I still want to see a Myst movie. I remember how mysterious and spooky that game was.
I always thought that Another World would make a good movie. Anyone remember that game?
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Wing Commander the worst scifi movie ever? NEVER! It was bad (cough rubber aliens cough), but I dare you to sit through Robot Holocaust and then tell me that again. 
Actually what strikes as possibly the worst idea for a movie is that Doom movie that there’s been rumors of. Holy crap does that sound like it could be awful. I’m picture Double Dragon, but without the “compelling” plot and special effects…
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Spell my name right, snot.
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He apologized because it hurt the bottom line of fanatic gamers who expect that Hollywood will make a perfect translation of a game to a movie or television show.
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The target audience wasn’t gamers, it was an advertising demographic like any other television show.
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It is possible for other clans to use and acquire Tremere powers.
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Lillie wasn’t necessarily saying it was only a Toreador gift. It could be interpreted from context that they just do it better.
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Just because Spelling did 90210 and Melrose does not mean all his shows are that way. Kindred was NOT like either of those shows, and neither is Charmed for that matter.
Relax, Hastur. Sheesh. I’m notorious for mispelling names. Ask manhattan.
Obviously the game shop and the radio station here got a different marketing package than the rest of the world but whatever.
According to the clanbook, they can’t.
For the record, Pokemon started off as a video game, specifically for the Nintendo Gameboy. The programmer modelled it after his childhood hobby of collecting and training crickets to fight each other.
The cartoons, merchandise, card game, and other stuff all came later.
A friend of mine told me that “Tron” was a videogame first. Can anyone back this up?
If we’re including role-playing games, I guess we better include Dungeons & Dragons. (I didn’t see it and am not really interested in the role-playing game movies, but no one had mentioned it, so…)
And I do recall liking Pac Man the cartoon. Still, not a feature film.
Oh and the one last random bit: The animation in Final Fantasy does look great. Most of it. Next time you see the long version of the trailer, look at the lip sync. Ugh.
A friend of mine told me that “Tron” was a videogame first. Can anyone back this up?
If we’re including role-playing games, I guess we better include Dungeons & Dragons. (I didn’t see it and am not really interested in the role-playing game movies, but no one had mentioned it, so…)
And I do recall liking Pac Man the cartoon. Still, not a feature film.
Oh and the one last random bit: The animation in Final Fantasy does look great. Most of it. Next time you see the long version of the trailer, look at the lip sync. Ugh.
Well, they don’t know if it’s going to be Doom or Quake (or both). But, for the record, I think a Doom movie COULD work… if done right. It’d have to incorporate some of the styling of Aliens… although, given Hollywood’s brilliance, they’d probably try to make it in the style of Batman & Robin (i.e.- they’ll try to make it clever and witty… and fail).
Street Fighter BLEW, SUCKED ASS, ATE DONKEY SHIT, LICKED A MALE CARIBOUS ANUS
The characters were changed around, the plot was not at all anything like the game and for the love of christ! the ending was horrible. Know the original batman movie when him and robin are on a bouie in the middle of the ocean and about to get hit by a torpedo? Then they cut to them driving along talking about how a whale threw itself in front of the torpedo before it hit them? The ending was WORSE than that. They building/whatever is gonna explode, cut to them outside with chunks of god knows what flying in the air and then they all pose in different style as if they were fighting and then the street fighter logo appears over the shot! WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT? THAT WAS SHHHHHHHHIIIIIITY!!! :mad:
Tomb raider. An awful movie.
Final fantasy is basically where Square was going with the games. If you’ve ever played FF8 its alot of movie with a tiny bit of game thrown in. And it ties in pretty close with the game I would say. The ripping out of the soul is one death type spell. Basically to tie in the game is to make a futuristic/magic setting.
Mortal kombat followed in movies like it did in games. Great first movie and it just went downhill from there.
Good question[s] and I’m the man with the answer[s].
The movie is not based on any particular Final Fantasy game. Each of the games are totally separate, each being the “Final Fantasy” for the world it takes place in.
The movie is Earth’s Final Fantasy. No Magic. No Bahumut. No Scary Bad Guy who Wants To Lay Waste To Planet.
The writer of the series wrote the movie and he is what ties it together. The themes of the movie are the same as the themes of the games. Love, Power, Perserverance, all that crap(so to speak).
So you see? Tomb Raider was pretty much the game on the big screen. Mortal Kombat was the game on the big screen.
Final Fantasy barely even deserves to be called a video-game to the screen movie because it is essentially “what Final Fantasy would have looked like if it had been a movie.”
If you played Final Fantasy VI-IX, you’d see more in common with the movie than was available in IV(which you call II). The series has evolved and this is culminating in the movie. Will it be good? Absolutely. Will it be great? Tough to tell.
The games take 50 hours to beat. That’s 50 hours to tell the story. The movie is 100 minutes. That’s pretty tough to do.
Oh, by the way, I liked Mortal Kombat. Why? Well,
Game: Cool Techno music and fighting.
Movie: Cool Techno music and fighting.
They never pretended to be anything else.
Dammit. I was going to say that.
I do have high expectations for this movie. Square kicks ass, and they know how to tell a story.
The problem is that Mario Bros the game didn’t have much of a story. It’s just jumping and throwing stuff and trying to reach the princess. That’s not enough to carry a feature length movie, so they have to create all that other crap.
Well that’s kind of the problem. The focus of the game is on you playing the battles. The cut sceans between battles just adds some continuity. So while the games may have been great to play, there really isn’t much of a story there. Maybe some cardbard villans and 1 dimensional heros, but that’s about it.
Producers have to reach a broader audience than just people who like the game. Wing Commander didn’t suck because the Tiger’s Claw looked like a giant codfish, the fighters looked like old boilers, and the ship interiors looked like leftover sets from Das Boot. It sucked because the characters (in the movie) were weak, the story was standard aliens invading Earth stuff, and aliens had not personality.
Mahaloth stole all my thunder. I agree with him 100%. Even on the Mortal Kombat thing. I knew I was watching a bad movie but it still was a lot of fun and didn’t disappoint me. It followed the games fairly faithfully and had a great soundtrack.
I can’t wait for The Spirits Within. Unfortunately, I will be delayed a couple of weeks by being in the Ukraine.
Oh, for the record. Pokemon was made for Gameboy. Nintendo holds the video game rights exclusively and pushes the things out by the ton. They were able to get a cartoon series to coincide with the US release of the Blue and Red GB versions of Pokemon. The popularity skyrocketed and were able to push the movies quickly and inexpensively.
By far, Street Fighter was the worst movie of the bunch. Can’t count Pokemon because it is a cartoon aimed at kids. Not live action. Though by all rights they all were pretty rank. Now I’ve never played Tomb Raider and I thought the movie was merely normal Hollywood bunk. So comparing that to the other movies, it actually did good. (Can’t believe I put Hollywood bunk up so high. Either that or video game movies are really low.)
The American live-action film was horrendous, true, but the Japanese full-length animated movie is pretty good: the art is good, the fighting intense, and there’s actually a decent plot about the rivalry between Ryu and Ken and the efforts of Vega (M. Bison in US) to take over the world. (And the final scene after the credits is hilarious…)
For those who haven’t seen it: try to get the subtitled version rather than the U.S. dubbed version. First of all, they felt compelled to dub in heavy metal music over the silence or subtle music of the Japanese original. Second of all: your day will be ruined after hearing a bad American voice-over scream “Tetsu-maki-senpuu-kyakuuuuu!”
Still, though, worth renting even in dub.
The word on the Final Fantasy movie is that the visuals are staggering, but the story doesn’t really work. Yeah, it’s being done by the same folks who work on the game, but the Square supervisor has been quoted as saying he wants the movie to feel like you’re watching somebody (else) play a FF game.
If you get sucked in by the demo clips playing in the window of your local software store, maybe this’ll work for you. Me, I’m worried.
Oh, and Tomb Raider was a steaming sack of camel cum.
Yeah, I actually did see that back when the SciFi channel used to show anime other than Tenchi Muyo and Dragonball Z. It wasn’t that bad, even though I’m more of a fan of the giant fighting robot genre. I think videogames translate to cartoons more readily than live action.
The live action Street Fighter with Van Damm was bad. The live action Double Dragon was 1000 times worse. I think Scott Wolf from Party of Five was one of the DD twins.
That’s rather the point. The games (the first two, anyway) had interesting characters, fascinating storylines with quite a few subplots, detailed backstory and a riveting multi-dimensional alien culture (thinking in particular of the resistance movement and the defector Ralgha) It wasn’t a story of “Earth VS The Aliens”, it was a story of first contact with another sentient species, and how the complete culture clash led both into a vicious war that, eventually, was being waged long after the original disagreement was forgotten, and both sides were committed to genocide simply because the other was. It was power and corruption, it was the glory and stupidity of war, it a few people trying to shift the weight of their vast societies onto a better path. Heroes and villains, and a whole lot of in-betweens, and you never knew who was which. It was, all in all, a pretty darn good story. There was material in the games for great movies several times over, and they pitched it all in the crapper trying to make another Star Wars (complete with “The Force” ripoff)
For that, and that alone, the Wing Commander movie is truly deplorable, even overlooking the depths of its own hideousness. But then, so are the last three games in the series, so hey, at least the movie didn’t totally depart from the game’s tradition 
Unfortunately, most videogames to movies suck, sigh…Comic books aren’t doing too bad now. TMNT was good, X-Men was good, Batman was good (first two), Spiderman looks like it’ll be good, etc. Poor videogames, though…I refuse to use any term other than “crap” to describe the live action Street Fighter. That movie was just wrong…wrong in it’s purest form.
The SF2 anime movie was sweet, especially at the time it was made (back before the Alpha series was even created…in fact the anime flick is what inspired the main Alpha guy to design the games…he said that at the end of SF2Turbo (whichever was the last with the new chars and all) he figured he had done all he could do…until he saw the anime flick). I saw the subtitled version a year or two before anyone in North America knew the thing even existed, heh…Anyway, the plot was kind of poop…but the videogames don’t have much of a plot either. And how are you supposed to tie in a ton of fighters from different parts of the world who fight? I mean, how many ways can you justify having an air force guy, a large sumo wrestler, a green beast-man, and a teleporting monk, etc. being in the same plot in under 2 hours?
Not many people have seen it, but there’s a series called Street Fighter II V…It was a TV series in Japan and you can snag videos (subbed/dubbed, the dubs are surprisingly not TERRIBLE, heh…get the subbed if you can though, because Japanese voice actors always sound much cooler, even if you don’t know what they’re saying) here. It’s like 26 (28? don’t remember off hand) episodes in total, with like 3 to a tape. The focus is on plot instead of fighting, and the plot is actually pretty good. Ken and Ryu are the main characters and after getting beat up by Guile in a bar one night, they realize they might not be the best, so they (using Ken’s oodles of money) decide to travel around the world looking for other fighters and stuff…You get to watch Ryu learn to throw fireballs, Ken do his first Dragon Punch while fighting Fei Long, the first time they meet Chun-Li…lots of cool stuff. The fighting is kind of crappy compared to the movie (they repeat a lot of movements and use the “sliding an image by slowly with a flashing background” bit often…but it’s not horrible), but there’s a lot of plot (considering it’s based off a fighting game). Anyway, if you’re a Street Fighter fan, hunt it out and see what you think.
The Street Fighter Alpha anime was…weird. The art/animation and some of the fights were sweet, but the plot was drunk. What the hell was with Akuma and his wooden puppet things? And why in the world was Birdie in so much of the second half when they could have put someone cool like Guy in? Who were those bad guys? Where was Bison? It’s worth checking it out just to watch Dan get beaten severely twice though, heh…When he threw his fireball the second time I cracked up. Dan, Dan, Dan…at least he tries.
“Final Fantasy” is just a name. None of the games are related (except for “Cid”) and the movie is nothing like the games (I would have killed for a 3d movie using characters like Kain, Cecil, Locke, etc. though, sigh)…There’s a crappy little anime series with the name “Final Fantasy” which has some of the worst dubbing I’ve ever heard. They just slap the name on stuff so people will buy it, heh. That’s not to say that the stuff isn’t high quality most of the time…but the Final Fantasy movie will be enjoyable for LOTS of people, not just fans of the games.
- Tsugumo (sorry, I like to ramble and mysteriously kill threads by posting in them, which I no doubt shall do with this one)