i rarely play video games nowadays, maybe just call of duty for a few hours once a week to just fuck around with some friends, but i picked up enter the matrix for ps2 from a thrift store today and toyed with it for about an hour and it was pretty cool and i got to thinking that they really don’t make any video game tie in movies at all anymore right?
idrc that much but i spent a lot of my childhood playing movie tie in games so it’s just weird to think that it just doesn’t exist anymore, with the last of them maybe being the early mcu movies and transformer video games from like a decade ago.
but given how hard developers probably have to crunch to get these games out in time for the movie, the rise in popularity of online multiplayer, etc., it make sense.
but i also started thinking, mainstream film is in such a bad spot right now, and has been for a while, to the point idek what they would make adaptations of? black adam?
(an online multiplayer game in the john wick universe and a lighthouse video game like the walking dead/wolf among us games would go hard though)
enter the matrix went so hard. the entire game was incredible, from the adaptive difficulty to the gun-fu to the crazy goku fight with anderson at the end. whole thing slapped.
You're thinking Path of Neo, which also slapped.
Wachoski Sisters: "We thought about ending this like the movies, but Superman vs Galactus sounds like more fun. Now enjoy 'enlightenment'." lmao
Enter the Matrix was the one where Ghost fought Trinity in a zen garden to Andy Hunter's Go in the hypest fight of my then-15 year old life
ah yeah u right u right i need to try out enter the matrix then
If they make a Super Mario Bros: The Movie: The Game, we will have truly come full circle.
In your last paragraph I thought you meant a video game tie in with The Lighthouse, which for 90 seconds I imagined what a wild game that would be.
I think he's saying that he would want one to exist. Indie video game A24 movie adaptations would be wild tho
i’ve watched the hbomberguy video about it like 3 times but still haven’t gotten around to playing it
The last good one I played was the Mad Max game that came out around the same time as Fury Road. It was an excellent game, just lots of fun. Even had some good representation of disabled people, continuing a trend that's been present in most of the Mad Max stories.
Some of the VR shooting games can feel extremely John Wick.
Re: Lighthouse - Maybe "Return of the Obrah Din"? It seems to have a similar vibe.
i completely forgot about that game but i played the shit out of it the summer it came out
I guess you're right, the shovelware era of tie-in games kind of died with the Xbox 360 and Wii.
I kinda forgot 2015 era games aren't recent anymore.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1254370/No_one_lives_under_the_lighthouse_Directors_cut/
this is practically a Lighthouse video game
Basically, during the 360/PS3 generation the cost and time involved in making a home console game kept growing to the point that it was no longer guaranteed that a studio could cheaply crank out a tie-in game to synch with the movie's release date.
Also during the seventh gen, mobile gaming really took off and it was way more cheap to make tie-in Iphone shovelware instead.
Also also, the big publishers who used to publish movie tie-in games such as Activision started making huge amounts of money milking their original IP so they didn't feel like they needed to make deals with movie studios anymore.
fun fact: Cars (PS2/Gamecube/Xbox/Windows/GBA/DS/PSP) came out 3 days before the movie, despite being a sequel to the movie
