Board 8 > Best recent video game adaptation?

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Big Bob
11/20/21 12:19:46 AM
#1:


Which adaptation of a video game is recent years is your favorite?










Granted, I've only seen two of these.

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paperwarior
11/20/21 12:24:22 AM
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I've only seen one of these.

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KCF0107
11/20/21 12:25:03 AM
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Two is more than I have seen
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Axl_Rose_85
11/20/21 12:39:53 AM
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They had to turn Alucard gay in Castlevania to cater to the PC culture didn't they?

Votes Mortal Kombat
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changmas
11/20/21 12:45:23 AM
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Castlevania is good to great, Detective Pikachu is watchable, but Arcane is absolutely incredible

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KamikazePotato
11/20/21 12:57:57 AM
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Arcane is probably the real answer based on the reception I've seen. Haven't watched it yet though

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Mac Arrowny
11/20/21 12:58:39 AM
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Castlevania's fantastic. I've also seen the first three, none of which were particularly impressive. Arcane is interesting tho.
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Ngamer64
11/20/21 1:06:54 AM
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I greatly enjoyed Dragon's Blood, but wanted to vote for Witcher.


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Xtlm
11/20/21 2:56:39 AM
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Axl_Rose_85 posted...
They had to turn Alucard gay in Castlevania to cater to the PC culture didn't they?
Wait what?

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MrGreenonion
11/20/21 2:59:38 AM
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I haven't finished Castlevania but from the season and a half that I watched it was good, but I wasn't feeling the Castlevania-ness of it. I guess maybe they start incorporating more elements of the games into it later on but tbh I've never been a fan of the Trevor-era games (Dracula's Curse & Curse of Darkness) to begin with.

Sonic & Detective Pikachu were both top tier fun.
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KamikazePotato
11/20/21 3:04:24 AM
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Axl_Rose_85 posted...
They had to turn Alucard gay in Castlevania to cater to the PC culture didn't they?
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SwiftyDC
11/20/21 3:09:03 AM
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Arcane is awesome.

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jcgamer107
11/20/21 3:16:27 AM
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Detective Pikachu, strictly for the end credits sequence

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XIII_rocks
11/20/21 3:31:14 AM
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jcgamer107 posted...
Detective Pikachu, strictly for the end credits sequence

This is what put Detective Pikachu over the top for me, yeah

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MrGreenonion
11/20/21 4:00:35 AM
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Arcane looked really cool until I found out it was based on League of Legends. Not sure I'm interested in consuming LoL media.
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Nanis23
11/20/21 4:09:51 AM
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Only saw Detective Pikachu and Dota. Both were good
Was very surprised that the Dota show turned out to be good

Will probably see Arcane and RE soon. Although I don't give a shit about LoL and I hated the game. But if it's like Dragon's Blood, you don't really need to care about the game to enjoy the show

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Raka_Putra
11/20/21 4:43:14 AM
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Learning with Manga series.

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ffmasterjose
11/20/21 5:40:26 AM
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Oh shit i forgot about the not-Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movie from some years ago.

That came and went with a whimper LOL

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Lightning Strikes
11/20/21 6:17:03 AM
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Xtlm posted...
Wait what?

They do not. What is being referred to is a scene of Alucard having a threesome with a man and a woman and having sex with both of them which would make him bisexual, and frankly unless you can show me canonical evidence that he is straight in the games that is no different than just giving him a heterosexual love interest. Would that be making him straight?

anyway, the answer is Castlevania.

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GavsEvans123
11/20/21 8:40:35 AM
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I voted for Mortal Kombat. I had heard that the first 10 minutes and last 10 minutes were good, but I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed everything in between too.

Alicia Vikander carried Tomb Raider just enough for me to be interested in the sequel, which is supposedly still coming at some point.

Detective Pikachu is elevated by the world-building. They really went all out on making it feel like a Pokemon world, when it would have been much easier (and probably more box office friendly) to just do our world with a handful of the most popular Gen 1 Pokemon added.

Sonic was also a lot of fun and better than expected. Jim Carrey steals the show.
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ChichiriMuyo
11/20/21 8:48:34 AM
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This was hard. Castlevania seasons 1 and 2 are great. Not just good, great. It loses some of that as it goes on, but even by the end I'd say the project was a real success. Detective Pikachu is good from beginning to end, but it's also largely forgettable. Arcane has been very good so far, but it's so early. Who knows if they can maintain this quality as it goes on.

I voted for Castlevania because, like the game series, most of the world might not know it even exists but it's just plain solid as a whole. I do think Arcane has the ability to totally surpass it, but it's too soon to know for sure.

I haven't seen Sonic, maybe I should, but the rest rank as either entirely forgettable to just bad.

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BetrayedTangy
11/20/21 9:54:24 AM
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Mortal Kombat and Sonic were the only two that felt completely entertaining the whole way through.

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pjbasis
11/20/21 10:22:23 AM
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Lightning Strikes posted...
Would that be making him straight?

back in my day we could just assume characters were straight

then they invented homosexuals in the 60s

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colliding
11/20/21 1:36:30 PM
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Castlevania is the only one I'd qualify as very good

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Axl_Rose_85
11/20/21 1:43:00 PM
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Lightning Strikes posted...
They do not. What is being referred to is a scene of Alucard having a threesome with a man and a woman and having sex with both of them which would make him bisexual, and frankly unless you can show me canonical evidence that he is straight in the games that is no different than just giving him a heterosexual love interest. Would that be making him straight?

anyway, the answer is Castlevania.

Dude. He literally takes it in the ass and cries from orgasm. Not to mention he doesn't really seem to be having much of an interaction with the girl even though it is a threesome. If that is not gay, I don't know what is.
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Mac Arrowny
11/20/21 1:50:04 PM
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Why are you so homophobic?
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Leonhart4
11/20/21 1:55:13 PM
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Everyone knows vampires are sexual deviants

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lordjers
11/20/21 2:18:55 PM
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Axl_Rose_85 posted...
They had to turn Alucard gay in Castlevania to cater to the PC culture didn't they?

Votes Mortal Kombat

Bisexual, but yeah that was dumb, specially cause that was his plot during an entire season. Other than that, and Hector, excellent series.

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XIII_rocks
11/20/21 6:47:34 PM
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Axl_Rose_85 posted...
Dude.


Are you really presenting a threesome involving a woman as like, the ultimate in gay

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GuessMyUserName
11/20/21 6:53:51 PM
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complaining about a vampire enjoying anal sex sure is a new one

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Murphiroth
11/20/21 7:10:43 PM
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Axl_Rose_85 posted...
Dude. He literally takes it in the ass and cries from orgasm. Not to mention he doesn't really seem to be having much of an interaction with the girl even though it is a threesome. If that is not gay, I don't know what is.

So what's the threshold for interacting with the girl in a MMF threesome that he'd have to hit for it to be bi and not gay IYO? Like is there a percentage of contact required? Specific kind of contact? Really curious as to your thought process here.

Also curious when Alucard's ever had any kind of a canon sexuality.
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lordjers
11/20/21 8:02:26 PM
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Murphiroth posted...
Also curious when Alucard's ever had any kind of a canon sexuality.

In one continuity he fathered Trevor Belmont with Sonia.

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ChichiriMuyo
11/21/21 3:43:07 AM
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Ngamer64 posted...
I greatly enjoyed Dragon's Blood, but wanted to vote for Witcher.
But the topic is about movies/shows based on video games, not books. Why would you want to vote for a series based on books when that's not what the topic is about?

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ESY16
11/21/21 3:50:06 AM
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Voted Castlevania, though Arcane is a close 2nd.

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MrGreenonion
11/24/21 9:24:39 PM
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lordjers posted...
In one continuity he fathered Trevor Belmont with Sonia.

Murphiroth posted...
canon

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lordjers
11/24/21 9:28:36 PM
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MrGreenonion posted...
lordjers posted...
In one continuity he fathered Trevor Belmont with Sonia.

Murphiroth posted...
canon

It was mainline before Iga retconned it. Not that the series we're discussing is canon to the games mind you.

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Johnbobb
11/24/21 10:07:57 PM
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Holy shit complaining about a vampire participating in sexual deviancy has to be a new record or something

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pyresword
11/24/21 10:32:26 PM
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I know this is an old topic but I'm just here to echo that you don't need any attachment to the game in order to enjoy Arcane.
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GuessMyUserName
11/24/21 11:02:24 PM
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meanwhile Hellsing Alucard out there stating he doesn't give two shits about the trappings of mortal forms, materializing as a girl in the 40s just to mess with people aww yeah

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UF8
11/24/21 11:26:05 PM
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oh yeah i just remembered anime adaptations lol

regarding vn adaptations i guess planetarian's was passable. aokana, utaware mask of deception and girls beyond the wasteland's ones had problems but were ok on their own. need to get back to yu-no and higurashi new at some point (well probably just the latter i think yu-no's was just bad)

regarding real videogame adaptations, there have been some legit short comedy ones like with Onigiri... but the rest i've seen have generally sucked lol (ace attorney/pso2/ao oni and the ao oni movie/akiba's trip/kancolle/both touken ranbu adaptations/caligula/conception/sakura wars etc)

and regarding adaptations of mobile (and especially idol) games... a lot of good ones actually. 18if was cool, hagane orchestra was a lot like onigiri's adaptation but better, kemono friends... would've been an excellent option for the poll if it counted (putting aside kemono friends 2...). even the short anime adaptations of the original mobile game as well as kemono friends 3 were alright. uma musume is surprisingly decent, ragnastrike angels is criminally underrated for a series of 30 second ads, (s1's a bit old now but) rage of bahamut's production values were abnormally high considering how basic the game is and the yuri spinoff is easily one of the best yuri slice of life anime in the last 5 years, princess connect re:dive's adaptation kind of tried to be konosuba and nearly pulled it off, i love show by rock and monster sonic and re:stage a LOT (bold for emphasis) oh yeah and i guess magia record exists too

my favourite one though is merc storia's adaptation
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Paratroopa1
11/24/21 11:30:41 PM
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I wanted to forget about this topic so badly
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UF8
11/24/21 11:32:21 PM
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good news, now that i have posted nobody will ever post in it again

that's how most topics seem to work after all
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