What video game saga do you think would be a success if it had a movie?

[RomanZZZ]

God of War

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

Rockman/Mega Man

 

[bjork]

Metal Gear could do well, but it's been rumored for almost 30 years now so who knows if it'll ever happen.

They should make a TV show that's kinda like Deadly Premonition, I bet that would be a hoot.

 

[DieselBrand]

I think Zelda.

 

[Vexicrypt]

To take a more pessimistic approach, none of them. Videogame adaptations will never work as movies because of the specifics of the medium. Also movie people don't know what they are doing and for what audience, which will always result in failure.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Like you mean financially or artistically? For the former, Zelda would definitely make a ton of bank. Metal gear too cuz if espionage, and God of War. Last of Us would be good (those two last examples would also be good Artistically)

 

[Cardboardtubeknight Cardboardtubeknight]

Bioshock which I think is happening

 

[Yousef Yousef]

Bioshock which I think is happening

That one’s got potential. Grey morality and cyberpunk dystopia are great for film.

 

[qw90700]

TBH new games are so BS movie-like digital rubbish they are more in line for being okay for movie adaptations because they are barely a game but they would be a better movie instead. For example Fahrenheit, Heavy Rain, Death Stranding, Quantum Break, Control, Alan Wake... Clearly just to make games suitable for movie adaptations to make more money they enforce cinematic BS into games where most of the game is cutscene either as pseudo-gameplay where player walks and listen to dialogues for hours or automatic scenes that player has no control over and videos. I kinda saw this shit in Japanese games after 2000s too that the games are so fitting for anime adaptations as "missions" progress in episodic logic. This is one of the shit killed video gaming for me.

 

[Bakuma1997]

Undertale, imagine they pulling a Butterfly effect and secretly proyecting three movies that more or less play the same but each one adapts a different route and its ending

 

[CheesyExplosive]

.Hack and .Hack//GU

 

[Turbo Kid]

To take a more pessimistic approach, none of them. Videogame adaptations will never work as movies because of the specifics of the medium. Also movie people don't know what they are doing and for what audience, which will always result in failure.

Sonic and Mortal Kombat have already proved you wrong along with several movies that are built around video game concepts such as Hardcore Henry, Edge of Tomorrow, Scott Pilgrim, and Boss Level.

Anyway, I would love a Mass Effect movie trilogy with a different ending. You could probably even use people like Yvonne Strahovski with a little Hollywood de-aging magic. I could easily see a Castlevania movie working well in the right hands. Vampire movies and horror movies have already been done well before and are a pretty easy sell to a movie going audience even without the video game nerd demographic.

I would love to see something like Final Fantasy 6 turned into a three movie fantasy epic. World of Ruin could be the third and final movie.

I could also see the Donkey Kong Country games working as movies, just don't cast Seth Rogen as Donkey Kong.

People are starved for quality entertainment these days with the decaying state of Hollywood and television in the past several years. You drop an impressive enough trailer for pretty much anything and it can draw an audience who are just desperate for something good.

 

[Bonkers225]

Bub.....


.....Sy

 

[Segadude113]

The Legend of Zelda, which we're already getting. :)

 

[Dany28]

I would love to see a Zelda movie, but I'm afraid they'll mess it up.