Comments on: Why Games Made From Movies Make Me Sad

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 03:37:02 +0000

That’s true. It’s best to just take good aspects from the movie, but not try to force the whole movie into a game. I already saw the movie; I don’t need to sit through it again, but with it spread out to fill 10 hours rather than 2. These are different forms of entertainment and need to be treated as such.

By: cary

cary — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 13:30:25 +0000

Great post, and so true! Movies, even the really, really long ones, just don’t have enough content to full up even a short 10 hour game, so the developers end up having to make up things for the players to do to just to fill up space (You brought up the perfect example in “Harry Potter.”) But that really only happens, as you guys mentioned above, when they try to recreate the movie in the game. Games that are inspired by and pay tribute to movies and keep gamers at the forefront of development rather than movie-goers (several great LEGO games come to mind), are much more enjoyable.

By: duckofindeed

duckofindeed — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:54:30 +0000

I’ve since learned my lesson with these kinds of games. Some of the worst games I’ve ever owned were of this variety. Really, any games that were made with no sense of pride usually turn out bad. Yeah, they always make these things for money first and foremost, but you can tell which games had love put into them and which didn’t.

By: Hatm0nster

Hatm0nster — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:17:23 +0000

You have a point with the Star Wars games. For the most part they’re actually really good, and mostly because they don’t try to recreate the movies. They work because they do their own thing. Even the SNES games (aside from the first) are decent. Sure they follow the plot (loosely) but are meant to be games first and foremost.

You are right though, whether or not they’re doing their own thing apart from the movie is made irrelevant when no effort is put into them. They’re just glorified cash-grabs for the most part, happy to settle for the bare minimum so long as they can still con those who don’t know any better into buying the game for their kids.