Why Videogame Adaptations Can Sometimes be a Bad Idea

Videogame adaptations have been recently dominating the movie theaters or television for the last couple of years. We have gotten or confirmed adaptations such as:

God of War

Sonic the Hedgehog

Mario 

The Last of Us

Fallout

Mortal Kombat

Silent Hill

The Legend of Zelda

Resident Evil

Tomb Raider

Baldur's Gate 3

Exit 8

Witcher 

Elden Ring

I'm not sure if I'm missing any more video game adaptations, but these are the ones I have mostly heard about. I'm actually alright with more than half of these videogame adaptations, because we could do any kind of story with these games. 

I'm totally fine with the Mario and Sonic the Hedgehog as movies, because you could literally do any story with these characters, and videogame fans are going to be totally fine with it. There have also been countless stories done with these characters already, so it's understandable why fans don't seem to care. 

Mortal Kombat is literally the same story in every single game when it comes to the battling to the death, so it's awesome that we are getting movies as well to expand on the Mortal Kombat storylines. 

But games like Baldur's Gate 3, God of War, and The Last of Us are completely different when it comes to their storylines.

These games have given us incredible stories that will stay with us forever, but now television programs are determined to somehow turn these games into a TV show to get money. The point of these stories is that they feel so unnecessary to turn into a television show. We already know what to expect from these stories, because they are literally re - telling the stories through a movie setting format instead of a videogame. 

Fans were genuinely upset when they had announced God of War and Baldur's Gate 3. I understand that these characters within both videogames are amazingly well written, but we never needed these stories to turn into an actual show. This is why we played the games, we wanted to explore the story for ourselves, and it adds to the magic of these characters that we come to love. 

Baldur's Gate 3 is probably my biggest upset, because I know that the actors that we had gotten to play the main characters in the game aren't going to be the ones to play the characters in the show. And the fact that even the director and writers who made Baldur's Gate 3 were upset about HBO's announcement to turn their hard work into a show says a lot too! 

It's not going to be the same, and I honestly have no idea why this videogame ever needed a show. The videogame was perfect, and this project only feels like a way for HBO to get more money. They already got The Last of Us, that screwed up their second season, so did they really need to go after another show?

God of War is pretty freaking odd choice to turn into a show too. Fans were outraged when they learned that the writers are just going to retell the entire story through a TV show format, so was a videogame adaptation really necessary?

Not all games need a TV show or movie. 

That is why some of us play games. So that we can get a great story through a game, and if we want to watch a movie, we will watch a random one that interests us. It's that simple.

Hollywood needs to stop going after videogames. At least the ones who really don't need to be touched by Hollywood. 

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Thank you for reading!

Emy Quinn