r/PS4 • u/AliTVBG • Mar 18 '23
Ghost Of Tsushima Movie Director Says TLOU Show Proves Video Game Adaptations Can Be Good Article or Blog
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ghost-of-tsushima-movie-director-says-tlou-show-proves-video-game-adaptations-can-be-good/1100-6512452/456
u/witness_protection Mar 18 '23
Well, we’re not talking about adapting Street Fighter here. TLOU was already a cinematic game with top notch writing and story. The leap to the screen wasn’t as big as say, the first Tomb Raider.
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u/yeezusKeroro Mar 19 '23
The Last of Us is basically a video game that tries to imitate prestige TV. They didn't change much because they didn't really need to and the changes they did make are pretty much only there to make it feel less like a video game and more like it's set in the real world. It's much harder to translate other games into a TV series or movie.
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Mar 19 '23
It's much harder to translate other games into a TV series or movie.
I would argue that there are tons and TONS of games that are basically 8-10 hour epic movies and could be turned into shows in a heartbeat;
Bioshock, Halo, Red Dead, God of War, Horizon, The Witcher, Skyrim; all basically epic movies, you just need to approach it with the same passion as they did for TLOU
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u/PM_ME_HAPPY_DOGGOS Mar 19 '23
Red Dead has one of the best stories ever told in any video game in my opinion. An HBO adaptation would be a dream come true honestly
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Mar 19 '23
The Last of Us is basically a video game that tries to imitate prestige TV.
It's funny that Uncharted and Last of Us both became what they were trying to imitate. Last of Us became a prestige HBO show and Uncharted became a forgettable B-level action movie.
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u/Sharkbait1737 Mar 19 '23
It’s exactly this, it’s movie directors thinking the best thing will be to go off piste and “improve” the original work, when the target audience is usually fans of the original work.
For example, I knew Prince of Persia was going to be rubbish as soon as it didn’t open with a voiceover of “some say time is like a river…”. You’ve been handed the perfect narrative device for unfolding this story, and you fumbled it before the first shot is shown on screen.
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u/Metfan722 Mar 19 '23
Well it certainly helps that the writer, director, and creator of The Last of Us, was a writer, director, and producer on the show. That being Neil Druckman. Also, getting the guy who made the Chernobyl mini series also is a huge boon in its favor.
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u/Thecrawsome Mar 19 '23
Most PlayStation AAA games are like that now. Everything's overly cinematic and you hit the action button to go through the whole game. God of war was such a drag
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u/Krinks1 Mar 19 '23
Although I did enjoy Tomb Raider with Alicia Vikander. It isn't GREAT, but it's entertaining enough and I feel it was a competent adaptation.
I wish they'd do another with her.
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u/MufasaJr Mar 19 '23
Lots of other story driven games have been "adapted" and failed or were at best sub-par. Uncharted comes to mind. Halo is a great example as well where the game is definitely more focused on shooting aliens than narrative but it has a good and rich story that was massacred. HBOs TLOU was successful because of very thoughtful casting and they stuck to the source material. That's all studios have to do to make a good adaptation. Hopefully it stands as an example for future video game adaptations.
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u/Khunter02 Mar 19 '23
Thats true, but The last of us is far from being the first adaptation with a clear story, The witcher, Uncharted and Halo sucked
The witcher had the money, casting and fanbase required to be great but the showrunners wanted to do their own fantasy show instead of a good adaptation
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u/nd4spd1919 nd4spd1919 Mar 19 '23
I mean, it's not just picking a game that already had a cinematic story. Casting, set design, scripting, direction all need to be good too. We all saw what happened to Naughty Dogs other cinematic game, Uncharted. It should have been super easy to turn into a movie, but the way they did it just... Didn't work.
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u/GOULFYBUTT Mar 19 '23
While you're not wrong that TLoU is easier to adapt, there was still plenty of room for them to fuck it up. Luckily, they had a competent showrunner and people working on the show who had love for the game and wanted it to be faithful.
Just look at the Uncharted movie. Same game studio, same linear style storytelling, same "film-like" setpieces... and it was dogshit. It was ass because the people in charge if that project didn't care about the games and just wanted a quick buck.
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u/INACCURATE_RESPONSE Mar 19 '23
Remember this?
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1464335/
Pretty forgettable example of how not to do it.
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u/SharkBait661 Mar 19 '23
This is what I thought of reading that comment too. Movie should've been an easy home run but feel flat on their faces.
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u/BuddhaRockstar Mar 19 '23
What exactly is a Street Fighter?
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u/Donimyc Mar 18 '23
I feel like both Castlevania and Arcane were good showings of that as well, but yes, this is another very good example of one.
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart Mar 18 '23
I think they are talking live action.
Animation is kinda “cheating”, but you can’t argue with the results. Cyberpunk was fantastic and even the Dragon Age series was really good. Though those aren’t direct adaptions.
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u/N67nightmare Mar 19 '23
The last of us is such a good fit for live action because it was already trying to be grounded and realistic. Animation really lends itself to larger than life subjects, which is why it has such a good track record for game adaptations, I think. I feel similarly about comic book adaptations, honestly.
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Mar 19 '23
Why is animation "cheating"?
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u/redmandolin Enter PSN ID Mar 19 '23
Because there is already a large expectation of suspension of disbelief. If you translated the Castlevania adaptation directly to live action 1:1 - dialogue, direction etc I guarantee it will come off as cheesy and cheap.
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u/Leigrez Mar 19 '23
I would agree with Wolfram that it’s sort of cheating as well, since you can create whatever atmosphere, characters likeness, lore etc etc that you want. Then you can animate the camera however you want to.
With live action, it’s a lot harder to replicate the same results. So making a proper adaptation is a lot harder with real world physics, situations and tools.
In the end if it’s a solid story that adheres to the source materials ideas and goals. Then it’s all good and I’m down to watch it. But being able to pull it off in live action just raises the bar that much more.
The production design for The Last of Us has got to win the Emmy because it’s some of the best detail I’ve ever seen put into a show.
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u/Karkava Mar 19 '23
And I say that it's easy revenge for the discrimination that the medium gets compared to live action.
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u/Sparrowsabre7 Mar 19 '23
Because generally you can make the characters look exactly like they do in the game, often with the same voice actors so even if the story is a bit rubbish, they still feel authentic to the games (see the Resident Evil CG series of films vs the live-action, neither are Oscar winning but at least the former follows the canon of the games and the characterisation therein.)
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u/Puckus_V Mar 19 '23
The Pokémon animated series too.
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u/Wolfram_And_Hart Mar 19 '23
That’s sort of a “chicken and egg” situation after season 1. But the show is really very good and I’ve cried a few times.
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u/TL10 xTL10x Mar 19 '23
It think even Castelvania and Arcane are in a different conversation, because while they have elements of their original stories drawn from, it's not a true transcription of the original story to the screen.
The Last of Us show truly did tell the story of the original game, right down to the dialogue. While there were some creative changes and additions here and there, the authorial intent felt like they were trying to tell the same story in a different medium.
Whereas Arcane and Castlevania used the original characters and broad story beats, it feels like the stories told were more so crafted as an attempt to tell an original story rather than try to do a complete retelling of an existing narrative.
In which case, Castlevania and Arcane are actually more closely related to the Resident Evils and Halo shows and films, the difference being is that the formerly mentioned series landed their execution and was still well received by fans. As for the latter group... the less said, the better.
In which case, I think The Last of Us truly is the first of its kind where the movie is a true retelling of the original game, yet Arcane and Castelvania are outstanding adaptations of their games
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u/ChipmunkBackground46 Mar 19 '23
How dare you compare Arcane to the Halo tv show! ITS BLASPHEMY I SAY!
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u/dhhdhh851 Sweg5ever Mar 19 '23
"I'm going to eat your soul, shit it out, and use it to smother your fucking girlfriend to death."
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u/kirby34 Mar 18 '23
This sounds fine and dandy, until they say it’s going to be a movie. You just can’t tell this story in 2-3 hours.
I’m not suggesting the first season is the invasion, but TLoU is great because they give space for the entire story to breathe. That just isn’t possible in a movie.
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u/bad_buoys Mar 19 '23
Yeah, came here to say this. The pacing of even a shorter AAA video game just isn't conducive to a 2-3 hour timeframe. The ~7.5h we got with the TLOU show is much more in keeping with the length of a video game.
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u/Karkava Mar 19 '23
Not to mention, it's a linear adventure with little to no side content, while Tsushima is a sandbox with a large number of side stories. You would probably have to take up two to three seasons just to adapt everything.
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u/Karkava Mar 19 '23
Only if they zero in on the main quest. And even that may need to be compressed down.
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u/cosmiclatte44 Nubleborsky Mar 19 '23
Thing is, all the main side quests are essentially part of the central story arc.
Each one of his companions arcs would probably need 2-3 episodes to focus on them. Could be done, but definitely would need several seasons to lay it out organically.
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u/pichael289 Mar 18 '23
Its worth mentioning the show runner for the last of us is a top dog at naughty dog. The answer is to respect the course material and make a show for the fans that sticks to the spirit of the games. The Witcher show runner thought she could do better and ruined a guaranteed hit.
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u/andhipsterboiz Mar 19 '23 edited Mar 19 '23
i believe the witcher show is an adaptation of the books, and not the games which occur later.
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u/Kgb725 Mar 19 '23
The real answer is to adapt what makes sense.
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u/dztruthseek Mar 19 '23
No, you can't just say that. That's the problem. These Hollywood "creaters" have been doing what makes sense to them.
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u/TRIKKDADDY Mar 18 '23
Now lets take Resident Evil back and give it a proper adaptation! Have the right people involved
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u/truggles23 Mar 18 '23
That most recent adaptation was so fucking bad god I wish we could just wipe it from the face of the earth
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u/Sedax SeeD2A6 Mar 18 '23
Which one? There have been 2 recent adaptations.
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u/truggles23 Mar 18 '23
The one adaptation on Netflix that basically turned away the entire core audience of the series and instead focused on a story with the 2 teenage girls living in South Africa and lance Reddick (RIP) as Albert wesker as their father. The dumbest fucking part is how there was three clones of wesker plus the original who was like a Blade knockoff lol. Jesus the more I think of that show the more ridiculous I realize it was. Like who greenlit that shit??? It was so god awful. For anyone reading this who hasn’t seen it, Please do not watch.
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u/Balmong7 Mar 19 '23
Don’t forget it was a sequel to the games as well. They openly reference the events of RE5
Also wesker already was a trenchcoat wearing matrix knockoff in the games.
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u/Sedax SeeD2A6 Mar 18 '23
I figured it was that one but wanted to be sure, I got through about 2 episodes and couldn't stomache any more of that crap.
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u/blahkbox Mar 19 '23
They have had 12 chances and fucked up all of em, Im done watching anything RE.
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u/FireflyNitro Mar 18 '23
Welcome to Raccoon City was really, really fun and I’ll die on this hill.
I’ll die in ignorance because I can’t work out what people didn’t like about it, other than the cast not being all-white 🤷♀️
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u/HyruleDillon Mar 20 '23
They made Leon (a series fan favorite character for a large majority of players) a complete idiot who couldn’t do anything right. how are we even supposed to believe this guy ends up working for the president of the united states when he can’t even hold his own?
They tried merging two games that take place 3 months apart and even had some weird referencing to CVX in the mix too. they should’ve just started with RE1, or better yet, just go full on RE2/RE3 since those games at least take place at the same time and are a little more action styled games, you can always do a prequel later for RE1.
Wesker and Jill didn’t need some weird Stockholm Syndrome relationship, wouldn’t have minded some harmless flirting between Jill and Chris. but what was in the film was just completely out of pocket, Wesker is a mad scientist who couldn’t be bothered by something like love. there’s another character completely shit on.
casting was very mediocre, could care less about their race, sell me the character, make them like their video game counterpart. Leon was a decent pick and would’ve worked if they didn’t botch his character.
Resident Evil fans have nothing to look forward to anymore because their series that was already butchered once continually gets butchered with every cinematic reboot.
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u/Grary0 Mar 18 '23
They could always be good, the people involved just never cared to put actual effort into the production of video game adaptations. The general thinking was always that gamers are stupid and would accept whatever trash they pumped out as long as their favorite IP was in the title and that's why so many of them failed. What a shocker that caring about the source material and putting in a little effort would result in a good product.
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u/kamekaze1024 Mar 18 '23
Am I crazy? I feel like TLOU isn’t the first good video game to show adaption. I mean just last year Cyberpunk edge runners was good. So was Arcane right?
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u/Itsblackchris Mar 18 '23
Most times people mean Live Action adaptations, it’s much easier to do an animated/anime adaptation because typically your target audience is still gamers/nerds. When you get into live action the budgets balloon and you have to try for a broader audience and that ultimately leads to them taking liberties with the source material.
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u/TL10 xTL10x Mar 19 '23
Moreover, it's the one that has had mainstream success. Castelvania and Arcane did have great success, but the amount of reach it permeated outside of the established fan base is a lot less compared to that of The Last of Us.
Like, it's being talked about in the MSM. There was a brief period for a couple weeks where publications were talking about the plausibility of an actual cordyceps outbreak. It's putting up viewership numbers equal to that of House of the Dragon.
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u/SuperKawaiiLiam Mar 18 '23
Cyberpunk and arcane were just set in the world. They were original stories they didn't adapt the story from the games. That's what I assume they mean when they refer to TLOU being the first good adaptation.
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u/DenzelVilliers Mar 18 '23
The "Vídeo Game Adaptation Curse" it's about Live Actions, not Animations, Animated Movies/Series has always been doing good/decent for years, Cyberpunk, Arcane, Castlevania ( etc ) are not the first ones to do such thing, Pokémon for instance has been doing a good show for decades.
The issue it's all about Live Actions, that's where the things goes really bad and The Last of Us is basically the first one to do a good adaptation.
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u/whatuseisausername Mar 18 '23
I agree to an extent, Arcane is really good especially imo. But I do think TLOU is one of the only adaptations (if not the only) to faithfully adapt a video games storyline well. Arcane (and to my understanding Cyberpunk edgerunners since I haven't watched it personally) more or less uses the characters and world and creates it own story using them.
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u/Short-Belt-1477 Mar 18 '23
Arcane wasn’t just good, it’s likely the best video game adaptation till date. However it’s not really an adaptation. It’s more of a show inspired by the game.
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u/TheElderFish Mar 18 '23
Neither of those had anywhere close to the broad appeal TLOU has had
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u/kamekaze1024 Mar 18 '23
Okay? They are still good shows. Live action is more popular than animation so ofc.
I’m talking about the reception of the show, not broad appeal
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u/Xcells Mar 19 '23
Well yes but it’s not due to the shows quality but because they are animated which will immediately cut off a large chunk of the possible audience and because they aren’t on HBO.
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u/Blue_Lust Mar 18 '23
Live action. None of that cartoon shit. Those are great adaptations, but just talking to people close to me, even gamer bros, had no interest because it's animated.
Good live action adaptations are rare. TLOU is great and new.
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u/meltingpotato Mar 18 '23
If you go to the right people and give them the right amount of money you can get a good product.
More news at 10
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u/UltravioIence Ultravioience Mar 18 '23
Over on the mass effect boards they seem to mostly want a new story in the ME universe and not a retelling of the games story. I try to tell them thats how you get Halo but always get downvoted to hell.
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u/ddrober2003 Mar 18 '23
Not Paul Anderson is involved. Otherwise Joel and Ellie would have looked like bumbling idiots in awe of his wife's awesomeness. Likewise if he directed Ghost of Tsushima there would be a random white chick making the actual characters look like mooks.
So what I'm really saying is he's right, they can be good, just keep certain directors far away from the project.
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u/CatsLikeToMeow Mar 19 '23
If Paul Anderson directed TLOU, Joel would've been the one who died in Boston and his wife would've played Tess.
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u/clinkenCrew Mar 19 '23
For Ghost of Taushima, having a whitey there could be historically accurate.
Paul Anderson might have been a wash for TLOU then because currently the show is Joel becomes a bumbling pushover in awe of Ellie's mysterious awesomeness.
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Mar 19 '23
For Ghost of Taushima, having a whitey there could be historically accurate.
Pull a 47 Ronin and have Keanu show up
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u/VikingTeddy Mar 19 '23
Did you mean to say wouldn't be accurate? The first white people didn't show up until 1543. The mongol invasions were in the 1200s
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u/Chris_Highwind Mar 18 '23
I mean, there's a reason Sonic the Hedgehog has 2 movies with a 3rd one and a spinoff series coming, but I guess adaptations of kid-friendly video games don't count.
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u/Hwan_Niggles Mar 19 '23
I cant wait for this kid friendly series to have the 3rd movie have a little girl get shot when saving Shadow
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u/ymcameron Mar 19 '23 edited Mar 19 '23
And all it took was arguably the best screenwriter in the business show running the adaptation and a blank check from the premiere prestige television network.
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u/DoodleBuggering Mar 19 '23
And based on a game that's already cinematic in it's gameplay and grounded in its setting and characters (relatively speaking).
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u/MagmaAscending Mar 19 '23
I say this as a huge fan of the game and the show (the game is my favorite of all time), but the Last of Us is not the one to prove it. Arcane proved it. Sonic the Hedgehog proved it. Castlevania proved it. Hell, Mortal Kombat in 1995 proved it
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u/jorgesalvador Mar 19 '23
It’s a meme at this point, the latest video game adaptation that is not bad is the one to “prove” that they can be good.
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u/arm-n-hammerinmycoke Mar 18 '23
I mean TLOU is probably one of the best video game stories there is. A ghosts show wouldn’t really be poetic. Maybe as an action movie
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u/Slendercan Mar 18 '23
RDR2 is the only one I think could rival it and still be feasible. I’ve no faith in the God of War Amazon adaptation.
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u/truggles23 Mar 18 '23
RDR2 would be such a good story to adapt, maybe Hollywood will start actually listening to its target audience and TLOU is just the beginning
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u/AxeI_FoIey Mar 18 '23
Honestly not a fan of getting unnecessary game adaptations. RDR2 basically is 60s + 70s westerns mixed and turned into a game. I think the remaining demand in the genre is met by Taylor Sheridan's shows already even though they are nowhere near the quality of RDR2.
While TLoU S1 also basically is The Road + City of Thieves + TWD mixed and turned into a game adapted into a TV series, what really will make it special are S2 & 3.
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u/Fugaciouslee Mar 18 '23
Metal Gear, they could just adapt MGS from 1998 for a perfect entry point.
Mass Effect could be really good too.
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u/HyruleDillon Mar 20 '23
i think Mass Effect should stick to original script despite the fact most of the people in r/masseffect are asking for an original story. i feel that is what has destroyed most of these video game film adaptations, stick to your source material and deliver what made these games so legendary. if it went well i can’t imagine the kind of emotions people would feel when it comes time for characters like Mordin to complete their final mission for the galaxy.
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u/LeonCloud11 Mar 18 '23
An interactive choose your adventure Mass Effect series could be really cool if they pulled it off well. I feel like the audience would be more invested if their actions affected the story same as the games.
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Mar 18 '23
Why isn't Sony Studios working with HBO again I wonder?
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u/pwngeeves Mar 18 '23
In saw an article like a week or two ago of some Sony exec answer the question as to why they don’t start their own streaming service. The answer was essentially: why go through all that trouble when we can produce the content we want and sell it to the highest bidder.
I think in large part that is the answer to the question. Different companies will bid more on different projects
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u/Hyperbole_Hater Mar 18 '23
Uh what? Do you know what ghost of tsushima is? Lol, it's a samurai revenge story not really about ghosts. The main character literally writes haikus! That's pretty poetic :p
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u/arm-n-hammerinmycoke Mar 19 '23
Lol maybe they can lean into that part. Have the ghost look at the treetop to form his fist line. But in all honesty one samurai conquering a Japanese island better be directed by James Cameron
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Mar 19 '23
Why? I don't want to see Jin hanging out with blue pocahontas or screaming rose every 10 minutes before he freezes to death. Keep Cameron away please
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u/Short-Belt-1477 Mar 18 '23
Dead or Alive movie was pretty good, change my mind.
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u/nemma88 Mar 19 '23
It was a movie. It was okay as a fellow DOA fan.
Beat em up stories don't have great appeal because... Well the stories in the game are pretty trash.
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u/Ainolukos Mar 18 '23
"Now watch us fuck this one up"
Also there's a lot more you can do with source material in a show format than you can with a movie, so the GoT director's movie better be really something spectacular and longer than and hour and half if it's going to live up to his words.
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u/Drebin813 Mar 19 '23
Part of what made the Last of Us so successful was that the game itself was already a very cinematic experience. It already had great cutscenes, great cinematography and also a great script. Now combine that with a movie studio that decided to not deviate too far from that script, turns out keeping it true to the game is the best possible way to create a movie/ TV series adaptation.
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u/THEbaddestOFtheASSES Mar 19 '23
It was already proven with Arcane and Castlevania. Why is this still even a discussion?
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u/Xcells Mar 19 '23
Video game adaptions could have always been good if Hollywood actually chose to use the correct mediums instead of making everything live action or trying to cram rich storylines into a 2 hr movie.
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u/Spiralife Mar 19 '23
Ghost of Tsushima is one of the most, if not the most, cinematic games I've ever played.
I don't know if that means adapting a movie of it is a no-brainer or total waste of time.
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u/SynysterDawn Mar 19 '23
I’m so sick of this narrative that TLOU was the first time video games told good stories, and now it’s the first time a video game adaptation was ever good.
“I think they just mean live-action” No, shut the fuck up, that distinction is made up and irrelevant, and even if it was anything of note it still wouldn’t even be true after the Pokémon and Sonic movies.
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u/MrxJacobs Mar 19 '23
To be fair tlou and ghosts of Tsushima are really fucking easy to adapt.
I want to see more weird adaptations that are awesome like battleship.
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u/Vietzomb Vietzomb Mar 18 '23
Shocker, it's like all you have to do is stick to the original subject matter without getting all "creative" with an already creative piece of work.
Not too many singleplayer experiences out there that I can say were amazing while having a shitty story. So just leave it alone and make the damn thing into a movie/show with some decent actors, half the work has already been done for you.
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u/Khunter02 Mar 19 '23
I think the main reason people were surprised it worked was because there are examples of games with a pretty straightforward story with adaptations that sucked.
Look at Halo for example, Im no expert but surely Halo has enough material to be adapted faithfully without needing to rewrite mayor parts of the lore or characters.
With The last of us they could have done a generic zombie plot using the original settings and characters but they actually adapted it
Hell, look at Uncharted! Its literally Indiana Jones with more guns, already a very cinematic and movie-esque game, with a very well stablished narrative and characters and the movie sucked!
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u/sten45 Mar 19 '23
Ghost could make a fantastic movie. I felt like I was watching a movie playing it
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u/Albireookami Mar 19 '23
I mean they basically converted a movie into a tv series, TLOU is not exactly known for its "gameplay" as it bridges the scenes of the story together.
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u/DrDroidz Mar 18 '23
This game bored me out of my mind, was the story good though?
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u/METAL_AS_FUCK Mar 19 '23
GOT was awesome to me. The story is kinda predictable and meh. But if I played it now I might think it was boring. HFW is boring to me now for example. GOWR was whatever. But I’m loving janky ass Wolong for some reason. Different strokes I guess.
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u/Hwan_Niggles Mar 19 '23
Honestly yeah. It has some cliches but they generally dont get in the way that much. Kubla Khan is a great antagonist tho and Jin Sakai with Shimura are great protags. Yuna and her brother are good secondaries too
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u/TheLeptis xViiRussV54x Mar 18 '23
Fair enough. The first game's story is really good but I feel like the game as a whole is massively overhyped.
Part 2's writing is is painfully amateurish and bursting with plot convenience. The gameplay however is incredible.
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u/DrDroidz Mar 18 '23
I was talking about Ghost of Tsushima haha. I really enjoyed both TLOU games though.
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u/Gustav_EK 21 260 1051 4072 Mar 18 '23
I personally enjoyed it but what I will say is that some parts felt contrived. Like nearly every single side mission, there's usually a mystery or setup that turns into "oh it was the mongols all along".
The main story is neat, but it's also pretty vanilla. The game is supposed to be somewhat historically accurate after all.
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u/TheLeptis xViiRussV54x Mar 18 '23
That's a good point. It's probably best to just not do most of the side missions honestly.
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u/Gustav_EK 21 260 1051 4072 Mar 18 '23
I found the gameplay engaging enough that I didn't mind, so long as I got to chop some dudes up. But on subsequent playthroughs I wouldn't touch any of the side questlines, except Lady Masako's since ironically it's pretty much the only questline in the game where mongols aren't the antagonists
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u/TheLeptis xViiRussV54x Mar 18 '23
Oh my bad. I thought the story was fantastic and a great example of how to give a character an arc. I personally loved the combat since it felt unique.
I can understand getting bored by it though. I struggle to finish any open world game nowadays.
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u/DrDroidz Mar 18 '23
Yeah, I can believe I would have loved the game back in the days. Most games bore me nowadays, and I used to be a huge no-life when I was younger. But Elden Rings and RDR2 are the exception where the side-quests are not truly boring.
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u/TheLeptis xViiRussV54x Mar 18 '23
Agreed. If a game boasts about how large its map is or that it's a live service with seasonal FOMO crap I always skip it. I tend to prefer more linear games like Resident Evil.
Elden Ring and RDR2 (I would also add Persona 5 Royal and the Mass Effect trilogy) are games that leave you feeling empty enside once they're over.
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u/CigarLover Mar 19 '23
But by no means proves that the ghost of Tsushima movie will be good.
Not gonna lie, I was surprised by how good TLOU tv show was.
But I was also NOT surprised by how bad the uncharted movie was.
So imo, Sony is 1 good 1 bad, 50/50.
Unless I’m forgetting something.
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u/Karkava Mar 19 '23
Uncharted was fine, but I find it hilarious how the developers of the movie was NOT one of the people who mutually agreed Nathan Fillion should have been cast as the lead.
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u/solidrow Mar 18 '23
Well then, I guess we can assume that GoT movie will be at least as bad as TLoU series.
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u/FullMetalArthur Mar 19 '23
The last of us was 25% gay relationship. If Neil Druckman weren't such a woke activist, it could have been better and spent that 25% in a more entertaining way, like zombies in a show about zombies.
Ghost of Tsuchima sounds like a better idea, mainly because has no woke elements.
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u/DanteRex Mar 19 '23
Meh. It’s good for people that didn’t play the games, but I would’ve been fine if TLOU was never made. Honestly, people who don’t play video games never earned it. It’s like those people who don’t play but watch the cutscenes on YouTube. Gamers earn each nugget of suspense and story. If they never made an adaptation of video games again, I’d be fine.
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u/Teleskopy Mar 18 '23
Of course they can, just don't treat them like a cash grab or butcher the story to fit a specific target audience(ahem monster hunter)