James Gunn and Peter Safran, co-chairmen of DC Studios, have said they want to create games, movies, TV series and more connected in a single universe. In other words, the idea would be to have a deep connection between a video game and all other products, with “always the same characters, played by the same actors” with the different narrative components “fused into a single story”. Sounds like an interesting idea on paper, but a Marvel game developer thinks it’s a “nightmare“.
Jake Solomon – Marvel’s Midnight Suns designer at Firaxis – said that creating canon games with other products and with the same actors would make video game development much more difficult, as well as make life hard for game actors and voice actors.
“This was going to be a nightmare for us at Midnight Suns,” Solomon said on Twitter, “I get the idea (I think) but movies and games are really very different. What about the pressure that puts on great game voice actors?” Solomon then predicted that the merger of video games and cinema will not actually happen. He wrote “Different universes. And this is how they should/will stay”.
For more than ten years, the world of video games has moved away somewhat from the concept of tie-ins, i.e. a video game created starting from a product of another medium, such as a film, and has instead focused on original products inspired to the franchise to which it belongs. Think for example of Batman Arkham Asylum or the more recent Marvel’s Spider-Man: while being faithful to the DC/Marvel characters, these games are independent and work perfectly. They also give talented voice actors and actors a chance to work, without being “pushed out” by famous actors.
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