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worst possible game to make movie of?
Posted: 2004-09-29 11:35am
by Lord Revan
I read a few days ago that somebody is make a Doom movie. So I've what would be worst possible game to make movie of it? (The game itself don't have to be bad.)
EDIT:only games that can be made into movies, so no tetris or other that kind of games.
EDIT2:could you tell why the would suck as a movie. I don't know every game ever made in this world.
Posted: 2004-09-29 11:41am
by Dahak
Dungeons&Dragons.
And the worst part: It has already been made
Posted: 2004-09-29 11:42am
by Mad
Tetris.
Posted: 2004-09-29 11:42am
by Beowulf
Pong.
Posted: 2004-09-29 11:42am
by Chardok
Azurik: Rise of Perathia.
Or,
a Boy and his Blob.
Or,
Star Tropics.
Or,
Metal Gear. (Come on, no one would ever be able to do it justice.)
Or,
Zero Wing.
Or,
Skate Or Die
Or,
Life Force
Or,
Star Fox
Or,
Animal Corssing
Or,
Fable.
Posted: 2004-09-29 11:56am
by IRG CommandoJoe
Star Fox would be a pretty cool kid/sci-fi movie, I think.
Posted: 2004-09-29 11:59am
by Admiral Valdemar
Far Cry, oh wait...
Posted: 2004-09-29 12:08pm
by Old Plympto
Minesweeper.
Posted: 2004-09-29 12:09pm
by Exmoor Cat
Chucky Egg
Posted: 2004-09-29 12:18pm
by Rye
Air Taxi.
Sim Variable Title.
Micro Machines.
A load of Amiga games that i can't recall the names of.
Posted: 2004-09-29 12:27pm
by Lord Revan
Think that "Master of Orion" series would make quite bad movie.
Posted: 2004-09-29 12:28pm
by Captain Cyran
Beowulf wrote:Pong.
Been done as a flash animation. Was actually pretty fucking cool.
Posted: 2004-09-29 12:33pm
by Admiral Valdemar
Captain_Cyran wrote:Beowulf wrote:Pong.
Been done as a flash animation. Was actually pretty fucking cool.
I loved that movie. Got a link? Can never bloody find it now.
Posted: 2004-09-29 12:36pm
by Captain Cyran
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Captain_Cyran wrote:Beowulf wrote:Pong.
Been done as a flash animation. Was actually pretty fucking cool.
I loved that movie. Got a link? Can never bloody find it now.
Check out newgrounds.com it should be in there somewhere.
Posted: 2004-09-29 12:43pm
by Companion Cube
The aforementioned Zero Wing.
Posted: 2004-09-29 01:35pm
by Datana
For some reason, the first game to hit my mind was Balloon Fight for the NES. There, you control a balloon and try to pop other player's balloons to make them plummet to the ground, with numerous computer-controlled hazards in the way for both. Creating a plot to fit that scenario would certainly be difficult (deathmatch tournament? Steampunk war setting?), and would most likely suck. As for other games...
Ikari Warriors 2 had a notoriously bad plot, even for an NES game. It's said you can't polish a turd, and I think a movie based on this would support this.
Xenogears for the PSX had a deep, extremely convoluted plot spanning over 50-60 hours of gameplay. Even then, the plot was rushed on the second disc, and any movie would only worsen this effect via compression into a 2 hour movie.
On the other hand, I think that Zero Wing might actually work as a movie. The general plot ("our bases are captured by an evil cyborg race due to traitors in the human ranks, and it's up to one heroic pilot to save the day") sounds like good summer popcorn movie fodder, and all you'd have to add are a romantic interest, bigger explosions, and a dramatic confrontation with the traitors' ringleader in hand-to-hand combat after shooting down CATS in the last dogfight. It'd be kind of like "Wing Commander" meets "The Last Starfighter," hopefully without the former's suckiness in movie form.
Posted: 2004-09-29 01:39pm
by DPDarkPrimus
Frogger
Duck Hunt
Pilotwings
Donkey Kong
Posted: 2004-09-29 01:40pm
by Stofsk
Lord Revan wrote:Think that "Master of Orion" series would make quite bad movie.
I disagree. The game is essentially a pie slice of the galaxy worth of exploration, expansion, and warfare. If that isn't enough to make into a movie, you've frankly got problems.
The good thing about it is there aren't any characters nor any real established plot - in Moo and Moo2 you are the master of the plot (the less said about Moo3 the better). This leads to the favourable position of essentially being free to write any plot you want for the Moo movie (heh).
Posted: 2004-09-29 01:43pm
by Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi
Solitare. Perhaps after that, release the action-packed Solitare Vs. Minesweeper.
Posted: 2004-09-29 01:46pm
by Lord Revan
Stofsk wrote:Lord Revan wrote:Think that "Master of Orion" series would make quite bad movie.
I disagree. The game is essentially a pie slice of the galaxy worth of exploration, expansion, and warfare. If that isn't enough to make into a movie, you've frankly got problems.
The good thing about it is there aren't any characters nor any real established plot - in Moo and Moo2 you are the master of the plot (the less said about Moo3 the better). This leads to the favourable position of essentially being free to write any plot you want for the Moo movie (heh).
the prolem is that they'll probaly use MOO3 with brain dead plot and stupid looking races (mrrshan look like crossbreed between sabertooth cat and kangoroo).
EDIT:I like Master of Orion. the way you can make your own story. I have idea for fanfic in that universe with some modfications (human have split into two groups before the colonization phase (the other group stole the first FTL colony ship).
Posted: 2004-09-29 02:18pm
by Mayabird
Pac Man
To truly realize the awfulness of what it could be, try to add a plot. WHY must Pac Man eat all those spheres? WHY must those four colored dudes try to get him? And then add... the ROMANTIC SUB PLOT with Ms. Pac Man!
The horror! The horror!
Posted: 2004-09-29 02:23pm
by lazerus
Admiral Valdemar wrote:Captain_Cyran wrote:Beowulf wrote:Pong.
Been done as a flash animation. Was actually pretty fucking cool.
I loved that movie. Got a link? Can never bloody find it now.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/37551
Posted: 2004-09-29 02:26pm
by The Kernel
Mayabird wrote:Pac Man
To truly realize the awfulness of what it could be, try to add a plot. WHY must Pac Man eat all those spheres? WHY must those four colored dudes try to get him? And then add... the ROMANTIC SUB PLOT with Ms. Pac Man!
The horror! The horror!
Actually, there was a Pac Man TV series in the 80's that dealt with
all of those issues.
Posted: 2004-09-29 02:41pm
by Lord Revan
The Kernel wrote:Mayabird wrote:Pac Man
To truly realize the awfulness of what it could be, try to add a plot. WHY must Pac Man eat all those spheres? WHY must those four colored dudes try to get him? And then add... the ROMANTIC SUB PLOT with Ms. Pac Man!
The horror! The horror!
Actually, there was a Pac Man TV series in the 80's that dealt with
all of those issues.
thank god I was born 1982 (so either missed that or didn't know what I was looking at.)
Posted: 2004-09-29 02:44pm
by General Zod
Lord Revan wrote:The Kernel wrote:Mayabird wrote:Pac Man
To truly realize the awfulness of what it could be, try to add a plot. WHY must Pac Man eat all those spheres? WHY must those four colored dudes try to get him? And then add... the ROMANTIC SUB PLOT with Ms. Pac Man!
The horror! The horror!
Actually, there was a Pac Man TV series in the 80's that dealt with
all of those issues.
thank god I was born 1982 (so either missed that or didn't know what I was looking at.)
was born in 1980 myself. and i vaguely remember seeing something about a pac man cartoon. *shivers* thank fuck most of the memories about that are blotted from my mind.