HBO's adaptation of The Last of Us premieres this weekend, and sadly the interminable conversation over film and TV adaptations of videogames will probably continue all season long.
movies—fundamentally misunderstood their intellectual property for the sake of a general audience, turning survival horror into non-stop action and historical fiction into dull melodrama, because they believed that was what the people wanted to see in a movie. In the face of seemingly endless maladaptations, fans and critics are weary and wary of any new project, pointing to the “videogame movie curse” as reason enough to not try.are viewed as the exceptions that prove the rule.
It wasn’t long before Mazin found himself at the center of one of these skrimishes. Smelling blood in the water after his interview with, fans pounced. His statement spread across Twitter like wildfire: “They didn’t shoot anything out of their eyeballs. They were just people. And that, in and of itself, is remarkably rare in games.
Blood was boiling, and fans were arming themselves yet again to battle the stupid producer who knew nothing of videogames and only sought to besmirch the medium while making a quick buck.
Good games aren’t bleeps and bloops on a screen, meaningless pixels that emulate something that could be made elsewhere. They are evocative, immersive experiences that exist, like any worthwhile artform, on a spectrum of intention. Being a relatively new medium, videogames are still unfairly maligned, dismissed as toys for children or mindless entertainment rather than interactive art that aims to emotionally affect the player.
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