User blog comment:Teugene/Mass Effect Movie/@comment-160529-20100525225429

No they failed because they tried to re-invent the first story, to utterly change the dynamics of the characters adnsetting

doing the main game first would not only break the continuity but it would suck because a thirty hour experience cannot be pressed into a 1.5-3.0 hour event its not possible

thats why the other video game movies have failed, because their objective was not to tell a story, but to capture a feel and that is the mistake.

Look at doom, it had jack-sh*t to do with the games, it didnt even take place in the same continuity as the games, it just said f*ck the games

now look at every other game movie, it follows the same pattern it says f*ck the game, and then it has four minute scene, or at least some kind of stupid scene where it tries to replicate the games gameplay on the big screen

mass effect has this huge advantage in the fact that storytelling is its primary gameplay function, thats how you play the game you work the story

the only way a movie for masss effect could even be done poorly is if it was story centric, if it focused on something other than the craft of the story then it would be an abomination, but i doubt that is going to happen,

they are going to want to capture the feel, they are going to want to make the game come alive, and to do that it has to have a good story, and i will say it now it needs to fit within the continuity because otherwise it will be an abomination to the franchise