Why don't video games make good movies/tv series?
>>215037895Video games typically center player interactivity in the narrative which doesn't exactly translate to television where the viewer doesn't get any input at all in how the story plays out.
Because they always steer away from the video game story and the gamers do not like this. Normies who know nothing of the games may enjoy it. For example in Halo they unmasked masterchief in the first ep kek. It took like a decade for him to be unmasked in the games (I think, I can't remember exactly)
>>215037895Sometimes it works, you can't steer too far from the source material.
>>215037895Holy shit this show and alien earf.Some guy wanted to make his own show but couldn't get funding so he agreed to slap a skin and soundpack on his idea and not follow the source material at all
>>215037986It amuses me greatly how the first few video game adaptations were widely condemned as shit and they're so much better than the modern onesThe whole genre hit its high point at the very beginning and nobody even knew or believed it
>first season is an adaptation of the first game>everybody loves it>second season is an adaptation of the second game>it flops disastrouslypotteryalso it changed my view of the whole world when millions of people were surprised and angry that Joel died, like how did that information not filter down to them before they witnessed it on HBO
Because by the time any game or media has enough money behind it to finance a movie, all the people in control of the rights are just "bussinessmen" with no actual passion for anything creative and just want to drive as much profit as possible.Good directors and writers aren't lining themselves up for this bullshit. This just leave the "for hire" show-runners who've probably never even played the game.Look at Halo: back in 2006/7, Peter Jackson and Neil Blomkamp had some actual good stuff to show and seemed to know what they were doing. Microsoft and Fox couldn't stop arguing about money and everything fell apart.Now it's only after 3 failed Halo games, the franchise is worth much less and execs are just barrel-scraping to get the last bits of value out of a corpse. The Halo TV series has maybe half a dozen writers, most of which are on some spectrum of "haven't played the game" to "hate the game".
>>215038005I assumed it's usually this. One person wants to make something based on a game, they get the go ahead but with 12 other people who want to use it as a platform for THEIR story which usually has fuck all to do with the source. The source was an excuse.
>>215037895Only way you can tell a story in gaming is by actively fighting the medium. E.g. cutscenes, at which point it's not even a game but an animated movie. Designing around gameplay inherently limiting and if your aim is to tell a story, you'll write a book or direct a film.
Because you enjoy them
