What sucked more? Movies based on games or games based on movies?

Games based on movies.

Games based on films are much worse than films based on games. Not to mention the former definitely outnumber the latter.

Games based on movies are generally worse - often being rushed and overpriced. At worst with a movie based on a game, you'll going to get a boring movie and spend like 20PLN or something on a ticket in cinema. With a bad game based on a movie, you can pay up to 4 times the money and instead of wasting 2 hours in a cinema, waste 4 or more trying to play through a boring, or even frustrating game - that's far worse.

With that said - most of movies, I watched based on games were at least entertaining. Not entirely faithful to source material, but Mortal Kombat, Resident Evil (3 of them), Hitman - I enjoyed all of them. Not really good movies, but I wasn't really feeling like I wasted my time. Hell, I even enjoyed DOOM... and some of crap from Uwe Boll like Blood Rayne. There was one movie that really felt like waste of time and that was Max Payne.

It's relative to many factors. Direktor, budget, cast, enthusiasm, etc. Many people bash Uwe Boll, but they forget he had almost nothing to work with when it came to the video game movies he was associated with. On the other hand, watch his film Rampage and you will wonder if this is the same person who made the crap ass hat video game movies.

I think Movies based on Videogames are winning the fight.

Because when I see one, I imediatelly wish to watch.

Now when I see a Videogame based on a movie, I have no wish to play it.

But there are a few exceptions.

What about Defiance? It's kinda a movie, just really long and sectioned.

Games based off movies suck more but games based off TV shows suck even more. Of course there are some good games based off movies but its a rarity.

Games based on movies, imo.

Both.

Seriously both way it usually end bad. Maybe 1 per 20 is good.

I liked the Tomb Raider movie (the first one).

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Games based on movies. Look at The Expandables.

Movies based on games. I bought Spiderman 2 and it was actually reallygood, so I guess you can find a good game based on a film.

Movies based on games have a better chance of success than games based on movies. A good movie needs only a good writer and a good director, which is why you can make a good movie about anything if you have both. A movie based on a video game is therefore highly dependent upon who they hire to do the film.

A good video game, on the other hand, has a lot more points at which it can fail: concept; execution; gameplay; mechanics; target audience; programming; financing; and possibly writing. Because of that, video game development requires a lot of time to ensure those aspects are "done right." Video games based on movies are unlikely to be given sufficient time and/or money for development, and are therefore much more likely to turn out badly.

the prince of persia game based of the movie that was based on the game, so bad

Inb4 yo dawg..

Both

Movie based on games, because Uwe Boll.

Chronicles of Riddle: Escape from Butcher Bay. An amazing game based on a movie. And there is some old Indiana Jones games, and I am sure some of them are good.

But in general, games based on movies are far more likely to be absolute rubbish. Most movies based on games in the past have tended to have good universes and plot to adapt from, and only fail because of absolute incompetence. While most games based on movies never had a chance to begin with, as the entire concept was just a greedy cash-grab with an absolutely horrible concept.

There are a few good games based on movies, but I'm not sure there are any good movies based on games. They tend to be terrible either way, but at least there's the remote possibility of a Movie=>Game property being decent. Nothing survives the transition from Game=>Movie.

Watch Postal by Uwe Boll, then play King Kong for the PS2.

Games based on movies are worst imo. I will be disappointed for sure by mass effect movie. Too much expections

I'll go with games based on movies. While both are usually bad, having to pay $60 for a game while paying $10 for a movie ticket makes them suck six times as much.

movies based on games

Both have bad and less bad examples(and maybe some exceptions) but logically I would guess that game based movies would be worse then movie based games ;)

Uwe Boll sucks!