I commend this video on being well thought out, but there is this trend of people specifically calling out The Last of Us being the best video game adaptation to date... when Netflix's Arcane isn't even 2 years old. It might be because of the live action aspect but even your mention of the Cyberpunk 2077 adaptation brings animation into the conversation. Though aspects of the Last of Us show were phenomenal, it still was incredibly flawed and left a divide with the fan base. Adversely, Arcane revived fans and brought in a new audience by producing something thoroughly great. Just seems like it was left in the dust because big names like Pedro Pascal were involved in the more recent adaptation.
Yeah, I agree. Messed up no adding arcane in this video 😅 but I liked both arcane and cyberpunk 2077. Excellent series. I would say the last of us just received a lot of media attention and buzz with non video game players, which you need in a successful adaptation. Don't alienate the fan base but also make it inclusive enough for general audience viewers. I thought they did well and received more positive than negative criticisms. Unfortunately, too many just amazing adaptations or even movies or series in general just don't get the love they deserve. So some of this for me was finding that perfect medium of popularity and success between ravid fans and general audiences.
Another awesome episode 👏 Your videos are my new marijuana. I don't smoke weed anymore I'm just addicted to TH-cam channels that talk about filmmaking. Yours being at the top of the list!
the witcher show isn't based on the movie, but on the books. sure, the success of the games are probably why it was made, but the original source were always books. just like the games are based on the books
As a German, I sincerely apologize for those directors that didn't cared about their source material and talked shit about the gaming industry lmao, that was ridiculous
@@FrameVoyager maybe, but a huge factor for his moviemaking were german funds for movie producers. he exploited some german tax bnenefit that meant he made money with even the lowest of viewerships.
surprised you didnt mention arcane. i think it holds a spot for the best game adaptation ever made, and it does a lot of unique and groundbreaking things to get there. still good video :)
I think the series is amazing and it's fun to see how a game became a series. Little things for example Joel walking around with a backpack the whole time, picking up and dropping guns, or the collapsing of the way back and then having to fight a bunch of infected before being able to continue remind you of the programmed world of a game.
@@FrameVoyager Ya, I used to watch his TH-cam channel. Pretty entertaining. Ya man, you're just getting better and better! Great content and amazing effort
It’s “adaptation,” not “adaption.” Good videos overall tho. And if I find out this was one of those bait mistakes meant to get people to come comment on the mistake, you’re cruel.
I'm surprised you didn't talk more about the numerous sucessful Japanese adaptations of video games that they've been doing since the 90s. Plus characters like Sonic seemed to have been somewhat immune to the video game film curse with most adaptations of the hedgehog into the film medium to be quite good. Street Fighter and Fatal Fury also had multiple movies from Japanese anime studios during the 90s as well as Square Enix making a CG movie for Final Fantasy.
The Last of Us is a special game though - it already had a highly detailed, praised story behind it. Many games to this day, while they do contain more story elements, are still 'open' in their design to allow the player to take on the character. The Last of Us is more like an interactive movie with a lot of gameplay elements.
Lots of games ahve stories out there and plenty of great ones. The problem is more on length and depth. Many RPGs have had great stories since the 80s but many of them have failed to get adaptations outside of a few like Dragon Quest Dai.
Well, the Witcher series is based on the books the game originates on, so not a real video game adaptation. Still a very good video! (would have loved to see Arcane though :D)
Right! Though most people would attribute it to the video games in the media so that's why we mentioned it but only very briefly 😅 And I had Arcane in the original edit but the video started getting too long haha
I'm somewhat surprised you didn't talk about Assassin's Creed. I guess that might be considered a good thing: It wasn't bad enough to create controversy, but it wasn't good enough to be notable. That said, I really enjoyed the movie and find it re-watchable. I've also never played the game, so for me it's just a Michael Fassbender movie based on a Game property with "rules" of the story derived from the game.
I made sure to show it in some of the montages but yeah... While it's a semi enjoyable watch. But like you said, not really memorable at all. The action sequences were fun, but I usually remember the storyline or structure of every movie I've ever watched but that one there wasn't a clear structure to it 😂
@@FrameVoyager I think the root issue comes down to how the story was told. It's very hard to tell stories with flashbacks and timeline cuts. You have to be a REALLY good director to pull that off. The plot was basically "take the family of assassins theme from the game, then burn down the entire thing in one grand effort". They broke the one rule of movie making: always leave room for a sequel.
With Video game movies I only remember the really bad ones or some that were just a stupid action flick but most were just so forgettable I didn't even knew they existed
I was a huge fan of the Wing Commander series though never witnessing its silver screen adaptation when the it released. Heard it was an utter piece of crap and did nothing to stick to the original story line of the game. The story that I read years later was that all of the actors that signed on for the movie loved the script. When time came to start rolling cameras there was a complete rewrite of the movie.
@@FrameVoyager Indeed. My older brother saw it and he was very disappointed with it. If you go and play the original games, especially WC2 which was my introduction to the series playing it on our family 386 PC at the time, each game has great story lines and the game play has aged well. Though you may have to forgive some of the cut scenes in WC3 and WC4. Not a lot of budget for the acting even with the casting of Mark Hamill and Thomas Wilson. Doom on the other should have never had a theatrical release….definitely stayed away from that dumpster fire as well.
I'll never get how people get so passionate about "sticking to source material", bruh was the movie good or nah, I don't care how the original character was written.
Man you skipped the greatest video game adaptation up-to-date, Arcane! Its the epitome of game adaptations and lore accuracy, and even tho league of legends is a shit game, its undeniable that the universe and the lore they have built is simply insane. And i also beg to differ that witcher was a good adaptation. It was inaccurate, especially with casting and has a convoluted timeline. Honestly it was nauseating to watch.
I never watched edgerunners cause the game sucked so much. They still haven't fixed a lot of issues and gave up to work on the Witcher 4 which I'm definitely not buying after this f up. They could have pulled a hello games but nope.
@@Vicari0us_YT Oh I know the story is there they never had issues with making good stories. I'm just not touching a game they gave up on cause they were too scared to take more time working on the game cause they dug themselves into such a deep hole.
The Last of Us show is only the second-best video game adaptation of all time. I can't believe you didn't mention Arcane in your video. What Riot Games has managed to build is not only a game and an adaptation of it. It's sort of an entertainment framework of massive stories that cannot be ruined by actors.
I commend this video on being well thought out, but there is this trend of people specifically calling out The Last of Us being the best video game adaptation to date... when Netflix's Arcane isn't even 2 years old. It might be because of the live action aspect but even your mention of the Cyberpunk 2077 adaptation brings animation into the conversation. Though aspects of the Last of Us show were phenomenal, it still was incredibly flawed and left a divide with the fan base. Adversely, Arcane revived fans and brought in a new audience by producing something thoroughly great. Just seems like it was left in the dust because big names like Pedro Pascal were involved in the more recent adaptation.
Yeah, I agree. Messed up no adding arcane in this video 😅 but I liked both arcane and cyberpunk 2077. Excellent series. I would say the last of us just received a lot of media attention and buzz with non video game players, which you need in a successful adaptation. Don't alienate the fan base but also make it inclusive enough for general audience viewers. I thought they did well and received more positive than negative criticisms. Unfortunately, too many just amazing adaptations or even movies or series in general just don't get the love they deserve. So some of this for me was finding that perfect medium of popularity and success between ravid fans and general audiences.
Another awesome episode 👏 Your videos are my new marijuana. I don't smoke weed anymore I'm just addicted to TH-cam channels that talk about filmmaking. Yours being at the top of the list!
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😅 appreciate it!
Still smoking and watching here hahaha still the better option imo
Tron was a movie first. Original film came out in 1982 when was the Revolutionary for its use of computer-generated affects.
Yep! It's always fascinating that it was the other way around with this movie
@@FrameVoyager I can honestly see why people get that mixed up and honestly I used to fall for that same trapping till I figured it out.
@@luckykennedy7364 tbh, I had to check again while making this video 😅
@@FrameVoyager Lol. Great video have a great day good luck with future projects.
@@luckykennedy7364 appreciate it!
the witcher show isn't based on the movie, but on the books. sure, the success of the games are probably why it was made, but the original source were always books. just like the games are based on the books
Fair point. In general the average viewer would associate it with the games. But that's also why we just briefly touched on it 😅
@@FrameVoyager oh, guess I missed that. my bad. good video overall 👍
@@FelixM86 thanks! A little outside the norm for our content but hey, some of this stuff still relates
As a German, I sincerely apologize for those directors that didn't cared about their source material and talked shit about the gaming industry lmao, that was ridiculous
I think that he is a special case that probably would have done the same thing no matter where he lived haha
@@FrameVoyager maybe, but a huge factor for his moviemaking were german funds for movie producers. he exploited some german tax bnenefit that meant he made money with even the lowest of viewerships.
surprised you didnt mention arcane. i think it holds a spot for the best game adaptation ever made, and it does a lot of unique and groundbreaking things to get there. still good video :)
YEahhhhhh, really should have.
I think the series is amazing and it's fun to see how a game became a series. Little things for example Joel walking around with a backpack the whole time, picking up and dropping guns, or the collapsing of the way back and then having to fight a bunch of infected before being able to continue remind you of the programmed world of a game.
It's a great show and I love how they respect the original story as much as they can.
Glad TH-cam recommended your channel to me. Great content.
I'm glad! Welcome to the channel!
Yay! Great job! Love your videos!
Glad you like them!
@@FrameVoyager hey, did you do your FANUC shoot yet?
@@CNC-Time-Lapse No that ended up getting postponed! Doing it here soon though
Lol you mentioned Uwe Boll, which of course you had to in this context, but ya, what a character.
😂😂😂 fascinating guy! I feel like he likes playing that role. Nice seeing you around again 😉
@@FrameVoyager Ya, I used to watch his TH-cam channel. Pretty entertaining. Ya man, you're just getting better and better! Great content and amazing effort
@@WoM appreciate it!
Final Fantasy 7: AC is by far one of the best video game to film adaptation.
People sleep on animated films. Honestly might be the best way to adapt games to series of movies
Last of us had a great story to begin with and that’s highly a factor to its success.
Absolutely. But the writers also realized that and kept a lot of it in there for the show. Which can't be said if others 😅
Damn bro!! Always on point!! Shout out from Brazil here
Appreciate it! Hopefully this video picks up a little more steam haha
This video deserves more views.
🥺 I know... I don't know why it didn't do well
It's been a long hard road my brothers & sister but we finally got a good one.
Love your videos, You deserve my subs. Keep it up.
Appreciate it! And I'm sure they'll come eventually 😅
It’s “adaptation,” not “adaption.”
Good videos overall tho. And if I find out this was one of those bait mistakes meant to get people to come comment on the mistake, you’re cruel.
😂 it was more that it's a more accessible word to use and takes up less space.
No game in this world gave me goosebumps repeatedly from storytelling like The Witcher.
I'm surprised you didn't talk more about the numerous sucessful Japanese adaptations of video games that they've been doing since the 90s. Plus characters like Sonic seemed to have been somewhat immune to the video game film curse with most adaptations of the hedgehog into the film medium to be quite good. Street Fighter and Fatal Fury also had multiple movies from Japanese anime studios during the 90s as well as Square Enix making a CG movie for Final Fantasy.
Going down the rabbit hole, maybe we've reached the time for a decent mini-series to cover Deux Ex from Ubisoft. Plenty of story potential there.
True 🤔
The Last of Us is a special game though - it already had a highly detailed, praised story behind it. Many games to this day, while they do contain more story elements, are still 'open' in their design to allow the player to take on the character. The Last of Us is more like an interactive movie with a lot of gameplay elements.
Lots of games ahve stories out there and plenty of great ones. The problem is more on length and depth. Many RPGs have had great stories since the 80s but many of them have failed to get adaptations outside of a few like Dragon Quest Dai.
I can’t wait to see your thoughts on gran turismo!!
I don’t know, I loved the Mario adaptations… but I’m weird, and I know it. Street Fighter and Double Dragon are also on my tops list.😅
Man i was really hoping for you to include the Sonic movie in the video but I guess that story has been told a ton of times.
Well, the Witcher series is based on the books the game originates on, so not a real video game adaptation. Still a very good video! (would have loved to see Arcane though :D)
Right! Though most people would attribute it to the video games in the media so that's why we mentioned it but only very briefly 😅
And I had Arcane in the original edit but the video started getting too long haha
@@FrameVoyager No problemo! Enjoyed watching it!
I'm somewhat surprised you didn't talk about Assassin's Creed. I guess that might be considered a good thing: It wasn't bad enough to create controversy, but it wasn't good enough to be notable. That said, I really enjoyed the movie and find it re-watchable. I've also never played the game, so for me it's just a Michael Fassbender movie based on a Game property with "rules" of the story derived from the game.
I made sure to show it in some of the montages but yeah... While it's a semi enjoyable watch. But like you said, not really memorable at all. The action sequences were fun, but I usually remember the storyline or structure of every movie I've ever watched but that one there wasn't a clear structure to it 😂
@@FrameVoyager I think the root issue comes down to how the story was told. It's very hard to tell stories with flashbacks and timeline cuts. You have to be a REALLY good director to pull that off. The plot was basically "take the family of assassins theme from the game, then burn down the entire thing in one grand effort". They broke the one rule of movie making: always leave room for a sequel.
@@eformance they needed someone who knows how to direct movies about time 😏 Christopher Nolan
@@FrameVoyager Time directs itself!
@@eformance 😂
With Video game movies I only remember the really bad ones or some that were just a stupid action flick but most were just so forgettable I didn't even knew they existed
I was a huge fan of the Wing Commander series though never witnessing its silver screen adaptation when the it released. Heard it was an utter piece of crap and did nothing to stick to the original story line of the game. The story that I read years later was that all of the actors that signed on for the movie loved the script. When time came to start rolling cameras there was a complete rewrite of the movie.
Sounds about right 😅 movie is all good until studio execs get their hands on it
@@FrameVoyager Indeed. My older brother saw it and he was very disappointed with it. If you go and play the original games, especially WC2 which was my introduction to the series playing it on our family 386 PC at the time, each game has great story lines and the game play has aged well. Though you may have to forgive some of the cut scenes in WC3 and WC4. Not a lot of budget for the acting even with the casting of Mark Hamill and Thomas Wilson. Doom on the other should have never had a theatrical release….definitely stayed away from that dumpster fire as well.
Hehe. How he pronounces “cavieeel”
I think you mean adaptation instead of adaption
lol yes
Be honest, you put "TRON" in there just to troll people with SIWOTI Syndrome, didn't you? :)
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¿Arcane?
I'll never get how people get so passionate about "sticking to source material", bruh was the movie good or nah, I don't care how the original character was written.
Man you skipped the greatest video game adaptation up-to-date, Arcane! Its the epitome of game adaptations and lore accuracy, and even tho league of legends is a shit game, its undeniable that the universe and the lore they have built is simply insane. And i also beg to differ that witcher was a good adaptation. It was inaccurate, especially with casting and has a convoluted timeline. Honestly it was nauseating to watch.
I never watched edgerunners cause the game sucked so much. They still haven't fixed a lot of issues and gave up to work on the Witcher 4 which I'm definitely not buying after this f up. They could have pulled a hello games but nope.
If you only looked past the bugs and focused on the story you'd learn it doesn't suck
@@Vicari0us_YT Oh I know the story is there they never had issues with making good stories. I'm just not touching a game they gave up on cause they were too scared to take more time working on the game cause they dug themselves into such a deep hole.
@@alt666 Edge Runners is worth a watch. Some of Studio Trigger's best work
The Last of Us show is only the second-best video game adaptation of all time. I can't believe you didn't mention Arcane in your video. What Riot Games has managed to build is not only a game and an adaptation of it. It's sort of an entertainment framework of massive stories that cannot be ruined by actors.