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Why are there no video game adaptations of movies? (piefed.social)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/askgaming@piefed.social
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There are plenty of spin offs and tie ins but not adaptations (save for Lego) for some reason. Obviously this isn't the case for the reverse.

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[–] 35 points 8 months ago (7 children)

It was the case in the 90's and early 00's, there were plenty of video game adaptation of movies. I think it stopped partly because it wasn't profitable and because video game development takes time, which would make the game come out much later than the movie and if the hype is dead then so is the game.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago*

    Yeah lol like half my game library as a kid was adaptations of movies and shows.

    I think the big turning point was The Incredibles 2 video games, which came out in 2005 based on the ending of the first film but the movie itself didn’t come out until 2018 and ended up being a completely different storyline.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    I think it’s also that the video game industry is now bigger than the movie industry. The tables have turned: now it’s up to the movie industry to bait video game fans into going to the movies.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    The stories are too complicated in today's games to make any kind of cohesive and even vaguely complete 2-3 hour story out of them. That why such adaptations are not one-off movies, but complete seasons of shows appearing on streaming services.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Movie and TV shows take time too, and adaptations have been coming out much later than the game did.

    I'd kind of expected the play it safe management to start adapting decades old classic movies n stuff

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