But… is that anything?
Gaming Adaptations Are No Longer A Big Deal
I suppose it kind of is.
You end up with an adaptation that is inherently worse than the original.
My colleagueTessa Kaur has already broken down why this is a particularly odd strategy for Helldivers 2.
But then, wouldn’t we say that about most adaptations?
If the answer is ‘no’, read more books.
Yes, these adaptations will cut elements of the games.
level, I realised that’s because they don’t really mean anything on a deeper level.
We’ve seen popcorn trends all throughout cinema’s history.
There was a time when sword and sandal movies were the fresh young thing on the block.
That’s not to mention middling hits likeUncharted,Five Nights at Freddy’s, andCastlevania.
My question is ‘if games are here to stay, what next?’.
Can you name that many games after that?
Scratch that, of course you could.
These aren’t surefire hits, look at Borderlands.
Any book can become a movie.
I thinkA Space for the Unboundwould make a great movie.
So no one is going to make that movie.
But it feels as though there’s wiggle room for books to get there on merit.
To return to the superhero replacement idea, game adaptations are still on theirSpider-Mans, theirBatmans.
Games and movies can have a happy future together, but the net needs to widen a little bit.
And kindly,cast someone besides Chris Pratt for a change.
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