Sunday, January 08, 2006

Bad Time for Gaming Entertainment

Videogames crossing over into other mediums has always been problematic. Mostly, it has been adaptations of licenses, like Mortal Kombat and Mario Bros., that has basicly been mostly craptacular, never actually good.
Unfortunatly, Uwe Boll has released another craptacular film that is BloodRayne (see #40: http://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom).
Also on the bad list is Grandma's Boy, a film that wasn't shown to critics before release (often a sign that the film is bad).
Now on the bad getting worse list (remember, BloodRayne was ranked better then Alone in the Dark, so Boll is improving) is G4. Just this month, they have started to show Star Trek: The Next Generation. Nothing against the show, but I just can't help but think G4 has been moving from "Television for Gamers" to "Spike TV, but Crappier". The one original show that was actually about gaming, X-Play, seems to be less and less aired. Not only that, the glimmer of hope that was Call for Help (another former TechTV show) got cancelled after only a few months and not much of a chance to do well.
One problem is that videogames seem to be more of an excuse to make some money rather then making a good product. None of the original G4 shows were good, only ranging from time-killing watchable to utter crap. No movie to this day has been able to remain true to the source game AND be good (and unfortunatly, only the former was ever done). So, when is this going to change? Certainly not from Boll or G4.

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