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

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.
 
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. ::cirnoshrug
 
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)
 
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.
 
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
 
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. ::cirnoshrug
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.
 
Honestly seeing how Hollywood, Netflix and more love to piss and shit on everything I like no thanks I don´t want a single video game movie to be made. It´s enough Netflix decided to shit and piss and puke all over Tom clany´s work on Splinter cell.

Ahh typical media today wait for the creator to die just so they can shit all over there work for 0 reasons what so ever. Hence Ring of power happen. If if Christopher Tolkien was still alive he would told Amazon to go F them self. If Tom Clancy was still alive he would sue Netflix to hell and back for shitting on his work.
 
Honestly seeing how Hollywood, Netflix and more love to piss and shit on everything I like no thanks I don´t want a single video game movie to be made. It´s enough Netflix decided to shit and piss and puke all over Tom clany´s work on Splinter cell.

Ahh typical media today wait for the creator to die just so they can shit all over there work for 0 reasons what so ever. Hence Ring of power happen. If if Christopher Tolkien was still alive he would told Amazon to go F them self. If Tom Clancy was still alive he would sue Netflix to hell and back for shitting on his work.
So much to do soooooooooo little timmmmmmmmmeeeeeeee.
 
You say it like the reason for the movie to be a success would be inherent to the videogame whose is based. If that would be true, most videogame movies would be a success, because they usually are based on good games, but the reality is that 99% of them are crappy movies.

The game does not matter, the quality of the director, actors and screenwriter is.
 

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