| bananaking21 said: i dont really understand whats so bad if some games look at films for inspiration. i dont see anybody complaining that game of thrones was a book first. does that make it a shitty series? what about godzilla? it was a cartoon. harry potter, lord of the rings, hunger games? whats the problem with some games looking at other forms of media for inspiration? i dont really understand. i dont see people complaining about the walking dead games, which are inspired bv the TV series, which were originally comics. why are people so hell bent to prevent games from taking inspiration from movies is beyond me. we already have all sorts of games coming out and taking different directions, if some games want to have production values and a similar feel to movies, i dont see the problem. |
The difference in those is that they are adaptions of existing stories in a new medium. What he has an issue with is how the games are being portrayed, using film tactics, when other mediums don't do this.
Imagine if in the Harry Potter film, a large part was just a wall of text explaining some of the plot points, you are taking the way the story is portrayed in the writen book and converting it into film and claiming you were inspired by it.
The narrative isn't being told in the medium it should be. Playing a game, you expect much of the narrative to be told as a game, you play through the game, learning new things as you go. Some games the entire plot could be told through cutscenes alone and the gameplay is just filler between.
Yet I agree with you that games can take inspiration from films but not as excuses it seems to why your game doesn't meet the requirement for being a game.
Hmm, pie.
