User blog comment:MEffect Fan/Anger/@comment-160529-20100526145325

I AM NOT SAYING IT SHOULDNT HAVE A PLOT

good christ in heaven above you are dense

i am suggesting, and i have said it repeatedly that they do a prequal, hopefull something referenced plenty of times in the game

SUCH AS THE FIRST CONTACT WAR

you can make a movie about humanity colonizing planets and an unkown alien force attacking them

a movie about a war beetween humanity and aliens,

it in now way would have to be reliant upon the games to explain teh premise of the movie, because al lyou would know is that humans on this planet are being attacked and killed by freaking metal bird head aliens with claws

it would bea prequal to the people who played the game

and it owuld be the start up for the people who didnt

now here is what you cant do, you cannot make a movie based on a game where you have to sit and listen to people to get a generalized history about everything

what about when they get to novaria in the movie you are suggesting, do you really want to sit through a half hour explanation of the rachni wars and krogan rebellions NO

but otherwise the viewer would be clueless

what about hte first contact war? and how humanity gets into thestars, with no codex to guide them the viewer would be lost.

THE FRIGGIN GETH the enemy most fought in the game

the movie you are proposing would have to have lengthy monologues that would completely distract from any drama

or

or

you could show how humanity got into the situation it was in the first mass effect, show some of the events of the first contact war

and show the asari intervening to stop the mess from excalating.

hell, you could do so much with that,

imagine if you will a turian soldier gaurding prisoners, he takes picture out of his pocket and it is of him nad his hanar/drell/quarian/batarian/anything significant other

then anderson snaps his neck while he is distracted aswell the movie would probably end in an epic space battle beetween human forces and turian

the first contact war is the recipe for a good movie not just for mass effect fans

but for people who know nothing about mass effect

ant that is the ONLY way to make a video game movie, to make something appeal to both groups

mass effect is unique, because the only way it can appeal is story, other video game movies have tried showcasing what the gameplay has looked like in the movie as their only means of appealing to fans

but mass effects story IS gameplay, so the story must be good, the visuals must be good, the decisions of the characters must be hard,

and sometimes the right decision has to turn out to be the wrong one

and aswell it can only appeal to fans if it doenst violate the deply intricate and consistant universe that is being crafted