Top 5 games that should be made into movies

maybe the dog got the guy in the wheelchair? who cares, the game and the movie are essentially the same.. most games FMVs suck anyways, except maybe wing commander or FF7. the point is there aren't many games that are constructed like their counterparts (books/movies)..

somebody mentioned earlier the game would probably have to be linear to make a good movie..
A game such as WoW would have to be changed.. some sort of hero character(s) would have to be created and the plot would have to revolve around him/them and his/their encounters.. that would be the only way to make it succeed... so I dunno how many of you like WATCHING video games as opposed to playing them but many don't..


What's the news on that damn Deus Ex movie i heard so much about?

That is true for most game->movie adaptations. The original story is mashed up so badly that it's just rehashed into some typical Hollywood blockbuster. There is the odd exception though (Lara Croft anyone?). But most of Uwe Boll's movies suck. And since he's the guy working on the movie adaptations of Far Cry and the sadistically hilarious Postal (which is releasing this year BTW), you know which movies not to watch.

EDIT - Oh, and Wikipedia says that production was cancelled on the Deus Ex movie. Those ****ing bureaucrats!

My friend i am sorry to say that you could not recognize Oblivion

i pity you for not understansing and playing one of the Best RPG games,google a bit and read it's reviews anywhere it's story is quite well paced and has been given mostly more than 9 out of 10.

i say it is the BEST rpg out there.

i am one of it's biggest fan.

My friend was looking at this thread with me and he wanted everyone to know that (^). BTW, I think they were planning to make an HL2 Movie, but it was also canceled .

Also, PoP, God of War, and Warcraft are in the making....:suspiciou

As long as Uwe Boll doesn't do them, they should be pretty good. R.I.P. Far Cry...
And Halo isn't scrapped, but put on hold. Check IMDb.
I think Hitman is gonna be pretty good. At least Vin Diesel isn't there. He'd look downright ridiculous as 47. Speaking of which, where's the third Riddick movie?

Final Fantasy should definately be the game of choice to base a movie on. The first one sucked, but Advent Children is one of my favorite films of all time! Absolutely amazing!

But they should base it more on the games story, rather than taking the good characters and "Hollywood'ing" it up. Never the less it rocked. I hope more is to come.

I'm hanging to see some crazy summons like Knights of the round or SuperNova ... Sephiroth should have busted one out in Advent Children!

Got to see Clouds finishing move though ... that was insane!

Meh, not really an RPG fan, hate the fact that all you do is spend 10 minutes (or more) to walk from point A to point B, and maybe fight 2 wolfs on your way. I'm more of a FPS where the action is 3 feet away from you, or Racer where you have to put you skills against others. and some Action Adventures.

I was just wondering whether any of the GTA games would be any good as movies.

OffTopic: Anyone see 300, thats got to be one of the best movies i have ever seen, and yet, a lot of magazines have given it a bad rating (WTF). The movie sort of reminds me of Age of Empire, build an army of 100, and go against 500+. All-in-all, great movie

Well, you don't need to walk in Oblivion. You could just fast travel.
As for the GTA games, Vice City was based on Scarface, so it would be pretty funny to see a movie based on a game based on a movie. Check out Dave Chappelle's parody of GTA too on YouTube. It's hilarious! :grinthumb

hey rage, link plz =]
i search Dave Chappelle's but non was GTA related on youtube

thz in advance mate

Not sure if this was said already but:
I'd like to see Max Payne turned into a movie.

Was the Halo movie really canceled? I've read some stuff about it being temporarily halted, but not canceled. There's still some info of it still being "in production".

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464037/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(film)

@Condor, here you go mate!
@Grafficks, the Halo movie has been postponed by MS because of no backing from any major studios. Universal and Fox pulled out at the last minute so unless New Line or Columbia or any other studio picks it up, Halo ain't going anywhere.

LMFAO @ Rage, Dave chappelle is the Man

Splinter Cell, Is what i want to see made into a movie. Oblivion gets great reviews but i watch the videos and just seems dat i cannot get into it. The games concept reminds me of final fantasy. But im sure one day when i become tired with all the games out there i will download it. Definitely would not by it lol.

Or Even Socom, which i think would be hard!

How bout the good old game diablo??

I played I and II, including both expansion packs. I can just imagine hot celebs cast for the sorceress/amazon classes lol.

plus some good CGI, I bet its going to make a hell of a movie! =D

Maybe Gamers Should Be The Executive Producers.....

As unfortunate as you might find it to be, most movies derived from games have not been terribly successful. Since most of them would require massive amounts of CGI, the cost of making these movies must of necessity be fairly high. You have to admit that individual video games probably don't have the universal following as say, Spiderman. When you're immersed in the gaming world, the people around you tend to be other gamers. What this causes is a elevated perspective of the popularity of any given game. Josh Whedon is a prime example of a cult producer that actually thinks he's Martin Scorcese. He tends not to look past the cult following around him. Anyway, even in the current market of more readily available post production services, I still wouldn't want a bill from ILM or others dropped on my desk, when I couldn't find revenue from ticket sales to pay it. Sorry I didn't mean to rain on your parade. At least I don't think I did.

P.S. I should add that I'm a big fan of Whedon's stuff. I own I think all of it. I'm only saying that sometimes his appraisal of his popularity is exaggerated.

The Longest Journey & Dreamfall.

There is simply no other storyline that can compete with this, and I've played most of the games mentioned in here. Diablo? Halo? What kinds of stories are those in the movie world. They would be another Doom flop starring The Rock...

Make a good movie on The Longest Journey/Dreamfall storyline, and not only will it capture those who played the games, but the public who aren't even into gaming at all. Those are the people that you market for to make the money...

A: I loved Mortal Kombat.
B: The Rock is an awsome actor.
C: I loved the Tomb Raider movies.

There we go!

Wait, they really need to make God of War into a movie.

Deus Ex

Call of Juarez (spaghetti westerns are back, aren't they?)

ES3:Morrowind would be nice, if a little grandiose (would probably end up like an elder scrolls version of Star Wars)

FEAR would be nice, but they'd have to focus on other things than run and gun

Half-Life 1+2

(As a gag, THE SIMS: THE MOVIE- You can just imagine a giant cursor telling you to do things you don't want to do, giving you new furniture from the sky, etc.)

@AllofthosewhothinkGearsofWarwouldbeokay: No. It had a character named Fenix. How good could it be?

Hitman COULD be good. It could. But Hollywood won't do that for us.

Deus Ex would be tough, because of the multithreaded story, but it would be phenomenal.

Also, to future posters, keep in mind that a great game does not make a great movie one-hundred percent of the time. So many things are allowed and even encouraged in video games that in Hollywoodland are completely unacceptable, and earn a movie poor reviews.

Far Cry's B-Movie goodness is one thing: the cheesy voice acting, laughable character development. In a game, it was embraced because it made fun ofcinema. In Hollywood, it's just bad acting.

Zelda is huge, and lush, and wild. But it is never a plot that an everyday Joe can identify with. It would be like Lord of the Rings with none of the quaint Bag End charm that we loved when we saw it in Hobbitton.

Some games just don't lend themselves to cinema. FEAR is a great example. It's a fantastic plot, with passable acting. But that's when it's told from the first person. The audience would never be able to be engaged in the plight of a lone man working his way through a factory of super-soldiers.

WE loved them because WE played them, but remember, the audience never did.