Yes I hate when I see people going insane on the controller. But one thing I really hate is the fact that the sounds of the video games are always 8-bit sounding lasers/explosions.
Everytime I see video games getting played in movies, usually in a stupid fashion, I cant help but wonder how wrong they get other things. Its the same with news, Ive seen diffrent outlets (well all outlets) misreport things so I find it hard to believe what they say.
Same difference with actors pretending to play musical instruments. The reality tends to be more like in Shaun of the Dead where ya just look like a slumped over sack'a potatoes on the coach which sells the image "we're wasting our lives" more then "we're playing the hell outta some vid'ja game action".
@Vonocourt: And at no point, did anyone in that room think "I must go and do some work." They should have looked online for a cheat code to get to level 10.
@Sin4profit: But they were playing Timesplitters 2! How can you hate on any depiction of someone playing that fantastic game? I was pretty excited when I realized what they were playing.
40 Year Old Virgin is one of the worst perpetrators of this that comes to mind. They were playing Mortal Kombat Deception or Deadly Alliance or w/e and just mashing sticks like mad, and one was using an N64 controller iirc.
@OwnlyUzinWonHan: wasn't really hating on it. just pointing out that in reality people playing games, they just have a relaxed focus look to them. That doesn't play, visually, to the drama of fiction so that's why people look like they're going ape shit when they're fake gaming for the sake of acting.
It kinda bugs me, somewhat because it just seems stupid. I think we're living in an age where a sizable number of people watching movies are going to know that video games aren't mad competitions to push as many buttons on a controller in as short a time as possible, why depict it like that?
I made a short film that had a scene with one of my friends randomly pressing buttons on a gamecube controller while Street Fighter 4 sounds came out of some unseen glowing light source. So I'm guilty of this.
" 40 Year Old Virgin is one of the worst perpetrators of this that comes to mind. They were playing Mortal Kombat Deception or Deadly Alliance or w/e and just mashing sticks like mad, and one was using an N64 controller iirc. "
But that's such a great funny movie! Get the joke? He hasn't been laid! And hes old! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I actually find it funny when you see the actor just mashing random buttons and going "Almost got the last boss" and then you see a clip of the screen and it's like Killzone 2 or Halo 3 being played online
Trust me, its the same for every other aspect in movie and TV.
Imagine you knew shit about forensics. Imagine you knew shit about historical clothing or weaponry. Imagine you knew shit about mechanics and motors. Imagine you knew shit about horses. Imagine you knew shit about finance. Imagine you knew shit about mathematics. Imagine you knew shit about chemistry, biology or any other given natural science.
Everything in popular media is dumbed down to SOME degree, some things less, most things more. You just happen to notice it when it comes to videogames, but they are not treated worse than other aspects and topics.
" Trust me, its the same for every other aspect in movie and TV. Imagine you knew shit about forensics. Imagine you knew shit about historical clothing or weaponry. Imagine you knew shit about mechanics and motors. Imagine you knew shit about horses. Imagine you knew shit about finance. Imagine you knew shit about mathematics. Imagine you knew shit about chemistry, biology or any other given natural science. Everything in popular media is dumbed down to SOME degree, some things less, most things more. You just happen to notice it when it comes to videogames, but they are not treated worse than other aspects and topics. "
Yeah, I've often wondered why they couldn't just have them actually be playing a game or something. Or get people that actually know how games are played.
What irritates me a bit is when they will show something like Mario Kart on the television in a movie or television show, but the person playing it is playing it with a Xbox 360 controller on his/her "GameStation 360". In the movie Doom, it annoyed me that they were in the future yet their hand-held video game system was straight out of the 1980's, but that movie was shit anyway so.....
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