F Minus Comic Strip, January 02, 2013 on GoComics.com

Kosaka Jinnai said, 5 months ago

Getting a little ahead of himself, isn’t he?

But still, that’s a valid point he’s raising. To quote director George Miller of the Mad Max franchise…

“It’s four-dimensional storytelling. A game can literally become the equivalent of a novel. That is the thing that people like me who write screenplays envy about novelists: that you can actually stop time and explore little cul-de-sacs. Whereas in a movie, you’d love to stop and examine that character, but you can’t.”

Video games have moved up in the world to something bigger than just games. They can even be considered an academic discipline. In fact, Oxford invited me to speak on this point.

Paul Smith said, 5 months ago

Not really, he doesn’t seem to worried about the video game of the sequel to movie they are filming.

ewalnut said, 5 months ago

Very few games come anywhere close to having as good a story as the movie — let alone the book. Games may have more time to develop characterizations than a movie, but few make good use of that. And part of the reason for that is that people play games for different reasons than that they watch movies and read books. Why spend extra time and developmental resources on something they think most of the players won’t notice or appreciate?

mkahn said, 5 months ago

well… the guy on the right looks a little like Mario.

jmcx4 said, 5 months ago

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JackButler said, 5 months ago

Perfect. Just watched “The Hobbit” and while an enjoyable romp on the whole, there were indeed segments that looked like they were “pivotal moments in the video game based on” the movie.
SPOILER ALERT
Like the rabit sled chase and the swinging bridge/tunnel escape, and the “stealth” escape from Gollum.
END SPOILERS
Pure vid-game action … I kept twitching my fingers for the correct sequence.
I do wish the movie makers would be less obvious about it.