Electronic Arts will no longer be making film-based video games

EA boss on film-licensing and their bond franchise:

Would you rather make a shitty Bond games whose rights you don't own......

Or a fucking awesome franchise you own?

Why not make games based on movies? First off, because they fucking suck. In an interview with develop-online.net (go there to read the whole interview) EA games president Frank Gibeau said since they released their last James Bond game they’ve decided to dump film-game licensing and focus on creating their own intellectual property.

Again, why do this? Because video game adaptations of movies are really, really bad. Gibeau claimed that, “If you want to make a hit, you have to give a game time to get to quality. The days of licensed-based, 75-rated games copies are dead like the dinosaur.” This is something I’ve been screaming since I was a little kid. Video-game adaptations of films fucking suck. All they contain is a rehash of the film’s story and poor game mechanics. Nearly every time. The legendary title Goldeneye is a notable exception, but is an exception not a rule.

Games based on films fucking suck, but why?:

This is a step in the right direction. If a company like EA refuses to continue doing these shitty games either A: Production companies will be forced to give more time to publishers in order to make the game or B: We’ll see shittier and and shittier film-adaptations and they’ll die out. Either way, pretty sweet.

The games suck because game designers have only a small period of time to create the game, don’t own the intellectual property, and must follow guidelines beset by the film’s production company. All this equates a really shitty gaming experience.

Memorable awful games adapted from movies are infinite. It is companies just tryign to make more money of their releases, which is fine. But when Gibeau says the industry is crumbling, it is because people are starting to realize these games fucking suck and aren’t buying them. Huge titles are going to original IP or intellectual property. Franchises like EA’s masterpiece Deadspace is the future, not shitty marketing games.

A light at the end of the tunnel:

Just like the video game world is hard to translate from game to movie, the same can be said from movie to game. The upcoming game Tron: Evolution has my balls tingling, this might just be an answer to gamers’ prayers. It looks like it is truly trying to be innovative and a stand alone title. I’m still a skeptic, but how could a video game about a movie about a video game universe be bad?

-Collin