Since 1993, Hollywood, with dollar signs in their eyes, has sort to adapt popular video games into feature films. And while gaming itself has changed, one thing has remained constant: movies adapted from video games suck!
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I think if Hollywood takes a break from the "Genre" for a generation, then maybe the next generation would know how to accurately represent video games on the big screen.
It's not so much that they need a break, as they need a breakthrough. Comic book movies had a defining point where they really started to work (Spider-Man) but before that, they were just as big a joke as videogame movies are now.
They need a good director, who can hold his own vision, while staying true enough to the source to really bring this genre where it should be.
Its because for some odd reason the movie industry doesn't believe the video game industry can tell a story. through college so far, im a film major, and the professors always talk about this. They think the added gameplay element adds to much for the story to not matter as much.
I used Uncharted and MGS as examples and they didnt understand. The directors and writers taking these projects think the same way. Look at the guys behind Uncharted, they have no sense of what the game is or how it works. Look at PoP and how he said "you cant give the same experience" so he changed the entire storyline to fit a new movie. Its not needed.
Just play the game, study the storyline, talk with the developers, an create a film version of the game. Am I saying it needs to be ientical? No. But when you make Uncharted about family issues with Mark Whalberg as the charismatic Drake there seems to be an issue somewhere....
Just look at Comic books. Do you notice when they vere off from the comics, they suck? the fan reaction is horrible and so on? Yet when they stay close to the core people love them? There is a reason for that.
I have an extremist view, That games tell better stories than movies or novels, games go a step further to do what movies and books have always failed, It's to immerse you into the story or at least give you the illusion that you are influencing the story's direction. It is this aspect of in-game story telling that movies have failed to capture and could very well be reason why they've failed to move fantastic stories to the big screen.