2004

? posted by Smoke
The only thing worse than a movie based on a game, is a game based on a movie, but what about a game based on a movie based on a game???

Like the game "Street Fighter: The Movie"? Oh dear god, how did that EVER happen...

I guess Splinter Cell could work as a film, but they would need to work on more non-action sequences - other than radio chatter there is no character interaction.

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Posted by Crono on Tue Mar 23rd at 6:48pm 2004

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The only thing worse than a movie based on a game, is a game based on a movie


What are you talking about? Unless that movie is like High Fidelity or Magnolia or something, it would be great.

A Gear Box production: High Fidelity...THE GAME. Smash in Tim Robbins's face with ANYTHING, in completely INTERACTIVE environments ...

Anyway, something that would make an AWESOME transition to game (In my opinion) would be Enemy at the Gates. So would Terminator, but they just can't seem to make the game properly, I don't know why.

I've noticed that small development teams usually reach and grab for movie conversions and they never really deliver. I mean, I enjoyed Enter The Matrix, because I thought it was fun for the most part. But, it wasn't a great game. (It was actually A LOT better when it didn't install properly, so I didn't have the arrow telling me where to go ). Terminator 3 blows so much ass, I mean the game is actually worse then the movie, how the hell can this be possible?? (The movie had good action though, damn good action actually, but that doesn't make the movie ) Also, I've noticed that certain games leave me wanting to play them more then once, even if they don't have very elaborate game play, if their story is adequate and well drawn out. (Such as MGS, Think about it, if that thing had NO story, how many times could you play through that thing? It's like one of the only games I never skipped any movie on, except when seeing the same movie like five minutes after I just saw it.)

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Like the game "Street Fighter: The Movie"? Oh dear god, how did that EVER happen...


...Dear God I don't know. What a bad movie, what a bad game. I feel bad for Raul Julia since that was his last role before he died
He was a DAMN good actor. [addsig]



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Posted by Diarmaidx2 on Tue Mar 23rd at 7:25pm 2004

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why does that laser corridor wait until one guy is left alive before splicing him into many pieces? why didn't it just use that in the first place instead of one lazer? Was it toying with them or what? Oh, and there's that big trap door in the train. WHY?! ). And don't forget the fact that everything was either made of shiny aluminum or concrete.

conserving energy?
train line maintenance?
and you try and make a giant lab under a city, what would you use? id use cottencandy!

what about Rainbow 6? or would there be a load of hastle with the book?



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Posted by ReNo on Tue Mar 23rd at 7:32pm 2004

Well the book could be made into a film better than the game I reckon - if you are talking about the first one that is. Tom Clancy books often make decent enough crossovers to films, so R6 would stand a chance. I think its perhaps a bit long but book to film conversions always have that problem tbh.

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