You know I was thinking about it, And I thought of a game I want to see a film of.. hell not only that but I actually DARE Uwe Boll and/or Michael Bay to pick up this thrown gauntlet.

Because despite the cheap ass crap they churn out, I think they might actually have a chance at doing something good with this title.

Hell I'll even start the script for them, because the opening line is just that easy...

'War. War never changes..."

That's right.

Fallout

...ho boy. A lot of people are going to hate you for that one... >D

A Fallout movie could definitely be good, but in all seriousness, please, God, absolutely do not let Boll or Bay touch it. It seems unlikely that would ever happen anyway though, so I think we're safe! ;P

Hey I've seen more of their ~Deleted explitive~ than I care to admit, and I do have to say that Boll more than Bay, I do honestly think can do a decent Fallout movie.

Or you could always think of it this way.

Even the most uncoordinated shmuck has that fluke chance of hitting a home run. Statistically Boll is due to actually make something good, by accident.

....I don't think Boll actually does have that kind of chance of making a really good movie. He...just does not. I'm pretty convinced he doesn't want to, either! In other words, my advice is, don't hold your breath on that. Seriously. ;P

When saying "done carefully" you mean not letting Hollywood or Networks make/get involved.

These types of movies should work if the people making them are fans of the source material but if they are making it just for the money it never works.

Here is one for you: Ninja Gaiden!

...Well, kind of. I just mean that the greatest of care and I'd say understanding needs to be taken in doing most of these kinds of movies the right way, and not seem like they are game movies. Now granted, I don't think all, and probably not even most, games should be movies, or would make good movies. Hence, look at the track record of games-to-film so far...But I think a lot of things can be done well. Yeah, I suppose original creator involvement is usually necessary for such things to work better. Rockstar Games has said something similar; that to make movies, they'd want to handle it themselves, and that would mean not making as many games, too, and they make games for a living.

....but then, Rockstar filed a trademark for Rockstar Movies recently, so uh....hmmmm...

I think Ninja Gaiden seems like the kind of movie that would have been made a long time ago; like in the 1980's, when the games came out! It could definitely have been delightfully bad! To make it today, I guess it could still be done, but again...it'd take a lot of care to either make it not really bad, or....to make it....just bad and zany enough that it's awesome. I wouldn't count on that happening though. :P

speaking of Rockstar, I thought BULLY would make a good movie. It could be kind of a dark humor coming of age tale and it would fit with all the anti-bully compaigns going on right now in the media. Very topical.

I know there's supposed to be a Myst movie in the works based off of one of the books (The Book of Ti'Anna is the one I think they're going for) and I think if that got made it would be pretty good.

Bully might make a good movie, from what I gather of it (I haven't played it).

I think I heard something about a Myst movie a while back, but nothing really came of it. IMDB does have an entry for The Book of Ti'anna as the movie's basis, as you mentioned, with a release window of 2013, so far. I'm not sure how active this movie's progress is though. I haven't read any of the Myst books, although I can say...I couldn't imagine a movie based on one of the Myst games. That's an example of something that would just not work as a movie, and retain the essence of the game.

I read The Book of Atrus when I was younger, but other than the first game (which I never beat), that's all I know about Myst.

I'm still holding out for a God of War movie. Starring Djimon Hounsou as Kratos.

American McGees Alice

Yeah, I'm a pretty big fan of the games and I liked the books and have read them.

So far as the game itself translating into a movie, you're right, it wouldn't. However, the book is a narrative and it's a pretty decent one at that. I could see it as a blockbuster semi-steam era (though I wouldnt' say punk) special effects fair. All the digging robots and the underground cities and exotic locales. It would translate into some nice visuals.

Well they still make ninja guiden games. Although i prefer th old ones.

As for my picks, well id go with Mega Man. They already did an animated series (they might of done 2 actually) and now archie is doing a comic book series. I wanna see a live action movie.  Maybe a little more modern, less japanese, grittier take on it.  Its about a boy forced to become a living weapon to hunt and kill his brother's, who have been twisted by a madman.  There are interesting things that could be done with that.

Also Team Fortress 2.  Valve could probably do an animated series themselves. They practically already have with the Meet the Team videos.  Plus a feature film would be preaty cool.

Bully movie by  Edgar Wright : pure awsumness.

I'd love to see an animated Team Fortress movie, or series! That could be good, especially if done by Valve themselves!

As for Mega Man, I'm not sure a "more modern, less japanese, grittier take" would work very well for that series. It seems like Hollywood already wants to make everything 'darker' and 'grittier' these days, because it's 'cool', and it...just doesn't always work. Not everything should be that way. On the other hand, I guess you could say that Mega Man X is more like that as a series, but you know, not too much. 

http://www.megamanfilm.com/ 

It's already been made. 

It is significantly better than the majority of SyFy films I have seen.  Though better than I had expected, it's nothing to write home to Mom about.

 . . . . . .

Also, the cut scenes from Chrono Trigger look rather old.  Does anyone know if there has been an animated film floating around already?  I just can't really believe those were made just for the game.

I would like to see a Legend of Zelda movie, but I know Hollywood would royally screw it up.

You can't really have a movie where the main character doesn't speak. Chrono Trigger and Zelda are out of the question.

Ah yes, the Mega Man fan movie. I'm...not counting that... ;P

There is no Chrono Trigger animated movie, nope. The animated cut scenes were indeed made just for the game! Japan does this quite often, actually. Xenogears has the same thing, as do the Lunar games, as examples. It's not unusual for a Japanese game to have such a thing.

I definitely wouldn't say Chrono Trigger and Zelda are 'out of the question' for movie possibilities. I imagine if they ever did make a CT or Zelda movie, they'd made Crono and Link talk. No question. ;P Neither project seems....likely to happen, but supposing they did, it would be a pretty necessary move.

I wasn't there for the game planning discussions, but I am failrly certain that Chrono and Link don't talk because the designers were trying to immerse the player in the game. 

Make the connection to the characters a little more personal and give the player free reign to imagine what the character might be saying in their own words.

As a fan made movie, I thought the Mega Man flick wasn't too bad.  I just think that the story couldn't be much different.  The plotline described above is, more or less, what happened in the fan flick.  I see how the production could be loads better, just not the story.

Dr Light commended as a genius and pioneer in robotics . . . Jealous Wily goes rogue . . . . Wily steals Light's robots to use for evil . . . Dr Light breaks out Mega Man as a last resort . . . . Mega Man fights robot "brothers" and gains their powers . . . . tracks down Dr Wily . . . .  epic battle ensues . . . . Mega Man saves the day.

The story is so simple it would be hard to screw up, however, it would be really hard to embellish it enough to make it interesting to the popululation at large.

The thing about the Mega Man movie. It's a lot like Fantastic Four. Not the ones with Jessica Alba. The one made in the 90s that never got released.

That Fantastic Four was made simply to secure the intellectual property rights. No one told the actors or the crew that the film would never see the light of day.

The Mega Man movie is the same. It was never meant to be shown, even on the internet. It was done as a placeholder.

"The story is so simple it would be hard to screw up..."-- Oh trust me; someone could screw it up easily. ;P

"...however, it would be really hard to embellish it enough to make it interesting to the popululation at large."-- Possibly. I think the bigger problem would be making it into a competent movie that would work well to begin with. It would work great as an animated movie, but moving it to film...I...just don't think so. : /

Oh I have no doubt that was the very reason for the creation of the Silent Protagonist. I think you're right. :P

I think the Mega Man movie in question there is actually a fan movie that was intended to be released to the public. And they did so online! :P As for the....first attempt at a Fantastic Four movie, er, no, I think they did have every intention of releasing it.  Whoever was in charge at the time simply had enough sense to realize it was terrible, too terrible to be released, and so it  never was. Why....would they go through all the trouble of making the movie if they didn't intend to ever release it? "to secure the intellectual property rights"? That doesn't make sense. You don't do that by wasting time and money making a movie you're not going to release. ;P

The amount of money the production company used to make a fake Fantastic Four movie was a mere pittance compared to what they got to sell the rights to make the two new ones.

It didn't have anything to do with being bad. It had everything to do with profiteering from a copyright.

...well. After looking this up on IMDB, it...looks like you're right. I...had never heard that before. Wow. That's....wacky.

How about this?

http://sonicfanfilm.com/ 

Character animation looks decent.

BTW, Mr K.

The Mega Man flick was a not for profit fan film.

Personally, though, I think it is a very good resume for the crew involved.

....I agree. From just the...small bit there was there, the animation was great, for just a fan-film.  .___.

The....voice, while clearly an impersonation attempt of Roger Craig Smith, sounds....a little bothersome to me, though. I'll still be interested to see where this goes!

Panzer Dragoon Saga would be a pretty good movie I think.

that or D2, there's enough cutscenes in D2 to make it easy for whoever decides to make it.

If you mean Diablo II, I was thinking about that, actually. I'm not a huge fan of the games really, but I think there's probably decent movie potential. Of course, if done the right way, and carefully...

1Up posted a small list of of cast choices for a Metal Gear Solid 3 movie. For the most part, I think they made decent choices, except Peter Stormare...Just looking at the guy, I can't picture that as Volgin. Their best, and funniest, choice though is Wilfred Brimley as the End. YES. SPOT. ON. And their elaboration is...just hilarious, even if you don't know who...Wilfred Brimley is, or never played MGS3. >D

MGS3 is the BEST of all the Metal Gear games.

Exactly.

...Incidentally, Brimley could also play the Captain of the Thames, in Xenogears. >D

I really loved MGS3, too, and I think I overall had the best experience in playing that one, out of 1-3, plus TTS (I have not played MGS4 because...I can't). I...didn't like how the series was...becoming like The X-Files, to certain extents, although that kind of stuff more started in MGS2 (and that game is another story...). Otherwise, I really liked the game and how it played out. I even liked doing things like camoflauging, and...eating, and playing doctor on Big Boss, sometimes! Don't....read too much into that last statement.... ;P

Everything about MGS3 was amazing. It was subtle and nuanced enough to stay true to the series, but did its own thing in its own epic way. James Bond, eat your heart out.

I think you could adapt any modern game into a movie and, with the right direction, make it a good movie. I mean most games have a story of some sort already, and characters, you just need to make a script that fills in the details. Besides, Link wasn't a silent protagonist, he said "Excuuuuse me, princess!"

Now the Megaman fan film was definitely a good effort, and props to them for making it as professional as they did. And honestly I think it could serve as a building block for future game-based movies since it highlights a lot of the problems with making such adaptations. It was faithful to the original Megaman game to a fault, but if the writing was a bit more in-depth it could have retcon'd a lot of the problems. Like some of the robots, why the hell would you build robots like Bombman and Fireman for the sake of peace? When has a pacifist ever said "gee, really wish I could throw flames right about now." So they didn't have to use the original 6 specific Robot Masters. Or not present them as potential weapons at first, like Iceman would originally be designed to put out fires, and then he gets repurposed or "improved" by Willy. I mean the movie was set in like a 1 week time span, just because it's based on a single movie doesn't mean it has to take place in a short period of time. And really, for robots designed for peace, Light sure had an awful lot of prototype weapons laying around. Or how they name-dropped Sniper Joes and "other inventions" but never showed any of them, really if you're not going to use them don't talk about them. And why do you build so damn many weapons for the sake of peace?? "Boy the future is going to be peaceful, I better make more gun-toting robots!" And I know this is going to come off as nitpicking because they didn't have an extensive budget for the project, but really why was there no security for any of these devices? A bunch of superpowered robot death machines just standing in the middle of a room, sure hope no one tries to steal any of them. And why were 3 of them people in suits and 3 CG effects? Either do them all in suits or all CG, it makes no sense to mix it up. And out of all of them would Gutsman or Bombman really be hard to mimic with jump suits and padding? And that entire kidnapping thing was pointless! I mean I'm not harping on the effects cause I didn't expect much, but I would expect a fan film to focus on the script writing, because you could fill in a lot of those plot holes with better story writing.

Anyway, I'd say I'd like to see a better Final Fantasy adaptation but SE's just not really good at movies. I mean Spirits Within proves they can't make a good movie that's not related to an existing game and Advent Children's proven that they can't make a good game-related movie. Now don't get me wrong I liked both movies but just judging them based on their qualities as movies, they failed on a lot of levels. Advent Children was a good nod to fans of the series but if you didn't play FFVII you had no idea what was going on, and even then you didn't really understand. I watched the movie twice but I had to read the wiki about it to make heads or tails of it.

I think the .hack series has the best approach, it uses different mediums to tell different stories all relating to one another, including games, anime, books and manga.

And there are a lot of cinematic games which would probably transition easily into movies. Like Heavy Rain. Hell it's barely a game as is. The Ico/Shadow of the Colossus series would make awesome movies. Someone also mentioned Panzer Dragoon Saga, would also make an epic movie.

Also if they make a big budget Megaman movie, it'd probably be better to make it off the Megaman X series, since it's set in a distopian future where combat robots already exist. I think that'd make for a more action-oriented movie, just drop you into the action and reveal backstory as you progress through the plot.

Any potential Final Fantasy movie needs to be a grand-in-scope, multi-film saga like Lord of The Rings. No steampunk. Just classic FF.

Well, there are some things you....might be able to do with Fire Man and Bomb Man that are peaceful purposes. I suppose Fire Man might have....more of them, but still! Uh....LALALALALALALALALALA...

If they did ever make an official Mega Man film, I doubt they'd start with Mega Man X, although they could. I guess in some ways it might be better if they did, but I don't imagine it happening, unfortunately. It's interesting to think about how MMX is 'the next generation', if you will, of Mega Man, timeline-wise, and yet, you don't really need to know anything about the original MM series. Yeah, you see Dr. Light in holograms, and of course, there's the secret of Zero, but otherwise, the original series isn't referred to in MMX.

...yeah, methinks Squenix isn't going to....be making movies any time soon, if ever again...They seem to have learned from that mistake, anyway.

Advent Children is definitely nothing but fan service, and I recall when it came out, some people complained about that. Uh, yeah, what did those people think the movie was going to be? They...were surprised to realize this?;P You could say that's a weakness in the movie, or it's a real problem with the movie, but the way I look at it is, it fills the purpose for why it was made. It wasn't made for people who had never played FFVII. Keep in mind Japan does this a lot, and you could say this also happens with almost any anime series that gets a movie. If you never saw the show it was based on, you might not have any clear idea on who the characters or what's really going on or why; because they don't explain who the characters or anything are, usually, because they're made for fans of the show! So eh, AC simply justifies its existence by doing what it was created to do!

"...Heavy Rain. Hell it's barely a game as is."-- Haw-haw! So I hear! >D

Square Enix doesn't have to be behind the movie for it to get made. Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?

Honestly I could see Bombman as a demolition bot, or even for disarming explosives since he'd be built to better withstand the blast. It's more Fireman I'd take issue with, like how often do you need to slash and burn forests in this day and age, let alone in the future. I mean personally I haven't thought "boy my life would be greatly enriched if I had a better means with which to throw flames." Plus, he's making a line of robots to sell the idea of robots to help us in our day to day lives. So at what point did he go "Ok so you've got Guts Man for construction, Cut Man for logging, Elec Man for... uh... recharging batteries, Ice Man can... freeze... beverages, Fire Man... throws fire... and Bomb Man... you know what, fuck it just build the damn things, what could possibly go wrong?"

Nothing could possibly go wrong! Nope! >D

I know, it's a silly idea for most of those robots to have been built....'for peaceful purposes'. :P But there are.....some uses out there! >D

Hey, it reminds me of Tom Servo's death ray! Of course, he made it for peaceful purposes, only (which is knocking on the movie they were watching that said the same thing). ^.'

Fallout I think would make a great conversion into a movie.

I actually asked a friend about this who opined that the thing with Fallout is that there's just so much focus on exploration and environment, that it probably wouldn't make a good movie, because it would be too hard to really protray. Oh sure, it could easily be made into a bad movie, but a good one, no. He did suggest it might make a better TV series; I assume probably a place like HBO or Showtime would be best, where it would have more money than the networks. And also because of its Mature content. Anyway, he thought maybe that format would work best; the character moves from environment to environment and you get a look at what's there, and how the world of the story unfolds, etc. A movie would be too hard to cram too much into it. Makes sense. I suggested the same thing about Metal Gear when I started this thread; I think it could work filmed, but it would work best as a TV series. There's just too much stuff to cram into a movie, or even if they made it two movies.

I think you're right.  It would work better as a series.  Somewhat like the really old Hulk or Kung Fu series.  The protagonist travels to different towns doing things.

All I really really want to see is Silent Hill 2 as a movie , but you know, done well. It's sooooo good, but after how Silent Hill 1 turned out, ...eh.

...but there is another Silent Hill movie being made! It's Silent Hill: Revelations. 3D!!

...ooohhhhh. You mean you want to see the game Silent Hill 2 as a movie? ;P Yeah, unfortunately...I don't think that's going to happen. Bleh.

You know, I could see fallout as a syndicated show on HBO or showtime or something. That would be pretty cool actually. I think X-COM would make a good syndicated show as well. I mean, it's got all components to make a great mini-series at least.

Silent Hill was a really, really good movie. Really.

A Ocarina of Time movie, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger 

Hoo boy...you said a mouthful, Capt. Shadow. I personally wouldn't be in a hurry to have any of those made into actual movies...I...just can't picture them. Not even any kind of Zelda movie.

Now, they might make decent animated movies. I'd be more in support of that. Unfortunately, I can't picture those happening soon either. The animated cut scenes in the PS/DS Chrono Trigger are the closest we'll get to that one, I guess.

Don't see any of those ever being made into a movie. Ever.

Well if you want a... loose reimagining of Zelda you can check out The Legend of Neil! http://www.effinfunny.com/legend-of-neil Not for children, but pretty damn funny.

Earthbound I could see as an animated series, it's got the right kind of comedy.

Now Chrono Trigger uses the art of Akira Toriyama, and Enix has been pretty cozy with Toriyama for a while now, so anime seems a lot more likely than a movie, relatively speaking.

I think Valkyria Cronicles would make a good war movie. And does anyone remember Bloody Roar? I mean given the last few attempts at adapting fighting games into movies I wouldn't hold my breath that it'd be any good, but the idea of a girl transforming into a rabbit and wailing on a 6 foot tall lizard would at least be YouTube worthy.

I remember Bloody Roar, sure. I think I played the second game? I remember it being all right, at the time. Yeah, I....would not count on that being made into any kind of good movie... :P

...did anyone mention Portal? I can't remember, and didn't see it when I skimmed through replies. Anyway, I think the Portal games could possibly make for interesting movies, or once again, they might be best left to TV series. I think they could work pretty well, if 'handled the right way,' of course. And I don't have enough faith that most in Hollywood who got their hands on it would do it right....Still!