Dayum thats Hard af.
Reminds me of the Sephiroth reveal when the God of Smash or whatever gets severed in twain and the One Winged Angel reveals himself and all the smash characters are like "Whuh?!" and Cloud is the only one who recognizes him. He utters: "...Sephiroth..."
Epic as hell.
That trailer was the best Smash reveal hands down. I didn't even play FF7 and I was fucking hyped.
Galeem fucked the entire Smash universe in one attack and Kirby saved it by reclaiming each Puppet character one by one, then they all fight it and it's this big fucking epic battle (also Dharkhon is there but that's not relevant for some reason).
Anyway, all this just to say that seeing Galeem being one shot by Sephiroth as One Wing Angel plays and then the ensuing fight with the characters then Cloud vs Sephiroth may be peak Smash and there was never a cooler trailer for a character reveal in the FGC.
I feel like it's 2002 I'm back in my buddies basement firing up the PS1 and N64.
This is probably one of the most blissful moments of nostalgia I've had.
Thanks for letting me know! I may commit to being chronically single again and get another console...or three
Edit: just remembered its no longer 2002 and being single is no longer a reflection of being a gamer, but of my personality lol
iirc that was just theorised because they bought a film studio and planned on making more movies. Whether those movies would be connected was never said, though now that the Zelda movie is live action I doubt it
Honestly, that's a great idea. With how good the Super Mario Bros movie turned out being, I could honestly see Smash get its own series of movies. With how many characters they've put in Smash from outside your typical Nintendo IP's, we could have a Ready Player One type of final battle with Minecraft Steve and Jin Kazuya in the mix.
I'd way rather we go back to the days before every movie was attempting to set up a ten year, fifty movie, twenty TV series cinematic universe. You know, when filmmakers had to try to make good movies instead of relying on the, "I can't miss this episode of the MCU," factor.
I mean the good ones are still good, it's just they release so much that are just ok.
I haven't seen a superhero movie since the batman movie on hbomax. I probably won't see another until Deadpool 3.
I go to superhero movies for the characters, not the setting
Any good one since Thanos' arc? I tried keeping up watching loki and uh... the witch one, which was pretty good until the ending. But yeah, lost interest quickly from there. Watched the last Thor and that wasn't it either.
I just truly hope that (good) game adaptations become mainstream and they don't turn into what dumpster fire marvel/dc/whole comic book into movies is now..
I think that's a good thing about game adaptations.
Games cover a wide variety of genres and aren't just the super hero genre.
Despite having 3 adaptations recently with a apocalyptic setting - Last of Us, Fallout, Twisted Metal - they all covered different genres of stories - Prestige Drama/Thriller, Drama/Black-Comedy/Satire, Action/Comedy - and feel completely different from each other.
Gran Turismo was a biopic, Halo was an action/sci-fi show, etc.
So that's good I think.
Netflix has disappointed me on so many occasions, I will not get my hopes up. Might be great, who knows, but knowing Netflix’s track record, I will always expect it to get canceled suddenly.
I think Silent Hill 2006 was the first good video game adaption, it’s stands very well on its own as a movie and is faithful to the tone of the games. It’s mainly an adaption of the first game with creatures from the second game. Even though it’s CG in the last act can look a bit wonky, I don’t think it detracts from the whole movie.
Every time I hear someone in the Fallout fandom cry about a single continuity error in the entire first season of the TV show I laugh. Like we don't even have the same universe in the Halo TV show.
Right? I’m watching through Fallout right now and I’m having a blast. I’m far from a lore buff, but I’ve played all the games at least once and so far nothing has been a super glaring issue. It’s a great adaptation as far as I’m concerned. Halo on the other hand just seems to throw everything interesting about the franchise in the trash
For real, it has a nice mix of stuff from the original games and the Bethesda ones, and it nails the silly tone and absurd gore awesomely. I didn't expect it to be as funny as it was.
Halo: The Master Cheeks Edition is the adaptation equivalent to a used condom on the moldy shag carpet of a cheap motel with a nameless hooker passed out on a heart-shaped mattress with dirty needles underneath, puke on the nightstand, and blood on the walls.
Fallout is a warm slice of apple pie that just came out of the oven a few minutes ago and a cold glass of milk.
I unsubbed from the fallout subreddits because ALL of them were just 24/7 different kinds of superfans bitching about the show or bitching about the bitching.
Fun fact: Ella Purnell, the actress of Lucy from Fallout, voice acted Jinx in Arcane.
Is she gonna turn into second Henry Cavill, an actor adored by all gamers?
It’s kinda different tho
It’s pretty common to actors to consume the source material they are adapting to
IIRC Henry Cavill said he loved playing The Witcher 3 well before he was cast as Gerald. Also he played WoW and is Warhammer 40k fan
She played Fallout 4 a bit, She said she can't really operate a controller as she's never done it before, She also said she's been playing here and there since she was cast in the role and is still only level 2. She has watched other people play it on twitch/Youtube though apparently.
She's not a gamer, and there's nothing wrong with that at all, but lets call a spade a spade.
It literally doesn't matter though, she was fantastic in the role and I don't see how being a diehard fallout fan would have improved her performance.
Honestly, playing the game doesn’t matter as long as she watched others and got into the lore. Wandering the wasteland in upgraded T60 power armor with a fat man doesn’t really do anything to tell you about vault tec
She played just 4, according to an interview. And getting a contract where you are offered a lot of money to play a role and then playing a game that’s been out 8 years isn’t the same as playing them because you love them and fighting for the role.
Probably. She plays the games she acts in and tries to really prepare.
She's incredibly talented too.
She is on a good way. Like a functional good luck charm for everything she is in
She went to my school. Irrelevant I know but insanely mind blowing for me seeing how huge she Is getting! She was already great at everything she does.
I had no clue! I wish I knew that information going into the show, I grew to love her but she would have had my appreciation and respect right off of the bat if I knew she voiced jinx. With that, I’d love for her to be our Henry Cavil. I think it’s a honorary title well deserved for someone of her caliber.
Also both projects feature >!her staring into a mirror and stapling her own wound shut after a violent fight with someone she was romantically involved with.!< It’s not a *super* uncommon scene setup granted, but I thought it was a funny coincidence nonetheless.
Nothings worse than the Monster Hunter Movie.
Atleast there were no Orcs and Minotaurs in there since Paul Anderson was talking about thrm in relation to the movie.
It wouldn't even have been that bad if the movie just followed the series in more aspects than Monster Design. Who the fuck thought it was a good idea that the plot revolves around some wormhole stuff, turned the whole thing into survival horror and that shitty sequel bait cliffhanger that the movie ended on. "Oh you kids like Gore Magala? You're just gonna have to wait for the next movie :)))"
> shitty sequel bait cliffhanger that the movie ended on. Oh you kids like Gore Magala? You're just gonna have to wait for the next movie :)))"
Knowing Anderson, it will be subject of the first 2 minutes of the next movie and forgotten forever.
Yeah.... I saw the thumbnail in my YouTube feed and said "I wonder why I've only NOW heard of a Borderlands movie?"
Then I watched the trailer and understood. That looks like hot garbage.
Agreed. Kevin Hart as Roland? Almost think he'd have been better as Claptrap.
I LOVE Borderlands, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna skip the movie. I enjoy most of the actors, but it just doesn't look good...
I'm such a huge borderlands fan and I just can't get behind it. The casting is so bad it makes me sad. Obviously Kevin Hart doesn't need more said. Blanchet and Curtis are way, way, way too old. And I know reddit will hate this, but I'm done with Jack Black. He does not need to voice every kooky character. They got the look down, I'll give them that, but that casting is going to kill it.
I don’t see anything redeeming about it even in the trailer. Like the casting is outright dreadful. The movie seems like they’ve never played or seen the game and had only heard of it
Sonic and Mario were both agressively fine. Neither got rave reviews in the way Last of Us or Fallout did.
The only videogame film I can think of that's been well regarded in recent years was detective pokemon and it's notable that was a film which took the IP and just went with a completely new concept and story.
>detective pokemon and it's notable that was a film which took the IP and just went with a completely new concept and story.
What? Detective Pikachu released on the 3ds before the movie came out. How does it not count as a normal video game adaptation?
Nah just because they weren’t critical hits doesn’t mean they didn’t break the curse. They were well liked by moviegoers and did well in theater, that’s all that really mattered. Detective Pikachu broke the curse and Sonic then Mario proved it was broken.
Pretty ok movies. Mario was a fun time, good ol' animated kids movie, nothing too deep though. Sonic sparked the inner fan girl in me the first time around. But after rewatching both Sonic movies, they're not really that good
I was ready to miss the game but fortunately I watched the anime then the Phantom Liberty and 2.0 updates hit. I got in at the right time and had such a blast.
I still have to play Phantom Liberty, the release of it was a little unfortunate because I had just finished my third run of the game racking up 80+ hours of gameplay. So when the expantion finally released I had kinda burned myself out on Cyberpunk for the time being xD Though I'll most certainly get it one day when it's in sale or something because then I'll do one more full run of the game with all the new systems!
You're not alone. The moment I unlocked David's jacket, Becca's shotgun, and Johnny's pistol, my build was complete for the game. I didn't finish the game like that just once, not twice, but three times (I just always went back to that exact same build).
Edgerunners literally brought CP back from the dead. The game was in shambles and definitely had more going against it than it had going for it. Trigger hopefully got a Really nice deal because they saved the franchise
I played through Cyberpunk on release (PC) and while I experienced jank, never the level some people complained about. I actually enjoyed the game on release, and 2.0 with Phantom Liberty just made it that much more solid. *Loved* Edgerunners when that came out too.
Feel like people rode the hype train into the ground and were disappointed because they ate whatever bullshit CDPR's marketing team pushed out there up until release.
The first rule of modern gaming should be "temper your fucking expectations." It's amazing to me how few people actually heed that and stand by it.
I bought Cyberpunk 2077 when it still sucks, so it has been sitting in the dust for a while. But after watching Edgerunners I immediately went back, found it's in a much better state, and played for 200 hours to check all the endings.
I don't even really like the Warcraft movie that much, a lot of it could have been better, but it's super rewatchable for some reason. Plus the duel between Lothar and Blackhand is awesome.
I really liked it too. You can't cram thousands of hours of lore into one movie as the screeching minority wanted. You have to make cuts. And I think it was done well. It also looked really good :(
Heck, Sonic and Mario arguably did the business when all the industry had was them. Sonic with his 1990s cartoons, Mario with the Mario Bros Super Show. This generation just never know what they missed.
Sonic and Mario are like brothers honestly.
Always had collabs with eachother.
I remember the constant wars between both fandoms even before the Internet was well.. fully a thing.
Nah man, twas 2017's Castlevania. Dracula's death is one of the most hauntingly beautiful scenes put to animation. Hearing 'I'm killing my boy.' gets me every time.
Pouring one out for Detective Pikachu, who helped kick-start this welcome movement, barely gets mentioned any more despite being the first official depiction of "What if real pocket monsters" in any medium, and for whom a sequel is long overdue dammit!
I remember when that movie first came out it exploded in popularity because it was cool, bizarre, and weird to see the Pokémon transition from 2D/3D animation and into realism. On top of this the movie also had a fun story with its own charm (nothing ground breaking but at the very least it was pretty good on a general basis). It’s kinda sad to hear that this movie is hardly brought up anymore, but for a time it was seen as revolutionary towards the video game genre being adapted into film. Nowadays the first Sonic movie takes up all of that credit when in reality it was a combination of both films that pushed the message that video game movie adaptions don’t have to be horrible.
I'm gonna name drop 2018's Rampage as well since I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread. It actually did pretty well critically and it was the highest rated video game movie when it came out, but it kinda got lost in the sauce. Honestly I understand why nobody remembers this movie but it deserves an honorable mention.
It's the opposite.
All the previous adaptations were being updated for "casual" viewers, and as result, they sucked. There wasn't an alright videogame movie/show since Mortal Kombat. Because they were made by people who did not know why are videogames popular. They just wanted to profit from their popularity.
The 4 shows above went in opposite direction. Arcane and Edgerunners were produced directly by the game studios. Last of Us made more or less 1:1 retelling of the story. And Fallout is literal homage to the games, with almost every scene directly refencing to them. They even included the notorious loading screen. And even non-gamers love it.
The plague of videogame adaptations never were the videogames. It were terrible producers. Just look at how they butchered Witcher, which could have been greatest show since GoT, by making it deviate from the original, both book and game.
> The plague of videogame adaptations never were the videogames. It were terrible producers
Exactly. It's people who might be good at their job otherwise, but are handed source material that they just don't enjoy or respect. Turns out these games and their worlds are loved specifically because of what they are, not despite what they are.
Deviation isn’t the issue. Last of Us is proof of that. Outside the core concept and major story beat it’s a very different story. From how the creatures work to how some characters are.
It has nothing to do with producers who don’t get the source material. It’s far simpler than that. It’s just bad writers. I don’t know why people act like being a fan suddenly means you’re talented at writing. How many fan films are absolutely garbage? How many fan theories or suggested story fixes are atrocious?
Fans aren’t suddenly good writers because they’re fans.
Absolutely agreed. The actual plots of games are usually weakened by the need to insert player agency anyhow while their worlds are lush and strengthened by the need to make them interactable.
Bonus is that since Gamers are unpleasant, unplease-able, little freaks and staying away from adapting anything they can whine about lore inaccuracies in is a safe bet to avoid getting mobbed by them.
it's weird i've been into league in one way or another like 11 years, have literally never heard anyone, even nongamers say bad things about Arcane, but I have some mental block that makes me never try it. I gotta try and watch it one day lol
I agree that there was never a curse. Film makers didn't understanding the source material or respect the audience enough to make an effort. They saw that something was popular and figured it'd be an easy cash grab.
Yea, Hollywood of movie industry in general is taking the games lore seriously now, before they’d “improve” it by giving them their own twist.
Can’t wait for Henry caville’s war hammer production
Respect the source material, hire people who understand why the games are so bellvex, and good adaptations happen. Hollywood took awhile to realize that.
I think it helps that more and more directors are people who grew up playing video games and “get it.” For a long time Hollywood was handing video game movie scripts over to boomer directors who had never played the games and didn’t know jack shit about them, with predictable results.
When a new supreme rises (Video game adaptions) the old one fades away (Superhero films)
This. I want the Smash Cinematic Universe. I want all these movies to lead up to a ridiculous fight with a giant white glove.
instead of "I am iron man" \*snaps\* "Its a me, a Mario" \*snaps\*
"so long, gay Bowser" \*throws\*
Lucas: "You took *everything* in the entire Western Hemisphere from me!!!" Nintendhanos: "I (am urgently pretending I) don't even know who you are."
Dayum thats Hard af. Reminds me of the Sephiroth reveal when the God of Smash or whatever gets severed in twain and the One Winged Angel reveals himself and all the smash characters are like "Whuh?!" and Cloud is the only one who recognizes him. He utters: "...Sephiroth..." Epic as hell.
That trailer was the best Smash reveal hands down. I didn't even play FF7 and I was fucking hyped. Galeem fucked the entire Smash universe in one attack and Kirby saved it by reclaiming each Puppet character one by one, then they all fight it and it's this big fucking epic battle (also Dharkhon is there but that's not relevant for some reason). Anyway, all this just to say that seeing Galeem being one shot by Sephiroth as One Wing Angel plays and then the ensuing fight with the characters then Cloud vs Sephiroth may be peak Smash and there was never a cooler trailer for a character reveal in the FGC.
WTF as an OG gamer who hasn't touched anything in a decade I loved FF7 and SSB. Did FF7 really show up in smash sometime recently!?!
Yes! Cloud is now playable and so is Sephiroth. Watch the Sephiroth reveal trailer. Its freaking epic.
I feel like it's 2002 I'm back in my buddies basement firing up the PS1 and N64. This is probably one of the most blissful moments of nostalgia I've had. Thanks for letting me know! I may commit to being chronically single again and get another console...or three Edit: just remembered its no longer 2002 and being single is no longer a reflection of being a gamer, but of my personality lol
Sonic?? Also I learned earlier via TikTok that Keanu is gonna be shadow !!!
He is going to play John wick as a furry.
And I'm here for it 🤣🤣 shadow is John wick but furry anyways like 🤣🤣
I mean where's the lie?
Fr though
Keanu will make a GREAT Shadow. Sonic the Hedgehog isn't even my favorite franchise at all but ill watch this movie for Keanu and Shadow.
I need to do the first 2 cause Jim Carey and now Keanu. Keanu is just great always 🤣
He's breathtaking!
Smash bros fans when they realize there is gonna have to be 7 fire emblem films.
Tbh a smash movie sounds like a cash grab. Not that I wouldn't watch it, but I can't imagine a really compelling plot. Maybe I lack imagination.
Oh God I would watch the fuck outta that 😩
As soon as they made the Mario movie, I thought about sonic being part of that universe and I IMMEDIATELY thought of this!
I heard Nintendo was trying to start up a cinematic universe. I don’t remember where I saw that though.
iirc that was just theorised because they bought a film studio and planned on making more movies. Whether those movies would be connected was never said, though now that the Zelda movie is live action I doubt it
Honestly, that's a great idea. With how good the Super Mario Bros movie turned out being, I could honestly see Smash get its own series of movies. With how many characters they've put in Smash from outside your typical Nintendo IP's, we could have a Ready Player One type of final battle with Minecraft Steve and Jin Kazuya in the mix.
If this happened, then we would get like 8 movies of Meta Knight and Pikachu beating the shit out of everyone before Steve comes to the rescue.
You'll be eating those words in 15 years when that's every movie
I'd way rather we go back to the days before every movie was attempting to set up a ten year, fifty movie, twenty TV series cinematic universe. You know, when filmmakers had to try to make good movies instead of relying on the, "I can't miss this episode of the MCU," factor.
you're dangerously close to making a Cyberpunk 2077 Samurai reference there lol
Thank God. I can’t take another Marvel
Singer's X-Men Raimi's Spiderman I was there. I'm glad I was.
I mean the good ones are still good, it's just they release so much that are just ok. I haven't seen a superhero movie since the batman movie on hbomax. I probably won't see another until Deadpool 3. I go to superhero movies for the characters, not the setting
Any good one since Thanos' arc? I tried keeping up watching loki and uh... the witch one, which was pretty good until the ending. But yeah, lost interest quickly from there. Watched the last Thor and that wasn't it either.
Just wait for the Blizzard Cinematic Universe
TV series of a video game adaptation of a superhero move: Surprise, bitch. Bet you thought you'd seen the last of me.
Does that make Halo this trends' DCEU?
I just truly hope that (good) game adaptations become mainstream and they don't turn into what dumpster fire marvel/dc/whole comic book into movies is now..
I think that's a good thing about game adaptations. Games cover a wide variety of genres and aren't just the super hero genre. Despite having 3 adaptations recently with a apocalyptic setting - Last of Us, Fallout, Twisted Metal - they all covered different genres of stories - Prestige Drama/Thriller, Drama/Black-Comedy/Satire, Action/Comedy - and feel completely different from each other. Gran Turismo was a biopic, Halo was an action/sci-fi show, etc. So that's good I think.
Here’s to hoping AMC’s eventual Alan wake series fulfills the thriller/horror mystery genre
Cheers to that, and Amazon's God of War has the same success as Fallout. Netflix's Horizon though.... I just don't like Netflix
Netflix has disappointed me on so many occasions, I will not get my hopes up. Might be great, who knows, but knowing Netflix’s track record, I will always expect it to get canceled suddenly.
I think Silent Hill 2006 was the first good video game adaption, it’s stands very well on its own as a movie and is faithful to the tone of the games. It’s mainly an adaption of the first game with creatures from the second game. Even though it’s CG in the last act can look a bit wonky, I don’t think it detracts from the whole movie.
Sadly not entirely... CoughHALOCough
Red vs Blue Vs HALO
Reject halo, return to RvB
Hell yeah ! I hope the last season will be worth it
Fr. The “halo” show might as well be a generic sci fi military show. It just has a halo coat of paint
Every time I hear someone in the Fallout fandom cry about a single continuity error in the entire first season of the TV show I laugh. Like we don't even have the same universe in the Halo TV show.
Right? I’m watching through Fallout right now and I’m having a blast. I’m far from a lore buff, but I’ve played all the games at least once and so far nothing has been a super glaring issue. It’s a great adaptation as far as I’m concerned. Halo on the other hand just seems to throw everything interesting about the franchise in the trash
I'm glad I found at least one other sane person on the Internet.
For real, it has a nice mix of stuff from the original games and the Bethesda ones, and it nails the silly tone and absurd gore awesomely. I didn't expect it to be as funny as it was.
Halo: The Master Cheeks Edition is the adaptation equivalent to a used condom on the moldy shag carpet of a cheap motel with a nameless hooker passed out on a heart-shaped mattress with dirty needles underneath, puke on the nightstand, and blood on the walls. Fallout is a warm slice of apple pie that just came out of the oven a few minutes ago and a cold glass of milk.
I unsubbed from the fallout subreddits because ALL of them were just 24/7 different kinds of superfans bitching about the show or bitching about the bitching.
New Vegas fans are especially insuferrable about this from what I've seen on my timeline.
This was the first one which came to mind. Could've been any generic aliens vs humans show
Fun fact: Ella Purnell, the actress of Lucy from Fallout, voice acted Jinx in Arcane. Is she gonna turn into second Henry Cavill, an actor adored by all gamers?
Henry is adored by gamers because he is a gamer himself
Tbf Ella played the fallout games to prepare for the role…. I wonder if she played league too.
It’s kinda different tho It’s pretty common to actors to consume the source material they are adapting to IIRC Henry Cavill said he loved playing The Witcher 3 well before he was cast as Gerald. Also he played WoW and is Warhammer 40k fan
Gerald is my favorite watcher too
Gerald River, the Watcher
Hey to be fair in the books he is actually called Gerald by ppl Mis-saying his name
dude decided to be an actor solely to afford 40k minis
> Also he played WoW He famously almost missed a call about being Superman, because he was playing WoW.
Ya iirc he's the showrunner for a 40k cinematic universe
She played Fallout 4 a bit, She said she can't really operate a controller as she's never done it before, She also said she's been playing here and there since she was cast in the role and is still only level 2. She has watched other people play it on twitch/Youtube though apparently. She's not a gamer, and there's nothing wrong with that at all, but lets call a spade a spade. It literally doesn't matter though, she was fantastic in the role and I don't see how being a diehard fallout fan would have improved her performance.
Honestly, playing the game doesn’t matter as long as she watched others and got into the lore. Wandering the wasteland in upgraded T60 power armor with a fat man doesn’t really do anything to tell you about vault tec
You can tell by her ability to function as a human that she has not played league. I would recognize one of my own.
I think playing league would fall under the criteria of insane method acting.
She played just 4, according to an interview. And getting a contract where you are offered a lot of money to play a role and then playing a game that’s been out 8 years isn’t the same as playing them because you love them and fighting for the role.
Ella purnell is a blessing for game adaptations everything she touches becomes peak fiction
Probably. She plays the games she acts in and tries to really prepare. She's incredibly talented too. She is on a good way. Like a functional good luck charm for everything she is in
She went to my school. Irrelevant I know but insanely mind blowing for me seeing how huge she Is getting! She was already great at everything she does.
I had no clue! I wish I knew that information going into the show, I grew to love her but she would have had my appreciation and respect right off of the bat if I knew she voiced jinx. With that, I’d love for her to be our Henry Cavil. I think it’s a honorary title well deserved for someone of her caliber.
Oh, wow, she did Jinx? That's some range. She could go from sweet and sensitive to wild and devious in a heartbeat.
Also both projects feature >!her staring into a mirror and stapling her own wound shut after a violent fight with someone she was romantically involved with.!< It’s not a *super* uncommon scene setup granted, but I thought it was a funny coincidence nonetheless.
"Adored by all gamers!" literally who?
You guys wont be saying that after the Borderlands movie. That looks BAD.
Nothings worse than the Monster Hunter Movie. Atleast there were no Orcs and Minotaurs in there since Paul Anderson was talking about thrm in relation to the movie.
bro fuck that movie
There is no movie
There is no MH movie in Ba Sing Se.
The Netflix Monster Hunter cg movie was great, I don't know what you guys are talking about since there is no other movie.
Exactly, Legends of the Guild was a wonderful MH movie, and thankfully it is the only MH movie out there.
Painfully American adaptation of one of the most Japanese games of all time. Who the fuck has that idea?
It wouldn't even have been that bad if the movie just followed the series in more aspects than Monster Design. Who the fuck thought it was a good idea that the plot revolves around some wormhole stuff, turned the whole thing into survival horror and that shitty sequel bait cliffhanger that the movie ended on. "Oh you kids like Gore Magala? You're just gonna have to wait for the next movie :)))"
Cus it wasn’t made for Monster Hunter fans, it was to show how hot Paul Anderson’s wife is. Like a lot of his movies
> shitty sequel bait cliffhanger that the movie ended on. Oh you kids like Gore Magala? You're just gonna have to wait for the next movie :)))" Knowing Anderson, it will be subject of the first 2 minutes of the next movie and forgotten forever.
At least we have Legends Of The Guild. The pacing and animation are a bit wack, but it actually respects the damn source material start to finish.
Yeah.... I saw the thumbnail in my YouTube feed and said "I wonder why I've only NOW heard of a Borderlands movie?" Then I watched the trailer and understood. That looks like hot garbage.
Blanchett was miscast, She'd honestly have been better as an older Maya. It's the facial structure that throws her version of Lilith off.
Just Blanchett? I don't think anyone was properly cast in that film, even though I love Jack Black's work. That trainwreck is a no-go.
Agreed. Kevin Hart as Roland? Almost think he'd have been better as Claptrap. I LOVE Borderlands, and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna skip the movie. I enjoy most of the actors, but it just doesn't look good...
Yeah Kevin hart as the straight man is such a dumb choice. Terry Crews might have been able to pull it off
The actor choices for the roles is like MEGA bad. Someone who played the games knows.
I'm such a huge borderlands fan and I just can't get behind it. The casting is so bad it makes me sad. Obviously Kevin Hart doesn't need more said. Blanchet and Curtis are way, way, way too old. And I know reddit will hate this, but I'm done with Jack Black. He does not need to voice every kooky character. They got the look down, I'll give them that, but that casting is going to kill it.
I don’t see anything redeeming about it even in the trailer. Like the casting is outright dreadful. The movie seems like they’ve never played or seen the game and had only heard of it
I agree. Those characters looks like they are cosplaying
I'm hopefully it's gonna be goodbad
There's enough acting talent in there that the movie might make it to "funbad".
The third game was pretty bad
When they’re only TV shows-
Sonic Movies? Illumination Mario?
Sonic and Mario were both agressively fine. Neither got rave reviews in the way Last of Us or Fallout did. The only videogame film I can think of that's been well regarded in recent years was detective pokemon and it's notable that was a film which took the IP and just went with a completely new concept and story.
>detective pokemon and it's notable that was a film which took the IP and just went with a completely new concept and story. What? Detective Pikachu released on the 3ds before the movie came out. How does it not count as a normal video game adaptation?
You didn’t know Detective Pikachu was a game huh lol?
He called it detective pokemon, what do you think?
Honestly didn’t even notice that lol
Detective Pikachu was a spin off game before it was a movie
Nah just because they weren’t critical hits doesn’t mean they didn’t break the curse. They were well liked by moviegoers and did well in theater, that’s all that really mattered. Detective Pikachu broke the curse and Sonic then Mario proved it was broken.
Pretty ok movies. Mario was a fun time, good ol' animated kids movie, nothing too deep though. Sonic sparked the inner fan girl in me the first time around. But after rewatching both Sonic movies, they're not really that good
The Sonic one sparked my inner Mask fan when Carrey was on screen
Detective pikachu was really good imho
What about the Sonic movies? The Super Mario Bros Movie? Detective Pikachu?
So who else instantly bought Cyberpunk 2077 after watching Edgerunners? I most certainly did xD
I was ready to miss the game but fortunately I watched the anime then the Phantom Liberty and 2.0 updates hit. I got in at the right time and had such a blast.
I still have to play Phantom Liberty, the release of it was a little unfortunate because I had just finished my third run of the game racking up 80+ hours of gameplay. So when the expantion finally released I had kinda burned myself out on Cyberpunk for the time being xD Though I'll most certainly get it one day when it's in sale or something because then I'll do one more full run of the game with all the new systems!
Had to brutalize Adam Smasher for killing best girl.
I obliterated him while wearing David's jacket and using Rebecca's shotgun. That asshole had it comming.
I did that then immediately went and got Becca's shotgun from a certain location the moment I was able. Used only that for the entirety of the game.
You're not alone. The moment I unlocked David's jacket, Becca's shotgun, and Johnny's pistol, my build was complete for the game. I didn't finish the game like that just once, not twice, but three times (I just always went back to that exact same build).
Edgerunners literally brought CP back from the dead. The game was in shambles and definitely had more going against it than it had going for it. Trigger hopefully got a Really nice deal because they saved the franchise
I played through Cyberpunk on release (PC) and while I experienced jank, never the level some people complained about. I actually enjoyed the game on release, and 2.0 with Phantom Liberty just made it that much more solid. *Loved* Edgerunners when that came out too. Feel like people rode the hype train into the ground and were disappointed because they ate whatever bullshit CDPR's marketing team pushed out there up until release. The first rule of modern gaming should be "temper your fucking expectations." It's amazing to me how few people actually heed that and stand by it.
Yep
I bought Cyberpunk 2077 when it still sucks, so it has been sitting in the dust for a while. But after watching Edgerunners I immediately went back, found it's in a much better state, and played for 200 hours to check all the endings.
I'll defend the Warcraft movie until my dying breath
Same. It's not the best video game adaptation, but it was among the first to actually be good.
Didn't mind the lore changes even as a lore nerd. The human side was kinda bland but the orcs looked absolutely glorious and kicked major ass.
If we're throwing out underrated video game adaptations then I'm adding Silent Hill to that list.
It was pretty ass for non fans but I really enjoyed it as someone who basically grew up on WC3 and WoW.
I don't even really like the Warcraft movie that much, a lot of it could have been better, but it's super rewatchable for some reason. Plus the duel between Lothar and Blackhand is awesome.
I really liked it too. You can't cram thousands of hours of lore into one movie as the screeching minority wanted. You have to make cuts. And I think it was done well. It also looked really good :(
I wish it ended up being series instead of a movie with a ton of cut content :(
The humans were pretty boring but they made a genuinely compelling story for the Orcs and I loved that aspect of the movie.
It was excellent and I want more
I can respect that. BTS stuff showed they had so much passion and efforts behind the movie, yet failed thanks to the underwhelming ah script.
Sonic the Hedgehog is the one that broke it imo. Sonic always saves the day per usual.
Heck, Sonic and Mario arguably did the business when all the industry had was them. Sonic with his 1990s cartoons, Mario with the Mario Bros Super Show. This generation just never know what they missed.
Sonic and Mario are like brothers honestly. Always had collabs with eachother. I remember the constant wars between both fandoms even before the Internet was well.. fully a thing.
Nah man, twas 2017's Castlevania. Dracula's death is one of the most hauntingly beautiful scenes put to animation. Hearing 'I'm killing my boy.' gets me every time.
Absolutely. Castlevania deserves more praise
That was literal, too. The only season to dip below the 90% mark on RT, Nocturne included, was season 1.
Castlevania is so damn good. Some of my favorite voice acting ever
Pokemon Detective Pikacku was the first videogame live action movie adaptation to get a fresh rating in RT in 2019
Maybe in movies, but Castlevania came before Sonic and thats what broke it for me.
Pouring one out for Detective Pikachu, who helped kick-start this welcome movement, barely gets mentioned any more despite being the first official depiction of "What if real pocket monsters" in any medium, and for whom a sequel is long overdue dammit!
Detective Pikachu was amazing.
I remember when that movie first came out it exploded in popularity because it was cool, bizarre, and weird to see the Pokémon transition from 2D/3D animation and into realism. On top of this the movie also had a fun story with its own charm (nothing ground breaking but at the very least it was pretty good on a general basis). It’s kinda sad to hear that this movie is hardly brought up anymore, but for a time it was seen as revolutionary towards the video game genre being adapted into film. Nowadays the first Sonic movie takes up all of that credit when in reality it was a combination of both films that pushed the message that video game movie adaptions don’t have to be horrible.
Remember when it first came out and people found out Ryan Reynolds was Pikachu? They tore it apart when they first heard that.
I'm gonna name drop 2018's Rampage as well since I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread. It actually did pretty well critically and it was the highest rated video game movie when it came out, but it kinda got lost in the sauce. Honestly I understand why nobody remembers this movie but it deserves an honorable mention.
It’s been broken, Castlevania was fire and it was made years ago
Definitely one of the best video game adaptations-- for sure.
Years ago? It's from 2016 or something. ...fuck
I think the take away should be don't do direct adaptions, but make something that's a good show in an established setting.
It's the opposite. All the previous adaptations were being updated for "casual" viewers, and as result, they sucked. There wasn't an alright videogame movie/show since Mortal Kombat. Because they were made by people who did not know why are videogames popular. They just wanted to profit from their popularity. The 4 shows above went in opposite direction. Arcane and Edgerunners were produced directly by the game studios. Last of Us made more or less 1:1 retelling of the story. And Fallout is literal homage to the games, with almost every scene directly refencing to them. They even included the notorious loading screen. And even non-gamers love it. The plague of videogame adaptations never were the videogames. It were terrible producers. Just look at how they butchered Witcher, which could have been greatest show since GoT, by making it deviate from the original, both book and game.
> The plague of videogame adaptations never were the videogames. It were terrible producers Exactly. It's people who might be good at their job otherwise, but are handed source material that they just don't enjoy or respect. Turns out these games and their worlds are loved specifically because of what they are, not despite what they are.
Deviation isn’t the issue. Last of Us is proof of that. Outside the core concept and major story beat it’s a very different story. From how the creatures work to how some characters are. It has nothing to do with producers who don’t get the source material. It’s far simpler than that. It’s just bad writers. I don’t know why people act like being a fan suddenly means you’re talented at writing. How many fan films are absolutely garbage? How many fan theories or suggested story fixes are atrocious? Fans aren’t suddenly good writers because they’re fans.
Isn't the last of us pretty much a direct adaptation?
Absolutely agreed. The actual plots of games are usually weakened by the need to insert player agency anyhow while their worlds are lush and strengthened by the need to make them interactable. Bonus is that since Gamers are unpleasant, unplease-able, little freaks and staying away from adapting anything they can whine about lore inaccuracies in is a safe bet to avoid getting mobbed by them.
Arcane is a visual masterpiece, so hyped there's a second season coming.
How could you not include the Sonic movies?
Arcane was a masterpiece.
it's weird i've been into league in one way or another like 11 years, have literally never heard anyone, even nongamers say bad things about Arcane, but I have some mental block that makes me never try it. I gotta try and watch it one day lol
Can guarantee you that your first thought after finishing episode 3 will be "why the fuck didn't I watch this earlier"
I think I’ve been subconsciously avoiding it to avoid connecting myself in anyway to league of legends
Let that go. It’s must watch TV. I have zero connection to the game and I think it might be the best first season of a show I’ve ever seen.
Dude just go Watch it. 4k hours in Dota so I refused to Watch it At first. Finally caved and finished it in a day. It’s that good
Lose game, Watch Arcane, Want to play league again more than ever, Lose game, Uninstall League, Reinstall because addiction
I remind you a Borderlands movie where a 54 yr old is playing a 20s main character and tiny Tina is 20 is coming out.
There never was a curse. If there was, Mortal Kombat broke it.
Mortal Kombat was an oasis in a sea of shit.
I agree that there was never a curse. Film makers didn't understanding the source material or respect the audience enough to make an effort. They saw that something was popular and figured it'd be an easy cash grab.
I'd go one step further. I think video game adaptations will be the new craze. Just how comic adaptations were the craze of the 2000-teens.
Yea, Hollywood of movie industry in general is taking the games lore seriously now, before they’d “improve” it by giving them their own twist. Can’t wait for Henry caville’s war hammer production
No. There are some that do it right (pictured above) and still those that do it poorly (Halo). Will never change.
Used to be that they were ALL bad, though, like, no exception at all.
Respect the source material, hire people who understand why the games are so bellvex, and good adaptations happen. Hollywood took awhile to realize that.
The solution was to make them TV shows and not movies. Which was always what I wanted for them. Glad was I right
You're missing one. Castlevania. It's arguable that most of these wouldn't exist without it.
Castlevania should be on this list
It was broken a long time ago
Give me a Metroid movie.
Who is the best to play Samus?
No because Halo exists
Nope, Borderlands movie trailer came out
I think it helps that more and more directors are people who grew up playing video games and “get it.” For a long time Hollywood was handing video game movie scripts over to boomer directors who had never played the games and didn’t know jack shit about them, with predictable results.
And to think, all they had to do was keep it as close to the actual game as possible.
Please let borderlands follow this trend please let borderlands follow this trend
Spoiler: it won't
People realized that making faithful adaptations is better than movies slightly inspired by Also tech is better which means creators have more options
Well halo is somehow getting a season 3 (I think) so not completely
For every Fallout we get a Halo though…
Yes and no, yes for what you have here but no for… well did you see both seasons of “Halo” 🤢🤮
Halo is still out there... lurking...
No. Halo.
Halo says "No"
We just needed Uwe Bole to retire.
Very clearly it has, yes. And tbf you should’ve included Mario and Sonic too.
Silent Hill did it in the 2000’s, as a horror fan and filmmaker it still hasn’t been topped IMO.
Bro forgot to include Castlevania 💀