Games Based on Movies Based on Books I don't see why this concept is necessary. How is the source material of a movie relevant to the video game they make for it?
Easily answered : Sometimes the games take influences, characters and material/dialogue from the book rather than the movie. The Bourne Consipiracy is one example.
" Easily answered : Sometimes the games take influences, characters and material/dialogue from the book rather than the movie. The Bourne Consipiracy is one example. "
Wouldn't that mean that the game is just based on the book, rather than on the movie?
Well no, because in The Bourne Conspiracy case the game would not have been made without the success of the movie series to trade off. The same is literally true for Where the Wild Things Are among others.
" Well no, because in The Bourne Conspiracy case the game would not have been made without the success of the movie series to trade off. The same is literally true for Where the Wild Things Are among others. "
Where The Wild Things Are as a game has more in common with the movie than the book. It's not a valid comparison. That the Bourne game supposedly wouldn't have been made without the popularity of the movies isn't really a valid argument either, given that there's nothing that says a Bourne game wouldn't have eventually been made had the movies not existed.
I said that Where The Wild Things Are was made for the same reason that Bourne Consipracy was made; because the movies were made. The movies couldn't have been made if the books hadn't so therefore it's only logical to conclude that the games which trade off the names of the books couldn't have been made without the books being made. Therefore we have Games based on Movies based on Books. It's not that complicated.
Look at the Lord of the Rings games. The movies are based on the books, and the games are based on the movies, in that the likenesses of the actors and their voices are reflected in the games.
Exactly. The movie trades off the books ideas just as the game trades off the books ideas. Whether the game takes direct influence from either the book or the movie is not the issue. The existence of the book is what makes the other two possible.
How about we delete this concept and list the games under "based off movies" and "based off books" as two individual topics, if they take from both sources. That seems less redundant.
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