Ian Stevens, head of Vin Diesel's Tigon Studio, has said that Hollywood only takes videogames seriously when there's money to be made, with most of them viewing games as pointless toys until they start to realize that such a pointless industry is kicking their arses.
"There's certainly no shortage of guys that look at games and see them as toys, and meaningless bullsh*t, and now look at revenue -- and for their own survival's sake have to care, and have to get involved," reveals Stevens. "I think a lot of it has changed because we're making so much more money than they are."
Stevens also claims that Hollywood and the game industry "don't speak the same language," and that those in the movie biz simply don't understand the creative process of videogames. That said, he also acknowledges that the games industry has a lot to catch up with in terms of story-telling, stating that "there's such a depth and vocabulary involved in film-making that we're just completely ignorant of."
Quite funny indeed that Hollywood thinks it has any room to look down on other creative mediums, considering the movie industry is responsible for giving Michael Bay a job.
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12:40 PM on 06.24.2009
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Hideo Kojima > Speilburg.
It's also my reaction to this story.
Second is The Shining.
Third is a tie between SSX 3, and the trailer for The Shining.
Yeah, Vin Diesels game work in awful mostly, just like his film. Games staring Vin Diesel? Stop stroking your muscley ego, dude.
Who cares what those fools think? Fuck em.
You wanna know what's funny? $60 million for a three-hour film that's the same every time, or $60 million for a game that you could quite possibly put hundreds of hours into and is generally not the same exact thing each time through.
Yeah, games are more expensive than films (though the tally gets close if you see the movie in the theater and then buy it on DVD on release), but given the disparity in time you can waste doing either one...
I remember looking ahead at some movies coming out this year/next year/2011. Harry Potter 6, Shrek 4, Spidey 4, Ice Age 3, Final Destination...4?, Halloween 15, Twilight 2, Meet the Parents 3, Harry Potter 7, Toy Story 3, Harry Potter 7 part II, Sin City 2, and Lord of the Rings Zero.
And you say gamers are in love with sequels, Jim? =P
This is the gaming industry's fate too, if it keeps up what it's doing with the handicap of dividing people into different "cores" (there's ONE core.. people who like playing good games), and thinking your consumers will buy anything you throw out forever.
This is the right core;
People who play games.
Then again, they could be cunts.
Oops thanks. I was being too specific :P
I can see a scenario where Tom Cruise (who averages more than $60m per picture) - may not be super concerned about the release of Overlord II: Electric Boogaloo.
And, I don't need to remind anyone, that this discussion is based purely off of the opinion of one person. (Ian Stevens - other than CoD2 - his main body of work consists of terrible movie-to-game adaptations)
The game industry is way better, it generates more money, you find more good games than good movies, and game developers aren't addicted to coke star wannabe.
I like my games thank you very much :)