Any Good Video Game Urban Legands

Are there any video games based off of movies? If there are, are they bad?

There have been many, many video games based on movies. Quite often they are bad because they tend to be story-driven rather than mechanic-driven, and if their launch date needs to be close to the movie release date, there just isn’t enough time to make them well.However, some of the best movie-based games are:Disney's Aladdin(1994)Star Wars: TIE Fighter (1994)Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (1995)GoldenEye 007 (1997)Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003)Spider-Man 2 (2004)TRON 2.0 (2004)Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (2015)

Is it an urban legend that in the late '80s some commercial radio stations aired Commodore 64 video games?

Do you want to limit the question specifically to commercial radio stations (and not radio stations in general) and video games (and not computer programs in general)?If not, the Finnish national public broadcasting company, YLE, used to broadcast some Commodore 64 programs in two of their shows (Kansan mikrokerho and Silikoni), whose target audience was the 1980s-era microcomputer hobbyists. You would record the shows onto a cassette tape with an ordinary boombox and then load the programs using a Datasette.See this 2012 Ars Technica story looking back at those broadcasts:Experiments in airborne BASIC—"buzzing" computer code over FM radioThe type of software that was aired was typically small, simple BASIC programs that you could study and modify yourself.Here’s a couple of YouTube videos to show how the tape drives worked for saving and loading programs:With the Commodore 64 and comparable microcomputers of the era, the expectation was that you’d be commonly writing your own software to experiment with computers and maybe even to help you with everyday tasks – something like a custom, self-written BASIC program for drawing the lottery numbers to put on the coupon, calculating the taxes, cataloging the contents of your freezer, or printing neat invoices for your personal business. Simple games, too, of course.Many computer hobbyist-minded individuals indeed did all kinds of programming exercises on their microcomputer and implemented even quite impressive applications using the built-in BASIC programming language – sometimes also outgrowing BASIC and advancing to assembly language – but they ended up being a minority among all users. “The masses” only ever knew how to run commercially-published games and never really looked into programming anything on their own.

Should video games ever be made into movies?

A story exists independent of medium.  Medium is the mechanism used to tell the story.  Experience is dictated by medium.Adapting a story from one medium to another medium can be done if the story can stand alone.  But often, people confuse the story with the experience.  A mediocre story can be elevated by the experience of a medium.  Video games excel as immersing the audience into the experience, heightening it, making it more intense and exciting.  So, when that same mediocre story is transferred to a less immersive medium, like film, it fails.There should not, therefore, be a categorical declaration that “video games should not be made into films.”  It shouldn’t really even be looked at as a transmogrification of the entity from being a video game into being a film.  The story should be extracted from the video game and then examined on its own merits to see if film would be a good medium to tell that same story.That said, it is easier to list films that have failed at telling the same story as a video game than films that have succeeded at telling the same story as a video game.  The reverse is also true.  It is easier to list video games that have failed at telling the same story as a film than video games that have succeeded at telling the same story as a film.The same is true for other media transformations.  The language used by books is not the language used by films.  The language used by films is not the language used by comic books.The failure is usually because the adapters rip the story away from its source medium and don’t properly replace the structural elements left behind.There are video games that have stories that I would love to see retold in the language of film - Assassin’s Creed, Red Dead Redemption, and Batman: Arkham Asylum, for example.  I think each of those could be done because they are built around interesting stories and interesting characters.  They would need good actors to fill in the holes carved out of the protagonists in order to make room for the video game player to insert themselves and the writers, directors, cinematographers, and set designers would have to work hard to make their worlds as realized and immersive on film as they are in game.

What would video game characters ask if they had Quora?

Drawn to LifeMari: I just found out that I don't actually exist. Should I tell my best friend?Jowee: Why isn't my best friend talking to me anymore?Crazy Barks: CrazyBarkswantpiratehat. HowdoesCrazyBarksgethat?Heather: ...! ...?Mike: Why am I surrounded by fox people with weird ears? Am I dreaming?Samuel: Why is the beach so terrible?Wilfre: I keep trying to draw, but all my pictures just end up looking like black blobs. Any advice on how to get better at art?Circi: My crush who has no idea I ever existed is dead. How can I kill the Creator and bring him back to life?Mayor: How can I convince my daughter to follow in my footsteps?Sock: Hypothetically, how would I convince someone that I'm NOT an undercover agent?Salem: Who is this "Wilfre" fellow everyone keeps comparing me to?Isaac: The local chef asked me for more mayonnaise, but I told him he doesn't pay me enough. Now he won't talk to me at all. Was I too harsh?Cindi: Why won't daddy buy me more Banya Cupcakes? And why am I so good at hide-and-seek?Cookie: I asked the local shopkeeper for more mayonnaise, but he says I don't pay him enough. How can I convince him to give it to me at a cheap price so that I won't go broke?Rose: I'm dying. How should I let my son know?Miles: My mom is dying. How can I convince someone to help me find the Promise Conch and save her life?Hero: I can't find the secret flower in Wilfre's Wasteland. Is it really there, or is it just an urban legend?