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Sonic 1 and 2 don't really follow any of the games.

Super Mario Bros animated movie didn't follow any of the games, just a fuck ton of refrences to the games. Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie but I want something that follows one of the games it's based on.

Resident Evil will never be faithfully adapted but Welcome to Raccoon City at least tried and did get a lot right unlike the previous live action movies.

Silent Hill didn't really follow any of the games.

Fallout the TV show still doesn't really follow any of the games.

Just once I want a movie based on a game or the franchise that faithfully follows the game/franchise it's based on.

No original characters or anything not from the games

Im sorry but how does a Mario Movie follow a game?

Bowser kidnaps Peach. Mario saves her.

The Mario Movie did that. Bowser tries to force Peach to marry him. Mario and Luigi stop him.

The games have no story beyond that, unless you wanted a couple of Pianta to say hey can you help clean this mud off the wall.

im also gonna guess most game movies arent accurate, because the games kind of had weak stories not suitable for film. So they need to be changed, yet they get changed by people who dont play the games, and thats why you end up with RE

The Fallout show has a person leave a Vault on a personal quest only to get embroiled in a larger conspiracy that involves the fate of the entire Wasteland.

How much more do you want it to follow the game?

Uhh how about rampage? Its monsters in a city -- that game had no real plot. Or how about Wing Commander!

pegusus123456 posted...

The Fallout show has a person leave a Vault on a personal quest only to get embroiled in a larger conspiracy that involves the fate of the entire Wasteland.

How much more do you want it to follow the game?

i think hes saying he wants 1:1 adaptations of specific games within the series

i like the fallout shows approach tho. i don't want to learn canon decisions for player characters

Mr_Karate_II posted...

Sonic 1 and 2 don't really follow any of the games.

Odd you mentioned these but didn't mention Sonic 3. It is heavily based on Sonic Adventure 2.

hitokoriX posted...

Uhh how about rampage? Its monsters in a city -- that game had no real plot. Or how about Wing Commander!

Rampage movie changed the origin of the monsters. In the game, they were originally humans. In the movie they were always animals, that just got bigger

hitokoriX posted...

Uhh how about rampage? Its monsters in a city -- that game had no real plot. Or how about Wing Commander!

Rampage World Tour had a plot, the movie was trash and changed a lot

Charged151 posted...

Odd you mentioned these but didn't mention Sonic 3. It is heavily based on Sonic Adventure 2.

I forgot 3 was a thing to be honest

Zikten posted...

Rampage movie changed the origin of the monsters. In the game, they were originally humans. In the movie they were always animals, that just got bigger

Lol guess I lack rampage lore

hitokoriX posted...

Lol guess I lack rampage lore

In the very original Rampage, when you die, your monster (there was a ape, a werewolf and a lizard) turn back into naked humans who try to cover up and shuffle off screen. It was ok at the time because the graphics were so poor you couldn't see any details anyway

Ape and werewolf are men. The lizard is a woman

Movies directly based on Sonic 1, 2, or 3, or any single Super Mario game would be terrible. They literally don't have stories. They have premises.

Like, what exactly did the movies miss? "Eggman baits knuckles into fighting Sonic because Knuckles is an idiot; they figure it out, get on the same page, go super, beat the shit out of eggman." Movie seems pretty damn spot-on to me.

And the worst thing you could do yo a free-form adventure like Fallout is give it a "canon" route. Far better to just tell a separate story in the world.

For games that have even halfway decent gameplay, the Venn diagram of "good movies" and "game-accurate movies" is basically two separate circles, if for no other reason than because movies can't have gameplay the way games can.

ToiletDuck64 posted...

For games that have even halfway decent gameplay, the Venn diagram of "good movies" and "game-accurate movies" is basically two separate circles, if for no other reason than because movies can't have gameplay the way games can.

There's more problems than that. A video game story these days is like a minimum 4 hours and chances are it's not really even that good of a story.

I think one of the best recent examples of "this could literally just be a movie" is mortal Kombat 1.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgj-7ga7u1A

That's 4 hours for just the cutscenes. Let's say you wanted to cut corners and not do 1:1, even if you cut half of it, you're still left with 2 hours which is like a major marvel movie (F4FS is 115 minutes for example).

So to actually do this, you'll either have to break it up, like The Hobbit, or make it a TV show because there's no way to faithfully remake any video game story actually worth adapting and not suck at it given modern theatrical expectations.

_____Cait posted...

Im sorry but how does a Mario Movie follow a game?

Bowser kidnaps Peach. Mario saves her.

The Mario Movie did that. Bowser tries to force Peach to marry him. Mario and Luigi stop him.

The games have no story beyond that, unless you wanted a couple of Pianta to say hey can you help clean this mud off the wall.

im also gonna guess most game movies arent accurate, because the games kind of had weak stories not suitable for film. So they need to be changed, yet they get changed by people who dont play the games, and thats why you end up with RE

In the movie Bowser kidnaps Luigi. Mario and Peach had to save him. Usually Peach is the one being kidnapped but I guess they changed that out of fear of backlash by a certain group of people. They turned Peach into a Mary Sue instead.

because motherfuckers always have to take some creative liberties rather than staying 100% true to the source material...

This reminds me of when I saw the movie Battleship, and realized it wasnt faithful to the board game. I went full Karen on some poor assistant manager.

The Sonic movies have covered all the major important beats of the original trilogy and SA2. The only thing that's left really is Metal Sonic from Sonic CD (which is coming next) and Perfect Chaos from SA1 in order to cover everything from Sega's golden era.

Seems like if you want a movie that's exactly like a video game you could just watch a longplay of the game on youtube.

Ratchet & Clank exactly follows the game.
so much so that it was kinda boring because youve seen and played it all already

dhampire1 posted...

Ratchet & Clank exactly follows the game.
so much so that it was kinda boring because youve seen and played it all already

That is by absolutely no means true.

Zikten posted...

In the very original Rampage, when you die, your monster (there was a ape, a werewolf and a lizard) turn back into naked humans who try to cover up and shuffle off screen. It was ok at the time because the graphics were so poor you couldn't see any details anyway

Ape and werewolf are men. The lizard is a woman

I meant that sincerely by the way. I only ever really remembered messing around with my cousin as the monsters and had no idea about the rest!

Whenever an animated movie gets a 1:1 live action remake people are like "why does this exist?" but people still want a 1:1 video game adaptation for some reason. I think its fine for these stories to change with the medium as long as the soul is still there. That being said, the soul is rarely there lol

Zikten posted...

In the very original Rampage, when you die, your monster (there was a ape, a werewolf and a lizard) turn back into naked humans who try to cover up and shuffle off screen. It was ok at the time because the graphics were so poor you couldn't see any details anyway

Ape and werewolf are men. The lizard is a woman

If I recall correctly, weren't you able to grab and eat the other player if they took too much damage and reverted back to human form in co-op mode? I remember loving that bit as a kid.

A 1:1 movie adaptation of a video game sounds terrible. Any video game with sufficient plot to make a movie from would also need to be cut down. Like imagine trying to tell the story of FFX in under two hours.

I find it interesting so many complain about movie (and live-action) adaptions of things. But it always feels like stuff like manga adaptions of games or anime that arent faithful, get a lot less heat. Of course, you can say that manga is relatively less popular, but even in the circles of those who should most care, its often seen with mixed opinions at worst, or actively enjoying its differences.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

A 1:1 movie adaptation of a video game sounds terrible. Any video game with sufficient plot to make a movie from would also need to be cut down. Like imagine trying to tell the story of FFX in under two hours.

FFXCU

HBO did a good job with The Last of Us.

Metal_Gear_Raxis posted...

A 1:1 movie adaptation of a video game sounds terrible. Any video game with sufficient plot to make a movie from would also need to be cut down. Like imagine trying to tell the story of FFX in under two hours.

It's kinda why I feel like a Metroid movie that's exactly like a Metroid game would be pretty boring to watch beyond a few minutes-long abbreviation of it. The appeal of a Metroid game is the player experience, not the story.

I think a Metroid movie would go great if it was more about showing Samus's past and lead-up to becoming a bounty hunter to face her once greatest fears.

The Ace Attorney movie was pretty spot on. Even right down to the sound design, costuming, and how they presented evidence.

Hot take: The Uncharted movie was great and I'm tired of pretending it isn't.

Video game nerds really need to stfu about how they casted people who don't look exactly like their video game counterparts. It literally doesn't matter. Nathan Drake is a nothing character anyway.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/a/aa791ef8.jpg
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I'm not really interested in videogame movies that are 1:1 adaptations of things I've already played.

The Fallout show is I think the best way you can handle it - clearly set in the game's universe and telling a unique story that isn't just a retread. Assassin's Creed did this too but that movie is bad.

Ratchet and Clank? Tekken? Dead or Alive? Far Cry? Bloodrayne?

there's a fuckin far cry movie?

ConfusedTorchic posted...

there's a fuckin far cry movie?

Uwe Boll

Aztex posted...

Ratchet and Clank? Tekken? Dead or Alive? Far Cry? Bloodrayne?

I mean if we count Uwe Boll slop, his Postal movie was more accurate to Postal 2 than Postal 3 actually was.

SAlYAN posted...

And the worst thing you could do yo a free-form adventure like Fallout is give it a "canon" route. Far better to just tell a separate story in the world.

I agree yet the show did the baffling thing of nuking Shady Sands thus pretty much guaranteeing there is no way the NCR could have won.

Tbf I rather have a similar but unique story than a 1:1 in movie format.

Hell, the way video games are nowadays there's plenty of 5+ Hour ' All Cutscenes' vids on YouTube

How we forget about this perfect gem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUXVOfdGE4o

Bet you feel stupid now TC.

HudGard posted...

The Ace Attorney movie was pretty spot on. Even right down to the sound design, costuming, and how they presented evidence.

Heres the trailer btw. I honestly cant think of a more true to the game movie.
https://youtu.be/Qt2De8YVsGI?si=1feX5YnKVTm7bqmM

hitman and assassins creed was pretty on par with the games

Competent creators are going to tailor their work to the medium it's being presented in, whether it's all original or adapting something else. I don't see much appeal of a 1:1 adaptation of something I've already experienced, but it can be interesting to see an alternate take in an adaptation if it's done well and with love for the source material (which definitely isn't all or even most adaptations, but the good ones do exist).

Mario Bros movie doesn't need to follow a specific game, and it's pretty much the same story (Castle to Castle to Save Peach), outside of the most recent 3D games.

I don't see the issue of having an original story either in the case of Mario. I also like references from several games. What's morn important is the execution. If the acting and original storylinr are good, as well as the animation, I have no problem with it.

Not following the games is a wise move

ConfusedTorchic posted...

hitman and assassins creed was pretty on par with the games

Hitman wasn't

Apparently Mortal Kombat 1995 has ceased to exist.

mybbqrules posted...

Apparently Mortal Kombat 1995 has ceased to exist.

I forgot to mention it. Its mostly accurate to the games.

Its one of the best movies based on a game

JTsyo posted...

HBO did a good job with The Last of Us.

Im very surprised this was only mentioned once this entire topic. This is by far the most 1:1 adaptation of a video game that ever exists.

Of course, it still isnt entirely 1:1, there are some changes like the Bill and Frank episode and other stuff here and there.

But its still easily the most accurate video game adaptation out there imo.

mybbqrules posted...

Apparently Mortal Kombat 1995 has ceased to exist.

Mortal Kombat 95 had Scorpion and Sub Zero be friends