How Video Games are Turning into Movies 

video games are turning into movies while movies turn into video game cutscenes

I will admit that now and then, while watching a movie, I try to steer the protagonist with an imaginary controller.

WOOOOO! Escort Mission is one of my favorite Cracked series around.

I like how Michael proved his point by playing Mass Effect Andromeda

I just can't get over how well Lou Diamond Phillips is aging.

ESCORT MISSION HELL YEH. I want these two to be my cool uncles. Both of them made good points here too!

The new LOTR Shadow game had a great trailer. I knew it was a game but my two friends were so confused that it wasn't a movie.

"Shut up for a second." the lines that make the friendship/roommate interaction real lmao

Graphics while important are second to fun. Many 8 and 16 bit games are more fun than modern games with great graphics.

I prayed that this was escort mission and lo and behold it was

I feel like cracked makes videos about video games for people who don’t really play video games

So theatre used to use giant emojis to convey emotion. This is why years later we have The Emoji Movie.

I don't know why, but Norwegian Death Metal's bit was the best bit for me.

+1 for Grim Fandango reference. :)

if story and graphics are so important why is tetris still exactly as engaging as it was when i was 6, whereas the only games which have held my attention in the past decade are minecraft, kerbal, and competitive multiplayer - it's because game mechanics are what make video games games. everything else is frosting. a game with great mechanics doesn't need any story at all, and a game with shitty mechanics will not be saved by some visually stunning narrative. games are to be played, not watched

Good points, but I dunno, man. People love cuphead because it looks old style. People like it when old things are done in a new way. Besides, you have to be somewhat stylistic and original looking, not just realistic. There's loads of shooters with fantastic graphics but really boring-looking protagonists, so you don't remember them at all. Meanwhile, you recognise Aloy because of her unique design, you recognise Cuphead, you recognise Bendy, even if you don't play any of those games, and it's because of the style and the design.

Yeah, novels certainly would suck if it weren't for their hi-tech graphics. It's also why the Emoji movie is inherently superior to the combined works of Dostojevski, Orwell, Austin, Hemingway, etc. (jk)

Movies are turning video games into horses or the other way around, but one of the two!

Just to point out, forgot to put escort mission in the thumb nail, I'd no idea it was an escort mission till I clicked into it. 😮

I honestly want to see “The wolf among us” as a movie

"Hey, I said explain, not ruin our friendship!" Lol that Cracked me up! ;D

this is the mirror image to the Nintendo episode

Mass Effect Andromeda is going to need a senzu bean to recover from that burn

Who else though this video was going to be one of those educational and informational videos rather than a skit?

that shade at Andromeda at the end! I love it

To clarify, Norway featured the second wave of Black Metal. It was the Swedish scene characterised by Death Metal with the HM-2 pedal sound of Entombed, Dismember and Grave.

Yes! This is classic Escort mission and Cracked video, please do more videos like this. These two might have the best chemistry of any of the actors in Cracked.

Ironic, considering the majority of Full Motion Video games in the 90's WERE movies in their own right, especially the infamous Sega CD. This is why I stuck to the point-and-click adventure genre, they weren't trying to be like movies.

I love this so much. Do people actually have conversations with each other like this?

You guys need make more of these. Its so good.

Regular people like good graphics because they don't care about actually playing the game. They would just rather have the story given to them in a well-presented package. By actually playing a game you get a much deeper understanding for characters because you took part in the experiences that defined them.

That's like saying Paul Blart Mall Cop would be a huge success if it was presented as a Zack Snyder film.

I always forget how much I love Escort Mission

That comment about metal @ 3:22 is on point. Good work.

One of the very best videos I’ve seen on RU-vid in a long time. These guys are genius.

lol Cameron's Avatar is the ultimate counterpoint to graphics being the end-goal of anything

back in the early 80s this title would have been "How Movies are Turning into Video Games"

Buster Keaton centennial is this year!

More AAA title need more original art styles

LMAO, Buster Keaton....John Coltrane...I'm in stitches...

Great surprise! Love this series :D

Would argue that in most visual art, realism only holds true to the point where we master it. Once that's accomplished, art certainly doesn't stop, we simply use it to begin exploring more stabilization of the medium. Consider paintings. For much of early painting history the goal was effectively them trying to most accurately depict the subjects they were trying to portray. There were some interesting divergences. (Egyptian hieroglyphic paintings were made with the ideal of depicting the most ideal parts of the body at once for instance.) But once we hit the renaissance and early modern period, artists had figured out perspective, and pretty much anything could be accurately and realistically depicted by an artist who had learned the necessary techniques. From there, artists started to try and figure out how they could paint in a way that could encapsulate more than what they accurately saw, they realized that painting could be used to encapsulate intangible emotions that might not otherwise be apparent if you stuck to a faithful recreation of reality. It's why things like Abstract art exists now. I would argue that most other visual artistic mediums are still working towards perfect recreation of reality, but we're already seeing things that try for more stylized depictions. Animation is nearly as old as film-making, and I would argue that CGI is kind of in the middle of these two categories in the effort to accurately depict what is not actually possible. Video games are on a similar track, but while triple-A titles pursue the photorealism train, many are just following the same path that animation did by going for stylization concurrently with the goal of accuracy. I predict that at a certain point we may simply reach the peak wherein computer graphics may be indistinguishable from reality. At that point, we'll certainly still see photo-realistic games. (After all, portraiture and still life didn't die out once perspective was mastered) but more developers will consider dabbling outside of that aesthetic towards more abstract depictions.)

We traveled a long way with video games and the "Look at dem graphics!" arguments still alive and kicking.

lolllll what a great dig at mass affect at the end

Yay another episode of Escort Mission! Didn't even know this was one though because it wasn't in the title, still LOVE THIS SHOW!

I love these guys. More videos please!

"Ya lets try mass effect Andromeda." I yelled "NO!" out laud at my computer.

Probably has something to do with my age at the time, but I got a lot more emotionally invested in PS1 games than I do in PS4 games.

Really thought you were going to go for the "...my face is tired..." joke at the end there

Hey remember when cracked used to label their videos?! I sure don't!!

Of course, then there's the Order 1886 which wanted to be a movie way more than it wanted to be a video game and pretty much everyone thinks that game was garbage.

I got here for the bromance and I stay for the interesting videogame analysis

The " Well..I could argue anything. " line is so smart it makes me mad

"My face is tired." "You're not a pathfinder until you've pathfound something." God, how great was Andromeda?

who wouldn't watch Jurassic Park in VR, when VR becomes really good

I suggest your next video be called. "How spontanous conversation youtube videos are turning into scripted fake spontaneous conversation videos"(Acted facial expressions included)

Actually the first movies were such impressive and exciting tales as "Workers come out from the factory" or "The arrival of the train to the station". In case you wonder: those were just clips of everyday life that people payed to watch. Not a "play turned into film". Also: the masks in the theaters weren't used as a sign that showed how the characters feel... those masks were as big as the actors' face... so the audience wouldn't see them if they could not see the expression by itself. It was "the role" they portrayed. They started to pull it on before the play PUBLICLY, showing that they start to "transform", they played their characters and after the play was over they pulled off the masks thus "coming back to the real world". The more you know.

This was the best escort mission in a WHILE

How are Video Games not Turning into Movies

For anyone interested in Norwegian death metal, Last Podcast on the Left did a great 3 part series on Norwegian black metal

"Norwegian Death Metal" I fucking lost it.

This is why I like Nintendo games, they're actual games.

undertale has 8-bit graphics and yet its an awesome game. Also dont forget Binding of Isaac

"I can argue anything. But it would just be to defy you."

Yeah, have you played Battlefield 1 with the hud turned off? That stuff so beautifully realistic!

I literally liked this before the episode had even started. I just saw ESCORT MISSION and hit like on instinct. I had to pause just to let you know that.

I'm playing red dead redemption 2. Every mission is a long cutscene with 5 minutes of shooting

Yes, in a hundred years, Jurassic Park will be forgotten. Like most media is ultimately forgotten. Actual classics that *truly* stand the test of time across centuries are very few and far between.

He should have unplugged the TV at the end lol

*I love how this was published on my birthday*

These speak to me. This spoke to me.

"Well, I mean, I could argue anything but it would only be to defy you." That's a main ingredient to most interactions on Cracked...

IT'S BACK, BABY

Hey good to see Swaim again

“Graphics will always matter” (he says with a PS4 that has 2012 specs) now we wait for the flame

Please label the Escort Mission series in the title, I don't wanna miss these

At least some things have remained here on cracked. Bring back EPCD!

Graphics aren't the most important in video games because they're games, interactive media. Graphics are more important in movies because the only thing you can do is look at and listen to a movie. With games you're supposed to interact with it. If you just stare at a video game for two hours, nothing's going to happen, and if a game has amazing graphics but awful gameplay it's going to be considered generally a bad game. Graphic novels and the like are different, however, because the only interactive thing is choosing dialogue and making decisions, so the graphics have to look good while you make those decisions and see how they play out.

Dude, I seriously miss these guys.

I really felt like that one dude was channeling Joseph Gordon Levitt.

Story > Graphics

Oh look! Cracked released a REAL video!

"I can yell words at you too!"

Hahaha YES, love the ending.

Honestly, gameplay should be games number one priority. Games for gameplay, movies for graphics, and books for story. Not saying an game can't have the others, but I should be able to do something.

Uncharted invented this model. Watch a movie you can interact with. They put the VIDEO in video games lol

i don't get how this means that games are turning into video games

Ori and the Blind forest

Now that we have more Afterhours, can we have more escort missions? basically two of the three only worthwhile things to watch on Cracked

Yeah and that's a bad thing...

Based solely on the title of this video, I have to say that I think they should have put this out about thirteen years ago at the absolute latest. Seriously. Metal Gear Solid, StarFox, Ocarina of Time, BattleTanx, Hybrid Heaven...; these games all came out in the 1990s, and they were all basically interactive movies. By the time we entered the New Millennium, it was expected that a video game emulate movies, particularly with its cutscenes.

Kudos. Great vid

As someone who prioritizes gameplay, the n00b actually makes a pretty good point here. However, I think that because games involve the player using decisions and reactions graphics are far less important in games than they are in movies.

"Well, I mean, I can argue anything, but it would only be to defy you." My attitude in most arguments.

That was great!

I watched the ending of this video as I was loading into mass effect. Can't look at that game the same, thanks

If i ever buy this game, and reach this dialouge scene, ill just leave it there and watch this video again

That was the creepiest "subscribe to me" request I've ever seen.

that andromeda jab lmao

"I can argue anything, but it would just be to defy you." Me too. And my family hates it