Current Events > Which is worse? Games based on movies or movies based off of games?

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Movies based off of video games have always failed at the box office. World of Warcraft, Tomb Raider, Mario Brothers.......the only exception to this rule that I can think of is the original Mortal Kombat.

However, games based off of movies have always been equally bad. The only one I can think of that's an exception to this rule is Riddick.

In your opinion, which medium of entertainment has had it worse when it comes to sales and enjoyment?
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Movies based off games, because:

A) Movies are worse than games so it's a downgrade of medium

B) Games' stories are often intrinsic to the gameplay so it doesn't translate well for a movie audience

So you don't think Bioshock would make a good movie because the lack of gameplay would take away from the movie experience? It wouldn't matter if the movie was atmospheric, claustophobic, well written with a surprise ending?
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Movies based on games aren't always bad, and at most they're only a couple hours waste of time, while games based on movies waste a lot more time than they're worth.

Movies based on games.
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Raikuro posted...

Movies based on games aren't always bad, and at most they're only a couple hours waste of time, while games based on movies waste a lot more time than they're worth.

Alien: Isolation was a pretty good use of movie rights. I haven't played the new Jurassic Park game, but I heard that also used the film rights to not only promote the new (Shitty) movie, but also provided a decent game, I heard.
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