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C3PX
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Do Video Games Sometimes have better stories than films ?
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2-Jul-2009, 9:35 AM
skyjedi2005 said:

Now the Dig i do remember via the novelization by Alan Dean Foster,lol.

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Fate of Atlantis i like a lot but the voice person they chose for indiana jones was lame. why no harrison ford?

 

The Dig was originally suppose to be a film directed by Steven Spielberg. Forget the details, but they ended up making it into a game instead. That is why the game feels so cinematic. I have the book by Alan Dean Foster, but have never gotten around to playing it.

As for Indy's voice in Fate of Atlantis, kind of funny, I have never actually heard it. I never had the talkie versions of any of the old LucasGames/Arts classics. Didn't have CD-ROM drive on the ol' PC back in those days, so I had to stick with the floppy disc versions, which didn't include full voice. Games like Sam & Max Hit the Road and Day of the Tentacle would have full voice in the introductions, then they would switch over to just text. Back then I didn't even realize full talkie versions of those games existed, in fact, even up until now, I had absolutely no idea a talkie version of Fate of Atlantis existed.

 

Back to the main topic, most definitely some games have better stories than a lot of films. Bioshock is a very good example of this, stick to the same visuals and plot, flesh the thing out quite a bit, and you'd likely have quite a sucessful film on your hands. Unfortunately, any video game film is likely to be completely destroyed (yet to see one that hasn't been). Even some of the mini stories told throughout Fallout 3 are very creative and amusing. Grim Fandango is a fantastic story, beats the absolute crap out of anything the much praised Pixar could ever release.