Angelus on 03 March 2015
| 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. |
Taking inspiration from something isn't the same as imitating something. Games shouldn't try to be movies. You don't see movies trying to be books or something like that. What you wanna do is take your inspiration, or source material if you're making a direct adaptation of something, and think about the best possible way you can translate that into your medium of choice. So if a developer watches a movie and thinks to himself "wow that was awesome, I wonder if I could turn some of those ideas into a game?" That's totally fine. But whatever he makes shouldn't be structured like a movie, just like a movie isn't structured like a book, and a book isn't structured like a comic, etc.....
