Comments on: Review: ‘Assassins Creed’ Is an Insult to Gaming Fans Everywhere

By: thilani

thilani — Sat, 24 Dec 2016 03:28:18 +0000

“tell me of one instance where a video game was successfully (emphasis on the word successful) adapted for the big screen?” um.. I can give you two- Resident Evil and Tomb Raider. Also, here’s a bit of free advice, if i you want to look like you know what you’re writing about, it may be better to actually know what you’re writing about.

By: Brauc Barber

Brauc Barber — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 18:37:40 +0000

Correct me if I’m wrong here, but aren’t those the fans you want to draw into this film?

You are absolutely wrong. The reason why most video game movies fail is because in order to make money you can’t rely solely on the fans of the video game. Here’s why. The first Assassin’s Creed sold 8 million copies as of 2009, which is 2 years after initial release. It’s probably fair to say that it didn’t sell too much more over 10 million over the course of the following 7 years. The average price of a movie ticket in the US is $8.61. So that means that if you get just the fans of the game you’re gonna pull in about 86 million. That’s only a little over half the cost of making the movie. Big budget movies require mass appeal, and achieving mass appeal while staying true to the source content is very difficult. You mentioned that Warcraft was a failure, but that really depends on your definition of failure. As an experiment in staying to to the source material it was a massive success, which in turn lead to limited appeal in the marketplace. Fortunately it was very successful in China. But in all it was the highest grossing video game movie of all time so to say it was a failure is pretty much wrong all the way around.

By: Joel

Joel — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 15:34:31 +0000

I disagree that this movie is an insult to gaming fans. As video games movies go this was so much better and better then a lot of major action movies. I do agree that they should of spent more time in the game world. Staying in it for an extended time maybe even to the mid point.

By: Leonard Anthony

Leonard Anthony — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 11:12:09 +0000

Wait. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I seem to get the impression that you’re bashing this film solely because it was not actually set in 1492 and that the main protagonist is “attached to a device that looks as if it’s been repurposed from the film Avatar”?

Can you provide any examples of having “the film take place a majority of the time, OUTSIDE THE VIDEO GAME”?

All of the past scenes in the AC franchise have always been a sort “computer simulation” with 2012 assassin-descendant Desmond explores his ancestral memory by using the Animus (this is the “Avatar-looking” device).

Or were you objecting to the fact that they didn’t use Desmond as the assassin descendant in the film version?