Matt Damon Turned Down "A Bunch Of Money" For Bourne Game Because He Didn't Want It To Be An FPS

he wanted to see his face in game like how some sports player appear in the background.

Does it matter? Every single game ever made based on a movie has sucked. And every single movie based on a video game has sucked. There is a reason too. Because either way they are making garbageware cheap to get a bunch of initial sales based on name alone.

And that is probably more what Matt was talking about. He did not want to be involved in a cash grab garbage game. I mean he would not take a role in some garbage grade b movie either because in the long run it would hurt him. He does not want to become Nick Cage or Dean Cain and the like by taking garbage roles in garbage movies. And would assume he wouldnt want his name on a garbage game for the same reasons.

When people do things just to make money, people get annoyed. When people don't do things just to make money, people get annoyed. I like that he wanted the game to be more than just a run-of-the-mill shooter and passed on big bucks rather than just taking the money and not having any input. People all getting bent out of shape because they can't comprehend how a Bourne game could work like Myst. I'd say he probably meant having some Myst like traits, puzzles, mysteries, along with some gunplay as opposed to a Myst clone. I mean, the whole point of Myst was to solve puzzles and learn the history of characters in the game, kind of like Bourne finding clues to figure out who he was.

@funky_monkey: it is a classic. blew minds back in the day.

@funky_monkey: If you had to look it up, I’m assuming you weren’t born until at least 2000, which means you have no credibility when talking down on Myst. Sorry, kid, but Myst is a great game.

@funky_monkey: Myst was a fantastic game. If you have to look it up on YouTube to see what is was like, you've already missed the plot.

@funky_monkey: Just go back to Fortnite. We need the intelligent people elsewhere.

I played the game, it was just ok. Wouldve been so much better if they made it more like Alpha Protocol.

The Bourne conspiracy wasn't an fps it was a cover based third person shooter. If it was an fps you wouldn't be able to see the character. He doesn't know first person shooters from third person shooters.

Damn, Matt Damon is more of a gamer than me. I had no idea what the Myst was, had to look it up.

Myst is a very strange thing to want a "Bourne game", to be like. I just thought he meant an open world 3rd person view game :)

Good for him. Because what we *really* need right now is another dumbass FPS franchise...

Of course these dumbass dev teams would make a game regardless like with Marvels Avengers because shilling an IP to the point that's similar to Ubisoft Tom Clancy... typical, these folks have nothing else better to do than chase trends.

I can understand him not wanting it to be yet another Call of Duty clone, so good on him. I could see it being successful as hybrid of FPS and Myst-like mystery. Perhaps it could have followed the Deus Ex format.

Maaaaaaaaaat Daaaaaaaaaaamon.

Clearly the hardest of hardcore gamers.

With that said, I think he made the right call to be frank. Enough shooters out there, and the Bourne series was pretty smart for what it was, would have been better as something other than a shooter.

Myant Dyeamon

What a dumbass. Yeah a Bourne game should be like Myst.

Myst? Wow...

Why not just go with one of those anime/child-porn high school video games that steam seems to like flogging? Put Jason Borne in one of those little plaid skirts as he runs from parakeets and strange large eyed rabbit/gopher like creatures?

I really liked that game but it could have been more. I wish someone will eventually make another Bourne game. Something special this time with plenty of budget :)

Bourne and myst? wut? I dont see how da hell could you combine the two...

Good decision. It would have to compete with the likes of the upcoming Halo, Stalker, Apex, TimeSplitters, Half-Life, Perfect Dark and Doom games. Tough market.

It's cool that he likes Myst, and was comfortable saying no,
but dear lord Matt,
how on earth was that ever going to work?
Seriously now.

Yup good choice.

Wow, even Matt Damon knew that this movie-based video game would be a pile of s***. Good on him.

I read the books and a world created by Robert Ludlum would deserve more than a shooter cash grab.

Lol i would have said no as well.

I love you Matt, but I just don't see how that would work. I'd rather it be a 3rd person game with action, investigation, and puzzle elements. Seems to fit the spirit of the movies better than a Myst-like.