Don't judge me! They don't all have to end like I did...

Newspapers are running scared from technology. Their archaic form of communication is a dying one and any reminder of that sends them into a frenzy. The NY times has shoved their foot down their own throats dozens of times in the past year, and now the LA Times looks to join them. Their method isn’t by getting facts wrong and pushing misinformation, but instead bashing the plots of video games.

“Hollywood can’t win at video games. Because 13-year-old boys spend hours zapping asteroids or stealing virtual cars, movies based on video games would seem to be the logical follow-up to the comic- book-to-movie frenzy. Screenwriter Josh Olson, who was rewriting the “Halo” script (Peter Jackson was to direct) before the movie fell apart, says video games “have aimless cycles. You go to A, shoot some monsters, then go to B, then start over and do it again.”

RULE #1 | Step away from the video games. Transforming this medium’s weak narratives to film hasn’t been as successful as with comic books.”

I do think that there is a point in there somewhere; many games do have weak plots. The writer doesn’t seem to realize that in her elated stroking of comics that not all comic books are suited for movies either. Just because producers are grabbing weak plotted video games to turn into movies doesn’t mean all of them are in that vein. If the comic books Witchblade or She Hulk were transformed into movies they would have similar success of In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale.