It's kind of ridiculous that 50+ years of gaming and we're just now getting quality Video Game TV and Movie adaptations.

[Teeth]

Like that gif from the resident evil movie of the cop guy getting sliced, like why is that even in there lmao, just give me creepy horror not these weird super cybernetic shit lol

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That scene is even more baffling in that - it starts with vertical lasers, then horizontal lasers, then finally does the full grid lasers. Like...why? If it's a security system that is supposed to keep people out, why would there be two easy to dodge lasers before the impossible to dodge laser? Why not just have one impossible to dodge laser? Is it a security system with a sense of humor?

 

[Coyote Starrk]

I want a season 2 of edge runners so fucking bad 😞

 

[BearBobomb]

Maybe we just dont need movies out of video games in the first place

 

[Dunfish]

Street Fighter the animated movie was released 30 years ago and is still unmatched.

Fun fact - Bryan Cranston voiced Fei Long

 

[Jokerman]

TV in general has improved massively since the Oz/Sopranos era. It was only natural that games adaptations would benefit eventually. It did take a while to get here from then admittedly. TV has never been better.

 

[RetroRunner]

Silent Hill is a legit good horror movie

 

[Tbm24]

Mortal Kombat Defenders of the Realm was quality tv. I enjoyed a lot of the shows/cartoons they did for games back then.

 

[JustTeaThankYou]

It's actually the audience that needed to grow up.

Super Marior (1993) was clearly meant for little kids with low standards. And Super Mario (2023) is clearly meant for grown ass adults.

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Is this satire or did you get the dates the wrong way around?

 

[HowlTheChampion]

It took comics 40 years. Hell, it took another 37/39 years for the second "true"wave(between Superman II and Blade/X-Men).

 

[runlikehell]

Like that gif from the resident evil movie of the cop guy getting sliced, like why is that even in there lmao, just give me creepy horror not these weird super cybernetic shit lol

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Mikami liked it enough that it's in RE4, and it's a cool homage to the indie horror film Cube.

 

[naff]

OK, but the first MK is incredible

 

[kamineko]

the 80s pac-man cartoon was bad, but I kept turning up for it. kids were just used to bad things, I guess

 

[Arttemis]

It took thousands of years for books to get their first quality film adaptation, so I think games are doing pretty well in comparison.

 

[Mazzo]

I think it took people who actually understand and love videogames getting into positions of decision making in the industry

 

[PS_Snake]

I think the real answer is the decision makers and creators of today actually played the video games they are adapting and have a genuine love for them.

 

[MadMod]

People saying it took thousands of years for books to get a film adaptation, when the film medium hasn't even been around that long haha.

But yeah, complete clueless morons used to make VG adaptations. Now a lot more people who actually played the games make them.

 

[HolyJonte]

Yeah, there finally several good at the same time but there has been several good ones before too. I love Final Fantasy 7 Advent Children for an example. The difference is that now they are more mainstream.

 

[behOemoth]

The final fantasy movie is actually really good. Loved it int he cinemas as a kid

 

[Typhon]

That scene is even more baffling in that - it starts with vertical lasers, then horizontal lasers, then finally does the full grid lasers. Like...why? If it's a security system that is supposed to keep people out, why would there be two easy to dodge lasers before the impossible to dodge laser? Why not just have one impossible to dodge laser? Is it a security system with a sense of humor?

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It's controlled by an AI so...maybe?

 

[ciddative]

Not really that crazy. Pac Man was popular but how (and more importantly why) would you even adapt it in the 70s?

 

[Farlander]

I think it's less of 'video games are finally getting good adaptations', and more of 'people stop being unreasonably harsh at video game adaptations because they're based on video games'.

Prince of Persia: Sands of Time was a fun film.
Warcraft was freaking GREAT and it's a crime it didn't get a sequel.
Mortal Kombat was so popular when I was a kid I was sure the games were based on the movie and not the other way around.

Don't get me wrong, there were a lot of shit video game adaptations... but there's a lot of shit movies! Nobody wants to make a bad movie. It happens. But the 'video game adaptation' curse was broken long ago.