@Daojoan@mastodon.social
Me as a kid: I can’t wait for video games to look like movies
Me as an adult: why the fuck does every movie look like a video game
oh god yes. I see so many 'based on the popular video game' movies. Too many. And the small handful I've looked at have been truly dreadful, all VFX no plot. Bangs and whistles
Aristotle's Poetics. First, foremost and always. Plot. Plot. Plot. Sod the effects, if the story doesn't cut it then it's a waste of time. Think of it, Medea, Oedipus Tyrannus. They capture and hold the attention like a magnet. And traditionally no scenery or effects. You don't even see the action and deaths because they're never shown.
#FBPEAmélie is the one that confused me. I think only the one obvious scene is CGI, but pretty much the whole film looks like it could be.
a game could never get away with the mess of overly-close and shaky shots that movies do. A game has to functionally convey what's going on around you, so that you can react to it.
Meanwhile, a movie is just conveying "what's going on right now is so amazing and intense that no camera can contain it! But if the camera were able to stop for a second and take in all the cool shit that's happening, gosh your head would explode!"
Only vaguely related but I used to play a game on the playstation 3 called Earth Defense Force 2025, which sort of proved your point wrong. Extremely chaotic, yet also extremely fun.
No doubt there was a method to the madness when the studio was making the game but I suspect the method involved embracing the chaos to an unusual degree.
Anyways, my point here is that it was fun as hell and I enjoyed reminiscing about it just now.
