Movies are very visual - hence the natural tie in with games. But games are interactive - and movies are not. The bestest game you ever played simply doesnt equal sitting in a theater not doing anything. Also, games have no plot, or very little - so translating no story, no plot (because games are _played_ ) doesnt help you make a good movie. The movie makers try and jump on the making a movie out of game idea because of the popularity of certain games/\.
Well, the start of this post ties in with something i have been thinking about MMORPGs for some time. The game makers just aren't making stand alone games anymore thatpush hardware andboundries and creativity - at least not at the rate of 10 years ago. I started on a Tandy and a commodore 25 years ago, and i played Telnet games, and we DREAMED!!!! of full 3-D Internet games, and I have absolutely loved them. But now, I am not so sure. I thinkI enjoyed thetext only Wizardry and telnet MUDS more than I enjoy the current games. There just are so, so few stand alone RPGS now. And if you look at Gamespot's all time reviews, the late 90s and early 2000s ruled for stand alone RPGs - basically, when the hardware finally got some power - but before we had high speed Internet. I am playing Neverwinter Nights 2 and loving it - unlike WoW,I dont have to LFG (look for group) for 3 hours to just play. But, again, there just isn't anything else out there much at all worth a crap in RPG land, and to be honest, stand alone shooters are in the same boat. Games like Fear and my ALL TIME FAV Half-Life are very very rare every 2-5 year releases now. Its all about on-line because the game makers can charge a monthly fee. And I don't blame them - that is where the action is. Also, with pirating so easy and so rampant now - they loose their shorts without that monthly fee. Like i said, I DREAMED of 3-D on-line fast gaming, and now I when I play BF2 or 2142 I am just depressed - so impersonal, so boring, so lame. Just not the same as playing GoldenEye on your 64 sniping your bud in the room with you. It is two sides of the same coin - on-line gives me immediate access to gaming fun with 1000s of people to play with, but it is resulting in very poor (the hardware you can get now with CPUs and Video Cards can blow any software away) games and a dull experience.
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