Unlike years previous, where the D.I.C.E. Summit’s opening keynote speaker was a prominent member of the gaming industry, this year, it was a film director. No, not Spielberg (which would have been infinitely more interesting). This year the man to get things rolling was Pirates of the Caribbean director Gore Verbinski.
Find out what Gore had to say about games, based on movies and the future of the gaming industry after the jump!
In true Hollywood form, Gore kicked things off by criticizing how the film industry has lost a lot of its creativity due to the “numbers game” and how good story telling has been replaced by endless sequels and the “recycling of the same [filmic] language…” This is pretty freaking stupid coming from a man who directed an Oscar nominated movie, which spawned two sequels, each one becoming more and more commercial and derivative (still decent movies though, Pirates fanboys relax).
He warned the gaming industry about sacrificing creativity for profit (ala Hollywood). If anyone would know, he would. Next on his agenda was something a little more direct, he (in a polite way) tore into video games based on movies, specifically his own.
“How many films have slapped their logos on an inferior game because they had to make a shelf date,” he said rhetorically. “That is what we did with the Pirates of the Caribbean. When I made the films, I saw value come from nothing and then [with the games] nothing come out of value.”
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7 responses so far ↓
1 thesenderof8 // Feb 12, 2008 at 6:53 pm
wow if this is the kind of crap that pours out of a million dollar fil director then the film industry has a thing or 2 to learn from gaming
2 Artemas // Feb 12, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I admire that fact that someone finaly addmited movie games are done for the money.
“How many films have slapped their logos on an inferior game because they had to make a shelf date,” he said rhetorically. “That is what we did with the Pirates of the Caribbean. “
3 clstirens // Feb 12, 2008 at 9:32 pm
Ummm. Am I an idiot to agree with what he is saying? This guy has a point, we should embrace creativity before the gaming industry becomes too cooky cutter.
WTF? This guy isn’t some kook, it isn’t like he said analog sticks are last gen or something..
4 clstirens // Feb 12, 2008 at 9:33 pm
*ugh…. I meant Cookie. Need…more…sleep…
5 8bitBass // Feb 13, 2008 at 12:59 am
As an avid gamer I rarely play movie to game translations as I find them generally insulting. Did we not learn anything from the matrix reloaded?
On his other points… meh.
For every Bioshock we get 100+ junk games and a discerning gamer will choose the best.
Mom and dads everywhere still have a lot of buying power though when little Johnny wants the craptastic transformers game after seeing the movie.
6 FinalWhiteDove // Feb 13, 2008 at 5:34 am
I agree wholeheartedly with what Mr Gore was saying because I can see it to be true, back in the day of point and click games.
The developers really seemed to care in those days, some of them had really good graphics as well, but mostly the game captured your heart and made you laugh or feel emotions you never thought you could from a game, they had engaging storylines, brilliant dialog put forward by very good voice actors.
Ever since then I feel that the gaming industry took a turn for the worse, it became too commercialized caring more about the money and stopping the consumer from copying the game and thus causing some people to not be able to play *cough* starforce *cough*.
I agree with you though that people who actually know about games will only buy the good ones, but how long will it be before people no longer have any more good ideas and have to update old games or they all become too similar, oh wait. Most of them already are.
Long live those that put some originality into the gaming industry for love of the game and NOT for the money.
7 hentai2021 // Feb 13, 2008 at 8:32 am
i only see crazy in that he told off the people who might pay him. that was a nice speech, wish more people listened though.
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