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This is an easy answer I’m sure I’ve given on here before; when you adapt a book to a movie you have an excess of story and character development. You boil it d
by ebbv 8y ago
This is an easy answer I’m sure I’ve given on here before; when you adapt a book to a movie you have an excess of story and character development. You boil it down to its essential ingredients. Sometimes it still turns out bad but this is why book adaptations are far more successful than video hames.
Video games get away with a lot less plot and character development because of their interactive nature and because they are graded on a curve. Many classic games have basically no character development at all.
People think adapting a game into a movie should be a natural transition but it isn’t at all. They are totally different forms.
- maxerickson 8y agoYeah I think that's the crux of it. The "Doom" movie is arguably an excellent adaptation of the video game. But that doesn't make for much of a movie.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoIf this were the case, Warcraft would've knocked it out of the park. It's lore covers many hundreds of hours of gameplay content and a decent number of full books.
- jandrese 8y agoIt depends. RPGs have a lot more character development than action games. Something like Mass Effect would be pretty straightforward to adopt into a movie (biggest question: Man or Woman Shepard?). If you're trying to adapt Space Invaders then yeah, the scriptwriter has their work cut out for them. Could be worse, you could be adopting classic boardgames. The Battleship movie was gloriously dumb. Monopoly would come across as a critique of capitalism. Actually, the Clue movie was a lot of fun.
- ebbv 8y agoI loved the Mass Effect games but I disagree it’s an automatic home run. The characters are all very thin and the main character, like most main characters is a vessel for the player to project themselves into and not a compelling protagonist.
- jandrese 8y agoYou don't think Garrus, Tali, Wrex, or Mordin have enough depth for a 90 minute movie? Shepard will of course require the screenwriter to flesh him or her out because of the nature of the game--I'm guessing a Hollywood screenwriter wouldn't have the balls for a renegade Shep though.
- egypturnash 8y agoEvery scene has a different actor playing Shepard.
- Brockenstein 8y agoYou'd be better off killing off Shepard in the first minute and having those supporting characters having to deal with it and carry on, than you would be having someone write their version of Shepard and have everyone bitch about how it's not right.