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Licensed games better than their source material
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vasametropolis
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GoldenEye is a sick Bond movie I can't get behind the hate.
So not bad but very poorly handled?
It depends on what you consider "source material" here.
You could say Riddick spun-off from Pitch Black and Butcher Bay's source material was Chronicles of Riddick, in which case, Butcher Bay was definitely better.
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This Goldeneye slander is unacceptable. The movie has held up a hell of a lot better than the game that's for damn sure.
Also Galactic Battlegrounds, Republic Commando, pretty much any prequel era game
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This is amazing
Zap Rowsdower
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The Darkness: Starbreeze turned an embarrassing relic of the Dark Age of Comics into a genuinely good story mixing a mafia revenge tale with Lovecraftian horror.
Parasite Eve: While I admit I never read it I always heard the original novel sucked unlike Parasite Eve 1 and 2.
Walking Dead: Season 1: Superior to both the original comic and TV show.
Tales from the Borderlands: Borderlands doesn't deserve a game that fantastic.
Parasite Eve: While I admit I never read it I always heard the original novel sucked unlike Parasite Eve 1 and 2.
Walking Dead: Season 1: Superior to both the original comic and TV show.
Tales from the Borderlands: Borderlands doesn't deserve a game that fantastic.
That's definitely true.
Goldeneye Wii/Reloaded is better than the movie too.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
You really can't compare the two mediums on this front. At least the game was (rightly) considered amazing at one point. Doubt anyone ever thought as highly of the movie.
This is where I draw the line, that game is an abomination.
Douche McBaggins The 3rd
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Hahahaha. Oh wait. You might be serious.
Goldeneye aint got shit on quake, blood, duke 3d or final doom.
But as a licensed property i guess goldeneyw fits that bill. It was a good console shooter.
My pick is the lost world. The psone platform game was pretty good at the time.
Zap Rowsdower
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Depends if you consider AA to be an adaption of the comics or the 90's animated series.
MAX PAYMENT
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Goldeneye is the best brosnan bond movie.
You guys are nuts.
You guys are nuts.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
I am deadly serious, no other shooter has ever come close to how much I enjoyed GoldenEye. It's pretty much the only game I played for two years straight.
It's really just me that's criticising it, and I also said earlier that it's easily the best of the Brosnan movies. That's not a high bar to clear though.
ipukespiders
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I can definitively tell you; No, it's not. It's a great game, but the first couple of arcs in that series was awesome. The game barely even touched on Jack of the Fables, who was such a popular character he got his own side story. And it didn't mention Prince Charming or Goldilocks at all, who were great in the first arc. The game was great, and I am definitely looking forward to season 2, but the graphic novels were just so much better.
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HyperZone<3
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The Da Vinci Code book and movie are terrible, the game is merely mediocre.
likewise the quite solid The Punisher (PS2/Xbox) posits itself as a sequel to the worst film version of the character (yup, Dolph's film was better).
and I think the first Captain America film is one of Marvel's weakest films (shame cause they got Red Skull just right), but the Sega games based off of it were pretty good.
likewise the quite solid The Punisher (PS2/Xbox) posits itself as a sequel to the worst film version of the character (yup, Dolph's film was better).
and I think the first Captain America film is one of Marvel's weakest films (shame cause they got Red Skull just right), but the Sega games based off of it were pretty good.
GodIsOnTheRadio
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Please be a troll post!
I've played Chaos Bleeds on xbox, definitely not better. I've heard the one before that sucked as well.
ipukespiders
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You heard wrong.
Not really.
Both have better stuff than any of the Arkham games.
The games are okay. The show is one of the most well regarded in TV history.
You know this and are fishing.
Funyarinpa
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Subjective as fuck, but what I played of Alien: Isolation surpassed even the experience of watching the original movie. It's sublime.
eso76
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From what I've read, yeah.
Also Metro.
I dont know if the translator did a bad job, but the book is so poorly written I can't take any of it seriously.
Darkstorne
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The problem for us English folk is that the translations were god awful. So while the short stories hold up the full-on novels read really, REALLY blandly. I have no doubt that the original source material is better than the games, but I can completely understand why some people think the games are better if they've only read the English translations of the books without knowledge of how badly they were handled.
Markitron
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I think Alien is one of the best films ever made, and I would still agree with you. The way that they transferred that atmosphere from one medium to another is staggering. Experiencing that dread as a player is an even better experience than watching the movie.
I would do horrible, unspeakable things for a sequel.
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IcyRhythms
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It's not really source material but Batman AA and AC are better than any Batman movie IMO
giant_frying_pan
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Street Fighter: The Movie (the game)
I liked the movie
Definitely better than the average licensed game, but I wouldn't go that far.
Sometimes the narrator of an audio book can band-aid over bland writing with good acting. I went through all the witcher books available in audio book form in english last year on the way to work and had no issue with them. Going through them before playing the games also complicated my opinion of those games. The concessions games make to add gameplay weakened the product for me, like adding random monsters in the forest, or fighting so many bandits, ect. I get that without that kind of stuff it would just be a point and click adventure but Geralt in the books wasn't running around raiding bandit camps for money and leather.
Yeah, I only played a little bit of Butcher Bay on PC and again on 360 I think for a while, and even though I thought it was pretty good, I really, really like Pitch Black.
Okay then, I guess I can see this point of view. Chronicles of Riddick is pretty terrible after all.
Even Mask of the Phantasm? I don't know if I can... I just can't man.
edit: I wonder if this game will be Dragon Ball FighterZ in the future for people. I can't be for me (the series has always just meant so much to me), but I bet for some people it will absolutely be.
I hope there's an NPC walking around in Odyssey that looks just like Bob Hoskins and he's dragging around his idiot brother that looks like John Leguizamo (with Princess Daisy toting a flame thrower).
Bedameister
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That King Kong game on PS2. Really cool game.
Council Pop
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This, also the PS1 game was good too. I mean, I'm sure it doesn't stand up now, but I loved it at the time, and it's certainly better than the film. Used to use invincibility cheats and kill everyone.
Man, I miss movie tie in games where you literally played through the plot of the movie.
Markitron
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I don't as 99% of them were shit. When they got it right though.........
The Lion King
Aladdin (Mega Drive version)
GoldenEye
The Two Towers
The Return of the King.
All classics, I also quite liked the Episode 1 and 3 games.
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Council Pop
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Well yes, there is a certain amount of irony in my love of them. I just love that very single minded approach. "Hmm, a video game shaped peg and a movie shaped hole? WE WILL MAKE IT FIT DAMN YOU."
Markitron
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It was always so funny when they started adding in plot to pad out the games. Spiderman 2 was particularly egregious at this.
Maybe not straight up better, but Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth was on par with the first seasons of the anime and definitely better than the later ones.
I also liked TW3 much more than the first book, but since I haven't played all the games and I haven't every book, I can't judge for sure if one adaptation is better than the other one. Since the source material is good, the game improves more thing that it messes up, in my opinion.
I also liked TW3 much more than the first book, but since I haven't played all the games and I haven't every book, I can't judge for sure if one adaptation is better than the other one. Since the source material is good, the game improves more thing that it messes up, in my opinion.
Yeah, it's hard to find a wider gap than this, honestly. The game was a ton of fun while the movie was so bad that you probably needed brain damage to not despise it.
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
Another terrible thing about that film (to add to my earlier post) Gambit completely dropping his accent after his first scene.
Mr Fahrenheit
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Another vote for the Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm games. Actually the best and most efficient way of experiencing that series. It almost makes it enjoyable.
Two months ago I was debating with myself wether I should read the novels in french or in english. I asked on GAF but couldn't get an answer about the english translation, but since then I've read multiple times in other places that it was indeed a bad, and bland translation. I've started reading in french and it's perfectly fine. And it seems it gets even better from the fourth book onwards.