My vote goes to either Vagrant Story or Parasite Eve, both by SquareSoft. Both games are pretty short and I could see their stories being adapted into a 2 hour film without having to change all that much. Yeah I know Parasite Eve was originally a book and that book had a movie adaption, but I'm talking about the game's story here.

  • MarxMadness [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    And the result is usually (1) unsatisfying to fans of the game because it departs too much from the original but (2) too video-gamey for mainstream audiences because of game-specific winks thrown in.

    We're also seeing problems from parsing down a several-hour campaign (and possibly a multi-game franchise) into a two-hour coherent movie. The miniseries/serialized TV approach is probably a better medium -- see The Witcher.