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How long before everytime you go to buy a DVD movie, the game is on there as well, so after watching the film you just take the DVD out, put it into your XBox4, GC3, PS4 etc and play the game of the movie?
I think that in about 5 year's time we'll start seeing the beginnings of this kind of trend. There's no real reason they couldn't start doing it now for either XBox or PS2 versions. They could even cram both versions of the game onto the DVD with the movie and your games console could choose which one is suitable for it.
As forms of entertainment, movies and gaming have been edging ever closer to each other since the mid-eighties. It started with games designers incorporating film ideas into their games, emulating something they'd seen in a movie somewhere. Then software companies started to buy the licences to make official games of movies, and today we have the likes of Stuntman for the PS2, which in an interesting way blends film-making and gaming in a way never really seen before. (Your gameplay is saved and incorporated into movie trailers).
More and more we're seeing movies and games of the movies, or games and movies of the games, being produced concurrently. The Two Towers is a case in point, both being released at more or less the same time. Expect to see Tomb Raider II: The Movie and yet another installment from the game's publishers arrive at the same time in the next couple of years.
Maybe the marketplace isn't quite ready for this multiformat game/movie DVD yet, because although everyone enjoys a movie not everyone enjoys games, not yet, anyhow. But attitudes are changing. Gaming is starting to become accepted as a valid form of entertainment for all people. Should this trend continue, then the marketplace will be more receptive to the idea.
As with all things new, a key factor will be the selling point, so these new Digital Versatile Discs will need a new gimmick to help them appeal to the masses. So some bright marketing bod will probably come up with 'DV-VD', Digital Very-Versatile Disc.
I think that in about 5 year's time we'll start seeing the beginnings of this kind of trend. There's no real reason they couldn't start doing it now for either XBox or PS2 versions. They could even cram both versions of the game onto the DVD with the movie and your games console could choose which one is suitable for it.
As forms of entertainment, movies and gaming have been edging ever closer to each other since the mid-eighties. It started with games designers incorporating film ideas into their games, emulating something they'd seen in a movie somewhere. Then software companies started to buy the licences to make official games of movies, and today we have the likes of Stuntman for the PS2, which in an interesting way blends film-making and gaming in a way never really seen before. (Your gameplay is saved and incorporated into movie trailers).
More and more we're seeing movies and games of the movies, or games and movies of the games, being produced concurrently. The Two Towers is a case in point, both being released at more or less the same time. Expect to see Tomb Raider II: The Movie and yet another installment from the game's publishers arrive at the same time in the next couple of years.
Maybe the marketplace isn't quite ready for this multiformat game/movie DVD yet, because although everyone enjoys a movie not everyone enjoys games, not yet, anyhow. But attitudes are changing. Gaming is starting to become accepted as a valid form of entertainment for all people. Should this trend continue, then the marketplace will be more receptive to the idea.
As with all things new, a key factor will be the selling point, so these new Digital Versatile Discs will need a new gimmick to help them appeal to the masses. So some bright marketing bod will probably come up with 'DV-VD', Digital Very-Versatile Disc.
The thing is, only crap films are made into games (exclude evil dead and the thing) so it doesn't really matter. Game of films are always crap (exclude goldeneye)
I have the Panasonic Q.
I think everyone should get it.
Best thing ever. Seriously. Looks the biz as well.. and plays all region games and dvd's.
Ho hum. :D
I think everyone should get it.
Best thing ever. Seriously. Looks the biz as well.. and plays all region games and dvd's.
Ho hum. :D
Seen one in Cambridge, but it's an import only job for now..
Still never actually played on a Gamecube..touched a controller once. Half an hour on an Xbox at a Microsoft stand, but none of my mates have any of these...Anything massive I'm missing out on as someone otherwise content with a PC/PS2?
Such discs sound like a good idea, my only worry is the number of movie > game/game > movie that would flood our shelves...and, such are the laws of the entertainment business, at least one of the two discs must suck.
Still never actually played on a Gamecube..touched a controller once. Half an hour on an Xbox at a Microsoft stand, but none of my mates have any of these...Anything massive I'm missing out on as someone otherwise content with a PC/PS2?
Such discs sound like a good idea, my only worry is the number of movie > game/game > movie that would flood our shelves...and, such are the laws of the entertainment business, at least one of the two discs must suck.
VenomByte wrote:
> Not that the Gamcube will be much use unless you buy the DVD
> compatable Panasonic version.... which I have yet to see for sale
> anywhere. Is it even around yet?
I don't think it's for sale in the UK, unless you maybe order it special. er-no has one anyway.
> Not that the Gamcube will be much use unless you buy the DVD
> compatable Panasonic version.... which I have yet to see for sale
> anywhere. Is it even around yet?
I don't think it's for sale in the UK, unless you maybe order it special. er-no has one anyway.
Hee hee!
A friend of mine bought Metal Gear Solid 2, but that only seemed to have the film though.
Well, I bought the Predator Special Edition DVD, and it's got the Alien vs. Predator game on it. :-)
Interesting.... could probably be done quite easily too. What's the average % of a DVD that's used by a game/film these days?
Not that the Gamcube will be much use unless you buy the DVD compatable Panasonic version.... which I have yet to see for sale anywhere. Is it even around yet?
You could even have the game/film integrated into the same interface screen... with the 'play film' and 'extras' being tagged on at the end of the menu.
Instead of cut-scenes in game, you could show selected parts of the actual DVD footage.
There has to be a way to do all this... and if not, why not?
Not that the Gamcube will be much use unless you buy the DVD compatable Panasonic version.... which I have yet to see for sale anywhere. Is it even around yet?
You could even have the game/film integrated into the same interface screen... with the 'play film' and 'extras' being tagged on at the end of the menu.
Instead of cut-scenes in game, you could show selected parts of the actual DVD footage.
There has to be a way to do all this... and if not, why not?
How long before everytime you go to buy a DVD movie, the game is on there as well, so after watching the film you just take the DVD out, put it into your XBox4, GC3, PS4 etc and play the game of the movie?
I think that in about 5 year's time we'll start seeing the beginnings of this kind of trend. There's no real reason they couldn't start doing it now for either XBox or PS2 versions. They could even cram both versions of the game onto the DVD with the movie and your games console could choose which one is suitable for it.
As forms of entertainment, movies and gaming have been edging ever closer to each other since the mid-eighties. It started with games designers incorporating film ideas into their games, emulating something they'd seen in a movie somewhere. Then software companies started to buy the licences to make official games of movies, and today we have the likes of Stuntman for the PS2, which in an interesting way blends film-making and gaming in a way never really seen before. (Your gameplay is saved and incorporated into movie trailers).
More and more we're seeing movies and games of the movies, or games and movies of the games, being produced concurrently. The Two Towers is a case in point, both being released at more or less the same time. Expect to see Tomb Raider II: The Movie and yet another installment from the game's publishers arrive at the same time in the next couple of years.
Maybe the marketplace isn't quite ready for this multiformat game/movie DVD yet, because although everyone enjoys a movie not everyone enjoys games, not yet, anyhow. But attitudes are changing. Gaming is starting to become accepted as a valid form of entertainment for all people. Should this trend continue, then the marketplace will be more receptive to the idea.
As with all things new, a key factor will be the selling point, so these new Digital Versatile Discs will need a new gimmick to help them appeal to the masses. So some bright marketing bod will probably come up with 'DV-VD', Digital Very-Versatile Disc.
I think that in about 5 year's time we'll start seeing the beginnings of this kind of trend. There's no real reason they couldn't start doing it now for either XBox or PS2 versions. They could even cram both versions of the game onto the DVD with the movie and your games console could choose which one is suitable for it.
As forms of entertainment, movies and gaming have been edging ever closer to each other since the mid-eighties. It started with games designers incorporating film ideas into their games, emulating something they'd seen in a movie somewhere. Then software companies started to buy the licences to make official games of movies, and today we have the likes of Stuntman for the PS2, which in an interesting way blends film-making and gaming in a way never really seen before. (Your gameplay is saved and incorporated into movie trailers).
More and more we're seeing movies and games of the movies, or games and movies of the games, being produced concurrently. The Two Towers is a case in point, both being released at more or less the same time. Expect to see Tomb Raider II: The Movie and yet another installment from the game's publishers arrive at the same time in the next couple of years.
Maybe the marketplace isn't quite ready for this multiformat game/movie DVD yet, because although everyone enjoys a movie not everyone enjoys games, not yet, anyhow. But attitudes are changing. Gaming is starting to become accepted as a valid form of entertainment for all people. Should this trend continue, then the marketplace will be more receptive to the idea.
As with all things new, a key factor will be the selling point, so these new Digital Versatile Discs will need a new gimmick to help them appeal to the masses. So some bright marketing bod will probably come up with 'DV-VD', Digital Very-Versatile Disc.