21 Video Games That People Can’t Wait to Become Movies

‘Golden Axe. Hack slash, minimal clothing, simple plot’

We’ve come a long way from the days when a video game’s plot line typically began and ended with “shoot a duck with a gun.” Nervous old people might still regard them as sorcery that drives you to violence while it rots your brain, but video games are legitimate narrative art. In fact, with so many clocking in at dozens of hours of story time, they can give a better bang for your entertainment buck than the most transcendent Cinemark outing.

Come to think of it, many video games would make great movies. That's already been proven with Resident EvilSilent HillTomb Raider, the list goes on and on. Sure, the same attitude gave us Warcraft, but they can’t all be winners. That’s why user greateggspextations asked r/AskReddit, “What is a video game that would make an awesome, crazy movie if Hollywood was given the right budget and writing team?”

Diablo

BioShock

Overwatch

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

StarCraft

Golden Sun

Destiny

Horizon Zero Dawn

Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six

Heavy Rain

Mass Effect

Rocket League

Portal

Wolfenstein

The Stanley Parable

Devil May Cry 3: Dante’s Awakening

Golden Axe

Just Cause

Final Fantasy VII

Aladdin

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