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Movies that remind you of Videogames

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5taquitos

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Speedracer should have been a video game. It had all the makings of one in the movie:

*ghost racers
*competing factions
*crazy arcade racing (with gadgets!) (And tricks!)
*third-person combat
*color-drenched tracks

A proper Speedracer game could have been the best arcade racer of all time

Edit: this didn't quite address the OP, sorry.
 
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lt519

Member
Raptor said:
The Road = TLOU

Straight up.
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Minus the clickers. But yah I wanted a road video game.

For my own answer..Guardians of the Galaxy. It looked like it could very easily be a Mass Effect style game but playing as a rogue treasure hunter searching different planets. The different worlds were full of life, different "classes" for each main character and many different factions.

Edit: beaten lol
 
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Arcadehero

Neo Member
In watching the first Hobbit in that already forgotten HFR3D, it made the CG scenes stand out quite a bit but not exactly in a good way considering how the rest of the film looked. It was so jarring I could swear it like watching a Super HD version of Gauntlet or Baldur's Gate in certain scenes.
 
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UncleSporky

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lt519 said:
For my own answer..Guardians of the Galaxy. It looked like it could very easily be a Mass Effect style game but playing as a rogue treasure hunter searching different planets. The different worlds were full of life, different "classes" for each main character and many different factions.

Edit: beaten lol
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Seriously, I feel like it is a shame it's a Marvel property. It should be its own original IP that doesn't end up a licensed thing. I want it to be a swashbuckling space RPG.
 
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Trance

Member
I haven't beaten Last of Us yet (playing through it really slowly with a buddy whenever we both have time), but I think The Road only compares superficially or at least very broadly. McCarthy is among my favorite authors and the book is incredible, but so much of it is about the minutiae of living in a post apocalyptic world. In the entire book there is only about eight story beats, and the rest is great-but-painstaking minute-to-minute survival. I feel like TLOU had too much run and gun to thematically compare. Maybe I'll change my mind when I beat it.

Not movies but two shows come to mind. Cinemax's Strike Back always makes me feel like I'm playing CoD or a TPS during the (amazing) action sequences. And Avatar: The Last Airbender feels like the essence of a JRPG to me. I feel more strongly about the latter, as Strike Back to CoD also feels like a superficial comparison.
 
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zeemumu

Member
I was hoping that the trailer for Maze Runner was actually just a stealth Pac-Man movie reveal.

The maze has monsters and closes off at night. That's why the screen background is black. It all fits so perfectly.
 
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Alienous

Member
I could have sworn I just posted in this thread.

Anyway, Max Payne 3 and Man on Fire. I watched Man on Fire after playing MP3, and the similarities retroactively annoyed me. Rockstar Games took a bit more than just inspiration.
 
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Empty

Member
run lola run, source code, groundhog day

repeating the same level to get it right

UncleSporky said:
Guardians of the Galaxy did not remind me of a specific game, but it did make me think that it would make an awesome original IP RPG. The characters are a perfect RPG party.
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a lot of it reminded me of mass effect visually. there's one place that looks just like the citadel and most of the planets and the prison ship could be locations from the game.
 
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friz898

Member
When I first saw Avatar, I remember thinking "man, they did awesome creating this world. It's colorful like a place in Everquest 2 or World of Warcraft"
 
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ViewtifulJC

Banned
Edge of Tomorrow was the first good movie that I think really felt like a video game. Not a simulation of the video game's plot and iconic elements, but the process of jumping headfirst into a dangerous situation, slowly learning the nuances of the level design through trial and error, recognizing enemy patterns, and becoming proficient in executing your core combat mechanics to overcome adversity.
 
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PetrCobra

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Okay, this one's not a movie but the Orphan Black series kind of reminded me of when I played Deus Ex HR DC. They only vaguely share the topic of genetic manipulation and augmentation of human genome, but the ethical issues, conspiracies and moral dilemmas seemed pretty similar to me in both.
 
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Alienous

Member
ViewtifulJC said:
Edge of Tomorrow was the first good movie that I think really felt like a video game. Not a simulation of the video game's plot and iconic elements, but the process of jumping headfirst into a dangerous situation, slowly learning the nuances of the level design through trial and error, recognizing enemy patterns, and becoming proficient in executing your core combat mechanics to overcome adversity.
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Well, the manga it was based on was inspired by 'save-scrubbing' (starting an encounter over and over again at the beginning) in video games. So that's the reason for that.
 
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Sayter

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Everything about this movie reminds me of F-Zero GX.
 
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4lejandro

Member
Some very good examples and lots of films I haven't seen, apparently...

I remember reading about the similarities of MGS3 and Ninja Scroll...
 
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Count of Monte Sawed-Off

un33dab@dpu$$y
While watching Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in the theater, I kept thinking that it reminded me of Uncharted (the first one), and that Uncharted was a lot better. That made me sad.
 
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RadarScope1

Member
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. It has nearly the exact same pacing and by-the-numbers environment (level) sequencing as a game. I kept feeling like I should be reaching for a controller at the theater.
 
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shandy706

Member
How about real life situations, that remind me of movies, that I want to do in a video game (I want to do this in GTA V)

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Arcadehero

Neo Member
If you watch Wing Commander The Movie, it will remind you of how much better it would have been for them to just film all of the cutscenes from WC2 then edit that down into a movie.
 
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Mendoza

Member
Monster closets present in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Autoscroll platforming in Star Wars: Episode II.
 
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Astrates

Member
Kun Aguero said:
Fallout 3 and Book of Eli?

Lot's of similarities.
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Definitely! The scenes around the now decripid highway. Immediately makes you think of The Capital Wasteland. Not to mention the settlements are very Fallout esque.

Hell even the cannibals have that weird humour that Fallout is littered with.

Good call Kun.
 
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revolverjgw

Member
Lupin the 3rd- The Castle of Cagliostro (and Lupin in general of course). Ancient artifacts used to solve puzzles, crazy action set pieces, exploring exotic castles and ruins, a little bit of stealth, platforming in a clocktower and on rooftops, evil monstrous henchmen fodder, an underwater level... a Lupin game in the style of Uncharted would be welcome.
 
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