02-23-2003, 05:51 AM
Pete,
Since when does a good movie need to come from a book? Given, many of the best movies that I've seen came from books, or spawned very good books (Men in Black turned out to be a really good book, actually - better than the movie, at any rate), but why does it matter that BG is a game? There's plenty of background and story to the game, and it's not exactly low-quality. At least, not in my opinion. I personally like the Abeir-Toril/Faerun setting more than Middile Earth, especially if you add in the whole inter-planar bit. The storyline never really felt terribly linear to me, but perhaps I wasn't looking hard enough.
At least BG wouldn't have to be hand-fed the storyline like in LotR. There's a base storyline, but it can and should be expanded on from there. Unlike in LotR, you aren't given some characters and their dialogue and then told to adapt it to the silver screen. Instead, you're given a protagonist whose only set characteristic is their heritage. Everything else, even the protagonist's sex, is up to the discretion of the player, or the writer in this case. You're given the NPCs, their appearances, their personalities, and their histories, but not what they say or how they act on their beliefs. Perhaps BG would be able to be a good movie, perhaps not. On paper, it looks much better than LotR, but that's taking a good number of X-factors for granted. Consider BG done with the talent of the LotR movie team. Do you think it would be beaten by, meet, or exceed LotR? I think it would exceed LotR. Gimli is no match for Minsc's hampster-powered goodness :)
And they don't say stupid things like "elvish" and "dwarfish" in BG. They're said "elven" and "dwarven", as it should be :P
Since when does a good movie need to come from a book? Given, many of the best movies that I've seen came from books, or spawned very good books (Men in Black turned out to be a really good book, actually - better than the movie, at any rate), but why does it matter that BG is a game? There's plenty of background and story to the game, and it's not exactly low-quality. At least, not in my opinion. I personally like the Abeir-Toril/Faerun setting more than Middile Earth, especially if you add in the whole inter-planar bit. The storyline never really felt terribly linear to me, but perhaps I wasn't looking hard enough.
At least BG wouldn't have to be hand-fed the storyline like in LotR. There's a base storyline, but it can and should be expanded on from there. Unlike in LotR, you aren't given some characters and their dialogue and then told to adapt it to the silver screen. Instead, you're given a protagonist whose only set characteristic is their heritage. Everything else, even the protagonist's sex, is up to the discretion of the player, or the writer in this case. You're given the NPCs, their appearances, their personalities, and their histories, but not what they say or how they act on their beliefs. Perhaps BG would be able to be a good movie, perhaps not. On paper, it looks much better than LotR, but that's taking a good number of X-factors for granted. Consider BG done with the talent of the LotR movie team. Do you think it would be beaten by, meet, or exceed LotR? I think it would exceed LotR. Gimli is no match for Minsc's hampster-powered goodness :)
And they don't say stupid things like "elvish" and "dwarfish" in BG. They're said "elven" and "dwarven", as it should be :P
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