What video game do you think would make a good show or movie, and why?

Mount and frigging Blade, since everyone love five warring nations. The possibilities are literally limitless. However, I'd expect a lot of AdaptationDistillation for it to work.

I was reading the Serious Business Troper Tales page just now and stumbled on something of transcendent brilliance: What if there was an overblown, What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?-powered tournament anime about professional Star Craft? They've already got mahjong, go, chess, baking, football, and tennis covered, but this could top them all for sheer craziness.

This summer, Vin Diesel is...

the Kid.

We still need a Sonic cartoon that's both good and faithful.

If any Zelda games were to be adapted, I wouldn't mind seeing Majora's Mask as an animated series. And on the Phoenix Wright idea- each game could take up a series, with Rise from the Ashes being an OVA.

"If any Zelda games were to be adapted, I wouldn't mind seeing Majora's Mask as an animated series."

Very yes, but it should have a disclaimer at the beginning stating that children could get depressed because of it.

Peter Pan And The Pirates, by being Nightmare Fuel for kids, managed to scare away its audience. A Majora's Mask cartoon might be awesome, but it too could flop for just that reason, no matter how well the story is told, simply due to the mixture of Animation Age Ghetto, the Kid Hero, and the Nightmare Fuel. After all, that's what killed Peter Pan And The Pirates, which had some very good storytelling in many episodes.

Modern Warfare.

Deus Ex. A massive TV series to cover the storyline. Maybe as the successor to the X-Files.

Gotcha Force would make a bitchin' Shonen Series.

Ace Attorney would probably be very easily adapted, given that most of its appeal comes from plot, characters and presentation rather than gameplay. Plus, fully animated epic finger-pointing, Villainous Breakdowns, and Objection!s would hardly bring the fun down.

edited 28th Oct '10 3:44:04 PM by Sparkysharps

I think a Splinter Cell live-action movie would be pretty decent if it were directed by Michael Mann or a similar director who emphasizes technical accuracy and the kind of atmospheric darkness on which a game like Splinter Cell thrives.

F-Zero as a live action television series focusing more on the drivers and their everyday lives(i.e. Captain Falcon actually hunting some damned bounties for a change).

Frankly, I think Metroid would translate into a live-action film trilogy quite well.

Fatal Racing as a spoof of televised racing sports.

Metroid Other M tried to tell a movie-like story with Metroid, and it used a larger cast of characters to do so. I liked some of the characters, especially Anthony. I think a Metroid movie might work.

Jet Set Radio would make an interesting Pragmatic Adaptation, as long as it kept the art style and music of the game(s).

Now, in the reversed scale, that Touhou anime could made a very good game

edited 29th Oct '10 7:12:03 AM by nohaynicklibre

^^ In a way, it kinda has already been adapted...

I've often thought that the best route for a Metroid adapation would be by the same unspellable guy (I know his name; I just butcher it) behind Samurai Jack and Star Wars The Clone Wars. Lots of elegantly choreographed fight scenes. The plot could have Samus actually hunting bounties! It'd be a good Monster of the Week setup.

It's funny; Retro actually wanted to make Samus hunt real bounty so she could stop being The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything and actually do her real profession. Her backstory narration in Metroid Other M references her splitting from the Federation to become an independent bounty hunter, but she doesn't go into details even then, despite this supposedly being the one Metroid game that would reveal more of her life story (which it did, just not that aspect).

If Metroid were a film trilogy, I think the first film should focus on her activities with the federation, the second, her bounty hunting activities, and the third, her independent universe saving heroics.

If a TV series or cartoon, then it could either go in arcs like Avatar The Last Airbender, so we lead up to her change of job description.

edited 29th Oct '10 1:26:38 PM by BonsaiForest

-A Super Mario Bros CGI-movie, by Pixar.

-Odd World could be a wonderful movie franchise (In fact, there were plans for making Oddworld movies, but seems nothing came out of that...sadly)

-Epic Mickey movie made with classic animation and aknowledged as part of the Disney Animated Canon.

-A Kingdom Hearts anime is soemthing I'd also love to see (just like others have already said). KH 1, COM and KH 2 (maybe Coded too as a mini-arc) could be seasons of the main series, Days could be a OVA and Birth by Sleep a mini-series OVA.

-Even if a Disgaea anime was made, it was only of the first game. I say there should be an anime of both Disgaea 2 and 3!

edited 29th Oct '10 2:34:56 PM by Viku

Epic Mickey could be a fun movie perhaps if handled right. Doesn't Disney want to see their mascot mean something again? That's part of the reason for creating that game. So why not make it into a movie as well?

For Kingdom Hearts, I'd rather it mix Disney-style animation for the Disney characters and anime-style animation for the Square-Enix characters. I think that would work best. And have everyone act in character. It would be a great mixture of drama, comedy, and fun.

Assassins Creed could make a pretty nice movie series, I think. You could pretty much just put the cut scenes together and call it a movie. Plus, the short film they did for AC 2 was cool.

edited 29th Oct '10 3:08:44 PM by ozaiangels

The Fallout series could make a pretty good movie series, if done well and the producers took into account some of the goofy, funner aspects of the series without drawing undue attention to it. The Book of Eli is a decent starting point.